The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 13, 1928, Page 8

THE DAILY AI.ASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1928. WALL OF WATER SWEEPS CANYON IN CALIFORNIA Between 200 and 500 Per- sons Reported to Have Lost Their Lives (Coniinued from IBUTLER GIVES TESTIMONY AT COM. HEARING Tells More About Package Containing $25,000 in Bonds (Continuea rrom Page One.) in cablnet &ud"Benater T, Oblb |cne cm'hd‘e Deleute man du Pont of Delaware, both Runs, New Hampshire ;| of whom are known to have hai- dled some of the $260,000 of Con- tinental Trading Co. Liberty bonds which Harry F. Sinc Teapot Dome lessee, turned ov to Will H. Hays in 1923 for use in extinguishing the deticit of the Republican party’s campaign fund. ELLIGTT AND HARRISS PITCHERS BIGGEST MEN IN MAJOR LEAGUES “» Part of Decision Upheld, Part ’5 R”]"'l'l'("[ SAN March Court of one part George the Federal and reversed case at tvontinued from Page One) Only two women are seeking | seats at the Houston convention. 1One is pledged to Smith. ~ | Prominent among the unpledg- P | ed Democratic candidates seeking — et LEAVES FROM PEPPER |a scat at targe is Robert Jackson, TREE ARE lN MUSEU“’-KIIQ“I“B)I of the state Democratie committee. All but one of the 21 candidates seeking 11 seats at the Republi- can national convention have in- dicated that they are favorable, to the candidacy of Herbert Hoover, ; p gecretary of commerce. Only twa Benta b 41%1 10 him, while one is pledged to Libby, it was announced ftoday |'s s S hovarof, cura, | President Coolidge. o W e Vet Gov. Huntley N. Spaulding, per- tor. The leaves will be placed | A | sonal friend of Secretary Hoover, under glass and put on exhibit. | tito Hisve Nasn ek Al 4 Mr. Morgan received the girt| 581 P X and out Hoover man in this cam- from Mrs r tin of Vic-| pajgn, Spaulding favored H toria Mahe, Seychelles Island, Tn-| P® s i e Redetaadi oo dian Ocean. Mrs. Martin is dl:“_ A bl 5o great - great - granddaughter of | 9°0T8¢ phes and foray$. oy A e John G. Winant, the governor leads a list of 15 candidates seck- ing seven seats as delegates-at- large from the granite state. All three are unpledged but are fay- orable to Hoover's nomination. Four women are among those seeking election as delegates-at- large. Among these is Miss Jes- sie Doe, of Rollinsford, first wo man member of the New Hamj shire legislature. She, too, is un pledged, but favors the secretary of commerce. State Representative Everett R | Rutter of Derry is the only candi date pledged to President Cool idge. If chosen a delégate-at-large {he would be the first Coolidge candidate named in the Unitcl Cal., Stat upheld FRANCISCO. The United Appeals has of a decision of Bourquin Judge of | District Court. him in another The right of ship owners to bring Suit against the Government for prohibiting hunting of seals in Bering Sea from 1889 to 1902 the District Court ruled the owners of 24 ships had not shown government interfer ence but the Circuit Court of Appeals ruled interferencc was shown in seven of the 24 involving a mil- will filed in issue. ey from the Theodore Leaves planted by front of the pepper tree Roosevelt in Norfolk Hotel, Nar- obi, Africa, in 1909, have been pfesented to the Alaska Museum Tage One.) tribution he made to the party in 1923, exclusive of $2,000 given during the campaign, The secretary’s admissions were contained in a letter addressed to Senator. Walsh, who is heading the quiz, and immediately after the latter had sent Mellon a com- plete record of the hearing heli earlier in the day when an in- triguing vista of speculation was opened by the production of a rather mysterious memorandum taken from the private files of the late John T. Pratt, of New Yoik City, and a heavy contributor ‘n his time to the Republican paign fund. the dis- officers licemen were sent into trict. while thousands of volunteered. Ranchers through the bodies. One Theory Advanced Officials who have surveyed the broken dam have a theo credited, that seepage thmugh an abutting hill caused ome of the supporting ends to crumple. It believed that more H.nw 400 persons perished. Few Survivors in ||\. live- number of dwellers in the can- vIsIT JUNEAU yon at more than 500 with few survivors, {U. S Naval Rctelvc Men Orchards and gardens Pitiful Figures and Officers Want Auto area and all manner of equipment, with fowl and The Associated Press pondent found one woman Trip to Glacier and farmers slush waters searching for Suits dolla seven cases. cases. lion the be most is wite the district engineer for the U. 8§ | Bureau of Public Roads in Alas- This memorandum, done ka, returned to Juneau last night| pencil in Pratt’s own handwriting,|On the steamer Princess Mary af-| bore two names—“Andy” anq| ter an absence of several montis. “Butler,” which set the Mrs, Williams has been visiting tee to considering the ad | with her parents near Salt Litks ty of summoning as and remained longer thun Andrew J. Mellon, 3 M she had first planned, on account the treasury, and William M. But-|0f both of them being ill. ler, of Massachusetts, chairman of | PSR 2 ags | ;Ee Republican national commit-| o\ that quick meal, use | e. { | | of | | cam Estimates placed the total i "\\'AL!LEST’ stock, were swept away. ly whinging her hands ‘slushing up and down searching for her missing child One man, a pitiful figure, clothed only in a bathrobe, sob- bingly ran aimlessly from point Five Hundred ln||N| States Naval Reserve men and office are contemplating a trip to Ju- to point seeking the bodies of |neau arriving here about July 10 | his wife and bab or 11 and Charles Miller, of the| 4 Juneau sightseeing Company has| BETTER GAUGES SHOW !smith. i ; 5;"“;:- “[:fl“'i"‘ Pa y‘j‘“fler "?’}’“’-1 All sizes go in baseball, but the pitchers appear to come tallest and heaviest. “Jumbo Jim” KOTEX SPECIAL of the American Express Com-| Elliott (upper left), Brooklyn hurler, leads all the major leaguers with his 235 pounds, while “Slim” WIND IS LESS SPEEDY "m“a"lf('m“;:"l"‘)”“‘:mW)_’,,"]:,‘L“rm"‘lz"k'; Harriss (center), Red Sox moundsman, is first in altitude with six feet si; Jack Quinn (upper iy £ L S o e ono | Tight) of the Athletics, another pitcher, is the oldest big league player at 42. “Sparky” Adams (low- s-lr\n!:;-“ m‘.‘eg‘::(«;lo?i:{:hh;f, ll::ll“(the BTy Ae Mandenhall Coags er left) of Pittsburgh, five feet four, and Jack Tavener (lower right) of Detroit, 142 pounds, both |; misrepresenting the wind th i fifty years or so. But they begged its pardon and taken s Mr. Smith says that United . | infielders, are the shortest and lightest players respectively. to correct their mistake. States Naval Reserve men and | 'officers will come north in six| NEW YORK. Mar. 13— Football] difforent ships of the Coast Guard | ;e 11e neavyweights and bas and the majority will desire 10| kerhall favors the (all boys but | New anemometers, devices that|make the glacier trip. i T e vk Al Ry measure wind velocity, have bewn| The American Express COom-|jone ag they can play the game. installed in the weather bureaus pany will have a representative | panwine' an the way from the | of the country as a pledge of thejaboard one of the ships to sell| gy goor gix inch altitude of “Slim” government’s good faith. The old |tickets for the trip it that is the [ jrarriss of (he Red Sox to (he|through their positions. ipstruments, in use since the sev five feet four of Pittsburgh's| One of the shortest enties, exaggerated the speed of the air currents; the new ones are nearly accurate. quickest feasible way to expedite handling of the sightseers. newly ‘acquired . second baseman | the heaviest is :ho o Mt Lope r “Sparky” Adams, and from the|'Jfack” Wilson, the Cubs heavy-jof the Giants and Wheat of th | The meteorologists knew the former devices wore ol s ’ fielder. Built clpse 0| Phillies, all of whom are but 19. . . 235 pounds of Brooklyn's “Jumbo" | hitting out iOnly Seismograph Misses the wind appear speedier than w Rilost -t Dethoit's pound | the ground, Wilson welghs 155 UL Ll i Earth Shocks in Germany/|shortstop, Jack Tavener, the 192 |but is only five fect five inclies ATTENTIN MOOSE really was, but since each of the W Al several score stations was making | BERLIN, March 13.—A violent | big leaguers run the gamut of|in height. | All Moose are requested to at- shiades AN fpves. A somewhat surprising feattc|tend the funeral of Brother Olaf its reckonings on the same bas:s|°ATthauake recently upset things no change was made. In recent|Eenerally in Aix-la-Chapelle. A They vary amost as widely in|l5 (hat the two oldest players ia[Tronstad in Moose Hall, Wednes- age, for there is a place for the|the majors are pitchers. Despite|day afternoon at 2 o'clock. years, Mowever, the ceniral bu.|BeTies of shocks about 1 a. m.,|flery youngster as well as the)the steady strain of vegis i S M MAC EFATDRY, reau in Washington experimented | though lasting merely a few min-|canny veteran: The dean of them|mound work, Quinn and Grover —ady. Dictator. With a three-cup anemometer and |Wtes: dislodged the heaviest pieces found it to be far more accurate ot furniture and caused many all is old Jack Quinn of the Ath-} — - — - than the old type, made with four nocturnal revellers to totter in| letics with his 42 years, while the rooki include veral .\'mm;:j Even these aren’t absolutely ac- earthquake, everyone talked about These two names appeared be- FRESH HOME MADE tween those of the late John W.| FISH BALLS Weeks, war secretary in the Hard. | HOW TO SERVE taisd | May be fried with bacon, or|> o™ | warmed and served with cream sauce r tomato sauce, Delicious fish pudding or loaf| served warm with cream sauce or tomato sauce. Can be used as a salad, served cold with lettuce, mayonnaise and a slice of lemon. May be used in sandwiches with { lettuce and mayonnaise. adv. ay 7 —_———— FLORY ‘RECOVERING _ Charles H. Flory, Commission- er of Alaska, of the Department of Agriculture, is reported to be much improved today. He has been confined to his home the past several days on account of Ithroat trouble. We are selling out our present stock to make room for large shipment. This is the improved Ko- tex—regular size. and weighs 151 | Alexanxer, pounds, while Tavener weighs/just turning nine pounds less and is half inch taller. They look a whol lot bigger than they are, to a batsman trying to drive one four and a malf of the 11, still are whippin {them over the plate | At the other end of the | scale are such young players Mel Harder, 18 year old Clevel recruit pitcher: Kellar of yet one of | White Sox; McCoy and Hill of the redoubtable | Browns; Lopez of Brooklyn; O:1|! e p s CLEARANCE SALE | l WHILE THEY LAST 2 packages $1.00 HELLAN’S PHARMACY Next Door to Graves Store | Phone 33 Free Delivery ! I e et et s Of all GLASSWARE including STEM GOBLETS, CUT WINE GLASSES, ETC. We are still headquarters for Home Made Fish Balls GARNICK’S PHONE 174 that On the firing line there seems | to be a premium on height and! clty’s Polythechnic failed to rec- ord it. For the instrument has sters still in their teens curate, They record a true veloel- |1t; Only the seismograph at the ty of 656 miles an hour as 68 miles; but the four-cup variet Tharted & similar wind at g been out of order for a number Hifies, |of years, as there are not suffi- Correct style . . S g {clent funds available for its re- DEPTH OF SNOW ON GOUND IN ALASKA Douglas Natatorium Depth of snow on the ground at 8 p. m, Monday, at various stations in Alaska was as fol- Tows: Health Ore Bethel, 6 inches; ches; Fort Yukon, 30 inches; Ju- neau, 6.2 inches; Nome, 18 in- ? ches and St. Paul Island, 4 * inches. — — Eagle, 17 in- What Is It? One father calls his son Come in and let ‘“‘Arch” because he always g us explain needs support. BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. 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