The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 9, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXL, NO. 4681. 1,000 MA VJUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1928. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER RINES OFF FOR NICAR New House Comm SKYSCRAPERS IN MONEY CENTER RISE ON SOIL OF FABU LUNGLE SAM T0 BE WATCHED IN EXPENSES NOW ¥ Every Dollar Must Be Spent e for Purpose Appro- propriated for 11 COMMITTEES ARE CONSOLIDATED New Powers Given to Spec- ial Organization—No Sensational Course WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Every dollar Congress allows Uncle Sam to spend will have to walk the straight and narrow path for the new House Committee is goingi to take a closer check on ex-; penditures than ever before. Unless each dollar reaches Il,s‘ “destination set by Congress, the| Expenditures Committee will have| *a lot to say about it. The new committee results| from consolidation of 11 minor; committees on governmental ex-| penditures and has been clothed | with such responsibilities and;| powers that it is considered des-| tined to play an important part] in House affairs. One of the chief functions is to sit as a Board of Review to see| that Government departments use ®the money alloted to them for ——— OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AGUA ittee 10 Check U. S. Expenditures Six new skyscrapers, erected cn land that amounws to a treasure in vaiue, are altering the sky- line of New York’s financial district, They includz (left to right) the 38-story building of the Chase National Bank, the tallest; Bank of New York and Trust Company and the Equitable Trust Company. NEW YORK, Jan. 9—The sky- line of the city’s financial distric the purpose for which specified. | Chairman Williams ‘Williamson of South Dakota, does not expect B the committee to steer a sensa-, tional course but intends to \n-| vestigate all credible reports in- dicating improper use of public| funds. | | MUCH DAMAGE ' ATKETCHIKAN BY HIGH WIND @ Storm Hits First City Last Saturday — Houses | Knocked Into Bay KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 9.—The damage by the storm here last Saturday estimated at $75000, after a prelim- inary survey. Small shipping was the hardest hit. y boats were washed ashore and heavy scows pounded to pieces against the docks. POWER LINES DOWN The electric light and pow- er lines are down all over the city. A . The New England Fish Company suspended opera- tions when the power lines ! to the George Inlet plant were severed. | A number of wooden | streets have been torn mp and dirt roads washed away in places, Indians and a boy, | ,& woman were injured when struck by a mast torn loose from a t and car- ried away by the wind. Private advices say Craig suffered heavy damage. Sweeping out of the Southwert at a velocity of 70 miles an hour, a terrific windstorm wrought havoc in Ketchikan last Saturday | afternoon, according to' passen- gers arriving from there on the; Alameda last night. Three houses were knocked into the bay and some smaller shacxs in Newtown along the bay side of the roadway during the storm | ,which swept the waterfront the greater part of the day and caus- ed considerable other damage. The storm lashed the waters of Tongass Narrows. No loss of life reported. ¢ ¢ With driftwood piling up against 1‘0 wharves, roadways and houses along /| waterfront, the greatest, danger ‘was during high tile shortly. betore 2 o'clock in the - . K 3 The roadway _was partially w«‘h the north end of New- m and beyond the city limits. piled against the i | structures. {Baey is undergoing million dollar alter- ations. Six skyscraper buildings, now under construction, five . of them in ‘or near Wall street and the sixth on Lower Broadway, will before spring send new and high- er towers piercing the blue. In round sums $100,000,000 more is being expended on these The land on which they stand alone is valued at mil. lions; so costly, in fact, that it probably is worth more as real estate than as mining property, even were |the world’s richest subterranean treasure chests hid- den beneath it. The three tallest of the new skyscrapers each have 38 stories.| The Chase National bank, now under construction on the $5,000.- 000 plot at Nassau, Pine and Ce- M dar streets, will rear its recessed stories above the old United States Sub-Treasury. The Equit- able Trust Company building, whose squared tower Tises above Wall street at Exchange place, will cast "ifs ‘Shadow: upon th: comparatively iow structure hous. ing J. P. Morgan and Company. At 39 Broadway the Harriman 33 Broadway building will stand in slender magnificance, virtually un- challenged as the highest peak in the lower reaches of the famous thoroughfare. Jach will house the population of a small city, 12,000 persons be- ing employed in one building alone. A 32-story building for the Bank of New York and Trust Company will mark Wall Street with a tow- er, cupola and weather vane ris- ing far above the corner at Wil liam street. The structure wil estimated §$14,- ate value of a ank is report $32.000 increase by an 000,000 the real es piot for which the ed’ to have paid about 1800, Adjoining, on the plot at b Wall street, the National City Company is building a companion {8%story structure topped by what is in effect a Grecian temple. Turrets and minarets will gleam in the sunlight above the'corner at Broad and Beaver streets upon the completion of a new 3l-story International Telephone building.| A number of smaller structures |also are being erected, but | are small in comparison with the six giants and cAnnot affect the skyline. Notable among them the 12-story building for the Com- mercial Exchange Bank. It is be- 2 plot only 25 feet wide and 100 fee’ deep, but worth a fortune. JILTED GIRL SENDS MAN TO DEATH TRAP Two Ex - Convicis ‘Shot Down in Chicago When' Robbery Is Attempted CHICAGO, Jan. 9.—Two men, only 10 days out of prison, found death awaiting them when they sought to pick up the thread of crime which the prison sentences cut threé years ago. The police lay in ambush, con- cealed in shadows of the Burling- ton Railroad station when two recent convicts, Valentine Sliwa and John Bonk, each 21 years of age, waylaid E. F. Hulquist, theatre owner, on his way home with the Sunday receipts. Eleven bullets entered Bonk’s body and seven in Sliwa’s body. The third robber remained in a waiting motor car and escaped under a rain of fire from the po- lice who fopced his car into the curb where it was wrecked. The man leaped and cleared a fence and was lost in the darkness about midnight, in a lumber yard. N The mysterious tip concerning the hold-up was given to the police from a jilted sweetheart of one of the men. —_— e —— Two Murderers Die Today on ‘Gallows + VANCOUVER, B. C, Jan. 9,— |A .double execution took place here this morning. Kennetie R. and Yuchi Yaoki paid the supreme - penalty ‘and were ex- ted on the gallows. Bailey -for the murder of SCHONWALD'S TROUBLES IN COURT AGAIN SEATTLE, Jan. 9—For the third time in the last four years, the domestic relations of Frnes Schonwald, fish packer of Pete burg, Alaska, and his wife, Henri- etta, has been given an airing in the divorce courts. The third time came Saturday following what was intended for a secret hearing and Mrs. Schonwald walk- ed off with an interlocutory de- cree. This makes- Iter two ani her hushand one. For years the Schonwalds' do- mestic trovbles bave stalked through the corridors of the Court House in divorce hearings each time reconciliation followed. A property settlement was arriv- ed at out of court. Ranch House Dances Are Ou_:tell by Bridge SONORA, Tex., Jan. 9.—Ranch house dances, long the most popular diversion on the cow- boy's social calendar, have given way to bridge, radio and house- parties in this isolated stock-rais-| ing section of Texas: Gatherings at which cowhands and their fair friends execute odd terpsicorean steps to such tunes as “Cotton Eye Joe" are undertaken now only as a ‘“‘take- loff” on days of ‘yesteryear. Young folks on the ranches motor to the nearest towns to seek recreation, or ' they- Wi housé g totke ol and | TWENTY-FOUR MEN CAUGHT Rescue Work Being Made Difficult WEST FRANKFORT, 111, Jan. 9—Two miners are known to have been killed and 24 are miss- ing, four hours after an expl>- sion. this forenoon in the Indus- trial Coal Company’s mine No. 1%, | Approximately 100 men were in i the section of the mine where tie explosion occurred and all but 21 are accounted for. Fire broke out after the explosion and is making rescue work difficult. |Wife of Gov. Smith i Is Operated Upon {tred E. Smith, wife of the Gov- |ernor of the State, is reported |to have passed a fair night‘at the hospital where she was op- jerated upon for appendicitis last Saturday. New Pay Schedule Alaska Raiiroad WASHINGTON, .an. 9—Gen- eral Manager Nosl W. Smith, of | the Alaska Rallroad, has been au- thorized to amend the 'schedules and rules of pay on the railroed, and to pay regular assigned em. ployes on the days swhen they are not called on for duty. This is by a decision of Controller General allowance will schedule ecalcu-| lated for eight hours or for 400 LOUS VALUE back | | they | ing built at 70 Wall street upon a | BY EXPLOSION Fire Raging in Mine and| ILONDON AGAIN |15 MENACED BY | THAMES RIVER | Workmen Avert Damage with Sandbag Barrier— Art Treasures Ruined LONDON, Jan. “Tne surging | waters of the Thames River seri-| ously menaced Westminster again | Sunday afternoon at high tide but the vigilance of an army of work- mlen averted serious damage. Water seeped through the sanl {bag barrier at the break in tho river wall in front of the 1 Gallery and reached the curb, but ptompt. reinforcement prevented s, repetition of Saturdays’ disaster when art treasures, valued at mil- Hons of - pounds sterling, were | ruined. The Tate Gallery is the Nation al Gallery of British Art. High Tide Continues The Port of London officials s sued a warning that all tides will increase until Tuesday and gre: uneasiness exists in all quarte: until that' time will have pagsed. The Salvation Army bani, whigh played all Sunday after- noon at the corner of thi Td'e Gallery to collect funds for flood sufferers, conducted Thanksgivins | services when officials announced | Ithe danger had passed for the | day. | The Salyation Army's large bar racks nearby has been the relief conter for the flood victims since O first break spread terror in the heart of London and caused 14 deaths. G 5 P SN LINDBERGH 1S AT BULL FIGHT Attends Sports in Costaj Rica—No Protests | Are Received United States, | year-old daugther Marisa. BULLETIN — PANAMA, | Jan, 9. — Col. Charles A. Lindbergh safely arrived here this afternoon from Costa Rica, ' BERLIN, Jan. 9—One of Ger many's younger diplomats will succeed in January to the post of ambassador from his nation to the United States, when Dr. Fried- rich von Prittwitz reaches Wash- ington to- take the ‘portfolio made vacant by the death last summer of Baron Ago von Maltzan. With him will come his wife formerly Countess Marie Loulse | von Strachwitz, and their daugn- SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Jan. 9. | __Col. Charles A. Lindbergh at-| tended another bull fight here Sunday. There were no protests {from organizations in the United States against his afténdance as there were in Mexico City. The bull fights here were not ; néiA |put on by professional matadores| **™ Marisa, four years old. . i In the wife of the ambassador but by farm hands who did th(‘ir‘“mum“gm“ Sl meet: itha" fifat] L’:'::‘t;"u’,"'::"‘e“'r;:‘flfl‘:,:“";“":(':":5\ member of the German nobility to b {go in for earning a living. The German Noblewoman Who Earned Living Coming to Capital The diplematic social set at Washington will have as its new member from Germany the former Countess Marie Louise von Strachwitz, who sold frocks in Berlin before her marriage to Dr. ;, Friedrich von Prittwitz, the new German Ambas:ador to the wmichipote, with a body guard of She is shown above with her husband and four- 50 picked men surrounding him. 3 CONTINGENTS SAILING TODAY - FOR THE SOUTH Major General Lejuene, I Marine Commander, Goes for Inspection FORCE IN NICARAGUA TO BE 2,400 MARINES | Officers and Privates Cited for Gallantry—Tra- ditions Upheld WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. — The oft recurring picture of Ameri- can Marines sailing for duty in foreign lands was afforded today at three ports cities as reinforce- {ments for the Nicaraguan cam- paign assembled at San Diego, on the Pacific Coast, and at Charleston and Norfolk on the {Atlantic Coast. AL the head of the Marine force leaving from Charleston fs iMn]ar General John Lejeune, Commandmant of the Marine 1Corps, who is bound for Central American republies to gather first | hand information of the strife |involving the Marines and forees of Gen. Sandino. When_ the 1,000 Marines from the Bast and West coasts unite with their buddies in Nicaragua, the total force will approximate 2,400 men. for gallantry here revealed that the United State Marines had | Yived up to the best of the tradi- tions of the corps, famous for intrepid fighting. r Citations told of the personal icourage, under withering ma- “chine gun fire, when the Marines captured Quilali, the stronghold of the rebels of Sandino, . self- styled “Wild Beast of the Moun- tains,” who is belleved lurking ' a" mine three miles from Six officers, * two non-commis- ====—=—=== gioned officers and seven privates daughter of a cavalry captain, she Of the Marines, and three Navy opened a fashion shop in Heriin Pharmacist’s mates, have been in 1914 when her father's death Cited for gallantry. on the battlefroit left the family Gen. Sandino, according to in straitened clicumstances. documents which have been She conducted it for six years, f0'nd, and believed to be officiai, and her marrlage to Dr. Prittwitz 18 Drearing to escape through in 1920 was held in the shop Honduras or down the Coco Riv- among model gowns and @ pro- ©F to the Caribbean it be is hard fusion of feminine finery. | pressed, — Dr. Prittwitz i3 widely known' in Germany for his interest in FIsH PRunucTs {none were seriously injured. them paid for their audacity by : getting thrown into the air but} NDIT Children Attempt To Save Relatives When House Burns SACRMENTO, Cal, Jan. 9.— While three children battled to save them, six persons, including the father, mother, two boys and/ two girls, were burned to death yesterday morning on the Henry Merwin farm in the Pacific Dis-| trl The children who tried toj save thelr relatives, were siceping in an outbuilding when the flames from the house awakened them. 1 The fire is supposed to have originated in the kitchen. American Mining Man,| Held for Ransom in Mexico, Escapes MEXICO CITY, Jan. 9—Lyman F. Barber, American mining” man, whose home is in Los Angeles, escaped from handits who have' been holding him prisoner for ransom since he was kidnapped December 16. Barber, made desperate when 4 he overheard the Chieftain of Yhe Marry Hindu bandits say he would be killed on Tuesday unless ransom of $15,000 LONDON, Jan. 9. — An Ex-|was paid, attacked his guards change Telegraph dispatch from|Saturday night, overpowered and Bombay says the American xlrl.‘kmod four of them with stones Miss Naney Miller, of Seattle and/ and bottles as his weapon. He todmerly of Valdez, Alaska, has|ran most of the way to Curnavaca arrived at Bombay for the pur-|and reached Mexico City lasi pose of marrying the formerinight, {ll and exhausted. Maharajah Indore, whom she met et while he was visiting in America. VALDEZ POSTMASTER The American Consul, according —— to the dispatch, said he has fail-}| WASHINGTON, Jan, 9.— ed dn ‘his attempt to dissuade|Among the postmaster nomin- Miss Miller from marriage which|ated by President Coolidge 'ia will occur with Indore after shelGeorge W. Robbins for the office adopts the Hindu veligion. lat Valdez, Alaska, t Former Valdez Girl Is to ESCAPE, ALIVE: sports, the arts-and music as for his accomplishments in the field | of politics and economics. He is: notably fond of and adept at golf i Two Industries Have Re- ! markable Year -— Pulp Plants Operate Capacity and tennis. ST. JOHNS, N. F., Jan. 9.— For the first time in history of Newisundland, pulp and paper product: equalled the total value of the colony's fishing enterprise during the year just closed. A ! The two industries produced approximately $13,500,000 each. . The increase in the pulp and J ipaper production is attributed to | (g4he fact that the Grand Falls the right of the Government | |mills, woned by the Rothmere in- in prohibition cases to use | |terests, of London, operated at | evidence obtained by listen- | jcapacity and the Corner Brook ing in on telephone wires. | | Milis, recently acquired by the In all three cases, the Su- | |International Paper Company, op- preme Court refused to grant . |erated at 95 per cent capaeify. | reviews but anuounces it || - —e,o——— John Hancock, Alaska Wire Tapping | Evidence Before Supreme Court WASHINGTON, "Jan. 9. The Supreme -Court has re- versed itself and has decid- ed to consider the validity of evidence obtained in pro- hibition cases by wire tap- | ping. Three cases are from the Pacific Coast, brought by | Roy Olmsted, Charles & | Green, REdward 8. McInnes and others who challenged | | E i | | 1 i I i | will go exhaustively into the | subject to determine wheth- || | er the Government # vio- || | lating the constitutional & | | LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jah. 8= = | The funeral services for Johm ! Hancock, aged 69 years, ¥ pioneer, will be held Wi ;1o died last Friday night from ujuries received in an aul ] | rights of individuals, B g Dmiel ccident. » Dead in Seattle John Hancock was a | of Nome for 22 years, having got | there in 1900 to be a go ‘ game warden. He was an Republican * in politics and. here five years ago to M his brother, Philip H i i 1 SEATTLE, Jan. 9—The funeral of Daniel McDonald, aged 33 years, old time Alaska outlitiers of sleds and equipment used "y the gold miners, who died last Thursday, was held today,