The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 3, 1929, Page 1

urday. THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE VOL XXXIV NO 5 193. ]UNEAU ALASKA, TUESDAY SLPTEMB[:R 3, 1929 X GRAF ZEPPELIN IS HOMiz. BOUND OVER ATLANTIC Craft Attemptin; to Break| Record—Bull: ¢ Is Found in FRIEDRICH!HAFEN, Sept. 3.—Racing tor-ard the| home port intent on breaking | the round the world t me, the freighter Exhibitor f the| American Export Line, radio-| ed today that the Graf Zep- pelin, which asked for weath- | er conditions was about 2.000% miles east of New York. The| Graf expected to reach the| European coast late today. LEAVES LAKEHURST LAKEHURST, N. J, Sept. 3.— The Graf Zeppelin took off at 7:18] o'clock Eastern Standard time, Sun- Hole ‘ank’ day morning for Friedrichshafen.|_ _At 7:17 p. m. Sunday she was 1.020 | miles east and slightly south of | Lakehurst. Aided by favorale winds, the Graf was then far over the ocean on the fifth crossing. The airship carries 22 passengers ‘and the five motors were carrying the eraft at such speed that Fried- | richshafen was expected to be then reached by early Thursday morn- ing. Lehmann in Command The Graf is flying homeward under command of Capt. Ernest Lehmann. Dr. Eckener saw the ship off, then boarded a train for Cleveland to attend the National Air Races. From there he will go to Akron, Ohio, and inspect two new dirigibles being econstructed for_the United States Niwy. He will sail for Germany next Sat- May Break Record The Graf is expected to break her won time of 55 hours and 24 minutes to Friedrichshafen and round the world time from Lake- hurst to Lakehurst of 21 days, 7 hours and 26 minutes. Avoiding possible storm centers | over the North Atlantic, the Gra(\ kept on a southerly course toward the Azores. Carries Bullet Hole The Zeppelin is carrying a bul- let hole of mysterious origin in one of the fuel tanks. The mem- bers of the crew believe the hole was made while flying over Texas but no information has been di- vulged on the basis for this belief. The patched hole is causing no wncem. ELEVEN LIVES LOST IN FIRE Charred Bodles of Six Members of One Family | Found in Ruins | e I SMETHWICK, England, Sept. 3.} —FEleven persons, six of them of one family named McDonald, lost their lives yesterday morning in a fire which originated in a confec- tioner’s store. The flames spread to a theatre apartment. Three others are in a hospital suffering severe injuries. Several families were trapped in the burning building. Some es- caped by jumping from the third story windows. Firemen searching the ruins found the remains of the McDonald family, father, mother and children huddled together. The father, mother and son cof a family named Jones, also per- ished as did a Mrs. Aston and a crippled unknown person. Twenty-eight persons lived in the apartments. Search revealed the charred bod- ies in beds or hanging over gird-l ers, where the floors had been| burned away. I A great crowd watched the fire- men and pitiable scenes were wit- nessed as relatives watched the re- moval of the bodies. Lady Mary Heath Is Improving After Crash, CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 3.— Lady Mary Heath, injured in an airplane landing last Thursday, is improved and chances of recovery are now better but there is a| |Site for Fourth 'School Made Known {with Washington, ) ‘Portland, Ore., artist, were Killed Wown on Mt. shuknhan, in the fore; ~ Associated Press Photos Thelma Martin, (inset) Seattle, Wash,, librarian, and K. Furuya, | in a sudden storm which swept ground. - AUGUST BLIZZARD TAKES TWO LIVES [;P.EEN; DAV|S, GIVE MESSAGE ON LABOR DAY quk of American Federa- tion and of Department Are Exploited WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—In a abor Day me: e to the Ameri- an people, William Green, Presi- dent of the American Federation »f Labor, urged those who have mis- | understood Labor to study the' movement and basc their findings on the records. “To the unorgan- ized, I wish to impress upon them the fact that as long as they rer main voiceless in* the affairs ei men, they must accept whatever | wages, hours and working cordi- ! tions their employers may deter- mine without consultation with said President Green. Reviewing the efforts of the Fed- | eration in behalf of compulsory education laws, President Greep | said: Alaska Industrial WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.— The Interior Department an- nounces that upon recom- mendation of Commissioner Cooper, of the Bureau of Education, it has been decid- ed to establish an industrial school for Indians on Shoe- maket Bay, four miles from Wran il - Fiveg: \mmttes bid for the school—Shoemaker, Sax- man, Metlakatla, Mason homestead and Klawock. ‘When the industrial school is established it will be the fourth of the kind in Alaska. | | i i . ° ° L < © ° ° . . . . . ©ee 0000000000 —e———— BETTER SHIP SERVICE, ONE ALASKA NEED | Jefferson Myers Will Seek| Government and Mail | Aid for North { i PORTLAND, Ofe., Sept. 3.—Jef-| ferson Myers, Shipping Board mem- | ber from Oregon, has just return- ed from Alaska and he said the| Territory needed a ship service from the States 12 months of the year {rather than four or five months. He said he intended to seek “Gov- ernment and mail aid” for the pur- pose. “I intend taking the matter up D. C, officials, especially Senators McNary of Ore- gon and Jones of Washington,” said Myers. “This service is to increase tourist travel and draw in-| vestors. Five hotels should be con- structed, one each in five cities! to cost $1,000,000.” ———o——— FLIER'S BODY IS WASHED UP May Plove o B One of Two Swiss Aviators Missing on Flight LISBON, Portugal, Sept. 3.—Be- lief is held that the body of one of the “two youthful Swiss fliers, missing since August 19, when they | miles, miles; jand Charles Jenne started in an attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean has been located and buried at Terceira Beach. Last Friday, 2 body of a man, wearing a rubber suit and aviation goggles, |was washed up on the beach and the villagers buried the corpse. Not until after interment, did the re- might be one of the lost youths. The clothing may be brought to Lisbon in an effort to make identi- fication. In the past three years WINNERS OF SEAPLANE RIDES ARE AN NOUNCED; COZ\TEST MOST LIVELY jiate for children. Mary VanderLeest is the big win- ner in the Alaska-Washington Air- ways guessing contest which closed last Saturday, by being among the five to guess closest to the number of miles traveled by the seaplanes Juneau and Kefehikan between April 15 and August 15, and also among the first five to guess near- est to the actual number of pas- sengers carried, 'The guesses which won her the rides were 50,200 miles, 180 miles fewer than the actual 150,380 which the planes traveled; and 860 passengers Which is. the correct number. Will Receive Two Rides As a reward, Miss VanderLeest will receive twp free rides in. the seaplane Ketchikan, piloted by An- scel C. Eckmann, one down to Taku Glacier and another over Menden- hall Glacier. Others to win the Taku trip, by being among the clos- est five in the mileage contest were: Eleanor Gruber with 50,175 Jeanr Faulkner with 50,600 Art Ficken with 50,500 miles with 50,261 miles. Other Winners Are The other winners of the Men- |denhall trip were: Byron Ela with 8 5 passengers; Wallis George with 860 passengers; 860 passengers and Harold Zenger with 864. Three of the guesses in the passenger contest were exact, 1860, those of Mary VanderLeest, |Arthur Ela and Wallis George. Over 600 coupons were entered | in the contest by children of Gas- tineau Channel and the mileage iguesses ranged from 850 miles to 3,000,000 and the passengers car- ried from 100 to 250,000. The larg- |est number sent in by any one; person '‘was 100 which Arthur | Ficken brought to the hangar Sat- urday evening, though several others ran close behind. Practically the entire 50,380 miles flown in Alaska waters, over twice the distance around the earth, has been flown by Mr. Eckmann since his epochal nonstop flight to Ju-, neau from Seattle last April. Mr. Eckmann has announced that, weather permitting, the rides will be given next Saturday, the exact| time to be announced later. Ow- ing to the unsettled condition of the weather, however, it may be! necessary to change the date in | which case the winners will be noti- fied through The Empire or by telephone. “The response shawn in the con- test by the children has been even greater than I anticipated and I am only sorry that they can't all be given rides, but maybe theyll' be lucky another time,” Mr. Eck- mann said. ——————— 0000000000000 . TODAY’S ST . L4 QUOTATIONS * . NEW YORK, Sep', 3.—Alaska Ju- neau mine stock is quoted today at 8%, American Ice 507, Ameri-| can Tobacco A 200, American To- bacco B 201, Bethlehem Steel 136%, Continental Motors 14!, Corn Pro- ducts 113%, General Mo s T%, Cudahy 53, $tandard Oil of Cali-| fornia 76'%, Independent Oil and Gas 32%, International Paper A 35%, International Paper B 23%, National Acme 34%, Stewart-War- ner 66%, Texas Corporation 68%. ——o—— The average American automobile lation, we were compelled to go wo Congress and urge an amendment giving Congress the right to legis- | Our idea is to make the law uniform in all states as children in some states are being | exploited by industry. We wanted | them in school instead of in a | workhouse. When men, women and spend what is earned, if they have anything left after paying for the necessities of life, but the Federa- demanding higher wages and short- er hours.” SECRETARY OF LABOR GIVES OUT MESSAGE WASHINGTON, Sept. 3——-73]))? J. Davis, iecrctary ‘ot Labor, terday issued the following Labor Day Message: marked an increase in the dignity and importance of labor’s holiday. “The nation has moved forward into world prestige and its 45 million gainfully employed people; population, have alse moved for- ward into a new place of worth gress. “Wealth has increased and pro- "ducuon has been quickened; but |will which has now come to pass between employers and workers. “The country at large now real- Ilzei more strongly than ever be- fore, that production is dependent | {upon the friendly partnership be- tween employers and workers, and |distress to the one means distress to the other. that in union there is strength, and that cooperation in industry means greater service to the public, profit to those who are fostering indus: try, and liberal wages to the work- ers, “This pelicy has become a fixed one today, because a liberal pay envelope means the ability to pur- chase not only the necessities but some of the luxuries of life as weil. “While we are rejoicing over the iprogress of labor, industry and business, we cannot lose sight of some of the pressing problems which affect us so vitally. There is, of course, the ever-present prob- lem of unemployment, which is re- ceiving added impetus from time to time by rapid institution of ma- chinery, the frequent displacer of some of our most capable hand | workers. “There is also a tendency among jcertain employers to make was- tage of men of 45 and 50 years of age, who are oftimes retired, in order to make way for younger workers. | “Other problems are constantly growing out of immigration, the jurban movement of agricultural |workers, and the coming to work age yearly of approximately 2,000,- 000 boys and girls who are ready {to knock at the gates of opportun- ity. | “But with patience and with the 'understanding and intelligence of both workers, employers and the lcountry's best interests we shall “When we failed in some! states to obtain the necessary legis- | tion of Labor has changed that by | “The passing of each year has, comprising the great bulk of our| and dignity in the country’s pro- | ‘Arthur. Ela wlth!‘)f even greater importance than “Each has reasoned out the truth; — POLICEMEN LISTED AS MEMBERS “SHAKEDOWN” RING W '()RI,I) ENCIRCLING GRAF SAILS PAST GOLDEN GATE I MEMBER OF A b\OLI/\TI D PRESS PRI(‘E TEN CENTS | OFFICERS OF | L0S ANGELES ARE LISTED Federal Court Ofhicials Say Sixty-two Exacting Tribute | P, B3 BOOTLEGGER MAKES CHARGES; ARRESTED i il A Forty-two Page Statement Is Made — Empty 1 Movie House Used : | LOS GELES, Cal., Sept. 3.—The United States Fed- eral Court officials disclosed today that 62 Los Angeles police officers, ranging from captains down to patrolmen, had been listed by them ag members of an asserted “shakedown” ring, exacting tribute from bootleggers. It is also disclosed that & e b | Francisco harbor just at sunset. | children work 10, 12, 14 or more | hours a day, they have no time to | ) i{For Colleague In Congress ST. PAUL, Minn,, Sept. 3. —United States Senator Thomas Schall, Republican, today asked the people of this State to offer prayers for the recovery of his col- league, Senator Henrik Ship- stead, Farmer-Labor, who is i1l In his address, Senator Schall said that although Shipstead “was not a Re- publican, he has been a fighting Senator from Min- nesota and one of the most ® able men in Congress.” . . . ® 0 0300000000000 - e e —— ARE RESCUED, REACH NOME !Seamen fm_m_—W recked Schooner Landed at Al- aska Port by Northland SEATTLE, Sept. 3.—Rescued by ter Northland from the coast of Siberia where they were marooned when the fur ship Elisif was wreck- ed by the ice, 20 seamen have cording to reports received here. One report was from Charles Hunt- ley, wireless operator of the Elisif, to his father Clyne M. Huntley, who resides here. This messuge stated the Elisif’s crew had reached Nome Saturday. He reported a solve these problems just as we /have solved those of years gone by. up in the pay envelopes of our workers.” hectic rtip in launches across the “Let us ever keep in mind that |Straits of Bett but said' he was our country’s prosperity is wrapped | ‘feeling great.” The seamen were rescued from the Little Diomede Island, in Ber- ZEPPELIN MOORS AT END OF | Mistress of the skies, Graf Zeppelin, arrives leg of an aerial voyage around the world. |these is the present spirit of good| — ithe United States Coast Guard cut- | landed safely at Nome, Alaska, ac-! Ending its hazardous air voyage from Japan t> America, the huge silver dirigible in Los Angeles from :TWG BURNEDTO 'DEATH, FLAMING PLANE IN EAST Pilot Throwfiul of Cock- pit but Runs After Craft —Unable to Help WESTERLY, R. I, Sept. 3—Mrs, A. Hunter, aged 31 years, and Mi |Marie Bay, aged 20 years, iburned to death, and Arthur Man- ning, pilot, was injured in a cmck-‘ up on the flying field near here. The plane fell shortly after the |take-off because of motor trotble, jpitching Manning out of the cock- ‘pit He ran after the plane, al- though badly hurt, as it skidded along the ground in flames. When | he reached it, he was unable to| help the women who were strapped to the seats. | e — H 23 PASSENGERS ON CHARLOTTE FOR THIS PORT Canadian Pacific steamer Prin- cess Charlotte, due late this after- noon or evening from the south,| has the following passengers abomd.. for Juneau: Mrs. Edna F. Freeburger, D. Freeburger, Mrs. Elmer Friend, Miss Phyliis Priend, G. Jackson, Mrs. Peterson, Mrs. 8. Godfrey, McLean, Miss | A. b A . L. y, Miss | A. H. Anderson, H. J. W. Sewall and wife, ing Sea, where they made their Mrs. E. Scott, Mrs. W. P, Scott and way after a 500-mile trip in theichild, Mrs. A. W. Sharples, Miss A Richmond, Vs, woman Ileft |Elisif's launches after wrecked on C. Winters, C. Gardiner, Mrs. W.| possibility she will never fly a |trans-Atlantic flights have taken|owner paid $1653 in gasoline tax,$1,000 to assure her pet dog being [the morth Siberian coast on Aug- Strong, A. C. Monroe and wife, plane again. a toll of 23 lives. last year, statistics show. ~enredl&l'lfl'¢therdelflt ust 11, jand C. V."Brennen. PERILOUS JOURNEY (Picture by Lrl(\p)mlo from Los Angeles.) were | o tcold. Harry D. MacDonald, boot- legger, who accused 24 offi- cers of similar practice in a |42-page statement, has been % arrested as a result of Fed- ‘eral investigations extending lover several months. { | An empty movie house has ' ibeen used for liquer storage, land “pay off” station, Mac- i Donald said. 3 S CHICAGD GAFE IS SCENE FOR | CUONMEN'S WA / Man Looki;;:_for Trouble Find It—Police Find His Body | CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 3.—The C land C Cafe, a dim lit cabaret, : became a gunmen’s shooting gal- : lery late Sunday night. Henry Connors went to the place 3 7 looking for troubles and found it. I lane Land of | Connors’s body, with three bulley 501 iets HO]I])”I}{ holes were found by the police in A a passageway. Toward Alaska Others may have been wounded MOSCOW, Sept glides into San Japan to take on fuel for its final as the walls were riddled with bul- & . The e icts, telling of the affray in whieh £ ® airplane Land of Soviets e several gunmen took part when ® has reached Blagoveschensk, e |Connors started shooting. ® one of the principal cities on e | The police believe other gang- # e the Amur River in Eastern e [sters present ran forward with an- A Siberia, from Chita, The e [swering shots. ; next leg will be Kamchatka e| When the policc arrived they enroute to New York City, ."(ouud only Connors' body, waiters via Alaska. e and several women entertnners. - . MOSCOW, Sept. 3—The ®| ’ Land of Soviets has landed e at Khabarovsk, Eastern Si- e | beria, completing the first | stage of the flight across o | UNDER ARREST the Pacific and three con- e tinents. o 5 e esccsneececn Is in Alabama Jail on Charges of Drunkenness, Violating State Law PHOENIX CITY, Alabama, Sept. 3 |3.—J. Thomas Heflin, Jr. son of i ithe United States Senator of Ala- 3 bama, has been jailed on charges of drunkenness and for violating the State prohibition law. B. M. Haines, of Standing Rock, Sept. | |Alabama, was Heflin's companion, 0. K. REDFORD IS KILLED IN PLANE CRASH SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, 3--O0. K. Redford, of Riverside, jand was also jailed on charges of % alifornia, former Army flier and npuaunz an automobile while in- aviation instructor, was killed and |toxicated. i William C. Ranney, of Highlands, aj The police said both men are !student, was injured seriously when |trying to furnish bonds. Relatives i a plane fell 3,500 feet crashing into|nf young Heflin are expected here an orange grove five miles south- today. [ east of here. The pair was arrested when Hef- Witnesses said the plane went lin's automobile, with Haines driv- into a spin and failed to come out ing, was stopped by the police who 1 of it despite the altitude the ma- found three bottles of home brew : chine was in at the time. in the car, ‘Edison Is R(*covermg 1 s | | From Serious Illness § Edison contracted illness on Aug- | CLERMONT, Llwelyn Park, West |ust 14 and for 10 days his condi- ! Orange, N. J., Sept. 3.—Thomas E.|tion was serious but he is now out g Edison is convalescing from an at< of danger, his physician said. 1 tack of pnuemonia, physicians nn- Pdison recently passed his eighty- nounced today. second birthday. 3 The aged inventor's sickness was previously announced as a suxhtl The attending physician said: the inventor would not resume work for twd or three weeks.