The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 15, 1929, Page 1

VOL. XXXIV.. NO. 5229. AILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SKA, TUESDAY, KEYMAN OF GANG MURDERS BE ALASKA BRANCH OF BUREAU MAY BE MOVED HERE Transfer of Bureau of Edu- cation Here from Seattle Indicated Transfer within a few weeks of radquarters of the Alaska Divis- jon of the Federal Bureau fo Edu- cation from Seattle to Juneau is cated in an Associated Press patch received by The Empire tod and confirmed by advices rcceived by Gov. George A. Park The Governor said he had been asked by Jonathan Wagner, Chief of the Division, to sccure tenders on office space here for his of- ficial quarters, him floor plans and rental figures in 1800 feet of office room. Re-Organization Planned The Empire’s advices from the Accociated Press at Seattle, said: “Re-organization of the Federal Bureau of Education by Commis- sioner William John Cooper will prcbably mean the transfer of the Seattle office to Alaska, is the be- lief of Jonathan Wagner, Chief of the Alaska Division, United States Bureau of Education, with headquarters in Seattle. Mr. Wag- ner has just returned from Wash- ington where he conferred with Dr. Cooper about the prospective re-organization. “Juneau probably will become new headquarters of the Alaska Division, it is believed here. The Purchacing Department probably in Seattle when Mr. Wagner is ordered north, it is| also belleved. Mr. Wagner said| he did not know what other agen- cy the administration of the Alas- kan educational system could be turned over to, and is inclined to the view that the reindeer and medical branches of the Alaska Di- ision might be turned over to other Department of the| official for administra- will remain some Interior tion.” No Information Here No information is available here relative to changes in the Bureau’s| crganization. It is known, how- ever, that there has been some discussion of freeing the education- al bureau from the burden of ad- ministering the reindeer activities for Eskimos and Indians, which are growing to substantial size and| require a great deal of time and| work, and, also, the medical relief work among those races that the Federal government is extending annually on larger scale. Commenting on the view ex- pressed by Mr. Wagner, that these two agencies would be turned over to some other official of the In- terior Department, Gov. Parks said he had npt received any offi- cial notice of such action being contemplated. ——— Babe Ruth Not ! and has submitted | To' Be Manager Of N. Y. Yankees PHILADELPHia, Penn, Oct. 15.—Babe Ruth will not manage the New York Yan- kees in 1930. The big slug- ger identified himself as the “right infielder of the Yan- kees” with no managerial aspirations at this time. He said he will be a candidate sometime as manager of 'some major club, but not now. . ° . . . . 3 . 2 e . . ° ° The longest solo airplane tour ever made by a woman fiyer, covering a | total of more than 12,000 miles ove: six States, was completed without her Curtiss Fledgling training bij ' Country Club in Hicksville, L. I, recently. *-+senational Newsresl el ‘Ruth Nichols Cotfiifiéteg Record Flight TODAY; IS OFF i | ke i ':Is Reported to Be Undam- | aged—Unalga Answers ‘ Assistance Call , Junecau bound is believed to have in a heavy fog, and carried by i moving tide rips \went aground, stern first, at the south end of Wrangell Narrows at about 4:50 o'clock this morning. i | Steamer Alame from Secattle, lost the w i Calls for assistance were im-= mediately sent out, especially to the Coast Guard cutter Unalga. at Juneau the stranded vessel was unzble to turn her propellor. The how was in deep water. The cutter Unalga immediately got under way fr Juneau but turned back when a radic was re-} 5 jceived from the Alameda staling |that the liner had refloated at 8 o'clock, apparently undamaged and was proceeding toward Junedw, H ! Weather Calm | | The weather at the time of the | | accident was calm near the ship. | Several vessels are reported to have put out from Wrangell in. ranswer to the distress calis. i The Alameda has 56 passengers ‘z\bcar(l and crew of 80 men. The steamer left Seattlc last Saturday | morning at 9 o'clock for the South-! cast and Southwest Alaska routes. {The steamer left Ketchikan at 5] {o'clock yesterday afternoon. | Passengers Aboard Juneau passengers, from Seattle, | aboard the Alameda are as fol- r ninety-two different cities in forty- |jow: a mishap when Ruth Nichols landed | Ed Levy, J. H. Hendrickson, H. plane at the Long Island Avintiun’ y . H. 1. Lucas, Jr., Mrs. H, | Lee Lucas, O. A. Knight, 8. C. CHINESE SPECULATORS TURN FROM LONDON MARKETS TO W ALL STREET By MORRIS J. HARRIS ! (A. P. Correspondent) SHANGHAI, Oct. 15—The Chi- nese speculator has discovered the New York stock market. It took him a long time to find out that such a place existed but now he, has started to deal in American ocks and bonds, Shanghai hears less about priccs on the London exchange. In recent months large sums have been invested in such stocks as General Motors, General Elec- tric, U. S. Steel and Radio. Accord- ing to one of the local dealers in investment securitics, this tenden- cy to forsake the European mar- kets 'is becoming more pronounced |or before the 16th of each month.|the steamer’s stern was on a sandy | | M. Tuckett, Grover Winm, | |M. Delebuque, Mrs. T. Knudson,! |B. F. Baker, E. <. Wonderly an wife, R. Hancock, Harriet Sey, and | three steerage. | The Alameda is due in port at 8:30 o'clock. Unalga Gets Call And it is purcly speculative. No} A call for assistance was pick- one either takes or delivers gold up by the Unalga at 4:50 o'elock bars, but buyers and sellers alike (this morning when Capt. Wester- must cover their transactions onlund, of the Alameda radioed that and fortunes are made and lost en it over-night. On the average 100,000 fictitious beach but he was unable to turn gold bars change hands daily. i propellor and needed assist< In the course of a ycar many a ance. rich man has lost his all on this| Later another radio was received ! exchange while clerks and even of- |that a tug was alongside and ef- fice boys have made huge sums. A [forts would be made to refloat at striking example is that of a youth, (high tide. just out of school. He had $200 'he Unalga, at the time of re- but no prospect of a job, so hejceiving the call, was cleaning boil- started speculating.- Today he is [ers. Whistles were blown and all a multimillionaire and still trying |crew ashore were summoned aboard, to double his capital. steam was raised and at 7 o'clock There is another story going the |the Tnalga, Comdr. E. 5, Addi- daily. Clerks, shopkeepers, bank- ers and professional men are now switching to Wall Street. i This sudden turn does not mean| that the Chinese are just beginning| to speculate. They have been| speculators in the fullest sense of the word since time immemorial and in 1921 there were no less than 150 stock exchanges with total capital of $100,000,000, in Shanghai alone. That number has today dwindled to six, the Shanghai Gold Bar Exchange, the Stock and Bond Exchange, the Produce Exchange, Chinese Cotton Goods Exchange, Flour Exchange and the Oil and! Bean Exchange. Missionaries in China call these establishments “gambling hells.”! The Chinese refer to them as| “Business emporiums.” To the native mind, the man who specu-} lates is.not a “gambler” but an “op- portunity seeker.” And they are sincere believers in this logic. The Gold Bar Exchange is the most important of the six. It is probably the largest speculative concern of its kind in the orient MOTOR TOOL HARD AS DIAMONDS DETROIT, Oct. 15.—Experiments made by German scientists during the world war in the production of a substitute for diamonds needed in the manufacture of precision in- struments have been taken advan- tage of to provide certain tools in American automobile factories. Developing the German experi- ments American scientists have pro- duced a material so hard that it scratches glass like a diamond and named it carboloy. It is a tung- sten carbide and has been called the hardest material ever manu- factured commercially by man. . Harder than the hardest of high- | speed steel, its ingredients are car-| bon, cobalt and tungsten. Carbolay is used in automobile jandths of an inch, ALLOY factory work to provide tips for steel cutting machinery in several precision operations. ‘While ap- proximating the hardness of a dia- mond, carboloy is slightly less brit- tle and therefore does not chip so easily. Artificial diamonds have been| produced by subjecting carbon “to tremendous heat and pressure, but the cost has -proved prohibitive. Manufacture of carboloy also is relatively expensive, but only al very small piece is required—just enough to produce a tip weighing six to 12 grams on a base of steel.! It is possible with the new sub-| stance to hold cutting operations to within the limits of two ben-thmu-: lty “chicken farm” killings, . [ teamed south. Later a radio rounds, equally igteresting and pos- |50 Steal g i sibly more significant. Three years |was received from th‘e Alameda that ago a Chinese clerk, who was earn- | 1¢ ship was off, “proceeding to ing $15 a month in onc of the| e foreign banks of Shanghai, noticed that gold bars were fluctuating between 330 and 450. He had $35 as capital but within three months | he was worth $100,000. Then he quit his job and began plunging. Recently he plunged into the Whangpoo river. He had lost every penny. | The other five exchanges in| Shanghai are similar in character. | They are all crowded from the opening each day until the clos- ing hour and the speculators range in station from clerks to bank Petersburg, everything O. K.” Unalga then returned to port. TARIFF BILL CONTROVERSY | TOUBH ISSUE Means for Expediting Ac- tion Undertaken by presidents, All are “oppertunity | seekers,” a la mode. ! Party Leaders ——————— grisminy WASHINGTON, Oct. 15—In face of the growing controversy on re- |sponsibility for the sluggish pace of the Senate’s tariff bill, party leaders have renewed search for |some means of expediting action |and bring the issue to a final vote 0000000000000 o TODAY’S STOCK [d QUOTATIONS el ®0 000000000000 NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today at 7%, Alleghany Corporation 46%, American Smelting 112'%, Bethle- hem Steel 116%, Continental Mot- ors 11%, Corn Products 120%, Fox| Films 99%, General Motors 65%, International Harvester 111'%, In- ternational Paper A 39%, Interna- tional Paper B 29%, National Acme 32, Pan-American B 65%, Stand- ard Oil of California 74, Standard Oil of New Jersey 80%, Texas Cor- poration 64%, U. S. Steel 223%. before the closing of the special session. A request has been made from the Republican sponsors that its opponents cooperate in an effort to evolve some method of keeping the measure from running over into the regular session. This re- quest has led to continuation of conferences among factional chief- tains. 1 A general understanding is that |debate be limited rather than as a definite agreement and this is regarded as promising a solution of the problem. e —— Former Premier of Belgium Dies Suddenly| BADEN BADEN, Germany, Oct. 15—De la . Croix, former Belgium Premier and his Government's or- ganization expert on the Interna- tional Bank Committee here, died {today as a result of heart attack. He attended the meetings of the committee yesterday and was ap-‘ Northcott Visits Condemned Son and Wife, Now in Prison SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal, Oct. 15—Cyrus Northcott, father of Gordon Stuart Northcott, and husband of Sarah Northcoit, came here to visit his son and wife. The son is condemned to hang and his wife js serving life sentence for the Wineville, Riverside Coun- OCTOBER 15, ALAMEDA GOES | parently in good health, Jar 1929. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS S UMPIR CALLS o “THOSE PRESENT” A Park showing the (Picture by t 'ephoto from Chicago). ma of Wrigley ries of 1929 get underway. PLAY BALL! BISH world's OP STARTS IT AND GROU Press telephoto of the opening play in the world series. Associated nects but is ont at Umpire Dineen behind the plate. WORLD SERIES |MIAMI NOW FIGURES ARE | THREATENED NOT SOLARGE HIEH WATER ]‘Rk‘bidcllls of One Suburb Evacuating—Huge Lake Is Formed ! MIAMI, Florida, Oct. 15.—Drain- | : ditches overflowing from re- | heavy rains have caused an | French Cabinet Will Accept Naval | Bid of British PARIS, Oct. A French Cabinet has decid- ed to formally accept the British invitation to partici- pate in the five power naval limitation conference in Len- don, tentatively set for next January. eccee00eceeese S S HUGE AIRSHIP The Attendance Smaller anc Receipts Larger than Re- cent 4-Game Contests CHICAGO, Oct. 15, 'he attend- apce at the »fifth game of the lake to converge on the | World Series at Philadelphia wa near Miami and other GRUISES OVER 200921, The total atendance for in Southeast Florida. | the five games was 190,490. In the fifth game each contend- |a ing club received $31,683.35 and each of the leagues received equal amount. In the five totals each club receiv $96, and each league the same. The National Commission’s share was $85,940.40. re The total receipts were $859,490. |che The players’ share was $388,086.66. | Miami s! The atténdance was ghtly smaller this year in the fi s are flooded by | ¢ of water but the expected to reach! not Miami proper. Haileah, is slowly moving irom the flood, faced with the prospect of com- evacuation as water is al- ding within a few in- eral feet deep in the rb and an increase of | 11 make living condi erous, in Makes 300 Mile Trial Flight plete to The dirigible R-101 has made stanls and bleachers jammed with humanity just as the S. E. ENGLAND the immediate puth.}Largc;t Aircraft in World of fines should they choose to con- CARDINGTON, England, Oct. 15. 00-mile trial flight over southeast- PRICE TEN CENTS LIEVED IN CUSTODY SUSPECT HELD " WHO MAY GIVE - GANG SECRETS Series of Questions Are Prepared for Biege | to Answer LETTERS OF THREAT | GIVE FORTH CLUE %Woman Writes to Al Ca- pone for CHICAGO, L, Oct. 15.— . The State Attorney teday theld in custody a man he be- lieves helds the key to some of the most vicious gang murders in recent years. The man is Frank Biege, alias Parry Being. He will ———— be asked the following ques- tions: “Who killed McSwiggin, As- stant State Atterney, who was assassinated in front of the Pent Cafe, in April, three . years ago” | “Were you one of the men 'who took part in the execu- tion of seven of ‘Bugs’ Moran 'gangsters, lining them against 'a wall and shooting them down last Valentine’s Day?” Biege's arrest was the re- el of three I¢*tars whitien by Biege's wife to Al Capope, “in jail in Philadelphia, for gun toting. In the letters, Mrs. Biege asked for $10,000 from Capone with the threat to “tell everything” if he fail- ed to give her the money. | .. - i { 24 TWO PASTORS PANTAGESCASE | Are Adjudged in Contempt . . 5 of Court for Their o Utterances o LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 15— o The Rev. Robert Shuler and Rev. o Custav Briedleb have been ad- o Judged in contempt of court in connection with utterances during ithe recent trial of Mrs. Lois Pan- rages. | Three Superior Court judges en banc concurred in the fining of |Rev. Shuler $75 and Rev. Briedleb $25. i The fines are payable when judg- ment is formally entered. There is no alternative. Jail sentences are also provided, the pastors being subject to civil suit for collection | Rev. Shuler said he cxpected to pay his fine. | Rev. Briedleb served notice he would ask for a review by higher 8 courts. Rev. Shuler was fined for an al- |leged radio statement that “Mrs. = iz . : C 1 England. The huge airship - contest v.h.urx in the r:);n-@ con - iy TR ihat. Al f’n‘?_lagcsv ]‘:”l;’was :ur'n; befu;e the es ot apaond 177, 58 A |Londoners could sec the largest! oo HaCnE B tecge GASBOAT DAMAGED ceipts were some lar atten ce in -the New Louis contest was 199,075 afrship in the world The R-101 cost E Major G. H BY FIRE YESTERDAY o and the gland $5,000,000. | tt, Commander, name the man who will hang it.” | Rev. Briedleb is accused of at- tempting to influence the court by receipts $777,200, In 1 in th o i 4 3 ' an alleged statement from the pul- New ' York-Pittsburgh contest the| The gasboat Alice, Capt. F. Gillis, |52id the flight was ‘very saisfac- [y, w1 pelieve it would have & attendance was 201,105 and the re-|who is also owner, suffered con-|'orY: The air liner averaged & cojueqry offect upon ,soclety in o ceipts $783,217. iderable damage last night from |SPeed of 55 miles an bour and had (oo ora) if s was found guilty The largest attendance and la fire starting from an unknown |® Parachute drill which ufcovered |, 0" given sonue prison time.” 49 est receipts at any World wuse in the pilot house. The Pire |the fact there were 52 persons PN D contest were in 1926 in the |aboard but only 50 parachutes. game contest between the & Nationals and New York Ameri- cans, 328501 attendance and $1,- Department was called out about 0 pm. and succeeded in v‘mn-‘ hing the blaze before it spread | , other parts of the craft. jon speed trials. The voice of Big Ben, the chimes Experts expect the airship will i the British Parliament house, reach a speed of 85 miles an hour has become a trifle hoarse after 70 years, Englishmen complain. 207,864 receipts. e ,—— Mrs. E. G. Tuttle . Is Granted Divorce RENO, Nevada, Oct. 15.—Mrs Eleanor Gould Tuttle has beer granted a divorce here from Don- ald Stewart Tuttle, New York Cit broker. They were married at Lyons Fall, N. Y., on October 6, The boat has been hauling fish !~ the Douglas J It wbout 8 p.m. tire was in the stove or anywhere | Ise on it when he came up qun.[ arrived in port here| WRANGELL, Alaska, Oct. flame: Two bunks there were F. C. Ween oyed and other damage done here enroute e room {hunt in the >+ i The moose Maddux Airlines of S8an Franeisco | S and is begun to three-daily airplane [tific interest. 8 passenger schedule to Los Angeles. 'usual brown eyes. n hom Cassiar distriet. ire to arouse The hid> & al- cannery for some-| SNOW WHITE MOOSE KILLED BY NEW YORK 15.— |most pure white. The antlers are He returned to find the pilot houss |A snow white moose was killed by , of New York, who is after a game Defoe Mountain, Northern British ' ibemg shipped to New York. The white moose was killed on Columbia, 300 miles northeast of is above the average] Wrangell. v scien-/| The animal had th}i.Morgan Company of New York Weems is associated with J. P. City, I Capt. Gitlis said no| MAN WHILE HUNTING IN CASSIAR DISTRICT =