The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 4, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5517. JUNEAU ALASKA TUESDAY JUNE 4, I 929 R EE. ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MP MBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SECOND CONVlCTION OF OIL MAGNATE IS UPHELD SOLUTION OF REPARATIONS NOW REACHED Great Europ;; Problem Is Reported to Be Offi- c1ally Settled BELGIUM AGREES TO EXPERTS’ PROPOSALS Debt 'Gr:rmz;y—Owes Is Re- duced from 33 to 9 Billion Dollars PARIS, June 4—The last barrier to complete agreement of the Ex- perts” Committee on the Repara- tions question has been removed and the long outstanding problem rope’s post-war life is reported 1ly settled. Belgians have accepted the for settlement of the The proposal solution of redemption of the Ger- a man marks left in Belgium after the w The agreement is expected to be signed later this week. The agreement reduces Germany's | reparation debt from thirty-thr billion dollars to nine billion dol- rs and will eventually give France veen one billion six hundred llion dollars and two billion dol- the remainder going to other tions. Payment will be under the Young annuity plan instead of the Dawes | plan. Payments will be made over | a period of 37 years. BALDWIN OUT; GEORGE CALLS ONMACBONALD: Conservative Government | Quits and King Asks Laborites Take Charge LONDON, Jung 4—Stanley Bald- win, Prime Minister of the British | Government, today handed his resignation to King George V, who is ill. The ruler immediately sent for Ramsay MacDonald, Labor Par- ty leader, and asked him to form a Cabinet. Leader MacDonald will visit the King tomorrow and give his answer to the request that he head a new Government. These events presage a change; ¢f the Government in accordance | with the verdict of Thurs elec- | tion when the Laborites supplanted Premier Baldwin and the Conserv- | atives as numerically the stron est party in the House of Com-| mon: The Minister of Co resignation of the Prime ended nearly five years ative rule which started when anley Baldwin was called to take the reins after the Labor- ites defeat in.October 1924. Then it ‘'was that Premier MacDonald, again to become Prime Minister, resigned and Baldwin formed the new Cabinet. Like the former Labor Govern- rient the future of the new Mac- Donald Government will depend Jargely upon what the Liberals will do for they hold the balance of, power. E—— e MAJCR GILLETTE IS ON INSPECTION TRIP On a general trip of inspection of roads and trails in Intefior Alas- ka, Major Douglas H. Gillette left for Seward on the stcamcx" He will be absent for about today Major (n]lectc will go to Seward | and look over the Lowell Creek flume and later return to Cordova. From there he will go to Chitina and over the Richardson Highway | to Fairbanks. He will spend some- time in that district, returning here about July 4. S ee——— ZELLER LEAVES TODAY ON TRIP TO SITKA, YAKUTAT Supervisor R. A. Zeller, Tongass National Forest, left today with Ranger Harold Smith for a visit to Sitka and Yakutat. They are making the trip on the Ranger VIIL., Capt. George Peterson, and expect to be absent about ten days. S e Elliott Fremming left on the Princess Louise to receive treatment for his eyes. i tracts aggregati lars with Ame ufa(-l',u'vd CALLED TYPICA[I 'AMERICAN GIRL associated Press Phote Five feet four inches tall, weighing 110 pounds, with dark brown , hair and hazel eyes, Edna Peters of Miami, Fla,, has been chosen as the personification of American girlhood, in a nationwide contest She was given $5,000 and a trip to Europe. RUSSIAZ\ SOVIET TO SPEND MILLIO NS OF DULL4P INTHE U.S. NEW YORK, June 4.—The Rus- 1 Soviet has entered into con- z millions of dol- materials and technic . especially Ameri ultations prop: A contract v.xth tr of trucks, a huge worth cars, parts and construction of in Russia. Other projects on the Soviet pro- | |gram include c ruction of to cost $100,000,000 and numerous fertilizer plants, irrigation er steel mills and mhu improv rnwvll‘ of all kinds. HAINES WILL TRY AGAIN T0 BREAK RECORD Raymond Haines, who left Ju-| neau last Saturday afternoon in his |15-foot Hooten-Vee type hoat, Evin- to for rude motor, attempt to bre the record sea traveling & tween Junea and Seattle, in ‘an outboard motor boat, and met last to the Ketchikan ing, returned on the Yukon. Spare parts are expected to @ rive from Seattle on the Juneau tomorrow and Haines of Sunday will make another attempt leaving ln-rv-i sometime this week. Haines said he had an extra crankshaft, to replace the one that | broke, but as there was rough weather south, want to take a chance on anoth possible break and being forced lr)‘ t. Haines said he was getting along fine and was sanguine he would| have reached Seattle hours. The only bad sea: countered was in Corinth Straits. .- CAPT. LATHROP RETURN Capt. A. E. Lathrop, Republican national committeeman for Alaska and prominent business man of the Territory, passed through Juneau this morning on the steamer Yu- kon enroute to his home in Fair- banks. He has been in the States since early this year and made a| __ If it’s Lindy, \Where Is made no statement relative to po-! |The Bride? trip to Washington in connection with Alaska appointments. He litical affairs, but seemed optimis- tic over the situation. - - Bartley Howard, for jal Senator and candidate for the Republican nomination for Dele- gate to Congress in 1928, visited |local friends today while the Yukon was in port. He is enroute to the Matanuska valley to re-open his coal mining property there, an firms for man- | | 2 Ford Aum-; amobile Company calls for $30,000,000 | auto phmt | al huge hydroelectric plant in U kr.«nw‘ with | an accident when two hours south | morn- | Capital City | plane | 11 mauch | he did not| within 52 s en-|° 160 feet FROM. TRIP TO OUTSIDE/ er Territor-ithe yacht Mouette, believed to jand his Starts leel Suit Associated Press Photo Edward B. McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, filed a $1,000- 000 libel suit against the Philadel | phia Record, which published a story about a purported breach between Mclean and Pringe ae Ligne, Belgian ambassador. —— e VESUVIUS IS THREATENING WIDE SECTION ‘Lava Stream Increases in Size and Velocity— Towns in Path Ttaly, June 4.—Mount nning to threaten NAPLES, 'Vesuvius is be neighboring towns. The stream or 1ava, which start- esterday when the volcano ed eruption, rength and ocity. The stream has expanded nearly in width and the velocity more than six feet a second. The famous Hell Valley is in-| vaded the entire length and the lava is advancing in two branches toward Terieno and Cupaccio. Because of the dense smoke, it is impossible to tell the distance the lave is from the village of Mout- skirt. o T X Uatiaicd carry Col. Charles A. Lindbergh bride, the former Anne Morrow, left this morning after an- choring during the pight in the, | harbor. Watchers said the craft headed toward Vineyard Haven. Only a man was scen aboard, ocl. soclal | & has increased in | | ! 3 ; Haley, i | Submurlne Earthquake Believed to Be Cause Of Aleutian Disaster PULP PROJECT = HERE IS SURE, SAYS CAMERON California Syndicate Going Ahead with its Program of Development the floor of Uyak Bay, Alaska, and steamer Aleutian, of the Alaska Steamship Company. Capt. Gus Nord and other officers testified yesterday at the investiga- tion begun by the United States Steamboat officials. Testimony showed that the Aleu- tian struck a rock where the charts The rock was unknown to navi- gators, nacle. CONFESSES T0 SLAYING GIRL It is the intention of the Cam-‘ eron-Chandlar interests of Califor= nia to go ahead with their local pulp and paper manufacturing pro= (gram, declares James H. Cameron who returned here yesterday after spending the winter at his home in San Francisco. He will be in this vicinity for the rest of the seasom looking after the syndicate’s in- | terests. Mr. Cameron had nothing to say | regerding plans, saying in this con- iv‘cctinn that R. A. Kinsey, Consult- | m ¢ Engineer on the project would ! | arrive here this month and any | statement relative to detailed work- Phabdishs Crinee: Is. Al ted by Man After 4 Days’ Grilling ing plans would come from him.| UKIAH, 9“"' June 4. — Tod [ Mr. Cameron spent all of last sea- Lehew, a woodchopper, confessed today that he attacked and son here and at Ketchikan. He was met here by A. J. Ela, engineer in charge of® hydro-ele¢- |tric surveys. The latter now has; a crew making a survey of trans- mission line between here and Speel River. 1% has covered from | Point Greeley to the entrance of | Snettisham Inlet, making both to- B : | pographic and triangulation sur- After his arrest, Lehew offered |veys. He expects to have the beach three alibis. He first said he had route completely surveyed to Lhc‘be'“ cutiing brush at the time of power site at Speel River by me'“" attack. Then he said he had end of this month. {been lost in the woods. He finally A timber survey party under t’eldeclnnd he had been at home and | diregtion, of Don Meldrum. will sqon | AsSs :ff put t;fli work on ine eafimshom Liehew lived near the.glrl's home. |of Admiralty Island, it was learn- € Watched her going and coming from school. The day of the crime strangled to death six - year - old Teresa Johnson, near Mendocino City on May 23. The confession followed a four- iday grilling. “I just went hay-wire, there must be something with my head,” Lehew said. because wrong |ed today. It will work around Sey- A S . |mour Canal, Gambier Bay and Py- ¢ S&W .h“ going. Dome with 944 |bus Bay. A second party will be other girl. When her companion left, Lehew followed Teresa, at- tacked and strangled her and left {the body. He then returned to his | put on to cover certain areas along Icy Strait and elsewhere in the; |local district which were not in-| |cluded in the survey made here |Wo0odcutting. | by Mr. Meldrum last season. ; The accused man was placed in ! “Mr. Cameron and Mr. Ela are Jail under guard to prevent pos- | sible violence as the residents are |expected to leave town Wednesda; : b 3987 | aroused at the brutality of the | for the Snettisham camp. H ! . SsveraRal crime. i | The sheriff said a murder charge v . ‘\-.ill be filed immediatel \Carry Tiny ¥ \Moth Plane in a1 STl | " TOMYSTERY ~ OF LETTERS Threats ggr; Prominent Men Not Cleared Up— Arrest Made, Release BOSTON, Mass., June 4. — The o solution of the mystery of the long o series of threatening letters receiv- o ed by prominent persons appeared e N0 nearer with the arrest and sub- . SEATTLE, June 4.—Vis- count and Viscountess Jac- ques de Sibour arrived here yesterday from Yokohama on a tour of the world, car- rying a tiny Gypsy moth plane as part of their lug- gage. As soon as the plane is re- assembled here, the two will fly to San Francisco, thence across the continent to New York where they will check the plane and embark for France. . The couple left London last September and have been on ship and plane, joy riding ever since. o Customs Guard. | The latest note in a series was 12 $50,000 demand upon Dwight \Morrow United States Ambassador |to Mexico, threamnimz violence to SCREEN STARS & mim " ARE MARRIE Long is said w hmo told the postal inspectors that “if I ever wrote the letters, I don't know why.” | The city police, who released |Long after two hours questioning, NEW YORK, June 4.—Douglas declared it was all a mistake say- | Pairbanks, jr., | Suer, known on the screen as Joan fetters. | Crawford, were married here yes-| Postal authorities declared that lard, of St. Malcys Roman Catholic en years ago to a number of prom- | church. |inent persons in Washington. A o Dr. Haley Is Again Going to Pribilofs. SEATTLE, June 4.—Dr. George | Professor of Biology at st.| Ignatius University, San Pranciscu,l‘ » |which corresponded to' the type I ters. Zellerbach Pag Paper Co. Suffers Loss by Fire 'will go north tomorrow on the| Pribilof Islands for the United, here, causing a loss of $200,000. States Bureau of Fisheries. > Dr. Haley visited the Pribilofs, 'NEW GANGWAY, CITY FLOAT last year on a scientific expedman ( e | The upper City Float has been California has gone orange juice. Much improved by a new gangway Famous walnut groves of Placentia Which was completed yesterday and |are being replaced by citrus Iruim,'h now in use. | AFTER ATTACK o Sequent release of George Long, i and Lucille Fay Le ing Long hgd no knowledge of the| SPOKANE, Wash,, June 4-—Fire| SEATTLE, June 4.—A submarme‘ earthquake caused the upheaval of | this is blamed for the wreck of the | | | | showed a depth of 168 to 294 feet. | and a quake is thought to | have thrown up the unknown pin- | | terday by the Rev. Edward F. Leon- Long admitted sending letters sev- | filled room | typewriter was found in his home|dry. |face found in the threatening let- | vestigation 1 A quantity of X-ray film was four subcommittees composed of | [found stored in the basement in three Republicans and two Demo- |a careless manner and with the crats each. | Cleveland disaster in mind, an ef- o fort will be made to fix blame in B way the filess;ware handied,” || GKA Zeppelm Starts I Dr. Edward Meyer, House Phy: U. S. Flight on June 20! | ence she had ever had. HOSPITAL IN Seventeen Patients times finds a gun cently he one slain by a wildeat and one a victim of starvation, American Tennis Queen at Court — Helen Wills, left, woman’s tennis champion of the world, and her companion, Harriet Walker, right, as they left the Ameris can Woman's Club at London for-the English court, wherq they were presented to Queen M ary at the recent court, Hi Wills after the ceremony said it was the most thrilling expe - (nternational i\v\vmetl) On Inspection Tour <(~m Pk ‘i l\vm hed Ockland e i Early Last ]\mhl Al.r‘.k'l arrived at the Onk . land Airport at 9:15 o'clock last night, from Juneau, by e air, ° Gov. Parks left Juneau e yesterday morning at 12:35 e ind 5 delayed at Seat- e tle until 1:58 p.m. awaiting re rs to the plane which ;hit nim here. The plane was piloted by Dick Gleason. The monoplane stopped at Portland, Oregon, and Mon- tague, California enroute from Seattle to Oakland. Gov. Par was greeted by e a large crowd upon arrival e here, including City offi- e clals. He said the trip was e e e an uneventful one and prais- e ress Pholo od o s;fi‘;’:ra,texecuflve S l:l Pilot Eckmann, on the e sistant to the secretary of the in plane from Juneau to Scat- e terior, has left Washington, D. C. tle, and Pilot Gleason at the e for a nine weeks’ trip through thi controls of the plane bring- Pacific northwest and southeaster: ing him here. . Ah:ka. . ©0 092000000 60600000600000000600bH HEARINGS ON TARIFF BILL GHICAGOIS FIRE SWEPT Are Carried to Safety—In- vestigation Started Senate Committee to Ex- tend Hearings Until i | July Tenth JHICAGO, TIl, June 4. -— The R Chicazo General Hospital was swept 4 Bk e ; by fire carly this morning but WASHINGTON, "‘ 4—The| 17 patients, several doctors and Senate Finance Committece has nurses iped unhurt. Some of the 28reed unanimously to hold open patients were carried down lad- hearings on the House Tariff bill and ending July ders and others were ted from beginning June 12 the burning building, from smoke- 10, in order to expedite disposition by passerbys. of the measure and with time to The fire did damage estimated pare before the regular December at $25,000. It started in the laun- sion star t was decided by the Finance Committee to allot taking of testi- mony on various levies to three or Authorities have started an in- steamer Victoria from this port to of an undetermined origin today ecian, said a man offered to buy the | make further scientific investiga- destroyed the four-story warchouse |film last we WOODSHOLE, Mass, June 4— tions of seals and sea birds of the Of the: Zelierbach Paper Company from various vaults in the hospital and they were taken FREDRICHSHAFEN, June 4— ¥ The Hamburg - American booking ‘and placed in a basement room .erice announces the next flight until he called for them. of the Graf Zeppelin to the Unit- - ed States has been fixed for June 20, weather perniitting. > Students studying infant rearing at Texas Technological College will adopt an orphan. . A. Massachusetts trapper some- superfluous. Re- brought in two fox skins, T0 GONTINUE SINGLAf 70 SERVE LONGER TIME IN JAIL {Supreme Co—url Upholds | Conviction of Shadow- ing of Jury OIL MAN REFUSES TO DISCUSS CASE |Conviction —(:f—Sentence Is | Also Upheld in Cases of Two Others WASHINGTON, June 4.—The Su- preme Court has upheld the lower court in sentencing Harry F. Sin- clair to serve six months in the District of Columbia jail on charges growing out of jury shadowing | which caused the Fall-Sinclair con- ‘spimcy case mistrial. | Sinclair is now serving three |months in jail for contempt of the | Gnited States Senate. The oil man will be allowed five \days off a month on each sentence |for good behavior which would re- duce the nine months combined | sentences to seven and one-half i months. Sinclair is now weorking in the !Distriet of Columbia Jail's Phar- macy Department. Sinclair refused to discuss the | Supreme Court’s decision. Henry Mason Day, Assistant to inclair, who employed the Bums | | | | ! 1{Detectives to shadow jurors, must | serve four mnnch: in jail. { W.\SHerman Burns, in active hatge Tof the Burns Deteetive zency @t time of the trial, niist Pay & fine of $1,000 ; 1 J./Burns is exempt from a 15-da semtence on the grounds ;NAVY PROGRAM : 70 BE CARRIED : OUT BY HODVER Bulldmg of Amerlcan Cruis- i ers Will Proceed Ac- | cording to Plans | | WASHINGTON, June 4.—Presi- dent Hoover will carry forward the |American cruiser building program las outlined by Congress. | Provisions for new ships will be o 'made in the next Fedefal budget. Construction work on 15 addi- tional 10,000-ton cruisers is man- datory under the program until the |sea armament reduction agreement reached by leading nations and ratified by the Senate. President Hoover has no inten- |tion of abandoning the building |program and policy contrary to in- terpretations drawn from his Mem- lcrial Day address and Secretary | Stimson’s statement emphasizing the tremendous economic burden of present naval requirement. B4 A T {Mexican Christers | Minus Leader; Slain i By Mexican Federals | MEXICO CITY, June 4. — The | Supreme Chieftain of the Christers, |whose battle cry was “Leng Live |Christ, the King” has been killed |and the Insurgent Army in Mexico |is minus a leader and faces ex- | termination. | Gen. Cevillo has informed Cha- ipultepec Castle the Federal Army killed Gen. Goroztieta and it is expected complete pacification of the insurgents will be completed | by June 15. | AMEES N L ) ! Miss A. Langton, teacher in the Anchorage Schools during the last year, who has been visiting Miss Dorothy Goddard for several days, left on the Princess Louise on her way to her home at Newburg, Ore., to spend the summer. D | Bishop W. R. Sloan, head of the | Mormon Missions in the Northwest, who has been conducting meetings in Juneau for the last week, left for the south on the Princess Louise. He was acompanied by P. E. War- nick, L. T. Plowman, W, K. Ever- ton, and C. E. Mower, who have been doing missionary work in Alaska during the last year. p :lfl -