The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 14, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALAS] “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” \/OL XXXIV., NO 5177 VILLAGE WIPED OUT, ANOTHE JU‘\IEAU ALASKA WEDNESDAY AUGUST |4 1 TWO HUNDRED ARE A FEDERAL FORGE STARTING FIGHT ON VIGE REIGN ; Mayor_and Chief of Police First * Arrested in Indiana City GIRLS OF SCHOOL AGE ARE CAUGHT | Operators of Gambling and|. Other Resorts Are Tak- en Into Custody HAMMOND, Ind., Aug. 14.| —Girls of school age, a May- | or, Chief of Police, several men and women operators ot gambling resorts and speak- easies are among 200 persons arrested during the night and early today by Federal Agents “W hoo pee” ‘Marria ge Mtll Grinds Tears in Chicago) ( | i who mopped up what they termed the Calumet district of a vice and liquor ring. Mayor Raleigh Hale and his Chief of Police Regan were among the first arrested and charged with conspiracy. In many places the agents feund young girls acling % barmaids. | State officers said the “civ- il machinery and law enforce- ment in the area has been broken down to such an ex- tent that Gov. Harry Leslie will be justified by placing the district under martial law.” i { French Priscn Has | Big “Financial Row” PARIS, Aug. 14—There are 126 bankers in the “financial row” of | La Sante prison. Nearly all of) them ran banks but often the banks | did no real banking business. | Although most of them trimmed their customers as thoroughly as possible, none of them seems to! have profited much. Usually, they in turn, were victims of handsome but extravagant women or of their faith in their ability to guess what the stock market would do. One of the first remedies agreed | upon by parliament was the re-| quirement of a clean legal record from those who wish to start banks. Ex-convicts no longer need apply! for charters. | detour | VANCOUVER ISLAND |the Pend O'Reille, FOREST FIRES CONTINUE OVE PAC, NORTHWES | Flames Rdcmg Uncontroll- ed in National Forests, Private Holdings FIRES ARE SERIOUS Large Tracts of Timber Land Theatened—Fire Along Fraser River COAST 1 SEATTLE, Aug. 14—The Fire| |God continued to hold sway m' great timber stands in the North- | 'west today racing uncontrolled m‘ | National Forests and private hold- ings in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, ! . Montana and British Columbia. The fires are gaining headway in Colville and Kaniksu National forests. One hundred and twenty five {men have been sent from Spaknnc to battle the flames. The situation in the Selway, Lolo, ghters are holding their own aver‘ |most of the region. The situation in lower Brifish will be done in the air. SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. Judge H. E. Kemps of Crown Point, Ind, not only marries them Columbia and on Vancouver Is- ,northwestern aviator will try to be but sells them rings, as shown by the boxes around him. Beatrice 1and is extremely hazardous. Fires the first to span the United States Kemmett Debus of Chicago (inset) learned after a frolicsome cveming 2r€ nearing large tracts of stand- twice without touching his plane she had been married at Crown By EDWARD STANLEY (A. P. Feature Writer) CROWN POINT, Ind., Aug. 14— The royal road to romance takes s here to the divorce courts Crown Point, only 40 swift mile: away as Cupid flies, Gretna Green. Thousands of “whoopee brides” elope here yearly and take solemn | vows that they later decide they didn't mean. Sometimes they can’t|* even remember the words. Then they scamper for the court | of domestic relations to weep and have it declared no contest. Maybe they wed on a dare, may- be it's a true romance, but often| it’s the gay climax of a “whoopec party.” That's why they're given the sobriquet “whoopee brides.” The marriage license bureau is an important industry here, and has been for years. One judge tune estimated at $50,000. He had married more than 15,000 couples. Judge H. E. Kemp has married | more than twice that number. He ties the knot for about 4,000 a year. {In his “marriage parlor,” just across the street from the courthouse, where the license is issued without quibbling and a gaudy “certificate” urged upon the couple for a dollar, Kemp has thousands of tiny plush- lined boxes, cocoons that have BRITISH CREDITS AIR. FORCE WITH AVERTING AFGHAN WAR SHREWSBURY, England, Aug. 4. —How fighting planes fought as angels of peace in a recent far- ecastern crisis was described in an @ddress here by Sir Francis Hum- phreys, former British minister at Kabul. Prompt arrival of planes from Bagdad and Egyptian outposts of the British Empire during the siege of Kabul by Afghan insurrec- tionists “probably saved England from another war,” Sir Francis said. 3 “When all means of communica- tion by land were hopelessly cut off,” he explained, “airplanes flew to our rescue from Bagdad and even from Egypt, covering as much as 1,100 miles in a single day. “These machines had operated before only in hot climates at a maximum height of 4,000 feet, and they were suddenly called upon to fly over snowbound and inhospit- able mountains at heights far great- er than the Alps, in a temperature 30 degrees below zero, and to land on a strange airdrome in two feet of snow, with a fierce battle raging in the neighborhood. But never once did they refuse my call. “More than eighty journeys were made and 35,000 miles flown, with a loss of two machines; and 600 Brit- ish subjects and foreigners were conveyed to safety without a single i “There was one exciting incident. King Amanullah, besieged with a garrison of 5,000, was given a 24- hour ultimatum to surrender to an attacking force of 16,000. “The alternative was a murder- ous assault with scaling ladders, no quarter, and general loot and mas- sacre. The king replied that noth- ing would induce him to come out unless the safety of himself and his ladies was taken in hand by Englishmen. “We had no soldiers and no means of enforcing authority, ex- cept with our tongues. The air- drome was situated between the two armies, only 400 yards from each other, and was raked with a devastating cross fire. We had to take the risk, and telegraph for airplanes. When the machines ar- rived in sight we gave the signal to both armies to cease firing. “Fortunately for us they obeyed the signal. The airplanes landed in silence, and the king and his| ladies, escorted by unarmed Eng- lishmen from the legation, went to| the waiting machines and were flown safely to India. “There is no doubt whatever that the Royal Air force on this occa- sion not only saved the city and foreign legations from a terrible fate but probably saved England from another war.” is Chicago’s | Point, and she regrets it greatly., ture rings. Kemp Las aone well at $5 a mar- riage, or whatever the bridegroom thinks right. Rudolph Valentino, | |one of Crown Point’s cclebrnteJ customers, thought it worth $50. | It's not hard to get married 1n Chicago. Then why Crown PomL" “Oh, theyre so polite” onc ‘whoopee bride” said, explaining |that they didn’t ask cmbauasslnm questions. “They even have rings all ready, all sizes.” | But when they come out of the| !gauze many of the girls wish it hadn't been so easy. Chicago's lat- | est and most spectacular “whoopee [bride,” Beatrice Kemmett Debus,’ | wishes that very thing. | Beatrice went on a gay party |June 27. She woke up on the |morning of July 4 to find a strange They used to hold weddmn | retired as early as 1915 with a for- young man beating her. “What's the big idea?” she asked. “I guess I got a right to beat you—I'm your husband!” the strange young man told her, He showed her a marriage cer- tificate, tore it into shreds and |threw them into her face. Then he ducked and hasn't been seen since. Beatrice pieced the shreds to- gether and found she was Mrs. De- bus, married at Crown Point, which was news to her. Friends told her she met Henry Lewis Debus on the party and after a few drinks an-, him. Then they had more drinks. she had to be held up. marriage. Gasoline Line Blows Up; Five Men Killed WILMINGTON, Cal, Aug. 14— Death which flared when a gasoline line of the Shell Oil Company re- finery blew up resulted in the death of five men. A sixth man is seriously injured. Flames resulted from the burst- | ‘and gasoline under degrees fahrenheit. damages is estimated at several thousand dollars. —— e e——— RETURN FROM TRIP Lieut. N. 8. Haugen, U. S. C. G., and Mrs. Haugen, returned to Ju- neau aboard the steamer Alameda after having spent a week in Ket- chikan where they were the guests of Lieut. Haugen’s parents, Mr, and Mrs. J. Weibust, who are spending the summer in Ketchikan and who are the owners of the Independent Salmon Canneries in that city. Lieut. Haugen also has an interest in this cannery. ing of the pipe carrying crude oil' 100 pounds | pressure to the square inch at 700 The property" 1 {stroyed on'the Fraser River by | hatehed man§ a matrimoniéil ven- Jackman Road fire. SURVEY OF NEW | Cameron interests in surveying the "newly discovered nounced she was going to marry Vvelopment permit. During the ceremony, Beatrice says, Taku Harbor completing the detail Now she’s survey of the transmission asking Chicago courts to annul her route from Speel River to Point | laerml trip to the lake after whlc‘li ing timber. Several buildings have been I i LAKE WILL BE. MADE AT ONGE Kinzie Directs Ela to Pro- ceed with Survey of New Lake on Taku There will be no delay by chc lake on Taku| Inlet, it was made known today by J. A. Cameron, who is enthusiastic jover the advantages it offers in| cnrr}lng out the pulp and papcrl mill program here. The lake, whichv \wheels to the ground. N. B. Mamer, government forest fire control pilot, has announced his | intention of attempting a non- | stop coast to coast endurance flight refueling in midair over various cities, to demonstrate that passen- ger or freight planes need not slow down their cross country schedules by stopping for gasoline or food. 14—A Art Walker In a biplane Mamer expc"ls to| leave Felts fieid near here in the 15 !1ate afternoon around August for Portland. vides for his reaching and refueling at San Francisco at 4 am., the fol- |lowing day and thence progressing eustward, by way of Salt Lake City, | Cheyenne, Omaha,” Chicago; Cleve- |1and to New York. The return journey would be by | Miles City, Mont. While rlyinyv over the national ALASKA JUNEAU JULY RECOVERY - - AT BIG FIGURE \Gross Relum Put at $282,- 500—Income Surplus Reaches $96,900 A surplus of $96900 of income SECRETS His itinerary pro-| 5 -VASHINGTON =3 ) (left) will be co-pilot. Refuelling | | capitol he plans to drop a message to the Department of Commerce, from which has come the sugges- tion that an endurance refueling |flight under actual load carrying | conditions would be of benefit to aviation. Lieutenant Mamer igeeived training in the army air corps, | became known nationally as a pilot by winning second place in one of | |two years ago. His co-pilot, Art W.llker is another veteran hhdm.m 'ALL CONFESSIONAL GUARDED BY ITALIAN CODE } ROME, Aug. 14—Protestant cler- ,gymen and Jewish rabbis will here- after enjoy the same privileges as ,Roman Catholic priests in being |able to plead “the professional se- ‘cret" when declining to give testi- mony Lefore the Italian courts. This is made clear in the second por- tion of the new Code of Penal Pro- is but 17 miles from Juneau, was over operations and other cxpcndl-t(‘(‘dure issued by Minister of Justice found last week by Commander A. | tures as listed was shown by the Rocco. W. Radford of the Navy Alaska Alaska Juneau for the month of | Aerial Expedition in mapping the east shore of Taku Inlet. July according to the monthly As tne coae will be introduced in the Senate and Chamber next :statement issued from San Fran- gutumn as a government bill and Mr. Cameron said today that R.|cisco headquarters of the Alaska|gince the Fascists have an over- A. Kinzie, consulting engineer for Juneau Gold Mining Company. The‘whelmxng majority in the upper the California syndicate, had tele-' graphed Engineer A. J. Ela to pro- ceed at once to the lake and make | a survey of it. An application will be filed at once with the Federal Water Power Commission for a de- Mr. Ela is now in the vicinity of line Greeley. Mr. Cameron has wired | {him to come here at once for an arrangements will be made for the survey. Body of Girl Is Found in Gunny Sack MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.,, Aug. 14. —Tied in a gunny sack, the body of a girl, about 12 years of age, was found today. The hands of the girl were bound. The girl had apparently been strangled. Police said the deed was evidently the work of a madman or moron. The | girl is thought to have been lured into an automobile, attacked, slain, then bound and placed in the sack, which was tied with wire. Bull Goes on Rampage; | Woman Killed in Home VALENCIA, Spain, Aug. 14—A bull fought its way from drivers today and killed a woman when it invaded her home. The bull gored three horses and frightened the populace. The bull was finally captured and taken to the bull ring to await a chance against matadors. gross recovery for the month was ' $282,500. The statement issued by the com- pany follows: Estimated Results of Operations for Month of July, 1929 Tons mined and trammed to il ... ..321,200 RECEIPTS: Cents per ton Gold ... $274,500 85.46 Lead and silver 8,000 249 Total : $282,500 87.95 OPERATING EX- PENDITURES: Mining and tram- ming . $ 87,500 27.2% Milling 71,500 2226 All other Juneau operating costs 7500 233 . New York Stock Transfer and San Francisco Office expenses ... 2,500 8 Total ... $169,000 52.61 Operating profit .. $113,500 35.34 OTHER EXPENDI- TURES AND AC- CRUED CHARGES: Ebner mining prop- erty and other outside pros- pecting $ 17,000 Interest m{ "xnaebz- edness .. Total $ 96,900 ———.—-— ©Of the three daughters and two sons of Charles Bird, Springville, Utah, each is the parent of twins. Surplus house and a practical unanimity in the lower, it should pass without question. What it will do is to secure to non-Catholic ministers the same right of keeping confes- sions inviolate that has long been tacitly granted to priests of the Ro- man church. The code’s text says the new dis- position is in strict accord with the ,Lateran treaties. The text specifi- Jcally exempts from giving testi- mony on confidential matters “the ministers of the State religion (1. e, the priests), maintaining also !the guarantee for the ministers of those cults permitted in the State.” It is further added that the privi- leged position obtained by the Ro- iman church, owing to the concor- dat that forms part of the Lateran accords, does not signify a “diminu- tion of the liberty and guarantees” ‘enjoyed by other sects. | Cardinals, uncer the new code, have a peculiar privilege. If they are cited as witnesses in legal ac- tion, their testimony may be taken at their domiciles, since they are considered on a par with princes | of the blood royal and high officials |of the State. The idea behind |this provision is that every Cardi- |nal is a potential sovereign, being eligible to election as Pope on the death of the reigning pontiff, and therefore comparable with an Ital- ian prince in line of succession to the throne. - eee - Some apartment house owners in 41\mn Italy, not only encourage tenants with children but offer a cash award for every child born in the houses. Former Governor Of Alaska Is Married in N. Y. NEW YORK, aug. 14.—Walter E. Clark, Editor of the Charleston, Virginia, Daily Mail, and former governor of Alaska, and Mrs. Juliet Saunton Clay, were married here yesterday by Rev. Edward Erick- son, assistant pastor of a Presbyter- ian church here. Clark was governor of Alaska from October 1, 1909, to May 31, 1913, Mr. Clark’s first wife died over a year ago. NORTHWESTERN COMING NORTH SEATTLE, Aug. 14—Steamer Nortlrwestern sailed last night at 9 o'clock for Southeast Alaska ports with 153 first class passengers and six steerage. Passengers for Juneau are R. B. Oxreider, wife and son, Mrs. B. Lein, L. B. Kuhre, wife and daugh- ter, W. George and wife, Zelma Zerkes, Impi Aalto, Otto Johnson, Mrs. Brewer, J. C. Anderson, \u’e and son, and two steerage. —— Paul Neal, 15 year old sensations apprentice jockey in Chicago, amus es himself playing baseball with his two sisters and practicing on the piano. Cain E WA. [Hundreds of Heaa. we- stock Killed—Serious Problem Arises ALBURQUERQUE, N. M., | Aug. 14.-~The village of San ! Acacia has been swept away, /San Marcial is inundated, ' hundreds of hei of live- |stock have beén killed and lpmperly damage estimated at hundreds of thnu&da of dol- ilars has resulted from flood | waters of thc Rio Puerco N. B. Mamer (rlght] will attempt a coast to coast nonstop reund trip over the route shown on the \River. | Butte, Blackfeet and Missoula Y€-' ap about August 15, using the plane pictured below. gions is reported unchanged. Fire | Heavy rains sent the river _jout of the banks. Despite the violence of the flocds, no lives are. reported lost, villagers - be- ; lfore the flnod’bit ) 5 1 Dr ownul live esents | posal 0f the carcasses to pre- way of Washington, Cleveland, De- | | the New York to Spokane air der- {vent an epidemic. troit, St. Paul, Aberdeen, S. D., and | bies during the national air races| ——— HURRICANE IN VERMONT DOES GREAT DAMAGE Cottages Overturned— Buildings Damaged— Property Destroyed RUTLAND, Vermont, Aug. 14— Cottages were overturned and |buildings damaged by a hurricane which swept a path of 25 miles from Lake Bomessen to Middlebury late yesterday. No loss of life has been reported up to early this morning. Livestock was killed in the fields and crops ruined. Communication is disrupted and highways are blocked by fallen trees. Hail stones fell, some of them as large as silver dollars. Damage is estimated | thousands of dollars. The summer colony at Lake |Bomessen was the hardest hit, |twenty cottages having been blown |over. The hail smashed windows |and tops of automobiles. Several boating parties were in great danger. One boat capsized and the occupants were finaily got ashore but badly cut and bruised by the hail. Former U. S. Marshal Of Nome Passes Away into the SEATTLE, Aug. 14—Albert J. | Loew, former United States Mar- shal at Nome, Alaska, from 1896 to 1906, is dead here at the age of 67 years. He is survived by a son, Herbert, and a daughter, Mrs, |J. M. McMillan, both residing in Seattle. SWEDEN FINDS ANSWER TO BIG WORK PROBLEM STOCKHOLM, Aug. 14.—From 1914 to 1924 Sweden spent $64,100,- 000 for relief of unemployed, says a report of the State Unemploy- ment Commission. At present the number of unem- ployed in Sweden shows a mini- mum figure, but the number regis- tered during 1922 averaged about 150,000 every month.. Only about one-fifth of the entire sum spent was given as doles, the rest being used on constructive unemployment relief. The works included the repairing 'of roads, building new roads ll‘ railroads of a total length more than 1800 miles, farm ment and the building of 54 recrea= tion grounds.