The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 27, 1929, Page 1

VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5110. JUNE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” AU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 27, 1929. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS UTIAN HITS ROCK, SINKS IN 7 MINUTES bu_AKER OF | AIR " RECORDS Plane Fort Worth Re-| mains in Continuous Flying, 172 Hours FORT WORTH, Texas, May ZT-—t The monoplane Fort Worth landed at 5:05 o'cl esterday afternoon | after 172 hours and 32 minutes con- | tinuous flying. This time surpassed | the army’s Question Ma record by 21 hours. The Fort Worth's motors ran| perfectly during the week's flying.| The propellor cracked during the rain storm near Dallas Saturday | night, making the forced landing necessary. | The Fort Worth surpassed the record made by the Question Mark | last January by 21 hours, 50 minq‘ utes and 46 seconds and all other | records of ail types of aircraft. The pilots w R. L. Robbins and James Kelly. ' They sweeped to earth and a sea of humanity closed about the | plane. Both men were in fine| physical condition, although tired | and deafened by the noise of the | motor. The plane was in good | condition with the exception of the | battered propellor, which forced the | landing before the fliers were ready. being rushed at Charlotte, N. C., The propellor encountered some|yyne 4.7. 2t United Confederate Veteran: CHARLOTTE, N. C., May 27— |An auditorium ana armory build- |ing, erected as a lasting monu- B A lasting memorial armory, shown Gen. A. T. Goodwyn (right) is {ment to the confederacy, is rising | Memorial Armory lo He se Reunion Of Confederates in architect’s perspective, is to house the confederate reunion stands will bear names dear to the confederacy. They include Robert E. Lee IV, of New York, grandson of the famous southern chieftain; Anna Jackson Preston and Cortlandt Preston, great grand- daughters of Gen. Stonewall Jack- son; Col. Jefferson Hayes Davis and Miss Robine Webb, grand- childrgn of Jefferson Davis; and D. H. Hill, jr.,, grandson of General Hill. Gen. A. T. Goodwyn of Elmnrc,‘ Ala,, commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans, will lead the parade aided by Gen Hen- ry Rene Lee, adjutant and chief of staff., Capt. Wiles, of Little Rock, Ark., is chief of the Sons of Con- federate Veterans and general man- ager of the reunion. William A. Collier of Memphis will ride at the head of Forrest's cavalry, and Mrs. A. McD. Wilson of Atlanta will lead members of the Confed- erate Southern Memorial associa- tion. Mayor F. Marion Redd of Char- lotte will preside at all civil cere- monies. solid. gl believed at first to have been hail but later attributed ‘was oiling the rocker arms. ———e——— I‘UST PLANE {rapidly here for the thirty-ninth | reunion of the United Confederate AND FLIERS Merm June 4. RN oo for t1er100,000. vatarsms, song and daughters of veterans, and members of civic organizations who « | will take part in the first organ- Austrahan Alr Search since Jefferson Davis summoned 1 e his cebinet in 1865. I'm.ds Two Mlssmg Av | The inauguration ceremonies June iators and Plane |4 will follow separate services to May 27, birthday of Jefferson Davis, and search has discovered two |the annual confederate ball June 5 fliers who lost themselves in the is scheduled to initiate Dixie flap- vastness of Wesern Australia. pers into the intricacies of the old Owen, who have been missing for| The peak demonstration [f’fl"i;": more than a week, when they at- reunion will be June ed by tempted to fly from Bima, Dutch 20 military bands and the cheerish- East Indies, to Port Darwin, were ¢d “stars and bars” the aged vet- Queensland stands over a route 70 city blocks in Pilot Brain, who figured in the |length. BEn arch for the Southern Cross,| Men and women in the reviewing sighted the Moir and Owen plane | house. The two fliers said they{l’one E(l.gl(’, will mistook the lighthouse for Port Map Mail Route Darwin and when they landed were | unable to rise again, ()U(’r Andes to Robbin’s belt buckle while he | Otficlals say the building will be ¥ lized confederate gathering here be held in commemoration of the LBOURNE, Aust Lieut. Moir and Flying Officer | Wartime polkas and reels. located by Pilot Brain, at Cape Don, | erans will file past seven reviewing where it had crashed beside a light- ! D | p ' NEW YORK, May 27—Col | LY ] | Charles A. Lindbergh, air trail blaz- | er, is contemplating a flight from Miami, Fla., to Buenos Aires, for a ‘survey of a mail and passenger | route. IN SOLO TRIP Plans for the proposed service F.LoasndA ufilfiLE;'lcgza }]\:;_}l;efzj-were announced by Colonel Lind- \bergh and J. T. Trippe, president Fahy’s k Martin gjr]\ge;'sa;;?:“t)flgi:g enb:ieuarance rec-|8nd general manager of the Pan- | American Airways, Inc. Colonel ord when he was forced down after | A\ der 90 21 hours and 16 minutes of flying, | Lindbereh is technical a |the company. | The route proposed is down the E“th Shock ls | west coast of South America to 1 itka | Valparaiso, Chile, thence across the Reg“tered’ SItk Andes to Buenos Aires. The dis- SITKA, May 27.—A hard earth- |tance is 6,300 miles. The time for quake shock was recorded at the|the trip as planned is eighty hours. Coast and Geodetic Survey's seis- “Eighty hours to Buenos Aires,” mological ‘observatory here Sunday|Col. Lindbergh said, “is figuring afternoon. ‘conservauvely. with planes flying at The first tremors reached here less than 100 miles an hour. I be- at 1:41:32 o'clock yesterday after- lieve that eventualy wour trans- noon. The distance is éstimated at ports will cruise at 150 miles an approximately 300 miles. hour.” SOCIETY ISLANDERS TRY TO EAT RUBBERS “pahua,” a shellfish that is the favorite diet in Reao, but calls for PAPEETE, Tahiti, May 27.—After more than 20 years ,white residents of the Society islands still find it necessary to explain to * tourists how the title of “shoe eaters” was acqui; by the natives of Reao islands. Many years ago a sailing ship broke up on the reefs of Reao, the most easterly atoll of the Paumotu group. In the flotsam which drift- ed ashore was a large case of rubber overshoes. As the rubber had the appearance and texture of teeth like a dinosaur’s and a di- gestion like a cave bear's, the na- tives decided it was some sea food of the white man. Fires were built, couldrons filled with sea water and the rubber shoes thrown in. They were boil- ed for three days, and laig upon the coral beach to see if the tropi- can sun would make them fit to eat. Then a schooner from Papeete arrived and the joke spread through out Polynesia. PLUNGES FROM EICHTH STORY WINDOW; DEAD Yale Student, Son of Prom- inent Montana Banker, Victim of Fall BALTIMORE, Md, May 27— iLeigh Marlow, 20, son of Thomas Marlow, banker of Helena, Mon- tana, and former.member of the Finance Committee of the Repub- lican National Committee, died yes- terday following an eight-story plunge from a window in the Bele- vedere Hotel. The plunge is said to have fol- lowed what is described as a walk- ing bout with a party of students, Robert Phillips, Yale undergradu- ate, told the police. They had been drinking and retired early in the miorning. Shortly after, Mar- low arose, and clad only in his underclothes, walked to the window and plunged through. Marlow had been drinking heav- ily for the last several weeks and had been warned by professors about cutting his classes. — - MRS. HANNA TO START DAIRY WITH JERSEY COWS Mrs. H. Hanna received four Jer- sey cows and a Ford truck on the freighter Dupere last week and will | operate a dairy at her place “Sunny Point,” near Lemon Creek on the Glacier Highway. She will special- ize in whole, unseparated milk. For the presemt she will operate on a small scale but if the present | venture succeeds she expects to im- port more jerseys and go in for dairying in a large way. commander in chief of the! Mrs. F. Marion Redd, wife of the Mayor of Charlotte, will be active in convention arrangements, 'LINER ALASKA ENROUTENORTH IMajor Ransom, Prominent Seattle Life Insurance | : Man, Dies on Steamer (Special to The Empire.) 'HIKAN, Alaska, May 27.— A. E. Ransom, aged 63 years, one quarter of a century, a prominent Seattle life insurance |man, suddenly died on board the |Alaska early Sunday morning atter jan attack of heart trouble. Mrs. Ransom was with him at the time. Major Ransom was a Spanish- American War veteran and was jprominent in the Wisconsin Na- tional Guard in his early life. Major Ransom has been making summer business tours to - Alaska for the past 24 years. MAJORITY OF HOMES ABOUT HALF LIGHTED Eye Sight Convention Council Takes Up New Campaign NEW YORK, May 27.—To pre- |vent mental and physical deterior- |ation of both adults and children, improved lighting in the nation’s homes and schools is urged by the Eye 8ight Conservation Council of America. The council points out that an investigation just completed by il- luminating Engineering society dis- closed that poor conditions of 11-; ,lumination have an adverse effect {upon intellectual activity. A report by Dr. Morton G. Lloyd of Washington, chief of the safety section of the United States bureau of standaids, says: | Continued application of the eyes | under conditions of fatigue leads to eye strain which frequently is accompanied by other bodily ail-| ments. “Owing to faulty postures fre-! quently assumed under poor light- | ing conditions, curvature of the spine may result, and it is very likely that the same faulty postures are a contributory element of near- sightedness. | “It is reported that many stu- dents have been obliged to stop| Itheir work in evenimg $chools on acount of eye troubles ascribed to! ithe conditions of artificial light- | !ing. isual exploration is the most 'prolific sensory source of learmng.’; In the home and school the same | | fundamentals apply, so far as me- chanical accidents are influenced by illumination, as in industrial es- tablishments.” The report says near-sightedness in school children increases from |class to class. It declares that ,“the typical middle-class home is \lighted less than half as well as it ishould be, and the homes of the {lower class only half as well as| |those of the middle-class.” British Wit Gives Out {Publicity Slogans | LONDON, May 27.—Lord Dewar, | wittiest of British after-dinner | | speakers, gave the modern adver- |tiser some pointed epigrams when | opening an exhibition of poster art. | | Tere are a few of his observations: Samson got some wonderful ad- vertising results when he took two | jcolumns and brought down the house ! The lions of society are tigers| for publicity. | Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down. i Nothing deflates so fast as a; punctured reputation. If a man upon his trade relies, he | must either bust or advertise. There is no traffic congestion in the straight and narrow path. ——————— | MOOSE BASEBALL DANCE PRONOUNCED SUCCESS Helen McManus was winner of | 1the door prize at the Moose Ba:;:--; ball Dance at the Southeast Alaska Fair Building Saturday night. The cess by the large crowd which was |there. It was attended by about 500 people. « |national city. dance was pronounced a huge suc-| DIES ABOARD _ Pro ject to Beéutify C(; pit(;i U nder ir’u& With $75,000,000 set side as a make it conform to original plans of Secretary Mellon (inset). By HERBERT C. PLUMMER (A. P, Feature Writer) WASHINGTON, May 27.—Restor- ation of the capital city of the) United States {5 the magnificent plan of its conception is under way. A little over a century and a quarter ago, Maj. Pierre Charles |L'’Enfant, French army engineer, alded by Washington and Jefferson, planned the capital city of an in- fant empire in a swamp along the Potomac. But for various reasons some of the original plans have gone awry Deadly effects are in evidence on Pennsylvania avenue, in the Mall, on Potomac parkway and other sec- | tions of the city, entirely dut of accord with L'Enfant's idea of a| Under President Hoover's approv- | al, and working with an authoriza- tion of $75,000,000 by congress, the task of transforming the city ac- cording to the original plan and | subsequent extensions now is un- | der way. Much more money is needed— probably a total of $200,000,000— but the present authorization will finance the purchase of nearly all the land and keep the building pro- gram in progress until 1933. The principal construction work | will consist of the triangle develop- ment, as it is called. This pro- posal, now under way, will remove every privately owned building in the triangle formed by the south side of Pennsylvania avenue, Fif- teenth street and B street along the Mall. In this triangle, a mile long, eventually will be grouped all the executive departments except state, war, the treasury, agriculture and the interior, which are now pro- | vided for. Already in this triangle there is! a huge hole where the new com- merce building is to rise. Further down, the internal revenue building also is under construction. Authori- zation also has been obtained for construction of the archives build- ing. In this same area will be erected buildings for the department of labor and justice. | Across the Mall, work is in prog- ress on the new structure for the department of agriculture. In the Mall, where now are located the Smithsonian institution, the Freer | gallery and the National museum, | it is contemplated to erect only two more buildings, a national art gal-| lery and a Washington memorial. ! Formal gardens will be created, | however, on the mound where the huge shaft to Washington stands.} Development plans calls also for improvements on capitol hill to in- clude demolition of temporoary ! structures in Union station plaza. A building for the United States Supreme Court is also planned on | capitol hill. The money has been | appropriated for a site correspond- ing to that of the Congressional li- brary, across the street from it, and facing the east portico of the capi-| tol. | Probably the last part of the |program will be the building of ‘the parkway connecting the Lincoln memorial with Rock Creek park. When this is done it will complete / The great plaza (above) the most beautiful units in the vast project, as shown by models. | park to the Maryland state line, a |Plane Drops 22,000 |Feet Before Controlled {93%, National Power and Light | 5 s - SRR e | e Xuney starting fund, rebuilding certain sections of the National Capital fo of magnificence is under way. The work comes under the jurisdiction and the triangle development (below) are two of a continuous parkway from Mount ' Vernon to the Arlington cemetery Russ AIRMEN across the Potomac, g the union of the morth h, | out past the new Washington ca- PLAN FLIGHT thedral, which is being built on Mt. distance of some 25 miles. Leave Moscow in August St. Albans, and through Rock Creek ——————— | for Flight to New York EAR_[HQUAKE City Actoss Alaska Scores Injured in Turkey —1,300 Houses Are Destroyed | [ | W, May 27.—Russian avi- ators are planning a flight to New | York via Alaska, during August. The plane will be named the |“Land of the Soviets,” by aviators | Shestakov, Bolotov and Sterlingov PARIS, May 27.—A Havas Agency 'and mechanic I'uffeav. dispatch reports 64 persons killed| The proposed flight covers 12,50¢ and 72 injured in earthquakes in miles, Turkey. The greatest damage is' The plane will leave Moscow and reported at Karlalsar and Soume- make the first stop at Novisibirsk hir. {in the Urals. The next stop, on It is known that 1,300 houses have the route, following the Siberian been destroyed. | Railroad, will be Khavarovisk on — (the Amur River, where the wheels |will be removed and landing floats | attached. J From Kharvarovisk the airmen jwill fly to Petropoviovsk in Kam- | chatka. ‘The next stop on the ‘proposed o flight will be at Dutch Harbor o 'Alaska, from whence the plane wil o /be flown to Sitka, then down the o Coast to Seattle and San Francisco o thence -eastward to Chicago and o | New York. Loses Consciousness; DESSAU, Germany, May 27.—Pilot Willie Neunhofer claims the world altitude record of 41,000 feet made with a Junkers plane. A break in the oxygen tube caused him to lose conscious- ness and the machine drop- ped nearly 22,000 feet before he regained: control here yesterday. : ‘ TAKES M :! Mrs. John Hermle is taking thc o Place of Mrs. Edith Sheelor in the o Office of R. E. Robertson, attor- .'ney. during Mrs. Sheelor's ab- | e SHEELOR'S PLACE . . . . ° . . . L] . . . . i sence in the States. ALASKA LINER IS WRECKED IN WESTWARD | ¥ One Fatality Is Repori Others of Crew, Pas gers Are Rescue [DISASTER HAPPENS EARLY SUNDAY A. M. Coast and Ee_odelic Boat Surveyor Taking Sur- vivors to Seward Steamer Aleut: of the Alaska Steamship Company, Capt. John Gus Nord, struck a rock on Ameok Island, Uyak Bay, Kodiak Island, yesterday morning at 5:30 o'cleck and sank within seven minutes. One life was lost, Manual Dorras, member of the crew. The remainder of the crew, 135, and also 15 passengers, were saved, taken off in life- beats and then picked up by the Coast and Geodetic Sur- vey steamer Surveyor. The Surveyor is now,bound for Seward and is expected to arrive there this afternoon. Heavy weather is reported delaying her progress. Engine Room Fills The Aleutian, in a report made to Capt. F. H. Hardy, United States Coast and Geodetic Inspector at Seattle, from Capt. Luken, of the Surveyor, according to Associated Press despatches received by The Empire, said the foice of the im- n. flagship in the steel. . pped great, holes in. uil dnd the engine Yoom was filled rapidly with water. Nord Returns to Scene Capt. Nord returned to the scene in a launch to make a survey of the spot and ascertain possibility of salvaging the vessel. Thé survivors are due in Seward this afternoon and the crew will be taken south on the steamer Alaska, now northbound, and due in Juneau tomorrow. For “Lucky” Horseshoe According to Capt. Luken's re- port, Dorras's death, the only fatal- ity reported, climbed aboard the Aleutian from a lifeboat to save his “lucky” horseshoe. Dorras was janitor in the crew’s quarters and the liner took the fatal plunge while he was in the forecastle, Weather Reported Calm According to unofficial reports the weather was calm at the time the Aleutian struck the rock on Amook Island. The location, ac- cording to Government charts and reports is “reefy” and requires most careful navigation. Undoubtedly swift tides caused the disaster. Was Going Westward At the time of the disaster, the Aleutian was proceeding to the Westward, from Seward, to Uganik, where 30 steerage passengers were to be landed, and to Zachar Bay, with Mrs. Roy Trout and eight steerage. Perhaps' the Uganik call had been made as advices report only 15 passengers were aboard. News in Juneau The first news of the disaster was received by radio broadcast (Continued on Page Eight) eeccssscecse ! TODAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS ' AMERICA NEW YORK, May 27.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today | at 5, Cudahy 49%, General Motors 0%, Gold Dust 58%, Mack Trucks! ROME, May 27.—There were 3,- 47'%, U. 8. Steel 164, Bethlehem 706,116 TItalians resident in the Steel 94, Continental Motors 17%,! United Gtates at the beginning of Mathieson Alkali 43%, International the second half of 1927, the Central Paper A 25'4, Paper B 15%, Stan- (Statistical Institute here computes, dard Oil of California 73%, Stew- |after having gone through all con- art Warned 65%, American Tobac- |sular reports. In Canada, the in- co A 165, Tobacco B 16: stitute estimates, there were a TAYL&R - rough 200,000, o lngii%r%r?%l’”fl 1430370 Tiallans 1 Beas 1,797,000 in the Argentine; - 65000 in Uruguay; 23,000 in Chile; and ‘To go over most of the important road projects of the Alaska Road Commission, Asst. Engineer Ike P. Taylor of the Commission will leave here tomorrow on the steamer Alas- ka engoute to Seward. He will be absent for about six weeks. Mr. Taylor will inspect the Mc- Kinley Park Highway, Steese High- way from Chatinika to Circle, Rich- ardson Highway. and go over the Gulkana-Chistocina route of which a survey is now being made, 13,000 in Peru. In what the Insti- tute terms “Oceania,” or the islands accounted for, of whom approxi- mately 27,000 were settled in Aus- tralia. | Prance, according to the same statistics, drew most of the Italians, emigrafing to European countries, there being 962,593 across the Al- pine border. Next in attraction was Switzerland, which harbored 1135942, Great Britain's share was) of the Pacific, 27,657 Italians were | : NORTH AND SOUTH ATTRACT ITALIAN EMIGRES 29,430; Germany's 21205; Austria’s 18,700; Belgium’s 15,700; and Jugo- |slavia’s 14,329, the latter figure not including Italians of Jugoslav citi- zenship. In Asia Minor the Italians had |a sizeable colony of 5306 'in Tur- key, but only 156 in Syria. In Asia :prcper they numbered only 913 in |all China. 1In Africa, outside of Italy’s own colonial possessions, there were 97,000 in the French | protectorate of Tunisia, 49,106 in Egypt, 28,528 in Algeria and 10412 in Morocco. A resume of the figures showed that there were 9,168,367 Italians resident outside the kingdom and |colonies. Of these, 7,674,583 were jin the two Americas; 1,267,841 in iEurope; 188,702 in Africa; 27,657 in 50ceanh1: and 9.674 in Asia. Taking | the population of the mother coun- 1 try at roughly 41,000,000 that means that there are about 50,000,000 Italians in the world.