The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 24, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE 108. ”AVIATR'XS 3 beTopf HE@:SS AND FIANCE SAIL GULD STR'KE 70 TAKE PART IN'BIG RACE Solo Transcontinental Race Starts from California | in August | SANTA MONICA, Cal. ,May 24.— Eleven women fliers will take part | in the first transcontinental air- plane race. i The planes will leave here on | August 20 and expeet to finish five | days later at Cleveland. Among the entries are Amelia Earhart, Ruth Elder, Lady Heath, Bebe Daniels and Mabel Crosson, | Alaskan mail pilot. | The race will be strictly a solo | affair. Each entrant will be forced | to service her own ship over the 2,000 mile course. R R S QUARREL IN AR, PLANE COMES DOWN | Second Endurance and Re-| fueling Attempt Comes | to Sudden End ! ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., May 24.—Failing to live up to the Dumas | tradition of “one for all and all for one,” the crew of the Mono-| plane Three Musketeers, quarrelled | and indefinitely have postponed further attempts to set a refueling endurance record. A dispute between Chief Pilot Clark and Martin Jensen, starting while aloft yesterday, ended the second endurance attempt and re- sulted in Clark’s withdrawal from future attempts. » Pilot Clark landed the Three Musketeers after 22 hours and 28 minutes aloft when a hook used in the refueling device tore four rips in the fuselage. Jensen contended he could have repaired the damage in the air as he had done twice before. GREAT DAMAGE | BY RAIN, JAPAN Property and Crops Dam- aged—Five Thousand Homes Inundated | | | | \ i TOKYO, May 24—Twelve per- ms perished and great damage been done to property and crops® by torrential rains which have swept the Prefecture of Fur- ushima. Five thousand homes have been inundated and 38 bridges destroyed. ailways have been damaged and! material losses are estimated at $2,200,000. venteen fishing smacks and crews aboard are reported miss- ing. SPECTACULAR FIRE, SEATTLE SEATTLE, May 24.—Fire swept through the Rialto Building, in the heart of the business section this forencon and estimated damage to building and stocks is $400,000. The blaze was the most spec- tacular in the down town section for several years. All fire appar- atus in the district was called to battle the flames which were brought under control soon after 9 oclock this morning and after a three-hour burning. Thousands of persons were de- layed in reaching work and traffic and street car lines were blocked. The Rialto Block is on Second Avenue and extends® from Madison to Spring Street. It was formerly the location of the Frederick & Nelson Store. The Pign’ Whistle| now occupies the middle portion of the building. Bank Messenger Robbed of $8,000 OAKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., May 24—A messenger of the American National Bank was held up at al down town corner this forenoon and robbed of $8,000. ) “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” FRIDAY, MAY 24, | 929, JUNEAU, ALASKA, iCANS RI Virginia Willys, automobile heiress, and her flance, Luis de Aguirre of Argentina, descendant of thz ccnguistadors, as they sailed for England. Miss Willys will be presented at court-at Buckingham palace. IS REPORTED NEAR MANILA Deposit Estimated at Value of Between 20 and 50 Million Dollars | | | : | | MANILA, May 24—An immense- | ¥ - |1y valuable deposit of gold is re- . | ported to have been found on the | Angat River, 25 miles north of Ma- |nila. The lowest estimate is fixed | |at $20,000,000 and the highest at| % $50,000,000 for the entire known ex- tent of the district. The property | has been staked out by 19 Ameri- |cans, all of whom are connected with an engineering concern. The gold is contained in a quartz vein which has been traced 9,000 |feet and ranging in width from 25 to 200 feet. | Discovery was made several months ago by George Cushing, | during construction of a tunnel for a water district. Noticing placer gold in the Angat River he pros- pected the region and found the |quartz ledge. «+ | The laws provide only one claim |can be staked by one person. Cush- ing allowed 18 of his friends to |stake the remainder. The discovery will not bring a new industry to Ithe Philippines since ¢old mining has been carried on in a small way (right), View at left shows demonstrators STUDENTS IN MEXICO CITY G0 ON STRIKE Assoclated Press Phote b ¥ ~ 1o v | by Indians for centuries. STANDING DRAFT LAW ANOTHER. sTarEs mivdsats|P-olice ‘and Firemen Are F()R U S KALGOORLIE, Australia, May 24| Called to Quell Gen- N £ DV()CATED —The discovery of hematite quartz A 2 - | . ¥ and iron stone has started a voi2 Cl&l Dls“‘”bance R W O |rush to the famous old Bulong MEXICO CITY, ;’l 2 il ‘ ‘! WASHINGTON, May 24-—Secre- Reef. Claims have been pegged for , May 24, — Man Shot on tary Good has recommended that|miles around the discovery spot, . |student was killed and 32 persons| i sav: N Congress give the President author- | wounded, four seriously, in rioting Highway; No i growing from a student strike at/| Liquor “in Car ROCHESTER, N. Y., firea masin sfopping ve- e hicles on public highways is favored by a jury which ac- e guitted Glenn Jennings, sman, of man- e as a result of the e son, who 1928, when Hanson to stop his car at a com- mand of Coa Subsequent automobile liguor. failed to reveal eo0eeceeo0c0e 0o P S AULE Husband Prote When Erring Wife Steals Glass Evye CHICAGO, May 24.—Harry Can- trell, 33 years old, has to draw the line somewhere. He forgave his wife Marie, for drunkenmess and neglect of their two children, along with various other lapses from wifely dutics and rectitude. The other night, ho r, she piled on the straw which broke the camel’s back. He had left on his dresser his keys, a dollar bill and h gla eye. While he slept she took these arti- cles and decamped. “When I awoke the next morning,” he told the judge, “I was shy one wife, one gl and the dollar bill. T want a warrant for her ar- rest.” JUDGE HARDING AND U.S. ATTORNEY FOLTA RETURN FROM HUNT U. S. District Judge J. W. Hard- ing* and Assistant U. S. Attorney George W. Folta returned on the Admiral Watson from Yakutat where they have been hunting bear for the last ten days. They brought back the hides of two black bear and one brownie killed by them. As has happened before when Judge Harding and Mr. Folta have hunted bear together, there is some confusion as to who killed the brown bear and one of the blacks, as they both shot at exactly the same moment, according to the story. The other black was killed by Mr. Folta when he was alone. The weather was poor, and it was ‘only possible to hunt three days out of the eight they were at Yakutat, Mr. Folta-said. They saw three brown bear and seven black in the vicinity of Yakutat, but were only looking for the brownies. - —— MRS. PHILLIPS FUNERAL Funeral services for Mrs. Emma L. M. Phillips, mother of Mrs. Gus Messerschmidt, will be held at the Juneau-Young Chapel tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, Rev. Har- ry R. Allen officiating. | thority ® | Cor ity to consecript the man-power of | nation for immediate military service in time of war. METALLIC PRODUCTION TORONTO, May 24—The value {of metallic production from On- Upon the recommendation of the itario mines and smelters for the joecretary of war, Acting Chairman |first quarter of 1929 is $3,937,000 or James of e House military com- incarly 25 per cent more than ifie mittee has ‘introduced a bill ‘Uy‘corrcsxmndlng period of last year. give the President permanent au-| PRS- Sy £ AL REV, to call male persons b(‘,-l 18 and 45 years of age to HUBBARD ed forces whenever | a declaration of | vai | |Leaves Seattle Accompan- ied by Three Students | of Santa Clara { the Nationale University Law School over the monthly examina-| tion protest. The police and firemen adopted extreme measures in bregking up the strike. 3 .. Three students leaders were ar- rested and held for investigation. It was after midnight before the| crowd of several thousand students| were dispersed. i‘ The trouble has been lntermittcnti for several weeks. | { The police were first called last | night to the Medical School where | law students were trying to budge; the medical students to join the strike. When the students agreed to; strike they started out of the building and the police opened fire, killing one student and the others fled into the building, barricaded | the doors and opened fire on the, police with pistols. Firemen started using axes as weapons, attached a hose to a hydrant and finally| subdued the fighting mass. ween the \ry Good's letter said, “prepared s a of a careful study of the World War sclective servie laws and their execution, would re- :nact, in suitable form, the princi- ples of those laws. The most critical period in any | |great conflict is that immediately | following a declaration of war, for | | “The proposed legislation,” Sec- Former Aristocrats Givenj Death Sentence for | Revolt Activities | MOSCOW, May 24. — The execu- ition of three former aristocrats of the Imperial and EKeren: regime for a counter revolutionary activity, { | i is reporu‘:fi | The mo§i were charged with ob- struction "8f Communist operation of railways and the gold and plati- num industry. Prison sentences it is the period during which our| SEATTLE, May 24—The Rev. armed forces must be mobilized |Father Bernard R. Hubbard, known ing of a few days or even a day Clara University, left Seattle yes-| may spell the diffcrence hetween aterday on the Admiral Rogers to e “Alnska, and other geological for- |mations. ~ He will establish his! GRAF ZEPPELIN ispend the summer in the north, > | possibly going to the westward and and Smokes, James J. Connors, of Juneau; | |Wash., and Prank Klatt, of Santa Cal., all Santa Clara students, - eiyrd are accomps France—Wilkins Is - Enthusiastic '‘RIEDRICHSHAFEN, May 24— {The Graf Zeppelin has returned | 1 | 14 passengers, eight of whom start- | NEw M|SSION| ed on the attempted flight to the| i 3 | {when they are weakest. The sav-|as the “Glacier Priest” of Santa| prompt victory and a long war.” study Taku Glacier, near Juneau, | headquarters at Juneau and will{ ! exploring the Valley of Ten Thous- - BACK T0 PORT PR ‘(Ihurlm Bartlett, of Port Townsend, Returns to Germany from A g Lot oy 2 SAWYER HAS here from Cue France, bringing | }United Stat and also seven| were given to | French Naval officers invited as| SEATTLE, May 24—Ernest W.|followers of the three special guests of Dr. Eckener to|Sawyer, Assistant to Secretary of, Those exccuted were Wer Von- show appreciation for French aid Interior Wilbur, will investigate|mek, largest ckholder in the| in landing the machine during an'plans for a new coaling service for |Kazan Railway; Vellcho, former | emergency. | trans-Pacific vessels which are ex-/head of the Transport Department Capt. George H. Wilkins was pected to inc Alaska coal pro- of the Imperial Staff; and Prof. the first to alight and he was fol-|duction and operations of the Alas- | Palchinsky, former Assistant Minis- {lowed by the French guests, and'gg Railroad. The plan is to estab- | ter of Trade. Mrs. Mary Pierce, the only woman'jish, a coaling station at Dutch| Since the inception of the, Soviet passenger. |Harbor which is midway between | regime all three men have been . The 600-mile flight toward Am-igeatle and Japan on the Northern |in positions of high responsibility. | erica was made in eight hours and Great Circle Route. | AR . 41 minutes. | PR s TR ;Hughes to Hughes, Departmental Law WASHINGTON, May 24.—Charles Capt. Wilkins is enthusiastic overI the ship's behavior amnd plans "Ox’,indhr'l‘;!h I-lax Cood make his next trip to the United | 4 5 States on the Graf and also hopes! Job with U. S., but mebfilj)' }’Z"i?'}i‘.ifinf“ e worldi Hasn't Earned Pay evans Hughes, jr., just appointed = BRERGASEESS solicitor general of the United; : { WASHINGTON, May 24—Col. States, is now only 40 years of age. Reparations {Charles A. Lindbergh is not get- But he will have as his right-hand Issue Seems |ting rich fast from his position as 'man another Hughes, who has been ladviser on areonautics to the De- In the department of justice more !partment of Commerce. Assistant than 44 years. | Secretary MacCracken said today, William J. Hughes, assistant solic- | PARIS, May 24.—Clouds of pes-|that Lindbergh has not drawn one itor general in so far as he knows, | simism hang over the German dele- |cent in salary since his appointment |is not related to his now boss. But gation in the Reparation’ Conret-fabout five months. He is allowed |he knows the senior Hughes well ence and the American and Allied ($25 a day when his services are and stands ready to lend assistance experts failed to aid progress m\wught by the Commerce Depart- to the son wherever possible. negotiations. The fate of the ment. Otherwise he gets nothing.| And a long line of solicitor gen- Hopeless conference is regarded as hanging |Mr. MacCracken explained t h“icrals have come to rely on this |veteran of the department and his ‘wIPXP!rt knowledge of jurisprudence. in the balance and a sudden break- 'no problem had arisen which re- up is now thought quite probable.!quired Lindbergh's advise, e HIGH RUSSIANS ARE EXECUTED {vey of the OT BE FORE U. . Violent anti-American demonstrations accompanied Mayday disorders In Mexico City. communist, is delivering an anti-Amcrican oration before the U. § Consulate. massed about the entrance to the Six and One-Half Year Old Boy Is Given Long Sentence MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CONSULATE _ Associated Press Photo Leopolde Quiroga He was arrested. consiate | CHICAGO HOTELS BAR BOOZE ; ONE WONT EVEN SERVE ICE| | | CHICAGO, May 24—The merry 1(\-‘1{0 of ice cubes being stirred with ginger ale or mineral water— and, perhaps, less legal liquids—no | longer will be heard in guest rooms of the world’s largest hotel, The . PAINTSVILLE, Ky, May e ® 24—Carl Newton Mahan, 6t e jStevens. o years old, has been sentenc- e| The hotel management has de- e cd to a reform school until e |cided to forbid the serving of ice o he becomes 21 years of age e (OF set-ups in rooms. Ice water will o for killing Cecil Van Hoose, e still be obtainable—without the ice. e cight years old, in a quarrel | The drastic rule of The Stevens e over a plece of scrap iron e preceded a few days by simi- o they were going to sell to a e | A restrictions on room service at e junk man. The jury delib- o sther hotels. At The Mnrrhm?. the e erated 30 minutes, The boy e |3uest who has ginger ale, mincral shot his former playmate e | ¥ater, or ice taken to his room is e with his father’s shotgun, o |Placed on his honor mnot to use o | hem for, mixing alcoholic drinks. e o oeeeoeee e o0 o ofde mustsign a pledge card upon INDIAN BIRL 1S TORTURED, 9LD CUSTOM Government Investigating Return to Tribal Method, Fighting Disease UKIAH, Cal, May 24.—Whether the Indians of this district have been using the centuries old tor- ture to drive Evil Spirits from tribesmen afflicted with disease, is under investigation of Govern- ment agents as the result of the death of Katherine Williams, aged hi years. Lucy Keenan, Government nurse, reported lacerations covered the upper part of the victim's body. She contends that the little Indian girl had been treated by a tribal medicine man, using the ancient rites. The nurse asserted torture often played a prominent part in tribal attempts to treat disease. FLOODS CAUSE S, DAK, SURVEY HOT SPRINGS, 8. D, May 24— Army engincers have begun a sur- drainage area of the Cheyenne River, investigating the | possibilities of flood control through construction of dams. A large reservoir at Jackson Narrows is urged by local inter- ests, who contend that the project, by impounding surplus water in the Cheyenne, would lift a large burden from the Missouri River during the flood periods. Irrigation and water power pro- jects also are being considered here as the Government survey pro- gresses. o - Troy Reaches Seattle For Funeral of Brother SEATTLE, May 24—John W. ‘Troy, Editor and Manager of the Daily Alaska Empire, landed at Lake Union at 5:30 o'clock yester- day afternoon in the plane Juneau, piloted by Anscel Eckmann. Troy lelivery of his order. Other hotels; ineluding The Drake and La Salle, have adopted similar. Hut less drastic rules. The hotels' actions followed a varning several days ago that the| rovernment_would institute padlock sroceedings against private clubs "otels, and similar institutions un- ess drinking were forbidden and topped on their premises. OVIL SERVICE RULES WANTED, CENSUS TAVERS New Measure Introduced in Senate—Special Reasons Given WASHINGTON, May 24—The Senate yesterday afternoon debat- »d a bill sponsored by Senator Rob- ri. F. Wagner, Democrat of New vork, to put census employes under Civil Service regulations. Senator Wagner said otherwice, political leaders and bosses would ippoint enumerators, he believed who would help their party. He {eclared that during the taking of one census political appointees fail- »d to count 200,000 citizens in New york in an effort to deprive the “great Democratic City of its prop- °r representation.” > QUOTATIO! ese0eovenc e o0 NEW YORK, May 24.—Alaska Ju- neau mine stock is quoted today @ 5%, American Smeilting 97%, Cudahy 51, General Motors 737 Gold Dust 61%, Mack Trucks 96, Missouri 86%, National Power and Light 50%, Texas Corporation 62, U. S. Steel 169, Bethlehem Steel 99’2, Continental Motors 19'%:, Ma- thieson Alkali 47'%, International Paper A 27%, Paper B 16, Standard 0il of California 75%, Stewart- Warner 707%. Yesterday's Quotations The following are the stock quo- tations for Thursday: Alaska Juneau is quoted at 5%, { American Smelting 99%, Cudahy _PRICE TEN CENTS GUARD HIGHWAYS IN BANDIT HUNT OFFICERS SEEK 5, CONNECTION DOUBLE CRIME | Three Men @and Women Wanted for Robbery, Murder of Two LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 24— | All roads and highways around Los Angeles are under guard today as officers sought Lee Cochran, Marcel Dellan and Jerry Kearney and two women companions in connection with the slaying of two Mexican guards and robbery of $85,000 from a gambling resort car near Agua Caliente last Monday. Identification of the bandit gang followed thegconfession of Mrs. Jerry Kearney, who was arrested with M. B. Celson, whose wound she was treating. | Mrs. Kearney named Colson, 1 Cochran and the others as the ones ,who shot the guards. Mrs. Kearney said she was treat- ing Colson at the request of her husband. Colson was traced by the police through an abandoned auto- mobile believed used in the robbery and getaway. COLONIZATION OF ALASKA IS T0 BE STARTED Settlers Wanted for Tan- ana and Vtattsk Vb ve for' approxis of aefieultural navidn eow nte y Tanana Valley, ¢ o peartures, while and Hollanders ¢« © 1 Matanuska Valley. wi. ¢ mate is said to be : ern Washington. As a start toward M. D. Snodgrass ately on a D, States and also ndver ricultural papert get at least 50 ¢ first year. SRR R 100 familics t Banks in C ' cago With $200.000. In Resources CHICAGO, M: 1 ) the National Ba: ¢ and the Chicag have approved a banks into an in:! resources of $2¢ posits of $154,000.0 The combined .ank will « e jthird largest in Chicago, ranking after the Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Company, Chicago’s first billion dollar bank. The National IBank of the Republic has deposits of $121,602000 and the Chicago Trust Company $32,913,000. John A. Lynch will be chairman of the executive committee of both banks and the president of the merged institution will be John W. O'Leary, now president of the Chi- cago Trust Company and a former president of the United States Chamber of Commerce. PSSR S R Fleet of (6 ie Small Boats | Overturned in Squall; 6 Drown,Others Missing | KARACHI, India, May 21.—Six | persons were drowned when a sud- |den squall overturned a fieet of |small boats on the Indus River. Five others were sept down stream {and are believed lost. /50 Masked Men Raid | African Diamond Mine | CAPETOWN, May 24—A daring |raid was made on the private dia- mond diggings of Kleinzee in Na- 'maqualand by fifty masked men. flew here to attend the funeral of {51!, General Motors 76, Gold Dust The manager and his assistant his brother Preston Troy, Washing- |59, Mack Trucks 97':, Missouri87%, were locked up while the safe was ton pioneer, to be held today in Olympia. Eckmann's ship also brought G. H. Skinner, President of the Pa- cific Alaska Salmon Corporation, from Port Althorp, Alaska. National Power and Light 51%, U. smashed. The month's stock had S. Steel 171, Bethlehem Steel 100%, | been removed, but the raiders ob- Continental Motors 19%, Mathleson |tained the remaining diamonds and Alkali 47, International Paper A 'cash and got away from the post, 267%, Paper B 15!, Standard Oil of disabling the cars and lorries of California 76, Stewart-Warner 10:‘1.';!1: diggings to prevent pursuit,