The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 18, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5103. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY. MAY 18, 1929. MEMBER ARMY LIEUTENANT KILLED IN ARPLANES IN SHAM BATTLE, CRASH HIGH UP Spectacular Army Air Maneuvers in Ohio Fatal f(éniuck& l;’uI 3-Year-Old té Derby Fame OF ASSOCIATED PRESS VCE~NE TEN PERSONS UNDER ARREST FOR $20,000 ROBBERY GRAF ZEPPELIN. HOTORS START | | In an exhaustive opinion render- ed yesterday to Auditor Cash Cole, L i 5 3 | Attorney General John Rustgard Exammahon Bemg Madcm])m-ld the legality and validity of & | salaries paid from Territorial funds as to Cause of le' to the Highway Eng nd to ( A S | |NVES'|'|G ATIEN ?Rustéart[fliddles Protests Of Wickersham on Payment Of Salaries by Torrilory CITY OFFICIAL IS ACCESSORY, " BANK ROBBERY jlr; Arrested on Alleged | Charge—At Liberty Plane Juneau Reached Seattle 8:20 Last Night nd two- to One Participant i [the Secretary to the Governor and SEATTLE, May 18—The 2 TR P ! ure to Function |clerks in the Governor's office. In{® plane Juneau, Pilot Anscel on $25,000 Bond PLANES COLL]DE; ! his opinion the .t_\uduor and Treas- Evlfzmnn, with passengers, e Pt i arer have nothing to fear from arrived here last night at e FALL IN FLAMES VARIOUS RUMORS e e T I Bia0 "ocioes fuim dmmenr. o|3 OTHER PERSONS ARE goaet Wt | ARE ClRCULATED malfeasance in office—although he Alaska with Larry Parl TA.KEN lNTO CUSTODY ! Accident Occurs While at . ‘ . Altitude of Fifteen Open Suspicien Is Voiced ers for such services. i o e panevbapet- < | Sensational - Developments Hundred Feet Regarding Circumstances | The opinion is an answer 0 @13 yuking final arrangements o| in Robbery at Pine i gy J s R t Held U letter ed to Auditor Cole for his outboard motor boat Bl %I k i COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 18— —nepor e P and Tre Walstein G. Smith record attempt from Juneau uit, rKkansas L. Meadows, of San Diego, ) killed and Fred Salter, also of Los Angeles, was injured 1en two planes in the National Army maneuvers, crashed over the A share in the brilliant tradition of the Kentu *ky derby is offered the colt who teads th ¢ field at { | didn't use those terms—in approv- |ing for payment and paying vouch- !recently by Judge James Wicker- A \sham in which it was charged that CUERS, France, May 18. — Dr.\approprigtions for the clerical staff (in the Governor's office were il- 1legal, and that as there was no specific appropriation for that pur- |Eckener has taken charge of the Imechanical examination of the four !motors which failed him on his Raymond Haines months-cld cub bear to Olympia. © 0 00 % vwo0Ce 00 > ? 0 ° ® . ° ) ° s 2 . . . ° ®| PINE BLUFF, Ark, May 18— One city official is at liberty under a $25,000 bond, and nine other per- sons are jailed charged with com- WOMAN PLANS CRASH : ; by i Churchill Downs (2bove). Inset shows the finis r wi i ) ' i . residential district and fell n oW he flsh sl vear with Reigh Count winutny. |attempt to fly the Graf Zepuelin poce o saiary could be paid to the pliclty inthe hold-up of the Peo- BSEE e 3 BT o o the Unite ates. kA ple’s Bank and Trust Compan; salter i .| LOUISVILLE, May 18.—Fifty- T = " g r Highway Engineer. y f,x u}; _}nunpcd tot:arcrty but suf- Poiie S Retin iand iy thrci— Hol are nominatec for the|choice, and failure to start does| Until Dr. Eckener and experts| Bank on April 26. i vl fl about _§ ;Ce_' the vear as come pelting down | Y UPon the be SLOW- [not procure the return of one's|from Friedrichshafen have given Without Foundaiion | The bank was robbed of $20,000 < crash occurre uring the - W Cl;ur(‘,hill ing 191 | wager. Only twice has the field [the engines an exhaustive exam-| Attorney General Rustgard's opin- est sham battle staged in the Downs, | |by five masked men. WURLD REGUR“{ Ralph Reed, City Attorney, is {charged with being an accessory ¢ closed Febru. fexceeded 20 starters, 22 being the |ination, no report will be made as|ion takes up the Wickersham pro- 4 mic warfare between the Red ng the great horses of the 9 entries, 37 less than\abs 6o ¥ - aatil kT | P S e oeder o o and™Blue Armies, One hundred past, bullding reputations for great ! B 9 flLl‘l( \.‘Jl less than) absolute top. to the cause of their failure. ilL;LS in the order they were made. o e ol and four planes were participating |horses of the future ; vere nominated last year and the |\ By coupling entrants, owners at-| Regardless of rumors, a new ef-|deals with each conclusively ix s Rce(f X ng ds 0':" hPTOPEl"Y- B S Ao e = o » e small field since 192! Owners | tdmpt to plan a definite course of [fort will be made to make the, seriatim, and finds them to be g . | S sai ave received in the maneuvers. One of the| Fifty-four times the Kentucky|poc eos subscrintion fes with sy Will Pilot Plane on Re-[$10000. His arrest followed the derby has been run and again this acblon, one colt being sent out to flight and this will bz attempted |wholely without foundation. “Judge plawes -is reported to have struck 'q. e it has g & 2 s 4 . . capture of thi 2 i B “ added to start. In addition, $50,000 / run'the field into the ground while |Within the next two weeks. | Wickersham asserts,” said the At- fuell Fl h A P Ol ree negroes on acces- the tail of the other causing it to afternoon, May 18, will be run again | _ # i araiet ;. . 2 i " e | A ARAL M uellmg 18 t—An- sory charges and the recovery of et e |the most famous classic of America, | 5, PUt UP by the association, of |the other, laying back, saves its| Dr. Eckener announced the Graf'torney General's opinion, “that v The crash occurred at an alti-| Almost to the day, it will com- tude of 1,500 feet. | memorate the afternoon brave- Another member of the battle hearted little Aristides swept down fleet, Liege Schultz, made a forced the course, setting the pace for a ,mdi;g with: hl]s plane w:i';h l:;d‘:tfl‘alematc which never showed up, not been properly prepared for the ang going on.to win from a field Fiehts. tHo whs' Aot ToniFed and of lfig::nrtcr& That was May 17, the plane was not damaged. 1875. —————————— | The distance was a mile and a | |half, and for 11 years breeders de- | \bated the wisdom of so long a test | WILL PROCEED AGAINST FIVE for tender colts. {ter-mile was lopped off, the dis- |tance holding, as now, a mile and a quarter. In 1896, a quar- | | | which the winner draws $40,000. Reigh Count, carned $55375. Colts and geidings carry an im- post of 126 pounds. Fillies are given a five-pound allowance. And in spite of the tllowance, the derby is too much for a filly. Only once in 54 years has a filly won the derby, Regret slipping the field in 1915: Horses from the same stable are coupled in the track betting. Win- ter books, made up months in ad- ance of the race, require a definite winning last year, I strengfa for a final spurt. Bets at the track are not placed on the horse but n the stable entry. And! Col. E. R. Xradley has the good fortune to see 'his Bubbling Qver and Baggenbaggase finish one-two in the classic of 1938 d No colt overshadows the field as Reigh Count, owned by Mrs. John Hertz of Chicago, topped tie entry of last year. Blue Larkspur, a Srad- | ley colt out of Black Servant—Blos- som Time, leads the list, with Clyas Van Dusen, owned by H. P. Gard- ner, a second choice. | ARCTIC WITH FURS; C. S. HOLMES OFF | will not make any further f¥~'i,, ;a three items (citing tgF ) Uy, {until thoroughly overhauled. “thi.sncbted for the Gover th, [co; » | Despite openly volced suspieion fare jllegal, but he does not'jstate of many persons that sabotage yherein the illegality exists. | {caused the failure of the motorsi wTne Appropriation Act of 1929, | |to function, high officials of the|c, far as these items are conccrn-l Zeppelin Works state ghev do not oq j5 jdentical with the Act of believe anyone harmed the engines jgor [mmediately after that act | wilfully. (was passed and approved Judge WILKINS SCARED }chkersham instituted proceedings in the district court against the ! CUERS, France, May 18. — Not Treasurer of the Territory to en- |all of the passengers aboard the join him from paying the appro-| Giraf Zeppelin, which returned here 'priation made for the Governor’s yesterday from the projected flight office, the Secretary’s office and other appropriations, in- {to the United States on account of | various |$1,000 in traveler's checks, report- jed to have been part of the funds | stolen, Three men were arrested in New Orleans with $7,000 in cash in their {money Dbelts. They are said po ;ha,ve been among the five who Two men and one woman were arrested the day after the hold-up |in Little Rock on accessory charges. B e S TWENTY-FOUR ARE INJURED other Attempt ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y. May 18.—A womsh is to command one of two planes now being fitted out to challenge the world's refuelling flight record held by the Question Mark, — Miss Viola Gentry, former holder of the womans' endurance record, announced simultaneously with Lieut. H. B. Clarke to assault the Question Mark's record of 150 hours, 40 minutes and 15 seconds. Lieut. Clake plans to takeoff on Monday in an effort to stay aloft 200 hours. Martin Jensen and| plane will be refueled by the aid| o e - i T : ; % 5 2 : ; g ) {motor troubles, took the adventure ciuding those here in cuestion. As 9 T o al SEIZED BuAT VETERAN TRADER TO COME OUT FROM I Irvine Lenroot \\cahn]y. Sir George Hubert Wil-|to some of the items the plaintiff [‘)‘{lflltml?v'Ilufgz::;.)ar;‘;?“gpl'a"k(;e"‘x]]‘;‘xzf A kins said: “I would have given was sustained by the district court,! : 2 nrs Is Confirmed by anything to have been on land but the items here in question were of a device to enable them to pick | . . FOR NORTH WITH QUEER ASSORTMENT |Senate for Judge again. I would prefer to fly above held by the court to be legal and it ool IN GULLISIUN/ Condemnation Proceecllngs; i Q 2 | for J rge Pe-ie Norf:.eforg;:f? stert tise sn'"ejvrf"‘d‘d 'x;he F“\iltpx:s(\dl'hen L::S- g Cagoline from the v i 3 X 1 ! I W, NG' Mz g 2 |voyage 3 imissed and a ne: eeding start-1" aric” Gents t4/ ! e 1 OderedApaimst U5, o e o - sctining ) |s WASHINGTON May 18— | et 3 | atsscd 8nd & new prooseding Smrt | M Oenhry I to fakstf on : | journey of more than 2,000 mi | by kayak and dog team, B. F. M Salmon Trollers DAWSON MINERS use of Canadian| Irvine Lenroot, former Unit- ed States Senator from Wis- consin, has been confirmed {joining the payment of the appro- | priations for the Governor's office,” CHIGAGO GANG |Tuesday. Walter Carr, designer of | Gas Car Crashes Into Rear End of Stalled Freight the! craft, is to accompany her. Refueling will be accomplished by | PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. May Curtcheon, veteran trader, \?ull‘ |® as Judge of the Court of which suit was later dismissed after ithe aid of another plane flying 18—E. F. Jones, City Solicitor, has 'leave Banksland in the Canadian| |® cCustoms and Patent Appeals |the appropriations involved had peneath them with a special pump- | One Man Dead been instructed to enter action of‘AT(‘UC soon for Point Barrow to |® by the Senate by a vote of i | been disbursed. ing device. condemnation ogainst five United \meet the schooner C. S. Holmes —_— {® 42 to 27. The nomination Discusses Objections - -se SPOKANE, Wash, May 18 i States salmon trollers recently seiz-|from Seattle, and bring out valu- £ 2 g ‘e is for a life time. ! The Attorncy General then en- W | bhgsSorp e e ed at Goose Island by the Can- able furs obtained during the two Men DlSSallSfied Wlth Il’ e “The post was submitted (tered into a discussion of the ;gl:?:ls iux::er:l;g:xroh“:i";o:mm ot adian patrol boat Malaspina for years he has been trading with | regular Pays Days “o by Calvin Coolidge but never Tn UIT { Wickersham objections as set forth - [ g mac e A °:d“:‘ violation of the treaty regulations the natives. | {® acted upon. President {in the 1927 cases. These were two, yesterday governing the The C. S. Holmes sailed mdayi and Quit Work Hoover resubmitted the nom- {first, “that the Governor is a fed- | freight train conductor, was killed |afternoon in which E. P. Cooper, I harbors by American fishing boats.»for Point Barrow via. the little! ination at the present ses- ieral official discharging federal jsettlements and trading stations on CAPTAIN PROTESTS SEATTLE, May 18.—Jjohn East-|Arctic Ocean. man, master of the seized troller| The cargo includes a sled pro- Tecora, said carbon monoxide gas|pelled by an airplane motor; tractor poisoning caused him to put in at for yse on the Arctic trails; first Goose Island. Capt. Eastman as-iraqio broadeasting set sent to the I DAWSON, Y. T, May 18—A Burrall and Baird, Ltd, and as- sociated companies operating the largest placer leases in the world, has occurred here because the men are dissatisfied with irregular pay days. . |the shores of Bering Sea and the eéneral walkout of employees of o sion despite the opposition that had become evident. . @0 0000 ceeeo0o0e |“Scarface” Capone Has Had Enough of Outlawry | —Would Settle Down PHILADELPHIA, Penn., May 18. —*“Scarface” Al Capone, Chicago {functions and the legislature can- (not lawfully appropriate funds to |operate a federal office, and sec- lond, that there is no law providing {for salaries for the Governor's lelerks and appropriation for these| is therefore improperly included in! DISPUTE HAS COME T0 EN ’:md 24 others injured. | Officials claim the blame appar= ently rests between O. W. Har- rison, motorman of the gas car |which rammed a freight, and P. |J. Mueller, freight flagman, who |was supposed to halt the gas car. Forty-six Years of Wrang- Passengers on the train asserted PASSES AWAY serted the other boats seized also|(on of the world; sea sled capable | 4 the General Appropriation Act. had good reasons for putting into |, maping 30 miles an hour, also. 1 pprop! Continuing, he said: “It is to be T he 3% Hoover |Mueller and Harrison' engaged in men demanded regular pay lan altercation after the wreck as ling Ended gangster, arrested, indicted, con- a i the harbor. |radio receiving sets, for Eskimos Eastman’s protest will be sent 01};1ny on the Arctic rim in Alask Washingtan, The broadcasting radio set is for e @ 9 e a & &b |the Presbyterian Mission at Point . TODAY'S STOCK P kit s o QUOTATIONS -i il .......‘.I....[cl D NEW YORK, May 18. — Alaskai Juneau mine stock is quoted today at 57, American Smelting 100-"&,} Cudahy 52'%, General Motors 80%, | Gold Dust 64, Mack Trucks 100%, | National Power and Light 53%, U.| S. Steel 174%, Bethlehem Steel 105%, Continental Motors 20%, | Mathieson Alkali 51%, Internation- al Paper A, no sale; International @aper B, 14!, Stewart-Warner 75. FIRE VICTIMS | CLEVELAND, ©hio, May 18.— | Today is the official day of mourn- |ing for the 126 victims of the | Cleveland Clinic Hospital blast. Congress Taking | Surviving doctors have taken up > % . {quarters across the street from the Recess; Tariff Is {old wrecked building and resumed Debated However |vork. | | 1 i \ MOURNINGFOR HOOVER OFF, i | | | |days and it is beiieved the com- q, | PERY will adjust matters speedily. The stoppage of work comes at a crucial time as considerable re- pairs to equipment is under way in order to take full advantage of the short season in mining opera- tions. | The company uses dredges. ——— | Richard P. Walsh, Pioneer Canneryman, Dies Aboard Tender KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 18.— Richard P. Walsh, pioneet cannery |man and for many years owner jof Ward's Cove Packing Company |here, died in his sleep Thursday b St |night aboard "the cannery tender WASHINGTCN, May 18—Presi-|wq i Cove on which he was re- dent Hoover left the White House turni from a three-day trip to today for the fishing preserve near gy traps. Madison, Virginia. The guests for| ppysicians said Walsh overex- the trip was Secretary of Interior erted himself and died from diala- Wilbur. Edward Lowerie, political tion of the heart. writer; Lawrence Richey, private! walsh was 50 years old and is secretary and Joel Boone comprise survived by his widow who will " DURING SLEEP :rxxlc';?l :;:dcasfrr;fizczgn:zalggewg::l:}assumed that these were the ob-| on when he arrived here from At_‘}jections inbdudge . Wikersham's lantic City Thursday night, told mind when he made his protest to the authorities he wants to quit the | You that the appropriations here old life but once in the racket 'n auestion were illegal and should “you are always in it, it seems,|not be paid” e points out that Parasites trail you, begging favors the legal problems involved re-: Innd money and you can never get ceive @ most careful study by His |away from them no matter where Honor Judge T. M. Reed in the first you go.” {of the Wickersham cases, and tms‘ Capone said he wanted to settle learned jurist, after discussing at| down in a Florida home if pos- length and eruditely cach propo- sible. sition advangced, reached the con-| Capone claimed he had word clusion that the appropriation here| from all of his supporters at a'in question were legitimate thnugh‘ Makes Announcement |to who was to blame. | One passenger said the gas car WASHINGTON, May 18—The 46 Was traveling about 30 miles an years of international wrangling hour and that Harrison did not over the South American Provinces apply the brakes before the crash. Tacna and Arica has formally| One witness said Mueller was endad. ¥ !poswd al the rear of the stalled President Hoover announces an train and apparently hecame con- agreement between the govern- fused owing to the number of ments to Peru and Chile to divide |tracks in the vicinity. He did not the territory. | believe the gas car and freight Chile retains Arica and Peru re- were on the same track, he said. ceives Tacna. ( ———————— The terms of the settlement willl be incorporated in a treaty subject|FAMILY OF PROHIBITION to ratification of both countries, | OFFICER ARRIVES, JUNEAU recent Atlantic City meeting, that others were not found to be so.” there will be no more shootings. | He added although he had not >>o !been able to follow Judge Reed in |all his reasoning, “it would not |seem justifiable by this office in a' |case of this character at this time! {to hold that he is so clearly in‘ |error that this office cannot accept Baptist University Students Want Two Officials Removed The dispute has frequently| threatened to result in war. | Mrs. Gerald M. Church, whose 41 |husband was recently transferred s |to the Alaska prohibition forces Drunken Driver, |from Seattle, and her small som, At Wheel Ol | Gerald, have taken an apartment at Auto, Kills Two \the MacKinnon Apartments for the present. Mr. Church continued on WASHINGTON, May 18.—Tariff i suggestions had the right of way here today with both branches of Congress taking an adjournment and only the House Ways and| Means Committee Republicans meeting for final hearing on ap- peals from members of their party for changes in schedules. Disagreements over the Farm Re- lief Bill were sidetracked tempor- arily but will be revived Monday by an iritial nfeeting of the Sen- ate and House Committees charged with arbitrating the differences be- tween the two chambers on the ex- port debenture section. Crile, founder of the Clinic,; p | | yesterday performed six operations|the remainder of the party. |acompany the body south on the 'in the temporary headquarters. | Mrs. Hoover did not go. | Admiral Rogers tonight for burial | Investigation to determine the\ Preparations were made for an in Seattle. |cause of the explosions continues. overnitlght ;‘;‘di “‘Mmetf_m'hmsd of | the Blue e Mountains and a|p A l Ri Le gsmau village of tents were erected-lv L4 u"dor' Of |Arl sas River vee lin anticipation of the President's| 4laska Sailors’ Breaks_l'_'lgodmg Land coming. Cars will be abandoned Union Is Dead and the last lap of the journey RUSSELLVILLE, Ark., May 18.— | Will be made by saddle horse. | » 5 |The Holly Bend levee of the Ar-! - e - ESAI‘:t F,“i:NCIBCO, May 18— |kansas River broke this afternoon! A youth of Fennville, Mich., !"effl 7 erson, aged 70, founder and apparently 1500 acres of land of the Alaska Sailors’ Union and planted an acre of catnip an from have been flooded. The break was'the crop distilled seven pounds of later connected with the Ferry caused by a heavy downpour of oil. The ofl is used as bait for Boatmen’s Union here, dropped rain which sent the river risingcatching lions and other felines, dead last night in the Ferry Build- rapidly. and brings $75 a pound. Jing. He lived in Berkeley. BUFFALO, N. Y, May 18.—The Des Moines University students are characterized as victims of mis- representations by Dr. T. T. Shields, Trustee, and head of the school, referring to the Students’ Body wire to the Baptist Convention here, saying none would return in the fall if Shields and Miss Edith Reb- man, secretary, remained. Dr. Shields said and June 11 and any student would be welcome to attend and state his case. He also said a full state- ment of the controversy will be printed soon. the trustees | would hold a meeting between now | | the decisions as authoritative. ime steamer Yukon to Cordova and | Legislature Accepted It { CHICAGO, May 18. — With a he expects to be occupied to the “The questions involved have been qrynken driver at the wheel, a Westward and the Interior for argued pro and con during a per-!stolen automobile careened at high about a month before coming to iod of several years and has agi-lspeed into a group of children Juneau. tated the public during several Pre- playing in front of a school here! Mrs. Church was born in Fair- election campaigns. The recent|today and killed two, injured two banks, and is the daughter of Mr. Legislature evidently accepted Judge others so seriously that they may 2nd Mrs. Ed Hering, pioneers of Reed’s ruling as legally correct, and 'die and half a dozen others ;e“ped‘that city. Her father died a few unless it appeared clearly that the to safety. The car sped on and vears ago. {Legislative branch of our Govern-'eluded those who gave chase on| T 5 ment were in error in doing so it 'account of the heavy traffic. Presidio, Tex., the “sleeping town would seem presumptuous for this| Ten minutes later the auto of the Rio Grande,” hopes for an office to say they were so obvious- | crashed into two others three awakening with prospective rail- ly mistaken that their decision miles away and was wrecked. The road developments. The population should be disregarded.” |police said both men in the car of this town which has been under deie were so intoxicated they were un- six flags in its time, has dropped (Centinued on Page Three) |aple to talk coherently. | from 3,000 to 700.