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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5190. ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1929. MEMBER - PRICE S ey WAL OF ASSOCIATED PRESS GRAF ZEPPELIN COMPLETES FLIGHT AROUND WORLD | BRITISH PUT DOWN JEWISH ARAB. STRIFE Troops Occupying Various Troubled Regions in Palestine GUERRILLA WARFARE IS STILL REPORTED Arabs in NE& Are Und- erstood to Have Rais- ed Turkish Flag JERUSALEM, Aug. 29.—Rioting in this city seems to be ceasing with the arrival of British troops but guerrila warfare is in progress in the Jewish Colonies where the Arabs are burning houses and | granaries. The situation seems controlled “Shuttle’-’WSeeks P_ractia_zl En durance Test CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 29.—The “shuttling” transcontinental mail plane was forced down here when struck by a 5-gallon can of oil during a refucling contact last night on the return flight from New York in an attempt to estab- lish an endurance record. Capt. Eaker, pilot, has made an effort to secure permission to re- attempt the flight. The plare is not damaged. Neither Eaker nor {Thompson were injured in lh.‘: ilanding which was made under| the impression the oil line had been | broken. used | The “shuttle” plane being | (is a single motored Boeing Hornet. | Capt. Ira C. Eaker and Lieut. Ber- nard Thompson are aboard. Mail J1s carricd and discharged and tak- len aboard at all refuelling points. | The army air corps, the post of- | fice department and the United | Aircraft and Transport, Inc., are cooperating in the flight to test the mileage which may be piled up by a standard mail and express: plane over a regular mail route. | It is not an endurance flight in| Capt. Ira C. Eaker (inset) is in charge of the mail plane attempt- today although there are fears of the sense of those which have'jng (o “shuttle” across the country at least five times over the route outbreaks in remote districts. One unconfirmed report states that the Arabs in Nablus have de- clared their independence from England and raised «the Turkish flag. British forces have occupied most of the colonies. Refugees have been taken to Te! | Aviv. | Navy, engaged a hawser stretched| | erew, descended to the plane. The | mooring mast. | plane was i Janded under its own power and| oNE AIH DERBY | the Los Angeles soared away to the i | AR H ELDER TU IVictor in Oakland - Cleve- RUT l land Race by Less | ried here tomorrow. 5 | Seattle Times to Build NEW STUNT IS DEMONSTRATED AT AIR RACES Passenger Is Transferred in «. Midair from Ajrship to Airplane CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 29— Moored overnight to the stub mast, the Navy dirigible Los Angeles, is ready to return to join the Graf Zeppelin at Lakehurst after com- pleting for the first time the trans- fer of a passenger while in flight. -..c maneuver was performed it the National Air Races being held iground out the hours over airports in numerous cities. Four “nurse ships” are along the line of flight the “shuttle” will fol- |low. At cach refuelling point the Ifliers will take on an 1l-hour sup-| ply of gasoline. \ shown. The planc pictured below |\WEDDING CALLED OF | Capt. St. Clair Street and Lieut. | Newton Longfellow, both of the| }army, pilot two of the reiuclixm'INSULL GRUUP | planes while two air mail pilots of | the Boeing system man the others MAY ENLARGE | four-passenger mail carriers in use on the Pacific Coast route of the company. | | Harold T. Lewis, second ranking 'air mail pilot in the United States, and Claire K. Vance, veteran moun- tain. and night flier, will operate the latter. ‘The “nurses” will transfer and take off regular mail from “shut- tle,” will supply the crew clean relothing and other necessities. Since !same of the refuelings will be night i contacts, specially designed lights thave been placed in the landing ‘gear of the refueling planes, to flood the mail planes. The refuel- ing pit of the endurance craft is lighted. | 'This flight, it is claimed, is the first where a motor of more than 1250 horsepower powered the air- !plane. A motor of 525 horsepower is used. Also, it is to be the first to be run at normal cruising speed. is the type used. AFTER VISIT TO MARRIAGE “CLINIC” CHICAGO, Aug. 2).—Recently !Nox:h Shore society was buzzing {about the mystery of a prominent !young couple failing to go through | with their marriage even after the ldutc had been set, the caterer and | florist engaged for elaborate re- | freshments and decorations at- | tending the ceremony. Today the | | | INDICT SIX OF ALLEGED BOMS TRUST, CHICAGO State’s Attorney Swanson Gives Answer to Many Acts of Violence CHICAGO, Il Aug. 20.—A grand ' Jury bomb fused with six indict- ments tered in the Criminal Court tod; the State's Attorney answer to the Chicago Bomb Trust State's Attorney John Swanson, himself a victim of a bomb attack, prior to his elecjion, ordered the arrest of six men whom he char ed with being leaders of the responsible for many acts of lence t few months An undercover man for Swan- son is rcported to have won the confidence of members of the gang and purchased two bombs from the trust. vio- >-oo—— CHATHAMMAIL SERVICE GETS | 600D HEARING Thoroughly Aired Before| Chamber—Vandervoort Tells of Air Mail Plan After an cxtended discussion of | puzzle was solved when the Rev. E. the proposed Juneau-Chatham Ashley Gerhard, rector of Chx-istlfitrait mail route in which Supt. Episcopal church at Winnetka, said ‘' W. C. Vandervoort, of the United he had put them through a matri- |States Rallway Mail Service and | monial clinic and they discovered members of the Chamber of Com- they were unsuited for each other. merce took part, Mr. Vandervoort “They were pust a conventional |assured the Chamber that he would | paje_rushing into a union to which 'thake a comprehensive report on |they had given little thought,” ex- the matter to the Department, and | plained Dr. Gerhard. “Finer youngiwould back this up with a personal people you could not find. Yet, ! conference with the Second As- (when we met in ‘clinic’ and I ex-|sistant Postmaster Geaeral when plained to them something of the he goes to Washington in October. responsibilities involved in mar-| He was a guest of the Chamber |riage and the qualities of character [at its regular weekly meeting at | necessary to carry it through fo noon today. Following the discus- {model, member of a cult which here, when for the first time there| 5 blic' demonstra- ' The pilot rides in an open cock- was made in a public de \pit while the regular express com- tion a transfer in midair. i partment is fitted up for the second Lieut A W. G. Orton, of the ;. yre off quty. This is thof only change made in the stock plane. MENDELL WINS between two uprights to the top of the airplane, to a hook attached to the Los Angeles, After the| contact was established, Lieut. Cal- vin Bolster, of the Los Angeles then wunhooked and —————————— _than 3 Minutes WED TuMURRqu CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 29.— ‘Loren W. Mendell, of Los Angeles, NEW YORK, Aug. 29__wa1t,er‘Ca1., won the Oakland to Cleveland Camp, Jr., head of a moving pic- air race finishing less than three ture company, and Ruth Elder, av- minutes ahead of Joe Barrows, of fatrix, announced they will be mar- Oakland. In the Philadelphia-Cleveland “Where the wedding will be, is race, Everett Willlams, of Green- our business and where we will‘vme, South Carolina, won spend our honeymoon is also our heavy class plane race. J. J. Wes- business,” Camp said. lley Smith, of Philadelphia, won | the light plane race. | Auto-Gyro Plane Yesterday afternoon, Juan de la NCW 51,250,000 P‘allt‘vierva, Spanish inventor, took an :nuf.o-gyro plane into the air be- SEATTLE, Aug. 20.—Col, C. B. fore a grandstand packed with Blethen, publisher of the Seattle spectators and reached a high alti- Times, announced construction of tude and then shut off the motor. a new plant to cost $1,250,000 to re- | The plane sank lowly to ear_th,: place the present plant which has landing gently. A windmill-like | outgrown the present building. ;device operates automatically and | The new building will be outside it is destined to prevent a crash the present business district, it Jslin case of a stalled motor. said. N oo o S 7 — | Mrs. L. Kane, merchant of Hoo- Mrs. Ellen G. Hurlbutt of Tabor, nah, and her daughter Miss Pat Towa, has attended the same church Kane, left for the south on the for 69 years. ‘Yukon. : FOREST FIRE EXPLODES GUN OF TRAPPER;, SKELETON 1S FOUND, LEWIS CLARK FOREST the!g SAMUEL _ INSULL, NEW YORK, Aug. 29.—Recent aggressive action ‘by the Insull group of utilities in the middle west has revived reports of impending hostilities with the Morgan group in the east. Eastern power executives s however, that the prospect of se ous competition between the domi- nant personalities in the utility in- dustry east of the Rocky Moun- tains is remote. “This is an era of cooperation,” said one, “not of fighting for spe- cial group advantages with all the waste, that such a policy involves.” The number of persons who can claim to have kept abreast of the swift changes in the utility out- Iook is small. 3 imate that most of the spi tors, big and little, who have made the re- cent booming market for atility shares, have never made a serious y of the various merger pro- Few have considered what stu- pendous developments hinge on whether J. P. Morgan and Samuel Insull elect to compete or cooper- ate. Outside of the chief executive and statisticlans of management and holding companies the finan- cial ramifications of power, light, traction, water and gas enterprises on any one day are largely a mat- ter of conjecture. Maps exist which show the week to week kaleidoscopic changes in ownership and management of vari- ous units in all parts of the coun- try, but these are seldom avail- able to the public. A glance at one will show ground for the assumption that the Mor- gam group may clash with the In- sull group, In certain sections neither can expand much farther without treading on the other's toes. |success, they agreed they were not ready for marriage and canceled the arrangements. Their action was entirely to their credit.” For several years Dr. Gerhard has been conducting his matrimonial clinics and believes them to be ILh:' best preventive of divorce. “The plan by which I work pro- vides for a conference between the prospective bride and groom and the rector at least a day ahcad of the ceremony. We have a frank and open discussion as to the meaning of marriage, its import- {ance and the part man and wife !must play in union. In several cases the young people have agreed \they were taking the step too hastily, or inadvisedly and post- poned or dropped their plans en- tirely. I am confident in all these instances the union would have gone on the rocks and ended in the diverce courts.” e THREE PERISH IN N. Y. FIRE NEW YORK, Aug. 29. — Three persons were killed and 11 injured when fire destroyed a four-story tenement house on the lower West Side this morning. Charles Hol- lander was killed when he leaped from a window. The bodies of Mrs. Sophie Brunwasher and her 17- year-old son were found in the ruins of the house. BUDAPEST, Hungary, Aug. 29.— Hitherto Budapest has been the Reno of Europe, where ill-assorted couples could obtain divorces lit- erally while they waited. Hundreds of them flocked hither, especially from the Catholic coun- tries, among them an exceptionally | | | sion of the Chatham Strait route,; he-expressed confidence that an air mail route would be established be- tween Seattle and Juneau in the not distant future. Investigating Route Mr. Vandervoort said frankly the main object of his visit to Juneau was to investigate the Chatham Strait matter. In establishing the present service, it was based on Ketchikan, because the Department felt that it was of prime importance to get the mail from the States tp points on the route, and from them to the States as quickly as possible. In fact, he added, this factor has been the governing one in the mak- ing up of Alaskan mail schedules. Mail dispatched from Seattle to points on the Chatham Strait route, distributed from Ketchikan, should reach the points of destination by the time the same mail would ar- rive in Juneau on the regular steamers. And this fact had been given weight in making the origi- nal route. Gets Other Viewpoint To Mr. Vandervoort was present- ed by the Chamber, the views and desires of the residents along the route as well as those of local in- terests. The people affected along the route do more business with Juneau than with Scattle, have more communication locally than with the States, and in order to ob- viate delays incident to the present roundabout service arc petitioning the department to change the route to a local base. Communications with Territorial and Federal offi- (Continued on P—a;v P}xghh) BUDAPEST NO LONGER IS RENO FOR EUROPE, the divorce court mow must call the parties together and endeavor to bring about a reconciliation. If that is not possible, they are given 30 days to conmsider whether they will resume wedded life. Then they are called together again and, in case only one party BOY KILLS DAD AS | | | | i Richard Howard, 11, (left) fata right) Los Angeles automobile dea have struck Mrs. Howard. MEMBER OF CHICAGO ONE L'AYS; EATS AND LYONS, Colorado, Aug. 29.—On a cot under his tent, the lifeless withered form of a Chicago art came to the virgimr wildernéss and| peaceful valley to seek “youth, truth and health,” was found yes- terday, a victim of starvation in- stead of youth and health. Chris Solburg, aged 40 years, w found dead. Solburg had completed a fast of 31 days. He began eating solid food. The fast had reduced him from 160 pounds to 85 pounds. After couisuming several sand- wiches, friends said he was in agony and soon died. The Chicago cult received con- siderable publicity when ranchers reported members running around | without clothes and taking n- | baths. The authorities demanded that they at least wear a sun suit. With Solburg’s death, only a few | members of the cult remain and all except one has quit fasting. AIR PILOT IS FINED HUNDRED CULVER CITY, Cal, Aug. 29.— Lester A. Carson, airplane pilot, has been fined $010 for violating an or-| dinance prohibiting fliers to pass over the city under 1,500 feet ele- vation. Carson was arrested yesterday by Major Robert Blair, Policeman Pilot, who sighted the plane flying low over a motion picture studio. Carson is the first person ar- rested under the new ordinance. = - Sleeping Sickness Is Spreading ; Many Deaths Are Reported TOKYO, Aug. 29.—Sleeping sick- ness, prevalent in Southwestern Prefectures, continues to spread, particularly in Kagawa and Hiro- shama. Complete figures show a total of 349 cases with 136 deaths. S ee-— William McKay Passes SEATTLE, Aug. 29.—William ber of the Washington State Leg islature, died recently at Mayo, Yukon Territory. It is reported here that he had been in the INJURED IN Away at Mayo, in Yukon! R.| McKay, aged 76 years, former mem- | "COUPLE QUARREL BIANT AIRSHIP LOOPS LOOP IN RECORD FLIGHT Actual Flying Time Is Less than Twelve Days for Round Trip i ECKENER PLANS VISIT | TO POINTS IN U. S. {Cmmander Will Remain in || America—Lehman in | Charge, Return Trip i LAKEHURST, N. J, Aug. 20— Looping the loop around the world, ione of the greatest exploits of fly- ing history, the Graf Zeppelin set- tled to carth here at 7:13 a. m. |Eastern Standard time, just 21 ,days, 7 hours and 33 minutes after |leaving here on the 20,000-mile | journey. The actual flying time was 11 days, 23 hours and 14 minutes. ! The last leg of the flight was |completed in 51 hours and 59 min- ,utes, from Los Angeles to Lake- hurst. | Eckener to Remain { Upon completion of the world iflight, Dr. Eckener announced that he will not return to Priedrichs 2 0 =" |shafen with the Graf but will spend ssociated Press Photos 3 o Pran IS P, - sk e o et S ¢r; when his father was said to : plans to visit Washington, D. C,. and Akron, Ohio. £ Capt. Ernest Lehman will be in The previous record for & rou world trip was made by John Hen ry Mears and C. B. Collyer year when they circled the e in 23°days, J5 hours. ._z(“xmn%;x utes, ‘using planes over land and ship across oceans. VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. o' The weather was perfect for the 29.—Albert Voight, of Los e !completion of the Graf tour. Angeles, on a veyage from Ship Is Lowered Juneau, Alaska, to New York Operations of lowering the air- City, via the Panama canal, ship were completed with perfect in a 16-foot walrus hide precision and the crowd was handled kyak, arrived here Tuesday e |without trouble by the well-drilled night. He will spend a few e soldiers and marines. days here before proceeding ti The entire scene was one of ut- southward. @ | most unconcern. Passengers were kept aboard the Graf until in the hangar when they disembarked and were taken to New York on a train, - THINK DANIEL BOONE CARVED TURTLE'S SHELL INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 29.—Be- cause its undershell bore the in- | scription, “D. Boone, 1760,” a small, ordinary looking turtle has come under official notice. The turtle was found by Ralph Lyons of Wingate, Ind., while he was shocking wheat on a farm. Statehouse officials compared the lettering on the shell with those Boone inscribed on a tree when he killed a bear. The signatures bore a resemblance, they said. If a hoax, those who examined the turtle said, the perpetrator had not lived to know the outcome. ‘The inscription had been made years ago. - Uses Strap from Artificial Leg to IA ttempt Suicide CULT, FASTS THIRTY THEN DIES IN AGONY Bound from Juneau To New York, Reuches Viancouver ,,,,, DY . Voight left Juneau at 10:55 o'clock on the morning of ® June 27. . 00 cece 00000 PLANE CRASH Assistant Secretary Com- merce in Accident— Plane Wrecked BRIDGEPORT, N. J., Aug. 29.— William McCracken, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce, in charge of aeronautics, was slightly hurt last night when an airplane which he was flying from Cleveland to welcome the Graf, was wrecked in a forced landing. The plane struck telephone wires twice and landed upside down. McCracken suffered a cut on the knee. The pilot escaped with a sprained back. The accident was caused when the plane ran out of gasoline. e - Ray, daughter of L. V. Ray, prominent lawyer of Seward, is a southbound passen= ger on the Yukon on her way to Seattle where she will attend the University of Washington durin the coming yeal | DENVER, Colorado, Aug. e 29.—William Gibson, a pris- @ oner in the City Jail, serv- ing a 100-day sentence for disorderly conduct, attempt- ed to commit suicide in his cell last night by hanging himself with a strap torn from his artificial leg. . . . . Miss Patricia . o . . . MOST WOMEN SOLONS BACK UP PROHIBITION EVANSTON, Ill, Aug. 20.-—~Wom-| {en help make the laws of all but {10 states in the Union, and a ma- jority are “dry.” Strangely enough, thinks the W. C. T. U. all women lawmakers in the “wet” states of Illinois, Massa- chusetts and New York, are dry. A survey by the Women's Chris- | However, the one woman member GREAT FALLS, Mont., Aug. 29.| The fire fighting crews heard —————,————— large proportion from Italy. appears, divorce is not granted at| North since 1898. It is said he —The skeleton of a trapper, which has lain undisturbed for years, per- haps half a century, has been un- covered by a forest fire in the Lewis Clark Forest. The skeleton was found when bullets from the trapper’s old gun' exploded from the heat of the' flames, lnnd two bottles of trappers’ pcison. son Highway. the explosion and then found the ¥ skeleton. M. S. Wilson, Alaska representa- The man had apparently been tive of Blake, Moffitt & Towne, killed by an animal, on the spot|wholesale paper dealers, returned! where he had made his camp. The 'home today on the Yukon after a rifle was beside the skeleton with trip to western and interior Alas- a date of 1873 upon it. There was ka. He made an auto trip over an old iron skillet, of the type Steese Highway to Circle and came long off the market, a salt shnker“out to the coast over the Richard- The judges did not place any dif- ficulties in their way, showing they were content with the simple plea of incompatibility of temper. The lines waiting for the judicial an- nulment became so long that a parliamentary deputy called the attention of the minister of justice to what he called a scandal. Under new orders the judges of all. Should both appear. at the hearing and still remain refractory against reconciliation, the judge names another and longer pefiod during which they must reconsider their situation, and only after that term has expired without a for- giving spirit having been displayed in both partners does the tribunal finally grant a decree, has left valuable mining interests. .- ALABAMA WATCHES PRISONS MONTGOMERY, Ala.—Radio re- ceiving sets in all State penal in- istitutions, and four machine guns for the walls of Kilby State Prison were ordered after a series of prison riots in various other parts of the tian Temperance union shows thfl!';ol the Georgla legislature is classed women sit in the legislatures of 381,45 4 wet, and the lone Nebraska states. | woman solon is referred to as “not They report that 5¢ out of 76 |in fayor of prohibition.” | women representing 29 states are listed as dry. Sentiment of repre-} The W. C. T. U. mentions that sentatives in nine states was not | Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, un- ascertained. iul recently the assistant United Twenty-eight feminine legislators|States attorney general in charge jare members of the W. C. T. U.jof prohibition prosecution, is a country. whose headquarters are here, lmembor. .