The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 23, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMP NEWS ALL THE TIME” “ALL THE IRE VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5158. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1929, AMERICAN’S SOVIET TROOPS MAKE CAPTURE ON AMUR RIVER Wife and Daughter of Am-| erican Taken Prisoners in War Game WORLD REVOLUTION EVIDENCE SECURED | Chinese Authorities Re-| lease Information on Communist Plot PEKING, July 23.—Soviet troops | patroling the Amur River which skirts Northern Manchuria, have captured the Chinese steamer Ilan, | and taking as prisoners the wife and baby daughter of Roy Talbot, | American. | The Russians sent word to Tal-| bet, who is Deputy Commissioner | of the Chinese Maritime Customs at St. Taheiho, that his wife and baby were comfortable and being, treated kindly. i The Russians also captured a Dr. Charles H. Mayo (upper right), Chinese merchantman. Other reports said the Russians| have captured a Chinese river gun-| boat. MANCEESTER, England, July 23. —Two famous American surgeons, WORLD REVOLUTION \th_e Mayo brothers of Rochester, NEW YORK, July 23—The Kuo Minn., will be the recipients of Min News Agency publishes Shang- | Unique educational honors here hai dispatches saying that Nankjug Covoiiheitt’ Was pubi g, HPo-towelint M ing in installments, documents seiz- ! ed at the Russian Consulate Harbin. It is reported much material was burned while the raiders were held out by barred doors and that prep- arations for further burning was apparent after the entry of the Chinese into the Consulate. (PO depties B ths safho time. Among the papers seized was an| The degrees will be conferred alleged memorandum of “steps to!UPOn Dr. Charles H. Mayo and Dr. be taken towards a world revolu-| William J. Mayo when they visit tion by the Eastern Third Com- K Manchester in connection with the munist Internationale” and Lhese{c"“‘?’"}ce of the British Medical included expulsion of all foreign, @ssociation. Their reputations ex- capital from China and confisca-|tend throughout Europe. tion of all lands and property. €, cster unl | They are bracketed with Lord 0 pawson of Penn, the personal phy receive degrees of doctors of laws. As far as is known, it is the first time in English history that two A special occasion is being made |of 150 Guardsmen Take |which they will receive from tha Negro to Cell; Mob | Balcarres, chancellor of the univer- Violence Is Feared|sity. The threc will be the only EUFAULA, Alabama, July 23— time. A special train bringing Lester| Manchester university was found- Bouyer, negro slayer, and 150 Na-|ed in 1851 by John Owens, a Man- tional Guardsmen, called out by the chester merchant. It was origi- Governor on request of authori- nally known as Owens college. The ties, to protect the negro from mob charter of Victoria university was violence, arrived here from Mom';'gramed in 1880, and by a subse- gomery this forenoon. i quent charter became an independ- _The train was met at the sta-|ent university under the title of ton by an orderly crowd of lvsmfthe Victoria University of Man- persons. There were no disorders. chester. The Guardsmen surrounded Bouyer | enroute to the court house where| It 15 customary to nunor in this he was placed in a cell. No effort| Wy distinguished foreigners cr was made to disperse the crowd. |Prominent persons who visit Man- chester. The degree given is usual- 11y doctor of laws. Occasionally (science degrees are given to scien- | tists, as in the case of the late Dr. | Adolph Brodsky, and degrees of ‘Imuslc to musicians, but an honor- ‘ary degree in medicine never has Wealthy Auto Dealer Of Hollywood Killed In Crash of Airplane LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 23.— 'been given. Stephen S. Nearney, aged 39 yea.rs.! Other distinguished foreigners wealthy Hollywood auto dealer and |who have been honored include prominent clubman, and Elmer C.| Richard Willstatter, the German Brown, licensed pilot, were Kkilled |scientist, who received the degree and their airplane crashed at the of doctor of science, and Prof. J. Casa Loma Airport. Nerney was at‘G. Adami, who received the doctor the controls when the crash came. of laws degree. HURRICANE HAVOC CUTS PORTO RICO’S SUGAR PRODUCTION SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, July 23. —Final figures oh sugar production for the season now ending are ex- pected to show a crop reduction of more than 25 per cent for the whole island as a result of damage done to growing cane by the San ciaticn, probably will not exceed 550,000 tons. In addition to the reduction in the size of the grop the price so far has averaged about 70 cents a hundred pounds under that receiv- ed in 1928. Famous Mayo Brothérs To Get English Degrees the July 2¢ when honorary degrees arc Isiclan of the king of England, to| brothers will have received honor- | the conferring of the dcgrco\." | hands of the earl of Crawford and | honorary degrees bestowed at that | Manchester University (above) plans to confer LL. D, degrees on Lord Dawson of Penn (lower right), (and Dr, William J. Mayo (lower left). STEAMER AND ICEBERG ARE IN"COLLISION ‘Bri!ish Craft Badly Dam- aged on Patrolled At- lantic S. S. Lane WASHINGTON, July 23. — The 'first collision between a steamship 'and an iceberg in the Atlantic shipping lane since the Interna- |tional Ice Patrol was established |15 years ago, is reported today in a message to the Coast Guard headquarters. The British steamer Vimeira, bound from Glasgow, struck an ice- berg off the Grand Banks. None aboard the Vimeira were injured but the steering gear was | disabled and other damage caused. I The Vimeira is proceeding to |some port which is unknown and it is not known whether with or without assistance. The ice patrol was organized after the Titanic disaster. BIG SEIZURE LIQUOR MADE Twelve Boats Laden with Intoxicants Run Down —Detroit River DSTROIT, Mich., July 23.—The largest seizure ever made on the Detroit River is reported by the Customs Patrol. Twelve boats, laden with be- tween 700 and 800 cases of liquor were caught during the night. The boats consisted of two out- board motors, eight large rowboats and one canoe . Five of the men in charge of the shipment were arrested. Others dived into the river and escaped. Eugene O’Neill Takes Third Wife; Is Married In Paris to Divorcee NEW YORK, July 23.—Eugene O’'Neill, playwright, has been mar- ried in Paris, according to cable reports received here, to Carlotta Monery, actress. The couple has left for Tyrol on a honeymoon trip. BREMEN CUTS NINE HOURS OFF ATLANTIC TIME \ German Liner Makes Sen- | sational Cut in Trans- [ Ocean Time NEW YORK, Julj The giant | Atlantic liner Bremen, symbolic of Germany's bid for her maritime | prestige, came into port yesterday |evening on her maiden voyage, beating the Cunard liner Maura~ tania’s world record time of five { de two hours and thirty-four minutes from Cherebourgh to Am- brose Light in Lower New York Bay by eight hours and fifty-two minutes. This is the most sensa- tional reduction of trans-Atlantic stcaming time that has been made in many decades. | But few vessels have attracted so much attention upon arrival at this place as that which grected the great German passenger ship. She received a deafening welcome | from land, sea and sky. { A mail planc was catapulted from |the ship’s deck when off Fire Is- land landed the mail in New York five hours before the Bremen | docked. Under the able command of Capt. i Leopold Ziengenbein, the arrival of |the Bremen marks a great event, not only for the North German | Lloyd, but for trans-Atlantic steam | {ship service generally, for the new | {8 p and her sister ship Europ ;u ich-will be put into service ear Jnc:(( year, have created unusual at- |tention on both sides of the At- |lantic, even since the fact was made known that these ships would offer the traveling public the very best and most modern accommodations in ocean travel as well-as speed. 938 Feet Long With a length of 938 feet and |98 feet wide, of 50,000 tons, the |Bremen is a masterpiece for con- | venience and comfort. Never before {has a single passenger ship ever boasted of such a wide diversity {of conveniences. To classify the Bremen, it w necessary for the North Atlantic Conference to cre- late a new rating, for the highesti previous rating ever given a ship |was Class 1. The Bremen was ac- |cordingly rated Class A, as was { her er ship the Europa, on ac-1 ,count of their speed, size and gen- jeral luxury. These are the first ships to be given this high rating. | The sailing of the Bremen was heralded for many months, and her arrival here July 22 was anticipated with genuine interest. She repre- | |sents a new class, a super-de-luxe | itype of ship entirely revolutionary |in design. It is sigrificant that the iBrL-mcn has attracted the atten- tion of the world's greatest marine architects and designers as well, ‘for the reason that she sets a new |Standard in design and construc- tion, being a departure from the !age-o]d customs and practices, as iwell as incorporating new and radi- |cal improvements which make for |greater speed and safety. | Christened by Hindenberg | The Bremen was launched last August in Bremen, Germany, and was christened by President Von| |Hindenberg, with great pride and ceremony. In general appearance: the Bremen looks like a huge cut- .ter, with severe, straight lines. Every ;line in the ship is indicative of her great speed. Her lines attest to |that. During her trial trip in the North Sea, when the ship was fur-! mally turned over to the company,| she attained a speed of 28.5 knots, which was in excess of her rated i speed. i Everything has been done to cut| down head resistence above and | below the water line, even though, {as before stated, time-honored tra- \ditions in ship design had to be' {discarded. One of the outstand- !ing features of the ship is the \shape of her bow and stern, which |are designed to press the water |down instead of to each side, and to minimumize the friction of the 'SHIPS COLLIDE Felipe hurricane of last September. One central which has already fin- ished its grinding showed a re- duction of 65 per cent from last year. In money the decrease-will run into many millions of dollars. Last year's sugar harvest exceed- ed 750,000 short tons, while the present crop, according to an esti- mate of the Sugar Producers Asso- Immediately after the hurricane estimates of sugar cane loss were |fixed at 30 per cent. By the time the harvest started in January the estimates were reduced to 20 per cent, based chiefly on favorable weather from September on. But nearer 25 per cent loss. Mrs. Agnes O'Neill, the phy_‘wnter on the sides of the vessel. s " i It was explained that this will :r:i;‘klx;;ese‘gor;nv;u;‘h;n;y ohtalned‘causc the water to flow by the . Pari ! shortest route from bow to stern, e B e . arls Toriand it also was claimed that this | sometime. He recently recovere - g |feature helps to stabilize the mo-' from a serious illness. O'Neill's third bride is the former |tion of the ship, thereby greatly| tThe driver of one truck that was 17 % Capt. Cha LONDON, July —Capt. Charles Kingsford-Smith has ambitions. Not satisfied with the fame gair ed in his 7,800-mile flight from Oakland, C ney, Australia, a ye: recently in his 12,000-mile journey | from Australia to England, the | Australian airman is making pre- parations for a’ projected trans-At- lantic flight from England to the United States. He did not wait to complete his | Australia-to-England venture to an- | nounce his proposed westward | trans-Atlantic flight, but told news- papermen in Rome, where he stop- ped en route from Sydney to Lon- don, that he had decided upon the England to America journey. Immediately following his ar- rival in London, mechanics were called to overhaul the motors of the historic Southern Cross, while Captain Kingsford-Smith and Capt trans-Pacific | tion, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AUSTRALIAN ACE TURNS HOPES TOW ARD ENGLAND-AMERICA HOP Ve rles Kingsford-Smith (center) and Capt. Charles T. P. Ulm (lower vight) are delib whether to fly to the United States by way of Spair, Senegal and South America, or whether to try a) Horthern route. The Sodthern Cross is the plane-with which they have won fame. feasible route for their newest ad venture, Two routes are under considera- The most likely—the south- ern route—calls for a takeoff from the mainland from Dakar, Sene- gal, after a flight from England with a stop in Spain. This would call for an ocean hop to South America and the northward jour ney to the United States by ea: stages. While the three motored South- ern Cross being overhauled me- chanics w determine whether the monoplane’s weight may be les- sened to enable it to take off with sufficient fuel for at least 45 hours If this can be accom- pl the Australian flyer may decide upon a non-stop flight from Croydon to New York. Captain Kingsford Smith and Captain Ulm first demonstrated their capabilities as long distance fliers in 1928 when they blazed the Charles T. P. Ulm, his navigator, began their search for the most | Thick IN FOG: 62 DIE SHANGHAI, July 23.—Sixty-two Chinese passengers of the Chinese steamer Shinghong were drowned last Sunday when the ship collided with the steamer Tatsno Maru during a fog. The Shinghong sank in 20 min- utes. Forty-two passengers were picked up by the Tatsno Maru which was bound for Kobe. Fog hindered the rescue work Border Patrolmen Clash with Liquor Runners; 2 Killed EL PASO, Texas, July —Offi- cials are searching for the bodies of two Mexican rum runners shot last night in a fight between four border patrolmen and a band of more than 20 rum runners on the Rio Grande. Three runners were seriously in- jured. Five of the band were cap- tured, and two trucks and 150 gal- lons of whiskey were seized and confiscated. None of the border patrolmen| were hurt. .§uggésts Reform fbr ; the final figure is expected to be|whom wife of Ralph Barton, illustrator,reducing rolling and pitching in captured, confessed to his part in she divorced three years heavy seas. |the activities and implicated others age. (Continued on Page Seven) 1imiuding the supposed ringleader M first air trail across the Pacific in the Southern Cross. Turkish Ankles STAMBOUL, Turkey, July 23.— Among the reforms which remain for the Turkish government to un- dertake, the semi-official press of Stamboul cites the ankles of Turk- ish women. In a serious editoriar a writer for one of the leading dailies points out that the Turkish woman, so satis- factorily “new” in other respects, retains the unwieldy ankles of the old type of Turkish belle when beauty was measured in pounds instead of by lack of inches. ‘He urged a government taboo on high heels and that the rough cob- ble-stones which form Stamboul E alks be smoothed, considering that these factors instead of racial traits were responsible for the un- aesthetic ankle displayed by ninety per cent of the short-skirted women — e, Graf Zeppelin to Land at L. A. On World Flight - The Tourist . BERLIN, July 23. e Hamburg - American e Bureau announced today e ihat Los Angeles, instead e of San Diego, has been se- ® lected as the Western Am- e crican port for the Graf ® Zeppelin's round the world e trip scheduled for early in ¢ the autumn. Sixteen paying ® passengers have already ® been listed for the flight. . . erating They took off from Oakland May 31 and landed at Sydney June 10. They covered 7,800 miles in less than 89 flying hours. Stops were made in Honolulu, Suva, Fiji Is- lands and Brisbane, Australia. They were a mpanied by two Ameri- cans, Capt. Harry Lyon and James Warren. Their first attempt to fly from Sydney to London in March, ended when the Southern Cross was forced down in the wilds of northern Aus- tralia. The four members of the plane’s cre which included two Ameri- cans, Harold A. Litchfield, naviga- tor, and Thomas H. McWillial racdio operator, were lost for a fort- night, until they were rescued by another plane. Two men had lost their lives in the search. The Southern Cross was repaired jand took off flom Sydney June 25 on the second and successful at- tempt. The 12,000-mile flight to {London was completed July 10. ‘SPEED BOATS - INCOLLISION One Man Drowned, Onc: Missing, kighteen Es- cape by Swimming CHICAGO, July 23.—Two speed boats carrying passengers collided headon in Lake Michigan today. One man was drowned, another| missing and 18 swam ashore or floundered about until rescued by nearby craft. Leo Suessking, of Yonkers, N. Y., ! was drowned and David Cohen, of Chicago is missing. The lake is being dragged for the body. Several passengers were injured. Both boats were traveling at a speed of about 40 miles an hour and they sank at once. Joyce Hawley, the “champagne theatre party, was prominent in the rescue, saving two persons. The speed boats were engaged in the taxi service. The masters be- came confused at signals and start- ed weaving back and forth in an effort to avoid a crash and finally bath” girl in Earl Carrcll's after-! MANY TRAGEDIES IN EUROPE; HEAT IS EXHAUSTING Drownings Reported from Various Sections—Peo- ple Are Sweltering MAN KILLS FIVE AND THEN HIMSELF Drought Causing Concern | Among Countries—No Relief Is in Sight LONDON, July 23.—All Europe 1s sweltering today in a heat wave ‘ywhlch extended from Moscow to Rome and from the Eastern Bal- kans to the British Isles. Relief is not seen and the ac- companying drought has brought concern. Temperature of 95 degrees is re- corded in Germany. Thousands are practically fleeing from the cities to the mountains or rushing to watering resorts. Many casualties from drowning have been reported. France endured a temperature of 90 degrees. Crazed with the heat, Gwetan Boux shot and killed his wife, two daughters, two sons and then him- self. The six bodies were discov- ered by a servant who promptly | fainted. Along the Danube the heat is |described as ‘xhausting and swelt- ering. Scores have been drowned in the river while attempting to seek relief from the heat. TWO MILLION " DOLLAR SUIT AGAINST FORD Infringement of Patent Is Alleged by Inventor of Flordia TAMPA, Floriae, July 23.—At- itorneys for Fred Furen, inventor of St. Petersburg, have filed a damage suit for $2,000,000 for royal- ties against the Ford Motor Com- pany charging infringement of pa- tent rights. The suit contends that the plac- |ing of gasoline tanks within the body of the car with an inlet on the outside, is used in about 1,- 750,000 later models and infringed on the basis of the patent issued to Furen in December, 1924. i S | {One Yacht Continues In Race for Speed, Mississippi River | NATCHEZ, Miss., July 23.—The .vacht Martha Jane, missing in the Mississippi river boat race from |New Orleans to St. Louis, arrived |here during the night after a har- {rowing experience with motor trouble. George Cox, owner, an- nounced he had abandomed the [racc with the Bogie, seeking ta break the steamship record. While the search was going on {for the Martha Jane, she was tied up seven hours, with both motors dead, above Baton Rouge in a | wilderness expanse of the river. |Finally repairs were made suffi- jclent to bring the craft to this port. Dr. Louis Leroy, in the Bogie, is nearing Memphis trying to set /& new river record. |Former President I Of Mexico Going to | Europe for Health collided. S e VISITING GRANDPARENTS SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 23.— Bound for Europe in search of !health, Elias Calles, former Presi- Miss Leeta Bowen and Master |dent of Mexico, passed through here Egbert Bowen arrived in Juneau today. He declined to make any on the Admiral Rogers and willlgther statement than that he was spend the rest of the summer with | proceeding to Paris as soon as pos- their grandparents, Mr. and Ml'&“siblc and was returning when phy- Egbert Loomis, |sicians permitted him. | SCORES DROWN ATTEMPTING ESCAPE FROM HEAT WIFE IS TAKEN PRISONER