The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 8, 1929, Page 1

i 'ri.( THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5145. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1929. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PLANE PATHFINDER TAKES OFF FROM U. S. FOR ROME ROCKEFELLER CELEBRATING ANNIVERSARY Master of Art of Fine Liv-| ing Is Ninety Years Old Today—With Family TARRYTOWN, N. Y., July 8—| John D. Rockefeller, master of the art of fine living, cclebrated his| 90th birthday anniversary and the| observance was with little deviation | from the daily routine by whlch; the oil magnate learned to be healthy and happy. | Entering his ninety first year,| Rockefeller is dean of world figures. { ‘Thomas Edison, President von Hin- | denburg, of Germany, are each 82 years of age. George Putnam is 85} years old and Georges Clemenceau is 87 years of age. To Live 100 Years Biagraphers predict that Rocke- feller will live to be 100 years but he professes he never thinks of the termination of life. “I am too busy trying to be use- ful,” said he, today. The day marks the close of the third decade since having amassed $1,000,000,000. Rockefeller relinquished his busi- ness to his son and began the pur- suit the health and happiness. In| the past 30 years he evolved the philosophy of life based on quiet moderation of activity. At 60 years of age he was a semi-invalid. To- day he announced he is in perfect health. Rockefeller spent his birthday with members of his family, three generations of them at Pockantico Hills. s X, Rockefeller’s Day Rockefeller’s day begins ab 7 'BODY OF GREATHOUSE |was found standing upright in an lice block chopped out of a crev- {last Tuesday when | Secretary of Commerce Robert P. {Lamont, pressed the button in FOUND, BLOCK OF ICE MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL1 PARK, Wash., July 8—The body uf{PLANE TRAIN Forrest Greathouse, football coach | ] | . - TODAY START asse of Ingraham Glacier, Moumf of the Lincoln High School, Seattle, Rainier, where he had lain since | Transcontinental Air Mail he and five| others fell into an ice crack. and Passenger Serv- ice Inaugurated A party of 11 guides and rangers | located the body. Charles Brown, | of Tacoma, Park Ranger, was low- ered down into the crevasse on a line and held by other members of the party until he released the body which was thrown 50 feet farther down into the crevasse by a cave-in. Greathouse is believed to have frozen to death without regaining conscicusness. One leg was broken. e, COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 8—Des- pite rainy weather, the air mail service of the Pennsylvania Rail- road and Transecontinental Air Transport was inaugurated today when two planes took off each carrying 10 passengers. Washington and a gong sounded in Columbus and the first plane im- | mediately took the air. One of the passengers on the flight was Amelia Earhart, trans- Atlantic flier. The plane goes from Columbus to Wayncko, Oklahoma, | |on the first leg of the flight west,{ ‘and it marked the first time in history that a train and plane were | linked in the transcontinental serv- | lice. The transfer of passengers leen POPUIar Welcome |was effected quickly. The Penn- fsyl\'unm Airway Limited slide into —Makes Speech the station and the passengers for MANILA, July 8—Welcomed to the far west walked across the Manila by thousands of persons station platform to the hangar who crowded the pier, Dwight F. where the planes were waiting. Davis today became the ninth Gov-! B ernor General of the Philippines. BRE E GBM'NG “T0 PETERSBURG ! | NOW GOV, GEN. PHILIPPINES Reached Manila Today and BCkck, ©HE goes to breaklasy wt | 8 o'clock, with the day’s supply of | new dimes and nickles jingling in' his pocket, After breakfast is a game of numerica followed by an hour going over business with his secretary, then he plays nine hole: of golf with a neighbor or guest. Theg8cor® is usually in the forties. Luncheon is his principal meal. He eats heartily what he likes. In the afternoon he takes a long mo- tor trip. “I may be old-fashioned, but I believe people should live simplier and saner lives, It betters one’s health and happiness as a result,” he said, commenting on his mode of living. DR. DEVIGHNE TO GO ON CRUISE WITH TWO CALIFORNIA YACHTS To cruise in local waters for about two weeks with Stewart Edward White on the yacht Simba, ‘and Robert Pinkerton, of Los Angeles, on the Triton, Dr. H. C. DeVighne, commodore of the Juneau Yacht Club, will leave here tonight on the Chirikof for Hanus Bay. He is scheduled to meet the other two vessels there next Thursday. Dr. DeVighne will be accompan- ied by Mrs. DeVighne and their daughter Dana, and Sheila Stapler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Stapler. Mr. White is accompan- ied by Mrs. White and Mrs, Pink- erton also is with her husband on the Triton. The party will cruise together in waters around Chicha- gof and Baranof Islands and the Simba and Triton are expected to call in at this port with the Chiri- kof when it returns. Both the Simba and Triton have made several trips to Southeast Alaska waters. Mr. Pinkerton, like Mr. White, is & writer of national repute and both men spend much of their summer vacations cruising in north Pacifi¢ waters. ! ! In a brief inaugural address, Davis pledged the Administration to the friendliest of cooperation with the Filipino people and to a policy of efficient economy. ———ee msmm Is IEngineer Dredge Due NT N En There Tomorrow tor 30 Days on Petersburg Bar Irive at Petersburg tomorrow for a month’s work on Petersburg Bar SEWARD, Alaska, July 8—Kar] at the north entrance to Wrangell ! Armstrong, oldtime peace officer Narrows, according to an announce- of the Third Division, recently con- ment made today at local head- victed of manslaughter for the kill- quarters of the District Engineer. ing of Eric Dahlberg, a. Kodiak, on It is estimated it will be necessary September 13, 1928, has been sen- 0 remove about 150,000 cubic yards tenced to 15 years at McNeil Is- Of silt and sand in order to com- land. | pletely clear the channel. Armstrong was a Deputy United! The McKenzie is one of the larg- States Marshal for many years in, €St sea-going hopper dredges oper- The United States Engmeer‘s' dredge, McKenzie, is due to ar-| | Washington treaty cruisers of Eng-, [boats carried on the yacht. the Third Division and is widely known throughout the Territory. He is said to have shot Dahlberg be- cause of the latter’s attentions to Mrs. Armstrong, from whom Arm- strong was estranged. LOS ANGELES YACHT IS JUNEAU VISITOR ‘The 110-foot schooner rigged yacht, Gloria Dalton, owned by Vic- tor E. Dalton, of Los Angeles, who with his wife, after whom the yacht is named, and their small child, is making a two months’ cruise in Southeast Alaskan waters, arrived in Juneau Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Dalton left on the Northwestern to make the round trip to Skagway while minor re- pairs are made to one of the small ‘While in Seattle the latter part of June, the yacht visited the Seattle Yacht Club. Mr. Dalton and his wife are formerly of Seattle. ———— Mrs. Charles Miller and three children left Sunday morning on the steamer Prince Rupert for Prince Rupert where she will visit relatives and friends for several weeks. Nurse Group Convenes " MONTREAL, July 8.—Nurses were the first professional workers to recognize the need for interna- tional cooperation, Miss Nina D. Gage of New York, told the Inter- national Council of Nurses at the opening of its sixth quadrennial congress here today. The meeting comes on the thir- tieth anniversary of the founding of the organization, of which Miss Gage is president. “When our group was formed,” she said, “there were many prob- lems in England and elsewhere similar to those facing us in the On 30th Anniversary United States. And, after 30 years, some of these problems still are of vital interest to world nurs< ing. “As to our accomplishments, state registration of nurses has been achieved in many countries. In other countries not ready for gov- ernment action, nurses are required to register through the national nurses’ organization. Protection of the public' from unskilled nursing and protection of the good name of our profession are attained by such legislation, which before long, promises to be universal.” ated by the United States Engi- neer Board. It has a capacity of 50,000 yards per week. It makes its headquarters in San Francisco. This is the first time it has been brought to Alaskan waters. | Silt drifting across the bar has |filled in and altered the course of |the channel in two or more places, and has made it more tortuous than normal, impeding navigation | materially. The dredge will re- move the silt deposits and take | the silt out to deep water for dump- ing. | Engineer James Truitt has been on the ground for several weeks with a crew making examinations and getting the bar marked in readiness for the dredge’s opera- tions. He will supervise the work which is expected to be completed 'in about 30 days. ‘THREE ARRESTED BY KETCHIKAN OFFICER‘ Three persons were arrested by! Deputy Marshal W. H. Caswell over the week end at Ketchikan, on charges of violating the Alaska Bone Dry Law, according to word received at the U. 8. Marshal's of- fice today. All were sentenced by Commissioner W. C. Arnold, of the First City. Somin Booth was sentenced to 20 days’ imprisonment. Ed Pearson was sentenced to pay a fine of $35 and costs, and Nels Benson received a like sentence. Both paid their fines and were released. Strangles Her Common Law Husband and then Burns Body, Roadside NAPERVILLE, Ill, July 8—Miss Laura Weaver, aged 21 years, de- scribed by the police as an Amaz- «onian in strength, confesscd today she had strangled with a belt strap, her common law husband, Wilbur | Kithelman, aged 52 years, and then had burned the body near Anna- wan. The body was found by the roadside last week. lers with long range 1l-inch wea-| !ment is the creation of a new naval ) MODERN HISTORY IN THE MAKING P vagint Associated Press Photo Actual signing of the re| : tlons agreement In Paris which ter minated four months of negotiations. Owen D. Young, chalrman of the committee of experts, be seen at the head of the table. POWERFUL CERMAN! CRUISERS SEEN AS DISARMAMENT THREAT Imiles at a speed of approximately 20 knots.” The navy experts credit the Ger- man design as “an outstanding de- velopment” in naval history. An important seat for Germany seems indicated at any naval limi- tations and reduetion conferences of the future. - eee Flies Sixteen Hundred Miles In 16 Hours WINNIPEG, July 8~D. 8. Zimmerly has completed a 1,600-mile nonstop flight from Brownsville, Texas, landing here at 6:45 o'clock last night. He made the flight in exactly 16 hours. By KIRKE SIMSON (A. P. Feature Writer) WASHINGTON, July 8.—One fae- tor apparently overlooked thus far in the international hubbub over further naval reductions and limi- tations is the German navy. It does not amount to much in size, due to severe restrictions of the treaty that ended the war. But German mechanical ingenuity has found a way, within those re- structions, to produce a class of | hybrid fighting ships that can con- ceivably be difficult to fit iuto any acéeptavie category for Hmith- tion purposes. The new German ships, limited to 10,000 tons displacement, are the same size as the 10,000 ton post-| land, the United States, Japan, Italy | and France. Such vessels were the chief bone of contention in the fruitless threespower paval confer- | ence sponsored by President Cool- idge. e 00000 e - e TWO FLIERS ATTEMPTING NEW RECORD CULVER CITY, Cal, July 8— With a second narrow escape from lack of fuel safely passed, L. W. Mendell and R. B. Reinshart, are piloting a single motored biplane into the seventh day of an endur- ance record. They have been in the air over 145 hours. A short measure was given the plane last night and early today a hurry call for fuel arrived just as the tanks were going dry. But while the ships are limited to guns of eight-inch caliber, the German vessels could carry guns| twice that size and do, in ract,} mount 11-inch batteries. German naval designers never have followed the big gun ideas of their British and American riv- als. They were content before the World War to build German high| seas battleships and battle cruis-| pons. In the war they got action with the 11-inch batteries against Brit- ish heavy war dogs mounting 13.5- inch and even 15-inch weapons. It is to be assumed that the Ger- man 1l-inch naval rifle of today is vastly improved over war time guns of the same size, as are the| eight-inchers of other naval pow- ers. The result, then, of post-war and post-treaty German naval develop- Steamer and Cutter Collide; Passengers Safely Transferred weapon. It is a cruiser in size but a battleship in hitting power and gun range. That is a factor that cannot be overlooked by naval experts when and if the discussions precipitated by President Hoover’s suggestion for a naval yardstick of fighting relativities gets down to a practical basis. Nor are previous naval relativity formulae upset by the German su- per-cruisers on the score of gun-| power alone. They are motor in- stead of turbine driven. American naval information credits their|be decided next February at propelling machinery with the stag- |[meet in Madison Square garden, gering weight reduction evolution|New York. that gives them one brake horse| The international skating union, power per 17% pounds of engine|which has just concluded its an- weight. nual board meeting here, decided The same type of internal com-|that the competition will be held bustion engines used ashore never junder the auspices of the amateur before have been brought down to|skating union of the United States. less than 51 pounds per brake horse |The New York skating club will power. The saving in engine|make the arrangements for the weight for the German cruisers|European competitors who will en- means more gun power, more speed, | ter. and, a very vital consideration in| The representatives of 17 nations naval fighting relativities, more to the international skating union cruising radius. also voted to take part in the This is what the United States|Olympic games at Lake Placid in navy department has had to say|1932. of the new German ship: “She scarcely can be called a and forty-nine passengers were landed safetly after the stéamer Prince George collided with the cutter Agassiz in a dense fog early yesterday morning, 65 miles east of here. The Prince George’s hold ed here under her own power. ————l—— FIGURE SKATING TITLE TO BE DECIDED IN U. S. OSLO, July 8—The world cham- pionship for figure ice skating will The Coffroth handicap race at ACDONALD TRIP MAY LIGHTEN TAX BURDENS CONDITION OF RS IS BAD AGAIN his “heart-to. " conference with President Hoov will be think- ing in terr 15—the bil- Planned Departure for Summer Home at Sand- ringham Is Delayed > {M By WADE WERNER (A. P. Staff Writer) ed upon the tired backs of tax- payers. Much smaller cient to wrinkle 1} a lad of 19, practically penniless. He began the carving-out of his extraordinary | career by addressing envelopes for a bicycle touring club. Sixty cents all he had when he arrived, this son of Scottish peasants with a hankering for more education than poor boys of that day were supposed to have. And although he had hoped for some- thing better when he came, $2.40 a week was what he got for the envelope job. But it was only temporary work, with gaps of un-| employment between, Finally younz MacDonald found sums we is brow he came to suffi- when mndon lions in armamoent costs now heap- i a LONDON, July 8—All Britain iwas shocked to learn that within {24 hours after Thanksgiving serv- ices for King George, unsatisfactory progress has been made in the ‘proscnt phase of his illness, pre- 'venting him from making his 'planned departure for the British |Royal summer home at Sadring- I ham. | Announcement was denied em- | phatically and immediately that | serious symptoms had resulted but |the statement s his general, health was satisfactory but there ‘had been an unsatisfactory devel- opment in the right chest. The|what looked like permanent work (‘dflml“»urc of the King was delayed as invoice clerk in a warehouse. The | for further examination. job paid him about $3.75 a week, | eoreninigs every week, and he felt so pros- perous that soon he was paying | tuition fees at the Gity of London College and Highbury institute, and even sending home Some money to NEW YORK, July 8. — Charles| his mother. Given an opportunity to do some Delar, unemployed bus boy who cenfessed he had killed a woman | chemical laboratory work he threw in Detroit four yoars ago, stashed! THIRD START - OF AVIATORS SUGCESSFUL Wiliiams zmg(AliTanci‘y with Mechanic Leave in Fog for Italian City WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE TO BE REPORTED Flight in Nature of Test— Destination Expected to Be Reached 50 Hours OLD ORCHARD, Maine, July 8.— Successiul in the third attempt to takeoff from the beach, Rogers Williams and Leawise Yancey are presumably winging their way to- ward Rome in the monoplane Path- finder. There is possibility of the flight being in the nature of a test as Yancey told Ben Zebor, his me- chanic, that if a careful check of gasoline the first few hours showed the plane using too much gas, they would return. The start was in contrast to the other two when the planes were wrecked. The takeoff today was made 'in a fog. Lieut. Melka, in a Coast Guard amphibian ‘ plane, reportegd he followed the ;Pathfinder the first 100 miles and it was making good progress. L3 . Yancey, master !mnrinm. was make temperature re: % other observations}during the M to dld i Atlantf8 weather fore- casting; - ‘The distance to Rome from here is estimated at 5700 miles. Yancey expected to reach Rome within 45 himself into it with such unre- lenting application (a degree in Miss Caroline Goodwin with a razor ion a prominent New York corner science was his ambition then) that this morning as thousands of office | ‘come - interested o " 8ocialism, Sand {5 ywhen a Liberal politician effered S g o willald t}: Favorable winds {him the post of private secretary he BOSTON, July 8—Two hundrm:iI was full of water and she proceed- | his health broke down. Thus his (foung himself first ten years in London turned to be years of poverty and ob-| seurity. Meanwhile, nowever, he had be- ’ o Lo asui st | in a position to ::::cxs MOT NI Thair SWAY: Jo ‘i) ;achiew‘? both a Lving and a political Miss Goodwin received 12 slashes | ¢ducation. He would have prefer- across her back requiring 15 stitch-' red to have worked his way thrnllghj es. Her condition is stated to be|® university; later, however, he| favorable. 1]oukcd upon the learning he had The attacker had hardly afflicted | Obtained through toil as more v the wounds when he was knocked'8ble than anything the unive down and out by Joseph Gabaring,|could have given him. | who leaped from his truck. He| No doubt the President of the kept his feet planted on Delar|United States and the Prime Min- until the police arrived. ‘\ster of England will have many an Delar told the police women, anecdote of those early struggling pestered him and he took it out'days to exchance, For Herbert on Miss Goodwin whom he did nol‘Huover got what Ramsay MacDon- know. rald's breakdown prevented—a chance to work his way through a | university. To many who feel keenly war's| {double cost it will seem a happy | turn of fate that these two men—| | both unequivocally poor in thelr | 20 PASSENGERS 'ADMIRAL ROGERS HERE FROM SOUTH ity —_————————— | | SEATTLE, July 8—Steamer Al- aska sailed for Alaska ports at 9 o'clock Sunday morning with 203 first class passengers and 30 steer- age. The following passengers are aboard for Juneau: Robert Kinzie and wife, H. D. Stabler, Miss Venitia Pugh, Mrs. V.| Reed, Col. D. J. Quinlan and wife, sail for Haines, S8kagway and Sitka | H. A. Sprague, Miss M. Killey, J.|early this evening. It is to leave T. Petrich, Helen Ritter, Mrs. D. the Admiral Line dock for the Ju~! B! Femmer, Miss M. Femmer, N./neau Lumber Mill dock at five| Deroux, Miss A. Addison, Miss E.‘o'clock and go from there to Doug- | | Addison, Miss S. Davis, Mrs. A.jlas to discharge freight, sailing| Harlcock, Beatrice Harlcock, Ger- from Douglas at seven o'clock. aldine Harlcock, Mrs. William! Those arriving here from Seattle | Hayes, and Miss B. Haynes. on the Rogers, were—Mrs. Mary | i e Julian, Mrs, Catherine B. Ross, Miss | NONE ARE INJURED IN Betty Gillard and two third class. | AUTO WRECK, THANE ROAD| From Wrangell—O. D. Leet. From Ketchikan—C. T. Howard, A most miraculous escape from Mrs C. T. Howard, E. H. Tucker, | | | ‘The Admiral Rogers, Capt. J. E. | Kolseth, docked in Juneau from| |the south at 12:30 today and will| a|injury was experienced by W. P. Clyde M. Barnes, C. E. Harlon, and ' | Kingston, Superintendent of me;men White. {Dundas Bay cannery of the North-| There are 98 round trip tourist |western Fisheries Company, when|apoarq the Admiral Rogers and 20 |the Buick car driven by Harold ¢,yrists who will leave the steam- ‘Jones, in which hé was a passenger,|,. o Skagway to make the trip| jturned turtle on the Thane road|q,un the yukon. Thirteen soldier this morning and landed upside from Vancouver Barracks are down; ap- the beash. about. ten Ieetlabuurd the steamer for Chilkoot | | Barracks at Haines to which they‘ have been transferred. } The Admiral Rogers will return to Juneau southbound next Fri- [below the road. Neither the driver }or Mr. Kingston had a scratch and aside from broken windows, thci car was uninjured. | A loose stone at the side of the| 'road which caused the car to skid |98Y: from the bank was given as the cause of the accident. The car is owned by John Covich. Mr. Kingston said he could scarcely believe that the accident really occurred without injuring President Hoover Back from Fishing Trip to Virginia battleship or a battle cruiser; but|Tijuana is the richest stake in this anyone and is congratulating him- whatever definition be given, it|country although one of the young- appears clear that only by the|est. adoption of internal combustion [000. machinery has it been possible to build a vessel restricted to a dis- e This year it was worth $123,-| self on his good fortune. WASHINGTON, July 8.—Presi- s e e S dent Hoover returned to the White Watts Gunn, Walker cup ‘golfer,| House early today from a fishing ,hu a 17-year-old brother who won|trip at the preserve in the Blue Leo Lomski was born in Daven- the Atlanta championship and was|Ridge Mountains, Virginia. where| placement of 10,000 tons and with | port, Iowa, October 27, 1903, the son runner-up in the Georgia state |he spent the week-end with Mrs. a radius action exceeding 10,000 of a Polish Jew and a Scots-womnnv‘ meet. Hoover and a group of friends. plane although fog at sea will be' met until 1,000 miles out. A e KINZIE COMING NORTH T0 LOOK OVER PROJECT Consulting Engineer for Cameron Interests Is Enroute to Juneau R. A. Kinzie, consulting engineer for the Cameron-Chandler syndi- cate, developing the local pulp and paper project, sailed from Seattle yesterday on the steamer Alaska to inspect the work that has been done in connection with the hydro- electric project at Speel River and outline a program for continuing surveys and other work there. He is accompanied by Mrs. Kinzie. It is understood that Mr. Kinzie who will arrive early Wednesday, will leave at once for Speel River to join A. J. Ela, engineer in charge of the hydro-electric development. The latter has just completed the survey of the transmission line coastal route from Greeley Point on Taku Inlet to the plant site in the north end of Snettisham In- let and has done some work clear- ing the tunnel site. Wanted Bottle of Liquor and Is Shot EVERETT, Wash., July 8—W. J. Egegleston confessed today that he shot Walter Engstrom when he tried to return to his houseboat for the third time to trade a watch for a bottle of liquor. Eggleston said the shot was an accident, the gun going off when he raised it to scare Engstrom away. S e WRANGELL MAN FINED Harry Finley was arrested by Deputy Marshal H. D. Campbell at Wrangell Saturday on a- charge of violating the Alaska Bone Dry Law, He pleaded guilty and was sentenc- |ed by Commissioner Thomas to pay a fine of $20 and costs and to 20 days’' imprisonment in the Federal 1jail there. e NEW CAR FOR CAMPBELL LONDON, July 8-—An all-British speed car will be built rby Capt. Malcolm Campbell to meet the chal- lenge of the United States which, he expects, will be forwarded to England soon. B