The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 25, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIV., NO. JUNEAU, ALA INTERCOLLEGIATE SHELLS SKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1929, PRICE TEN CENTS SWAMPED IN BIG CLASSIC DIVERS LOCATE ISLANDER SAFE: MAY RECOVERIT Wiley Says Safe in Plain! Sight and Will Be Raised in Few Days The purser's safe of, the old Canadian Pacific liner Islander, variously rumored to contain from $100,000 to $600,000, which went down when that vessel was wrecked off the lower end of Douglas® Is- land nearly 28 years ago, is in plain | vi and will be raised within 2 few days, according to E. H. Wiley, of Olympia, who with his brother, Carl H. Wiley, also of Olympia, is| in charge of the party which has been operating from the tug, Finch, for the last several weeks in an! effort to locate the vessel and the | safe, with its lost treasure. While they had no difficulty in locating the Islander, lying in about 250 feet of water, they were delayed over a week because it | was thougnt that the ship lay| crosswise in the channel, when in | reality it lies lengthwise, Mr, Wiley | said. | The ship sank bow first and the rush of compressed air blew off the | two upper decks, leaving the pur- ser’s office exposed, with the safe | in plain view, he said. They ex-| pect it to be a matter of a fow | days until the safe is raised. | An entirely new diving bell, shap- | ed like an egg, in which the diver sat on a stool, with his head pro- truding in an enclosed cage with} Dort holes on four sides, and oper- | ated mechanical, jointed arms,!| with five fingers eacn, was used by | the divers. The bell i§ filled with | OIL FIELD BLAZE 'COSTS MILLIONS Associated Press Photo Fire in the Santa Fe arca which broke out when a storage tank $4,000,000. | ourst and spread to nearby derricks caused a loss estimated to exceed DAY GOES TO PRISON; JOINS H.F. SINCLAIR Vice - President of Sinclair Oil, Will Serve Four Months’ Time WASHINGTON, June 25.—A friend and companion of many years of Harry F. Sinclair joined his employer in prison today. Henry Mason Day, Vice-President of the Sinclair Oil Company, shar- ed imprisonment with Sinclair to serve four months for contempt, outgrowth of the jury shadowing in the Fall-Sinclair trial. “I say now, as I said then, I emphatically deny anything ‘I did Maltese Cat Is oster Mother to 5 Tiny Rats l Il CHICAGO, Ill, June 25.— Molly, a big maltese cat who has been the scourge of rats at a warehouse here, has become foster mother to five unweaned rats. Last night, the porter came upon the cat and her adopt- ed brood. Unable to believe his eyes, the porter called his boss. The boss called a photogra- pher from a newspaper to make a photographic record of at seemed hardly plau- sible, but, however, a fact. Molly probably killed the mother rat and then as- sumed the maternal role, She refused to permit any- one to take the tiny rats away. MAKING NEW PROPOSAL ON ENFORCEMENT General Suggests New Scheme Now ing for a “fair and square show- down” with a view for more ef- fective Prohibition Enforcement, Wade Bllis, Assistant Attorney Gen- tion, advanced the proposition that Federal funds for Prohibition En- forcement be withheid from States not coooerating in upholding the dry laws. Ellis believes the plan would in- spire “a great sense of personal and local responsibility under the concurrent power for enforcement grented in the Eighteenth Amend- gnent and would have an immediate [’clectricul effect all over the coun- try. The proposal means that |where people of any State shows |by legislative actions they want bootleggers and saloons, let them have them and the Government can let those States enjoy the com- pany of their choice. Almost im- mediately, or as soon as it is realized the choice is squarely up [to them, they would set about to solve it. Two solutions would face |the people: First—try. to mdgce lothers to join them in an attempt |to repeal the Eighteenth Amend- yment, or second—finding them- |selves in the clutches of the law, |would not repeal the law as they |would not be able to regulate the joutlaws and they would then con- |clude to enforce the Constitution.” o REED CHARGED Former Assistant Attorney WASHINGTON, June 25.—Call- | eral during the Taft administra- air and-dropped over the side, at-|in “connection with the trial wag tached to the tug by a strong cable {qone with improper, much less: and a telephone line. In this it criminal intent. I am unconscious was possible to remain under water |of having committed any wrongful ! se 2000000000 —— WITH SHOOTING WESTERN AIR — Other Air Lines EXPRES ot 7 | | LOSES LIFE IN PLANE ACCIDENT Eddie Middagh Burned to Death—Seven Others Are Injured ST. PAUL, June 25.—Eddie Mid- dagh, veteran pilot, was killed and seven others injured, when a North- west Airways trimotored plane from Chicago crashed headon in Indian Mounds Park near here, after tak- ing off from the St. Paul Airport for Minneapolis. The plane burst into flames and Middagh wa$ burned to death be- fore he could be extricated from |the wreckage. for approximately an hour before coming to the surface to have the air replenished, he said. The bell | has: {reads on the bottom, similar | to a tractor, wiich enables it to| move about on the sea bottom. | The Islander is encrusted with barnacles and marine growth from eight to 10 inches deep and is alive | with huge beetles, eels and other | creatures of the sea, Mr. Wiley said. ' They plan to continue searching | for American Express boxes they | think contain gold which was beingi’ shipped south on the Islander. | The Islander struck an iceberg in | the early morning of August 15, 1901, and sank within twenty min- utes. About 65 persons, including act,” Day declared. 1S TAKEN FOR RIDE; IS DEAD Mysterious Killing m Ncw| York Is Explained by Police NEW YORK, June 25.—The mys- (boxing manager and former night RESIGNS FROM o sebee, 2 g | Charge Will Be Filed in Henry Fletcher, Ambassa-! Saginay Bay Killing dor to Rome, Resigns | and Its Accepted | Ole Brudeseth, herring worker at Saginaw Bay, died from gunshot WASHINGTON, June 25. — The Wounds inflicted by Al Reed, last resignation of Henry Fletcher, Sunday night, according to a ver- United States Ambassador to Rome, dict reached by a coroner’s jury. has been accepted by President The inquest was held at Saginaw Hoover. Bay last night by United States sylvania, retired on his own motion burg. Kendall Clough, of Chicago, was {burned about the body and legs 1and his condition is serious. The others are not believed to be ceriously injured. ———————— NEW DRY HEAD TAKES OFFIGE Over Duties as Deputy Administrator Here |Gerald L. Church Take | Capt. Foote, her master, lost their| lives. The survivors and recovered bodies were brought to Juneau. The vessel sailed from Skagway for the South with a good passenger list,i Many of the passengers were known | to have Klondike gold aboard, and] some of them, at leest, had commit- ted their “pokes” to the purser, who had locked it in the safe, it is believed. club owner; friend of Arnold Roth- stein, is believed by the police to be the result of a beer war. Marlow was found by two motor- ists in the bushes near a ceme- tery. He died a féw minutes later. The police state Marlow was prob- ably taken “for a ride” in the ap- proved gangster fashion. Robbery was not the motive as money was found on the body. MILLENNIUM VISIONED BY LEAGUE OFFICIAL By JOSEPH E. SHARKEY (A. P. Correspondent) GENEVA, June 25—The great masses of world peoples are moving | towards a higher culture, intellec- tual emancipation and moral im- provement, with deep aspirations towards social justice, in the opin- | ion of Albert. Thomas, director of | the. International Labor Office. | In his annual report, Mr. Thomas, who recently made an extensive ‘tour of the Far East, declares his | judgment that an effective conm-% bution will have been made toward abolishing the sharp sense of racial inequality when uniformly equitable and humane working conditions are established for all. To bring about justice and equity in labor conditions will, in Mr. Thomas’ obinion, be a great contribution to | the peace which the League of Na- tions is seeking to consolidate. Referring to the Far East the di- rector says that the organization has established helpful contacts with countries, whose civilization is old, but whose industry is still young; with races whose instincts as well as their traditions and cul- ture make them in general ready to accept and follow the great prin- ciples contained in the pact of the League of Nations and the inter- national labor charter. He adds: o are still innumerable pre- Judices, conflicting interests, pro- found and at times apparently in- surmountable m is un derstandings, not to mention the feeling of hos- 5 tility which exists in more or less varying degree between the white and yellow races. “Communism, too, with its di- rect, clear-cut and brutal propa- ganda frequently helps stir up a feeling of hatred which no marvels of modern technical progress can allay. “But, as the office pointed out in a report to the governing body, its affirmation of the principles of the organization and its efforts to have them understood®and trans- lated into practice should in them- selves create fresh possibilities of conciliation and pesce.” Mr. Thomas thinks that probably the most encouraging progress in 1928 was in the field of interna- tional labor legislation. There has been an unprecedented increase in the number of ratifications of la- bor conventions. ‘While former reports have noted some 34 or 35 fresh ratifications per annum, (on one occasion 57) no fewer than 79 were recorded between March 1923 and March 1929. A spirit of com- petition seems to have shown itself among the large industrial coun- tries; while other states which haye till now remained indifferent or hesitating are taking action which should lead to the acceptance of international labor conventions. |terious killing of Frank Mm-lo*.v,} Mr. Fletcher, resident of Penn- Commissioner Clausen of Peters- | | after 27 years service in the Diplo- Reed, who was detained after the |matic Corps during which time he shooting, was arrested by Deputy represented the United States in Marshal C. V. Brown and is being Mexico, Chile and Rome. He serv- taken to Petersburg. A charge of ed under Secretary of State Charles murder in the first degree will be |E. Hughes and accompanied Presi- filed against him on his arrival 'dent Hoover on his South Araieri- there, said a cablegram received this can tour. | morning by Marshal Albert White. i | Few details have been received je @@ 90 oo 0 0 0 0 0 o here of the shooting. A telegram e TODAY’S STOCK o from the Port Walter Herring Com- (o QUOTATIONS @ pany said both men were intoxi- ® 0000000000 0 0 o cated at the time of the affray. " Brudeseth was the company’s fore- NEW YORK, June 25—Alaska Juneau is quoted today at 5%, Am- erican Tobacco A 170, American Tobacco B 170, Continental Motors |17%, Cudahy, no sale; Interna- tional Paper A 28%, International Paper B 17'%, Mathicson Alkali . Missouri 90, Standard Oil of ifornia 73%, Stewart - Warner 174%, U. S. Steel 1847%. e | IFLORY LEAVING FOR FAIRBANKS TOMORROW On official business for the De- partment of Agriculture, Commis- sioner Charles H. Flory will leave here on the steamer Alaska to- morrow for Seward enroute Fairbanks. He will also pay a brief visit to Anchorage. Mr. Flory has some matters for conference with Dr. Charles E. Bun- nell, of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, and other official business that re- quires his presence in Fairbanks. He will return here as soon as possible. ., MRS. BAKER ARRIVES FOR VISIT WITH RELATIVES Mrs. N. I Baker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Warwick of this city, arrived yesterday from Seattle to spend the summer vis- iting here. Mrs. Baker resides in Wallace, Idaho, where Mr. Baker, formerly prineipal of the Juneau High School, is engaged in teach- ing. He is now doing special work at a summer school. man at its Saginaw Bay mild cure station. He was shot in the legs | with a shot gun and bled to death |enroute to Petersburg where he was 'being taken for medical treatment. .- H OFFICIAL’'S WIFE DIES | Mrs. Noah Howell, whose husband |is a Territorial tax collector and had been Ketchikan Chief of Po- Ilice and before that Deputy United |states Marshal at Ketchikan and | Petershurg, died recently at Ketchi- 'kan, SRBMBRS U5 L [Puts 0. K. on [Lipstick and 'Rouge RIVER FOREST, Ill, June 25.— ‘,Ir lipstick and rouge make women \more attractive, moderate use is all |right in the opinion of Dr. Walter Maier, an editor of St. Louis. Speaking before the Annual Ev- angelical Lutheran Missouri Synod convention, he said that painting and powdering were not sins of the modern youth. “In America, as early as 1686, we read of a Boston belle who pow- {dered to hide her age. She used so much powder she was hardly able to laugh. Colonial papers of Puritan protype carried advertise- ments of powder.” Dr. Maier said the good old days are considered good only because they are too far distant to permit of their inconsistencies and ab- surdities being revealed. Gerald L. Church, formerly of the Spokane unit of the Federal pro- hibition service, arrived this morn- ing from the westward, and today took over the Alaska unit of the same force. His promotion to be deputy administrator for Alaska was made known here recently by Administrator Roy Lyle. Mr. Church has been in the Pro- hibition service for a number of years and was here in 1926 for a short time, doing some work at Ketchikan. At Spokane he was associated with A. G. Ames, form- er head of the Alaska unit and who was recently promoted to be Inspector with headquarters at Se- attle. Mr. Church said he was just get- ting fairly familiar with the work here and studying conditions gen- erally. He had no announcement to make relative to the personnel of the local force other than that the transfers recently announced by Mr. Lyle would be made in the near future. Mr. Church was accompanied here today by Mrs. Church and their son, Gerald, jr. She was formerly Miss Murial Hering, a Fairbanks girl, and has been visit- ing her mother there recently. They will reside in the McBride apart- ments on Sixth Street. ——- JUDSON BOY HOLDING OWN of Mayor and Mrs. T. B. Judson, who was seriously injured in an automobile accident on the Glacier Highway, near Salmon Creek yes- terday, is holding his own, accord- ing to hospital authorities. He has not yet recovered from the shock, and until he does it will be im- possible to determine the extent of the injury, it was said at the hos- pital. i Miss Theopa M. Lee, teacher in the Juneau Public Schools during the last year, was a southbound passenger on the Princess Adelaide. Everett Judson, nine-year-old son | New Way to Smuggle Liquor Found WINDSOR, Ontario, June 25.—Interrupting an alleged fishing party off Ecorse Light, customs patrolmen brought to light a new meth- od of liquor running. They said they found three cases of liquor wired to the keel of the fishing craft. Two “fishermen” were arrested. i e 00000000 SEARCHING FOR PLANE LOST IN HAWAI FLIGHT Eleven Airplanes and Forty Men Hunting for Golden Eagle HONOLULU, June 25.—Eleven airplanes, carrying 40 army men and Ezra R. Frost, of Perham Manor, New York, started yesterday for the island of Hawaii to search the slopes of Mauna Loa for the monoplane Golden Eagle, lost in the Dole flight, nearly two years ago. ‘The Golden Eagle was piloted by Jack Frost, brother of the man now searching for a trace of the plane ! which is believed to have crashed on the puma side of the moun- tain. This is the second hunt for the plane, Last year, planes, under the the plane, conducted a search. e ee— M. V. MANVILLE IN TOWN FROM TAKU PROPERTY M. V. Manville, who recently dis- covered a prospect in the Taku district, reported to be rich in zinc, and lead with showings of silver, copper and gold, is in Juneau from Taku and will return to the prgp- chikan, with several mining men lthe prospect. Mr. Manville, who left a small which the largest showing is visible, said there is every indication of it being valuable mining property. Interested with Mr. Manville are 1. Goldstein, Charles Goldstein, Dr. Robert Simpson, Minard Mill and Arnot Hendrickson. - e——— Miss Mabel Tait, of Seattle, is a passenger on the Admiral Rogers e Strongheart, Animal Film Star, Is Dead LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 25— Death has called Strongheart, ani- mal film star, from retirement. Strongheart, the first dog actor on the screen, was 13 years old and |died at the home of the owner, |Jane Murfin, three months after an joperation. Strongheart was trained in the German police kennels and saw service in the World War with the Red Cross. The first picture the dog appeared in was “The Si- lent Call” and it won instantaneous success. Other successes were “Brawn of the North, “White Fang,” “North Star,” and “The Love Master.” Showing the new passenger and express route which will be put in operation soon from Los Angelec to Albuquergrs, N. M., and Kansas City. Inset, left to right: Capt. Peyton Gibson, . house, chief pilot, »ad Capt. Hal Holloway, who will fly the course, and one of the ships to be us: VETERAN PILOT Si Morze. ANOTHER RUMOR MISSING PLANE SEEN ON OCEAN Wireless Message Indicates Sight of Four Missing Spanish Fliers MADRID, Spain, June 25. — A second unconfirmed report has reached here of the sighting of the wreckage of a hydroplane about ish fliers Capt. Franco Ramon and three companions, 100 miles off the Azores coast which, might be that of the missing Span-" COLUML . WINNER 'Rides to Victory in | Race Rowed i Poughkeepsie | {ROUGHEST WATEK N | YEARS EXPERIENCED California'sE;ll Swamped | Near Two-Mile Mark— Cornell Shell Breaks THE WINNERS VARSITY RACE — (% mbia by three good lengths over University of Washingto: JUNIOR VARSITY — ¢ ornell by half a length over C‘um- | bia. \ FRESHMAN—Syracuse « ver ! California second and Cornell third, [ i . POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., June 25. —Riding the crest of the roughest water in the 34 years of regatta history, Columbia’s great varsity }crew swept to a smashing victory in the gathering dusk last night to win the Intercollegiate champion- ‘shlp of the United States for the |second time in three years. The Columbians rowed to a de- cisive vietory, three lengths over the surprising University of Wash- ington's boat as disaster California, world’s champions last year and three ather crews. How They Finished The shells finished in the fol- lowing order: Columbia. ‘The report was yecelvel ‘san. the ’m'., !radio company . which picked up| FPennsylvania. messages from an unnamed Brltlsh; Navy. freighter. The rumor is considered improb- able as it is not likely that the Ramon craft could keep afloat that long. The opinion in Madrid is that the four fliers are lost unless they |might have been picked up by a |small vessel not equipped with | wireless. Spanish destroyers and airplanes are continuing a search for the !missing fliers. Capt. Franco Ramon and his crew left last Friday for an attempted flight to New York City. The crew was last seen when the plane pass- |ed the southernmost point of Spain. s e ‘Wisconsin. Darkness obscured the finish and it was some time before the posi- tion of any but the first two shells |was known positively. | Shells Waterlogged | Al the shells were waterlogged and Washington's shell nearly sank at the finish. | California's shell was swamped half a mile from the finish. Massachusetts Tech was swamped near the two mile mark. Syracuse, an early contender, sank to the level of the river at the three mile mark. | The Cornell shell broke under the weight of the water shipped on the way down, forcing the Ithicans out ‘of the race, half a mile from direction of Denham Scott, brother | of navigator Gordon Scott, lost in| |the finish. BOXER IS NOW - ON WAY SOUTH SEATTLE, June 25.—Passengers | Junior Varsity im'rlving here on the steamer W.' Cornell’s junior varsity came from { M. Tupper, from Bethel, said a vol- behind with a smashing finish to jcano on the Aleutian Islands, just win. Columbia was behind half a west of Unimak Pass, is active and length. The Navy was third and jcasting a dull red glow on the sky. University of Washington fourth. The passengers said they be-| By Cornell winning the Jayvee lieved the volcano was other than event it was the first time since the one recently reported active on 1920 that the New York state The Syracuse Freshmen led all the way over the two mile course of that race to win with Califor- nia second and Cornell third. for Sitka on a visit with friends. | the Aleutians group. SR e NG Mrs, J. J. Corey, wife of J. J. Bureau of Mines, at Anchorage, and ! southbound passengers on the Yu- kon. They will visit in the States to their home. Ischools have swept all three events. H — ., - | COLD TABLETS KILL GIRL erty tomorrow on the plane, Ket- Corey, representative of the U. S.| Little Gloria Lucille Miller, 14- who are interested in looking over her daughter Miss Edith Corey, are months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Miller, of Ketchikan, died the other day the result of crew stripping the 30-foot ledge in for about 30 days before returning eating cold tablets thinking they were candy. ‘Pulque Real Target in War On Mexican Drink By C. P. NUTTER (A. P. Staff Writer) | MEXICO CITY, June 25.—Al- |though it has not been specifically mentioned by name, in the final analysis Mexico’s prohibition cam- paign, recently inaugurated by Pres- ident Portes Gil and now gaining a momentum throughout the country, is in reality aimed at a single alco- | holic beverage—pulque—which 1is far and away the leading drink evil of Mexico. But because of the very factors that make it the principal drink evil,. the abolition of pulque is ad- | mittedly impossible within a short time. The most earnest advocates of prohibition admit that pulque can be abolished only after a long period of years and by hardest ef- forts. + The factors that make pulque the national drink of Mexico and its | jproducuon the country’s leading ag- | ricultural industry are its tradition, |its cheapness, its availability and its virtual mandatory use as a sub- stitute for water and milk, which in some parts of the republic are | almost unobtainable. It is con- | sumed by millions of Mexicans. al- most from birth, and frequently 1§ |given to infants as a substitute for milk. In alcoholic content pulque is comparable with beer, although it has an entirely different appear- ance. It is a greater menace to | health because of the unsanitary | conditious under which it is made |and its peculiar intoxicating effect which makes addicts vicious and oftimes bloodthirsty. Pulque is a sticky, milky-white liquid which comes from the ma- guey plant, which either grows wild or is cultivated throughout the up- |lands of Mexico. The maguey i R (Continued on Page Three) i