The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 3, 1929, Page 1

e e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5116. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1929, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MAKE PLEA TO GIVE PROHIBITION AN HONEST TRIAL Political Crisis HAINES MEETS Politic WITH ACCIDENT MEAR KETCHIKAN Crankshaft on Little Boat Breaks Two Hours’ Run from Ketchikan PICKED UP BY TUG | AND IS TOWED BACK Adventurer Is Returning to Juneau to Make New ’ Attempt for Record ‘ In KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 3.—| Raymond L. Haines's attempt to cet a mark from Juneau to Seattle in an outboard motor, ended when | *he crankshaft broke after about a | two hours' run from here. | Haines was picked up by the Lugi Falcon and then transferred to the | Cyzan and returned to Ketchikan in tow. Haines will leave here for Juneau aboard the steamer Yukon today and make arrangements for a new start. | Reaches Ketchikan | Yesterday morning the following | dispatch was received from Haines, | from Ketchikan: “Arrived Ketchikan 6:30 o'clock in its coming State election. Juncau time. Lost time in heavy matorial chair. Upper left: mist north end of Clarence Mapp and (below) Straits and more time on account of very hard, heavy seas south end of Camio. Feared gas consump- | tion so stopped at Petersburg and refuelled. One hour lost there. Ran through Wrangell Narrows in 45 minutes. “Boat takes sea wonderfully and motor doing well. Taking fuel hére and leave at 7:30 o'clock Sun- jn her long history. day morning. 4 * _| Already listening to the roar of “T1nadé-the-dste nigiewell- bub s g £ B the Dl tonight, not so good, prebably.” ‘Dcfimcraxc oratory in b i {campaign, Virginians are {pating another, and probably a more interesting campaign between ,Democrats and Republicans in the fall. at By FRANK H. FULLER (A. P. Correspondent) RICHMOND, June 3.—Vir- ginia, still bearing scars of the political battle of 1928 that saw her break with the Democratic “Solid South,” is experiencing one of the most spirited political years Haines was making good on his record run to Seattle when the ac- cident happened. = He left Juneau Faces Old Rosewall John Garland Pollard. antici- | last Saturday afternoon at 2:04:12 co'clock. He reached Ketchikan yes- terday morning and off on another lap when the crankshaft broke. Great interest has been taken in Haines's attempt to make the run to Seattle. Early yesterday morn- ing, when the bulletin was posted in The Empire’s office of his safe arrival at Ketchikan until this morning, practically all of Juneau has been seeking information as to the outcome of the trip. - eee - TORTURE MAN Virginia is the firsi southern state to hold a state election among the |five from the “solid south” that |cast their votes in the Republican | column last November. The Republicans will make a de- termined effort to wrest state con- trol from the Democratic party—a | control the Democrats have exer- |cised since their return to power after reconstruction. The Demo- crats are confident of holding their 'ground, undismayed by the Re- publican victory for the national | ticket. A third political group, conceded |by all to have exercised a tremen- | dous influence in the 1928 election |has maintained its existence—the anti-Smith Democrats. They will hold a state convention in Roanoke, Dominion State FElections Virginia, which broke with the “solid south,” faces another crisis Three Democrats above seek the ‘Guber- Page; upper right: G. Walter dates are John Garland Pollard, former Attorney General of Vir- ginia and faculty member of the College of William and Mary; G. | Walter Mapp, former State Sena- tor; and Rosewell Pags, former second auditor of Virginia and brother of Thomas Nelson Page, ambassador to Italy in the Wilson administration. ~ All pledged party iloyalty. 3 Little discussion has centered on the prospective nominee for gov- ernor of the Republican party, al- (though the! name of Robert Angell ,of Ru;mok'e, Republican State! | Chairman, bften has been mention- | jed. Mr. Angell, however, has an- jnounced he will retire as State Chairman this year due to ill- 1hea!th. Henry W. Anderson, Rich- {mond attorney, also has been men- ‘zioncd for the post. | { | capital Yacht Race. PARKS ARRIVES AT SEATTLE IN NINE-HOUR HOP Governor Reaches Seattle 1030 A. M. — Frisco Takeoff Delayed BULLETIN—SEATTLE, June 3.— Gov. Parks left for San Francisco at 1:58 o'clock, Seattle time, this afternoon in a monoplane pilated by Dick Gleason and is expected to reach San Francisco within six hours, stopping at Portland, Ore- gon, and Montague, California, en- | route. | | SEATTLE, June 3.—Gov. George A. Parks of Alaska, arrived here at 10:30 a.m. Pacific Standard time, | today, nine hours after he left Ju- neau in the seaplane Juneau. He expects to leave sometime to- !day for San Francisco, repairs to! the San Francisco plane dehylngl his takeoff. g+ In an effort to fly from Juneau! to San Francisco in a single day, | Gov. George A. Parks left here at 12:23 a.m. today on the seaplane Juneau of the Washington-Alaska | | Airways, for Seattle. Pilot Anscel | Eckmann was at the controls, R. E. Robertson was also a pas- | |senger enroute to Seattle. Larry Parks, local agent for the company, went to Ketchikan. Gov. Parks hoped to make Seat- | tle in time to take passage on @ mail plane from there and had| been promised the plane would wait | {for him until 8 a.m. today. If the Juneau did not make this connec- | tion, the Sitka, a Lockheed Vega ! monoplane of the same type as| the local craft, was to pick up the Governor and take him on to Port- | i:() H lj]\? T F bR GOLD I ]\7 / 1o make connections. i trom thre ARCTIC BY AIRPLANES to make connections, fly from there Left to right, above: Kenneth liam S. Kenyon, Fort Dodge, Iowa. Cambridge, Mass.; Dean Roscoe P ound, Cambridge, Mass. R. Mackintosh to Oakland. | Gov. Parks will be absent about| | three weeks. He plans to visit Sanf SEATTLE, June 3.—Capt. Charles Francisco, Los Angeles and other |Klingenberg, veteran Arctic trader California towns, and Seattle and and party of 20 men, will leave Olympia. He will leave there June | Vancouver this summer for Coro- 15 as a member of the cruiser Jazz, |nation Gulf, in the Canadian Arc- Cash Cole's entry in the Capital to tic. A The expedition is being organized e {by Col. James Cornwall, Vancouver | ® mining man, who will prospect in e the Canadian Arctic for gold and ® . Mount Vesuvius Is in State 'Of Eruption 1 | | NAPLES, Italy, June 3.— Mount Vesuvius, scourge of the country side, burst sud- denly into eruption today ————————— | The anti-Smith Democrats con- stitute the ‘“unknown” factor in: |state politics. The general opin- | {lon is that to name a tnird ticket ;would split the vote Hoover re-' ceived and Democrats believe this| would assure a Democratic victory.| There is a conviction in Democraticl circles that the leaders of the anti- | Smith group cannot throw any | \]‘"gc support to the Republicans this year. The normal Democratic majority ,Seattle, Wash.; Newton D. Baker, Cleveland; Wil- Below: Henry W. Anderson, R chmond, ~ RAIN AND HAIL SN DR GMINENT MEN 1SSUE GALL TO AMER, PEOPLE |Sign Messafirging Pro- hibition Be Given Trial in U. S, FORD, EDISON AND s 5 Recent Committee of Law- | OTHERS SIGN PLEA ‘ — ‘ yers Questioned and " Answer Is Made | NEW YORK, June 3.—A message to the American people urging that trial,” bearing the signatures of |Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Capt. Robert Dollar, J. C. Penny and 20 |others prominent in business, was published today. “The law observance plea” in President Hoover’s inaugural ad- |dress invited “Americans of what- | ever previous opinions and social | practice, particularly those in busi- (ness and professional life, to join | with us in following the President. ‘Let us unite to give the Eighteenth ‘Amendment an honest chance and complete enforcement.” Question and Answer | A letter expressing disapproval of the recently organized voluntary committee of lawyers opposed to the Amendment, and answer by (Joseph Choate, Jr., member of the ‘Lawyers’ Board, was published. Marshall Stimson, Los Angeles attorney, asked the Committee to refrain from using the word lawyer to avoid bringing legal process in e st further disrespect. Stimson asked whether the com- Va.; Ada L. Comstock, seeking the law repeal and Choate rious, remediable evil from the country now suffers.” Signers of Plea The signers of the call for an “honest trial” for Prohibition were: Ralph Burnside, lumber man of One Woman is Drowned— Portiand, Ore. Several PC[’SOI]S Re- Col. Patrick Callahan, varnish man of Louisville, Kentucky. ported Be Missing which Frederick Chase, in the metals industry, Buffalo, N. Y. 2 TODAY'S STQCK ® lother minerals. and a lava stream 40 feet _ Fulton Cutting, financier, of New . QUOTATIONS ®| Gol. Cornwall and some of the wide, described as lively, is CHEYENNE, Wyoming, June 3.— york City. @000 00 00000000 .ty wil sail from Vancouver on flowing down. One woman was drowned.in an| capt. Robert Dollar, steamship There is no danger as the forest is gone and dwellings have been evacuated. The lava stream is flowing into Hell Valley. the Hudson’s Bay Company's trad- | NEW YORK, June 3.—Alaska Ju- | ing steamer Bachimo due there' neau mine stock is quoted today at June 22, from London. The ship 5, American Smelting 96%, Ameri- will go as far as Herschell Island can Tobacco A, no sale, Tobacco Where Cernwall will be met by B 170, Bethlehem Steel 96%, Conti- |Capt. Klingenberg and a party to nental Motors 18, Cudahy 51, Gen- 80 north from Edmonton, then w’ eral Motors 71%, Gold Dust 55%, Athabasca landing, Fort McMurray, International Paper A 26%, Inter-|then down the Mackenzie River to national Paper B, no sale, Mack the Arctic Ocean. ®e0 00000000130 ey S COL. LINDBERGH irrigation ditch, and dams have been degtroyed by a rush of water following a severe rain and hail, storm. | Railroad tracks are undermined,|facturer of Detroit, Mich. houses are gone and bridges have| Alfred Fuller, manufacturer of been washed out. brushes, Hartford, Conn. Mrs. Salebad Rodrigues, aged 70| A, A, Hyde drugs, Wichita, Kan- years, deaf and infirm and unable |gas, to struggle to safety, was drowned.| James Harvie, sugar importer and Her body was found in her sub-|proker, of New York City. owner of San Francisco, Cal. Thomas A. Edison, inventor, Orange, New Jersey. of Y jmainstring of Lh?’gman‘!ent. we: ibelleve Prohibition is the most se- is about 50,000, but last year Hoo-| Trucks 94%, Mathieson Alkali 47,! Airplanes will be used in explor- merged house. Clarence Kelsey, banker, of New |June 18, to nominate, “if deemed Chicago Hoodlums Try to'proper” a ticket for the election in ver got 165000 and Smith 141,000. Find Whereabouts of Still—Wrong Man CHICAGO, Ill, June 3.—A gang of hoodlums mistook Mathew Zim- merman, druggist, for another mnn.‘ kidnapped him and sought to wring information from him in regard|i,;;.q py the Democratic Executive |elected in 1928. Committee from the attorney gen- eral. The attorney general held to a still of which he knew noth-/ ing about. Zimmerman was held five days.| His body was cut with glass and burned in many places with cigar-| etes. It was finally discovered he was the wrong man and the hood- | Jums took him from a shack, dumped him from an auto blind- folded and he almost rolled into the river. May Kelly Ho;gy, recently di- vorced at Fairbanks, and Albert Verhonik, prominent freighter.and contractor of Ruby and Poorman, have been married at Ruby. jchat the primary laws requiring the Demdcrats contend that a number The Republican Party, stronger of Democrats who were not affili- .in Virginia than in most southern|ated with the anti-Smith group, states, expects to enlist a large]voted against Smith last year. They | number of votes from the anti-|expect many votes to come back | Smith group. to their party this year, and pre- Return of the anti-Smith Demo- |dict the usual 50,000 majority. Re- |crats to the Democratic fold was|publicans point out that three of | ;the fall. | {made easy through an opinion ob-|their nominees for Congress were voter to have supported Democratic nominees in the previous election applied only to those nominated by direct primary, and since presi- ! dential electors were chosen by ' convention, those who failed to | support the Democratic National | ticket were eligible to participate in |the state primary this year. | Three gubernatorial candidates now are stumping Virginia in the Democratic primary, discussing is- sues of state interest. The candi- BALDWIN MAY RESIEN OFFICE BY TOMORROW Believed Premier Will Re- fuse to Remain in Office Chicago Hunters Are Coming North; Going ~ To Aretic for Walrus SEATTLE, June 3.—Bound for Nome to begin a walrus hunting cruise that will take them to Wran- pell Island, Siberia and the Arctic, Bruce Thorne, of Chicago, and George Coe Graves, 2, of New York, will sail from here June 9 on the steamer Alaska. The men are members of a Zoo- logical Expedition of the Field Mu- scum of Natural History and will go to Seward then over the gov- ernment railroad to Fairbanks and and Face Parliament LONDON, June 3.—Although it is stated in authoritative quarters that Premier Stanley Baldwin will not announce what course of action he will take immediately, the impres- sion prevails that he will resign at once. It is believed that the Premier’s resignation will be handed to the from Fairbanks by airplane to Nome where they will join the schooner Dorothy which will sail from Seat-|King tomorrow if he has definitely tle June 15. decided not to face Parliament June The crew of nine men, including |25 when it will meet again. a wireless operator, on the Dorothy,| It is believed that the King willl will arrive at Nome about July 1 accept the resignation if he re-| and will sail a few days later with ceives it and that he will, before Thorne and Graves for Siberia and ! Parliament convenes, ask Ramsay the Arctic. MacDonald, the Labor Leader, to The purpose of the expedition is;form a Cabinet. In the meantime to obtain walrus to be used to!there will probably be conferences elaborate the seas-habitant group lhetween the Labor Party and Lib- for the Field Museum. eral leaders. National Power and Light 51%, ing the Coronation Gulf region.‘ | Standard Oil of California 767%, Oil and gas will be planted at vari- | Stewart-Warner 68, U, 8. Steel 0us points of the Gulf and Her-| - ON YACHT RIDE 167%. schell Island, for the planes. 5 INVESTIGATION TRIP OF) EBRATING ‘Col, Charles A. Lindbergh, to tie Connecticut City After a Port Althorp Indian, BIRTHD AY‘ | i Hls up his yacht at Block Island, last named Wright, had been picked up on the street here Saturday with a | Baturday. Col. Lindbergh was wearing dark well-developed case of smallpox, Dr. Propped Up mn Bed, SOV'.glus:;es to conceal himself but ad- H. C. Devighne, Territorial Health Commissioner, made a trip to Port | ; bl mitted he was Lindbergh when erelg[l Issues NOta = 1questioned about his stop for gaso- List of Honors NEW LONDON, Conn., June 3.— Capt. Rounds today said he assisted a man who identified himself as nurse and vaccine to investigate| conditions there. He was accom- | panied by Harry G. Watson, Secre- | tary to Gov. George A. Parks, and the nurse, Miss Mildred Keaton. Althorp Sunday morning with a| line and oil. Col. Lindbergh told Capt. Rounds WINDSOR, Eugland, June 3—'he was on his way to Boston. The Dr, DeVighne said no mg]]pqx}xing George had a good night and Yfll‘.hl was the Mouette, of New was found at the cannery and con- SPent his sixty-fourth birthday Yolnk. il S ) ditions were excellent. The Wright Propped up in bed. il £ s had been there but a short t(me“ The abscess is u._kmg its normal was purc L.(,A by someone unknown "% comll to Juneau and had course but appearing eight dgys about a weck before Col. Lindbergh l?el'me‘ comus . before the Thanksgiving Service and Miss Anne Morrow were mar- lived in a ua}bln with two other men planned, added a doleful note to' ried who were isolated when the Com-iy " g, 0 fostivities. Honors on| Capt. Rounds said he only saw missioner arrived. ~ Miss Keaton o pirtngay jssued » today, Were Lindbergh aboard. The cabin chart remained at Port Althorp fo vaccl-long o the most notable ever,showed the yacht came from Mon- nate the crew and take care ol’zmnuum’:ed. Five new Peers were:muk Point i sickncss that might develop. |cregted and three elevated to peer- ! Wright wen® to Port AIthorp gge give new Privy Culmci]lcrsi from Hoonah. ~No smallpox has|yere created, also 11 Baronets. been reported from there. He Was gpights of the Bachelor and| oyt w. B. Scaife, in charge of picked up by Dr. DeVighne and gnights of various other orders. !tne Ooast and Geodetic Survey Chief of Politt:e (?1 A G;tcheu : e . | 2 short time after he got here an . 4 put in the isolation ward. All mem- ;T"l Ore from bers of the crew of the boat he | Interior Is traveled on were vaccinated and, LIEUT. fTaku River to the International yboundary, was a local visitor over | Sunday. He returned to the ¢AmMp | prother Phillip, then ended his own | The damage is the worst the|york City. 8 g |Beliecved to have gone suddenly yerew now engaged in triangulating (jnsane Ernest Stratin, aged 21, region has experienced since 1903. Several persons are unaccounted for but the authorities believe they| are marooned somewhere as thor- ough search of the flooded area failed to reveal other bodies. Torrential rains caused damage estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars. HOUSES WRECKED KANSAS CITY, June 3—Many houses have been wrecked in the farming locality adjacent to this region owing to torrential rains and floods in streams. HANGAR DEMOLISHED WICHITA, Kan, June 3.—A doz- en airplanes were destroyed when) a hangar was demolished here by a high wind. A Western Air Express tri-mot- ored plane, making the second trip on the new Kansas City-Los An- geles air line, landed five minutes before the storm hit and was de- The flood damage in Missouri has already reached thousands of dollars and this was Increased by rain over the week-end. Kills Mother, Wounds | 2 Others, then Suicides MOOSE MINE, Sask., June 3.— jkilled his mother riously wounded yesterday, se- his father and the vessel was fumigated. |Shipped South this morning. life with a bullet through his| # H I brain. e —ApSereegt | AY TAYLOR LEAVES R s S SEWARD, Alaska, June 3.—One! RAY TAX Judge T. D. Macauley, and MIS. of the rare shipments from Al- Forest Examiner Ray Taylor, U.| J, O. Ellis, who has owned and| . i Macauley passed through Juneau|aska, ‘ore tin, is sent south on the S. Forest Service, left this morning conducted “The on the Princess Louise on their steamer Alaska for Seattle. The On the Tahn for Seymour Cuna'l. way to Dawson for the summer.'ore tin is from the Hot Springs He will be engaged in scientific Judge and Mrs. Macauley spend the area, property of the winter in the South. Commercial Company. some time. Pirate Shop” at | Fairbanks since the early days, has, sold out to Mrs. T. Ford and left locate. R. ‘A. Long, in the lumber in- dustry, Kansas City. George Milton, Publisher, of New York City. James Post, in the sugar indus- try, New York City. Fred Ramsay, metals Industry, Cleveland, Ohio. Winslow Russell, of Hartford, Conn. Dr. Williams Schiefellin, drug in- dustry, New York City. Alfred Sloan, manufacturer of automobiles, New York City. Ambrose Swasey, manufacture: of machine tools, Cleveland, Ohio A. A. Welch, insurance man of Hartford, Conn. Charles Cook, manufacturer of typewriters, Hartford, Conn. J. C. Penny, merchant, of New York City. George Plimpton, New York City. MANY INJURED BY EXPLOSION SCRANTON, Penn, June 3.— Eighteen persons were injured, one insurance man publisher, of |bunding was destroyed, others bad- ly damaged, and hundreds of win- dows were smashed by a dynamite explosion last night that wrecked | Sterling Markey in Dickinson City. Those injured are expected to re- cover. Aleutian Survivors Are Cheered, Seattle SEATTLE, June 3.—Cheered by thankful mothers, wives and sweet~ hearts, greeted 112 survivors of the Aleutian when they arrived yes- Northern studies of fores: growths there for|for the States where he plans to terday aboard the steamer Admiral Evans. Henry Ford, automobile manu- . | “Prohibition be given an honest -