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THE DAILY ALASKA E “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XXXV., NO 5257. PRISON BREAK | ISFRUSTRATED IN COLORADO Shake-Dowr—x—-liesulls in| Finding All Sorts of Dangerous Tools TUNNEL DISCOVERED; FREEDOM WAS NEAR Second Sensation in Month Unearthed at Canon City Penitentiary CANON CITY, Colorado, Nov. 16. —More than 50 crudely-made weap- ons have been found inside the walls of the state prison here, where 13 men were Kkilled in a riot on October 30. Knives, daggers, stillettos, black- s, clubs, saws and files were found by a picked squad of 45 guards. | Discovery cf a 10-foot tunnel, which reached to the base of the west wall of the State prison, is believed by officials and guards to| have frustrated an incipient at- tempt to escape from prison. For two days a search has been made of the prison. Sledges, drills and crowbars were found in the underground passage. Five convicts have been placed in solitary confinement. Officials said one or two hours’ work would have sufficed for re- | moving the remaining stones t‘mt‘ barred the way to freedom. ; A small quantity of powder was also found in the tunnel for use | in case the tools failed to place the convicts through the remaln-‘ ing wall. The tunnel was dug since the Octdber riot. - WARDEN DENIES DOUBLE GUARDS AT ILL. PRISON Disclaims Report Extra Men Placed on Duty as Result of Plot JOLIET, Iil, Nov. 16.—Warden | Henry C. Hill has issued a general denial of published reports to the effect that guards at the new Stateville Penitentiary have been doubled upon discovery of a plot by prisoners to shoot and dyna- mite their way to freedom. Prison guards have renewed vigi- lance upon receipts of warnings from a paroled convict that a plot was underway to dynamite the walls. Warden Hill denied that extra precautions had been taken and said the warnings were received six weeks - ago but Brigadier General John V. Clinton, National Guard Commander, who suppressed a mutiny here a decade ago, said a former convict came to him yesterday with word of the con- spiracy. —eo—— ITALY'S KING TO VISIT POPE N < The first visit of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy (left) to Pope Pius at the Vatican, long awaited since the signing of the Lateran February, is Oxpected to take b treaty, la 'Abduct Policeman; Force Him to Aid {In Three Robberies KANSAS CITY, Nov. 16— Two robbers abducted mo- torcycle Policeman Edgar Wileutt and forced him to accompany them to Hick- man Mills, Missouri, where they robbed a bank of $500, and a store of merchandise. They then drove to Leeds, a suburb, where they held up two men and took their au- tomobile.. They drove the car here and released the Policeman unharmed. He had been disarmed and had been forced to walk into the bank ahead of the two rob- bers. @000 0c0cccece00000 00 HIGH SCHOOL BIRLS KILLED Walking Pacific When Run'Into an Automobile ishway CHEHALIS, Wash, Nov. 16—/ Two Chehalis high scholo girls, Katie Richardson and Maxine Hall, } were killed near Vancouver, Wash., d a man identified only as Hunt, was serlously injured in an) Man Found Guilty of Killing Wife; Jury Leaves Fate to Judge GREAT FALLS, Mont., Nov. 16. —Carl J. Gallin, aged 45, Great Falls gardener, has been convicted of first degree murder but pun- ishment is left to the court. He beat and kicked his wife, Antonia, causing injuries from which she died on September 27. automobile accident on the Pacific Highway. The girls were walking along the highway when struck by Hunt's car which turned over several times after running into them. The injured man was taken to Olympia. Officers said a bottle of allege i whiskey was found in the car, also Associated Press Photo ember & Popular Actress to Wed ' Ann Murdock, well known Broad- | way actress, is about to embark on her third matrimonial yenture. Fol- lowing two unsuccessful marriages with Amencans. Miss Murdock’s third choice is Gegrge Karamano, | BIG FREIGHTER DEPERE MEETS WITHACCIDENT {Believed Strikes Submerg-i ed Rock—Sends Out | SOS—Is Beached } freighter Depere, of | The large the Alaska Steamship Company, | struck what is believed to have, been a submerged rock off Capc Decision, Southeast Alaska, last ! night about 7 o'clock and as water | began rushing in, sent out an' SOS call at 7:06 o'clock as fol— lows: “SOS, steamer Depere, off Cape| Decision. Leaving ship now. Rush' assistance off Cape Decision. Reve- nue cutters.” ; At T7:10 o'clock the Depare was still afloat and “holding our own" jaccording to radio messages sent ;Irom the ship. i Later messages indicated that the iship was heading for Port Mc- 'Arthur, ,the craft would be beached. : Beaches at Cape | Early this morning radio mes- \sages indicated that the Depere was forced to beach at Cape De- ;cisxcn as the water had probably flooded the engine room, cutting joff steam power and preventing the chance of reaching Port Mc- |Arthur. Messages indicated that !not put off in lifeboats, as first |intimated. This forenoon no word was re- ceived from the Depere, indicating ____(that all power was off and the \radio was out of commission. Unalga, Cygan to Scene The Coast Guard cutter Unalga, ‘Capt E. S. Addison, picked up the 808 from the Depere and sf for the scene. The Unalga due there this afternoon. The Cygan, at Ketchikan, put out to aid the Depere : was due at Cape Decision : morning. The freighter Depere, at the time of striking the submerged rock, was enroute from Cordova to Ket- { chikan, via the outside passage. The freighter had no passengers { aboard and was probably loaded with copper ore taken aboard at Cordova. Cape Decision is at lower end of Kiui Island between Christian Sound and Sumner Straits, on the outside passage route from the Westward to Ketchikan, to clear. The Depere was in Juneau on October 30 westbound. Officers aboard the Depere are. J. Newland. Captain; J. Johanson, Pilot; G. Goetz, First Officer; R. Kinner, Chief Engineer} A. Parks, Purser, and J. Schilling, Steward. The Depere was constructed Oakland in 1920. She has a gross {tonnage of 3475, net 2,063, is 3207 |feet in length, 46 feet beam and 244 feet depth of hold. - e, NORTHWESTERN was also and this SEATTLE, Nov. 16—Steamer Northwestern sailed at 9 o'clock this morning for Alaska ports with 68 first class passengers and five steer- age. * The following passengers are booked for Juneau: W. R. Singuton, Ethan H. Myer, Miss N, A. Wilson, Ann Kahn, J. B. Darrah, jr., Mrs, G 4 ! mf,?,k wfim inc'i];:::' The cere-1y "5 “Holmquist, M. Frame, L. A.| d International Newsres' Parks, M. E. Baker and wife, Miss Lou Reed, R. W. J. Reed and wife, a bottle of wine tonic. - e The small stores in Japan are feeling the crushing effects of de- partment store competition. | UNITIZATION IDEA CURBS OIL OUTPUT TULSA, Okla., Nov. 16.—The oil industry is applying the brakes to admitted overproduction. Boon towns may become a thing of the past if definite trends toward conservation, described by leading oil men as their hope for salva- tion, go far enough. In that case business-like methods would re- place the frenzy that has marked man’s efforts to find and produce oil. The unitization of fields, a plan approved by directors of the Ameri- can Petroleum institute, is being . le under which leaseholders pool their |e acreage in a given area and share e proportionately in results, wild drill- |® ing campaigns are stopped. w Unitization = stops the practice, . prevalent in the past, of drilling e a promising section full of holes! in 60 days, at heavy expense and | with useless sacrifice of oil an gas. Operators under the unitlo system no longer are forced to drill i® to protect themselves simply be-‘o cause a nearby leaseholder has,e “brought in” a well. . More than 25 unitized operations: e ‘already are in progress, and the|e advanced as a permanent cure for e ‘i? idea is spreading as it finds favors (e iAnother Death Of Disturbers of Tut-Ank-Hamen’s Tomb LONDON, Nov. 16—The sudden death Friday of Richard Bethel, aged 46 years, heir to the estate of Lord Westburke, revived the discussion of the superstition of the curse resting upon meddlers of the tomb of the Pharoahs. Bethel was secretary to Howard Carter, whose inves- tigations in Egypt disclosed treasures of the ancient ‘Tut-Ank-Hamen. His is the tenth death among the persons concerned in the exploration of the old Pharoah’s tomb. Carter, chief disturber of the tomb, is still alive. ¢eseesn o’ B. C. Delzelle, Mrs. Henry Olds and baby, Nick Gratras and one steer- age. AFTER TODAY THERE ARE ONLY 31 MORE SHOPPING DAYS ®e0ececcecccccce near Cape Decision, where | the crew was still aboard and had § & ant mother, who was sentenced to | prison when she pleaded guilty to | COMING NORTH |929 , ‘ The first ladies of Washington we pnvate showing of the Annual Chr: bition in Washington, D. C. (Le | Dolly Gans, sister of Vice-Presi Henry L. Stimson, wife of the A Fair Distiller i Mrs. Thelma Holland, of Los An- ! geles, twenty-two-year-old expect- | i possession of a liquor still, was granted three years probalion by Judge Walton J. Woods. International Newsreel Mexican Catholics Get i Back Church Control MEXICO CITY, Nov. Schis- matic of National Catho priests will be permitted to retain contro! only of those churches that were in their charge before the contro- versies between the government and the Roman Catholic Church broke out in 1926, under orders is- sued to state authorities by the De- ipartment of the Interior State governments were instruct- ed to return to Roman Catholic (priests all churches which were in {their hands before the controver- sies, including those which have been occupied by Schismatics since e Johnson Nominated Minister to China WASHINGTON, Nov. nemination of Nelson T. of Kklahoma, at present A Secretary of State, to be minister to China, has been sent to the Sen- 16, 16—The| ' ate by President Hoover. Johnson will succeed John Van Antwerp MacMurray who resigned his post to accept a position with the John Hopkins University. —eee — to Charles T. ONeil, t at that p]ace cott, Mr. O'Neil FORMER JUNEAU GIRL WEDS Miss Iloe Slade, who was reared in Juneau where she attended the public schools for the last several| years a teacher in the Third Di- vision, was recently married at Mc- | a Last year the- bride taught school at Kenne- and that is where she met s re pictured at the | Mrs. ysanthemum exhi- | Mrs. James Goo ft to right) Mrs. | Mrs. ter . lent Curtis, Mrs, | Gene crotary uf ate. MAN SUICIDES AFTER GIVING WOMAN CHECK | Police Have Only Slight| Clue to Work on as Reason for Death BUFFALO, N. Y., Nov. 16.—Hub- bard W. Larking, aged 28 years, ing, founder of the Larking Com- pany here, ended his life by shoot- ing himself through the head in his - sleeping quarterprtethe o fire station opposite the Larking plant jthe suicide but the police believe he had some connection with the |arrest yesterday of Gordon Lew |and Catharyn Palmer for inv | tigation on complaint made ‘Larklng himself afer he said he | 500, | The police said Larking agreed {to be present at the District At- {torney’s office this morning'to lay | formal charges. Larking told the omcers. however, he had given the | woman the check willingly and did not wish to appear against her. | ———.————— REGEIVER FOR * FOSHAY CRAFT IS APPOINTED Steamer Intended for Al- aska Service in Hands of Court Official SEATTLE, Nov, 16—~Under a Su- perior Court order issued here, P. E. Voinot has been appointed re- ceiver for the passenger and freight steamer W. B. Foshay, recently launched for Alaska service. The ship was built for W. B. Fo- shay and company, of Minneapolis, recently bankrupt, at the Washing- ton Iron Works here, the petitioner to the receiver action, in bringing suit to protect a claim of £69,000 on the ship's engines. The defendants named were the Citizens Light, Power and Water Company, of Ketchikan, Alaska, a subsidiary of the W. B. Foshay Company. A number of supply firms having {liens against the craft, joined the Washington Iron Works in asking for the receiver for the craft. - Natchez Wlll Observe Massacre Anniversary NATCHEZ, Miss, Nov. 16—This bluff overlooking the Mississippi, November 28 will commemorate the wo-hundredth anniversary of one |of America’s bloodiest Indian mas- sacres. Two hundred forty French pio- neers were killed November 28, 1729, a band of Natchez Indians. Th ot Father Du Poisson, priest who had come to the ettlement to minister to the ill in the disease-stricken outpost, and then butchered the rest of the in- habitants. Only two persons es- caped The observance will inelude a ce in St. Mary's cathedral and lu pageant. William Mithhell, wife of the jgrandson of the late John D. Lark- | No positive reason is known for by | had given the woman a check for| old little city, which sits on a high | _RE HUUVER BALLS CONFERENCE TO BE HELD SOON Industrial; A_g:i—cultural and Labor Leaders to Meet in Washington SPURRING BUSINESS AHEAD IS BIG AIM Coordination of Two Agen- cies in Concerted Action to Be Worked Out WASHINGTCN, Nov. 16—Presi- dent Hoover is calling a small group of industrial, agricultural and la- Attorney Gereral, bor leaders to moet next week with ctary of War and high Federal officials to plan for a revival of construction activity and other means of spurring business. Announcing the step, the Presi- _ dent revealed he had engaged in “numerous conferences with im- portant business leaders and publie officials, with a view to coordina- tion of business and governmental agencies in a concerted action for . continued business progress.” Secretaries Mellon, Hyde, Lamont, and Davis will represent the Treas- ury, Agriculture, Commerce and La- bor Departments, and Chairman 1 Legge, the Farm Board in the com- ing meet. ; President Hoover has not named i those outside the Government who ¢4 will participate in the tremendous public and private construction pro- © gram throughout the country with a resultant boon to industrial se- . ‘tivity and employment which may ! follow the conference. NAVALPARLEY IN LONDON 0 ~ START JAN. 2 Mrs. Anne Von Ahlstrand Fly, Exact Date of World Con- pretty thirty-nine-year-old widow, was;‘mgrried in the historic Plym- ference Is Made Known outh Church a few days ago to t Bainbridge Colby, Colby. s nter- by Great Britain nationally known as an attorney and diplomat and was Secretary of \State in Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, wife of the & 3rown, wife of the Postmaster Tntorpatic=a] Newsree) Weds Well-known Diplomat | | WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—The State Department has informed Great Britain that January 21 is acceptable to the United States for inauguration of the London con= ference on naval arms limital revealing for the first time exact date upon which the parle will convene. The American delegation plans to arrive in London some three or four days before the conference begins in order to be ready to de= vote attention solely to the work of the parley once it gets under ° way. ;Iiullelin Issued ‘()n Condition of ‘Smmmry Good WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—Physi- cians attending Secretary of War Good, issued a bulletin at noon to- day saying the Department Chief slept practically all morning, re- iterating a chance for recovery fol- lowing an operation for appendicitis, depended on his ability to resist an apparent case of blood poison- Government Insurance ing. The bulletin tead: “His tempera- | Is Payin position ture, respiration and pulse, and __iPro lower involvment of the chest seems somewhat subsided. His condition is apparentlyly one of general sep- sis blood poisoning.” .- - MARRIAGE AT SEWARD WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—Pay- ment of approximately $7,000,000 in dividends that veterans hold of Governiment insurance is announced by Director Hines of the Veterans Bureau after a call on President Hoover. 5 “The increase is approximately £1.200,000 over the amount of di dends last year and shows Government,, insurance is doing what it should be, a paying props Direcf.or Hines said. y Miss Maude Viola Fearey, resident of Seward for the last year, and Charles Carl Cooper, popular young man of that town, were married recently at that place. They will contlnue to reside at Seward. BREWERIES UNEASY AS BRITISH PLAN PROBE OF THE LIQUOR TRAD | By WADE WERNER or Britain’s wealthiest (A. P. Feature Service Writer) |uho discussed the question at |length during a meeting of d lery company stockholders. Addressing his hearers as “si |and brother shareholders, Dewar pointed out that the ¢ sumption of distilled alcoholic. erages has decreased in LONDON, Nov. 16—A noticeable | slump in brewery shares and a | slight rise in the temperature of | iiscussion of the drink question has | been manifest here. And thé uneasiness follows the | labor government's intention to ap- point a royal commission for the rfir:‘:‘sflb:;ar:b::: :‘rt.hkd of v nvestigation of the liquor traffic..| .. issions a There is little fear that the com- | mv::g:;:e";;lk‘:;“z" " he o mission will be “packed with pro- | [nibitionists” and it is assufed both | Giorects Ty ooet hat n |sides will have an opportunity o B calhogg o reduo:d s |present their case. Nevertheless, Alm"d‘ while in Drohfhmo:, {good many people feel Great Brit by | tries arrests for drunkenness |ain has gone far enough in the doubled. In distillery lan wmau(’r of drink regulation. (Continaed on Fage TV Among them is Lord Dewar, onc

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