The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 26, 1929, Page 1

l \ \ | | | | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5187. . “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1929. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ZEPPELIN MAKES FAST FLIGHT OVER PACIFIC OCEAN TWELVE AMERICANS KILLED ATTACKS UPON JEWS PROVES REAI."*BATTLE : Twelve Americans AreKill- ed in Jerusalem and Fifteen Wounded BRITISH ARE ASKED TO GIVE PROTECTION Troops Reach Holy City and Battleships Are Arriving at Scene JERUSALEM, Aug. 2C—Twelve Americans were killed and 15 Am- ericans wounded by Arabs as they assisted Jews in defense of the Slaboka Rabbincal College at He- brown where students are housed. The casualties of three days fighting at Wailing Wall has reach- ed more than 70 Jews and probably many Arabs were wounded. | The names of the Americans killed and wounded are not known | but all are reported from American | cities, studying to be Rabbis. | Several contingents of British) troops, number 650 men, arrived | from Egypt and are patrolling the | streets, Warships at Scene H Three British warships have ar- rived from Malta.. Charges are made that the up-! wisings-are a part of a well ordered! plot of the Arabs to overthrow the | Government and are not occasioned by the Wailing Wall controversy. | Fighting which started in Jeru- salem spread rapidly to the suburbs where spirited fighting resulted. The extent of the casualties is not known. British airplanes bombed the city | of Lifta said to be the Arabs head-| quarters. n Armored cars darted through the streets giving the region the ap-| pearance of an armed camp. Accounts said the police were unable to cope with the situation. REQUEST UPON BRITISH WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Secre- tary of State Stimson has cabled Ambassador Dawes at London, to| ask the British Foreign Office to| do all in its power immcdiately to | protect American lives and prop- | erty. ——————— UNITED EASTERN MEN ARRIVE IN JUNEAU AND | LEAVE FOR TAKU DISTRICT | J. P. Stapler, who is in charge | of development work for the Umt-; ed Eastern Mining Company in| the Tulsequah district returned on | the Princess Charlotte from a shor‘,‘ trip to the States. . Accompanyin; A AL o Rl o5 Maxine Cantway of Chicago show girl of the talkies. She is 1 brown haire OF SCREEN BIG AIR RACE FOR WOMEN IS NEARING CLOSE :Fi fteen Contestants Are Flying Toward Cleveland | —Other Air Derbies | inivin | CLEVELAND, Oh Aug. 26— ry cheduled close of the. first, | women's air derby ever flown, marked the sccond day's events of an hour on the 14 other remaining {entrants. Gladys O'Donnel is like-! ly to be second ! | Racers from all parts of the country are being cleared from Lhe\ field for the women fliers to make| their landings. Four other derbies from widely separated parts of the country are also near the end today. The men racers from Portland, Oregon, spent the night at SLJ Paul Entrants in another derby from! Los Angeles stopped at Salt Lake| | City. | From the south the entrants in| the men's derby from Miami, Flor-| ida, reached Birmingham, Alabama. The All-Chio Derbyists quartered | for the night at Columbus and !are expected to reach Cleveland !early tonight after a swing around | the State. 1 Respeet _for the death of plucky Marvel OdUsson, was marked by®u _ .~ Associated Press Photo Fas been selected tho “average” 9 years old, has blue eyes and light Soviet Plane, Bound for N. Y., At Novo Sibirsk NOVO SIBIRSK, Siberia, Aug. 26—The plane Lard of Soviets, bound for New York City via Siberia and Alaska, landed here after a seven hour flight from Kur- gan. eeo0e0scccovce - ARMS STATION IS SHATTERED BY EXPLOSION period of silence today and a va-! cant seat will be held at the ban- quet. MISS MEXICO UNDERARREST FIGHTERS OF | FOR MURDER FOREST FIRES 'Galveston Beauty Contest-s‘ AHE_INJURED“ t Kills Husband— | * Charge of Bigamy One Fighter Killed in At tempting to Com- bat [lames { ———— | ( | 1 MEXICO CITY, Aug. 26.—Senora |Marie Teresa Delanda de Vidal |who was Miss Mexico in 1928, in the Galveston Beauty Contest, is 'in prison having shot and killed (her husband, Gen. Mossies de Vidal, after reading a newspaper that she and her husband were {to be arrested for bigamy. She procured a heavy army pistol MISSOULA, Mont, Aug. 26— Five forest fire fighters were in-| jured, one was killed, a number of | buildings were destroyed and 1,000 acres were burned over on a wide front in Montana and Idaho by fires. the National Air Races. Late this aliernoon, with but two hours flying time left, the| women’s rdce seemed certain 10| go to Mrs. Louise McPhetridge! | Thaden who had a lead of over; | Britain. SWIFTEST PLANES AND 4 NATIONS SEEK SCHNEIDER RACE LAURELS IN ws ANGELES Ses ‘ J &, yr RYDE Is1e of Wight The U. S. make that much. lower right; the map of the course COWES, Isle of Wight, Aug. 22. ~Sedplanes of fouf, nations, with the speed of bullets built into them, will hurtle through the air here September 6 and 7 in an in- ternational assault on existing speed records. To the swiftest will go the Schneider trophy for seaplane speed. fitst offered by the French sportsman and pioneer in avia- tion, Jacques Schneider. It is to be- come the permanent property of the nation/ which wins it three times in succession. 8o far no na- tion has been able to win it more than twice. Twice, in 1920 and 1921, Italy captured the trophy; only to lose it the following year to Great Twice, in 1923 and 1925, it went to the United States. In {1927, when the race was held in Venice, Flight Lieutenant Webster won it for Great Britain with a speed of 281.49 miles an hour. This year speeds well over 300 miles an ..our, are expected. Navy plane built for Lieut. Al Willlams (upper right) in the Schneider seaplane trophy races September 6-7 has a speed indicator (inset) that will show a speed of 420 miles an hour if he can The British Napier Super-Marine (upper left) won the race last year. The trophy is at at lower left. BY ARABS HUGE AIRCRAFT FROM SEA TRIP Makes F]igfirom Japan | in One Third that of Fastest Ship’s Time \SOARS GRACEFULLY | OVER SAN FRANCISCO Glides Southward to Los Angeles — Lands Early Today—Is Off Tonight LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 26— Eleven qclock tonight is set as the hour for the departure of the Graf Zeppelin for Lakehurst, N. J., on the final leg around the world I tour. Refueling is expected to be com-~ |pleted by 8 o'clock tonight and | passengers have been ordered ready | to embark early in the evening. The craft moored at 5:11 o'clock this morning, completing the 5,800~ mile flight from Kasumigaura, Jap- an, in 78 hours and 58 minutes. The flight was the first non- {stop flight across the Pacific and achieved in one third of the fast- est time made by ocean steamers between Japan and Seattle. Dr. Eckener M1 Dr. Hugo Eckengr. who was sc- riously ill, was rushed to a down- ey The speed of Schneider lrup‘ny‘ winners has imcreased remarkably | since the first race in 1913, when Prevost won for France with an average speed of 447 miles an hour. Other winners and their speeds were: 1914—Pixton, Great Britain, miles an hour. 1920—Bologna, an hour. 1921—DeBriganti, miles an hour. 1922—RBiard, Greal miles an hour. 1923—Rittenhouse, United States, 177.38 miles an hour. 1925—Doolittle, United States, 232.57 miles an hour. 1926—Bernardi, Italy, 246.49 miles an hour. 1927—Webster, Great 28149 miles an hour. The course to be flown this year is quadrilateral, extending roughly from Ryde on this island, to a point off Seaview to Southsea to Cowes and back to Ryde. Alto- gether the contestants will cover about 220 miles in their seven laps 55.3 Italy, 102.3 miles Italy, 1174 Britain, 146.5| Eritain, { will have full quotas of three planes town hotel. _Arrangements were made to issue a statement but the one was_torn_{rom his hand as he leaned from the got- dola room while over Santa Bar- bara. He was highly enthusiastic over the success of the trip and was convinced that the flight dem- onstrated that lighter - than - air transport was feasible for ocean travel. around the 31.05 mile course. Half a million spectators throng- ed the Lido when the /@€ Wab in Venice. Twice as many are ex- pected to see it here. Already all the hotel accommodations in Cowes have been. reserved. One ocean liner has been reserv- ed for the Royal Aero Club, in whose hands are the arrangements for the contest, and several other liners will be turned into grand- stands for the event. France, Italy and Great Britain Wilkins Statement Capt. George H. Wilkins said: “It was a pleasant trip to make, free from responsibility. However, the globe tour proved to us value of each in the race. The United |meteorological forecast but before States has only one pl;\ng to en-lairlines can be operated success- ter. 1t will be piloted by Lieut.|fully there must be great co-opera- Al Willlams of the Navy. tion among weather experts and Preliminary trials will take plnce]repm‘ns from many more fields. I Friday, September 6, and the rnce]ro'~:gratulatc Dr. Eckener on the will be flown the next day. After |success of his flight. We have seen the trophy event, the pilots repr'- |many interesting points on earth senting the participating nations|{from an unusual point of view, will attempt to lower the worlds funcultivated steppes of Siberia, rain speed record over a measured|drenched fields of Japan and the course above the Solent. cloud-banked Pacific were among Speeds of 340 to 350 miles an|the most interesting sights ever hour are confidently cxpected in|seen.” this event. The Graf arrived over Los An- | {Inhabitants Evacuate Sur-!ana turned it on him firing six All available men have been sent geles shortly after midnight and rounding District— Martial Law NANKING, China, Aug. g 24 ° terrific explosion shattered the! him north were Roy W. Moore, 0f- | pincinal munitions depot here C(u} ficial of the company, J. L. McIVer, | gay causing intense excitement and | cugineer for the United Easternyequired inhabitants of the sur-| from several towns to fight the; flames. A number of buildings were burned at Half Moon and the fire is near White Fish. Several ranches were fire swept! to the doorsteps of the homes but there turned back by the frontic| efforts of the owners. >re Ishots and then turned the gun on |herself but the magazine was | empty. The police on arriving found her lover the body of her hushband, cry- ng: “I loved him dearly.” The women told the police that the newspaper story was the first from Phoenix, Ariz, Mrs. McIver | and their son, R. M. MclIver. Mrs. | Meclver remained in Juneau and the remainder of the party left| Saturday afternoon for the Taku | district. I Kansas City police are warrlng! against bombing racketeers. I rounding district to evacuate. Martial law was immediately pro- claimed to prevent a disorderly element from taking advantage of the confusion. Loss of life is thought to be smali but the number it not known. The material damage is estimat- ed at $1,500,000. NEW FRENCH RENT LAW s lmnac o HITS FOREIGNERS HARD """ "™ | By EDWARD ANGLY (A. P. Staff Writer) PARIS, Aug. 26.—Foreigners liv- ing in France are out of luck under the new rent law recently put into effect. Only those who served in the allied armies in the war have the same standing before the law | as French tenants. The others,| and they form the majority, are| left largely to the landlord’s mercv. They can be furned out into the | street when their leases expire,’ whereas the French tenant is giv- en a prorogation of his tenancy, the duration of which varies in indi- rect proportion to his rent. Those living in expensive apartments have two or three years in which to look for another place, while vil- lagers who pay only a few hun- dred francs a year for their lodg- ings can hold on eight or ten| years more, laughing the while at the landlord, | ot so the foreigner. If the owner tells him to pack up and leave, he must do just that. If he wants to stay, he is likely to pay the price the owner démands. For others the rent is fixed, in old houses, at 150 per cent above the 1914 figure, but not for him. He signs the dotted line prepared by the landlord, or sends for a van Meanwhile the average French tenant sits tight. His rent is belng| raised this summer, it is true, but if he pays the new legal advance in the price of his lodgings, no landlord can budge him, whatever others may offer for his apartment. In a way the law has been a grim joke on the foreign ex-sol- dier. The average landlord would rather have an ex-enemy as a ten- ant than an ex-ally, for he can't get rid of the latter once he turns over the keys to the front door, inaimation she had that de Vidal \was married while he courted and | won her after she failed to win the Galveston contest. | | The first wife was suspicious | of the long absence of her hus- ,bend from home and followed him and learned of the second wedding. She then filed bigamy charges. | e —— Rick Woman Train Accident in Germany ; American Killed, 2 Injured| DUEREN, Germany, Aug. 26— One American was killed and two seriously injured early Sunday in la wreck of an engine and six {coaches of the Paris to Warsaw |Express as if entered Buir, north Eight persons were killed 17 seriously injured and 25 others were bruised and cut. The accident glosed the line for WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. — The more than 24 hours. | National Capital probably has the| Paul Herreman, of New York, richest inmate of a poor farm in was the American killed and John the country. |K. Trowbridge, residence unknown,‘ Miss Blanche Magruder, eccen- and a man named Kuhn were the tric spinster, is known to have Americans injured. more than $3,000 in cash hidden —e,———— in her home and perhaps more. e oo 0000000000 The police were notified one e TODAY'S STOCK night that negro boys were search-|e QUOTATIONS ing the vacant home where thele e e o @ 0 0 06 0 0 0 0 0 @ aged woman lived before belng; NEW YORK, Aug. 26. — Alaska |tflken to the poor farm. The po-|Juneau mine stock is quoted today |lice found money hidden in bundles jat 7%, land American Tobacco A 194, of old rags, in cans, moulded en-|American Tobacco B 195%, Bethle- :velopes. hidden here and there hemb Steel 136, Continental Motors {about the house. Some coins were 14!, Corn Products 105%, Cudahy found and many of them may be 51, International Paper A 34, In- worth a large sum of money be- ternational Paper B 24, National ]cause of their age. |Acme 34, Standard Oil of California | Two more rubbish filled rooms 75, Stewart Warner 66%, American {are yet to be searched. |1ce 52%, Independent Ol and Gas| ALASKA ASSET T0 THE NATION, MYERS ASSERTS Shipping /Board Commis- sioner Stresses Economic’ Value of Territory Alaska is a distiuct economic as- set to the nation, showing a healthy balance of trade each year in its own favor, despite the fact that its [resources are scarcciy touched, de- clared Jefferson Myers, Portland, {Ore., United States Shipping Board Commissioner. He, Mrs. Myers and a r Miss Myrtle Myers, were Jur 1's guests Sunday while the steamer Dorothy Alexander was in port. The Commissioner and his party were met by H. L. Faulkner, Presi- dent of the Chamber of Commerce and members of the Executive Board. The Commissioner spent about three hours visiting Gov. George A. Parks while the ship was here, Speech at Sitka The Commissioner delivered a short speech at Sitka, in which he conveyed his message to the peo- ple of Alaska. “The Shipping {Board,” he declared, “is not un- mindful of your growth and will watch the requirements and 1egu- lations relating to the protection ! —_——————— 32%, General Motors 72%. [ The work of another sculptor v jwill perpetuate the memory of Au-| F. R. Pierce, magazine writer, ar- gustus Saint-Gaudens in the rived in Juneau on the Dorothy |French town of that name. Alexander, and promotion of your ocean-horne commerce.” In his speech the Commissioner said: “I come to you not only as the Commissioner of the Shipping Board representing the Pacific Northwest but ' also as a business man in need of the diversion and the stimulus of this Northland. The trip from Seattle has been so won- derful that both Mrs. Myers and I have exhausted adequate adjec- tives. I must therefore, resort to | the writings of that American sage | |and naturalist, John Muir, who| visited this country in 1879. During |these last fifty years many poets have sung of Alaska and many more will rhyme its praise, but I find John Muir’s description ap- propriate when he said: | Onleading Expansiveness g “‘In these coast landscapes there is such indefinite, onleading ex- such a multitude of {features without apparent redun- (dance, their lines graduating deii- {cately into one another in endless | succession, while the whole is so | fine, so tender, so etheral that all| |pen work seems hopelessly unavail- ing. Tracing shiny ways through \fiord and sound, past forest and | | waterfalls, islands and mountains and far azure headlands, it seems | {as if surely we must at length reach | |the very paradise of the poets, the | {abode of the blessed.’ i | | | ! Alaska Unique 1 “Historically, Alaska is unique, | When the Russian Czar, Peter the Great, heard of other European | powers acquiring holdings in the |new world, he was anxious to ex- |tend his empire to include an | American Russia as he already pos- |sessed both European and Asiatic Iterritory. The march of the Cos- sacks across Siberia had been a |long, tedious and relentless con- |quest. The first Russian efforts to locate a northern portion of the new world was under the intrepid |Danish Captain, Vitus Bering, who discovered the stralts bearing his name, in August 1728. A number of years of internal dissension, ar- gument over leadership and inabil- ity to gain governmental support, delayed further explorations. Not until September 8, 1740, did Ber- thousands were on watch in the city and surrounding country. The Graf appeared over the city and then disappeared to the southward. Broadcasting was continued until early this morning from all local stations. Hundreds of Marines were on hand all night and they aided in bringing the Graf to land. ing sail in the St. Peter, and Chiri- kof in the St. Paul, for further ex- ploration. The perils of the seas were grave matters in those days and they greatly impeded this ex- pedition, finally separating the twc ships. Chirikof is credited with the first discovery of islands be- longing to the Alaska mainland on July 15, 1741, while Bering saw Mt. St. Elias at noon on July 16, 1741, a difference of about 36 hours. After many hardships both Chiri- kof and Bering made their separate ways back towards Kamchatka, but Bering died wrecked on an island which now carries his name. You all know the sequence of subse- quent events which led the Rus- sians to further inroads in the vir- in territory. Bancroft, the his- torian, said “‘Call it science, or patriotism or progress. There is this to be said about the first Russian dis: coveries in America—little wor have been heard of them for somec time to comie if ever, had it not been for the beautiful furs brougit back from Bering Island and else- where." “I mention this part of your his- tory because of the excesses com- mitted ‘by the early traders and the robbing and massacres of the Datives for furs. The methods of Russian exploits were horrible vet there were some wise administra- tors who came later to handle this newly-found bonanza. “American interest in this north-| land was perhaps first manifested | (Continued on Page Four) The excitement in the city was intense when the huge air craft did appear over the city. OVER SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26.—The Graf was sighted off the Farallon Islands by a marine lookout at 6:02 o'clock last night and a few min- utes later was sighted from the Presidio heading directly through the Golden Gate and then nosed gracefully through the cloud bank, the sun glinting the slivery sides. Thousands crowded the San Francisco hills. Coming in the bay, the Graf swung directly over the city above Market Street. Airplanes swarmed about her. A radio station asked the ship's operator if he liked the city and the answer came back in German, Yes, very much.” The ship went on skirting the Presidio without returning to the Golden Gate and headed southwest. The visit over the city here was less than an hour. B £ Fifteen Persons Are Drowned ;River Rises teen persons were drowned in ‘a flood which submerged the grea part of the Radimor section. terrific cloudburst caused the o flow, > . atd