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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5 BOLD SALVERS WANT TO KEEP THINGS SECRET Threaten Suit if Papers Tell Any More About Hunt for Islander Gold OLYMPIA, Wash, June 27— Someone talked out of turn, at least that was the claim made in Olym- pia today, concerning the $600,000 which is supposed to be lying on the bottom of the ocean in the steamship Islander which sank 28 years ago off the coast of South- easi Alaska. E. H. Wiley of Olym- pia, who has been in Juneau looking over the situation with the in- tention of recovering the ship's safe has been guarding his story and | activities well for several months. For some reason unexplained here, someone talked in Juneau. At the shops, where the diving apparatus was made, everyone silent on the subject. It was im- | plied by those close to Wiley that ! 2 court action will be sought against | the person in Juneau who talked | f§ and the publishers who used the story. “Yes, someone talked, but pub- lishers will be sued if further ac- counts of the activities are pub- lished,” they said. The Empire secured the informa- tion contained in its account of the operations of those who are en- deavoring to recover the gold on the Islander, from several responsi- ble persons to whom E. H. Wiley talked. The people who gave The Empire the story were men who are accustomed to getting information | straight and imparting it as they| get it. Mr. Wiley talked freely | and without injunctions of secrecy ) Ythese and to others. ‘T story was practically “all over the town.” | The Empire’s business was to get | 137. Tandsome Lis! Goldarbeiter, Tuternational Beaul)' o » the *hicomiut of $2.000 prize besides. New York,” won second hono it accurately, and it did so. The outfit has been working over the wreck of the Islander with a} diving outfit near one of the most used water routes in Alaska in| broad daylight. It would be as]| difficult to keep the matter secret as it would be to put a lid on the| news that ocean passenger ships are running up and down the Alas- ka coast. ————————— LARGE SURPLUS NOW INDICATED MELLONGLAIMS Treasury Will Have Be- tween One Sixty and One Seventy Million Dollars WASHINGTON, Jjune 27.—Secre- tary of Treasury Mellon today said that the latest estimates indicated the Government will conclude the fiscal year on June 30 with a sur- plus of $160,000,000 or $170,000,000 balance on hand after $50,000,000 are allowed railroads for retroac- tive mail rates and which have been paid. Income tax returns of the present month, to June 24, totalled $545,- 725000 an increase of $00,000,000/ over last year. Customs receipts also show a; gain. —o——— RAILROAD IS SOLD BY FORD DETROIT, Mich., June 27.—Hen- ry Ford announces the sale to an undisclosed group of investors, the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Rail- road. Ford bought the road in 1925 for $1,000,000 after the line had struggled Tor 30 years through many receiverships. Four years later the road had earned more than $4,000,000. Innovations included high wages for workmen. The selling price of the railroad i not revealed. ——,———— GEORGE F. BLACK, M. P. AND MRS. BLACK ON LOUISE George F. Black, Member of Par- loament from the ¥Yukon Terri- wo Beautiful Girls Who Made Good Contest at Galveston, Texas, for shg=waon “Miss Universe” for her trouble and the Irene Ahlberg, left, as “Miss Greater| (nternational New “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JU NEAU, ALASKA, _THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1929. right, founu it worth her whin to travel all the way over here from Austria to compete in the rs and a prize of $1,000, i PAINTSVILLE, Ky., June 27.— Public interest in the case of Carl Mahan, 6-year-old slayer of his |playmate, Cecil ‘Vanhoose, may bring to Kentucky something besides the scores of letters regarding the case. The sentence of nearly 15 years in the reformatory passed on the Mahan child brought a challenge of the jurisdiction of the court which tried him, and also a num- ber of criticisms and defenses of the Kentucky court svstem. Carl killea nis ewgne - year - old friend May 16, during a quarrel over a piece of scarp iron they in- tended to sell at a Paintsville junk yard. ‘The khild admitted he wrestled for possession of the piece of iron when Cecil took it from him, and that he got his father’s shotgun and fired it at the Van- hoose boy. At the arraignment in Juvenile Court before County Judge John Butcher’ the boy's attorney demand- ed a jury trial. The jury found him guilty and the boy was sen- tenced to the reformatory at Green- dale. Attorneys for the Mahan family, denied a motion for a new trial, were granted a writ of prohibition to restrain Judge Butcher from carrying out the judgment. ported by the contention that since the defendant is under seven years of age, Judge Butcher's court had no jurisdiction; that the jury's ver- dict was not supported by compet- ent evidence; and that since the child was charged with murder and not delinquency, the case should have been transferred to the circuit court. Then the protests began to come in. Some critics attacked the sys- tem, which does not require that a county judge be a lawyer. Judge Butcher is not a lawyer, but is a mountain farnfer and Baptist min- ister. Clarence Darrow, Chicago lawyer, said the Mahan case was a throw back to medieval times and that anyone with intelligence should rec- one of Mahan's age. A Daytona Beach, Fla., woman, a native Ken- tuckian, wrote if “the State of Ken- tucky permits a six-year-old baby to be confined in the reform school when all he needs is loving, intelli- gent Christian care, then I de- nounce my Kentucky heritage.” The letter bore the name of Elizabeth W. Browdhurst. tory, and Mrs. Black were north- bound passengers on the Princess the writ of prohibition, replied to|Mine has been abandoned because and the Bible. Louise. ik Circuit Judge Bailey, in granting the Darrow charges and said such KENTUCKY COURTS CHALLENGED OVER SENTENCE OF BOY OF SIX| chairman G. ©. Winn of the The plea for the writ was sup-| interviews were the cause of much; crime. He stated that he believed that Judge Butcher and other Paintsville officers had administer-| ed justice as they saw it. | Albert Vanhoose, father of the! slain boy, testified at the trial that three weeks before the fatal shoot-} ing the Mahan child struck a man| with a club, and that once he, threw a knife at one of the Van-| hoose boys. He said the Mahan/| boy was “incorrigible.” W. J. Goodwin, Prosecuting At-| torney of the Louisville Police! Court, said he considered the ver- dict and sentence just, on the‘ ground that the boy probably would | set free. | Many other Kentucky attorneys| and those from other States, how- | ever, expressed opinion that the sentence was unjust. The case now is on appeal. - e CONFERRING ON | | | { | TD 1sarmament Discussions Held by Dawes, Gib- son and MacDonald LONDON, June 27. — American | Ambassador Dawes and Hugh S. |Gibson discused methods of ap- proach to the naval disarmament ! problem with Premier Ramsay Mac- |Donald but did not reach a defin- |ite form. Ambassador Dawes announced to ithe press that announcements re- |garding procedure of attacking nav- |al problems must be made by those in authority in the countries con- cerned and not by Ambassadors, who act as agents. Ambassador Dawes said discus- sions were considered of the great- est value becauge of Mr. Gibson's ognize the irresponsibility of any-|intimate knowledge of the question. | %Fifty Miners Are | Trapped by Flood NAGASAKI, Japan, June 27— Frantic efforts are being made to rescue 50 miners entrapped in the | ing the night. of rising waters. | Ketchikan. jing it. |cable method of procedure. Comumissioner O'Malley is due o )predicting just what will or might | likely leave Seattle June 29 for Alaska.|happen in the way of formal en-, Langley Park—will be their resi- | White House naval alde. He will stop at Ketchikan for the |tertaining, an integral part of any;dcnce. projected hearing, then come on to |official visit, and there is little pre- expressed that President Hoover |afternoon for Mr. King. cedent of recent years to serve as|may have them as White House| NAVAL PROBLEM CHAMBER GOES ON RECORD ON CLOSE SEASON Asks O'Malley to Try to Find Other Means of Protecting Fisheries As a preliminary step in its In- vestigation of the Bureau of Fish- eries regulation closing salmon trol- ling on August 24, the Chamber of Commerce today adopted a resolu- tion asking Commissioner Henry O'Malley to conduct a serious in- vestigation to devise some method of handling the situation without absolute closure, and asking the Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce to represent it at a This hearing will be held in the near future and will be attended by Commisisoner O'Malley, the Chamber was told by Henry Roden, Chairman of the Special Committee to which the matter was referred. Facts Not Available In reporting for the Committee, Mr. Roden said the Committee was unable to obtain sufficient facts bearing on the subject to justify it in recommending to the Chamber any definite action, either asking revocation of the order or support- There seemed to be no question that the closure will af- fect adversely the trollers and mild cure operators. However, the Bu- reau had left the trollers untouch- ed last season, depending on them to observe the general fishing laws. Hewever, 1t had discovered that hearing #in | 1 | i | | ister Ramsay MacDonald (below) as likely that Mr. MacDonald will which the Ambassador has leased for the summer, ficence of the place. WASHINGTON, June 27. — The, Washington Eagerly Awaits Sir Esme Howard (inset) and Lady Isabella Howard (right) probably will be hesis to Prime Mln-‘ of England if the latter makes his American visit.. stay at a pretentious The drawing roor considerable stream fishing had|proposed visit to America of Ram- | ington. been done by some of the trollers say MacDonald, British Prime Min- Mr. MacDonald may stay there, and in order to prevent a repeti-|ister, is causing a pleasant flurry or he may make his home at the tion this season, it had felt thatjover the usually glassy surface of | British Embassy a close season was the only practi- Juneau. The local committee was continued and directed to confer with him oa his arrival here. Celebration Plans Told Fourth of July Executive Committee reported the program of the local celebration was complete. He said the usual parade had been omit- ted on account of the condition of some of the downtown streets. These are torn up in the process of paving and would not be in shape for a parade to be held. He said tne garrison at Chil- koot Barracks would be here for the celebration arriving July 3 and de- parting on the following day. Cole on Race Auditor Cash Cole, who made the Capital to Capital Yacht Race on his cruiser Jazz, told the Chamber it was its duty, or that of the local Yacht Club, to see to it that in be a menace to the community “‘the future definite rules and regu-|4 lations governing the race are adopted and printed prior to the {start. He said changes were made !in this year's rules and that no one knew until after the race was over just what they were. The judge, he said, had this year elimited the alloted time factor and changed the number of control points from 63 to 19. There is a big opportunity for Alaska publicity in the yachting field, Mr. Cole said. The yachts- men of the Pacific Northwest are eager to get information relative to Alaskan waters, weather condi- tions, etc., and many of them would make the trip if it were personally conducted by an Alaskan boat. He said in his opinion many more ves- sels would make the tour if the race feature were eliminated and an Alaska cruise substituted. Secretary H. G. Watson of the | Yacht Club announced that a com- | plete report on the 1929 race would |be ready for submission at the | next meeting of the Chamber. Visitors Present H. L. Symonds, Vice-President of |the Pacific American PFisheries, Mr. | Snyder of Cristman and Snyder, |contractors of Seattle, and F. L. Fuller, representing a' firm of St. Louis contractors, were guests of {the Chamber today. Mr. Snyder ]and Mr. Fuller are here investigat- ing local conditions affecting the | construction of the Territorial capi- 'tol building. They are endeavor- |ing to get into touch with local building and material dealers, sup- ply firms, etc., and get figures on certain materials and work. - e Lodie Pitman, seven-yearrold son of a mountaineer miner near Ashe- Masuhima mine which flooded dur-}vme, N. C, never has been 10 Jand furrier. One section of the school but can read the newspapers plane piloted by Zeh Bouck. None His grandmother taught him. Washington's social sea. | . Everyone is very circumspect about jcompanies him it is regarded nskBlanmn Winship, White House mil- itary aid. . cnd Oant. Wikkhn Brown ) a criterion. The projected visit, however, an| around Dupont circle and Massachusetts Avenue and Sixteenth Street. | Sir Esme Howard, British Am- bassador to the United States, who,| with Lady Isabella Howard, prob-| lably will be the MacDonald host,| has leased for the summer a pre- tentious and beautiful country es- tate in Prince Georges County, Maryland, eight miles from Wash-! in Connesticut Avenue. If his daughter Ishbel ac- that the country -@state.. The belief also has been guests. Langley Park, owned by McCor- event of unparalleled importance to!mick Goodhart, is famous in Wash- | portance. official, diplomatic and socinlWash-’mgton society and diplomatic cir-|speculation as to the Washington | ington, is a tea table topic of un-|cle for its spacious gardens. The | hostess who might set the honor flagging interest in the smart homes house, furnished on a grand scale, |on this occasion. out contains 30 rooms, and there nre‘will depend on Mr, MJcDonald's} 500 acres of grounds. The only recent event of com- parable scope was the visit two years ago of Premier Mackenzie King of Canada, but his trip lacked the important official aspects of the projected MacDonald visit. President Hoover, who undoubt- edly will be a luncheon host to the Prime Minister, was a guest with MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS M acDom?ld country estate PRESIDENT BLOCKING MOVE OF PROHIBITION FORCE Visit i It is regarded' (above) in nearby Maryland m (below, left) mirrors the magni- ‘Mr. King at the White House luncheon for the former. Other guests were the Secretaries of State and War; Williyn R. Castle, the Assistant Secretary of State; Col. There was tea virtually every As a rule there is only one social | affair given by a private citizen for| a visitor of Mr. MacDonald’s im-| There is not even any: Much, of course, wishes. When Premier King was here he| had luncheon one day with Senator | Gerry of Rhode Island, who is a/ personal friend. Included in thej guests at dinners given by the Sec- retary of State and the British Am- bassador at that time were several Senators and their wives as well as| prominent Washington people. H | No Knee Breeches For Dawes at Court Function | . ol | LONDON, June 27.—Amer- ican Ambassador Charles G. Dawes appeared in an ordi- nary evening dress suit at the Third Court this social season. Mrs. Dawes present- ed eight American girls to the Queen. The King was absent owing to his recent illness. Ambassador Dawes’ two predecessors wore knee breeches at court functions. | | | | | MARTIN JENSEN ON NEW FLICHT ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., June 27—Martin Jensen took off at 7:32 o'clock last night, Eastern daylight | time, in a new attempt to set al refueling endurance flight record‘ Iin a monoplane. Three muske-| teers with Jensen, are his wife,| |Mrs. Margaret Jensen; William El-! |brich, who accompanied Jensen be- fore, and H. B. Clarke. | Jensen has abandoned the cata- pult refueling device as unsatisfac- ,tory and will use an auxiliary plane for refueling. 7 R Yellow Bird Stowaway i | |stowaway, returned to his home here last night accompanied by his father, Morris R. Schreiber, Port- They came in a BIG MERGER OF AIR COMPANIES NOW ANNOUNCED New Concern Will Have Assets of Seventy Million Dollars NEW YORK, June 27.—Merger of the Wright Aeronautical Corpora- tion, Curtis Aeroplane and Motor Company and 10 affiliated com- panies into the largest aviation or- ganization in the world, was an- nounced last night. The new concern will have assets of $70,000,000 but at current mar- ket values ranks as several hun- dred million dollars and the con- cern will be approximately 20 times as large as the newly formed De- troit Aircraft Corporation, and as- sets nearly three times as large as the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation which controls the Boeing group and Pratt-Whitney Motor. e, Two Other Members Hollywood Colony Ir;di(:[c(l, Tax Case LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 27— Two more Hollywood film actors are fraudulent and false income tax of the film colony. Raymond Griffins and Raymond McKee hav: | been indicted by the Federal Grand Jury for false declarations in 1925 and 1926. Edward Hayden, Tax ,of the other members of the family ,wete at the beach to greet the boy. Counsellor, is named in’' connection with the returns. Capt. Hawkes l Off, Coast to Coast, Return ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., June 27.—Capt. Frank Hawkes took off at 1:15 o'clock this morning, Pacific Coast time, on a projected round trip flight to Los An- geles, where he expects to stop only long enough to re- fuel. He is making the flight alone. | | | | i 00600000000 -, S0L0 FLIER MEETS DEATH James Perry, Baseball Club Owner, Killed Await- | INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 2%— | A solo flier of a few weeks’ experi- | ence, James Perry, owner of the| Indianapolis Baseball Club, and President of the Curtis Flying Serv- |ice in Indiana, fell to his death near Fort Benjamin Harrison. The motor failed after a take- off, nose-dived and crashed in a ravine. Perry was awaiting the |arrival of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh {who was on a coast-to-coast tour. Goes Home in Airplane; contronted with charges of making| Col. Lindbergh, when he landed {here and was informed of the OLD ORCHARD, Maine, June 27. | reports, extending the long list o!!death of Perry, said: “All who knew —Arthur Schreiber, Yellow Bird | similar charges against members Perry feel the loss very deeply.” - e PENN STATE LOSES 36 STATE COLLEGE, Pa. June 27. —Penn State loses 36 letter winners in 12 varsity sports through gradu- ation this year. L] [Halts Plan for Dissemina- |ury officials who themselves de- | pamphlet and other data for use German, Who Crossed At {was left of lamp oil over the deck |After 1 covered part of the dis- 1how he hoped the ocean trip would yesterday in a cabin monoplnne' HOOVER TAKES HAND IN MOVE OF DRY UNITS tion of Propaganda on Prohibition WASHINGTON, June 27.—Presi- dent Hoover has personally inter- ferred to halt the Prohibition Unit’s plan for dissemination of the Pro- hibition law and observance propa- ganda. The President’s first information concerning issuing of pamphlets proposing a dry law study course in schools, was gleaned from news= papers. President Hoover immed- iately signified disapproval to Treas- clared they did not know of the plans in using proceedings of a $50.000 fund granted by Congress for dissemination of Prohibition literature. Miss Anna Butler, under official of the Treasury Depart- ment, had caused to be printed & in public schools. ADVENTURER IS STRANDED; BOAT 1S NOW WRECK lantic, Caught in Storm on East Coast CHARLESTON, 8. O, June 21.— Kiawah Island beach' today held the battered and burned “the Aga, i8-foet boat*in 7 Paul Muller, of Berlin, & grocer, crossed the Atlantic alone. Muller is safe after a night of ship wreck and exposure. Today he told of the disastrous ending of his voyage, beating his way up the coast from Miami, Flor- ida, where he first touched the American shore. Muller ran into storms off the coast. A squall struck the Aga and tore the sails to bits and tossed the little craft on the island beach. i Sets Boat Afire “The sea began to break up the boat so I decided to set it afire and signal for help. I poured what and touched a match. When no help came, I began swimming for John Island, seven miles away. tance, Fritz Stroebel, drawn by the fire, picked me up in his boat.” Heart Is Broken Muller was heart broken over the loss of the boat. He told of a girl waiting for him in Berlin and bring him money, which to marry her. “We are both poor people. I am a small grocer and I knew nothing of the sea but after Lindberg's exploit, I decided I must do some- thing daring in order to secure it money to marry. Now I do not | know what I shall do but I want to go to New York and make enough money to buy a farm for Agatha, back in Berlin, and my- self,” said Muller. R e S SOUTHERN CROSS ON LONG FLIGHT SYDNEY, New South Wales, June 27.—Capt. Charles Kingsford-Smith | has taken off in the Southern Cross from Western Australia for Singa- pore Straits settlements, enroute to England, a distance of 1500 miles | over the Indian Ocean, Java and | Java Sea. 1 The fliers left Sydney, Tuesday, | completing the first lap of their | flight to Derby on Wednesday. Capt. Kingsford-Smith hopes to | better the record of 15 days made by Pilot Kindler. C. T .Ulm, pilot; T. H. McWil~ liams, radio operator, and 8. Litchfield, navigator, are panying Kingsford-Smith. e —— A prohibition case against a | lorville, Ill, women was dismissed | when it was found the evidene a bottle of home brew—had up. enough with | | i | o Eleven buildings are to be e ed on the University of |campus this year.