The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 13, 1929, Page 1

Lttt it s N AN L THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XX)\IV NO 5176 ]UNLAU ALASKA, TUESDAY AU(,UST 13 9 9 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT S TWO WOMEN BEATEN AND SLASHED CRISIS AT THE HAGUE MEETING IS STAVED OFF Session of Finance Com- mittee at Conference Postponed Two Days THE HAGUE, Aug. 13.—Skirting the crisis which has deadlocked the proceedings of the conference to make the Young plan effective, the dclegates decided to postpone meet- ings of the Finance Committee un- til Wednesday, in the meantime taking Rhineland evacuation problem. Chancellor of the British Exchec- quer Phillip Snowden, who preclpx—‘ tated the near crisis when he ob-' jected to a reduction of the British ' share in reparation funds, himself called for the adjournment of the | Finance Committee. No date is contemplated for the Rhineland evacuation as military problems relative to transportation of troops and other matters are numerous. e —— up the discussion of the! and J. Colgan Morgan host to the convention (right) | ‘V LOUISVILLE, Ky. Aug. corporation to spend money instead /of making it has been organized by (the Louisville Legionnaires making i | vcterans cxpected to annual convention of the American . Legion September 30. And although GRAF ZEPPELIN START DELAYED Airship Expeclcd to Be Off Thursday on Next Leg of World Flight FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Aug. 13.— Dr. Otto Eckener, after meeting of- | ficers of his company, decided to postpone the start' of the flight of the Graf Zeppelin until Thurs- day. V(eat.her reports indicated a low pressure- area over Russia and ipresident and Reau Kemp, director, |are finding it ditficult to get rid of a great deal of it, they claim wlhr‘n goal of $100,000 or more hos- ptnlnu expenditures will have been rm(‘hed by the time Legionnaires gather for their annual reunion. ‘ One of the biggest d ons of {the convention corporation is ‘charg,od with providing lodging for |Lhc war veterans. This, say its !officers, already has been achieved with the cooperation of every |Louisville hotel. ~The hotels have lagreed not to raise rates. The corporation has arranged for {the visitors to attend horse races Nat Churchill Downs, excursions to i3—A| plans to entertain the 100,000 war | § attend the | # Frank D. Rash, | thoving eastward.*'With & day’s de-|Mammothi” Cave, Daniel Boone's{* lay, Dr. Eckener might be able tolgrave and many other historical choose the great circle route on|gjtes; and to see to Louisville’s river the secofid leg of his flight around |pride, called “the greatest collection the world, with Tokyo as the first ;¢ river steamboats in modern stop. The Russian Government is re- ported to be doing all in its power to make the Graf flight successful. MISSING FLIER REPORTED FOUND TORONTO, Auz. 13.—A message telling of the finding of “Duke” Schiller and his missing compan- ions was received here late yester- day by Jack Hammer, President of the Northern Aerial Exploration Company which employed Schiller. The message was sent by T. M. Reid, one of the fliers engaged in the search and said all were safe at Wager Inlet, on the shores of Hudson Bay. False Alarm of Fire Results In Two Deaths WINNIPEG, Aug. 13.—Two fire- men were killed and two injured last night when a truck overturned responding to a false alarm. The, dead are Fred Doubling, driver of ' the truck, and Alex Morrison. Chief James Dickson and Duncan Dure were injured. | times.” The convention will open in Jef- {ferson county armory, which has la seating capacity of 10,000. Later 000 memorial auditorium, Louis- ville’s tribute to her service men. For one feature event—the concert of a 1,000 piece band under the di- \rection of Ceasar La Monoca, him- self a Legionnaire. The University of Louisville campus will be the | setting. Commerce to Interest { Lake Harbors Meeting DULUTH, Minn, Aug. 13.—The iphysical development of Great | Lakes ports and the administration land operation as well as the gen- eral promotion of lake commerce (will feature discussions at the eighth convention of the Great { Lakes Harbor association in Duluth, August 15, 16, and 17. Two hundred delegates will be appointed by mayors of cities, and {governors of states on the lakes. The speakers include Senator {Henry J. Allen of Kansas, presi- dent of the Great Lakes-St. Law- , rence association; Premier Macken- ' zie King of Canada, and Charles P. Craig, executive secretary of the same organization. LEGAL FLAW IN DIVORCE DECREE GIVES LIFE CONVICT NEW CHANCE LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 13.—Fate turned a flip-flop for Robert R. Garrett, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for a brutal slay- ing in the rugged Nebraska sand- hills region. Through a queer twist in a 25- year-old, divorce law his sentence has been lifted by a -one-day mar- gin and he had a good chance to win his freedom. Garrett's estranged and presum- ably divorced wife cofvicted him with her testimony. She was the only witness of the killing of Wil- liam Kinsley, whom she was acting as housekeep- er. The packed courtroom was tense as she took the witness stand and told her dramatic story, accusing Garrett. She told how Kinsley was shot down as he passed the living room window at the ranch—the roar of the gun—his fall. Then she ran to a window, peered out, and saw a figure crouched in the gloom, the ranchman for! her many miles into the country before releasing her, she said. Garrett denied that story, denied the slaying, and as the trial pro- gressed produced an alibi to show he* was many miles from the scene of the slaying. lieved the woman. Just as he had grown accustomed to his prison life, after two years, the supreme court sustained his ap- peal angd sent the case back. Nebraska laws require that a wife must wait six months after asking a divorce before the writ can be granted. It was designed to pro- mote reconciliations. Mrs. Gar- rett’s writ had been obtained one day before the six months expired | and at the time of the slaying and | the trial she was still his wife, and therefore could not testify against him. Now it is the state’s turn to seek | loopholes and technicalities in the law. In the meantime Garrett is sessions will be held in the 51.250‘-( But the jury be-| ORGANIZE FOR LEGION CONVENTION September 30 has fallen on the ! Happy One Month i l | t 1 [ | 2 1 | Only a short thirty days ago | Mrs. Rose Iodice, above, was a happy blushing bride in B rnok-‘ lyn, N. Y, as this picture| shows. Today her husband| has reported her missing and according to the investigation i she has been kidnaped. Neigh- bors say she was scen sta mtlmg* in front of her home when a dark sedan drew to the curb| and unknown hands, reaching out, dragged her into the car which sped away, (International Newsree!> DEPT, AGENT'S BODY IS FOUND IN ARIZ. CANAL Bullet Wound in Heart In- lief of Friends i PHOENIX, Ariz., Aug. 13.—An in- tensive search is underway for an automobile used by Paul Reynolds, ! Special Agent of the Department of Justice, whose body was found yesterday floating in an firrigation canal, after he had been missing for five days. A hbullet wound in the heart caused friends to believe ‘Reynolds was murdered as tae case on which Reynolds was working was not con- sidered dangerous, although he had 'been instrumental in apprehend- ing narcotic smugglers recently. The agency where he hired the automobile said Reynolds told the men that he was going for a ride and short swim and would be back within a few hours. — e, — {CONGRESSMEN FINISH ALASKA TOUR;LEAVE ! FOR STATES TONIGHT | The Congressional party touring !Alaska since late in July was due [to arrive in Seward from the north |today and is scheduled to sail from ‘v.hat port tonight for Seattle. It iwill sail direct, not touching at any Alaska port enroute. | The party was at Curry yester- |lake and inspected the dicates Murder, Be- | NAVAL FLIERS DISCOVER NEW LAKE | NEARBY Find Important Lake Off Taku Inlet—Means Much to Paper Project The discovery of a lake by the Navy Alaska Aerial Expedition cap= |able of hydro-electric’ devclopment 5 an- |nounced today by B. F. Heintzle- man Asst. District Forester. It Much of the responsibility for preparation for the National Amer- is located on the east shore of ican Legion Convention at Louisville shoulders of Frank D. Rash (left), President of the Legion Corporation, Commander of Jefferson Legion Post, | Taku Inlet between Greeley Point and Jaw Point, about two and one- | half miles from the beach. The discovery was made last |week by Commander A. W. Radford flying one of the Naval planes. It was apparent, as soon as the p! tographs were developed, that it was not shown on any existing maps and that it had been hither- to unknown. Is Of Importance The importance of the find in connection with the establishment of a pulp and paper mill here was emphasized today by Mr. Heintzle- man. This was realized as soon as the first set of aerial photos were seen and another flight was made and other “shots” taken. Both Mr. Heintzleman and R. A. Sargent, lin charge of topography with the over the region as thoroughly as possible from the air. Commenting on the discovery, the former said: “This one discovery alene, in my opinion, far outweighs in value the total cost of all the aerial surveys made in Southeast Alaska.” The lake lies south across a di- Aerial Expedition, flew tvide, not shown on official maps, P’Q_m its, north.l) from Turner Lake. effid d"iarge stream flows, through two smaller bodies of water, into {the east side of Taku Inlet between Point Greeley and Jaw Point, al- most directly opposite Cooper Point. The lake is between 2,500 and 3,000 feet above sea level. It has a surface area of between 800 and 900 acres, or almost twice as much as Crater Lake at Snet- tisham Inlet. It is about three miles long by one-half mile wide. |1t has a fine drainage area. Produce Much Power “Based on studies of other power sites in the same vicinity, including Long and Crater Lakes,” said Mr. Heintzleman, “it should be cap- able of producing between 20,000 and 25,000 year-long horsepower. It is only 17 miles from Juneau and it will be of inestimable value to a pulp and paper plant here.” The region 1s within the borders of the Tongass National Forest and the lake and its drainage as well as a strip connecting the outlet stream to the beach, have beenj withdrawn by the United States Forest and reserved for hydro- electric development, That it will be made a part of the local pulp and paper project was virtually assured, Mr. Heintzle- man declared. E. J. Ela, engineer in charge of hydro-electric surveys and investigations for the Cameron- Chandler syndicate interested in the local project, will arrive here shortly and with Mr. Heintzleman fly in for a preliminary examina- tion. Later in the year it is ex- pected he will take in a party anc make a detailed survey. Adds To Attraction “This discovery makes the power development section of the Juneau pulp and paper project much more attractive,” sald Mr. Heintzleman. All of their calculations have called for development of power sites at the Speel River end of Snettisham (Continued on Page Eight) Makes Long Nonstop Fli;.rhl Down Coast On 75 Gallons of Gas SAN DIEGO, Cal., Aug. 13. —W. T. Rankin, Portland aviator, who left Vancouver at 4:30 o'clock Monday morn- ing on a nonstop flight over the Pacific Coast region, landed at Agua Caliente, Mexico, at 5:49 o'clock yes- terday afternoon. While Rankin encountered fog until he reached Port- land, and extreme warm weather in the San Joaquin Valley, California, he was held in prison, awaiting retrial. ‘day, according to a telegram re- The law, the supreme court ruled, ceived from Commissioner Charles is constitutional, and when Garrett H. Flory of the Department of Ag- again faces the bar the state’s chief riculture. He will accompany it to not bothered with head wind and used only 75 gallons of gasoline on the trip. witness—his wife—cannot point at Seattle and return home the latter him in accusation. jpart of this month. ®SP 00 0PSO NPSPODS of between 20,000 and 25,000 horse-{ | power throughout the year w: Fair F liers Lmo U p for W omen’s Alr Derby i Lovdsbu; = g HITCH-HIKERS ATTACK WOMEN 'YHO GAVE AID Two Men Commit Crime Upon Women Who Gave Them “Lift” in Auto e, Ao Ty ene LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13—Women who have been blown to the front pages by the breeze of the whirring |propelier will be represented in the first women’s cross derby. The race will begin August 18 at Los Angeles and finish August | 26 at Cleveland in advance of the | national air races there. An entry list which in a pinch would do for a register of the aerial aristocracy of the nation's flying women 1s headvd by the names of | GOOD AND EDITOR’S NOTE: President Hoover's. selegtions. of his eahi- net brought many surprises and much conjecture as the ap- pointments were made known. Many of his choices were re- garded as politically unpreced- ented. The story of the men and events behind the scenes in these engrossing moves now is told by James L. West, Asso- ciated Press staff writer, in a series of six articles, of which the following is the third. By JAMES L. WEST (Associated Press White House Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 —Al- though Pregident Hoover made only !two strictly political appointments to his cabinet, he found difficulty in consummating his desire. He ended by literally drafting James W. Good, of Illinois, and Towa, Secretary of War, whose ap- pointment became a certainty only ywithin a week of inauguration day. The other appeintment, which might be classed as strictly politi- cal, was that of Walter F. Brown of Ohio, who had served under Hoover as assistant secretary of commerce, and was an important factor in the decision of the Presi- dent to enter primary States against favorite sons during the | pre-convention campaign. It now appears that a large fac- tor in the determination to place Mr. Good in the cabinet was Hoo- ver'’s desire to have within his of- ficial family a man schooled in practical politics and at the same time capable of dealing with mem- bers of Congress by reason of long association with them. Good had long service in the House of Representatives and first came in contact with Hoover dur- ing the war period, when he was on the committee of seven of the house handling all appropriations for war purposes. The acquain- tance ripened into friendship in after years, when Good was chair- man of the appropriations commit- tee and Hoover was Secretary of Commerce. After President Coolidge issued his “I do not choose to run” state- ment, Good became active on be- half of the Hoover candidacy. Early in 1928, he was summoned to take charge of Hoover's Washington headquarters. Later, in command of the Kan- sas City convention headquarters, he issued the statement that if President Coolidge wanted renomi- nation, Mr. Hoover would step aside and throw his support to him. Unquestionably the purpose of the statement was to “smoke out” those leaders in uninstructed dele- gations who still clung to the idea of drafting Coolidge. Friends of the War Secretary assert that it served its purpose well. After Kansas City, Good took charge of western Widely known women pilots will join in the prize flights from Los Angele: are Ruth Elder (left), Amelia Earhart l(‘?llk‘r), Marve! Crossan (nghh and La country air | '.SMART POLITICAL RECORDS TAKE to Cleveland. y Mary Heath Among them (below). | such proven pilots as Ruth Elder, Lo\u“ and Columbus to the eastern Marvel Crossan, Amelia Earhart, | terminus. Bobby Trout, Louise McPhetridge-| There will be eight over-night' Thaden and Florence Lowe Barnes, | stops, San Bernardino, Cal.; Phoe- | with the added luster of the name |nix, Ariz; El Paso, Tex.; Kans sas | of one of England's skilled aviators, | City, St. Louis and Columbus. Stops Lady Heath, for lunch will be made at Tucson, Eight days will be requ i Ariz., and Lordsburg, N. M. complete the derby. It follows in| The women's derby is sponsored general, the routing of comme: 1|by the National Exchange club and | air lines across the southern tier {the total of cash prizes is $8,000.; of the states in the west to F n addition, several trophies will be \Vurth thcncc to Kansas City, a ndcd ‘ [ Gets Endurar-ce Bug BROWN INTO CABINET |+ o ' 'FOUND BOUND IN NUDE CONDITION ;‘Ta!;:n to Hospital Where Recovery Expected— Bear Marks for Life HOXIE, Kansas, Aug. 13.—Viec- tims of two hitch-hikers they had ven a ride to from Colorado, Miss Leda Beauregard and Mrs. Beatrice Walsh, both of Concordia, Kansas, iare in a hospital here as a result of injuries received in.an attack last Sunday. 3 The two women, beaten and then slashed with a razor, were practi- cally nude and were abandoned to bleed to death. They were found bound in a pastuie east of here by a ranch foreman and immeti.lely taken to a hospital where it is. expected they will recover but will carry marks of their slashing for the remainder {of their lives. The two women were returning from & vacation trip. They were hailed by two well dressed and ap- parently well mannered men. The men said were returning to | their home Kuuas City and n.shnd for e without warn- l men, overpowering thn 4 :lnhed them with them into the pas- t.ure. 8 lpplng t.hem of th i adquartersag- CHilato. The friendship between the Press ident’ and Walter Folger Brown | likewise dated over number of |years. Their first association was ;monl‘y and valuables and the wom- ] "cn‘s car and then sped away. i A description of the two men has | | been telegraphed to police of other :in the early days of the Harding | administration, while Brown was | serving as chairman of the joint | committee on reorganization of the | Federal government a work in | which Mr. Hoover wa: ad still i | deeply interested. The postmaster general, who be- gan his political career at an early age in Ohio, bolted to the Bull Moose movement in 1912, only to return to the fold later, will play an important part in carrying out the reorganization on work which Mr. Hoover has promulgated as a 5 | major policy of his administration. % i EXPLOSION IN HINE: FRE 1S POTTSVILLE, Penn, Aug. 13— AN up in the air; that is, all With three additional explosions Put the ordinary mortals who after midnight, spreading flames Still stick to walking. Ruth over an area of 250 feet, heavily |V ells Barron of Rochester, N marshaled fire fighting forces con- |¥- is the latest aviatrix to get tinued to battle a fire in the Prim- the urge and will try to beat rose vein of the Sherman Coal /Elinor Smith’s record of 29 Company. hours. Twenty-five miners were work- | ing when the first explosion oc-| curred. They escaped through Lhel air passage. Four members of a v ‘ rescue party were severely burned. ;:x:nfi::tsfoialkl:i(: f;:;ml:n?:e’rn.upert elkiva, The fire spread quickly through pc “afier visiting five weeks with the vein of soft anthracite. {Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Peterman, on — e | Glacier nghv&a | | | i | | ————— ENDS VISIT HERE ! Mrs. C. P. Bussinger and daugh- | cities. b e |Ford Asked to Give |Aid in Abandoned Car Situation MEW YORK, Aug. 13. — Henry ! Ford, as the man most responsible, is asked by Borough President Har- vey of Queens, to help solve the | problem of disposing of abandoned icars, Professing to see in the situation a national crisis, President Harvey has requested Ford to lend his 'genius to abating the nuisance. Streets and vacant Iots are littered 'with discarded cars, largely of Ford’s production, Harvey said. “We have to find a method to combat this Frankenstein monster. You have personal knowledge of conditions caused in most of the nation’s towns by promiscuous dis~ jcarding of old cars. As the most |prolific producer of automotive equipment in the world, I think your company should bear a large part of the responsibility of the el- imination of the abandoned ecar problem,” Harvey said in his plea to Ford. ———,—— JUNEAU LUMBER MILLS SHIPS LUMBER TO WEST The Juneau Lumber Mills shipped 2,000 ties for the Alaska Railroad, 50,000 feet of lumber for Fair- banks, 2000 feet for Tanana, to be used for the school house, and {8,000 feet for the City of Cordova, on the Admiral Evans when it left ror the West. Narcotics, Valued at One Million Dollars | i Boolle[.' .Setzr‘d in N.Y. NEW YORK, Ar;. 13.—Federal Narcotic Agents are seeking the source of the destination of raw opium seized in a downtown ware- | house. The narcotic is valued at $100,000 wholesale and $1,000,000 at bootleg prices. The narcotic was confiscated after ::“::ed”lx‘c"f h}‘f‘ taken the agents |y yman wilbur, Secretary of the o Onepw;s re]c::"d"‘f"owm Beld nterior, who was granted an in- e me of ““"dmuutc leave of absence as presi- drivers of the truck is held for| g, s g attoniite’ i::)t of Stanford, to sit in the cabi- {net. g Wilbur's two executive assistants, LEAVES FOR THE SOUTH Ernest Sawyer and Northcutt Ely, |were graduated from Stanford. Arthur Miller, who has been do-|; Dr. August Taber Murray, pro- ing the welding work in the ;n.\((ssor of classical literature at stallation of new machinery for the Stanford, went to Washington to Juneau Cold Storage Company for preach in the President’s church. the York Ice Machinery Corpora-{ W. F. Durand, emeritus profes- tion, left for the south on the sor of mechanical engineering at Princess Alice this morning. Stanford, is a member of the Boul- PALO ALTO, Cal, Aug. 13.—For- mer students and faculty members of Leland Stanford, jr., university have been called upon by its most widely-known graduate, President Hoover, to governmental posts, Of first prominence is Dr. Ray HOOVER SURROUNDFD BY STANFORD ALUMNI der Dam commission. Ellwood P. Cubberley, dean of the school of 2ducation is a member of the com- mittee of 45 appointed to study re- lations of the Federal Government to States in education. Kenneth Mackintosh, former jus- tice of the Washington State su- preme court and a member of the crime survey commission, was grad- uated from Stanford the same year as President Hoover, 1895, O. C. Teague of the farm relief board is not a Stanford alumnus but is a member of the Stanford - national board. Vernon L. Kellogg, former fessor of entomology at St Is secretary of the National search council. He held the p tion before Hoover's election to presidency. §