The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 9, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA "4II4 THE NEWS ALL THE = T jUN};/\U ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, IME” e e orp— MEMBER OF Assocmu) PRESS PRICE 1927. PRICE TEN CENTS ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM SOUND, ECONOMICAL, DECLARES GOVERNOR 4,000 Dead in QUAKE HORRORS ' L T “" Budget for Next Two Years INCREASES AS / REPORTS MADE Votes for Himself And Unanimously Submitted by Treasurer to Logtslaturc Umler 1925 Law | Conselvatlve Lshmale Is that Four Thousand Have Elected $12,500; Been Killed BETWEEN 50,000 AND 755,000 ARE HOMELESS = ™. James Thousands of Homes Have | Been Destroyed; Sur- o Gong e MANY RUSSIANS 0 BE EXECUTED; Four thousand houses have been Chmese Wal‘ Lmd to End destroyed by fire and 2,000 hause;‘ L | ‘ ife of Chinese-Rus- | were razed by the shock. The Tokyo press estimates that| sian Communists. between 50,000 .and 75,000 persons are homeless. | DIG FOR BODIES | Troops are digging for bodies in the ruins of the town of Amino which was one of the places razed. i Misery prevails in many eections and this is accentuated by snow, cold and terror because of continued earth rumblings. Snow and earth fissures, opened Zette. by the quake, have greatly retarted' ~The dispatch the execntiims attempts to relieve sufferings. Food have been ordered on the gronnd is being carried by coolies, | that Chinese and Russian Commun- GO TEMPORARILY INSANE ;m~ were aboard the with The Asahi correspondent at Mine.| mass of propagandist literature w.th yama says many survivors are wan. intent to aid the Cantonese or dering about aimlessly, seemingly Southern Nationalists, whom Chang temporarily insane, as the result of is fighting the quake. ' The correspondent 5 One boy was sitting by the rcad»‘llvnl is expected to lead side clasping the bones of his father ture in relations between Russia and rccovered from the ashes of the fam- the Peking Government | ily home. The seizure of the vessel, last Sat- CRACKS IN EARTH lurday by the Shangtungese, was Cracks in the earth, landslides and |subject of a note from the Russian avalanches are numerous in the ai-|E at Pel to the Chinese flicted district. In some places the ign Oftice. fe Soviets demani ficsures are three feet across, vessel, crew and be It is estimated that three weeks immediately, the will be required to repair railroads. Governmeant held TIDAL WAVE REPORTED their safety A tidal wave, which followed the atehes said Madame quake, severely damaged many fish- Michael Borodin, ing villages and lost of life is also: Government reported from the cause but reports Lenina, Dis-| Ui Sxoeadinaly meagre regAnding from Japanese scources at| gEATTLE, March 9. Plans for the, this additional tragedy. Nanking reported she was escorted ivic Auditorium before January 1, o to Thinan Fu by Shangtun troops.| have. progressed followite. ap- The Pamiat Lenina is reported to|pioval at the Municipal election yes- have been enroute to Hankow wheu terday of the $900,000 bond issue for seized. Passengers are said to in- the building. The voters in favor of| clude several diplomatic couriers | |the bond issue were 35,693 and those | and they have been detained. The' against numbered 11,387, vessel was immediately utilized as a The referendum for the purchase | troopship. of the Rainier Valley Car Line wus| Borodin is snowed under, i ate the radical John E. Carroll, William Hit-knm‘.lf tonese party. Moore and Otto Case were re-elect-| ed to the City Council. A, Lou Cohen ——e—— defeated Ralpn Nichols, present coun- F ; cilman, for the fourth councilman. OFHGIALS wT New Charter for Tacoma TACOMA, Wash, March 9. The| new city charter for the City of Ta- coma carried yesterday by 1,400. CHIGAGO: March:—Ohfitage Tiib: |FEbere was o Hght votoscast une says two executives, have re- gigned from the Armour Grain Com- pany, which was recently ordered to pay $3,000,000 to the Grain Marketing Company after an investigation of alleged fraudulent acts. The an- nouncement was made following a special meeting of the company’s directorate. Those who resigned are Georg2 Macy, Chairman of the Board, and George Thompson, Superintendent in charge of elevators. Self-Government Is Now y Demed lhlnn Colonies GO, HL, March cast in the yesterday at voters are Galowich cast 9. -One primary Summit, registered the only CHIC vote w, | | election || where I James vote. ! When the hard working | tion officials canvassed the vote, | | they discovered the unanimous livestori and relief primar, The Territorial nium, Apyil 1, submitted <lature by wurer, showed probable necessary Judget for the | wolves and eagles, 1927, 10 Mareh 21, inspection, $10,000; vesterday to the] of persons, Walstein (. Smiti, | election expenges, “estimated or! also inchid expenditures bas.| normal admini ed upon existing laws” aggregating showing decreases 818, The net the | increases asury March 1, 25 Sources of Revenue placed the probable gencral revenue measure s the biennium, January 1, 1927 to De- the of course, of the cember 21, 1928, at $2.010,.230, his est amount so estimated income, caleulations being based ting from all general levies, §1 i ing revenue laws Of this sum levies on the The estimated expenditures listed | fisheries indust total §1.176.000 in the Budget include the estimates|with — $201,000 derived submitted by all departments with-| general taxes on professions, out any scaling down. All estimates nesses, gete. Special tax measures, submitted without eomment infincluding school tax law their original form required by [ §170.000, the repegl of which (h..m..l 60, Laws of 1925. No shipn escheat estates. inheritance subsidies included in the tax, railwa; mmw Mr. Smith saying xisting | premium tax, laws on this subject apparently b fees from the ing special sattutes governing e Secretary ans penditures of appropriations govern- | miscellancous items, aggregate §i84 by them.” 1700, From receipts from of Schools Lead Estimates | timher in national torests in the Ter- Expenditures for Territorial schools ! ritory. it iz estimated the Perritory aggregating § re the heav Lwill receive $60.000. An additionzl carried in the estimates. The Alaska $100,000 will ba paid in from th | College estimates call’ for an ap-| Federal Gover it for sipport of propriation of $161,850. This woulld|the Alaska Agricultural College and provide §40.000 for buildings, $10,000; School of Mines. for machinery, $10,000 for extension Figures for 1925-1927 cour: 00 for an agricultural| The Budget also embraces a statx project and $79.350 for operation. ment of appropriations for the 1 The estimates for the other schools 27 biennium and of expenditures to of the Territorial system are iden- the end of 1926 The total of tical with those made public several|eral fund appropriations for the days ago by Commissioner L. D. bhiennium B.536.56 and from Henderson the public school current fund, $740 186,91 making the grand total of appropriations §1,986 4 36 rescue $10.000; $11,000. The Bud estimates for th tive expenses, some and others slight lost elec get ballot for President of the Vil- lage Board the Independent ticket balance $99 revenues for{ The in on e He was successful candidate was source, gre ag exist upon grog being from busi —The horror of in TOKYO, March 9. Monday's earthquake catastrophe Central Japan continues to grow a” more complete returns arrive. The death list ranges from a"ic-.l estimates of 2,300 to 5,000. The gov- ernment's conservative estimate is! are receipts, as is st gested a taxes, property sales income tax, insurance fishermen licen; office of Territorial sales LONDON, N Chang Tso Lin, Lord, has ordered all Russian prisone ame Michael Borodin, been seized aboard the Soviet ship Pamiat Lenina, says the Pekin jrespondent of the Westminister rch 9 Marshal Manchurian War the execution of except Mad- who hq cor- Ga- gen past was $1 says xpenditure i ka Fish Commission, oper: cheries, pond construction,| There was to A050; roads and trails, $260.- 51, last shelter cabins, $20,060; Pio- | propriations the Home, §96,000; Old Age Pen-|leaving a balauce $140,000; for Dependent chil last quarter $40,000; relief of destitution | from the public and for further relief of |amouhted to $33 necdy and indigent, $20,000; bounties, | unexpended balan BIG BOND FOR it SEATTLE BLDG City Llecloxs Approve of | Civic Auditorium; Coun- cilmanic Election. are: tion, ele., § 500; neers’ December the general fund ap sum of $1.013.214.03, of $233,322.53 for he expenditures school current funl Jeaving an vessel a expended out of sfons, dren, $15.000 the to a mei- rup- One Prohibition Issued Killed For {In Committee | the released Chinese responsible for Shanghai d Borodin, wife of advisor to the Canton was aboard the Pamiat passengers declaring will be ALBANY N. ¥., March 9—The State Assembly Judici Committee by a of S to 3, has killed Culvillier resolution to petition to call constitutional con {vention for amending or repealing the Eighteenth Amendment. The ac tion followed a three hour hearing lon the measure MAJOR BORGAS IS BELIEVED HELD, RANSOM March vote Con gress a patches Red Cross Aid WASHINGTON, March 9. Presi- dent Coolidge has asked the Ame:- ican Red Cross to offer aid to Japan in the earthquake disaster. BRIT. CRUISER GOES TO WUHU SHANGHAI, March 9.—The Brit- ish Cruiser Emerald has sailed from Nanking to Wuhu where a mob yesterday looted the Custom House following occupation of the town by the Cantonese. All foreign women and children ore aboard the steamer Kutwo which apparently ‘has not left yet for Shanghai. The American destroyer Preble is standing by. ———————— Under Arrest in Connection with Many Crimes understood wing of to domin»i the Can-! 9. -Major Tadeo Larre-Borgas has made it known through the High Commissioner of Cape Jubi that a paralyzed oil brought the proposed trans-Atlantic flight to an abrupt end. The failure of the pipe to funetion made a land- ing necessary in which the plan SPOKANE, Wash,, March 9.—With| ™" all tallies aggreeing on the re-elec- tio not Dr. Ralph Hendricks as City Commissioner, it was evident late today that an official count will qu later messane AR the Fiigh Gom necessary (o determine whethor| . ioner sent food and clothing to Mayor Fleming has been re-elected| ) i\ yavans and they are expeci- or whether John Argall, former Com-\ "\ yrive at Cape Jubl “moment- missioner defeated him in yesterday's| ¢ ' " 5 men municipal election N. Y. Police May Raid Immoral Performances NEW YORK, March 9.-—Tha rourt has refused Horace B. Liveright publisher and theatrical producer, an injunction restraining the Police Department interfering with his am-|times with 1 razor and knife blade ing every vestige of self-government | nounced production of “The Cap-lin a hotel bathroom in a suicide in the Italian North African Colonicsitive,” onc of three plays recemtly attempt. 1. i3 reported improveld of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. 1uided on Broadway, land conscious, MADRID, demolished. Major Borgas and his three com- panions are in the hands of Moroccan tribesmen who captured them. They are believed to be held for ransor arily.” White Sox Outfielder Attempts to Take Life SHREVEPORT, La., March 9. Johnny Mostil, Chicago White Sox outfielder. foday slashed himself four EVERETT, Wash., March 9.—On suspicion of being connected wita more than three score crimes, in- cluding the murdet of a pool hall proprietor of McCleary, Wash., Fred Feizett, aged 33, is held in the coun- ty jail. George English, special agent for the Great Northern Railway, sail a 16-year-old boy told him of ac- companying Feizett on a plundering trip through Washington and Idaho. ROME. March 9—1‘he Cabinet has approved of an organic law destroy- Earlhqua/ee in Japa the | PARKS’ MESSAGE COVER 71 WIDE RANGE OF TOPICS; URGES NO TAX ADV ANCE In his | George Park standpoint ennial mes . his first briefly activities as Chief but Executive of the forcefully, from Territory, virtually executive Gov reviewed very Keeping Young WVan [ CHICAGO, | | | every . 1% | | Human Chain Is | | | al rritory’s as viewed an and firmly “new and established A s um b untried experiments” in chain keeping Al vear-old salesman, alive although he has not drawn normal breath for three days ilis diaphram was paralyzed Sun- day. The hopeless govern- tor “adherin adjusting ap- that less hivman ment and he is tax rate and so bert 22 propriation they will be within FINANCES the estimated normal revenue, IN GOOD SHAPE a to stand out against the rising tide of taxation, than ) revenues lared, March confidence hest ot achieve greater appropriations <o that distinction 10 case rded but a began artiticial 24 men, working are alternately is e as ! friends vespiration and two at a time, expanding and his lungs. Doctors they will he able restore his breathing. His and father ar itting bedside, watehing 2 increased i v of | ¥ rh cnsl finances of the Territory being in the Treasury and expressing in mind solely and activities, IS FILLED the and there s of members, former privileged to sit vite with their at g he de lance haland on o voicing the hope his the that of compressin legislature would have interests deliberation HOUSE hall of are hoping o mother at the praying T hy i he 1 public House of Representatives were filled to the floor | of the oy P 5 wag an overflow to where wive members and their families, o - of Secretary Assistant Secre- Howard, of ta» Fourth Divisiot:, Speaker's and m. President Senator Dunn, Parks annlause Speaker's ehair tative Lo, escorted Gov to the plat- {itai® Iils ipnoaranos. bulny MESSAGES FORCEFULLY DELIVERED v, Parks proceeded at with the of which message, reading from a manuseript he held in his heids. He spoke in elear, distinet President Lonlemnlates New uni pleasant tones, forcetully presenting his facts. As he proceeded it was Summe‘.r' WhIKC House—« .‘.“u ;m he was holding the attention not alone of the members of the ]‘(')ur ]5 P]anned | Legistuture but of |1'.,’.:|um- audience, And his conclusion was the signal A hearty applause. Many membors and spectators sur- e Ieft the Speaker's stand, congratulating him warmly on dent Coolidge hi lish the Summer where west of reted with which House as general ‘|..r o e e gave the President Governor the Hs who ne once very for and continel rowded him a Presi- estah March 3 decided White House the Alleghenios wh he will go or how long will away from Washingt n determined little prospeet ho for the summer on although he may the continent returning Washington. The Presi- ! dent wants to study agricultural con- | ditions of the West ! The decision is n‘ line with the friend s and Congressional e who dif- | fer with him on his attitude toward | arm relief | — - H WOMAN HELD IN GONSPIRACY LES, Cal, March W. Bowan, religion selfstylgd prophetess, | conspiracy to commit | surrendered tha) the woman pr - of the world two| has been sought for more than one week as the result! of an attack upon Dr. Burt E. Fuli- mer, leader of the church faction opposed to her teachings Mrs. Rowan hobbled into the Cen-| tral Station on crutches, supported | by her son who persuaded her face the charges Mrs. Rowan d home following an Fullmer who charged drugged and beaten 49 had resumed yed el extena to the 1ritery his seat, after finishing Representative Gaffney, reading, Senator moved that the joiut the clear presentation to, the affairs of the som just hy Governor a vote of thanks for K¢ the “deep study h he a had given” not he: The settlé down Pacitic a swing will TEXT OF the take | hefore MESSAGE Mr. President It is of Mr. ple the E Spealor, Mewibers of the Legislature 11 as a duty to meet you at the open- Biennial Session of the Legislature affecting the Territory since Coust my sure, as hth the con! 15 ing this and address the you on itions session two years ago west to go of Improved conditions in the the e localities tha hut Territory are indicated wmines, fisheries and forests. itoare not as prosperous were inevitable in a Terrttory large as s0 many communities are dependent for their support prosperity of a single industry known th not substantial At that demands o by the Possibly as they advice his increased production there in are sou two ye: 480, this is as ours, where on the stuch as mining or fishing. reason to helieve progress during the the fare of the policies which inqugnration of new as can be at untici this time 1 steadfast have proved to be suceesstul and | | So far present re 1s no | that | next Territory we should biennium be'leve We adherence those rather to than the untried experiments In the Session two vears the Alaska conceived and adopted a developments, timber hat have elapsed since the Legislature, the Tederal policy designed to bring ahout of the potentinl Territory. This policy Seventh Biennial of Government has LOS ANG Mrs. Margaret leader and charged with murder, has police. She dicted the years ago. She [ the early water power and has Deen well re- point where of those interested in the on a larg the scale, resources of and to ceived who negoti at ions have advanced to the the manufacture competitive hids for is Government the request end of pulp mately and paper, is advertising for feet of of our millions of that they will und with « of the development program largely on the resnits of your deliberations It of the ntmost importance to the prosperity of Alaska all sections shonld that cooperation between legislative and anche the government will much to ecreate zood will throughout the Territory, and I shall do my part establish and maintain such harmonious relations. The stability institutiong and the distribution of taxation will be material factors in controlling all futur ment, you should exercige the approxi- forests require have this impartial projects. ten hillion The utilization of our potential power will those who timber. and the capital the development of assured they water investment dollars and must he will receive fair and rtake to finance .sponsibility consideration before You these are confronted cessful grave becanse the su culmination may o proposed depend very is and in welfare work the do her Dy, been I from on had peared attack he future that harmony. am sure cordial executive hr of confidence and (s Arralanat ELES, March 9-—M: Rowan, religious sect ler, was ar raigned in the Municipal Court this fternoon. She is held in $2.500 ImndI to LOS / of our just develop- hence care in considering greatest | {Snowbound Town i Is Reached by Air March heen snow- these matters so that there may the part of those who geek investments in the Territory. the difficulties that interfe with efficient administra- is the multiplicity of governmental agencies that have been (ru.m-rl from time to time. Alaska fortunate in this re- Our Territorial Government is in expensive, and for our needs in future. Your predeces- confronted with the providing the agencies necessary for the conduct business, and realizing that simplicity and tial success, created all of the machinery that is necessa:- to care for the needs of the Territory. The procedure outlined by them followed established precedents and the test of timo. Such faults as may appear, may be made inot be charged to a lack of adeguate agencies of governme he report of the audi- tors who have examined the Territory show that the cost of administration cent of the total ex- penditures and necessity for increas- ing thix Considered for a preliminary hearing tomorrow. | be no just cause for apprehen- i S sion on One of is spect simple, sufficient the Immediate necessity of of Territoria! eConomy were esse SILVERTON, This village which bound for three weeks saw fts first airplane The plane was, piloted ational Guard officer | and he over the town and dropped mail and medical supp tes | ————a—— Coo., /T Vel sors, voster by a N soared to a has stood or criticisms as Six Destroyers Are Purchased by Chile VAL!‘AR,\NO (lnlv, Newspapers announce ment has acquired six ers abroad, probably acou! the is only six per thut there is no I am sure March 9. - the govern- new destroy- from England. in their entirety, (e laws of the Territory are A e (Continued On Page Two)