The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 20, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. X XXIV., NO. 5104, FIRST PRESIDENT AL JUNEAU, ALASKA, MAN WANTED |ROMANTIC FiLM 'S'i'AR'wgps“prTRFSS, i NEW YORK CASE IS DEAD Eluded Cap}ur; for Years,l George Christian Dies in Hospital SUITCASE TELLS STORY OF CHASE Partner in Firm, Failing for | Two Million Dollars, | Passes Away OMAHA, vpaper Ne! clippings I s found in the luggage of a man who died Saturday night, de- | tectives have identified the man as being George Christian, former New York broker, who became a fugitive in September, 1924, in connection with the $2,000,000 failure of a Wall Street brokerage firm of Day and Heaton. Christian was one of the part-| ners of the firm.” | He eluded arrest until March of this year when he was captured and taken East and then released | under bond. i It is said that Christian was told a few days ago that he was dying, | he entered a hospital.- He toid at- tendants to open the suitcase after! his death. ) The suitcase contained about $800 in money and a batch of news- paper clippings telling the story of | the firm's failure and the long| search for him. 15 ARRESTED LIQUOR DRIVE IN CALIFORNIA May 20.—From and personal Apers = | |ishes the only clue to a crime » R e o7 e oy “"|which took the lives of Julius Federal Agenls Rounf:l Up; BERLIN, May 20.—Marriage tends ;l, i | Schuck, his son Ernest and daugh- AllegedBootlegging !to prolon: lite, the “weaker sex President lter 1da. | Rint’-—Bonds POSlEd lives longer than the “stronger,” | [l s over "as The crime was apparently com- ° and the average life has since 187 5 $ "mmod for the sole purpose of ob-| ibeen lengthened by 29 years, arc .’i](ll'k I‘._\'(’ taining a worthless safe containing | OAKLAND, May 20.—Bootleggers than $150,000 in securities and! bonds to obtain freedom of 45 per- | s including one Police Captain, six patrolmen and detectives ar- rested Saturday night in a Federal | drive on w e | TWO ENGLISH 158.5; but h 5 you | § ;of twenty in 1927, could safely look forward to 66 or 67 years. SYDNEY, New South Wales, May | 20.—The waters of tHe Timor Sea or wild uninhabited shores of nerthwestern Australia today cloak- ed the whereabouts of two English | aviators. Flight Lieutenant J. Moir and{marry, must remain a matter of ) Flying Officer H. Owens, left Bima, {taste or prejudice. The official :Lring the Graf Zeppelin here from | Dutch East Indies, last Saturday |statistics maintain strict - silence |Cuers, France, by Thursday or for Port Darwin. They were re-|on the point. MOSCOW, May 20.—Forty miilion | Friday of this week. | ported over the Island of Timor ————— buckets - of vodka were consumed| The trans-Atlantic journey is out and have not been heard from by Russians in 1028, as against|of the question until it is definitely Since, |twenty million in 1926, according|known what caused the failure of | One searching plane failed to 5 \to statistics prepared by the Anti-|the attempted flight, when four of find trace of the men or plane. The fliers are,said to have enough food to last several days. Kennecott Copper Corporation Declares Dividend NEW YORK, May 20.—The Di-| rect of the Kennecott Copper Corporation have declared a quar terly dividend of $1.25 on common stock placing it on a $5° annual basis against $4 previous. The dividend is payable July 1 to stock of record on May 31. e, 9 00 0000 00000 00 . TODAY'S STOCK L ° QUOTATIONS e ® 900 00000 00000 NEW YORK, May 20. — Alaska Juneau ming stock is quoted today MARRIAGE BRINGS P o ;thc cor and racketeers have posted more | yecent is said to be one of | the largest bootlegging rings eVer | uncovered in Northern California. | yeq average of 5 ried folk, Whether this fact proof that pecople become through marria indication that only the strong dare Levee Breaks on St. Fran-|of 30000 psychopathic cases every MONDAY, MAY 20, 1583 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SKA ROAD COMMISSION IS DEAD CONSOLIDATING DRY UNITS IS HARD PROBLEM Administration Officers | Study Difficulties of Proposed Change | WASHINGTON, May 20.—Admin- istrative officers who have studied |the problem of transferring the | Prohibition unit from the Treasury to the Department of Justice @re under opinion that the - and prosecution machip- hould be under separate working however, in close cooperation. ! The Administration officers take the view that the prosecution task is of such importance that the| officer in charge will be unable to spare time in the direction of en- forcement. Surveys have shown that the problem of making a transfer i exceedingly intricate and one re- |quiring most careful study before| legislation is recommended to bring | it about and given to Congress. | One importance division of en- | | forcement is the Customs Serviee | ‘»\mcn cannot be tranferred to the Department of Justice since its primary function is that of col- lecting customs and preventing| | smuggling. The Coast Guard is also import-| lent in enforcement as it works| closely with the Customs Service. | - - o | | BLOGDY HAMMER CLUETOCRIME Johin Gilbert of the screen and Ina Claire of musical comedies were married in Las Vegas, Nev. after a short courtship. Left to right, Harry Edington, Gilbert, Justice of the Peace Roger Foley, Miss Claire and Mrs. Bernard Glazer. (Picture by telephoto from Los Angeles). N Farmer, Son and Daughter!| l Are Found Murdered; ! Minnesota Home " LENGTHENED LIFE SAYSGERMAN DATA | | | WASECA, Minn, May 20. — A| hammer covered with blood furn- drawn by the m little of value. grand | The figures show indisputably «n S5 GAINS MADE IN MOTORS T BE Liikoe ALCOHOL BATTLE INSPECTEDNOW BY RUSS SOCIETY ronger as ge, or in, | FRIEDRICHSAFEN, Germany, |May 20. — Dr. Eckener hopes to | ol Soclety five motors failed to function. Alcohol Scciety. ! Last year the population of Rus-| The defects will only be located| sia spent $750,000,000 on vodka and | When the motors are shipped he’;il \other alcoholic drinks. Alcohol- and a scientific examination is bt | [made. ism in Russia turns out an average rs bresk B R ndni e th do with the dirigible itself and no| objections or criticism in construc- ‘ltmn will in any way be found. {Defective motors caused the disap- pointment for the flight,” state T A | year. cis RlVel‘—-NO Lives ] The Anti-Aleohol Society, which Beli | was organized a year ago, now has eheved LOSt 8 | more than 100,000 members. Due to ‘leral hundred men have been labo Muscovites spent $2,000,000 less on vodka in the first three months of the current year than in ta: |same period of 1928. | The society also has been creditcd with inducing the government to reduce the plan of vodka prod ' ing desperately for several days msu’on for ‘Lhn.mrrent year from for- avert a catastrophe. ty-six to thirty-gix million buck: No large town is in the path of|and the beer-brewing plan by the flood. |l cent. y o It is- believed all residents have| The socnefy orgamzed iq 35 cmfs | escaped. {of the Soviet Union anti-alcoh Workers are strengthening two | demonstrations i which some 000 children took part. The chil- St. Prancis River levee gave way today endangering levees and pro) erty of approximately 50,000 acre: of land. The break occurred at a spot\ considered the weakest where sev. at 5%, Arherican Smelting 99%,|other weak pluces in the dike | Cudahy 52, General Motors 8%, —————— dren paraded before factory gates Gold Dust 61%, Mack Trucks 99| Mr. and Mrs. Bert Bentson, on pay-day with banners bearing Missouri 957%, National Power and brother and sister-in-law of J. appeals to parents to quit drinking Light 53%, U. S. Steel 172%, Beth- lehem Steel 103%, Continental Motors 20%, Mathieson Alkali 49, International Paper A 25, Interna- tional Paper B 15, Stewart-War- ner 72%. {Bentson, who died here recently, for the sake of_their children. larrived in Juneau from their home‘f - eee - jin Ketchikan. They will make ar-| Joseph Wheeler, Petersburg drug- irangement for his funeral and bur-|gist, is a Juneau visitor this week. ial which were delayed awainghvm]e here he is a guest at the lthelr arrival. Gastineau Hotel. Fh e VT MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 20.—The \agitation carried on by the sot:iety,wmcm5 and Dr. Eokener, | | “Sabotage is not a question,” said Dr. Eckener. “An unknown factor is responsible for the failure rol-i lowing changes made since the last flight over the Mediterranean.” 1 ASIA ‘ MINOR EARTHQUAKE TAKES LIVES { ANGORA, Turkey, May 20.— | Thirty-nine persons were killed and 139 were injured in a violent earth- |quake Sunday near Sivas, Asla Minor. One thousand homes were destroyed or badly damaged. l the capital. GRAND GE who died today in Washington, D. C. Lindy’é Glamor Sull Is Undimme Anniversary of F light By ALL QUINN (A. P. Aviation Editor) WASHINGTON, May 20—Out of the glamor surrounding the hero who landed in Paris May 21, | 1927, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has emerged an ager \ business man as the second anniversary of al German vital reco) ° WASHINGTON, May 20.— ®| The authorities believe the mur- his achievement becomes bistory. and mortality statistics. ® President Hoover has a @ ders were done by two men who! i the shyness, almost In 1971, these records shiow, the @ black eye as the result of 2 came o the farm home last Sat-| ss, which characterized »laverage feminine life in Ge o mishap while walking aleng ® urday. the young adventurer when he first was 38. rs, and the masculin H_nf river fhu'l‘m'fl week-end ® | Footprints across the field ap- was engulfed in the enthusiasm For the period 1924 visit to the fishing preserve o 'pear to have been made by tWO|of an admiring world 0 in Virginia, The President ® men carrying the safe. | 3 5 o MRy N Y stumbled over a rock and ®| Two other daughters of Julius| FEW Young men ure busier these of 1¥a; sis) Bt brother to cracked his eye on a low- Schuck discovered the murdered 92Ys than Colonel Lindbergh, and For the boy or girl who grew|® hanging branch of a tree. ® members of the family when they|feWw have more jobs to look after i sately 6 TaP 20 ees T e Despite fmmediate treat- ® returned home last night. {shan. ;he has dogired sings his the prospects were siill betie © ment, the optic is badly ® P i e {flight to fame and fortune. i |young man of twenty in 1871 c (@ colored. | And AsSpUE. SHem <all - U5 Now 2 SR Ao feanhy ° . p York-Paris flier has had time to ; sesesramnnae 0 I add romance to his glamor--time | to woo and win Anne Morrow, the daughter of the Aimerican ambas- sador to Mexico. Lindbergh is encaged at presont with preparations for the opening of the train-plain Transcontinental Inc, July 1. He is chairman of the technical committee of the T. A. T. He acts in a similar capacity for the Pan- American Airways, Inc.; he is a trustee of the Daniel Guggenheim fund for the promotion of aero- Air Transport nautics, 2 member of the subcom- | mittee on problems of air naviga- tion of the national advisory com- | mittee for aeronautics; an advisor of the aeronautics branch of the department of commerce, and, among other things, a director of an airplane company or two. Wherever he goes, and his work requires that he go many places, Lindbergh is still besieged by ad- miring throngs. There are anxi- ous moments when he is overdue, and relief when' he arrives, but through it all the trans-Atlantic hero retains his chara stic un- _concern and calm Lindbergh's change in manner was noted especially in an appear- ance before a congressional com- mittee hearing on an airport for The contrast with his shy manner at a similar hearing early in his career as a hero was remarked upon by many. Although he rejected the get-rich quick offers totalling millions of dollars which poured in upon him after his flight to Paris, Lindbergh has acquired a fortune estimated at more than $1,000.000 through his writings, prizes and awards, gifts and business connections. His sal- ary with the T. A. T. alone amounts to $25,000 a year. Meanwhile, the other partner in the team of “We,” the monoplane “Spirit of St. Louis,” hangs silently shy | service of the| OLD ALASKAN PA SSES AWAY GEN.RIGHARDSON PASSES BEYOND IN WASHINGTON First President of Alaska | Road Commission Pass- i es Away This Morning REGARDED AS FATHER ALASKA ROAD SYSTEM Policies Inaugurated and | Methods Followed Still | Control Operations | | Gen. Wilds F. Richardson, first President of the Alaska Road Com- mission, holder of the Distinguished Service Medal from Congress, and | affectionately known to Alaskans | as “Colonel Dick,” died at 5:30 a.m. today in Walter Reed Memorial Hospital at Washington, D. C. Word |of his death was received by cable ,at Alaska Road Commission head- |quarters this morning. | Out of respect to him, the Com- | mission’s offices were closed from noon until 4 pm. today. Gen. |Richardson served as President of IO.he Commission for a period of 12 | years, from 1905 to 1917, when he | was appointed Brigadier General |in the National Army and assigned to duty with troops in the World | War. | Road System His Monument i General Richardson’s name is N. WILDS P. RICHARDSON d on Second to s |ka road building than that of any |other man. Alaska’s longest high- | Valdez, 367 miles, is named in his honor. A great many other roads jand partly constructed under his MEX!M m"Ts o e .} At the time be was ed as ! e i OF o e de Rbad Commin: now holding the same position, in the Smithsonian institution here, SRGrc JNATe U0 HRET WOHEE (O i 5 iy i i : than 12 years he devoted his ener- ‘;;‘O'l‘(“’:mf:" future generations 10 Gen, Calles to Retire to gies to building up the Alaska Road ryside— o Cou"“y“lde Put Down |the work accomplished, is due to | his efforts.” MEXICO CITY, March 20.—Gen,| Major Elliott paid a fine tribute PLAN ARG]"G | Calles, Minister of War, and former to General Richardson, saying: {and will retire (o the countryside He was a capable and earnest offi- P to rest, 1e of the time he will cer. He was thoroughly honest and EXPEBITIBN nouncement said Gen. never gained a dollar except that kel | 0's “Iron Man,” whose which came through his regular eedy end the recent revolt, gave! “The organization and methods i s resignation to President Gil 1ast which he initiated are followed to- Cl'(‘.d by l‘ lflld MUSCU!H 7 5 {over to Gen. Joaquin Amaro. except those that are due to the Pa”'y {Ol Noxlh The resignation closed nearly 2 introduction of mechanical equip- er for the Covernment which he which are today controlling the ,::fx:;lw‘v.,],’(fum.u:,“ B, /': “:“r vl headed for four years. | operations of the Alaska Road will sail from Scattle June 5 on {to the foresight of Gen. Richard- |the tiner Victoria MISSING H {9 [ ] | “He retained his interest in Alas- twill head the expedition, has char- | tered the power schooner Dorothy | c ANUE RIDING ;’gnge::"’““:’t’ °§“h"" :im‘e e |from Capt. Hvatum and will use, 9. Sgter Lis retivmmens, St | 0 cruise from Mome to Si-| it for the cruise from Nome to Si-| i e lths work 'tn’ svary ‘Was ble,” Thorne will be accompaniea by Lrominent Official of Coast seid Major Eliott. two other scientists from the Field, !Club in Washington, he was al- The Dorothy will sail from Seat- | and Son, Lost | Ways at home to his Alaska friends. itle June 18, and will take aboard ling up in the national capital in Before heading for the Arctic, Hodgson, scientist and Assistant | "rich he did not show an intelli- the scientists will hunt bear on Chief of the Division of Geodesy | Born In Texas jand other marine mammals and!and his 10 -old son, are mms-i.‘.gzse;:l ]&:il;;rdzzonw::amflniln {birds in the Aretic. [ing after being caught in a storm o VIR | | S gt % lof that State. He was appointed a Jio : | Aca | there is little hope held ont that:.,unge'?g. f:sl:, l;n:i”&a:r:do‘:;hlz ithe pair will be found alive since 4 e |more closely connected with Alas- | way, stretching from Fairbanks to | 1 1) land trails, scattered throughout the \Terrltory. were conceived by him | LEAVES DFFlcE sion,” sald Major Malcolm Elliott, | its usefulness ended except as an Lo {ha cusme: (n Alsshs. ¢ Foe; G i ez system and a very large part of | Recent Mex. Revolt | { Pays Personal Tribute President, has ro-igned his portfolio “He did a great work for Alaska. devote to simple farming. | throughout his service here, he 3 i handling brought to a salary as an officer of the Army. (Schooner Dorothy Chart- ¢ turday and turned his office day with practically no changes | three nths' service as War Min-! SEATTLE, May 20-—Wrangell T Aree months sarvice ar Min- 'ment and automobiles. The policies t — o Museum of Natural History which [Seminleon, afe; due 1) dnge A Br Thorne, of Chicago, who TW“ ka until his death. He contribut \ncuve duty, promoting and aiding beria and the Arctic. ~ Py “Residing at the Army and Navy and Geodetic Survey | Museum. | There was no Alaskan subject com- the party of scientists at Nome. | WASHINGTON, May 20.—Carney gent and active interest,” he added. Seward Peninsula and seek walrus of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, | - |while canoeing on Chesapeake Bmy.:ms Dy Sduoasdgn I ihe SESES sioned Second Lieutenant, Eighth the canoe den storm was caught in the sud- yneaniry Regiment. He was ad- waters of the bay. which churned the‘ (Continued on Page Eight) IN AGGIDENTS CHICAGO, May 20.—Twenty persons were killed and n re injured in traffic a Sunday in all parts iited States. | r of the deaths occurred in| lairplane accidents, 13 were killed |, when trains ‘struck automobiles light, an international celebration three died in automobile crashes lasting five months, and two were killed in a panic at ythe New York Yankee Stadium. ATLANTIC CITY, May 20.—The irst event in the golden jubilee of | here the evening of May 31, The culmination comes October Sennon: mechandise broker, 31 in honor of the invention of and Mrs. Brennon arrived in Ju- the incandescent lamp by Thomas ineau from a 1*p to owns to the A. Edison. The celebration will ISouth and to the West Coast of take the form of electrical displays Prince of Wales Island. They ex- and expositions in many cities dur- pect to remain here for about two ing the five month period. weeks and are staying at the! Formal opening of the Atlantic Zynda Hotel. ty auditorium, a structure costizz 2 P takes place | WORLD LIGHT JUBILEE TO BE BRIGHT AFFAIR $15,000,000 and seating 41,000 in tie main auditorium chamber, inaugu- rates the light jubilee. Special lighting effects in colors will he turned on that night to continue for five months. From June 3 to 7 the National Electric Light association will hold its annual concention in the audi- torium. Electric light and power | companies of the United States and other countries are sponsoring the various cclebrations of Edison’s in- vention. 7 4 i { 53 G o 4