The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 25, 1929, Page 1

"THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” \’6L. XXXV., NO. 5264. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY. NOVEMBER 25 ,1929. SOCIATED PRESS MEMBER OF AS SPECIAL SEARCHERS MAY LOOK ROCK ISLAND LINES TO AID PRES. HOOVER Fifty Million Dollars to Be Spent—Improvement Budget Announced CHICAGO, Til, Nov. 25.—In line with President Hoover's program fe: ntaining business conditions rmal ‘basis, President J. E. n announced that the pro- 1930 improvement budget of Rock Island lines will total 1t $50,000,000, the largest budget pe the ak of cxpenditures the road The outlay will exceed by about $10,000,000 the expendi- tures for the present year. BALES, FLOODS HIT PORTUGAL: GREATOAMAGE Troops Hurried to North- cast Coast—Peasants Are on House Tops LISBON, Portugal,. Nov. 25.— Troops are being hurried to the Northeast Coast where a fierce At- in the history of | PARIS, Nov. 25.—Georges Clem- enceau, 88-year-old statesman, died early Sunday morning after having been in a state of coma since 11 o'clock Saturday night. For many ihcur“ previous to 11 o'clock he had (only brief periods of lucidity. } Dr. Laubry, one of Clemenceau’s chief physicians, arrived in time to enable his old friend to die in his arms. Madame Jacquemaire and Michael Clemenceau, daughter and son of “The Tiger” were at the bedside. Dr. Jacquemaire, grandson of the former Premi€r, announced the death to the newspapermen and others awaiting the fatal issue. At 2:30 o'clock Sunday morning, he said: “Grandfather just died.” WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 k informed of the death of his friend Clemenceau, Gen. John J. Persh- ing, Commander of the American forces during the World War, said {he regarded him as the “outstand- jing World War figure” among the French. | BURIAL WITHOUT POMP | MOUCHAMPS VENDEE, Nov. 25. | —Clemenceau was buried shortly {afier the noon hour today, as he wished, without pomp or ceremony. The body of the “Father of Vic- tory” was placed beside the body lof his father in the little plot in IColombier just outside the village !to rest forever near his beloved Vendeean home. lantic gale is reported. } Only members of the family andj Great damage is feared and also about 20 of the most intimate severe loss of life. |friends were present at the inter- Communications are broken and ment, Gendarmes keeping at a dis- prevent an estimate of the prop-|tance the villagers and other spec- erty loss and death toll. tators. 1 Torrential floods hit the cities| The rain ceased but the sky re- on the Limia River and swept mained gray and misty as the lit- bridges ‘and trees away and car-'tle cortege entered the burial place. ried off cattle. Although the Premier's closest Reports described that the pees-|friends announced he would be‘ ants managed to get on their buried standing upright, the fam-| housetops, screaming for help. ;ny at the last moment announced The Lisbon power station is sub-|that a grave should be dug as usuf\]‘ merged and the city is plunged because solid rock crops out at me‘ into darkness. |burial place to within a yard of ——te ——— the surface. | Georges Clemenceau, France’s Greatest Statestman, Dies in Arms of Old Friend “THE TIGER” | | i | Georges Clemenceau, former Premier of France, died at age of 88 years after a remarkable career. PASSES AW AY FOR MISSING FLIER Unusual Fall Season Prevails At Point Barrow POINT BARROW, Al Nov. 25. — With the oc still open, the seal pack has not been sighted since Spring. Oldtimers describe the Fall season unusual. The first overland mail since Spring arrived Sun- day. The mail was forced to come by way of the difficult {undra route in- ead of the usual sea trail the ice is still unsafe for travel. c06eeece0ecec00 0 tececcceccescesce ®seo0ocesesen e - STRICKEN AN DIES SUDDENLY IDeath Comes to Raymond Hitchcock, Stage Actor, Musical Comedy Star LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 25.— Raymond Hiteheock, aged 64 years, ge actor and musical comedy ar favorite, died suddenly of heart ttack. “The veteran actor and his wife Were returning ‘to their Beverly Wills home from a short automo- e trip and as they reached the driveway of the home, Hitchcock gave a gasp and fell over on his {wife's shoulder. Death is believed to have come |instantaneous. Hitchcock came to Hollywood 'SEN, WARREN, several years ago to undertake mo- jsion pictures. He was subject to {heart attacks for the past few fear—acecrding to their relations with the Tiger during his lifetime. For whether accused by his enemies of having imposed upon France a dictatorship of Napoleonic insolefice or hailed by his followers as the “Savior of France” and the “Father of Victory,” he was widely discussed, {hated, admired and loved; Clemen- |and gave him an ovation. ceau left no one indifferent. Called As Pilot enceau was 76 when he was called to pilot France through the LIEUT. CUDDISY | KILLED, CRASH Navy's Most Experienced Pilot Dies when Plane Falls 10,000 Feet WASHINGTON, Nov. 25—Lieut. George T. Cuddisy, one of the FUNERAL ORATION | BOUISSON, Nov. 25—The Presi- |dent of the Chamber of Deputies, {in a funeral oration before the ichamber of Deputies, paid a solemn tribute.to Clemenceau as a great citizen who saved France at the moment of dire national peril. He |characterized the former Premier as |a real “citizen” and Republican.. George Clemenceau, generally i characterized as one of the most | forceful personages the French 'hation has ever produced, lived up Idnrke_t days of the World War. For Ithe first three years of the conflict {he had been a bitter critic of the |government. While in the Senate Clemenceau jwas a member of the military com- imittee and wielded powerful in- {fluence on war politics. He saw the ministries of Viviani, Briand iand Ribot collapse and when the | Painieve government began to quiv- ver under his attcaks he started the famous drive against {ism” and it was on that issue that {that Cabinet fell, Navy's most experienced pilots, Was to that estimate of him until the| o Tiger succeeded the man cilled today when a British Bris- 'end. Although he retired from | whose downfall he caused and took tol bulldog airplane he was test-|active participation in French poli-|iho heim when the stoicism of the ing, crashed following a dive from tics in 1919, after his defeat for a 10,000 feet altitude and buried the Presidency of the republic, he itself so far in the earth that only gig not regard his life's activities the feet of the pilot were visible finished, notwifhstanding that R Py 14 e above the plowed ground. It was more than half an hour after-ine gisclosed that he had planned| wards that the naval personnel of | wo.i which would take 15 years to| the Anacostia Air Station, with digging efforts, extricated the body. The airplane was delivered to the Navy only last week. It was was then 78 years of age. Later ! complete. | After his retirement from public {life, Clemenceau selected as his} home for his remaining years a lit- |nation was undetermined by trea- |son, dissenion and intrigue. The laged statesman injected new in-| He gave new heart to the all but discour- aged poilu who had defended France in three years of conflict which as the world had never seen. IThe Tiger knew the enemy of France and possessed the will to “Bolo- | |years, his friends said. Hitchcock occupied a foremost |position among the stage lumin- “Vietory"—@vation |aries of America. His biggest suc- “Victory,” he thundered at hij cess was “Hichy Koo," produced tormentors. 'The one world de-|in New Yerk City in 1917 |livered in the true, Clemenceau|. Mrs. Hitchcock said her . hus- | characteristic manner, had the de-{band has been ill for the past ired effect and 500 deputies arose several months. | o RUSS FORCE VICTORIOUS Reported in Complete Con- trol of Province West of Ksingan River {premier waited for the noise to | abate. | When able to resume, he went on: | “Home politics? I wage war. Fore- |ign politics? I wage war. Russia |betrays us? I continue to wage war. We will fight before Paris; we will fight behind Paris; we will fight, if necessary, to the Pyr {‘ |nees. I will continue to the very last quarter of an hour, because the last quarter of an hour will be| ours.” That was the spirit with whichi qlemenceau was imbued when he| morvQ Nov. 25.—The invading ,was called upon to,form a ministry Russian troops are reported to have after the Russian debacle of 1917, et with exceptional successes and when the cause of the Allies began apparently are in complete control to look critical and it was that of the Province west of the Ksingan spirit that he maintained until vic- Riyer, tory had been won, During his administration as war premier Clemenceau carried on his |werk with the same remarkable en- | Chailar, the most important westerly eity, fell late Sunday be- fore a force of Soviet cavalry and tanks, Harbin dispatches to the ergy that characterized his life fthroughout his 50 years of public activity. He visited the battle Rengo Japanese News Agency said ‘The Chinese losses are estimated to run as high as 12,000. {fronts to get first hand knowledge |of the situation. On those occa- lsmns he again displayed his re- |markable courage and fearlessness. While visiting Verdun a second“ time with shells exploding all around, the officer accompanying {Clemenceau suggested that he lie Earlier Harbin dispatches said the population of Chailar was panic stricken and fleeing by every available means. — e - FIRST CRIME [1 oight Ready to |Continue Trip, |Juneau to N. Y. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 25.—Undaunted by a mishap off the Northern California coast, AMbert at, who is attempting a tiip from eau New York City in a skin covered ha ived here and announced his intention centinuing the trip pro he can got another ko had covered 1,500 miles when his boat was wrecked in the rs between Crescent and Eureka. secveccseseo o SENATE DEAN, DIES SUNDAY to Prominent. Repubiican of Wyoming Passes Away in Washingion, D. C. ass . < ° . MAN TORTUR BURNED ALIVE; FIVE ARRESTED I Twenty-Year-Old Man and| | Fiancee Victims of | \ Arkansas Gang MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ark., Nov. 25 |-~Accused of toriuring and burn-| ing alive Connie Franklin, aged! 20 years, a farmhand, and attack- | ing his 16-year-old fiancee, eight months ago, when on their way | to get married, five men are held| in widely scattered jails for the % 2 crimes. WASHINGTON, Nov, 26.—Death Those taken into -custody are‘ Sunday removed from the United perman Gerenway, Alex, Fulks, States Senate, Francis Emroy War- Dill Younger, Hub H ren, Republican, of Wyoming, aged jo0 Wh\teu ubet He. a0 75 years, dean of the Senate who Greenway, who had served continuously since 1895. gegter, an charge He served for three years previous g Lh;. girl. to that time in another term. Sen- irl t The old the t! ator Warren died at 10:05 o'clock gya nn‘d P‘runkl?n n:::‘: H;:fs ":1:; yesterday forenoon. Among those wey to the Justice of the Peace present at his deathbed was Gen. gnen five men seized them. They Joln-J.: Pershing,” Jis Son-In-16W, pegt and torfured Frankiin- *until Commander of the American forces y, fainted from the pain. The in France during the Werld War. ,on evidently thinking the youth was dead, built a fire of logs and Francis E. Warren was bmjn in placed the body on it. Failing to Hinsdale, Mass., June 20, 1844] Was gegiroy the body entirely, the men educated in common schools and piaced the remains in a sack and icademy; enlisted in 1862 in the grarteq toward the nearby White Forty - ninth Massachusetts Regi- pjyer, During the torture of ment of Infantry, and served 8s moanklin the girl was assaulted. private and noncommissioned of- Pk S A ficer in that regiment until it was PULIGE cHl m FRANCIS E.WARREN s married, and with attack- mustered out of service; received the Congressional Medal of Honor or 'allantry on battle field at the siege of Port Hudson; was after-| wards Captain in the Massachu- setts Militia; was engaged in farm- ing and stock raising in Massa- chusetts early in 1868, when he IS Victim Of Disturbers—} moved to Wyoming (then a part of the Territory of Dakota); is af Posse Fo"ows Bl vresent interested in live stock and T l f Sl real estate; was President of the rail ol ayer Senate of Wyoming Legislature in 1873-74 and member of the Senate —MADISONVILLE, Kentucky, Nov. n 1884-85; was twice member of 25.—Chief of Police John Ashby, ihe Council and also Mayor of aged 65 years, was shot and killed the City of Cheyenne, and served here by Houston Cooksey, a negro, three terms as Treasurer of Wyom- 2ged 28. Cooksey was shot and| ing; was member of the Wyoming killed by W. Osse who trailed him ! delegation to the Republican Na- to his home. tional Convention at Chicago in Chief Ashby received a report 1888, ahd Chairman of the Wyom- that two negroes had stopped a ing delegation to the Republican car and searched white youths, National Conventions at Philadel- and were also walking up and phia in 1900 and at Chicago in down the street flourishing their 1904, 1908, and 1912; was Chair- EunS. man of the Republican Territorial _The Chief and Patrolman S. A. PRICE TEN CENTS OFFER OF HELP * MADE BY GOVT Interior Department Offers | Official Aid—May Send MAJGR ELLIOTT HAS | OFFERED DOG TEAMS Two Seal‘cg;;g Party Dis- patched from Nanuk Have Not Reported Out Army Planes CARL BEN EIELSON Government assistance in the search for Col. Carl Ben Eielson, Fairbanks aviator lost on the Si- berian coast, may be enlisted, it was indicated today in a tele- gram received by Gov. George A. Parks from Ernest Walker Sawyer, Executive Assistant to Secretary Wilbur of the Interior Department. Heawanted to knor’ if assistanes . could be given by uie-Department, and asked if Army airplanes could be-used. The Governor has tele- graphed both Fairbanks and Nome asking for reports and if Army planes could aid in the search for Col. Eieison. ‘ Col. Efelson has been missing two weeks. On November 19, an As- sociated Press dispatch from Nome carried the first word of his dis- |appearance. It said he was “ice- bound on the Siberian coast elght days ago,” and that his all metal plane had been wrecked. He was accompanied by his mechanician Earl Borland, nephew of Dr. W. A. Borland of this city. Col. Eielson had been engaged in transporting passengers and furs from the Nanuk, a trading ship frozen in off the Siberian coast to Nome. He was enroute from Nome - to the vessel at the time. The first searching party was sent out from the ship and since then two other parties have been sent out. No word has been received from any of the searchers. D Mr. Sawyer, in his telegram to Gov. Parks, said that more dog teams for rescue work have been offered by Maj. Malcolm Elliott, President of the Alaska Road Com- mission, who is now in Washing- ton. The Commission has a num- ber of dogs at Nome and these have been offered for use. v i a4 |destroy him. All other evils he re- Central Committee, and Chairman Demoss found Cooksey and A. B.| constructed to make 108 miles an flat upon the ground until the hour with a full military load. Persons at the Air Station es- timate that Cuddisy lost control at the 6,000-foot altitude. The nose of the ship plowed 10 feet into the earth. ——————— eecoe00cscsccoe . TODAY’S STOCK . . QUOTATIONS ° I.I.I...O’.... NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today at 6, Alleghany Corporation 24%, American Alcohol 28%, American Ice 39%, Bethlehem Steel 122% Corn Products 91, General Motors 307, Combustion 13; International tle farm house overlooking the sea | o g garded as nothing compared with {on the wild coast of the Bay Ofisurrender. | Biscay, a few miles from where he was born. There he lived vlrtually‘ the life of a recluse. The only time he appeared before p‘“;l:’ aU- ) cpillaux, on charges of commerce disnooy. since “h:;t s :1:' Uem‘::; with the enemy and high treason. oelin of . V! i ei 22 iCamaux was convicted on the for- gl ‘: ::‘:e 1;:':&“;" of 1922. |ner charge, but that of treason was 4 g uashed. Clemenceau—physician, editor, i “It was a case of Caillaux or my- | politician, scholar, duellist and t‘:.‘ie‘seu.” he sald . “Poincare had Do ;r;x;r;gerc::eer;rng:e_::g fl:m:f Ve alternative, either call Caillaux to s |power or call me. He chose me. ol ;fiiflm’;x’&:gfiz‘ {Had he sent for Calllaux the latter | 2 had ted and lest of all wars. And in between he | wrould, Hevg i s "dx 75 . ymade peace with Germany; l:i:xg):‘t;::n:nb:;tele;iellr:i "3; l‘:g:g:'c“l |cided to have Caillaux arrested and to power he caused the arrest of his former political colleague, Joseph Shortly after Clemenceau’s rise/ flurry passed. . ‘The Tiger pointed (to the poilus nearby, and apparent- {ly trying to stretch himself a little more than his full height, asked: “What would they think?” After the war a prominent mem- |ber of Parliament said: “France was saved three times| |during the war. Three great names jwill go down in history and live! |forever: The Marne, Verdun, and | Clemenceau.” “What about Foch?” VATICAN CITY Demented Swedish Woman Attempts to Shoot Mg. Smit—Under Arerst VATICAN CITY, ROME, Nov. 25. —A Swedish woman named Mar- was guerite Gudum attempted to shoot sked. |Mgr. Smit, titular Archbishop of “There should have been no need ;Paaralo, former Apostolic Vicar of of Foch or any other Allied military Norway in St. Peter's Cathedral. leader in 1918 he replied, “had; The woman, who seemed mental- not Clemenceau assumed power n!ly deranged, was disarmed by vis- he |a of Republican State Central Com- Cooksey, his brother, on a corner.| mittee of Wyoming in 1896; was Houston resisted arrest and snatch- appointed Governor of Wyoming €d & gun from Demoss, who fled by President Arthur in February, With a finger shot off. Houston 1885, and served until November, then turned and fired upon Ashby, 1886; was again appointed Gover- Who with his back turned, was nor of Wyoming by President Har- struggling and trying to handcuff rison in 1889, and served until the A. B. Cooksey. Territory was admitted as a State, Les Duces, white resident, rushed when he was elected the first Gov- Out with his shotgun and wounded ernor of the State; was elected to Houston Cooksey. A posse fol- the United States Senate Novem- lowed the bloody trail of the ne- ber 18, 1890, took his seat Decem- 8roes to their home and killed ber 1, 1890, and served until the Houston when he still resisted ar- rest. They captured the other brother at the Diamond Mine later. (éd;r:lnued on Page Three) Son Confesses to BORLAND'S MOTHER ANXIOUSLY AWAITS NEWS IN SEATTLE In the Seattle Post-Inteiligencer of November 21, apepars a picture of Earl Borland, mechanic with Eielson and also the follow 3 story: ;. A Seattle mother waited anxious- ly yesterday for some message from her son who flew from Teller, Al~ aska, November 6, and has not been heard from since. Alt] the whereabouts of Ear] Borland, 3920 Linden Avenue, mechanic with Pilot Carl Ben Eielson, remained unknown, the brave mother has not lost hope that her som has o from v , International Paper | Hence, his self-elimination | I:'-\L‘;Sf?erl’ngr Bnls, Paper C 14%, |public life caused the French to| Kennecott 59, National Acme 18%,|Wwonder whether defeat in his a?- Pan-American B 62%, Standard | vancing years had broken the fight- Oil of California 62%, Standard ing Clemenceau spirit. Oil of New Jersey 64%, Texas! But Clemenceau remained silent. Corporation 567%, Cities Service He did not disclose’ his plans. After 4 tgomery Ward 58%; Mag- he had been in retirement a few 3::‘; '4‘11‘{1 i % years publishers on both sides of| the Atlantic sought to bring him to Two Persons Are Killed, | i | iry, 40 miles from Paris. igo on with the war.” Clemenceau found opposition to his Government just as bitter as that he directed against his prede- cessors and he was called upon to {resign in June, 1918, after the GeI- lyyie; was one of the first moves mans had broken through at the Chemin des Dames, crossed the Marne and were at Chateau Thier- swer was: “One must know what one wants; when he wants it ne must have the courage to say it few months before. The war would itors in the Cathedral and handed | His an-| have been over, the Germans in|OVer to the Pontifical gendarmes. |Paris.” This is the first attempt at a |" The appointment of Marshal|Serious erime in the newly formed |Foch to command the French ar-|Vatican City. ———— FOSHAY PROPERTIES |of Clemenceau after assumin W= o oid iz MAY BE DISTRIBUTED er and this in turn led to Foch's |selection as generalissimo of the A BOSTON, Nov. 25.—It is expected that the various Foshay utility properties will be sold to other in- terests by the receiver. Believed {entire Allied forces. In Peace Conference With the war over and the Ger- the fore again with tempting offer-; 27 Are Injured, Explosion ings for his writings. He would ESSEN, Germany, Nov. 25—Two persons were kified and 26 injured in a terrific explosion in thc Pub- lic Market Hall today. Two per- sons are missing. Of the 26 in- jured, 17 are in a serious condi- tion. The explosion is believed to have been caused by gas. not be tempted. About that time friends disclosed that the Old Tiger since his re- tirement, had been occupying him- self with a little garden te pro- duce vegetables for his meager liv- !ing and writing his memoirs. Clemenceau’s memoirs! That announcement caused varied emotions among the public men of. PFrance—curiosi 1 ] ty, joy, indignation, bridge of his ship in a gale, !and having said it, courage enough to do it. T see this war through }to a finish.” lA“Stflfln peace overtures, an irate Socialist demanded: “What are |your aims?” ; Pacing the speaker’s tribune like a weather-beaten old skipper on the the After Clemenceau refused the man empire crushed, Clemenceau rose to an equally high point during the peace conference in Paris, of of which, as President, he was the foremost figure in the open ses- sions, ruling with an iron hand. At ,the time he was one of the 'dominating influences of the “Big Four"—Wilson, Lleyd George, cne-l (Continued on Page Two) that the Insulls may be interested in Vermont companies and in some of the Middle West properties; that G. L. Ohrstrom interests may ab- sorb the Arizona properties as well as many of the water supply com- panies and .that Commonwealth & |Bouthern may acquire the Georgia company. r the Whetstone or Mitchell fests may purchase the, foreign properties. i ] | Slaying His Father; | Stranger Involved l DETROIT, Mich,, Nov. 25.—Jos- eph Malick, aged 19 years, has confessed to Wayne County of-| ficers, they assert, that he killed his father, Frank Malick, in his greenhouse in Nankin township, near here. Deputy sheriffs found a pistol and shotgun where Joseph said they wer¢ hidden. Malick said a young stranger, whose first name | !was Adam, threatened his life, as well as the life of his father, if he did not commit the crime. e — VISITING MISS CARLSON Miss Marthadel Wentworth, of| Ketchikan, arrived on the Admiral ’Rogma to spend the Thanksgiving | holiday with Miss Winnifred Carl- !son, of this city. Le | | | | AFTER TODAY THERE ARE ONLY 24 MORE SHOPPING DAYS LEFT | merely been held up by a severe storm. A letter received yesterday from young Borland’s wife in Alaska told of the last message he sen¥ before taking off from Teller for the trading ship Nanuk. The wire was dated November 6 and deserib- ed the first trip to the Nanuk to | take off furs and passengers. “Arrived at Teller from K yesterday. Stormbound on ice four ! days. Leaving today for trip. Easy flying conditions. worry!™ Since that time neither Borl wife nor his paremnts have h from him. He was a former Seattle boy and student at the Lincoln High Schoe where he was well known member of the football and l (Continued on Page Th second ¢ b {5