The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 18, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXV., NO. 5258. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER | 8, 1929. MEMBER ENGINEER OF WRECKED SHIP PR PROGRAM FOR PROGRESS TO GETUNDERWAY President to Hold First‘ Conference Tomorrow— Meets Railroad Heads WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—Presi dent Hoover has cancelled practi- cally all engagements so he might be uninterrupted in his work of preparing the opening of business conferences tomorrow at which time the executives of the Eastern trunk railways will call at the White House. President Hoover is studying the whole field with a view of having formulated speedily a program un- der which the Government and, commercial agencies of the country may be coordinated to promote-con- tinued business progress. t | Secretary of Commerce Lamont said existing agencies may be de-| pended upon to carry out any pro-| gram. — T.P. OGONNOR PASSES AWAY “Father of House of Com- mons” Died Early To- day in London | LONDON, Nov. 18—7T. P. O'Con- nor, “Father of the House of; Commons,” died at 3:16 o'clock this morning at the age of 81 years. The Parliamentarian was affec- tionately known as “Tay Pay.” | O'Conmor * was unconscioas. for| the greater part of two days dur- ing the 10 days he was confined to bed with septic poisoning of the leg. Lloyd George succeeds O'Connor | as “Father of the House of Com-) mons.” | 1 ———————— JOLLEY IS BOUGHT BY WHITE S0X, CHICAGO, Nov. 18—Smead Joi- ley, sensational left fielder of the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League, will report to the White Sox next spring in training camp as the result of a deal an- nounced by Harry Grabiner, secre- tary of the club. Last season Jolley batted .407 in| the Coast League and this season he finished with .385. Last sea- son he drove out 55 homers and | annexed 38 this season. He also banged out 70 triples and 62 doubles this year. The deal involved a sizeable cash amount and two players to bej i 1 Spanke: lCure from Ills wife. Later he returned with her 2 R {to kneel at the tomb in a drizzling }:gzcafiiie”’l Gagrament, - toward | i - i ted % rain. At night-fall it was reputed | At thi e ABe Hocretary. of P.O.RUBIO | PRESIDENT OF MEXICO National Revolutionist ' El: d by Father, Girl ! Takes Her Life HAMILTON, Ohio, Nov. 18. —Jane Letley, aged 13 years, died early this morning as the result of shooting her- self in the head last night soon after her father spank- ed her. . | The girl told her father ected by Perhaps Mil- | she was going to visit a neighbor. Later he telephon- ]xon Ma]‘)“ty VO(E ed and learned his daughter o had not visited there. He spanked Jane when she re- turned home and failed to tell him the truth. The girl immediately went upstairs and shot herself with a revolver her father taught her to fire. eeseccceesscoeccssceoce ©€00000000060Cc06000000 oo e e o Ay 100 PATIENTS ARE CARRIED FROM FLAMES Explosion Starts Blaze on Third Floor of Califor- nia U Hospital i SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 18.) —-More than 100 patients were car- ried to safety when fire, starting from an explosion in the X-ray room of the University of Califor-| MEXICO CITY, Nov. 18.—Pascual nia hospital, swept the third floor Ortiz Rubio, National Revolution- of the building. list Party candidate for President, The terrific explosion spread the has been swept into office by what Associated Press Photo PASCUAL ORTIZ RUBIO fire and flames throughout the appeared to be the greatest Presi- third floor. dential vote ever cast in Mexico. Nurses, internes and voluntgers' Jose Vasconselos, Anti-Reelection- ist candidate, conceded the victory of Rubio in a statement”and at-} tributed his defeat to. interference at the polls by the Ortia Rubio fol- lowers. Indications are that Rubio was swept into office by perhaps a ma- jority exceeding 1,000,000. ) Considerable violence accompan-, fought their way through the fumesi and began carrying the patients of the institution out of reach' of the fire and smoke. “ Juanita Costenborder, telephone | operator of the hospital, clung to} her post to warn all floors until; her retreat was cut off and she was | forced to make a 40-foot jump from a window. She suffered a broken |ied the voting. The casualty list | ankle. ihowever, is limited in area, includ- ————————— ling the Capital, and showed that| | 10 are dead and a score seriously | | wounded. Five are dead here and five are dead as the result ofthe; clash over a voting place in the state of Vera Cruz. e DR.' SUZZALLO HAS NEW J0B WASHINGTON, Nov. 18—The Julius Rosenwalf fund has made| available to the National Advisory | Committee of Education $100,000 to conduct a survey of the duties of Thousands Go to Tomb to Seek ! | MALDEN, Mass., Nov. 18.~The? famous Catholic shrines of Om"i Lady of Lourdes and Saint Anne| Deveaupre are recalled with an| ever increasing pilgrimage of thous- ands to the 60-year-old grave of Rev. Patrick J. Power. Two hundred thousand came to Holy Cross cemetery Sunday, offi-| cials. estimated. H In the throng was Mayor-elect James M. Curley, of Boston, who prayed for the recovery of his sick she was cured. | Physically afflicted in multitudes have come to the tomb during the past three weeks. For years, occasional cases of healing have been reported there { Interior Wilbur announced that Dr. Henry Suzzallo, former President of the University of Washington, at Seattle, will be Director of the Sur-| vey. | without breaking? {be normal for the big exchange. A Proclamation Inspired by their abiding of Divine Providence and in blessings the Pilgrim Fathers to be devoted to prayer and to thanks nation. The President of the 1929 as THANKSGI Therefore, I, George A. Parks, Alaska, in conformity therewit! all of the people of this Terri anniversary. bounties to our efforts. The suffered the scourge of pestl calamity. of worship join with friends a While expressing our grati continuance of His favor. GIVEN AL) the By the Governor: ( (Signed) KARL THEILE Secretary of Alaska. to God for His guidance. carefully perpetuated this custom has been adopted by our and set aside Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of November, Nature has been farmer have been well rewarded for their toil. We have made progress in all things that con= tribute to our material welfare. favors bestowed on us by Almighty God let each one lay aside his usual tasks and in our homes or accustomed places to Him for these many bles$ings. we have enjoyed we should humbly, reverently, and in all sincerity pray for Divine guidance that we may merit the SEAL of the Territory of Alaska,’ in Juneau, the capital, this six- teenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred twenty nine and of States of America, the one hun- dred fifty fourth. SECRETARY OF WAR 1S DYIN INWASHINCTON Physicians Abandon Hope for Recovery—Vitality of Man Delays End” faith in the infinite wisdom recognition of His bounteous set aside one day each year enable them to unite in giving Wisely conceived and United States has designated VING DAY Governor of the Territory of h, do hereby urge and enjoin tory to give due heed to this generous in yielding her fisherman, the miner, and the ‘We have not nor experienced great ilence In appreciation of these nd neighbors in giving thanks tude to Him for the blessings under my hand and the w. GOOD WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—Physi- cians have abandoned hope for the recovery of Secre: y of War Good but the unusual vitality of the Cabi- net officer I delayed the end which is expected momentarily. A “marked fatigue” in the condi- | | tion of Secretary Good was reported | .late Saturday night by physicians. Fatigue is regarded as an unhope- ful sign even though the physicians Independence of the United Signed) GEO. A. PARKS. Governor. STOCK CLEARING BURDEN MAKES EXCHANGE PUZZLE By WILLIAM R. KUHNS Finaneial Editor (Associated Press Feature Service) NEW YORK, Nov. 18—Forecasts of 20,000,000-share days on the New York stock exchange has made Wall Street ask: How? The prospect of days to come when gigantic tidal waves of stock trading might break over the coun- try, hurling stock sales up to 4,000, 000 an hour, 66,000 a minute, 1,200 shares a second, has drawn the Street’s best brains toward an anx- ious examination of the stock clear- ing corporation. The main function of this organ- ization, which is owned entirely by the New York stock exchange, is to eliminate, as far as possible, the physical work of delivering by mes- senger millions of shares daily from selling brokers to buying brokers. Its mechanism is delicate, and late- ly has been over-taxed. Wall Street asks how much far- ther its facilities can be stretched The question might well be: How long can a hu- man being work without fainting? Four million shafes have come to I Ten million or more swamp the clearing facilities. But the staff but no great demonstrations follow- ed until the recent reported healing of a young Boston girl, with the named later. Dr. Suzzallo is now making a|merely works late and digs itself study of graduate education for the out. It is when there is a series of Carnegie Institute for advancement abnormal days that it constitutes a GIANTS RELEASE “UNDERHAND” STAR NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—Carl Mays, veteran submarine ball pitcher, has been unconditionally released by the New York Giants. Mays has had a varied career in big league baseball. For years hel was ‘with the New York Yankees, | coming to the Ruppert owned club | from the Boston Red Sox. He joined the Giants a year ago last fall after being released from the Cincinnati Reds. AFTER TODAY THERE ARE ONLY iby the Anti-Alcoholic Society here, of learning. KEEPS RULE publication of her picture. ‘This is believed to have started the Pil- | grimage. Moscow’s “Dry” Week Ends in " OF SILENCE Many Sprees LONDON, Nov. 18.—After forty| MOSCOW, Nov. 18—The Anti-| ears’ garceming for Prime Min- Alcoholic Week, recently conducted 7 i i o " isters of England, Harry Simpson,| e ‘the official gardener of Number | gave °“f“°€“: re;ru;t.s;: ax:;:lgl;.:flw;‘: 10 Downing Street, has raked his el B last leaf. Tx:\fii bo}; aun"’eigt.smg:usisoifid::;! Forty years ago Simpson k\\'gn:‘ o : to work in St. James's Park but| °°nd‘;‘j‘: l’xmdi de““‘;‘::’{(;r ':l?el ‘t:'z,was soon transferred to Downing vecords siowing aree Street where Number Ten and Num- days of 682 and 330 persons. ber Eleven, the later being home Figures issued by the society 85|o¢ the Chancellor of the Exche-| of October 1 ”“m’: u;‘“ M"“&: quer, were placed under his care. and its environs in btwelve nxs“ ¢| He has worked under every Pre- gulped down 37000000 quarts Offier gince Giladstone and has kept fl;°l°h°2;kd"“ks> Jpess "b:;“ pls faith with the traditional silence cial vodka . SO0 that has marked the importan Snd 2, W in the Soviet\jpie street since its use by Min: ORPIL. isters. Even on his last day O Trade :‘mcnwsc‘:"‘;’és ::"::“w"hnelwork he answered an energetic AYCTAgE: ARReO "~ |“no” to all questions. suming 68 quarts of vodka, 95 Of| wr win not tell you anything” beer and 4 of wine each Yearipe declared, turning abruptly tof spending about $90 of his limited ygxe the Premfer's lawn for the income on these beverages. last time before retirement. e e George H. Lewis solved the prob- LOOKS TOWARD 100 lem of whom to invite to his birth-| JOPLIN, Mo. Nov. 18—Col. A. day party. He asked everyone in!J. P. Barnes, G6-year-old Civil 30 MORE SHOPPING DAYS Adamsvills, Mass,, his home town. War veteran, has set his goal at bcemrmane o minicy T 100 years. He is doorkeeper of the Miniature planes released at anState House of Representatives and altitude of 8,000 feet are targets works regularly here when not at for artillerymen at Fort Story, Va. the capital. crushing burden on human endur- ance, The clearing house, around which the world of stock trading turns, is a corporation with two branches. It performs five main tasks, two in the night branch, two in the day branch and one in both branches. The five tasks are: (1) To supply a meeting place or “post office” where confirma-| tions of buying and selling orders can be exchanged by brokers' mes- sengers at the close of business. (2) To lump the day's transac- tions and compute the net amount of any issue each brokerage house must deliver or receive. These two are night branch functions. (3) To provide a meeting place (again the post-office idea) for brokers’ messengers to deliver and | receive the actual stock certificates | remaining on balance after the | . TODAY’S STOCK . QUOTATIONS L4 secoc o v srn00 00 NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—Alaska Ju- neau Mine stock is today quoted at 6%, Alleghany Corporation 22, Am= erican Ice 33%, American Alcohol 26%, Bethlehem Steel 85%, Corn Products 86, General Motors 41%, International Harvester 74, Kenne- cott 64, National Acme 17%, Pan- American B 597%, Standard Oil of California 61%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 59%, Texas Corpora-iher room, the gun accidenally ex- tion 54, Combustion 11%, Interna-|ploded and the charge tore away tiongl Paper A 27, B 17, C 13. |polu‘e know as a beer runner and|Taku in the spring or early summer said septic symptoms had not pro- gressed then for an 84-hour period, which physicians had set for being the peak of the erisis, and 11 o'clock passed without an announcement from the bedside. It was said at midnisie, Saturday, thet no more bulletins would be issued unless there was a material change in Secretary Good's condition. clearing operation has been carried as far as possible. (4) To provide a central clear- | A%l R ance for call loans. The day branch | floor, in the exchange basement, 1SE i i fringed on three sides by rows of | I y | cages. In each cage is a represen- tative of a New York bank which| WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—Mrs. Herber Hoover has assumed a new lends money on calls. This arrangement has enahlcd! Wall Street to shift hundreds o(i millions daily from bank to broker | and back to bank again without| carting so much as a dollar through ititle, that of God-mother. Mrs. Hocver agreed to act in that capacity at the christening of x weeks’ old Frederick Allison enry, Jr., first child born to a member of the Girl Scout Troop the streets. Numbers 3 and 4 are | day branch functions. ! (5) To clear money ' which she established here when her husband was war time Food Administrator. The boy's mother, between brokers. Houses which| have bought more than they sold who was Miss Elizabeth Fries, was 's first bride. send their checks. The others| the troop's draw drafts against the clearing house. The checks balance drafts and the clearing house su- NATURE FIXES LARGE| GRANITE MONUMENT ON ROAD TO FAMOUS MINE perintends payments. This is dani‘: partly in the night and partly in Forces of nature last week com- bined to fix a “monument” on the the day branch. | road to Perseyerance, some two e LIQUOR RAID | miles from the city limit and about | IS MADE ON FRAT HOUSE Twelve Gall:)—t;—Confiscaled ‘ —35 Students Face Arrest, Expulsion one mile from Perseverance. Pedestrians, hiking to the old| mine Sunday, observed a monu- | ment-like granite rock in the mid- | dle of the roadway, standing as if placed there by hand. But the story of its placing was written on the mountaintop from which 1t came and down the mountain slope it traveled. . X It is a granite block about five feet thick and of equal width and seven and one-half feet high. It stands squarely in the center of URBANA, Ill, Nov. 18—A liquor raid by county officials on the, Gamma Eta Gamma fraternity, house brought 35 University of Il-| linois. students to face the Pros-|iho road. Leading from it back DRGE Of afzest and expulsion. {up the hillside through tangled un- Twelve gallons of gin and Whis-|qe,prush is a trail that marks its key were confiscated at the fra-!i .caoe from a rocky peak from ternity house. Officers sald the gynich it broke loose and was car- house was the headquarters of a|.i.4 by gravity to the road. ring of student bootleggers, et State Attorney Cline sald pad-| yogN STENBRATEN TO lock action will be started to close | SPEND WINTER the place as a public nuisance The students all denied any knowledge of the liquor there. SOUTH John Stenbraten, well-known | prospector in so many mining fields |that he has acquired the nickname “Stampede,” will leave for the South on the Yukon tomorrow. After | spending sometime in San Francis- | % |co he will go to Arizona and Mexi- Wounds Himself |co, where he has properties under | development. He will spend the CHICAGO, Nov. 18—A scream winter in the southern country and by his wife in her sleep, made return to Juneau next spring. He crippled John Barry, whom the expects to make a trip into the Wife Screams in Sleep; Gangster gangster, “West Side Johnny," a3 next year. they call him, reach for his gun| e e et last night. The weapon is a short| Bankers of Louisa County, Iowa, double barreled pistol. As his wife entertained the local vigilantes at screamed he reached for his an!.:n appropriate event—a “shoot.” RBOBALPNE G B 7 PRICE TEN CENTS OF ASSOCIATED PRESS AISED FOR HEROISM Lands Plane on Top of Bon Marche Store in Seattle GHIEF KINNEAR STAYS AT POST SEATTLE, Nov. | L 18.—Don e o Park, veteran pilot, brought e ® his plane down on top of the e AHn DEPER e Bon Marche Department e o store building Sunday noon e | LT e when his engine froze during e > o 55 L e a flight over the city win e Facing Possible Explosion, ' two passengers. escaped o| . _* % < |® with major injuri The ‘o | ~HEEIICEN Forces Shlp o demolishe . Towards Beach ® sengers were Ben 0: UBCre . 3 17, and Fred Knoph, e e 15, Port Angeles boy scouts, e FREIGHTER STRIKES e attending the Scout Confer- 3 HAKEN ®eceo0e0ceo0ceede 0 Water Soon Covers Engine Room Floor then Creeps [I»—Now on Beach KETUHIKAN Alaska, Nov. 18.— | The Coast Guard cutter Cygan has jarrived here with 25 officers and members of the crew of the freight and passenger steamer Depere, of the Alaska Steamship Company, | which struck a rock off Cape Deeis- ion last Friday night and was later > o EIELSON AGAIN MISSING; FLIER WELL SUPPLIED Believed Down in Siberian beachec Coast LagoonArDor- | The officers brought here on the |Cygan were J. Johansen;, Pilot; bandt Delayed \George Kinnear, Chief Engineer; A radio message received at Nome George Decker, Second Mate; Rob= erts Stevens, Third Mate, George and relayed to the Empire Satur- Parks, Purser; Nels Christoferson; day night by tho Associated Press First Engineer; John Carison, Sec- said that it was sgl « Sat- ond Engineer, and Wayne David- urday at North €ape, Siberia and also at Teller, Alaska. | son, Third Engineer. All except Kinnear will leave on Ben Eileson had not then reached the next southbound steamer for the Swenson trading schooner Nn_‘selme. Kinnear will return to nuk, frozen in at North Cape. ithe wreck the Salvage King, ex- The only other ship in the ice is pected heré late today from Vic- the Soviet steamer Stavapol, three toria. miles off shore from the Nanuk| Captain At Scene with slim change of the Sovie; ves-| Capt. John Newland and eight sel getting out. ymen remained on the Depere. Pilot Dorbandt was still ‘delayed| The ship was beached an hour at Teller by bad weather which after striking the rock. had lasted for one week up to last| Survivors said the water flooded Saturday. the engine room and the ship could Dorbandt wirelessed Nome he be- not have been kept from sinking lieves Ffghjom it down.n soma, la- five minutes longer. % goon in the Siberian storm area,| The Survivors said the ship struek . Elelson has many: days' rations, amidships, on the port side. sleeping bag and Primus stove. | No Excitement Both planes have been delayed! Capt. Newland was on the bridge one week by bad weather. land Decker was on wateh. The Pilot Dorbandt was to try to Depere had just changed her course reach the Nanuk yesterday and he and was headed toward Cape Decis~ intended to keep a lookout for Eiel- ion light, when she struck. The son if he finally succeeded in get-'ccmpact sheok the entire ship. ting away from Teller. {There was hardly a trace of ex- The two fliers are transpamnglcitement among the men. The furs and passengers from the Na- engine room plates quickly cover= nuk to Nome. ed with water and Chief Engineer ——,-— | Kinnear ‘knew there wouid be hard YnuNG BANDITS {flghtlng against a possible explo= sion to get the ship to a safe place. Kinnear Is Praised Three Portland Youths Found Robbing Store in | | i [ Officers praised Kinnear's hero- ism for remaining at his post. The Depere was beached just in- side the point near Port McArthur and could not have run another five minutes. Officers calmly took charge of i i { the launching of the boats and Sea!lle-—Are Nabbed supplies. The surf was heavy at the time. SEATTLE, Nov. 18— Three youth-‘( The Depere rests on an even keel ful Portland bandits were captured |between rocks. The after part of by the Police early Sunday morning | the ship is flooded at high tide. The as they were attempting to rob a [Cargo includes copper ore valued Piggly Wiggly grocery store safe 8t $200,000. TAHOMA LOSES William Long, aged 18 and Virgil Long, 17, brothers, were wounded, trying to escape. Jerry Allen, 17, surrendered later after being fired upon. The Long brothers said they had robbed two other Piggly-Wiggly stores during Saturday evening. Three Killed 1}37 % Monoxide Gas from Their Automobile CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Nov. 18. —Mrs. Bert Rugh, aged 35 years, her son George, aged 7, and daugh- ter Alice, aged 5, were killed by monoxide gas in their automobile in the Ruth garage. The bodies were found by neighbors. The motor of the car was running and the garage was choken with gaso- line smoke. The three apparently were ready to leave the car when the end came, MAN OVERBOARD James Kenney, Member of Crew, Swept Away by High Sea on Gulf KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 18— The halibut schooner Tahoma ar- rived here last Saturday from the banks with her flag at half mast = as a result of James Kenney, of Se- attle, being lost overboard. He was jone of the crew. s Capt. Pierce said Kenney was swept overboard by a high sea 1T miles southeast of Cape St. Elias. | The body was not recovered. ! No relatives of Kenny are kno here, 74 TOKYO FOSTERS BIRTH TOKYO, Nov. 18—The capital af Japan is making official prepara- | tions to furnish birth control in- formation to its poor in an effort to relieve the suffering that comes from large families in poverty stricken homes, This sociological experiment, es- pecially startling in the Orient where ancestor worship has placed a premium on large families, is hailed by proponents of birth con- and ‘as he ran in the darkness (0| A clock which served the village lni Curslack, Germany, 368 years the entire calf of his left leg. has been retired. trol as opening the way for appli- tation of this remedy on a na- tional scale to Japan’'s overpopula- tion problem. Yukichi Sirakami, deputy |of Tokyo, said it was the to give information only to couj |that already have four children can show that they are too poor care for more. Information will denied to young, newly g couples and to persons of Mr. Shirakami said that the nicipality hoped birth contrel hely to lower the high infras |tality rate and eventally re he nunher of famiies on official ciurivy. A b #