The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 29, 1929, Page 1

v, e i ; s e — = THE:DAHX"ALASKAflEMPHHE | “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XXXIV., NO. 5163 MLMBER OF AS%CIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BROMLEY CRASHES AT TAKE-OFF FOR OCEAN FLIGHT GREAT STRIKE IN ENGLAND IS STARTEDTODAY Beitili Catton iy Faced with Probably Worst Time, History 500 THOUSAND WORKERS STRIKING About Fifteen Hundred Mills Are Affected— Wage Cut Refused MANCHESTER, England, July 29. —One of the biggest stoppages in i the industrial world since the gen- eral strike in 1926, is the greatest tie-up in the cotton industry for a decade, which began at Lan- cashire. Approximately 500,000 hands are idle in some 1500 mills scattered over a wide territory but ; centering in this city. Workers remained away from the factories today rather than accept the wage cut of 13% per cent. The heart of the British cotton industry is faced with probably the worst labor time in its long and frequently troubled history. 19 PASSENGERS ABOARD YUKON = FOR THIS PORT SEATTLE, July 2¢.—Steamer Yu-| kon sailed at 9 o'clock Sundqy} morning for Alaska port§ with 179 first class passengers and 19 steer- age. The following aboard for Juneau: Harry Cills, J. H. Lewis, Mrs. J.| Harding, J. J. Hague, J. Barnard, | M. Barnard and wife, Mrs. Ella Wage, S. S. Smith, F. H. McGill, L. Weish, Miss Ruth Coffin, A passengers are | 1 Olson, Miss H. M. Egbert, Mrs. F. Newyman, W. R. Davidson, B. F Leaming, William Garster, and one steerage. Brazil Surprised as Pistol Toting Grows! RIO JANEIRO, July 29.—Recent reports from Washington that Bra- zil bought more firearms in the United States than any other coun- | try in the early weeks of the year! has caused surprise here. Carrying| revolvers or other concealed weap- | .| Takamatsu, the {the last Shogun, met for the {the Empress Dowager Sadako, ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 29.—Dale flying their Curtiss-Robertson the 400-hour mark aloft. At had completed 386 hour: made in 5 § “8st. NEARING 400-HOUR MARK IN AIR “Red” Jackson and Forrest Obrine Louis Robin” plane nearing o'clock this morning the two flie) h ceeded the record recent urs. TO WED PARENTS’ C H()ICL! TOKYO, July 2i.—»arriage still a matter of parental arrange- ment in imperial circ in Japar It is true that Prince Lhwhxbu the Emperor's younger brother, met and admired the former Su<uku Matsudaira before she was finally ected to be his bride, but it otherwise in the case of P'mr‘c next younger im-| perial brother. It wi nearly two months after their formal othal that Takamatsu and Prince tn Tokugawa, granddaughter first time. This took place in the palace of the prince’s mother, who invited the young couple and the mother of |the bride-to-be to tea. This was served in the simple Japanese room with sliding paper doors and floor | SE PRI s Kil u- | of CE MAID O “1,100 PRISON INMATES STAGE - SABBATH RIOT [Use Pistols, Rlfl(}a and Fire in Effort to Escape Sunday Night AUBURN, N. ¥, iluwmg; the example 29.—Fol- by fellow culy set | Dannemore inmates of the Auburn State prison staged a riot last night, battling for more than five hours, using rifles, | i | | convicts at the Clinton Prison at| ast Monday, over 1,700 | Briand Retains Cabinet of |Poincare PARIS, July 29.—New Pre- ; mier Briand retains intact e! the Cabinet of Poincare ex- cept that Poincare will not be included. Briand will hold the office of Premier and Port Folio of Foreign Affairs. President Doumergue has concurred in the decision. . . .I PRESIDENT IN CONFERENCE ON ARMY EXPENSES Helds Weck-end Discussion| with High Officials, War Department E | | | { WASHINGTON, July 29.—Presi- dent Hoover returned late last night ! [from the Virginia fishing preserve where he conferred over the week- end with high officials of the War | Department on a program for re- duction in the cost of the main- tenance of the Army. Considerable time was devoted to a general survey of the entire Army situation and personnel of a Com- mission of Army oficers who will {be appointed to investigate all mili- | {tary activities with a view of ex-| penditure reduction. For the first time since the Presi- dent has made trips to camp, two women wvere in the party. {Radio Firm’s Stock Baffles Chicagoans United CHICAGO, July 29. States Radio and Television, with its market eyes scarcely open, rode up with last nt igh market, and dropped back as sud- denly this summer. La Sulic Street wonders why. U. S. Radio and Television was listed last December when it sold at 24%;. It doubled over night and iby February had skyrocketed to 141. In June it bit bottom at 22. The company was composed of the Case Electric Corporation, the Apex Manufacturing Company and the Radio Allied Manufacturers Corporation. At the time of the lowest ebb, the company said it had orders for $6,000,000 of radio equipment. The Chicago financial district at- tributca the slump, in part, to the| |sale of large blocks of stock which |had been held in escrow by brokers. | I Line, BUUNTRY GASPS AS HEAT KEEPS : ON INGREASING Wlde Sections Report Tem-| peratures Near the One Hundred Mark '['HREE MILLION OUT TO BEACHES IN N. Y. Twenty Deaths Are Re- ported at Detroit and Vicinity, Drownings NEW VORI\ July 29.—The coun- try at large is gas ¢ today under a heat wave. In wrmus sections | temperatures approached the cen- tury mark, the highest being 98 degrees which is reported from quch widespread points as Albany, | Baltimore, Phocnix, St. Louis and ‘Washington. ‘The mercury stood at 92 degrees in Montreal, Boston, Cleveland, Cincinati, Detroit, Philadelphia, San Antonio and Portland, Ore. In New York City, some 3,000,000 deserted the city jamming the beaches on Sunday and continuing today. Highways yesterday were jammed from early dawn until late at night. HOPE FOR RELIEF CHICAGO, July 29. — The Mic ‘West waited hopefully today for | relief promised by the Government | weather forecasters, from the torrid temperatures of the last few days. Fifteen deaths from swimming were reported in Illinois and Wis- consin. Six deaths, due to automobile ac-| cidents, are also reported. TWENTY LIVES LOST DETROIT, Mich., July 29.—Twen- ty persons lost their lives by | drowning in Michigan and ncaxby points over the week end as they sought relief from the heat in lukes and rivers. .- BREMEN PASSES FRENCH STEAMER NEW YORK, July 29.—The liner Bremen has made another peaceful conquest. A radio message to the Associated Press said the Bremen at noon today had passed the Ile de France, flagship of the French which left port here six hours earlier than the Bremen. e, — City Marking Urged ATTEMPTED FLIGHT ENDS IN DIS TER ally built low Mnged monoplane “City of Tacoma” 3 wrecked early yesterday morning in a take-off from Tacoma for Tokyc mnd Harold Eromley (inset) was badly injured. HOOVER MOVE TO AID CHILD HEALTH FULFILLS PLEDGE T0 HELP HOMES WASHINGTON, July 29.—Near Willi 7 : the humble little house where he 7 ULIAMS @Il was born in West Branch, Towa, Yancey Return Herbert Hoover publicly, pledged his services last August to the 23,- Aftcr Ocean lllfl’” NEW YORK, July 20— 000,000 homes in America. | Rogers Williams and Lewis That morning the presidential candidate had visited the old swim- ming hole which had helped lay | ® Yancey, transatlantic fliers, e the foundation for his own rugged | ® Who recently made the flight health. |® from Old Orchard, Maine, ®| Now, 85 chier executive, he pro-| e to Rome, arrived aboard the e i wAt HeaMb, upbuilding pro- 3 Republic yesterday with their e 0 B ane r ted ° ;ram for the children of the United | ]')h'i'];-.(lw::hthvem:icccrl: efl‘f, :’;‘g - States. As & preliminary he has ;i‘“e ‘D il flie Tacl HEGE invited some of the most promi-|o <ot DeRE T HAE TR K ANS S nent child welfare and health sl Py }x:ousing Welcoms ft‘nd 'Y perts of the country to serve on a Al ” " committee which will lay thelg ok greotag Wy (CIE. 900 : ground work for a White House o “°° # conference to be held sometime o s U R Eh 4 e R within a year. The committee probably will as- semble here late in the summer or | early fall Dr. Ray Lyman Wil-| bur, secretary of the interior, will | direct the work of the cou!m’cncc. |Dr. Harry E. Barnard, formerly | Istate health commissioner of In-| diana, will be executive secretary. Those invited to serve on the committee include Dr. 8. J. Crum- bine, director of the American Child Health ass ation of which President Hoover is president; Sur- geon Gen. Hugh S. Cumming of the United States Public Health serv- ce; Miss Grace Abbott, director of the Children’s bureau; William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor; Dr. Lee K.| Prankel of the Metropolitan Life| MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, July 2. Insurance company; Henry Breck- |—The endurance monoplanc Min- | inridge; Mrs. Lewis F. Slade of nesota crashed at the airport here New York, Dr. William F. Snow of | today Killing Capt. Crighton and the National Health association; Perhaps fatally injuring co-pilot Mrs. Raymond Robins, noted social | Haugland. # worker; Baily Burritt of New York, | The fliers were in their seventh and Dr. W. F. King. day in the air and had passed 154 | “The conference will be second of IS aloft. ONE ENDURANGE - PLANE CRASHES AVIATOR KILLED Copilot Taken from Plane i Unconscious—In Air for Scven Days ,and looped after TACOMA-TOKYO FLIGHT COMES T0 QUICK END Plane City_orTacoma Is Wrecked but Flier ’s Not Injured AVIATOR PLANNING ANOTHER ATTEMPT Monoplane Races Down Oiled Runway, Hits Ground, then Loops TACOMA, Wash,, July 29.—Har- old Bromley was only slightly hurt when his plane City of Tacoma crashed while racing down the runway at 6:06 o'clock Sunday morning. Bromley was rushed to a Tacoma Hospital. The right wing of the plane was smashed when the plane grounded it .ran off the runway 150 feet from the starting point. Bromley's attempt for a Tacoma 'to Tokyo flight ended disastrously. ‘The plane is wrecked but undaunt- ed, Bromley is going ahead with plans for a second attempt within 60 days. The monoplane City of Tacoma ,whirled into the ground and looped after Bromley had been blinded by gas issuing from vents in the | tanks, Veers Sharply The orange colored plane had (gone less than 150 feet down the joiled runway when it veered sharp- ;ly into the dirt. The left tire was (forn off and the right wheel and 'landing gear was demolished. The nght wing stuck its nose into the Exwm wade an examination and stated that the giant motor is not seriously damaged. 0il Spray in Eyes Gasoline sprayed back from the vents in the tanks over the wind- shield. Bromley stuck his head outside and his goggles became clouded Jerking off his goggles, t spray in his eyes, blinding him and causing him to lose con- trol of the ship. Twenty thousand witnessed the attempted take-off. - e e —— THREE MURDERS PROVE MYSTERY |Coroner’s jury Returns Verdict in One Case as + " A | o . . ] J 5 . M | ons in this country is forbnddenw‘)f matting. | pistols and fire in a desperate “'!Brzml Studies Cause | By flymg Governor |its kind. Twenty years ago, in éh"',ltf’“'" ‘n‘n((ltcamc au:lde;fl{‘ d Result of Pmson | but in many sections the law is not| The meeting lasted an hour and|fot to cscape. % . ! 1909 Theodore Roosevelt calied aly b 0% W G0 K00 e ud enforced. a half and at the parting the im-| pwo convicts were killed and 0f Business Fm.lures» MADISO 3 Iy 20—Lost|child welfare meeting, and out of e endeavored to regain altitude; ooy JTo0 rwe cudden % P i Afider ' h trict! perial hostess gave each of the| s ¢ > 5 | N, Wis, July ~—Losf i 5 ) Y ‘ .. |after he had swoped low over the = n Pernaml s strict| {four guards were shot, one guard {in th air above his own State re-|this grew the present Children's airport to drop a note saying al1 | deaths of three members of a Croy: 3 enforcement and the State police couple presents of sea-bream, hali- iously. RIO DE JANEIRO, July 29.—An| cently, Governor Kohler, flying en- | bureau, created in 1912, Ik i don family, which for months has seize arms carried illegally. Therejbut and lobster, from time imme-| gour convicts are reported to have|increase in business failures and ! sinst, has {ssued a plea for ade-! In 1919 an international confer- | i'uuul)iul)d was sleeping on an|cPSaged the closest attention of was a dumping at sea of such con-|morial, the ceremonial gifts of con-{ s..pneq “friendly liquidations” has stirred! ne bild health standards ' i e the police authorities, developed 4 g | 4 ” scape % ,quate marking of towns and cities)ence on ¢ heal standards jmprovised bed atop of the gasoline | fiscated revolvers to the numl?er‘glatulalxolls on a betrothal in high| ppe fire loss is $250,000. agitation in the press for more'y, guide pilots. {was held here as a result of the tank in the fusilage and was lifted into a full-fledged murder mystery 1 of 7283 by the Pernambuco police circles. Only a mere handful of guards,|liberal credits to be extended by | .1y s very important to have|war. Representatives of all the al- |ynconscious from the plane. iwith a verdict of murder by poison rccgmly. .'Ihe selzur-t:ls covered a| The marriage is to be celchz\Lcd‘“O thirds of the staff being off {banks, especially the Bank of Bra-'g,ne identification visible from the |lied countries attended. Prominent | Crighton was dead when the “r_|remmcd by the coroner’s jury. | peicdiof several manths in the spring of 1930. duty because it was Sunday, beat-'zil |air,” the Governor said. “This ap-|among them were Sir Arthur wa.d|port crew reached the plane a few( 1he Jury found that Miss Verna < T N C R i ST |back the first attack of the riot-| Business men believe the strin-'plics even to those communities re- |Lady Newsholme of England. minutes after it fell, Disney, one of Ahe SURES Qi Eight vacation camps for farm| Rune stones dug up at Lund,| .. They were then reinforced |gency in ready money is caused by moved from present air routgs, for — | Obscrvers said the plane appar- |10 the same family, whose death womeh a‘rc to be conducted in Ver-:Sweden, puzzled archeologi: uuulwm guards hastily recalled and by |the present plan of stabilization. |a great deal of flying today does lently lost too much speed by;w” connected with a mysterious fhany gty vear. it was found they were a hoax. |giote Troop The rioters were| Under this arrangement, it is not follow the beaten path.” |dropping low over the airport, |cose: died limm poison administered g T |a yelling, surging mob. estimated a third of the total mon-{ Governor Kohler said his pilot l - -ro hys:;;lc‘:;‘:";?cup;:fi:m “m GOES TO ATTEND FED. FARM BOARD |miaucts. Al i tion j tion ot the_bodies. . Im‘d night. zil. y A A request has been received at - e S (lhe Governor's office for informa-| A pit 175 feet deep provides NORTHFIELD, Minn., July v219,_ my place is right here at Sp"‘“g'Engllsh Compulsory I aaeeeaseaas R |tion concerning Fred Dehner. He|thrills for deep sea fishing for resi- | While her husband goes to Wash- | Brook farm,” Mrs. Schilling said. F Boh Y ll BELGRADE, Jugoslavla July 29. has been a resident of Alaska for|dents of Sharon Springs, Kansas. ington to assist in working out the | “The boys are doing wonderfully or emian Yout] How Hoover Selected His Cabinet —Three Communists were shot and' & number of years. He would be |Scientists disagree on the cause program contemplated in the Con-| gressional Farm Bill, Mrs. William | F. Schilling will stay as manager of their Spring Brook farm, a 320- acre tract near here. I Schilling is the dairy industry's representative on the board. He is well’ known as a breeder of Hol- stein cattle. Mrs. Schilling often has super- vised the farm with its herd of more than 100 cattle, as her hus- band frequently has been away in the interests of the Twin City Milk Producers’ association of St. Paul, the largest dairying cooperative or- ganization, and he has been in demand as a speaker at farmers’ gatherings. But this time she will be in con- trol as Schilling intends to devote all his energies to the farm situa- tion. | William F., Schilling jr., 20, wmi be his mother's chief aid. Then | there is Lewis, who attends St. Olaf college here, and Joel, in high school, and three unmarried daugh- ters. Two daughters are married. “My first duty is my home and well, but they are not quite ready to take over the complete manage- ment of this half-section. “Of course I'm pleased and proud of the confidence in Mr. Schilling expressed by President Hoover in the appointment” Mrs. Schilling went on, dropping her household duties for a few minutes. “Mr. Schilling has made betterment of agricuiture his life work and this new responsibility will offer him a| roader field of service. “At the same time it will mean| a sacrifice for him and his family {for he will have to give his full; time to his duties on the farm |board and will have less for his| family and his private farming in- terests. “But that seems to be the nature- of public service in which there is| an element of duty to be perform- ed. Our family loves the farm. If Mr. Schilling's service in Wash- ington means that he will be able to make a further contribution to the betterment of agricultural life in our country, his wife and sons and daughters are happy and proud that he is able to give it.” English will be compulsory in all | Czecho-Slovak schools affer Sep- tember 1. The only language which |quired to learn was German, one- third of Czecho-Slovak’s population being of Saxon origin. In order that adults may also acquire some knowledge of Eng- lish, evening courses will be given {in club .houses and schools and English lessons are broadcast over week, The State and public li- ‘brnnes lend books in English at |a nominal fee of a few cents a | month. An English weekly magazine is 1pub1xshed in Prague and a news- paper will soon be started for the | benefit of thousands of English and |American tourists who visit Czecho- |’ Slovakia's spas. WHITE'S UNCI COMING Harry Cills, uncle of United States Marshal Albert White, left Seattle Sunday aboard the Yukon for Juneau for a. visit, PRAGUE, July 29.—Teaching of' |students hitherto have been re-) Ithe State Radios three times a| Did you know— / were strangers to him at them for appoinment? only once and that thm | tion opponent ? pointments and had to d These and many other the appointment of the | The Associated Press W, covered his campaign for news from the White H crrrrrrrrrrrrrers by [ JAMES L. WEST Three members of the President’s Cabinet the time he considered That Hoover had met another of his selections man was a pre-conven- That he made only two strictly political ap- raft one of the men? interesting facts about men who now counsel | with the President are told by James L. West, hite House Correspond- ent, who has known Hcover for many years, to South America and now brings you the daily the Presidency, his trip ouse, in a series of six { articles, the first of which appears tomorrow. THE EMPIRE killed in 2 fight with the police about ‘chnty years old if hvinL: after barricading themselves in a o house where they fired on the of-! ficers. One of the Communists had been implicated in the 1921 assas-, sination of the Minister of Inter-| |lor, following which 600 Commun-| ists were arrested. | - ee—— ! | | |Twenty-nine Persons Are Poisoned, Chicago HONOLULU, July 29.—The navy ransport Chaumont is on the Pa- persons, who ate coffee and cake bureau and meterological survey sold by a North Side bakery, are station. Recently she was in port suffering from food poisoning. Six here en route to Guam and Ma- victims are reported in a serious nila and Lieuteant H. T. Kincaid, condition and it is feared one may|navigation officer, told of the work die. until the health authorities com-!weather bureau in Washington. plete an investigaticn. aboard the vessel from information Miss Leota Fiory and Miss Ruth|gathered by radio from San Fran- Kunz, Columbus, Ohio, sister and cisco, Japan, China, Manila, Apia cousin of Charles H. Flory, Com- and Pinope, as well as reperts from | missioner of the Department of vessels at sea. From all these Agriculture, arrived today on the data Lieutenant Kincaid compiles steamer Alameda for a two-weeks’'!a weather map for the entire Pa- visit with Mr. and Mrs. Flory. xvmc. The findings of ‘the Chau- CHICAGO, July gg__—rwemy_nine‘cmc Ocean as a moblle weather ' The police closed the shop/he is doing in cooperation with the | Daily weather maps are plotted | of Lhc phenomenon NAVY HAS MOBILE WEATHER BUREAU ON PACIFIC OCEAN mont are then radioed to the San Francisco weather bureau to fore- cast. The work covers three important phases of weather and its relation to shipping and airplane travel. “First of all,” said Lieuteant Kincaid, “we are making studies to determine what value to ship- ping selected ships forecasts, sup- plementing the major forecasts of the weather bureau might be. From experimental work on the Chau- mont, I am convinced that it would | prove a great benefit to shipping {if certain vessels such as this one. were designated to make forecasts at regular intervals. (Continued on Page Eight)