The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 29, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ; FRIIS/;.Y, NOVEMBER 29, 1‘529.77 VOL. XXXV., NO. 5267. PRICE TEN CENTS WESTERN ALASKA SECTION SWEPT BY TERRIFIC STORM SOVIET PLANES CANCEL FLIGHT AT NORTH CAPE Plans to Ai;rir; Search for| Eielson and Borland Dropped by Russians Russian participation in the search for Col. Ben Eielson and his mechanic, Earl Borland, was | definitely off today when it was | learned that the two Soviet planes | at Providence Bay had concelled their plans to take part in the search and were returning aboard the Soviet icebreaker Litke to Vladivostok. Information to this effect was received by Gov. George A. Parks from J. H. Anderson, Sig- nal Corps Radio Operator at Teller. Last Tuesday, Gov. Parks was| advised that two five-man Junker ! planes on the Litke would search! between Providence Bay and Koly-‘ utchin Bay on a flight to the Rus- | sian ship Stavropol, frozen in about | three miles from the Nanuk. The | Sovernor said today that Ander- ! son had wired him the North Cape flight of the Russia had been | cancelled and they were returning to Vladivostok with their planes on the icebreaker. No reason was given for this :\r-; tion. Anderson said he was in al-| most hourly communication by Ta- | dio with the Nanuk and that per-| fect weather conditions prevailed | there for flying. He said, als;o,i that no word had been received from any of the five dog teams sent | out in an effort to locate Eielson | who has been missing for 18 days. | The Alaska Airways’' planes are| having a difficult time to get a| search started. Wednesday, Pilot| Borbrandt tried to get off from Tel- | ler for an aerial search, but had to return to his landing field when he found it impossible to gain alti- tude. His engifie Was ‘not furetion- | ing properly. ; The latest advices recevied by the | Governor said Crosson and Young,| E ;mr,r_;;elist and Mother R;coi;ciléd. Vrs, Aimee Semple McPherson, noted evangelist, and her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, who are once more on friendly terms following their split of last year, when the latter returned to the northwest to make assertions whiclr resulted in the filing of impeachment proceedings against Judge Carlos S, Hardy, who was exonerated. Sntorusbiieg] Nowiresd VIRGINIA ELECTION SOUNDS KNELL “QF-COALITION AGAINST DEMOCRATS RICHMOND, Va. Nov. 29.—The low Virginia back into Democratic with a plane each, had been forced /Democratic gubernatorial victory in to return to Fairbanks owning to.Virginia appears definitely to have | adverse weather conditions. No word 'terminated the wedding of ambi- was heard relative to the location ticus Republicans and dissatisfied of Graham who had the fourth plane the company was dssembling | at Nome to take part for an in- tensive search for the missing fly- ers, > According to advices reaching Ju- neau from Fairbanks, Col. Eielson stated that no concern should be felt for him for 30 days if he be- came missing on his Arctic trips to the Nanuk. He is said to have stated that he expected to be forced down on any of the flights he GIANT PLANE | Democrats. ranks. t Gov. Harry F. Byrd, whose ad- |ministration came under coalition |fire, hailed the landslide for Pol- {lard as an endorsement of Demo- |cratic administrations from Fitz- That was the view of Republican |hugh,Lee to the present, a view leaders who seemed to regard the |apparently shared by Chairman |overwhelming victory of the Demo- Lyon of the anti-Smith Democrats. |cratic party as divorcing the Re-; The optimistic Democratic camp publicans from %he coalition union |predicts that the three Congression- {with the anti-Smith Democrats. |al districts electing Republican Rep- | Their dream of riding to power resentatives in 1928 will send Dem- behind William Moseley Brownjocrats to Congress next year. burst when he was overwhelmingly | Virginia elects a Senator next defeated by John Garland Pollard.:yr\ar and Democrats expect no Re- iGoverncr-Eiect. | publican opposition to Senator Car- |ter Glass—an opposition that they | Republican leaders said that the |y, veq for in the event that Brown icoalition was definitely ended aml]had been elected. |Henry W. Anderson, member of the |President’s law enforcement com-| 2 |mission and one of the backers OI‘FOHT Killel Instantly !Brown, said he expected the Re-| when E.’VI)TPSS Hits Auto: CRASHES AND ‘rol(‘ as the minority party in Demo- leratic Virginia but with increased strength. “publican party would resume Y Lad Is Only Scratched | HAVR> GRACE, r1d., Nov. 20— H. Alexander Phipps and three of IS DESTROYED ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., Nov. 20.—The R-32, recently completed 32-passenger Fokker monoplane, the largest airplane ever built in this country, crashed late last Wednes- day afternoon, into a house. The plane and two dwellings were de- stroyed by the fire which fol- lowed. ®he two occupants of the plane escaped with injuries. They were | While Republicans and Demo—ihls children were killed when their =crats of the coalition blamed each |automobile was struck at a crossing {other for the debacle, the trium-[by a Pennsylvania Railroad Ex- \phant Democrats who backed Pol-|press which hurled the car into a trackman’s shelter at the side of the track. Phipps was foreman in charge of a large farm. He and his two |nificant only as indicating the daughters, Ethel, aged 16, Virginia, fusal of thousands of Demoerats aged 14 and son Garrett, aged 11, to vote for a wet candidate and did , were instantly killed. Inot herald the end of Democratic! Mrs. Phipps was taken to a hos- |lard hold that the opposition mis- |construed the victory of President | |Hoover in Virginia last Novembs | They contended that it was domination of the state. M. J. Botts, engine inspector of the Department of Commerce, and Har- ry McDonald, mechanic, who sus- Democratic leaders insisted as ’they did throughout the guberna- ! pital in a critical condition with a fractured skull. 5 Another son, Francis, aged 6 K \torial campaign that no national (years, was only scratched. tained a broken leg. The crash|ises were involved. Pollard said —————— came just after taking off. |the viotory could not be comsid-! D. L. MacKipnon, of the Juncau Japanese Minister to China Shoots Himself; Despondency Is Cause| TOKYO, Nov. 29.—Sadao Saburi, | Japanese Minister to China, and former Charge d'Affaires in Wash- ington and London, shot himself yesterday. His friends are unable to give a motive except he was| despondent since the death of his wife in 1926. He was considered among the most brilliant members of the Japanese Foreign Service and ad a distinguished career ahead of im. exican Congress \ Formally Declares ' Election of Rubio MEXICO CITY, Nov. 29—The ican Congress has adopted the ort of the Election Commission and formally declared Pascual Ortiz Ribio, candidate for the Revolu- y Party, elected President. iered “approval or disapproval of |office of the Btandard Oil Com- Smith or Raskob,” although the|pany, is a southbound passenger on names of the former Democratic |the Northwestern for a visit in the {presidential nominee and the Na- States. |tional Democratic Chairman were {frequently mentioned by the coali-| tion. | Bishop James Cannon'’s call for a: repudiation of “Raskobian liberal-| ism” and Democratic leaders in| |Virginia who supported Smith, as! well as his insistence that prohibi- tion was an issue, apparently was For Ocean Flight ldlsregarded in view of the “bone | |dry” record of Pollard. le NEW YORK, Nov. 20— ® Election results indicated that the e The four Russian fliers who o | coalition failed to coalesce, for e made the flight from Mos- ® | which Prank Lyon, anti-Smith o tow taiNew Touk Oty via ® {chairman, blames the Republican e Alaska, leave tonight aboard e Party. Lyon said the Republicans e the Cunard liner Maure- © idiverted attention from the national e tania. The plane has been @ issues, including prohibition and a e dismantled and is also be- ® protest against national Democratic ing shipped to Berlin where @ |party leadership by an attack on AFTER TODAY THERE it will be reassembled and e the Democratic State Administra- ARE ONLY the four men will make a @ "tmn which caused Democrats to re- flight to Moescow. Soviet e turn to old party lines. 21 authorities refused permis- ® Democratic chieftains in Wash- sion to the lllers{to make ® ington, hastened after the election b the Atlantic flight. . to predict that four other “Hoover MORE SHOPPING DA . (States” in the South would !ol-l' LEFT ee 000 cee0s 0000 'BYRD OFF ON AIR TRIP TO SOUTH POLE ;Left Base in Antarctic Last Night for Sixteen Hun=_ dred Mile Flight (The Associated Press) NEW YORK, Nov. The New York Times and.# Louis Post - Dispatch, newspapers aff them, are publishing r | | l | 1 # | \ | | from Cemmander Byrd, of {the Antarctic Expcdition, an-| nouncing Byrd took off at 37:29 o'clock last night, Paci~ fic Coast time, on a 1,600- | mile flight to the Scuth Polé |and back. | Byrd, who is flying. with Bernt Balchen, pilot; Hasnld June, radio cperator; and Capt. Ashley C. McKinley, photographer, is in a big tri- motcred airplane he took: to the Antarctic. He expects to be in dircet communication throughout the flight with the New York Times radio| station in New York as well as with the base and will report progress as he goes. If all is well he should return to the base before 24 hours elapses. THANKSGIVING DAY SADNESS - INTWO HOMES Argument Over, School Ex- ercises Causes Tragedy —One Man Dead CARRIER MILLS, Ill, Nov. 29.— Grief and unhappiness supplanted the spirit of the Thanksgiving Day holiday in two Carrier Mills homes as the aftermath of an argument | over a school Thanksgiving pro- gram, Leslie Lightfoot, aged 33, school director and teacher, is dead. Dwight Organ, aged 26, a teach- ‘er, is held in the county jail charg- ied with slaying Lightfoot. | Lightfoot and two other directors decided the Thanksgiving program should be given Friday evening and Msus. Lightfoot was asked to convey the decision to Organ. Organ and Lightfoot called a meeting of the school directors in a cafe Wednesday night. At the meet- ing Lightfoot asked Organ why he questioned the message and an ar- gument followed in which witnesses said Lightfoot struck Organ, who in turn drew a revolver and fircd twice into Lightfoot's body. Husband Dies as Result Of l":)fll?Wife Suicides FLORENCE, Italy, Nov. 29.—Le- muel G. Harty, jr., whose home is in Kansas City, Missouri, U. 8. A, died early this morning from a fracture of the skull, sustained when he fell down a flight of stairs in a hotel. Mrs. Harty died later from a strong dose of a sedative, doctors said, which she had taken because| of grief over the death of her hus- band. — ., Russian Fliers Denied Permission HOOVER CALLS LEADERS i [ A | i 1 late business activity. board of the General Electric company, and Thomas Lamont (above, Secrctaries Mellon, Davis and Hyde (below, left to right) will repre: culture departments and Chairman Legge (below, right), the K e}yhole, Surrounded 7by Door, Is Placed Before Jury in Divorce Trial 4 LONDON, Nov. 29.—One of thel Father Tondorf Rresident Hoover is calling a group of the nation’s leaders to meet with federal officlalg to stimust | He has sought the counsel of Owen D. Young (above, left), chairman of the farm board. 6 'CONFER ON BUSINESS CREAT biM ACE : DONE, BRISTOL - BAY DISTRICT Terrific Ealc and Tidal Wave Wrecks Canneries on November. 24 { | | SEWARD, Alask: 29. — Post offices kag and Sagak, ‘vitl contents, were swept | by the tidal wave whten struck the Bristol Bay r. ion Novembér 24 according 1o re- ports received here today from the stricken area. SEATTLE, Nov. 29.—As reports from canneries along the Bristol Bay district continue to sift in, es- {timates of the damage caused by the terrific gale and tidal wave of |November 24 reached $200,000. Havoc wrought by the storm is far more serious than first be- | lieved, Reports revealed by the Seattle offices of the Libby, McNeill and Libby, stated all the company buiid- ings and docks at Ekuk were car- ried away. The cannery of the Northwestern Fisheries Company at Naknek was not damaged. Reports indicated however that all floating equipment, including numerous scows, is piled on the beach. 3 It is sald here that cannery com- panies are preparing to send air- planes from Seward to the stricken district and investigate damages and if there is need of food and other supplies. The first reporis, received here | Wednesday afternoon, stated that a 'terrific gale, accompanied by an extreme high ti of tidal wave proporiions, ‘ad canneries and other bulldings in |the Bristol Bay District. ~The first y Associated Press Photo , right) of J. P. Morgan & Co.' sent the treasury, labor ln&urb { BODY OF SEN, WARREN BACK IN HOME LAN |message was from the United States discredited the message most curious exhibits ever seen in; an English Court was produced to- | day when a keyhole was introduced | as evidence in a divorce case so the jury might judge how much | could be seen from peeking through | it. The keyhole was completely sur- rounded by a drawing-room door. Justice, Hall allowed the whole door placed in evidence on a plea of counsel that observations made through the keyhole could be test- ed, as to possibilities by the mem- bers of the jury themselves. P. B MAGNATE. PASSES AWAY Frankin Yoakum, Who Rose in World from Farmer’s Boy, Dies NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—Franklin Yoakum, farmer’s boy who became a railroad magnate and developed transportation to vast areas of the {West and Southwest, died yesterday at the age of 70 years. Yoakum suffered a heart {Monday and failed to rally complications. that followed. Although retired from active rail- road management, at the time of | his death he was a director of the | Sea Board Airline, St. Louis and| San Francisco Railway, Western attack from Passes Away During Night CHEYENNE, Wyoming., Nov. 29. Bureau of Education radio station —A special funeral train bearing 8t Kanakanak, an Indian village the body of Senator Francis E. Dear Dillingham. said: WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—Father |cific station today | Warren arrived at the Union Pa-| The message “Extremely high tide accompanying heavy ' Francis A. Tondorf, Director |the Georgtown University Seismo- |logical Observatory, and widely |known student of earth disturb- |ences, died during the night. Death came unexpectedly. Father Tondorf appeared at din- ner with priests of the college and |other officials last night. When he failed to appear this morning, | associates went to his room and 'he was found dead in bed. Appar- |ently he had succumbed to heart attack during the night. Father Tondorf was one of the foremost seismologoists in the world. One of his foremost notable pieces of work was placing the |Japanese earthquake of 1823 many |hours before the world first heard about the major catastrophe. VLY Sl iy S THIRTEEN LIVES 'LOSTACCIDENTS | | |Three Children Drowned | when Thin Ice Breaks of ; The body was accompanied by Southwest gale November 24 caused a Congressional delegation, mem- serious damage Bristol Bay District bers of the family and friends. |and wrecked some canneries totally. The flag-drapped casket of Some not heard from and may be Wyoming’s “Grand Old Man" was in ruins” placed on an artillery caisson and| There are 26 canneries in the taken to the state Capitol by an district, Horage Caldwell, school escort of honor, comprised of the teacher at Kanakanak notified the band of the Second Battalion of Bureau offices here. ~Two ware- Fort D. A. Russell, numbering about houses and a huge bin of coal in 40 men, and soldiers. |the village, were destroyed, also a Reaching the Capitol the body large quantity of winter supplies. lay in state two hours with a| The Bureau of Education offi- guard of honor. icials at first believed the damage Virtually the entire garrison of might run into $100,000. 2,000 men of Fort Russell will act George R. Gardner, Government as escort on the way to the ceme- school superintendent at Unalaska, tery this afternoon. !reported winter supplies must re- o BB T iplace those lost and will have to Woman Mi sionary:- be sent to Kanakanak or suffering > o will result. Kidnapped, Released; Man Held for Ransom | HANKOW, Nov. 29.—Mrs. Oscar |Hellestad, American missionary, kid- | napped by bandits Wednesday was | PARKS RECEIVES ADVICES Widespread suffering among the white and native population of Bristol Bay, following a heavy storm and unusually high tides early this week, was indicdted by a telegram (released last night and returned [to the Lutheran Mission at Sin- Fécéived by Gov. George A. Parks yen, her home, late Wednesday night from Judge E. Coke Hill, Federal District Judge of the Third Division . The Governor was today awaiting further advices from the district in | M Hellestad, who is from Le- benon, said banditry is prevalent (throughout the countryside. Rev. Ulrick Kreutzer, of the| Franciscan Mission at Wuchang, | " Near. Boston BOSTON, Ma: who was captured by bandits, has again written his mission saying| )his captors are demanding 6,000, Nov. 29—Thir- response to inquiries sent out by him by radio. Temporary relief is being given from the Territory's indigent fund through Judge Hill. Power Corporation and Cha lof thé Board of the Empirc Bond | tecn persons lost their 1 in | e Jew this section yesterday and one fi |and Mortgage Corporation of Ne g 4 ¢ Y o B | Mortgag P caused damage of $2,000,000. | York. o | The worst tragedy of the day | Excursion Steamers |was when three small children of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Parlin, Burned in Fire; Loss were drowned. after breaking through thin ice. In attempting Estimated at Million 1, rescue the children, Mrs. Parlin was pulled from the water by her HULL, Mass., Nov. 29.—More than 1]-year-old son Leavitt. She is in is1,ooo.ooo damage was done and W0 the hospital in a critical condi~ men were injured in a fire which tion b threatened a section of Nantasket A locomotive struck an automo- Beach. Five excursion steam- bile at Salmon Falls, killing two 1boats, wharf, coal houses, boiler brothers, Alfred and J. Nadeau. ragon | Twenty-six automobile accidents bath- accounted for the other fatalities. Pola Negri Files Petition for Divorce houses, were destroyed. California Yacht Club i Is Destoyed; Trophies Searched for in Ruins .riris, Nov. 20. — Counsel for ! LOS ANGELEd, Cal, Nov. 29.— Pola Negri, film star, whose real Fire destroyed the California Yacint name is Appoline Chalupecmhas, Club last night. The loss is placed filo¢ a petition for divorce against at 8$100,000. Defective wiring is Price Serge Moviani on grounds' blamed as the cause of the fire. git'n as incompatibility. Instances Thirty-four gold and silver trophies of lashes of femperament between ‘md mementoes of the club’s powers the film player and Prince were are being searched for in the ruins. rec led Mexican dollars as ransom for hisl Quoting s wire from U. 8. Coms itinca: |missioner J. Hampton Miles of Dillingham, in his telegram to Gov. Parks, Judge Hill said: “I am in receipt of the®follow- ing wire: “‘Greatest storm in the history here and all along the coast. The school teacher’ at Clark’s Point re- ports 30 natives and 25 whites ' e ‘ Seven Nearly Die ! {From Carbon [Monoxide Ga: | CLEVELAND, Ohio., Nov. 20— | carbon monoxide gas, | Overcome by there and from Ekuk at Clark’s | seven passengers aboard a Detroit- |Point 1iving in school house. None | Pittsburgh Colonial Stdge Line bushave any grub or any place to {were rushed to a hospital. Doctors |live. What provision can be made said they will recover. to look after these people? They, | Needing repairs to the windshield, [2'¢ 1VIng on school teacher’s pri= = |the driver of the bus guided his|Y2e supplies now and that is all ¢ ‘m‘lr)u:w to the passenger szatinm:‘:;:r Is. Signed, Miles, Commis~ of another line. He kept his mo- |, |tor idling while the repalrs were| 1 have wired to ascertain,wheth= made, so the bus would be|¢f SuPplies are available there and pt warm by the heat from tne‘i'mpmx""n“E number to be assisted g and duration. Can give only tem~- il ary istance from indigent | Workmen the repair station|POT2Y 88 - noticed the passengers slumped over‘,[,mllf_l BEPRct ;here will be many in their seats and first thought they o> (fom other settlements om § that coast. This calamity appears were asleep but investigation show- |, Jimif ed most of them vere unconscious, |°*°"¢ the indigent fund s ORI LA Ve The repairmen immediately car-| M. S. Whittier of the local Cus- ried the overcome passengers to toms Office is a passenger south ofl., fresh air outside the bus and sum-!me Princess Norah, to spend w at moned ambulances. Poison gas is | next month visiting his family s8id to have come from the exhaust. |relatives. eudy dimage t L8 b . R ¥