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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24
S. 600 DAMAGE WROUGHT
IN MARTINSBURG FIRE
Blaze at T. e. Matthews Foundry
Is Thought to Have Been
Incendiary.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARTINSBURG, w. Va, April "a.
--Incendiarism is suspected in a mid
night fire here at the T. e. Mathews
q Bro. foundry, in the downtown Sec
ton, which did an estimated damage
OF $4,000, most of the dc.nage being
IN the destruction of wocaen patterns
for the foundry operations.
One small storage building was burn
ed to the ground, another slightly dam
aged, and garage on an upper floor
threatened. Firemen said the fire had
Deen started at the door. Usually no
fire is used in the building. Determine
ton of pet bulldog, which sleeps
In the garage over the foundry, to keep
out all intruders, including the firemen,
temporarily baked the f1remen in their
effort to control the blaze from the
upper story.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
HAYNES WILL TRY AGAIN 10
 BREAK RECORD

Raymond Haines, who left Ju- neau last Saturday afternoon in his 15-foot Hooten-Vee type boat, Evin- rude motor, to attempt to break the record for sea travelling be- tween Juneau and Seattle, in an outboard motor boat, and met with an accident when two hours south of Ketchikan last Sunday morn- ing, returned to the Capital City on the Yukon.
 Spare parts are expected to arr rive from Seattle on the plane Juneau tomorrow and Haines will make another attempt leaving here sometime this week.
 Haines said he had an extra crankshaft, to replace the one that broke, but as there was much rough weather south, he did not want to take a chance on another possible break and being forced to drift.
 Haines said he was getting along fine and was sanguine he would have reached Seattle within g hours. The only bad seas en- countered was in Corinth Straits.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
HOSPITAL IN CHICAGO IS
 FIRE SWEPT
Seventeen Pa atients Are Carried to Safety-In-
 vestigation Started

CHICAGO, Ill, June 4. The Chicago General Hospital was swept by fire early this morning but IT patients, several doctors and nurses escaped unhurt. Some of the patients were carried down lad ders and others were assisted from the burning building, from smoke filled rooms, by passerbys.
 The fire did damage estimated at $25 5000 It started in the laun- dry.
 Authorities have started an in- vestigation.
 A quantity of X-ray film was found stored in the basement in careless manner and with the Cleveland disaster in mind, an ef- fort will be made to fix blame in the way the films were handled.
 Dr. Edward Meyer, House Physi- clan, said man offered to buy the film last week and they were taken from various vaults in the hospital and placed in basement room until he called for them.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
NO SOLUTION TO MYSTERY
 OF LETTERS
T hreats Sent Prominent Men Not Cleared Up-
 Arrest Made, Release

BOSTON, Mass, June 4. The solution of the mystery of the long series of threatening letters receiv- ed by prominent persons appeared no nearer with the arrest and sub sequent release of George Long, Customs Guard.
 The latest note in series was a $50,000 demand upon Dwight Morrow, United States Ambassador to Mexico, threatening violence to his daughter Constance.
 Long is said to have told the postal inspectors that "if I ever wrote the letters, I don't know why"
 The city police, who released Long after two hours questioning, declared it was all a mistake say ing Long had no knowledge of the letters.
 Postal authorities declared that Long admitted sending letters sev- en years ago to number of prom inent persons in Washington. A typewriter was found in his home which corresponded to- the type face found in the threatening let terS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
TO
 SHAVING GIRL
 AFTER ATTACK
Fiendish Crime Is Admit ted by Man After 4
 Days Chilling

UKIAH, Cal, June 4. Tod Lehew, a woodchopper, confessed today that he attacked and strangled to death six year old Teresa Johnson, near Mendocino City on May 23.
 The confession followed a four day grilling.
 q just went hay-wire, because there must be something wrong with my head" Lehew said.
 After his arrest, Lehew offered three alibis. He first said he had been cutting brush at the time of the attack. Then he said he had been lost in the woods. He finally declared he had been at home and asleep.
 4 Lehew lived near the girls home. He watched her going and coming from school. The day of the crime he saw her going home with an other girl When her companion left, Lehew followed Teresa, at tackled and strangled her and left the body He then returned to his woodcutting.
 The accused man was placed in jail under guard to prevent pos sible violence as the residents are aroused at the brutality of the crime.
 The sheriff said a murder charge will be filed immediately.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
RUSSIAN SOVIET TO
 SPEND MILLIONS OF
 DOLLARS EN THE US.

NEW YORK, June 1.-The Rus sian Soviet has entered into con- tracts aggregating millions of dol lars with American firms for man. ufactured materials and technical assistance, especially American en- gineering consultations proposed for Soviet projects.
 A contract with the Ford Auto mobile Company calls for s3o,e0O0oo worth of cars, trucks, parts and construction of a huge auto plant in Russia.
 Other projects on the Soviet pro- gram include construction of a huge hydroelectric plant in Ukraine to cost $1o0,oO000O and numerous fertilizer plants, irrigation systems, steel mills and other improvements of all kinds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
PULP PROJECT
 HERE IS SURE,
 SAYSCAMER0N
California Syndicate Going Ahead with its Program
 of Development

It is the intention of the Cam eron- -Chandlar interests of Califor- mia to go ahead with their local pulp and paper manufacturing pro- gram, declares James H. Cameron who returned here yesterday after spending the winter at his home in San Francisco. He will be in this vicinity for the rest of the season looking after the syndicate's in- tereStS.
 Mir. Cameron had nothing to say regarding plans, saying in this con nection that R. A. Kinsey, Consult ing Engineer on the project would arrive here this month and any statement relative to detailed work ing plans would come from him MT. Cameron spent all of last sea- son here and at Ketchikan.
 He was met here by A. J. Ella, engineer in charge of hydro-elec- tric surveys. The latter now has a crew making survey of trans mission line between here and Speel River. Iec has covered from Point Greeley to the entrance of Snettisham Inlet, making both to- geographic and triangulation sur veys. He expects to have the beach route completely surveyed to the power site at Speel River by the end of this month.
 A timber survey party under the direction of Don Meldrum will ssson be put to work on the east shore of Admiralty Island, it was learn ed today. It will work around Sey- mour Canal, Gambler Bay and Py- bus Bay. A second party will be put on to cover certain areas along Icy Strait and elsewhere in the local district which were not in- cluded in the survey made here by MT. Meldrum last season.
 MT. Cameron and MT Ella are expected to leave town Wednesday for the Snettisham camp.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
BALDWIN OUT;
 GEORGE CALLS
 ON MACEDONIA. D
Conservative Government Quits and King Asks
 Laborites Take Charge


 LONDON, June 4.-Stanley Bald win, Prime Minister of the British Government, today handed his resignation to King George V, who is i'll. The ruler immediately sent for Ramsay Macdonald, Labor Par ty leader, and asked him to form a Cabinet. Leader Macdonald will visit the King tomorrow and give his answer to the request that he head new Government.
 These events presage a change Of the Government in accordance with the verdict of Thursdays elec- ton when the Laborites supplanted Premier Baldwin and the Conserv- atives as numerically the strong est party in the House of Com mons.
 The resignation of the Prim e Minister ended nearly five years of Conservative rule which started when Stanley Baldwin was called to take the reins after the Labor ties defeat in October 1924 Then it was that Premier Macdonald, again to become Prime Minister, resigned and Baldwin formed the new Cabinet.
 Like the former Labor Govern rlent the future of the new Mac Donald Government will depend largely upon what the Liberals will do for they hold the balance of power.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
NAVY PROGRAM
 TO BE CARRIED
 OUT BY HOOVER
Building of American Cruis- CTS Will Proceed Ac-
 cording to Plans

WASHINGTON, June 4-Presi- dent Hoover will carry forward the American cruiser building program as outlined by Congress.
 Provisions for new ships will be made in the next Federal budget.
 Construction work on Is addi- tional 10,000-ton cruisers is man. datory under the program until the sea armament reduction agreement is reached by leading nations and ratified by the Senate.
 President Hoover has no inten- tion of abandoning the building program and policy contrary to in terpretations drawn from his Mem orial Day address and Secretary Stimsons statement emphasizing the tremendous economic burden of present naval requirement.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
vESUvIUS IS
 THREATENING
 WIDE SECTION
Lava Stream Increases in Size and Velocity
 Towns Tn Path
associated Press Phott

NAPLES, Italy, June 4.-Mount yesuvius is beginning to threaten neighboring towns.
 The stream or lava, which start ed yesterday when the volcan o started eruption. has increased in strength and velocity. The stream has expanded nearly 50 feet in width and the velocity more than six feet a second.
 The famous Hell Valley is in vaded the entire length and the lava is advancing in two branches toward Terieno and Cupaccio.
 Because of the dense smoke, it is impossible to tell the distance the lava is from the village of Mout- skirt.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
SINCLAfn 10 SERVE LONGER
 TIME IN JAIL
Supreme Court Upholds Conviction of Shadow
 ing of Jury
OIL MAN REFUSES
 TO DISCUSS CASE
Conviction of Sentence Is Also Upheld in Cases
 of Two Others

WASHINGTON, June 4.-The Su- preme Court has upheld the lower court in sentencing Harry F. Sin clair to serve six months in the District of Columbia jail on charges growing out of jury shadowing which caused the Fall-Sinclair con- Spiracy case mistrial.
 Sinclair is now serving three months in jail for contempt of the United States Senate.
 The oil man will be allowed five days off month on each sentence for good behavior which would re- duce the nine months combined sentences to seven and one-half months
 Sinclair is now working in the District of Columbia Jails Phar- macy Department.
 Sinclair refused to discuss the Supreme Courts decision. Henry Mason Day, Assistant to Sinclair, who employed the Burns Detectives to shadow jurors, must serve four months in jail. w. Sherman Burns, in active charge fof the Burns Detective Agency at the time of the trial. must pay fine of $l ,oo0
 William J. Burns is exempt from a 15-day sentence on the grounds the evidence failed to show the former head of the Burns Detective Agency was ins e'1ss way responsible for the jury shadowing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
SOLUTION OF
 PREPARATIONS
 NOW REACHED
Great European Problem Is Reported to Be Off,
 cially Settled
BELGIUM AGREES TO
 EXPERTS PROPOSALS
Debt Germany Owes Is Re- duced from B to 9
 Billion Dollars

PARIS, June 4.-The last barrier to complete agreement of the Ex- perts@ Committee on the Repara- tions question has been removed and the long outstanding problem of Europe's postwar life is reported officially settled.
 The Belgians have accepted the proposal for a settlement of the solution of redemption of the Ger man marks left in Belgium after the war.
 The agreement is expected to be signed later this week.
 The agreement reduces Germany's reparation debt from thirty-three billion dollars to nine billion dol lars and will eventually give France between one billion six hundred million dollars and two billion dol lars, the remainder going to other nations.
 Payment will be under the Young annuity plan instead of the Dawes plan. Payments will be made over a period of 37 years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
SECOND CONVICTION OF OIL MAGNATE IS UPHEI
Submarine Earthquake BeIieued to Be Cause
 Of AIeutian Disaster

SEATTLE, June A submarine earthquake caused the upheaval of the floor of Uyak Bay Alaska, and this is blamed for the wreck of the steamer Aleutian, of the Alaska Steamship Company.
 Capt. Gus Nord and other officers testified yesterday at the investiga- tion begun by the United States Steamboat officials.
 Testimony showed that the Aleu- tian struck rock where the charts showed a depth of 168 to 294 feet
 The rock was unknown to navi- gators, and a quake is thought to have thrown up the unknown pin nacle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
HEARINGS ON TARIFF BILL
 10 CONTINUE
Senate Committee to Ex- tend Hearings Until
 July Tenth

WASHINGTON. June 4.-The Senate Finance Committee has agreed unanimously to hold open hearings on the House Tariff bill beginning June 12 and ending July 10, in order to expedite disposition of the measure and with time to spare before the regular December session starts.
 It was decided by the Finance Committee to allot taking of testi- mony on various levies to three or four subcommittee composed of three Republicans and two Demo- crats each.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
CAPT. LATHROP RETURNS
 FROM TRIP TO OUTSIDE

Capt. A. E. Lathrop, Republican national committeeman for Alaska and prominent business man of the Territory, passed through Juneau this morning on the steamer Yu- kon enroute to his home in Fair banks. He has been in the States since early this year and made a trip to Washington in connection with Alaska appointments. He made no statement relative to po- litical affairs, but seemed optinis- tic over the situation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
MAJOR GILLETTE IS
 ON INSPECTION TRIP

On a general trip of inspection of roads and trails in Intefior Alas ka, Major Douglas H. Gillette left today for Seward on the steamer Yukon He will be absent for about 30 days.
 Major Gillette will go to Seward and look over the Lowell Greek Hume and later return to Cordova. From there he will go to Chitina and over the Richardson Highway to Fairbanks. He will spend some time in that district, returning here about July 4.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
Coz. Parks Reached OGkLmd
 Em y Last Night
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Q oA&lelAl. 2. Gal. q me {. 5
 . --Gov. George A. Parks, of
 Q Alaska, arrived at the Oak
 . land Airport at 9:15 o'clock
 0 last night, from Juneau, by
 Q air.
 . Gov. Parks left Juneau Q yesterday morning at 12:35 . and was delayed at Seat Q tie until 1:58 pm awaiting Q repairs to the plane which 0 brought nm here. The plane Q was pilotcd by Dick Gleason. Q The monopla1e stopped at . Portland, Oregon, and Mon- . tague, California enroute c from Seattle to Oakland. Q Gov. Parks was greeted by Q large crowd upon arrival . here, including City off, . cials. He said the trip was . an uneventful one and prais- Q ed Pilot Eckmann, on the Q plane from Juneau to Seat Q tie, and Pilot Gleason at the Q controls of the plane bring Q ing him here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
Garry Tiny
 Moth PIane in TEeu Luggage

. SEATTLE, June 4.-Vis- . count and ViscounteSs Jac- . ques de Sibour arrived here . yesterday from Yokohama . on a tour of the world, car
 c rying tiny Gypsy moth . plane as part of their lug . gage.
 . As soon as the plane is re- . assembled here, the two will . fly to San Francisco, thence . across the continent to New . York where they will check . the plane and embark for . France.
 . The couple left L on don . last September and have . been on ship and plane, joy . riding ever since.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
Dr. Haley Is Again
 Going to Pribilofs

SEATTLE, June Apr. George Haley, Professor of Biology at St. Ignatius University, San Francisco, will go north tomorrow on the steamer Victoria from this port to make further scientific investiga- tions of seals and sea birds of the Pribilof Islands for the U it e d States Bureau of Fisheries.
 Dr. Haley visited the Pribilofs last year on scientific expedition.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04

Bartley Howard, former Territor- ial Senator and candidate for the Republican nomination for Dele gate to Congress in 1928, visited local friends today while the Yukon was in port. He is enroute to the Matanuska valley to reopen his coal mining property there,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
Crap Zeppelin Starts
 U. s. Flight on June 20

FREDRICHSHAFEN, June A. The Hamburg American booking office announces the next flight of the Graf Zeppelin to the Unit ed States has been fixed for June 20, weather permitting.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
SCREEN STARS
 ARE MARRIED

NEW YORK, June 4.-Douglas Fairbanks, jr., and Lucille Fay Le Suer. known on the screen as Joan Crawford, were married here yes- terday by the Rev. Edward F. Leon- ard, of St. Malcys Roman Catholic church.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
HELLER LEAVES TODAY ON
 TRIP TO SITKA, YAKUTAT

Supervisor R. A. Zeller, Tongass National Forest, left today with Ranger Harold Smith for a visit to Sitka and Yakutat. They are making the trip on the Ranger VII, Capt. George Peterson, and expect to be absent about ten days.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
.If it's Lindy, Where Is
 The Bride?

WOODSHOLE, Mass, June A. The yacht Mouette, believed to carry Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his bride. the former Anne Morrow, left this morning after an- choring during the night in the harbor Watchers said the craft headed toward Vineyard Haven. Only man was seen aboard.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
Mexican Christers
 Minus Leader; SLain
 By Mexican FederaIs

MEXICO CITY, June 4. The Supreme Chieftain of the Christers, whose battle cry was Long Live Christ, the King" has been killed and the Insurgent Army in Mexico is minus leader and faces ex- termination.
 Gen. Cevillo has informed Cha pultepec Castle the Federal Army killed Gen. Goroztieta and it is expected complete qualification of the insurgents will be completed by June IS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04

A. Massachusetts trapper some times finds gun superfluous. Re- gently he brought in two fox skins, one slain by wildcat and one a victim of starvation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
Zellerbach Paper Co.
 Suffers Loss by Fire

SPOKANE, Wash, June 4-Fire of an undetermined origin today destroyed the four-story warehouse of the Zellerbach Paper Company here, causing loss of $200,000.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04
NEW GANGwAY, CITY FLOAT

The upper City Float has been much improved by a new gangway which was completed yesterday and is now in use.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04

Bishop w. R. Sloan. head of the Mormon Missions in the Northwest, who has been conducting meetings in Juneau for the last week, left for the south on the Princess Louise. He was accompanied by P. E. War nick, L. T. Plowman, w. K. Ever ton, and c. E. Mower, who have been doing missionary work in Alaska during the last year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04

Students studying infant rearing at Texas Pathological College will adopt an orphan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04

California has gone orange juice. Famous walnut groves of Placentia are being replaced by citrus fruits.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04

Miss A. Langton, teacher in the Anchorage Schools during the last year, who has been visiting Miss Dorothy Goddard for several days, left on the Princess Louise on her way to her home at Newburg, Ore, to spend the summer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-04

Elliott Fremming left on the Princess Louise to. receive treatment for his eyes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08

REVOLUTION and armistice did not end
the secret war. Some striking American
secret service achievements occurred after No.
vemDer IL.
What would the new Germany dc? Every
one asked Was the revolution real, or was
1t faxed, as many Frenchmen feared? Would
the republic keep the armistice and make peace,
or would 1t go Bolshevik?
Ii the present government kept power. what
would be its policy at the peace conference?
Would Germany fight again rather than sign
an unsatisfactory treaty? Could she? Was
Germany really half-starved or was that propa-
ganda to win sympathy? To win the peace
Those questions must be answered, and correctly
Some of our best secret service work in Europe
was done not in war; but in peace bv the
Army. whose reports President Wilson and Col
House had to accept. They satisfied both bet
ter than what British and French told them
of conditions in Germany
Those allied reports forshadowed the con-
hct between the peace aims of the allies and
OF President Wilson that later nearly wrecked
the peace conference and influenced profound
~ even TO this day the trend of world events
Ihey showed the allies viewing differently
than the American President the new German
republic born in no small measure of his doc
trines, signer of an armistice based upon them
II was almost his godchild yet the allies be-
gan to question its legitimacy. They suspected
trtckery. The Americans turned to CO. in the
gathering diplomatic storm
The last shot had hardly re-echoed from
the North Sea to Switzerland, when the Amari-
can secret service was taking stealthy steps
to find the truth about what happened in Ger
maryland little bit more. The Americans
mad assisted at the birth of the German re-
public, now they helped keep it alive
During some eight months OF armis5ica and
peace negotiations, Germany remained always
delicate problem
Get rid of the Kaiser We had told them in
effect, have republic and we'll make peace
with YOU We have no quarrel with the Ger
man people. Well, the Kaiser had gone the
republic had come. why continue the quarrel?
But ranco-s, hatreds and suspicious do not
subside SO easily, and who knew what might
happen in Germany overnight?
slip by the new Socialist Republican gov
ernmsnt might cause either countsr-reyo-
luton OF the old Junker- aIitarists or a Ped
revolution joining with Moscow That danger
Sce-ced . real that German reactionaries