The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 20, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXL, NO. 4717. NAVAL PROGRAM TO BE APPROVED jUNEAU ALASKA MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, LOCAL CAPITOL BUILDING ITEM GETS APPRUVAL Senate Commlttee Ap-| proves House Recom- mendations { | The Senate Committee on Ap- propriations late last week ap-, proved the Juneau item for $200,- 000 for the Territorial capitol building in Juneau, in the same ghape as it recently passed the House, according to a received by Gov. George A. Parks, from Senator Lawrence C. Phipps, | of Colorado It is contained ln: the general public buildings measure which is expected to| pass the Senate before the end of this month. | Senator Phipps also advised | the Governor that the bill fixes | the limit of of the local; building at $775,000. It carries | an authorization to the Secretary | of ‘the Treasury to enter into a| centract for completing the build- ‘ ing, instead of contracting by piecemeal to the limit of the appropriated annually. ’ current appropriation of will be immediately P ble, Senator Phipps - said. This will it possible for bids to be called for at once and work to start upon the award of the contract without waiting for the next fiscal year as normally would be the case. ————— PROPOSES THAT ESPIONAGE AGT BE WIPED OF Introduce Bill for Re- | | money The §200,000 peal of Act WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—Re- peal of the war time Espionage Act is proposed in a bill*prepared for introduction by Representative Victor L. Berger, Socialist of Wis- consin, Characterizing _the act as “most outrngeous( measure ever passed in our country,” Berger said a “most terrible danger was in permitting it to remain in force. ‘This becomes very real when any Administration col tinues to pursue its Imperialist policies -in Mexico and Nicaragua | and other places. It official dec-! Haration of war should come a| citizen would find himself silenced | under the penalty of a 20 ysar] prison term,-if he expressed senti- ments not in accord with the ad- ministration. OMMODITIES SHORT, RUSSIA lour, Butter, Eggs and‘ Many: Other Essen- tials Are Low MOSCOW, Feb. 20.—A short- l.ce of flour, butter, ' eggs, soap l.nd textiles has reached such a erions stage that the authorities are planning vigorous measures o relieve a virtual famine. Commodities may be purchased | exorbitant prices from private calers but arve searce in Gov- ynment ceoperative stores where Wles are limited. § people stand iw line for many ours and are' frequently tohfl hat the stores are all sold out! of the desired commodities. The' ituation is _ attributed to the prain shortage. ————————— the A. J. QUOTATIONS Nl‘\\ YORK, Feb. 20.--Alaska mine stocks was quoted da) at 3%, 3 ! reduced Sl'ie’l Too Alluring! telegram | : SRR Doris Niles, 21, well known Broad. way dancer, has brought about th¢ arrest for the third time of Harol Van Horn, a New Yorker, who hai persistently been trying to woo her much to her annoyance. Van Hort already has served two workhous: terms for being too ardent, (nternational Illustrated News) NEW FISHING REGULATIONS Amen dments Announced from Ottawa—Changes in Seasons, Purse Seines VANCOUVER, B. C, Feb. 20— Important amendments to the fishing regulations are announced from Ottawa. These changes in- clu(lo prohibition of seine nets in mnny areas. The mouths of the nvers are protected for half a mne out. Purse seine nets are to 200 fathoms by not less than 250 meshes of three and one-half -inch mesh. The closed season for cod is changed from! February and March. to. January and February. Cohop salmon are protected from !January to May 15 on.Vancouver luhnd a‘ Ahe essf éonu south, Earth 8§ May Be Result a,_sn.-a;du' SEWARD, ' Afaska, Feb., 20.— Heavy earth. shoeks swayed build- - 10:48 o'¢lock ves- terday murti'nx. “Bome believe the tremors’ which lasted several seconds, might have been caused by snow slides. ——— NEW LOUD SPEAKER PARIS, Feb. 20—The latest in French loud. speakers is in the shape of a spiral shell. Near to ]the reproducer the sides of the throat are covered with a very thin felt. It is claimed that this method eliminates all metallic sound. The ‘effect is to deaden the sound a little but improve the tone. mn BARRED FROM PARKING PLACE FINDS NEW WAY TO memn GAME ‘“P’MP}HE TMw as Cupid is tomobile parking mblom hn of lu'la. Tenn., Mitchell -of Mem- o SO S running P ug : ?‘m the unvfillm M under «flu-u;‘dpn to the| | Frog, Sealed in |Stone, Alive After 31 Years EASTLAND, Texas, Feb. | | 20.—A Rip Van Winkle of the toad. family, a, horned frog that was walled up in the cornerstone of the BEast- land County Court House 31 years ago, sans food, water | and air, is still alive. More than 1,000 persons from all parts of the country viewed | | the frog which is on display | | | in a window of a drug store. A side from being slightly emanicated in the front legs, the frog is in a | normal condition. When the cornerstone was broken open, the frog appeared to be dead except for very slight signs of Dbreathing. The mouth ., was sealed with slight film and the eyes were closed. TWO SLAYERS ARE AT EASE MURDER TRIAL One of the Youths Is Cele- brating Seventeenth Birthday -~ LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 20' —Grinning and apparently fully | at ease Willlam E. Hickman and| IWelby Hunt marched with their| guards into the courtroom this! forenoon for the fourth day of their trial for the murder of J.| Thomas, drug store clerk, in a| hold-up in December, 1926. Hunt is celebrating his seven- teenth birthday. i Questioning of prospective jur-| ors continued. 1 i i {French Again Welcome . | In Their Own Stores PARIS, Feb. 20—The French are being welcomed back into the| stores where formerly foreigners from lands of gold money were pampered customers. Ironical | pesons are reminding the store- | keepers that many of them a year ago, said they didn’t rely ‘on French trade for their profit. “Times have changed,” says Maurice Prax, speaking for his countrymen in a newspaper arti- cle. “The foreigners are gone or they find things expensive and| the Frenchman who counts his sous again gets some attention.” . The disposition to bid for for-| elgners trade hecame so marked that recently there was a bill be- fore parliament to tax signs in foreign languages, as is done. in Italy. This catering to foreign buyers eaused many merchants to put out signs in English and French and some even disregard- ed their own language entirely. Pines from California Now Thrive in Africa LONDON, Feb. 20—California pines do exceptionally well in South Africa. Certain species of) pine ‘introduced from the Great Bear state have grown so rapidly | in its new environment that it} has attained a height oif 130 feet in forty years, while eucolyptus, from Australia grow even more; rapidly, having gained 113 feet at; eleven years of age. In an account of a recent tour| of South Africa, Major Strang| Steel, M. P. in the Empire For estry Journal, says the Union gov- ernment has -decided. to plant 10.-; 000 acres of trees annually, in| its mew scheme of afforestation, many of which wil be California pines. * In New Zealand thc government | continuing ents which may result in the afforestation of ,000,000 acres of semi-waste land in the ult twenty#ive years. I ! prove pos- bombm | ‘at. pres- of the Not One Convert in 11,394 Churches, So Inquiry Is Started | single convert | the league to suggest this discus- !sion. | similar | terian i‘uul Lot 876 |obtained no converts, ~ktwenty-odd i Queens Village, is s0 easysfor red tape, sectarian Inplnlons , everything 1928. K, Feb. 20—Spiritual inertia, jealousy, self-satisfaction, and neglect of home missionary work for foreign were among the answers given to the question “What Is the Matter With Our Churches?’ discassed at a meet- ing at the Madison Square Hotel by the Men's Church League. The discovery that more than 32 per cent of all the Preshyter- jan, Northern Baptist and Meth- odist Episcopal churches in the United States failed to obtain a last year impelled NEW YO It will sponsor a series of luncheon meetings on al ternate Mondays to consider the question in more detail. The decrease in converts was revealed through a study of the official year books af the three denominations, made Wy Dr. W. R. Patterson, an officer of the General Council of the Presby: Church. The year bhooks showed that 8,269 Preshyterian churches in the United States did add any converts on profes- jon of their faith. Another 500 added only one each, angd still an- 3 other 500 reported only two each. churches, 3,474 and of the 4,661 | Baptist 16,581 Methodist churches. hul none. total, - therefore, llllll‘(‘l\PN out of 34,676 three denominations won {verts and several thousand ported only one or ¢wo each. though' reports;, for other inations were not available, offi- als of the league believed they would not show a better general average. Various ‘reasons for the falling off in converis were given by the| men present at the limcheon, and in notes from oth- ers unable to attend. J. Camp bell White, General Secretary of the league, who presided, said church members had reached a point in working for foreign mis- sions beyond which they should not, go until they had done more effective missionary work in their own communities. The Rev. J. of 11,394 in these no con- re- Al Earle Edwards, { pastor of Queens Baptist Church, L. L, said: “It| organization, theology, jealousy, but Jesus Christ and His Spirit, to usurp the first place in the lives of pas- tors and church leaders among the laity. Frank H. Merrill, Assistant Sec- retary of the National Campaign of the Protestant Episcopal Church Diocese of New York, was suc- cinet: “What's the matter? Spiritual inertia and laziness. 6 JAPANESE SUFFOCATED Attempt to Be Smuggled into U. S.—Die in Ship’s Hold TOKYO, Feb. 20-—The bodies of six Japanese who attempted to smuggle themselves into the United States, were found in the hold of the Yahiko Maru which has arrived here from Seattle. The ship’s cook confessed to hiding the six Japanese in . the hold on December 20 when the | Yahito Maru salled for Seattle. From brief notes the men left, it is believed they were suffo- cated bhefore the ship lett Yoko- homa after which the cook be- came frightened and kept their death a secret until the ship re- turned to. Japan. Riviera Crowds Grow And Travel de Luxe PARIS, Feb. 20.—Despite all the grumbling about hard times, there are more travélers to the Riviera this wintér than a year ago. And they are making their trips in more luxurious and ex- pensive style than ever before. Eight express trains leave Paris' every . night for Nice, Cannes, Monte Carlo and the other sunny resorjs along the Cote @’Azur. Some of them are de luxe tralus, entirely of eouumnlu ing cars. On ot travel per mile ulm-_‘ ':. ~on any of the ex- tra-fare uxe trains in the 11!"-04 States: But théy denom- | Here “s -.an exclusive p! of. Salm’ (left), son of Mrs M licent Rogers Ra- mos, and little Gloria Vanderbilt (right), daughter of Mrs. Rezmald C Vanderbilt. The richest kiddi’es (Int MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED. PRESS ) TWO OF .T HE RICHEST, CHILDREN IN THE WORL D | in the universe, were pictur while at play in Central Park, New York City. ernational Illustrated News) MORE HONORS ARBITRATION “LONE EAGLE", | Two Bills ffor Lindbergh Medals Are Approved tive Makes Appeal by Committee at Geneva GENEVA, Feb. — Disputes between the United States and Great Britain in the last 100 which might have resulted were amicably settled by One bill would provide $1,500 arbitration, Baron Cushendun, of for the coinage of a gold medal to’ ‘Great Britain, told the League be presented to Col. Charles A. lot Nations Security League Com- Lindbergh in commemoration of mission today in delivering an his aerial achievements. Dupli-|carnest appeal for development of cates in bronze would be sold to lconciliation and arbitration, the public. | Baron Cushendun declared that The other bill would provide a!disarmament and peace could be Commission to direct the sale of ,promoted by treaties. He pledged the medals to proceeds to be de-|Great Britain’s help in the crea- voted to the purchase of the tion of such agreements and equipment of the Lindbergh home- urged the Secyrity Commission stead at Little Falls and for the to propose world regions where purpose of constructing and equip- pacts cf security and nou gres- ping a Lindbergh Museum at St. sion, similar to that of Locarno, Louis. |conld be elaborated in the inter- ————— jest of international peace. NEWRECORD iocdusriat Extivic Arrlnged by Clubs| | Bdith Nourse Rogets, representa- 'tive In congress from Massachu- setts, has enlisted the research divisions. of the bureau of foreign {and domestic commerce, in thé { preparation of an industrial ex- hibit at the biennial meeting of (the General Federation of Wo- men's Clubs in San Texas, next May. The exhibit is being organized by Mrs. Esther Taber Fox, direc- 20. WASHINGTON, Feb., 20—Two bills authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Lindbergh medals have been approved by the House Coinage Committee, 1 British Ace' Drives His Huge Auto Over 206 Miles' an Hour DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, Feb, 20 Capt. Maleolm Campbell, Britich . ace, established a new automobile speed record yester- day driving his huge Napier Blue Bird Speefal over the beach course at am average speed of 206.956 mlles an hour. Remus Starts l"lgln on Comlfinenl to HOIPIIII' LIMA, Ohln. l"flh, 20. question of the jurisdiction in- Cambridge, Mass. The display is Intended to be = ‘‘visualization lof American production in rela- {tion to world economics.” It will | be shown under the auspices of the International Relations com- mittee of the federation. Samples of the products ‘of The{both American agriculture and of | manufacturing in «ll sections of| peals to rule on the habeas cor-ia colleetion of pus actiom’ to release George Re-‘me mus, of Cineinnati, wife slayer,|ican with those of the from the Hospital for thn;ru! of the world. Criminal | i MRS, mruv RECOVERS o day by on the’ Murphy, who i pitai for his appl! * the .rml i 1 treatment, papers faulty, s charts, lex. relationship of Amer- : was raised to- ‘State when hearings . Remus bases r the writ om t his commnm':;‘ beon . m{ul PACTS SIGNED Great Britain’s Representa- [tor of the Citizens' Scrvice bureau | Russia Puts Disarmament Plan Up to Leagm' Feb. 20—Soviet which proposed com- | abolishment of arma- ment, today deposited the text | of the Disarmament Conven- tion with the League of Na- tions. The Russian dralt of the Convention will serve as | a starting point for the dis- cussion of the Russian pro- posals at a meeting of the Prepa ory Commission open- ing on March 15. plete Goven.unent Must Pay WASHINGTON, Feb. ciding the question arigen in tax refund cases volving millions of dollars, Supreme Court has laid |the principle that ment must pay funded force when [lowed, lnterflehmd Tax 20.—De- which has in- the down the Govern- interest on re- taxes under the law in the refund was al- PRICE TEN CENTS GUNSTRUGTIGN PROGRAM T0 BE - RECOMMENDED {House Naval Committee | Reported Working on Wl“)ul P]ana WASHINGTON Feb. 20— Having heard a great deal of testimony for and against the Administration’s propos- ed $740,000,000 naval con- * struction program, the House Naval Comittee is now pre- pared to begin drafting of the necessary legislation to put it before the House. Prediction is = that the committee will follow recom- mendations of Secretarv of Navy Wilbur and include the bill provisions for the 28 cruisers to replace 22 obso- lete craft, five aircraft car- riers and 35 submarines. P, A, SESSION CONVENTION NOW SIGNED Al Delegations Conclude Negotiations—Reor- ganization HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 20.—The Pan-American Union Convention has been concluded by the signa- ture of the heads of the delegates of the Sixth- Pan-American Co The Convention provi an-American Unfon with to: its governing board and ae- tivities fn general. Tt was over the preamble of this convention that Homorio Pueyrredon, of Ar- geine, came. into confiiet with the United States and other Am- erican republic deelegations and in consequence resigned his Am- bassadorship at Washington and as president of the Argentine delegation. The Argentine Gov- ernment ordered the delegation to approve and sign the Conven- tion. Sends Five Bullets Into Body of Common Law Husbayd ;He Lives SEATTLE, Feb. 20.—Mrs. W. J. Barkoot was jailed last night while her common law husband was battling for his life after 3 |she fired five shots into his bedy as they sat at their evening meal. The police said she admitted planning slaying Barkoot for some time. The woman's two daughters witnessed the shooting. Registration of l.obl)y_i:_lf Approved WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—The Senate Judiciary Committee went on record today fin‘favor of the registration of lobbyists with the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House. lU. S. BUILDS GUNBOA SHANGHAI, Feb, The ships, representing an ex- Antonio, | penditure of §7,500,000, are beins! ibum in a Chinese dockyard | Shanghai under supervision | United States navy engineers, The first draft vessels, to pros 1 a i Admiral mander in States Asiatic fleet. This American “mosquito” fleet, Mark L. Bristol, {commercial interests in the terior of Chira. lfllnd to be the m lonun mnm 20—8Ix new Amorican gunboats, the most modl- ern of all foreign men-of‘war p'y- ing: China's great river, will soon 1 g0 into commission and take wunu their duties on the Yangtse river. 1a| go. (44 of the fleet of light which will be able thousand miles up ithe Yangtse, was formally accept- ed for the navy in December hy com- chief of the United in_the view of naval officers, has long been needed on the Yangise the Fifth Cireuit Court of Ap-|the country will be (isplayed, withriver to protect the interests of showing | American shipping and. Ameriean | in-| The ships mll: ireplace a group of tiny ships/ which have been on duty in,.China | waters for a quarter of a cemtury or more and which today are con- | ot TS IN CHINA TO PROTECT TRADE ALONG YANGTSE the newly forming river patrol. embrace the most recent develop- ments in the construction of crafs for such duty as patrolling the Yangtse. Drawing but little wa- ter, they will be able to proceed into the headwaters of the stream where few ships are now able to They will be of high power to enable them to proceed through the gorges which are barriers at present. In addition to carrying the usual armament the new fleet has over- head armor plating covering vital parts of the deck to protect the chips from firing leveled w o i them from the high clitfs miles from the sea. Construction of the ships in & foreign mavy yard constitutes new procedure in. American navy affairs, as well as in, Chinese ernment affairs at present. nationalist government, controls the Kiangnan yard, frequently protested, MI{ still, against. the eign men-of-war on river. At tll same tim both sides of the river some .“,, i