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

VOL. XXXIV . NO. 5131, RACING YACHTS DUE IN JUNEAU TOMORROW NOON Second Annual Capital-to- Capital Classic Is Now Nearly Ended SAWMILL WHISTLE TO BLAST OUT WARNING Navy Air Mapping Plane Will Radio Advices as to Progress of Boats Final spurts of ten yachts in the second annual Capital-to-Capital Yacht Race, from Olympia, Wash., to Juncau, will take place tomor-| row forenoon and about noon the, racers from the south are expected to round the scow anchored off the Admiral Line dock ending the, fast cruise which started last Sat- urday from the southern Capital City. When the first yacht passes Du Pont, 10 blasts of the whistle of the Juneau Lumber Mills will be sounded and Juneauites will then have time to hurry to the water- front and witness the winner and others crossing “the line.” Tomorrow forenoon, one of* the Navy Air Mapping planes will ny{ to Stephens Passage, and by radio,‘ keep the officials of the Juneau| Yacht Club advised as to the pro- gress of the racing yachts. The Chirkof, official yacht of the; Juneau Yacht Club, will proceed down the Channel tomorrow fore- noon and escort the first yachts into the harbor. Following the greetings extended o the membgrs aboard the racers, the yachtsmen will be permitted to ¢lean-up ship and rest. At night the baseballists of the Coast Guard cutter Snohomish, convoying the racing yachts, and Navy Air Map- pers will cross bats at the City League Park. Other entertainment for the visiting yachtsmen starts Saturday morning. Seven Yachis at Petersburg According to a special dispatch at 1 o'clock this afternoon from the Petersburg Press to The Em- pire, seven yachts had arrived there at noon today without exception ahead of their handicaps. The vachts start leaving tonight on the last lap. The Klosh was first arriving at Petersburg reaching there at 1:35 o'clock this morning. The Jazz, Maidie, Blonde, Kitti- wake, Bolinder and Mary-Mar Ann | arrived in the order named. The Winifred and Koyoia were due there early this afternoon. The whereabouts of the Marlin is unknown at Petersburg. The yachtsmen said the weather was “rotten” until they reached Al- aska then it turned out fine and all aboard the yachts are happy and enthusiastic over the trip. So far no accidents or untoward inci- dents have taken place. The Winifred is reported volun- tarily on the beach to adjust her propellor. The arrival racers follows: Klosh at 1:35:10 this morning. Jazz at 7:23:20 o'clock this morn- ing. Maidie at 7:56 flat. Blonde at 8:07:11 o'clock. Kittiwake at 8:12:55 o'clock. Bolinder 11:03:10 this forenoon. Mary-Ann Mar at 11:59:04 this forenoon. | i ! i time there of the Start from Petersburg The Yacht Club announces the following time of departures .from Petersburg for all entries, the first leaving tonight at 9:53: No. 1, Maidie, Capt. Jack Power, 9:53 p.m., June 20. No. 2, Klosh, Capt. W. G. Reed, 9:53 p.m., June 20, No. 3, Kittiwake, Capt. Draham, 10:53:36 p.m., June 20. No. 4, Koyoia, Capt. George Brif- fit, 10:53:36 p.m., June 20. | No. 5, Jazz, Capt. Cash Cole, 10:53:36 p.m., June 20. No. 6, Bolinder, Capt. Richard| Froboese, 11:46:30 p.m., June 20. No. 7, Blonde, Capt. Milton Hen- derson, 11:58 p.m., June 20. No. 8, Winnifred, Capt. Adolph Schmidt, 12:33:10 a.m., June 21. No. 9, Mary-Mar-Ann, Capt. Frank Seidelhuber, 1:14:40 am, June 21. No. 10, Marlin, Capt. Henry Thurling, 1:14:40 am. June 21. R o The first turbine locomotive in Germany has been placed in serv- ice between Nuremberg and Mun- ich. i WEDDING OF PRINCE LOUIS AND MRS. COREY CALLED OFF PARIS, June 20.—The wedding of | mother, the Infanta Eulalie, King Prince Louis de Bourbon, cousin of | Alfonso’s aunt, has bought a villa the King of Spain, and Mrs, Ma- | for him. Mrs. Corey at present is belle Gilman Corey, divorced wife | at her chateau, De Villegenis, near of the Pittsburgh steel magnate, | Paris. has been “indefinitely postponed”| The Infanta Eulalie, who resides and in all likelihood never will take place at all. | that the wedding had been indefi- | nitely postponed. The erratic prince who has not | prom one of Prince Louis' closest communicated with his fiancee for almost a fortnight, sent a letter to one of his Paris friends saying he had decided he did not want to marry Mrs. Corey and was discon- tented with the settlement shc had had settled a fund of $200,000 upon him which would give him $1,000 |a month “for pocket money—for | cigarettes and things like that,” as THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR : e in Paris, told the Associated Press | friends it was learned Mrs. Corey | “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EAU, ALAS KA, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1929. NAVY MAPPERS 'T0 STAY HERE " FOR SIX WEEKS |Constiandir Radford and Other Expedition Mem- bers Guests of Chamber | The Alaska Aerial Expedition is (here to complete its aerial mapping MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS FLIGHT i | | | Mrs. Corey had agreed to provide|of Southeast Alaska and, barring | {a home for them both in addition.|unforseen circumstances, it will just | agreed to make upon him. " COED MURDE The Prince’s letter was written| It was this settlement that' the|about do it, Lieut. Commander A.| from San Remo, Italy, where his|Prince considered inadequate. |W. Radford, its leader, told the A 3 s AL AR, ———— Chamber of Commerce today. The ) y ) < o 2 expedition will be in Juneau six IAILLI()‘\S 1.\ I /”’[LR I’R(”'ITS ;wr:vks, maybe less and maybe more, MELT WHEN STOCKHOLDERS SELL Good Old Summertime Vill Begin Tomorrow Wiih Longest Day NEW YORK, June 20.—Amcrican investors are entering the mid- year period many billions of dol- lars poorer than they were at the beginning of May. . Tomorrow morning at just | A statistical “bird’s eye view” of ® one minute past ten o'clock, the federal reserve board’s cam- ® Juneau time, will occur the | paign to reduce the volume of credit ® summer solstice. In other | consumed by speculation, shows lo words at that hour the sun | that the value of 100 leading stocks ® will cease its northward listed on the New York Exchange ® course and begin the return has dropped $2,124,978,000 during ® journey toward the south. the past month. ® Theoretically, at least, tomor- An analysis prepared by Frazier ¢ row will be the longest day, Jelke and company divides the ¢ in point of the length of its group of 100 stocks into various ® daylight of the year, and will cconomical units. Out of 13 units, ® mark the end of spring and @ thrce of them, electrical equipment, ® the beginning of summer. utilities and rails, moved upward © The sun will cross the against the current downward ® equator on its southward trend. ® journey, September 23 and , Five electrical equipment stocks ® reach its southernmost point used in the index advanced 5.2 per ® for the year December 22. cent, 10 utilities showed an aver- h age gain of 45 per cent over prices tececosceccsoe prevailing at the start of May. | Mining stocks showed the sharp- iesc losses during May, averaging 1165 per cent. Motor stocks were next; the seven used in the index showing an average decline of 15.7 per cent. Five amusement issues dropped 10.1 per cent. Smaller | losses,” ranging frgm 84 to 1.1 per >ee - NEW CLUE IN i~ 4 Icent, “ere recorded for industrials, Professor Admits Getting food stocks, ofls, equipment and chemicals. Key frqm BOdy Df ‘The 100 stocks represent 380,467, Slam G]rl 1095 shares whose value at the end jof May was $33,402,254,000. At the COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 20.—W. end of April these same shares were G. Shellenbarger said today that worth $35,527,232,000 Prof. James Snook admitted he got: Assuming that all ouvstanding se- a key from the key ring of Theora curities were affected by the same Hix, slain Ohio University coed, at'forces and suffered proportional the spot where her body was found | declines, the loss to holders of last Friday. |shares listed on the New York The key was to the room the stock exchange alone would be ap- two shared jointly. The key was proximately $6,000,000,000. surrendered by Snook shortly be- | If the stocks listed on the curb fore Miss Hix was identified. in various central exchanges Shellenbarger, who is Chief of throughout the country, and unlist- Detectives, said the reported ad-led securities be included, the total mission was made to him by John!deflation in the American pocket- Phillips, detective, who questioned 'hook could be estimated only rough- Snook about the ring. Phillips 1y put the figure would probably be asked: “Where did you get that found to exceed $10,000,000,000. " SON ARRESTED Snook is said to have replied: “You know where I got it.” Phillips asked: “At the body?” {Is Charged with Driving Auto While Under Nar- cotic Drug Influence Snook replied: “Yes.” Questioning was then stopped and Snook was taken back to his cell, CONVICTSMAKE BOLD DASH TO GAIN FREEDOM Forty-four Escape from Texas Prison Farm— Guards Kidnapped WASHINGTON, June 20— Thomas Heflin, Jr., son of the ‘senior Alabama Senator, today fac- a narcotic drug influence. Young Heflin was arrested on | Pennsylvania Avenue after his au- tomobile had crashed into the rear of a laundry truck which had stopped for a traffic signal. The patrolman who made the BRAZORIA, Texas, June 20— arrest said Heflin was apparently Forty-four convicts kidnapped three unable to drive. He was taken to guards early this morning at the|the Traffic Bureau, then to an State Prison Farm, and escaped.|emergency hospital where examina- A few hours later three of the |tion resulted in placing the charge. convicis were recaptured, two after ! A bond of $1,000 was arranged having been shot by cattlemen liv-|by friends. ing near the farm. The others; are believed to have scattered and, I een fled to the dense underbrush on Tom Mlx’ SCI’ sm Is Robbed, Large Sum the Brazos River bottoms. One convict. secured a pistol in an unknown manner and held up| PORTSMOUTH, N. H., June 20.— a guard inside the barracks and |F. Frydendahl, Tom Mix’s valet, took the guard’s shotgun. With has been arrested after Mix report- the aid of others, the convicts|ed to the police that a bag con- overpowered two other guards. Then |taining $75,000 in cash and securi- the ringleader unshackled the men |ties, had been stolen from his in the barracks and invited them |private car in which he is travel- to make their escape to freedom— |ing with the Sells Floto Circus. all those wishing to flee. Frydenhal is held on suspicion. Some of the convicts sat around| No trace of the bag or contents for about an hour fearing to give have been found. the alarm. Finally a trusty en-| A jewel case, containing $65,000 tered the barracks and pulled tHe 'in diamonds, was overlooked. It alarm bell calling the guards from |was in a secret compartment under other portions of the prison farm./the screen actor's berth. ‘ed charges of driving while under, depending on what kind of weath- er conditions are encountered. The work at present is some- what farther advanced than had been programmed. The fiiers left San Diego, May 15, arriving in Ketchikan May 25, attempted some mapping May 26, and did its first |successful mapping on May 30. ISince that time four days' map- ping has been done. Due to Flory The expedition is in Alaska and |resuming mapping started in 1926 largely through the efforts of Com- {missioner Charles H. Flory of the Department of Interior, Command- er Radford told the Chamber. He obtained most of the funds mak- ing the work possible and it was his insistence upon the importance of such work to the Forest Service as well as to other Departments that brought about action. 1In his endeavors to have the work re- sumed, Commissioner Flory had able assistance from R. H. Sargent, topographer for the Geological Sur- vey, who is accompanying the ex- pedition as representative of the Interior and Agricultural depart- ments, the Commander added. Hg concluded his short talk by expressing his appreciation of the reception given the expedition everywhere it has visited in Alaska. Everybody has extended a hand of assistance. Conditions here, he |said, as far as its work is con- {cerned, are very good. Example of Cooperation Mr. Sargent declared the map- ping of Southeastern Alaska “is the most outstanding instance of co- ordinated co-operation in Govern- ment ‘work on record.” Not mere- ly one or two branches, but sev- eral, ire involved. Alchough 44 per cent of Alaska Ihad previously been mapped by Government surveys, this was very largely in Interior Alaska. The Geological Survey had been able to get what data it needed on Southeastern Alaska from maps prepared by the Coast and Geodetic Survey. The first Navy mapping squadron operating here in 1926 mapped 10,- 000 square miles, taking some 17,00¢ individual photographs, using a triple-lens camera. From the pic- tures shot, the Geological Survey has gained & great amount of in-: formation about the geology of the country. It has been able to work through about one-third of the photographs taken. Is Just A Start The work done in Southeast Alas-| |ka is just a start, Mr. Sargent said. ! He was authorized to say that the mapping would be extended to oLher‘ parts of the Territory and the amount of work to be done in the future would be limited only by Congressional appropriations. The information obtained by the aerial surveys is of great value to the Forest Service, and Mr. Flory estimates it has advanced the pulp (and paper industry in Southeastern Alaska by several years, he said. It | has revealed facts regarding tim- ber and waterpower resources that otherwise might not have been lavailable for years. Planes cover areas inaccessible by other means and the camera records conditions (Continued on Page Eight) Justice Takes Odd Turn in 12 Year Old Case | COLONEL AND Ambitious aviators seeking to Orchard, Maine. ! ( | b - &8 Left to right—Lottie, Yancey, Le F.vre cracked up at the take-off while the Yellow Bird's c'ew made the beach in Spain and then continuing to Paris. " .REEN FLASH FAILS I other luck before the take-off at Old and Williams, Yancey and Williams flight across the ocecan landing on a conquer the Atlantic wish each Assolant N FLIGHT START FOR ITALY WeT BRIDE APPEAR Lindbergh and Wife At- tend Test for Finding “Fool Proof” Plane | | | | MITCHELL FIELD, N. Y., June | 20.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his bride came out from honey- moon seclusion, witnessing the first | tests of ‘the $150,000 competition | being held by the Daniel Guggen- | heim Fund for Promotion of Aero- nautics, in the hope of discovering | a “fool-proof” airplane. | | The Colonel and his wife posed for news pictures. Col. Lindbergh tola the reporters that while aviation was on a so\md! footing, commercially, plo must * be made far safer and c to handle than the present before the | day of universal flying could dawn, | - e | Rules Deputy Marshal Is Qualified as Grand Juror, Also Foreman SEWARD, Alaska, June 20.—Hor-| ace Calwell, of ication chragec with | | & statutory offense, raised the ques- :;ted by the Government, that the Man Carried 250 Feet tion through his torney L. V. |Ray, at the local District Court : 20;2‘5:?&:5 1;&'“;::;: :{Term, ffhober’ & Doputy V. 8. o hact H‘oppes eacaped o | Marshal is gualified to sit as a o Constable John Sosey while ® gi::e' §R40 Grand Jury, and ey ® being taken to court to an- e e | e swer to a contempt charge. ‘The pleadings showed, as admit- e Yesterday Hoppes found him- | : e self arrested by the same ® Drcsef\t foreman of the Grand o constable in the same build- e |JUY Is a paid employee of the Gov-| e ing on the same charge. o €rnment and agent of the Depari- . Hoppes was released when o ment of the Interior, and also holds o investigation showed that e Office as Deputy Marshal this e the complainant had died Third Division of the Territory. |e and data was lacking. . Federal Judge E. Coke Hill . o |the foreman was qualified 4s a member of the Grand Jury. The monoplane of Roger Q. Williams and Lewis A. Yancey smashed up as it attempted to take the air at Old Orchard, Me., in a proposed trip to Rome. (Picture by telephoto from Boston). RUM RUNNERS FIRE ON BOAT, “Alleged Beer” & Explodes During rial at Seward Even Judge E. Coke Hill burst out into laughter. The afforded consider- in the crowded WINDSOR, Ont, June 20.—Cus- toms officials are today seeking a jgang of rum runners whom they accuse of attacking a Customs pa- incident able mirth . SEWARD, Alaska, June 20. e ® tion of those at the trial in e L ® the local term of the Dis- @] o ® ftrict Court here, the casc of o | 3 ’ e P. Coulter vs. The United e Runnlng Flghl Takes Place e States, the evidenc ° R 5 L t o leged beer,” explodes . L unnc.rs hcape o e onstrating the power in the e | Canadian Waters ® hottles . . . . . . o . . U FeCHL trol boat. Several shots struck the o Order was finally ‘brouuht 'Ipmw of ‘the boat. Nome ‘of the e about and the case proceed- o |crew were hit. 4 ed 'E A running fight ensued as the . ';C\lsmms men rcturned the fire eee0oo ® The rum runners, keeping up the fire, ran across the Canadian line jwere the fight s abandoned. SINCLAIRLOSES S0 SUIT DESPERATE CLASS WASHINGTON, June 20.—Assist- |ant Secretary of the Treasury Low- |man, when informed of the shoot- ing near Winc , Ontario, said the !incident indicated the desperate b 5 v class of people whom the Customs DENVER, Col, June 20.—UPpton (geivice had to deal with, support- Sinclair, novelist, hi.v., lost his szou.»‘mu his contention that he is un- 00 libel suit against the Rocky apie o send unarmed men against Mountain News. A jury in thelg,ch criminads, therefore does not Federal Court deliberated only a|intend to disarm Customs agents. few minutes ‘\ _ WP S TG The wriier's suit was unique in /., that it charged the News, through Three Members 0’ Lee Taylor Casey, columnist, libeled | Sinclair through a review of th biography of him by Floyd Dell. The paper'’s book review severely | arraigned Sinclair. | SEWARD, Alaska, June 20.—The ->e ’lhree men drowned by the high { water which took out the west span 10{ the Healy River spur line steel | bridge Tuesday night, were Carl Spath, Dick Conway and Charles | Seaman, members of the Alaska NELSON, B. C, Jun 20—Edward Railroad bridge crew Palmer was killed yesterday when|. Comway had just returned to work he was carried 250 feet over a.after an illness in the hospital. cliff by a rock slide while walk-| General Manager Otto F. Ohlson, ing on the Nelson-Spokane hlgh<io{ the Alaska Railroad, is mnow way. lnnh"r at the scene or enrcute, A.R.R. Bridge Crew Vectims, High Water Over Cliff by Slide { HOT WEATHER PREVAILS IN STATES TODAY Many Cities Report Tem- peratures of Ninety- five Degrees ELECTRICAL STORMS . DOING MUCH DAMAGE Lightning Bolts Reported to Have Killed Persons in East § | NEW YORK, June 20.—From | Atlantic to the Pacific, the 'country is held in the grip of severest heat wave in years. In the East disastrous electrical storms have caused many deaths. The storms brought a drop of 20 | degrees in the ‘but started Ito climb again as storms pass- ‘ed to the Pacific Coast. § From San Francisco south, and the Midwest, the highest June |temperatures are recorded. i The electrical storms were the |severest in Pennsylvania where four |persons were killed by lightning |bolts. Many power lines were out of commission. # lin Barns were damaged and trees split in New Jersey and two per- T AND DR SENATORS 1 BITTER CLASH Hoover, Law Enforcement Commission and Shoot- ings Discussed WASHINGTON, June 20.—The Wets and Drys clashed in the Sen- ate yesterday afternoon, attention being devoted chiefly to President Hoover, Law Enforcement Commis- sion and shootings by dry officers. Senator Glass, of Virginia, said the Administration was submerg- ing Prohibition and Law Enforce- ment inquiry. Quoting the President's New York speech, declaring Prohibition only a segment task, Senator Cope- land, of New York, a Wet, denounc- ed the shootings by Prohibition of- ificers and deplored “the fanatical attitude” toward Dry Enforcement, which, he contended, was undoing the law. i Senator Brookhart, of Iowa, a Dry, replied that the time “has come to stop all of this gush about murders and force Senators to help enforce the law. The Senator from New York could make a louder speech about 55 Dry Agents who had been murdered.” Senator Brookhart added that most of the killings of Dry Agents were “accidents and some of those killed ought to have been killed.” CHOLERAIN FLOOD AREA Nearly Two Million People Panicky—High Wat- er and Disease SYHLET ASSAM, British India, June 20.—Acute distress prevails through the Syhlet and Cahar dis- tricts where water is rising at the | rate of two feet daily. Communication is cut off. “The suddenness of the flood created a panic among the villagers living on the river sides. They were forced to abandon their cattle and other property and flee to the hills. Dhalaia Valley is flooded and & |number of deaths are reported. A To add to the terror, cholera has broken out over the district which is 5500 square miles with 11,750,000 inhabitants. Thousands are jstarving in Syhlet. Resources are |exhausted and begging is prevalent.,