The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 20, 1929, Page 1

v s - THE 1 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” OL. XXXV., NO. 5260. JUNEAU ALASKA WEDNESDAY NOWMBLR 20, |929 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRESIDENT, IN SILENCE, PAYS 600D TRIBUTE ! Final Rites in Washington for Deceased War Sec- retary, Are Held WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—Flags at half staff throughout the land signaled cessation of governmental affeirs as President Hoover and other officials, both of American and foreign governments, assembled | East Room of the White in the House and paid final tribute to Secretary of War James W. Good, who died Monday night. The setvices were those of the Presbyterian Church and were read by Rev. Joseph R. Sizoo, Pastor | of the New York Avenue Presby- terian Church. They were con-| ducted with simple dignity. President’s Tribute Before the services started and before anyone had arrived, Presi- dent and Mrs. Hoover entered the recom and remajned in personal tribute. The- President for some time stood by the casket and gazed into the face of his late friend and official adviser. Mrs. Hoover remained a few feet distant. Turn- ing away without speaking, they left the room and did not return until just before the services started. Mrs. Good and her two young| sons and other members of the immediate family, set apart in the Green Room and heard the serv- ices from there. To Cedar Rapids for Burial Immediately following the serv- ices the remains of the late Sec-; retary of War were taken to the station and a spe train started for Cedar R¢pids, Towa, for final wBhe JBAR. gec. Rogopinoh- ed Dy Mrs. 5000y the wo sons, Acting Secretu.y Hurley, Gen. Sum- associated Press Photo Mrs. Virgil McClure of Lexing- con, Ky., was elected national presi- ! dent of the American War Mothers { KIDNAPPER AND SLAYER OF BOY ‘PAYS,SCAFFOLD 1 1 | | i Japanese Is H Hanged in| Honolulu for Crime Committed Last Year HONOLULU, H. I, Nov. 20.— Myjes Tataka Fukunga, 19-year-old Japanese, has been hanged for thel murder of Gill Jamieson, 10-year- old boy he kidnapped for ransom and killed by beating and strangu- {lation on September 18, last year. ! Fukunga's victim was the son of ! Frederick W. Jamieson, of the Hon- | oluiy J ompanT | "ch.%:i.n%se called at the boy's | for at the convention in Louisville. 1R : "~ |cutors in the naval oil cases, filed |panies a AIRWAYS CHIEF CHAMBER GUEST Heads War Motherli WOM EN OF GERM A N Y SEEK THIRD EMPIRE! ‘ DOHENY SOON FACES TRIAL, BRIBE CHARGE G over nment Prosecutors Will Ask that Trial Date | Be Set for Jan. 13 | | WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—A mo- “llon has been filed in the District or Columbia Court January 13 be set as the date| trying Edward L. Doheny, ealthy oil man, on bribery charges ending against him. Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. rts, Special Government Prose- asking that the motion. It is expecied that Frank Hogan, Doheny's ccunsel, will oppese the January date because of other court assignments and ask that the trial be postponed until March. ‘The indictment charges that Do- heny paid Albert B. Fall $100,000 to grant one of Doheny's com- lease on the naval oil reserves at Elk Hflls. California. e eee TOMORROW NOON Maj. Frame—,—[;i-vision Man- ager of W.-A. Airways, to Discuss His Plans 1 BERLIN, M\ 20.—Women hands will build up a third Ger- | man empire unless perchanc: thc plnns of Germany's national ' Wo- men’s committee for fighting the versallles treaty should “gang ag-! |1ey.” i The committee's recent call to a meeting on “the tribute plan of Paris and the responsibility of Ger- man womanhood” so packed the former Prussian house of lords with nationalist ‘women that an over- flow meeting had to be hastily ar- ranged in a neighboring hall, Frau Beda Philipp, presiding offi- cer of the “ring of nationalist wo- men,” told the meeting that “now in this time of official terrorism, we German women must hold to- i ! gether.” “In spite of all terror and all op- position, nationalist Germans will ‘build up a third empire of the Ger mans,” prophesied Frau Katherine | Hertwig, member of the Prussian diet, adding that “the voice of mth German people must be heard” of the Dawes and Young plans. Lillian Foster, American actress, President von Hindenburg's re-,mow appearing in London openly cent public condemnation of theSlapped the face of an English critic German nationalist’s effort to hear|@roused by what she believed as the people's voice through an anti- anfair c;mcum by the Arm-Ameri- Young plan referendum was sum-|an writer. marily dismissed by other speakers b b as “surely a misunderstanding.” H $10,000 REWARD Discovery Made In Plant Breeding; Report Is Made PRINCETON, N. J, Nov. 20— How a radium needle applied to{ LOS ANGELKS, Cal, Hov. 20— a blossom produced a new species|Ceorge K. Rice, Western Air BEx- of plant is reported to the Na-|Press Pilot, who located the plane tional Academy of Science by Dr.|City of San Francisco which crash- Albert F. Lakslee, of the Carnegie ed into Mount' Taylor, New Mex-~ Institute. ico, with a lossiof eight lives, has His report is one of the first|been given a $16,000 reward which examples of success in a Mfl o feld -of plant’ brecding, -the A. W, Bieber; coplint, and pose of which is to discover short Chris Johnson, steward, on Rice's| ; i Monday's IS GIVEN FLIER: be divided equally between ! .MANY GABLES ON ATLANTIC ARE SEVERED Breaks Communication Between U. S.-Europe "IRST—MANY CABLES mM NEW YORK, Nov. 20—Six cable ‘epair ships are groping the bed f the North Atlantic off Nova Scctia for ecables broken in the Micnday earthquake which extend- ad aleng the seaboard. Ten . or more connections be- ‘ween America and Europe were severed by the upheaval among the Vls and valleys of th2 occan's floor. The repair tant readine: ,I this nature and were on the way to the apparent source of rouble soon after the breaks were latected. The e2ble componies m are trying to keep up their but messages are subject to dslay only. LINER IS SHAKEN NEW YORK, Nov. 20. ntime busi- accepted The -\ 2arthquake which was felt along ‘he coast from New York to Hali- «ax on Monday afternoon, shook the liner Olympic, 640 miles out at sea. The big ship shook from stem to stern, Capt. W. H. Parker cported on his arrival here today from Socuthampton. The officers Idld not know what had happened and for a time feared the ship had hit a submerged wreck and perhaps had damaged the hull, —————— FIVE MEN ARE INJURED, FIRE Earthquake ‘w C. T. U. President| { | | | Associated Press Photo Mrs. Ella A. Boole, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was re-elected president of the national Women's Christian Temperance Union, at the fifty. flhvh annual convention in Indiane s ‘ALY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS POSSESSION OF WHISKEY, CHARGE MADE Representahve Demson, of Hllinois, Is Indicted by Grand Jury NATION’S CAPITAL IS IN GREAT EXCITEMENT Indictment Follows Recent Expose—Dry Agents Make Their Report WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 20. —Indictment of a member of the House of Representatives, one who voted for the Eighteenth Amend- ment, Volstead Act and Jones Law, on a charge of possession of in- |toxicating liquor, today heightened and intensified the current furore ,over Prohibition Enforcement con- LYNGH BANDIT; IS TAKEN FROM JAIL IN TEXAS Attempted Jaxl Break and Wounding of Officer, Causes Furious Spirit | EASTLAND, Texas, Nov. 20— Turious over the attempted jail brenk yesterday wheh Tom Jonel Deputy Marshal, ounded, foi nflmi'sion to the cointy Yached Marchall Psties; a Claus” bandit of the Clsco bank | ditions in the Nation's capital. The accused legislator is Edward |E. Denison, of Illinois. Denison denied the charges from his home in Marion, Ill, and as- serted they were based upon the delivery, by mistake, of a trunk ,containing intoxicants, to his office here last January. The indictment has been return- ed by the Grand Jury which heard |Senator Brookhart 3 celebrated “Wall Str ty,” for members of and followed by a report ol Pro— hibition Agents that they found a 'trunk con! whiskey and gin in Denison's . aft hfih"m- resentative z’turne his Christmas vistt &4 ) school and induced young Gill to cuts over nature and improvement | plane. accompany him on a false asser- of man's food plants. merall, Chief of the Army Staff, | robbery. '4?‘. Senate and House delegations, and Charles Francis Adams, Secretary of Navy, {as representative of the President. SIXTEEN DEAD MEX. ELECTION MEXICO CITY, Nov. 20.—The list of dead as the result of rioting in Mexico City last Sunday in con- nection with the presidential elec- tion has increased to 10 with the death of two persons injured, bring- ing the national total to 16, besides five policemen killed in a wreck| of their automobile. At the offices of the Attorney General is is said 2,000 complaints have been received of cases of al-| leged intimidation and violence dur- ing the voting. Delirious Patient Found Half Conscious And Nearly Starved SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 20.—Half- tion the lad’s mother was ill. The same day he demanded $10,000 from Jamieson. When handed $4,000 by the father he promised to return the boy unharmed. When the boy's body was found two dnys( \later, physicians said Gill was dead when the father had paid the ran- som. AIR OFFICIALS ARRIVE IN CITY Larry Parks and Major Frame Inspecting— Planes in April Larry Parks, Alaska Traffic Man- ager of the Alaska-Washington Ah'- (ways, Inc., and Major G. C. Frame, | Division Manager of the same com- {pany, arrived in Juneau on the steamer Northwestern and are jguests at the Gastineau Hotel. | Mr. Parks stated “this morning that they were here for the purpose of making a general survey of ex- jisting conditions and that the com- ipany figured on having several |tomorrow at the Arcade Cafe, {needed civic improvements in the| IS VISITING JUNEAU Maj. G. C. Frame, Division Man- ager of the Alaska-Washington Air- ways, now visiting this city, will be a guest of the Chamber of Com- merce at its regular noon luncheon it was announced today by H. L. Faulkner, President. Maj. Fyame holds a commission in the Officers Reserve Corps of the U. S. Army. He will discuss aerial transportation matters with the Chamber and disclose some of his company's plans for operations in thsi field next season. A discussion relative to the nam- ing of the Alaska capitol building | will come up at the meeting to-| morrow, Mr. Faulkner said. Some | | downtown district will also be| talked over by the Chamber. It is urged that all members be in at- | tendance. FATHER KASHEVAROFF| FOR HIS FIRST TIME| The Rev. N. P. Kashevaroff, who has been spending the past thre: weeks in the Prince William Sounc district, in the interests of Fathe: lin 1930, {Dame and Navy games, the Mus- The radium needle was placed in the flower, a jimson weed, dur- ing its fertilization. The pollen grain’s offsprings showed numerous slight differences from the parent, the outstanding alterations being the shape of the seed, pod and lower and flatter branches. S. M. U. PLAYS NAVY, NOTRE DAME IN 30 DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 20.—With two intersectional games already booked with Notre Dame and the Navy, Southern Methodist Univer- sity next year will tackle the most ambitious football schedule ever ar- ranged by a Southwest conference |school. Coach Ray Morrison aspires to a claim for the national gridiron title In addition to the Notre tangs will engage five conference opponents. A game with a Big Ten school is also in prospect. Notre Dame authorities paid southwest football a signal tribute by booking Southern Methoflist for the dedicatory game of the adium in South Bend. A three- year contract was made, with the new i |understanding that one game would TWO FLYING CADETS DEAD, PLANE CRASH SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov. 20.— Flying cadets Justin Russell, aged | 22, and George Coffey, aged 23, of | Kelly Field, were killed when their plane crashed north of Boerne. Russell was dead when farmers reached the scene. Coffey, the pilot, died a few minutes later. In landing the plane suddenly nosed to the:ground from a low height. Both men were graduates o( the primary flying school from Mnrch Field, California, and entered ad- vanced flying here last October. e IERO WEATHER DENVER, Colo., Nov. 20.—Freez- NOW REPORTED ‘Two Planls in San Fran- cisco Destroyed—Loss Esimated at $500,000 SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 20. —Five men, including Fire Chief Charles J. Brennan, were injured |in a fire which destroyed the (plants of the American Engrav- ing Color Plate Comp;:w and |Gray Danielson Radio Cospany in the industrial district. Twelve men are known to have |been in the three-story buflding and all are believed to have es- caped. | Search of the ruins. has been lordered when firemen told of see-; ing two men who were trapped lon the top floor plunge into the fire below. The fire is believed to have been started by ignition of gasoline used In cleaging plates in the en- jgraving company's plant. | The owners of the two plants estimate the loss at $500,000. 'DR. BORLAND NAMED | Dr. W. A. Borland has been appointed Flight Surgeon of the AS FLIGHT SURGEON; Nearly 1,000 saw the lynching. | The first attempt to hang the tbandit, who was in jail pending a 'sunngry hearing, failed as, the rope broke. Another rope was procured land a score of men pulled on it. Someone yelled: “Maybe he wants | to talk.” The hangmen eased pressure on Ratliff and lowered him to the iground the second time. Given Chance To Talk “Do you wait to talk,” he was asked, “Yes,” Ratliff gasped. He mum- bled unintelligently and someone | yelled: “Hell, he doesn't want to talk— smnz him and make it a good | ! job.” The hangmen bent their weight to the rope and Ratliff was left dangling in the air until dead . “Santa Claus” Bandit Ratliff, using a Santa Claus cos- tume, robbed the Cisco Bank. He was feigning paralysis in the jail {hospital. When the cell door was left open Ratliff slipped out, se- cured Jones’ gun and made a break for liberty. He shot Jones in the abdomen, one leg and above the heart. ~W. G. Ellis overpowered Ratliff on the narrow stairs of -the jail him over thé head | i | { and bea n cat \ '21 STUDENTS EXPELLED AT ILLINOIS . Campus Liquor Scandal Brings Punishment— May Dissolve Frat URBANA, IIl, Nov. 20.—Twenty-_ one University of Iliinois students have been expelled by the Univer- sity Council and the Gamma Eta Gamma, legal fraternity involved in the campus liquor scandal, has been ordered to show cause why |1t should not be disbanded. Eight members of the Gamma Etta Gamma fraternity are among those ordered expelled. This is said to be the most dras- tic disciplinary action ever taken here. Among the charges were drinking, possession and sale of liquor and ‘violation of the university no-car rule, planes in Juneau on April 1, whlch"nkhon Lavrischeff, arrived in Ju- is the opening date of the season’s| |neau on the steamer Yukon and i operations, |the guest of his brother and sister ‘The suspensions followed a raid |by Federal authorities in which 13 gallons of assorted liquors were Alaska District by the Depart-| ment of Commerce at Washington, B0, with the butt of Jones' gun which | be played in Dallas. he wrested from Ratliff. Feeling The Mustangs probably will play ing and zero temperatures rule OuRaEius S SHRUIDL ik ved, Wit throughout the Rocky Mountain his feet frozen, Phillip Carlson, who left a hospital 11 days ago while delirious, was found in a straw stack late yesterday. His emaciated appearance sug- gested that he had not eaten since he left the hospital where he was returned in a dangerous condition, suffering from the extreme shock of exposure and typhoid fever,| which will probably run its course, the doctors said. When found, Carlson was clothed only in underwear and his feet were wrapped in sacks. The weather was freezing. Two Foshay Licensse Are Revoked by State MINNEAPOLIS, Minn,, Nov. 20. —Two brokers’ licenses for permis- sion to sell stock in Minnesota, ob- tained by the W. B. Foshay and Company, have been revoked by the State Securities Commission. They were first cancelled when Fo- shay went into receivership. — - Dentist Kills Wife and " Daughter, then Suicides NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—The bod- ies of Dr. Augustine Anastasisdes, dentist, wife and their 10-year-old daughter were found in their apart- ment last night, shot to death. The police said the dentist killed his wife and daughter, then suicided. Kipling Is Ordered By Physicians to Go Abroad for Health) LONDON, Nov. 20. — Rudyard {Kipling, who has sung the praises go abroad for his health. This has been ordered by his* physician. Kipling will be 64 years old next' month. Will Stop Night Vigils of Afflicted At Malden Grave MALDEN, Mass, Nov. 20—All inight vigils at the grave of Rev.!| Patrick J. Power, the scene of! pilgrimages of thousands of peo- ple seeking aid in their afflic- tions, will be stopped Sunday, of- i ficials of Holy Cross Cemetery an-| nounced. Daytime visiting hours will only | |be permitted beginning next Sun- day. Last Sunday 200,000 came to the grave. On two previous oc- casions the throngs numbered 100,000 i B Grant Murdock, pioneer mining; man of the Interlor, is enroute ' | south on the Yukon on a vacation ' trip. Father and Mrs. A. P Kashevaroff. Father Lavrischeff has been absent from Prince Wil- liam Sound for the past year and a half and is doing post graduat el work at the University of Calil or- | nia, in Berkeley. He will returr to Alaska in May. As the priest-in-charge in-law, of the varoff travels extensively through-| out the year, except when bad| weather prevents. His parish ex- tends to the north, west and south of Kodiak and he makes frequent | crossings of Shelikof Strait, on the| Starr, so that he may visit the| members of his church who live on the mainland. He travels from Kanatak to Perryville at stated in- tervals, Father Kashevaroff has never been to Juneau before and stated that he was amazed at its large size and modernity. He also said that he had never seen anything to equal it to the Westward. He will return to his home in Ko- diak on the steamer Admiral Rog- ers. ———————— MISS KANN ARRIVES TO MAKE HOME HERE Miss Nancy Ann Kann, daughter of L. Kann, of Kann's Store, ar- rived on the Northwestern from Portland, and will make her fu- ture home in Juneau. Miss Kany will enter the Juneau Schools. {the Navy in Baltimore, ]and his wife, Mrg, M. Baker, and faults of the British Empire|pycsian Orthodox Eastern Catholic rived in Juneau on the Northwest- for almost half a century, must|cpn,ch at Kodiak, Father Kashe- ern and are guests at the Gasti and it i hoped to bring the 1931 contest to Dallas, where a stadium to hold 80,000 spectators is planned by the Texas State Fair association. e M. Baker, representative of the ational Cash Register Company ar- Hotel. L e e o Mrs. Harry Olds and chxld re- turned to Juneau on the North- western after visiting in Seattle for several months. B ® 0 0000000000 AUTHOR DRIVING TAXI BY NIGHT TO KEEP “POT BOILING” NEW YORK, Nov. 20.— Robert Hazard drives a taxi by night and writes by day. He has sold stories to maga- zines and a novel is to be published shortly. Until he has fully arrived he intends to continue cruising at night “making the pot boil,” and getting material. A graduate of the University of Illinois, he was successively a hobo and a farm worker in Cali- fornia and Virginia and a shipyard worker in Philadel- phia. s0 000000000 region after Tuesday's snow storm covered most of the area. Low temperatures ranging from zero in Montana to freezing weath- er in South Colorado and North- ern New Mexico followed in the wake of the storm. Banker W aggoner Enters Prison to Serve Ten Years ATLANTA, Ga., “Nov. 20.—Charles D. Waggoner, former banker of Colorado, who recently swindled | six New York banks out of $050.- 000 in a mail fraud scheme, has arrived here to begin serving a 10-year term in the Federal peni- tentiary. .- BOY BABY FOR NOYES Cards announcing the birth of a baby boy to the wife of Lieut. John R. Noyes, U. 8. A, have been re- ceived in Juneau. The baby was {born in the Walter Reed Hospital Washington, D. C., on November 6 and has been named John Zabris- ki Noyes, Lieut. and Mrs. Noyes are former residents of Juneau. He was a member of the Alaska Road Com- | mission and Mrs. Noyes, nee Eunice \Zimmerman, is a former art an ,music tea¢her of the Juneau H:gn ,school. Lieut. and Mrs. Noyes are now 'nt Fort Du Pont, Delaware. momanometer machine for blood pressure and heart tracing, a ma- chine for depth perception, and \various and sundry other equip- !ment required for this particular branch of the service. Dr. Borland stated this morning that he was now prepared to make \the bi-annual examination of all aviators as required by the laws governing commercial aviation as set fortH by the Department of | Commerce. | THROWING AGAINST BARN GAVE SHAWKEY CONTROL SIGEL, Pa., Nov. 20.—Bob Shaw- key, new manager of the New York Yankees, learned to pitch accurate- ly by throwing at a target on a barn. Harry “Juddy” Truman, a former minor league player, who ran a general merchandise store, thought !young Shawkey, then a bay, could throw well so he induced the youth to throw each day at a circle paint- ed on his barn. He hired a clerk, not for his salesmanship, but to catch Shawkey. After three years of target throw- ing and sandlot playing, Truman tipped a friend in the Tri-State {league that Shawkey was “ready.” He was, | - Mrs. Ernest Kirberger, wife of a me ant at Kake, was a passen- | der on burg | | He has received a Sphyg- | ran high all day yesterday and cul- iminated in the lynching. Jones has only a fighting chance to live . \ - se0cccc e . TODAY’S STOCK . L4 QUOTATIONS L] e coecocvsn00nn NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—Alaska (neau mine stock is quoted today 6%, Alleghany Corporation 25%, American Ice 38%, American Alco- | hol 26, Bethlehem Steel 90'2z, Corn Products 91%, General Motors 42% International Harvester 80%, Ken- necott 66':, National Acme 13% Pan-American B 51%, Texas Cor-: poration 55%, Combustion 13%, In- ternational Paper A 207%, Paper B 18%, Paper C 14%. i | FORMER JUNEAU VISITOR MARRIED IN TENNESSEE J\I- | at | { ! Juneau friends fo Mrs. Harrie {Byrd Davis, who traveled through Alaska in 1927, have received an- inouncements of her marriage at'! Monterey, Tennessee, November 9 |to Frederick W. Ayres. The an-|{ {nouncement said they would be at {home at Harriman, Tennessee, Ayres is a cousin of Gov Flood Byrd“of Virginia, and | 'ommander Richard Byrd, thv\ | aero-explorer who is now in com jmand of a South Polar expedition. | she spent some time in Junmul | while here, !the law school, selzed. ® W. J. Sherman, senior in entered a guilty plea to the charge of possession and |was fined $500, and costs which Pfld by the students. amount was 3 oo .. Irving McK. Reed, member of the |Alaska Game Commission, who has {been here for the past two weeks attending the annual meeting of that organization and looking after § other business matters, left on the |Northwestern for Seward enroute I‘ta his home at Fairbanks. AFTER TODAY THERE ARE ONLY the Northwestern for Peters- and made many warm friends MORE mm DAYS