The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 9, 1929, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME™ VOL. SUBMARINES CRASH; ONE GOES D XXXIV., NO. 5146, JUNEAU, ALASKA , TUESDAY, JULY 9, |92§. THOUSANDS OF EARTHQUAKE IN AND 7 Two Endurance Fliers Continue i PATHFINDER IS Trial Soon to U wavel .~ONE | \ . 13 | 74 all TINS OF OPIUM NEAR LOS ANGELES |0n Their Grind NOW BELIEVED | Tangle of “Wood vase MEN CAUGHT T G e CULVER CITY, Cal, July ® | | [} FOUND,BAGGAGE DOTS WUCH DANAC 2 T2 NERING RONE, SUNKEN BOAT R, ————|® one week and determined to e | | y | LOS ANGELES, Calif,, July 9.— ® stick to the plane until the '@ ! J i —— | An earthquake of severe intensity.‘nlvEHs LEAVE ® motor gives out, L. W. Men- @ R — | : ¥ - | causing injury to four persons and | ® dell and R. B. Reinshart e " 4 2 ¢ PP\ gy Lafge .Quanhty of Narf:ot- damage in excess of $50,000, shook | e continued today circling the ® ‘Trans-Atlantic Fliers Not | Two Br‘msh Naval Craft . ics in Trunks of Chi- |Los Angeles and suburban com- Isl- ANDER AND e airport with enough gas to @ Reported But No Collidel O Sinle : ks Y ities in a radius of 30 miles ® last until late this after- e A < Fl | - TR : nese Official’s Wife | sasterd ® noon. They will shatter the ® nxiety Felt | in Deep Water FRT ye’sme]x; acye.n'.er of the disturbance | ® endurance record by one e BULLET!N—;&T\I’_I'ANDFR stmth I AR SE]ZURE ESTIMATED | seemed to be a.t Santg.Fe Springs | R T * hmAxrv 1?‘ the?y rcmngn aloft e July 9—The plane Pa.thllnvin o DETAILS LACK].NG |and in the Whittier District, south ® to 2:30:29 o'clock this after- ® Bohes “Tovscll. dbwh ot kil Skters | CONCERN]N‘G CRASH WORTH ONE MILLION “";w?‘;:“f;?n":t ls‘;‘ é"}g:le;‘-mngs — i g noon. o from here at 8:30 o'clock fontgn | » f lack of | { ' ; . |were mjured when caught under | 17easure Seeking Expedi-ls s essecennneain BT o tiors oo ©) Bagimn. | {Disaster Happens So Quick- Search Culmlnates Il‘lVeSll-,a washing machine which was over- tion Abandons Search e WA 2. et mare gaboline -and: ~will] | ) th : On] T f gation Conducted for {tumed by the wremor. @ ust| for Gold on Vessel NEw x ALT D continue the flight to Rome when y tha y Two o Two Years by oblects falling off ofl demicks.| oo i i Craft - Saved el Two flowi il wells w top- e efforts to salvage reputed 3 > A ol e il treasure from the wrecked Islander, NEW YORK, July 9.—The Rome LONDON, July 9. — The SAN F R A N CISCO, Cal., July 9.—Approximately 3,000 tins of opium, declared worth $1,000,000 retail, were found by United States Customs of- icials in the luggage of Mrs. King Yao, wife of the Chi- nese Vice-Consul here. Additional opium, officers said, was discovered and hun- dreds of pieces of expensive silks and fine laces upon which no duty had been paid. Three pieces of baggage, which Mrs. Yao claimed were personal belongings were not searched but were sealed awaiting word from Wash- ington, D. C. Customs Agents John W. Smith and Robert Harris, broke through seals of the baggage, which under ordinary procedure, would have been passed by the Customs offi- cers without check. The Chinese were represented by Attorneys Aaron Cohen and Vin- cent Surr, after Attorneys John L. MecNap and Timothy Healy with- Grew from the case. &5 Cohen and Surr protested action on the grounds the search was in violation of the treaty rights be- tween China and the United States but Officer Smith said he had ample grounds for opening the trunks. Each can contained five teals of opium. Officials said the search culmin- ated two years of investigation and is said to have come in connec- tion with the arrest and convic- tion of William Rosa, former clerk of the Hawaiian-United States Court and two wealthy Honolulu Chinese. YOUNG WIFE BURNS BABY Claims Deed Result of Hav- ing No Money with which to Buy Milk LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 9.— A 19-year-old mother, Mrs. Jose- phine Valenti, has confessed she burned her eight months’ old baby to death because she had no money with which to buy milk for the child. The child Dominic was snatched from a blazing baby carriage by a neighbor woman but too late to save its life, With tears in his eyes, the hus- band, Sabatini Valenti, denied there were no funds to buy milk for the baby. He told the Police he had given his wife $9 of his wages as a laborer to pay a milkman. The Police said the girl-wife had ped by the quake east of Whittier. It is reported that damage esti- mated at $50,000 has been done east of Whittier. A school wall caved in and the structure shifted on its foundation. Two residences were partially wrecked by falling chimneys. SECOND HEAT WAVE TAKING DEATH TOLL |Numerous Prostrations Re-| ported—Many Drown- ed in Hot Regions NEW YORK, July 9—Seven |deaths and numerous prostrations; |were recorded as the second severe |heat wave of this summer con- |tinues unabated in the East and| | Midwest. Deaths are reported here, in Phil- {adefphia, Washington, Wilmington (and Lynn, Mass, from the heat. Many deaths are also reported (from drownings. | The hottest place, the Weather (Bureau reports, is Phoenix, Arizona, ! with a temperature of 102 degrees. | ‘The Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain regions have escaped the | heat so far. | New York beaches are jammed |with thousands seeking relief. YACHT GLORIA DALTON STARTS CRUISE SOUTH; STOPS ARE SCHEDULED| ., After being anchored in the Channel since Saturday afternoon, Ithe 110-foot schooner-rigged yacht, Gloria Dalton, owned by Victor E. (Dalton, of Los Angeles, was to leave this afternoon to begin the |cruise south with stops scheduled | at Sitka Hot Springs, Petersburg,! ‘Wrangell, Klawak, and Alert Bay, | on the way to Seattle from where, the cruise will continue to Los An- geles harbor. Mr. and Mrs. Dalton, who with their six-year-old daughter, Marilyn i Dalton, have been cruising since June 8th, when they left Los An- geles, experienced rainy weather during the trip north and are hop- | ing for sunshine and lots of fishing | on the way south. While the; yacht was anchored here, Mr. and Mrs. Dalton made the round trip on the Northwestern to Skagway and | Bennett. ‘While there they pur- chased a malamute puppy for their daughter. The Gloria Dalton, which is said to be one of the most gru:efuli in progress for almost two months past, have been discontinued and the treasure seekers have sailed for Scattle. How much success re- warded their work is more or less a secret, but it was indicated that no money was found. The 8. H. Finch, Captain 8. H. Finch, Jr., with divers and divers’ aquipment aboard, cleared from this port this morning for Seattle. If there was treasure aboard it was not declared at the Customs house. The only articles listed in the dec- laration were the various kinds of divers’ equipment used in the search. And Capt. Finch de- clared they had found nothing. He remarked that the outfit was un- der contract to carry on the sal- vage operations for 60 days and, as these were about expired, he didn’t see any use of remaining here any longer. On June 25, it was reliably re- ported here that the Finch had located the purser's safe on the Islander and that it would be raised in a few days. Since then (nothing has been heard regarding the operations. It was claimed that the safe contained anywhere from $100,000 to $600,000. In ad- dition the divers expected to search for express boxes believed to have carried gold dust from the Klon- dike. While Capt. Wiley made no specific mention of these matters while clearing, he said the expedi- tion had found nothing of value. The Islander went down on Au- gust 15, 1901. Several efforts have been made since then to recover gold it was believed to have car- ried. None of them have achieved their object. NEW CURRENCY RECEIVED HERE First Nalion_arBank Gets Supply of New Bills, Three Denominations Shades of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson, Grant, Franklin, McKinley, Cleveland, Madison and Chase! That's the na- tion’s new financial menu, take your choice. But just now it is a limited choice. Much as it might be de- sired to order 1,000 Washingtons or even one Chase, at present the lo- cal market is restricted to Lincoln's, Hamiltons and Jacksons. Which is the bankers’ way of saying that the new five, ten and twenty dollar bills adopted by the United States Treasury have been received. On the $5 bill one face bears the likeness of Lincoln and the reverse Assocsatea Pross oot COL. WLLTER P. ANDREWS LOS ANGELrs, Calif, July 9.— Col. Walter P. Andrews, Past Exalt- ed Ruler of Lodge No. 78, Atlanta, Georgia, has been unanimously | elected Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks in an executive session of the Sixty Fifth annual convention. Col. Andrews has been a promi- nent Elk for years. He is a law- yer by profession and also promi- | nent in Georgia politics. ——pe e COMMANDER AT HAINES COMES UP FROM RANKS Major Spaulding Commis- sioned from Ranks— Takes Command From the ranks as a private to the grade of major in less than 15 years, is the record of Maj. Basil D. Spaulding, new commanding of- ficer of Chilkoot Barracks. He and Mrs. Spaulding and their three children visited in Juneau yester- day while the Admiral Rogers was | in port, proceeding to Haines on that boat. Major Spaulding is a native of Maryland and 39 years of age. He| graduated from Maryland Agricul- tural College in 1909 with a degree of Batchelor of Science, majoring | in civil engineering. He enlisted in the Army in an infantry regi- ment in May, 1914, and was suc- cessively promoted to corporal, ser- geant and first sergeant by Novem- ber, 1916. In that month he was commissioned second lieutenant from the ranks. He saw service in | RULER, ELKS 1S PLANNING bound monoplane Pathfinder, aid- ;ed by tail winds for nearly perfect flying conditions, is believed ap- proaching the European coast. The | plane is flying at high speed which | was increased by lightening the! fuel load. | | Although the air craft, carrylng} Roger Williams and Lewis Yancey, has not been reported since last seen 75 miles off the Atlantic coast | by the escort ship, yesterday morn- | ing, no anxiety is felt as trans~|‘ Atlantic planes fly high and carry, no radio. FLIGHT FROM ENG. TOU. S, Capt. Smith Reaches Rome! in Southern Cross— ROME, July 9.—Capt. Charles; Kingsford Smith told the Associat- right), accuses his wife, Mrs. Grace ed Press today that he had decided | overhauled. from Sydney, enroute to London. by a Wright Motor representative who will fly to London with him and overhaul the motors. The mo- of flying. Capt. Smith will inspect four air. planes in London destined for Aus- tralian service and he will then start planning seriously for his flight to the United States. The Southern Cross is the planc used on the flight from San Fran-| cisco, Calif,, to Australia. SIXTH MEMBER FEDERAL FARM Minnesota Man Accepts Position—Two Others Yet to Be Selected WASHINGTON, July 9.—William F. Schilling, of Northfield, Minne- sota, has accepted appointment to| the Federal Farm Board as repre-| . .been set, it is expected the case an accoutant. BOARD CHOSEN DETROIT, July 9.—All the tan- in Detroit as “the Wood in circuit Mrs. Grace M. ault with intent to kill he hus- | builder and contractor. | With Mrs. Wood will be William | she is accused of having hired to lay Wood that she might collect $50,000 insurance before he could divorce her. Although no date has will be called during the July term. The principal witness for the| prosecution will be Cecil W. Holt, | His story that Mrs. | | i Ralph A. Wpod (lower 1left), backed by Cecill W. Holt (lower M. Wood, with assault with intent I"" kill him. Mrs. Wood denies the charges and alleges that Wood and | Holt robbed a bank. The two men were taken to Stur- to fly from England to the United |gled phases of what has come to be 815 and held there for some time, States in the plane Southern Cross gnown as soon as he had his three motors|case” will be re-told {court here when Capt. Smith arrived here todaywood faces trial on a charge of as- ¢ the time of the bank hold-up. to 'be released just before arraign- ment. They presented perfect ali- bis showing they were in Detroit A grand jury investigation into He and his companions were met;band‘ Ralph A. Wood, well known |the death of Hagerty was held to determine whether a crime was committed when he was slain. The results of the inquiry have not been tors have been used in 500 hours |Thompson and Taylor Pierce, whom ' announced. WANT DUTY ON RAYONPRODUCT ‘Wood engaged him and three omcrs‘, WASHINGTON, July 9.—Rayon to kill Wood was the first of a| series of charges and counter charg- es that surround the case with so| many involved off-shoots that by! common consent it became known | as “the Wood case” in the interest | of brevity. The prolog to acted in Wyandotte, a Detroit sub- urb, the night of January 9, last.| Eighteen law enforcement officers, | acting upon information supplied ! by Holt, gathered about Wood’s real | estate office to await the arrival of the alleged plotters. Holt had said he took part in the conspiracy to obtain evidence against Mrs. Wood. Holt, Thompson, Pierce and Am- brose L. Haggerty drove to the of-) fice. Hagerty and Holt went to thei door while Thompson and Pierce | remained in the car. Holt sald| 4 drama was en- | was pictured before the Senate Tar- iff Sub-committee as likely to sup- plant raw. silk as a basic commodity | for clothing. Dean Hill representing -the Silk , Association of America, urged addi- | tional duty on twisted rayon yarns. He said that for the first time since |this artificial silk developed rayon cloth, made of highly twisted yarns, was taking the place of silk. The rayon industry, Hill said, now em- ploys 50,000 persons and the payroll is $50,000,000 and expanding rapid- ly in this country. He urged a duty as the means of protection. e The Rev. Andrew Hilmer Norum, a lecturer of St. Paul, Minn, is a round, trip tourist on the Admiral Rogers. | British submarine H-47, with 21 members of the crew be- lieved dead or trapped in her, lies in 271 feet of water in St. Georges Channel, west of /Fish Guard, after being ,struck by submarine L-12. I The larger vessel sank so ‘quickly that only two of her |erew were saved by the L-12. The latter craft lost one man and another was injured. | Details are lacking concern- \ing the crash. | The H-47 sank in water nearly twice as deep as that in which the S-4 and S-51 sank and salvage operations [ 'at such a depth are exceed- 'ingly difficulty. | Arrangements are being ,made to save the men aboard |the H-47, if still alive. 4 SEA DISASTER “1S EXPLAINED ‘W recki n;f Swedish Steamer Gives Rise to | Rumors of Tragedy | | LONDON, July 9—With the res- cue of 18 survivors of the Swedish steamer Boote, wrecked near Yar- mouth, an explanation is offered of the mysterious North Sea ex- plosion which led to the fear that a major sea disaster had taken place. The Dutch steamer Copenhagen took off the crew when it was seen that the Boote was about to foun- der. Later the steamer Arneberg reported an unidentified ship had sunk after an explosion. The Boote's crew was landed here. Second Pilgrimage To Holy Cross Colorado, | MINTURN, Colo., July 9.—The second annual pilgrimage to the Mount of the Holy Cross began yes- terday with indications that a larg- er number will participate this year than last, The “Cross” is outlined in snow packed in the hollowed face of the mountain. One of Denver’s newspapers s sponsoring the annual Pilgrimage to the Cross which is regarded by Pilgrims as a shrine by virtue of healings reported to have been ef- fected at its base. in Starts $4 in her possession when arrested. |yachts of its type on the Pacific side carries a reproduction of the |y, . world War and received two — ., WELLMAN HOLBROOK LEAVES FOR MINNESOTA MRS. Mrs. Wellman Holbrook left on the Princess Louise this morning on the way to Pipestone, Minn, where she will visit with relatives during the remainder of the sum- mer, First White Men Safely Cross Bering Russians Accomplish Feat NOME, July 9—The motor trad- ing ship Nanuk, owned by Olaf Swenson and captained by Capt. Weeding, has arrived here. The Nanuk went as far north as Cape Berge. Capt. .Weedlng reported that two Russians crossed Bering Strait last winter from East Cape to the Little Diomedes Island, in American territory. This is the first time that white men ever crossed Bering Strait, as Coast, was built in Los Angeles a year ago. 1t’ is almost entirely | constructed of submarine steel and is powered -with a 175-h.p. Hall-| Scott gasoline auxiliary engine. When cruising on open water chel jcraft uses only sails. There are accommodations for twenty on the |vessel, which requires 2 crew of seven. Strait; 2 far as known. Only a few Eski- mos have ever made the journey which is doubly hazardous because of moving ice floes and open water. Ice sometimes piles up as high as 40 or 50 feet. The Russians said they were afraid they would be killed if they remained in Siberia so thought they had more chance with the ice than in Russia. All they desired was to get to American territory. | Lincoln Memorial. Hamilton’s lfke- ness adorns one side of the $10 bill and on the other side is the Treas- ury Building. “Old Hickory” blos- soms out on the $20 bill which bears on the reverse side the White House. These are the three denomina- tions received by the First National Bank. The other denominations are: Washington, $1; Jefferson $2; Grant $50; Pranklin $100; McKin- ley $500; Cleveland $1,000; Madi- son $5,000; and Chase $10,000. - — ....'.....'... TODAY’S STOCK . QUOTATIONS ° NEW YORK, July 9. — Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today at 6%, American Smelting 111, Am- erican Tobacco A 176, ‘American Tobacco B 177, Bethlehem Steel 115%, Continental Motors 15%, In- ternational Paper A 29%, Interna- |tional Paper B 17, Mathieson Al- kali 56%, Cudahy 53', Missouri 95, Standard Oil of California 72%, Stwart-Warnre 74%, Texas Corpor- ation 63, U. S. Steel 199%. silver star citations for service . He graduated from the Army In- fantry School in 1921 and from the Command and General Staff school in 1925. Just prior to being as- to the University of Kentucky at Lexington, as instructor in Military Science. While here yesterday Maj. Spaulding was the guest of Maj. Malcolm Elliott, President of the Alaska Road Commission. Attorney Hart, of Juneau, Now at Nome NOME, Alaska, July 9.—Pilot Noel Wien, of the Wien Alaska Airways, arrived from Fairbanks late yes- terday afternoon with Attorney J. H. Hart, of Juneau, who is going to take up the duties of United States District Attorney of the Second Division with headquarters here. e broker, is a Skagway passenger on the Admiral Rogers. signed to Alaska, he was nu.nched} sentative of the dairy interests. Six members of the Board have now been selected leaving only two more to be announced. President Hoover hopes to have the other two members named be- fore next Monday which time the Board holds its first meeting. Other members of the Board, so far selected and who have accept- ed, are Alexander H. Legge, of Chi- cago; Charles C. Teague, of Los Angeles, who is the first chairman; Carl Williams, of Oklahoma; James Costone of Kentucky, and C. B. Benman, of Missouri. —— - | KETCHIKA NMAN TO OPEN BUSINESS ON SEWARD ST. J. M. Van Tress arrived from Ketchikan on the Northwestern and is to open a shoe repair, gun and {ammunition shop on Seward Street |in the location formerly occupied by Nick Rokovich, about the first of next week. Mr. Van Tress was proprietor of a similar shop in the First City,| years. |they had carried Wood to their au- the plan was to black-jack Wood.F ER S “take him for a ride,” and kill him. | LI EEKS Wood had arranged with officers to submit to the blackjacking and had padded the inside of his hat to prevent injury. The alleged plotters were to be arrested nf[r-r‘! | | tomobile. When Wood came out of his of-| fize, however, he immediately open- ed fire on Hagerty, who was killed instantly. Thompson and Pierce PHOTOS BY 200-MILE SHOT By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE (A. P. Science Editor) ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 9.—| When Capt. A. W. Stevens, army photographer, sets out to break the 175-mile long distance photographic tances from which to Mt. Rainier are known accurately by geological measurements. In a photo of this mountain pre- viously taken at 175 miles, from an jaltitude of 17,000 feet, the peak | shows about one quarter of an inch. escaped amid a fusillade of bullets record this summer, he hopes t0|In the new effort Captain Stevens from. the officers’ weapons, .but were arrested in their homes the same night. Mrs, Wood was found at home in bed and arrested. take pictures actually below the horizoa. He believes that the bending of ‘light rays by refraction of the at-| ‘will attempt to get sufficiently far luway so that only a small fraction |of an inch sticks up. The camera used will be an army Mrs. Wood denied any intention |mosphere may enable the Cflmera:pa)rchud K-6, using an Eastman against her husband's life and dn-]to record scenes which have solid|500 mm. focal length lens, krypto- clared the visit to the real estate earth—due to curvature—between | cyanine hypersensitized film and a office involved only an attempt to obtain papers from Wood's office | safe, husband had informed her, would “ruin her.” Mrs. Wood spent four days in jail before obtaining her release on bond and soon afterward she them and the camera. This was revealed while he was tions. Captain Stevens plans to measure the extent to which light rays are refracted in long distance photography. Mt. Rainier possibly will be an Ired fiter. The film is supersensitive to the These papers, she sald her here making part of the prepara- jong rays of light in the red end (of the spectrum, and the red filter iassists in concentrating them. | These rays pierce haze better than shorter wave lengths, and have re- |corded photos of objects that to L. M. Carrigan, merchandise|Where he lived for about three prought about the arrest of her 'objective in this experiment. Pic- the eye seemed hidden behind fog. He plans to make his fu- husband and Holt on charges of tures can be attempted from points ‘ture home in Juneau. Captain Stevens hopes to take robbing & bank at Sturgis, mcn.‘zoo or more miles away, the dis-)pjctures at 200 miles or better.