The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 13, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5098. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1929, * MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS WEB TIGHTENS AROUND WOMAN FOR HUSBAND’S DEATH CORRUPTION IN |©n b POLITICS MAY NOW BE ENDED Three Measures Are Ad- vanced by Senator of New Mexico WASHINGTON, May 13—Three | measures designed to prevent cor- ruption in political campaigns are advanced by Scnator Cutting, Re- | publican, of New Mexico. . One measure is designed for a # Constitutional amendment to give! Congress unquestionable supervis- ion of the nomination of all Federal officials in both primaries and conventions. The second measure is a Con- { stitutio: amendment to impose | a penalty on the ineligibility of any | § candidate who in the campaign nomination to election violates, rules. t The third measure creates a Fed- eral Commission of Elections to be ': in fact a finding body with audi- i tion and verifying of all measures ' : introduced in the last Congress but | unable to get action upon them. 1 AMERICAN | Brigadies General Herbert M. i Lord, above, director of 3 | sheets of |erel days of study to gather intel- FISH BOATS APE SEIZED jan “Government Take Boats and Crews | “'Are Under Arrest | PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., May 13. Four of five Canadian' Government and were| held Saturday night pending out- | come of their cases. ! The charges are that the Ameri-| can craft were within Canadian ! wat No reason is given for the release of a fifth boat. A sixth| vessel was left undisturbed at| Goose Island Harbor, where it is| making repairs. 1 Capt. Laird, of the Malaspina,| which made the capture, refused | ic make any comment. i - erican fishing | U iave been %d»—wlfi?‘ Bureau of Budget since 1922, | has advised President Hoever that he wishes to retire from the job. He plans to enter a {:rivate business organization, he nature of which has not \been revealed. (Interns GIRL PADDLED SEVERELY:TEN LEAVE SCHOOL Sorority Initiation in Long Beach Brings Forth Dire Results ne’ Nawarear. "OVERED THAT WOULD SWALLOW PIKE'S PEAK CAPITOL PLANS W OCEAN DEPTHS DIS WASHINGTON, May 13.—Unsus- pected ocean depths, in which Pike's Peak wit hits 14,180 feet of height, would be topped by 4,000 feet of Detailed Data of New Capi- tol Building Comes to water, have been discovered off the Peruvian coast. J. C. McBride Scientists aboard the nen-mag- netic ship “Carnegie,” mapping the contours of the ocean bed on their way to Papeete, Tahiti, found depths ranging from 9,000 to 18,000 | teet over a distance of 50 miles. | The vast depression was named “Bauer Deep,” in honor of - Dr. | Louis A. Bauer, director of the de- partment of terrestrial magnetism the Carnegie institution, whigh | | | | | Detailed plans and specifications | i the ves {for the new Federal and Territoriai| The ship, which has boen out Capitol building to be crected here |since May 1, 1928, now is near { | were received in the last mail by |pago Pago, American Samoa, on Kl or of Customs, J. C. Mc-!jts way to Japan. In July it will ! Bride, Custodian of Federal Build-|enter port at San Francisco to' § |ings, from the Treasury Depart-|touch the United States for the| ment at Wi gton. | first time since the The d tailed data comprises 70| started. blue prints supplemented | Mapping the ocean bottom, 100 pages of typewritten single item in a broad program of investigation covering the phenome- na of the earth’s magnetism, ocean circulation, deep sea life and other studies, is carried on with the lat- est -type of sonic depth finder of the United States navy. * The failure of a part of the find- ed on the lot bounded by Seward [er tested the resourcefulness of the nd Main and Fourth and Fifth|sci s when they were cruising Strects, is of five stories with the | pa. Shot-gun shells were frent entrance facing Fourth|drafted into use. Street. The shells were fired in a 20-foot {brass pipe held over the side and of the building would require sev-} ligently the main features plainly shown at a glance. The structure that wiil be erect- are| Imposing Structure cponsoring a three-year cruise | expedition | al UNIVERSITY The building will be an imposing structure, severely plain but rich in that same severity. It will be in the form of a U, the full heighth and carried the length of both wings. In the center of the U Ki-; a large plot that assures plenty iu! light to all the interior. | Chambers for both the House and i Senate ‘are located in the North |wing. Other Territorial and Fed- eral chambers and offices are giv- 1:\:1 large space throughout the build- Jjng. Al hranches of the Federal [Govcmment and of the Territorial {Government having offices in Ju- ‘neau will be quartered in the new ibuilding. The Post Office will ‘hc located in it at once afier its | completion. Specifications | The specifications received cover {all- details of construction that go {to make the completed structure; A‘thc building proper with its con- ferete foundation, floor data, elec- {immersed two fect into the wat The shock produced by each shell |was so great that to those sitting in the cabin it appeared that the ivessel had struck a rock. | The finder bases its measure- |ments of depth on the time required {for a noise produced just under the | surface near the ship to reach the| ocean bed and to be carried back| |to microphones as echoes. | There were sufficient shells on 'Lhe ship for depth measurements; to be made twice a day until Calla |was reached and the regular ap- paratus conditioned. MCEFDS ESCAPE FROM BREAK-PROCF | WHERE LINDBERGH AND ANNE MAY WED ;7 for the wedding of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Anne Moirow. gl’rohibilion |Cost 886 Million RIOT CAUSE 1ay 13.—The cost of prohi- | I | bition to the Federal Govern- ment is placed at $886,000,000 last year, or $4,000,000 more Student Charges and In- vestigation Start Des Moines Trouble than collected through per- sonal ihcome taxes. This is the claim made by the As- sociation Against the Pro- hibition Amendments. DES MOINES, Iowa, May 17.— Approximately 200 students of the Des Moines univ ty gathered in classes at the usual time this morn- ing following riots of last Saturday, but dispersed after Dr. H. C. Wy- man, President announced he in- tended to carry out the order of the Board of Trustees suspending all classes until further notice. Later, this forenoon, an injunc-| | tion against the Board's order re-| 8 T E P F ATHERI opened the University. H cee®co The Myrrow summer home at North Haven, Me, one of t+~ places mentioncd as a possible choice LONG BEACH, Cal, May 13.— trical lighting detail including the The fishermen claimed they had Ten girls have been suspended from | put into port to make repairs. :lhe Polytechnic High School and| ‘The craft held are the Jenettc,jLong Beach Junior College by t}?c! Tacora, We and May, all of Seat-‘Board for a part in a sorority ini- tle. They were seized last Mon- | tiation in which Margaret Lindsay | day but were not reported until| was paddled so severely she was Saturday night. ilorccd to remain in bed two days. The crews will be tried here and! The Superintendent said more if found guilty the ships will bc'suspensiuns will be made if neces-| confiscated. sary to eradicate secret organiza- One hundred pounds of salmon tions. were found cn two trollers. Two boys have also been sus- pended from the Junior College foy | ————— laffiliation with a fraternity. | YUK i s ™ ‘,“INED FOR A. B. D. LAW ! F | VIOLATION AT KETCHIKAN | IGE JAMM-B‘ Andy Aasgard, who was arrested |by Deputy U. 8. Marshal C. J. Gravina is used to a large extent | jyer JAIL IN ARK, ELDORADO, Ark, May 13— Search has been started for four men, members of the “Ace” Pendle- ton gang who locked the jailer and ders emphatically state that pref Itrusty guards in cells and staged ence must be given local materials, |y second break from the Union when it can be obtained as c’“‘af"!County new “break-proof” jail. 1y as clsewhere and of like qualn.y.i The men are believed to be hid- Alaska marble from Tokeen and|jng in the bottom lands along the fixtures, plumbing detail, all inter- ior woodwork and other interior finishing work. Local Materials Instructions to prospective bid-| ?n the building. Outside panels and Three men were to be arraigned inside stairlandings and wainscol | today on charges of bank robbery. :\.ro.of thl§ fine rock. The other prisoner was being held Light fixtures are of elaborate|on a minor count. design and several are required to| The quartet escaped by placing a be of hand finish work. domino between the door frame Collector of Customs McBridc“wh,d, prevented the deor from stated that the contract for theihein«: locked after they were given structure will cover the building |fo0q, Disorders came to a head after | | a meeu‘n_g of the Trustees wns‘rWeeps in Jafl’ NO[ for called to investigate charges of stu- . 2. dents involving Dr. T. T. Shieids,| Crime, But for Losing President, and Miss Edith Reg- man, Secretary of the Board. SChOOl HOI’IOI’ Backgreund Reports In the background were reports' SEATTLE, May 15.—While Leo of the Fundamentalist and Mod-|Axtell, aged 17 years old, high ernist controversy and contentlonsl“hm" youth, wept in jail because the Board had imported a Canadian ’hls arrest would keep him from be- student to spy upon members of the | ing elected President of the Boys' faculty. yClub next year, Wad Axtell, aged Charges that Dr. Shields and Miss |48 years, stepfather, lay dead from Regman registered together at a|@ bullet fired by Leo from ambush hotel were found to be without|last Saturday night. The elder foundation. | Axtell was putting his car in the Dissat! increased and a|®arage at the time. “I just .meant to shoot him in the arm,” Leo told the officers, “He must have ducked his head down and got it there. This thing will second mceling was day night. Building Bombed called Sgbur- !Springer at Ketchikan on May 10,;with all completed details, and no The students bombed the build- FORT C'“?BON' Alaska, May 13.,on 5 charge of violation of the| _—.At 10:10 o'clock _yesherday MOID- | Aok Bone Dry Law, was sen- ing the sheet of ice moved about ¢on.oq by U. S. Commsisioner W.| 500 yards and then stopped. Thr:}c_ Arnold, to serve 90 days in jail| Tanana River ice has jammed the'g;q pay a fine of $150, according| separate contracts are to be let by the government for the con- struction of separate building items | such as plumbing, electrical work, | cement work or other work ordi- | JUNEAU FLIES | ing, where the Trustees were meet- ing, with eggs and other missiles. The Police were called. cost me a chance of being Presi- lent of the Boys' Club.” Leo told reporters that friction Yukon. ———————— ©cseccessccseon TODAY’S STOCK . QUOTATIONS ceseocecssscenoe NEW YORE, May 13.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today at 6, American Smelting 100%, Cudahy 54, General Motors 80%, Gold Dust 627, Mack Trucks 100, Missouri 87%, U. 8. Steel 176%, Bethlehem Steel 105%, Continental Motors 20, Matheison Alkali 50%, International Paper A 27%, Paper B. 167, Stewart-Warner 73%. to information received at the U. |S. Marshal's office here today. —ee———— PLEADS GUILTY AND | RECEIVES SENTENCE Frank Richardson pleaded guilty to violation of the Alaska Bone Dry Law at Petersburg and was sentenced to serve 30 days in jail, by U. 8. Commissioner C. Clausen, according to information received here by Chief Deputy U. S. Mar- shal J. F. Statter, who is acting U. 8. Marshal while U. 8. Marshal ! Albert White is in the States. ilnitetl Brethern Church To Hear Plan of Merger LANCASTER, May 13.—The thir- tieth quadrennial general confer- ence of the church of the United Brethern in Christ will be held six miles from the barn in which it had its origin. In that barn, six miles from here, there was held what was termed a “great meeeting” in 1766. The outgrowth wasg the church, called by its officials the first American born denomination. The conference will begin May 14 and end May 25. questions to be discussed, the United Brethern organization says, jc a proposal that a new group be One of the| formed with more than 1,000,000 members—a “United Church in America,” composed of the United Brethren in ist, the Reformed in the U. 8. A, and the Evangeli- cal Synod of North America. | Bishop William Melvin Bell, the !senior bishop, will convene the | conference. ~ Bishop A. B. Statton !of Kansas City, Mo, wiil give the ;memorial address. The communion address will be delivered by Bishop 'H. H. Fout of Indianapolis. The program was arranged by iBlshop A. R. Clippinger of Day- iton, Ohio, who is secretary of the board of bishops, PASSENGERS TO SITKA SUNDAY A flight to Sitka and return was HEINZTLEMAN RETURNSmdc by the sc@plxne Juneau yes- FROM CHlCH.AGOF T |terday. The ship took the air here labout 10 oclock in the morning ; | with one passenger, Phyllis Ed- After spending two days at Chi-|ywards of Douglas, ahpard. She chagof making an appraisal of the [joft the plane at Chichagof. power plant of the Chichagof mine,| pyom Chichagof the ship flew B. F. Heintzleman, Assistant Dls';tu Sitka, where several passenger- trict Forester, and E. Ga.swngunyica”yim hops were made. returned here yesterday afternoon On the return flight, B. F. Heint- on the plane Juneau, Pilot Eck-i ..~ .5 Gastonguay, boerded jmann. Mr. Heintzleman made the {\EF00 B 5 oay 3 gppraiissa; for the Federal Power This morning the plane made a ‘ommission. . On the return trip the Juneau , flight to Pgt?;sb;;rg o went to Sitka and returned here Anderson and V. K. Woods as pas- across the mountains, coming across| Sengers. The men are going to Baranof Island to Lake Eva, thence ' iDspect projects that have recent- across Chatham Strait to Mitchell |1y been completed by the construc- Bay, flew over Hasselbog Lake,|tion firm they represent, the Siems, Windfall Harbor, up Seymour Can- Helmers and Schaffner Company al, crossed at Oliver's Inlet, thence of Spokane. over Turner Lake, and crossed the! The Juneau was scheduled to re- mountains to the head of Gold turn from Petersburg late this aft- Creek, coming down its canyon ernoon. to the channel. “I consider it the| most wonderful trip I have everl made,” Mr. Heintzleman said to- day. {narily not done by the contractor | of the main structure. 1 The bids for the building will be opened July 15, and when let, con- | struction will start immediately. e e M. S. WILSON RETURNS M. S. Wilson, representative of e |Blake, Moffit and Towne, paper E. M. Polley, Territorial Tax Col- manufacturers, returned on the Ad- lector, arrived in Juneau on the miral Watson after a short visit to Admiral Watson from the southern Southeast Alaska towns on busi- part of the Territory, ness, Dr. Shields and Miss Regman |started between his stepfather and were escorted to the Police Head- |himself about three w ago, quarters to protect them from the|When the boy was arresied for zing the High School. e ricters. burgla The order to suspend all classes 3z was issued “until such a time that {Idaho Town Pledges the Student Body may experience B oo 0. Salary to Physicians - - Five Are Killed In Plane Crashes; OAKLEY, Idaho, May 13.—After being withou: a physician for sev- eral years because therc were not Others Are Injured|enough sick people here to sup- port one, residents of this city CHICAGO, May 13.—Five per- pooled their resources and en- sons were ki:zac. and two others in- lgaged a doctor. jured Sunday in airplane crashes.! The medical man was brought One of the pianes involved was anlhere under contract army pursuit plane and two others| fies than any month his fees fall were borrowed planes below a specified amount he will Staff Sergeant Homer Johnson | pe paid from a fund made up by was killed and Lieut. C. Roath in-|agssessments on citizens. jured seriously when the army plane| As an initial reserve, each fam- crashed taking off at Little Rock,|ily was assessed $20 and the money 1,100, maneuvers. | .- Raymond Kettenofen, amateur’ gpnppNCED FOR ALLEGED pilot and his brother Gordon, were VIOLATION OF A. B. D. LAW killed when a borrowed plane crash- ed near Los Angeles. | Andy Johnson, who was arrested Another borrowed plane cost the‘by Deputy U. S. Marshal William life of Kenneth Craham, licensed g Caswell at Ketchikan and charg- pilot and serious injury to Richard laq with violation of the Alaska Dobbs, student flier at Eureka, Kan- | gone Dry Law was sentenced to sas. serve 20 days in jail and fined Christopher Evans, Chief In-\g75 by U. S. Commissioner W. C. structor of the Granby, Quebec,|Arnold, according to information Airplane club, was killed trying uucirecelved at the U. S. Marshal's a plane, ioffice here, which speci- | Arkansas. The ship was one of{was placed in a local bank for the| the 36 army planes which stopped physician to draw upon. The | enroute to the Dayton, Ohio, air|town's population is { SCIENTIFIC EVIDENGE IN POISONCASE Criminologist Getting Case Against Former Ju- neau Woman POISON ADMINISTERED IN COFFEE IS CLAIM Stains on Automobile, Wo- man’s Garments Are Analyzed SONORA, Cal., May 13.—Scientif- FOREST FIRE IN ARIZONA CONTROLLED After Sweeping 1,500 Acres, Flames Are in Hands of Fighters NOGALES, Ariz, May 13.—After burning more than 1500 acres, the greatest forest fire in the history of this section has burned itself in- to control of 100 fighters, who fought the ever-widening front. For six days cowboys rode before the fire driving herds of terrified cattle. Fanned by the high winds, the flames at times traveled 2s fast as a prairie fire, jumping across can- yons, and buildings and equipment | of mining conc:rns were consumed. Families were rushed from settle- ments, many carrying but a few be- longings with them. | The conflagration started when a miner stumbled and dropped a light. - e CONGRESS WILL TAKENOREGESS WASHINGTON. May 13.—Repub-| lican leaders have abandoned sug- gestions for an all-summer recess and are determined to hold the party majorities in Congress in| working shape for carly decisions | on the controversial Farm Relief | and Tariff issues. g BRI S SENTENCED AT KETCHIKAN Adeline Calvin was arrested at Ketchikan by Deputy U. 8. Marshal | William H. Caswell on a charge of | resident of Juneau, ic evidence is that ‘Carrol Rablen |was killed by poison in a cup of coffee which the State contends was handed him by his mail order bride from Texas, Mrs. Eva Rablen, who is also believed to be a former Alaska. This confronted the woman today. Mrs. Rablen has been formally charged with murder. Evidence obtained is contained in a report made by a Berkeley crim- inologist. He contends that he found poison in the cup of coffee handed to Rablen outside of a dance hall on April 26. He also showed that the automobile in which Rablen was sitting showed poison crystals. The report on the analysis of |coffee stains on Mrs. Rablen’s dress is not made public. He declared he will withhold this, at the insis- tence of the State Another link has been forged in the evidence when it was revealed that Mrs. Rablen's handwriting re- sembled that found in the poison register of a drug store. The pur- chaser wrote the name as Mrs. Joe ‘Williams. e ABANDON SHIP WHEN FLAMES WIN OVER MEN Motorship Boobyalla with $100,000 Cargo Burns in Straits VICTORIA, B. C, May 13— Wrapped in sheets of flames, the motorship Boobyalla was towed by the Salvage King from Esquimalt to the Strait of Juan de Fuca and abandoned to the fire which the crew had failed to control. The blaze started early Saturday morning and many craft rushed to the assistance of the burning craft. Finally the crew was tak- en off. The Boobyalla was towed toward the beach and attempts made to scuttle her, but these at- tempts only aided to fan the flames |which were eating away the upper decks. Some of the shingles were lightered but most of the $100,000 cargo was lost. The ship was owned by the Pa- cific Steamship Company and val- ued at $200,000. R i g Y L. D. HENDERSON VISITS DOUGLAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS violation of Section 15 of the Al- aska Bone Dry Law and was sen- tenced to serve 10 days in jail byl U. 8. Commisioner W. C. Arnold. BIG STAR Lester D. Henderson, Territorial Commissioner of Education, is in Douglas visiting the public schools today. PULSATES AT EXPLOSIVE SPEED I'l'HACA‘. N. Y., May 13.~—Flames that surge for a distance of 1,000,- 1000 miles at a speed of more than 4,000 miles a minute have been found in the bright star Beta | Cephel, which shines nightly near the north pole star, New studies of this star, which {1s one of the famed “giants” among | suns,” are made public at the Fuer- ;ws observatory of Cornell university. | They deal with the mysterious phe- nomenon of “pulsation,” by which |some stars swell rapidly and then }cuntract as quickly, repeating with |clocklike regularity. The cause is 'not fully understood. Beta Cephei, from a size of about 110,000,000 miles in diameter, swells /in a fraction more than four hours {to a body of fire estimated at 11, What started the pulsations is not even guessed, but the princi- ple that keeps the flaming gas in motion is that of a pendulum. Somewhere between its smallest and its greatest diameters is the limit where the surging fire some day | may come to comparative rest. 8. L. Boothroyd, professor in charge of the Fuertes observatory, says a new test of the nature of pulsations now is possible by use of the radiometer, which measures the heat of stars, and he adds that heat experiments probably will be undertaken. This great star is less than 4,000 years is due to become the north pole star because of slow move- ment of the earth’s axis, which {000,000 to 12,000,000 miles in diam- J eter. causes the phenomena known as precession of the equinoxes,