The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 17, 1929, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWSIALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL XXXIV NO. 5|02 ]UNkAU ALASKA r'"RIDAY MA‘( K I929 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT‘ MORE DEA’I‘HS EXPECTED AS RESULT CLEVELAND FIRE IMPEAGHMENT OF GOV. LONG | IS RULED OUT Various Charges Are Dis- missed—No Testimony Is Presented BATON ROUGE, La., May 17.— Without any testimony being taken the Senate Court+of Impeachment yesterday released Gov. Huey ‘P. Lor; from charges of high crimes and misdemeanors when 15 Sena- tors signed an agreement to vote against impeachment no matter what felt the proceedings were unconsti- tutional. The fifteen were more than enough to block impeachment which required 2 two-thirds vote. It was the first impeachment of a Governor ever attempted in the state. ——— Baptist University Row Is Taken Before Buffalo Convention BUFFALO, N. Y., May 17.—Con- tending factions of the Des Moines | University row are more widely divided now than at any time since | the riots of students which was fol- | lowed by the temporary closing of the institution. Dean. C. C. Calloway, of the| Pharmacy Department, and repre- sentative students got the floor at. the Baptist Church convention yes- terday afterncon, after a hot fight, | and charged Dr. T. T. Shields, President of the Board of Trustees, | w steam roller tactics.” Dean Calloway said Shields and | i 1 i hig secretary, Edith M.. Rebman, | - nterterrete i Tacuy gor- formance and duty at the Univer- the testimony, because they |3 ‘ Carrxes on Txadlhon Pretty Margaret Sangster, au- thor, poetess and editor, has | been appointed editor of Smart | Set Magazine, New York. Her grandmother, Margaret Sang- ster, was for many years the opular editor of The Christian ' \Herald, TAKEY FROM YL KILLED: sity. He was interrupted frequent- ly, but managed to get into the| records his belief that dismissal of | the faculty is likely to injurc the ! standing of the college and its credits e — Gangster Arrested, . Indicted, Tried, and Sentenced, Short Time | PHILADELPHIA, Penn., May 17. —Less than 12 hours after his ar- rest after leaving a moving picture | theatre, Al Capone, Chicago gang-| ster, on charges of carrying a concealed deadly weapon. Frank Cline, Capone's bodyguard, was also indicted. The pair arrived yesterday from | Atlantic City. They did not re-| sist arrest and when unable to raise $35,000 in bail, demanded to be tried and were sentenced to one year. | | | { | Profes;or of Surgery At Stanford Is Dead | L.OS ANGELES, Cal, May 17— John Francis Cowan, aged 50, Prc-l fessor of Surgery at Stanford Uni- versity, died today as a result of heart trouble from which he had been ili for one year. ————— SENTENCED YESTERDAY William Bigoff and Gordon Sel- myhr, who were arrested on April 28 for violation of the prohibition ws and bound over to the Grand under the Jones Act, yester- day withdrew their plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty to viola-‘ tion of the Alaska Bone Dry Law | and were sentenced by U. S. Com-| missioner Charles Sey to serve sen- | tence of 8 months and 5 months in Jail, respcctively — | Mrs. E. R Jaeger is expected to | leave Seattle tomorrow aboard thc! Aleutian for Juneau to spend Lhef summer with her daughter, Mrs.| Simpson J. MacKinnon. ot General Motors Is to Enter Airplane Field NEW YORK, May 17— Making the third large auto- mobile company to enter the airplane field, General Mo- tors announces the purchase of 400,000 shares or 40 per cent in the Fokker Aircraft Company. Ford and Packard Motors are the other auto concerns interested in aircraft. ° . ° ° ° . L] . . . L ° L4 . ® 600000000 land was indicted by a Grand Jury| ; Ihis shoulder blade. Baker opened |fire on the | times. 'Religion {Real Romance |clic Church have prevented the mar- {Florida Grocer Handled bv Mob When Trouble | e i LAKE CITY, Fla, 17—N.| grocer, was from ' mob durir 5 body May night found | was by a farmer. Romey was arrested last nu.m,| after altercation with the Police | during which Chief of Police Baker | 1 and Mrs. Romey killed. l Romey’s body was found, contain- | ing many bullet wounds, ia a sit- ting position, upright, in a ditch. The trouble started when Romey | was told to clean-up in front of | is store. He finally agreed to| take some produce in boxes ouv\ e on the sidewalk, into his stere. | Shortly afterwards it is seid he call- | {ed the Police and said he had re- | turned the produce to the outs du’ of his store and for the Ch to | come back and try to make him move it in again.” Chief of Police Baker returned to the store and a quarrel started. Mrs. Romey is d to have pro- duced a pisto!l and fired three shots at Baker, one of which broke | woman, shooting five | The verdict of the coroner's jury has not been made public. Property Destroyed; Strikers Are Accused ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., May 17. |—Two reports on destruction of property by union strikers have been made to Sheriff Moreland as| trials of 86 strikers of the Ameri- can Bemberg and American Glaz- astoff Textile Mills proceeded on {charges of various kinds. The Girst Mill is reported to| have been dynamited and a com- pany automobile has been burned. St — . Stops Among Royalty SOFIA, Bulgaria, May 17.—From high authority comes the statement that the rules of the Bulgarian Naticnal Church and Roman Cath- riage of King Boris and Princess Giovanna, of Italy. The authority said but for the attitude of the Vatican, the engagement would have been announced Wednesday. The couple is said to have felt genuine affection for each other and sin- cerely desired to wed. > 1U. S. Wants Canada to! | the Hous: Arises with Police fon i " NOME NEWLYWEDS ON | | i [ Divulge Clearance of Vesselswi 1’h Liquor OTTAWA, May 17.—The request | of the United States that the Cana- dian Government give customs| ce of vessels carrying con-| nments of liquor to the United | States is expected to reach the floor of Parliament The request, which so far the b nment has fit to ant, is contained in| ondence and reports of Cana- | were tabled esterday. id the matter wiil] reach open discussion when esti-| mates of the Department of the Na- tional Revenue are placed before in | J% 1 \ Associated Press Phott J. Clark Dean, Jr., Chicago, sac rificed $400,000, financed her divoret and disobeyed a court injunctior to wed Mrs. Dean. Now she want a divorce. ONE HUNDRED | KILLED, FIRE | Four Thousand Reported| to Be tute | and Destit The position of the United States Government is that information of | granting clearance of vessels with lig cargoes destined for the d States is the only effective | s cf cutting down the flow of te m liquor Uniess this is granted, it is the anti-smuggling treaty must be revised. B Higher Tariff on . i Cuban Sugar Sought Hatcless ' 1| lomeless | WASHINGTON, May 17- {cates proposing a higher tariff on Cuban sugar had their innings in} the Hoyse yesjerday as on the LONDON, Mxxy 17, first of tho week the general de-|LClegraph Company's-dispiieli -] h:n,c on the tariff ended. 'T! ts from Warsaw that more than | |vocates asked for a raise in the persons have lost their li in a fire at Iwie. More than 4,000 duty to 240 cents a pound. persons are homeless and destitute. | ponents proposed that Op- if a higher tariff was granted it should become ! Practically the entire township cffective. only when the Cuban|Was burned over. I ar dropped below 480,000 pou 5| SOl ‘ in New York. > s g | Wedding Scene of [ Lindy and Anne Is | Indicated, Englewood HONEYMOON ABROAD ) . GLEWOOD, N. J, May 17— Dwight W. Morrow and daugh- rs Ann2 and Elizabeth are back | ,at home here afte: 1 absence since | "Mon' Ay. Whe: t danght: re-:sspent the intervening time was not <onm leaving at once for the u'l‘,—’]_vnm- 1. Mrs. Morrow recently |spoke of “Smith’s College,” when Instead of using the airplane,'she said she would be unable to at- Mr. and Mrs. Bruun travelled from, tend the ex 3 |Nome to Fairbanks with a team of | Indications that the marriage 17 dogs. The t:ip required six cerer y of Col. Charles A. Lind-, weeks, as compared to the seven bergh and Miss Anne Morrow may | or eight hours by plane. take place here is n in a rush On a honeymoon irip that will M take them to Norway, Mr. and Mrs. ‘[, |Finn Bruun of Nome, were inter- ested visitors of Juneau last night. |They were married in Nome e Mr. Brunn has represented Wil- order (() a mnsylvania dealer for, lard H. George Company, Los An-|lar of hemlock geles fur buyers, in Nome for »‘g,r(m and other decorati | eral years. He and Mrs. Bruun| - o 2 | will go first to Los Angeles for a| H. L. Reed, of the Piggly Wiggly | short time then proceed to his old ' Corporation’s Ala staff, return- heme in Norway wheresthey may ed here last night after a business make their future home. trip to Cordova. Charles G-Bootih SYNOPSIS: An amazing dis- |“Somebody saw Jerry driving along _covery by the police develops |[the Peskella road towards Skull the theory that the murdered |[Valley the night before last.” Andrew Ogden, for 30 years a “Skull Valley-—Torridity,” she leading and exemplary citizen, ispered. had once been the swaggering | ,_ o ] gambler of Torridity, Alex Pe- | I nodded. “Probably. | terson. Ogden’s son, Jerry “I thoug he mig}_)‘» have gone | charged with the slaying, is {there. I n is coming here, you | You v hall I t tell him?” | ve to, Lucy. If I don't,| 1 at Ogdens’.” rse! Oh, dear! What | She clasped her “What can we missing. His fiance, Lucy, and her uncle, John Peebles, both of whom challenge the theory of , Jerry's guilt, fear for his safety. | From the police they hear the | startling news that Jerry was seen speeding toward Skull Valley, where his father owned a deserted mine, mysteriously linked with the murder. g ] are we to do handfi desperately. will explain,” T mumbled. | “Don't we know he’s done nothing to be afr: of?” She turr on me fiercely. “Of | we do And of cou he’ll e n, but will Deacen sccept the explanmmtion? If Jerry were to come | back no and give himself up, bly would. But Deacon did it and if he out there hell think Chapter 17 LOVE DEFIES THE LAW I put the telephone down slowly. How was I to keep it from Lucy? But when I looked into her eyes T knew there would ke no keeping it from Lucy. ;hn‘ hiding—don't you sce?” “It was headquarters. Deacon is| This was my own view of the dropping in here. They—they want matter. If we could have warned him to call up.” Jerry that Deacon was on his “There’s something else, Unclettmi]. the boy could then have an- John. Something about Jerry. What |ticipated arrest by giving himself is it?” up to the police. A thought struck “Steady, old girl,” I pleaded,|me. dropping an arm over her shoulder.' “If Jerry has been in Skull Val- believes finds him |she air 2 her —An Excharge L, |age at Mrs. |the steamer Alas GOILID, BUILLETS GRAF ZEPPELIN IS RETURNING Motor Trouble Reporled When Huge Airship Is Qut Eight Hours BULLETIN — CUERS, May 17.—After an all day struggle against storms, the Graf Zeppelin | Janded here at 8:35 o'clock (2:35 P.'M.) and the huge ship with 58 persons, crew and passengers, en- ! with the| assistance of a large force of troops! tered the local hangar which stood by and made a gallant fight to prevent disaster. The Zep- pelin safely brought to the earth beside the only landing mast in France. The Graf has been in 4 hours during which most of the time was spent in o ggle with the famous wind which blows down |the Rhine Valley intermittenly. FRIEDRICHSCHAFEN, Germany, May 17. left h motor carly ble yesterday, developed and is returning to ome pert. The last previous definite report received he: re- g the Graf was en the jairship passed over Barcelonia at ), 35 p.m., or 8:85 Eastern Standard time. At this time the Graf had been in the air more than eight hours and had covered €50 miles. She had maintained a good aver- |age speed of 70 miles an hour. The | Graf on her sec attempted flight to the United States. Granted Repricve From Hanging on Date of Tixecution SACRAMENTO, Calif, May 17. —Allan R. Ellis, Fresno youth, sen- tenced to hang at San Quentin to- day for the murder of Francis O Weisert, was last night granted a reprieve until July 19, by Gov. C. C Young. Parents of the youth claimed he was under 18 years of the time of the killing and this question was largely instru- mental in causing the Governor to uan. a stay of execution. B DAVIS LEAVES Charles Davi Jack Davis son of Mr. and left last night on for Seattle in the care of Mrs. Cole. He will be met in Seattle by relatives |and taken to Portland, Ore., where Ortho- | he will enter the Masonic pedic Hospital for several months. - eee - HURLEYS LEAVE FOR EAGLE RIVER R. C. Huriey and children eaving today for their summer camp on the Eagle River road, next to W. C. Wrights’ cabin. They will take a vacation of at least a month at the cabin. ley since the night before last he may not know—about his father. The town is abandoned. There are no means of communication. That's why he hasn't turned up.” “Of course that's why, Uncle John,” the girl cried frenziedly. A car had stopped in front of the house. Lucy’s face whitened; then a queer, e ed look leaped |into her eyes and she slipped into Her cheeks were burn- en she returned. s Deacon and he's alone! Let me handle him, Uncle John!” “Handle him! My dear child! What do you mean?” “I've got an idea! It's Jerry’s only chance! You must let me try it! Promise me you will, Uncle John!” “Why, why—good Heavens, girl! Oh, very well! What do you want me to do? He's here now.” “Nothing! Just stay here and don't interfere whatever I do! Please promise!” “Oh, very well,” I promised. She was off in a flash, shutting the door behind her. The front door opened. “Hello, Miss Lucy,” Hefry greet- ed her. “Is Uncle John up, yet?” Lucy laughed. “Hours ago, Cap- tain Deacon. We were just look- (Continued on Page Eight) T0 HOME PORT France, | { l | ‘he Graf Zeppelin, which | | i camp|| |that probably will never com- pletely conquer darkness, dense fogs and storms. This is the first photo to arriv Princess Paul of Serbia with I\< Traffic Violators Asked by Judge To Fine Themselve LOS A“T(JELES Cal,, May 17.—A cafeteria idea (l(‘]JL into the police court here to- day when she Judge asked traffic violators ‘o put themselves in his place and fine themselves what they thought was just. Speeders fined from $5 te $20. Those who had failed to stop at traffic signals, wrote five dollars. “You are too severe,” the Judge said, reducing the fines from $1 to $5 each. themselves e0cesc00000000000080 ®eccevesecrcco0eo e NEW AIRWAYS SYSTEM PLAN CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 17 system of national airways inter- connected with radio and with ade- te lighted landing fields in the to insure ualfll to air pas- is promised by the dele- Lflll; attending the First National Airport convention. It was agreed e — Debenture Clause Controversy Put Up in New Mannier WASHINGTON, May 17. — The Senate's ingorporation of the ex- port debenture plan in the Farm Reliel bill has been put up to the House in unusual procedure, acting under a special‘rule to submit the measure which the two chambers disagreement. a majority vote in the| House is needed to prevent a lengthy controversy between the| two branches on the right to in-| itiate debenture legislation. If the House votes to accept the measure, the leaders are confiden! the conference will easily eliminate | the controversial clause. Another supplementar: measure is ready for tk consideration. > DRI N SR N R RN ) . TODAY JCK . QUOTATIONS 000 0eceesceoe YORK, May 17—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted ioda at 5%, American Smelting 102 Cudahy 53':, General Motors 80%, Gold Dust 837, Mack Trucks 101%, | Missouri 917, National Power and and Light 54%, U. S. Steel 176 %, | Bethlehem Steel 1057, Continental | Motors 21, Mathieson Alkali 51%, NEW e in this country of charmirg r second son, Prince Nicholas. 1 Newsreald NOEL WIEN IS FORGED DOWN; PLANE WRECKED. an Alaska Airplane! Pilot Meets With Ac- cident, Wilderness SEATTLE, Noel Wien, pilot, mi seve 3 1 into Bettles, mining urln‘uluu'y in the Endicott Mountain Range, Thurs- day night, car ying mail destined for the district This bri here Wien Bettles was dama impassable wilderr Wien not hur He is believed to have left Fair- banks May 10 to deliver the Endicott camps. My Ve Jlnln for ge was received son, of Nome, attle. forced down between Wiseman, The plane was and »d heyond repalrs in the The plane was being operated as a mail on ore of the two br from Fairbanks to Seward P sula on @ subsidy recently nted and ed by Gov. George A. Parks for two irf IN TR By S. W. PRENOSIL (A. P. Finance Editor) NE WYORK, May 17—Millions of dollars in Wall Street profits made in the big “bull” market of the last five years have been set de in irreyocable trust funds by cores of large speculators to guard against the proverbial rainy These m many of whom have | made more money than they pos- sibly c d for th » chosen this N, method to of the future e securities. They regard it as an insurance to prevent them from dissipating their fortunes through being car- ried away on a wave of speculative income trend of speculat) regardless bonds. They include also com mon stocks of well established com- , many of which were pur- chased at prices far below the lev- els now prevailing Inasmuch as International Paper A, no sale, B 16, Stewart-Warner 767%. available. }|evcr is attested by the enormous mail to l day. | ir legitimate | iilies a comfortable | these trust funds are personal in character, little ex- act information concerning them is Their popularity, how- 125 ARE DEAD AS RESULT OF '~ HOSPITAL FIRE |Fears Are [‘:;t_ Others May Die from Poison, Not Yet Taken Ill ILIST OF 75 “MISSING” IS BEING PUBLISHED Spontaneous Combustion Is Given as Fire Cause— | to Rebuild Clinic CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 17— The Cleveland Clinic Hospital, | where 125 persons lost their lives, | to date, will be rebuilt under plans formed by 35 citizens. | Dr. George Crile, head of the old | institution, will be director of the | new institution | The loss by the explosions and |fire is set at 875,000 including | many important medical records. It is feared that all those who |may die from poison fumes have not yet been taken ill. Three firemen and three police- men who aided in rescue work |were taken to hospitals last night, Isuddenly stricken from the effects of the gas. | Others are reported to have tak- en to their beds «t their homes. Physicians said that during the inext 24 hours, it is expected the ‘(rls s will have been reached. | Grave fear is felt for those in- Jured. Search has been started for 75 mssinp" patients. These had ap- ‘pumtments for examinations at the iclinic. The names have been given out so that if they were in or near Lh(‘ hospital at the time of the |blast and fire, they may report. Officials now lay the blame for ‘zhe disaster to spontaneous com- ‘buquun in the X-ray room. | Japanese Evacuating i One Chinese Province | TIANGTSO, China, hay 17.—The first transport with evacuating Jap- anese troops from the Chinese Province of Shantung, in accord- mx:ce with a recent agreement be- |tween the Japanese and Nationalist governments, sailed for Japan to- day. It is expected evacuation will be completed by May 20. | i‘Licenu Renewed for Alaska Radio Station WASHINGTON, May 17.—The Federal Radio Commission today granted Karl Hansen, operating station KPR at Port Alexander, Alaska, renewal of license on fre- ‘quencies of 180, 246, 411 and 500 kilocycles. Hansen works commercial busi- ness with the U. S. Signal Corps relaying and transmitting with the Kelchlkan stnticn WEALTHY TRADERS PLACE FORTUNES UST FUNDS tincrease in trust company adver- | tising and personnel in the last few years. Jesse Livermore, who establish- ed a world wide reputation as one of Wall Street’s most successful speculators a decade or more ago, |is credited with having been one of the first operators to set aside a trust fund. This is estimated at between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000. Since then, thousands of other funds have been established, some with a capital as low as $50,000. The Fisher brothers, who made |a fortune out of the sale of their | automobile body business to Gen- | eral Motors, and have added many | hundreds o millions to it, have | placed part of their holdings in a mania. separate investment concern, which g2 | acts as a holding company for their These funds consist largely of gilt | securities. edge obligations, inclu United | Arthur W. Cutten, William C. States government urities and | Durant, William Eshbaugh, Louis high grade railroad and industrial | Zimmerman, George F. Breen, Jo- | seph Higgins and scores of other | operators are reported to have se- gregated part of their holdings, some of them in the names of oth- er members of their families. Most of these men are avowed “bulls” on the United States but they want to avoid the pitfalls into which many of their prede- cessors have fallen, e s 4 b i E L 3