The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 22, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XX)&II., NO. 4796. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SENATE PASSES MELLON TAX BIEL ONE ENTOMBED MINER FOUND | HOPE REVIVED FOR 130 MEN IN PENN. MINE Rescue Crews Find One| Man Alive, Crawling Among the Dead EFFORTS SPURRED TO| MAKE FURTHER SEARCH Fé\l’ Recesses Scene of Explosion, to Be Explored MATHER, Penn., May 22 The rescue of a living man from the death-ridden Mather mine rendered hope toda that some of the 130 miners missing—im- prisoned for more than 60 hours 1so be found alive. Frank Krubik was found alive and brought to the surface and rushed to the hospital. His con- dition good in view of the harrowing experience and rescue after practically all hope had been abandoned. The finding of Krubik spurred the rescue crews to renew work. When found, Krubik was on his hands and knees crawling among the iodies strewn nearby, and mumbling. It is Dbelieved the deadly ufter-damp the man’s throat causing him to think he was being strangled. Some bodies near Krubik were burned and mangled. This led the rescuers to believe Krubik crawled from other sections of the mine and they have started to exple the far recesses workings, Seven —m is bodies mine additional brought from the morning, making a dead of 67. ——————— were this Washington U Star Lajured when Auto Goes Off Trestle! Wash.,, May 22.- was killed Lauzon, University hington foothall star, wa injured last night when a machine Lauzon was driving, went off trestle, Lauzon reported he turned out cuddenly to avoid a car ahead, without lights, and went through the railing. The up in three feet of water. Cochrane and Lauzon were thrown clear of the machine. Lauzon was found splashing ahout the swamp frantically geeking his companion, ' EVERET James Romeo w seriously and of of Mine,; affected | of the| total known | was found |N)[|1)mfllil(‘] | Boy Is Beaten To Death by | Hail Stones LAREDO, Four dead jured, and pr | amounting to sands of dollars mated toll tl severe wind, hail trical storms. Hail stones thrown 70-mile an hour gale, beat Valentine Villalobo, aged 14 years, to death amd injured { | his mother. Te and o mar is the result and May many in- amage | thou- | esti- of elec- by 7 RIS, —_— CANNOT FIND ANY TRAGE OF - “SLUSH FUND" Senate Sub-Committee Un- earths Only Facts in North Carolina RALEIGH, N. 22.— Trailing reports of “slush fund” for Gov. A. E. Smith, Senate Campaign Fund Sub-Com- mittee was able to uncover only $3,590 expenditures-in th {in behalf of the Presidential ¢ didacy of the New York Gov- ernor, George iorden Battle, York lawyer, native - of Carolina, contributed $2,500 of the total amount and the re- |mainder was raised locally from !more than a dozen of Smith's ad- herents, who were“éxamined. It | declared they resented action {of persons in Washington, D. C., trying to get an impression out over the country that a large famount of money is being ried into North Carolina mith. They added that he penditures were not ne Ibecause the pecple ‘‘were [the New York Governor. C., May New North for” COMMITTEE PLANS TOUR WASHINGTON, May 22.—Un- able to obtain all information it |seeks from witnesses called to Washington, the Senate Presi- dential Campaign Investigating {Committee has decided to go to Ohio and Indiana, and perhaps | West Virginia. y In Ohio the committee will Iseek to ascertain the expenditures by District County Committees while the primary purpose of the trip to Indiana will be to find out how much money was spent in Allen County where a separate crganization was set up in be- half of Senator James E. Watson. Market of Presidents Marked for Wrecking WASHINGTON, May 22—Center Market on Pennsylvania Avenue, for 52 years a landmark of the nation’s capital, may soon be torn down to make way for government buildings. Presidents’ wives have rubbed Yhoulders there with humbler shoppers and congressmen have spent many a Saturday morning discussing the beef situation with its butchers. Now a bill is pending in con- gress for destruction of the build- ing after January 1, 1929, to make room; for a structure to house the department of justice. Jacob West, 77-year-old butcher, whose neat little stand has occu- pied stall number 145 since .the building was opened, ‘looks with dismay upon the possiblesdemoli- tion of the building. ‘When Jacob was*16 years old he joined the gay throng of food mongers as an apprentice. butcher in the meat business. That was before the market was entirely housed In the two-block building. Five years later he was on his own, a graduate in the butcher shop business. “I remember Mrs. Grant when her husband was president,” he says. “She used to do her own marketing. She was a nice lady, always pleasant, and she knew jher business about buying meat When there was going to be a big party at the White House she al- ways would superintend the buy- ing, although she brought serv- ants to carry the stuff.” Secretary of Agriculture Jar- dine is a frequent visitor at the market, although only in an offi. cial capacity. His wife and two daughters are regular customers on Saturdays to superintend the marketing for the Jardine house- hold. Senators Smoot and Borah both are wise purchasers, market- ven- dors say, who make thorough in- vestigations of all foodstuffs be. fore they purchase. Both of the cabinet’s Davises also are good customers, who supervise the weekly huying for their establish. ments. C. H. Walleigh, superintendent, recalls the weekly trips of Mr Roosevelt, with the president at her elbow making sly rembrks about her buying ability, He says that President Garfield was a more serious buyer, “and . that| President Cleveland was another| who took personal intefest in the food destined for the White House table. The department of agriculture took over the market in 1922. a | the | FEDERAL FARM LOAN ACT FOR ALASKA 1S UP Proposal [s Introduce(~—v‘ Several Alaska Meas- | ures Pass House WASHINGTON, May 22 posal to extend provisicns Federal Farm Loan Aect aska is made in a bill by man Louis T. McFadden, of the House Banking Committee. The | I measure would permit establish- Pro- of the to Cha °ENATE COMMlTTEE lNVESTlGATES CAMPAIGN FUNDS Left fo right, Senators A. W. Barkley of Kentucky, P. H. Dale of Vermont, F. Steiwer of Oregor, and S. G. Bratton of New Mexico, with Secretary of Commerce Herrert Hoover ment of branch banks in Alaska and providing loans to be mad to any one borrower from branch banks but to be limited to § 000 and not to be made longer than 20 l'nl WASHINGTON, \‘vl\ ‘.‘l I‘Iuml control surveys would authoriz rl u'ul r x)u eid bill passed by the House| and sent to the Senate The | rive include ‘Salmon River, in| Alaska. ! | May The | be WASHINGTON, Sutherland bill authorized to| grant 100,000 acres of non-min-| eral land to the Alaska Agricul-| tural College, has passed thej House and been sent to the Sen-! ate, | WASHINGTON, May 22.—The! Johnson bill to provide for care of the criminal insane of Alaska! at St. Elizabeth Hospital in| Washington, D. C., instead of in| Oregon, has passed the House and sent to the Senate. | MONEY RATES CURB TRADING Prices Break Sharply% Under Avalanche of Selling Orders NEW YORK, May 22 of stock market eculation posed by banking authorit through raising of money rates has finally proved effecti prices on Exchange breaking sharply un- der the avalanche of selling or- ders for both accounts, Extreme declines of §5 to $20 a share took place on a number of high priced specialties, only small part of which recovered, while a long list of standard in- dustrials and rails closed from $1 to $7 lower. Closing of the hour earlier brought responding decrease ume of the trading. The days’ sales ran, however, over 2,750,000 shares compared with the daily average of more than 4,000,000 in full sessions last week. Restraint | im- Exchange an about a cor- in the vol Indians ‘and Whites Plan Canoe Marathon MINNEAPOLIS, May 21—Min- nesota Indians, whose ancestors matched their skill in pioneer day combat with the white man, will engage the pale faces this sum- mer, but in the harmless compe- tition of a 13-day canoe marathon. The race, which will be over the 800-mile stretch from the headwaters of the Mississippi river to Minneapolis, will be one of many events scheduled in con- nection with Minneapolis’ diamond Jjubilee celebration. Several red men will paddle gelf-made birch bark canoes. That type of craft is called superior from a standpoint of speed, but it is frail compared to the modern canoe, and judges say it may lack durability to stand the long grind Government of Premier Saimis Out in Greece 2.—The coali- ATHENS, May tion government of Premier Saimis resigned today after a brief life of threc months, | been N.Y.EXCHANGE ‘Y out killed: Pilot E, Morrigsey. as they appeared dunnq the questioning of Mr. Hoover cow cerning his campaign funds at (Internatlol | Washington, D, C, { nal Newsreel) | | PHOSGENE GAS DISASTROUS IN GERMAN REGION, Fleven Dead — Many in|{ Hospitals—Animals Kill- cd—~—~Crops Shriveled HAMBUE —The which rday G, cloud of hung over and claimed 11 lives, ipated but there lingers in the hospitals more than 200 afficted with the gas. 1t is believed many will die since the gas is sometimes not fatal until a yeck after it is inhaled. Half a gram is sufficient to caus h which comes after horrible Germany, May phosgene Hamburg 22, gas yes- has d still lay dead in the chicken and Wucks in the and dog and cats mute evidence terrible death which through the city during night and earl ing, leaking and fields; Arm the the crept | § m"“"'\ Sunday morn- | tank crops in of yards streets, growing of the stored in Germany ha of Nations excitement. treaty, . Germany to use, manufactu store asphyxiating DAM THREATENS was forbidden import or sison gases. SALT LAKE 22.—An additional men ha arrived at Dam, 3 CITY, Utah, force of 200 | the Scofield are working there to in such a craft. prevent collapse of the dike Should the dam crumble and release the water, 50,000 acres of | land would be flooded and y | houses perhaps would be washed | along the 30-mile cour: from the dam to Price. Twelve| hundred residents are prepared to take to the hills. 300 others The girl, whose racing circles, is shown above in By BATES RANEY (Associated Press Feature Editor)| COWES, Isle of Betty Carstairs, England’s | known “tomboy,” who is | American, is supervising h last touches on her new motor boat, in which she | soon to cross the Atlantic in about 60 hours The boat and as soon ways at the S Wight, May 22 hest alf the 78-foot hopes ocel German Flier Buys Sister Plane to One W hich Crossed Ocean | ALBANY, N. Y, May 22— Baron von Huenefeld, one of the men aboard the German plane Bremen on the trans-Atlantic flight, has purchased the Junker plane Europa, sister ship of the Bremen but his plans are not| announced. There is a possi- bility the Bremen will fly back to Europe. ) is almost finished, | as it slips off the| aunders Works, (Lu'flah-( will pilot it on a to a“point on tht Ireland, yet to he sclected | There she will await good weather to start speeding to New York at the rate of about 60 miles an hour. This speed will be maintained as long as possible. Greatest secrecy being ob- \Prvell as to the date of her de. | parture, which will not previous- Iy be amncunced. ' She expects to | start gometime in June and not {later than early in July Her craft is fitted with a Na- pler-Lion aeroengine, similar to those wused by Captain Malcolm Campbell when he broke the world’s auto speed record at Day- | tona" Beach, Florida, and by the | British seaplane which captured he Schneider Cup at Venic 1t| | has 12 cylinders set in three rows in the shape of an arrow. They northbound mail plane on the are eapable of developing 875 route connecting the Fast with horsepower. The weighs the West, crashed this afternoon S50 pounds. Its compression ra-| out of the fog in the sky and|tio i8 ten to one, and experts say lit t: one of the most highly de-| M trip | of west coast is Summer Travel on Tanana River Starts TANANA, Alaska, May 22 Summer travel on the Tanana has begun with the arrival of the gov ernment boat Jacobs. Mail Plane Crashes In Fog; Pilet Killed RICHMOND, Va., May 22.-—A { wiresewn B(’tly Carstairs Bmlda Boat fm' Mllv-u-;"hnulv s Atlantic Betty Carstairs, ro]hckmg English la<s with American blood | miles south of Salt'in her veins, is maturing plans for a 60-hour moterboat trip flom' Lake, and with united efforts of |Treland to New York hehind the mcst powerful engine ever put name is already famous in boat- two poses. veloped engines In exist- ence Although Miss pilot the craft cross the we ry two or i petrol Carstairs plans herself all tern ocean, mec to she hree The hoat four persons. hull enough it will and a spec .H which makes to withstand in be strong * shocks py sea heavy. Every available inch of space will be loaded with petrol. So assured is she of success in her spectacular venture that she has ordered anothersmotorboat of similar build Detroit, where she will her motor hoating « on Lake Michigan back the Briti International trophy which the United States has held since the world war, The present moter boat world speed record, held in the United States, 13 80.50 miles per hour. Miss Carstairs, a step-daughter of Dr. Serge Voronoff, noted Aus- trian rejuvenation cxpert, inherit- ed a large sum of mongy from her grandfgther, one of the found-: ers of the Standard Oil company. Few women can claim to be so| versatile. She 1S stu- dio in Chelsea. an adept amateur musician and dancer plays tennis, rides horses motoreyeles, and is a noted tical joker, She is a clever he chop unduly receive a yet mnot to try to crown in by winning ma a She is hos- {Con‘inued on Page Sevem.) the | August | and | prac- | HOOVER DENIES MOVIE CAMPAIGN - PLAN REPORTEB | | { | {Commerce Secretary Nev-| | er Approved Plan and Asked Fox to Deny | WASHIN Herbert “grotesque” ON, May 22 Hoover character- | the story re- en out in New York, | purporting to com from Alan Fox, that he had approved a mo-| tion picture campaign in New | York especially and generally thronghout the « country, He re- prdiated « Lthe. . story . gategarically and declared that he haf™ asked Mr. Fox to deny it. Mr. Hoover likewise denied that | [he had conferred with Will Hays utilizing the motion picture | industry his campaign if | | nominated The story York it coming aid that work that Hoover has ac- complished administrator of luropean reliei funds made up in| |such a way as to appeal to for eignhorn voters would be shown | lin New York and elsewhere in| the hope that they would be more | ective in getting results than a| ussion of American Hoover said there was not of truth in the report that any such plan Secre « about for in Alan Fox of the published from motion pic Mr, a dis | Mr. word he had 1 issues. | approved - GREATBATTLE IN CHINA NOW NEAR, REPORT Northern and Southern| Forces to Join, Wipe | . h Out “Foreign Insults” | PEKING, May 22.—A n.-.im-.‘ battle in the northern defense of | Peking against the Nationalists is reported imminent. The North- jern Dictator has resolved to nL)n‘ Jl(l the bitter end. The group u(‘ ;\huntung leaders have decided to| | support the movement and the Civil War and unite with| the Southerners for the purpo of wiping out “foreign insult and settle the Tsinan affair with Japan. stop {Former 'Governors Compete for Senate| HELENA, Mont., May former Montana gover | seeking the seat in the States senate mnow occupied Burton K. Wheeler. They Sam V. Stewart, who has nounced himself a candidate the Democratic nomination, Joseph M. Dixon, Republican pirant. Stewart came in 1913 from Vir.| ginia City, the state’s early capi- I |tal, to guide the destinies of the | Gem state through eight years of | the war period. He practiced law | in Helena since his retirement as| governor. « Dixon was his immediate suc-| cessor, and served as chiel execu- tive unti} 1925, ors Unite by are an for | and ! i ! | | | 000 | duction. | will | earthquake ADMINISTRATION TAX REDUCTION MEASUREPASSES |Senate Republicans Pre- vent Tax Cut for More than $205,000,000 VICE-PRESIDENT DAWES DECIDES TIE Vote on Mal;;néj‘ax Small- er on Small Corporations Loses on Tie Vote WASHINGTON, tax reduction bill late yesterday vote. measure provides of $205,000,000. final desperate drive, the Republic succeeded in eliminating from the bill the only important provision won by the Democrats during the long tax contest, the proposal for a graduated scale of lower rates on corporations with incomes of $15,- or May . 22—The assed the Sen- without a Ricort The slash n a total t-minute less. Dawes Breaks Tie action was won on a tie after two roll calls, with Vice-President Charles G. Dawes leciding the issue. The elimination of the graduat- ed scale provision clipped §24,- 000,000 from the total reduction. Chairman Reed Smoot, of the Senate Finance = Committee; im- mediately asked phe Senate ' seck a conference with the House, This vote, | which voted §$290,000,000 tax re The request was grant ed. Several days are expected to be consumed in an effort to ob- tain a compromise, Dawes Wins Applause When VicePresident Dawes cast his first vote, breaking the tie, he won the applause from the Republican side of the Senate. It was done so quickly that for a moment the Senate did not seem to realize the situation but as it realized that Dawes had voted for the first time, a roar of applause arose for it gave the Republicans important victory in the tax ht with the Demoers Repartee Wien the brief tumult subsided, snator Walter F. orge, Demo- of Georgia, obtained recogni- to remark’ good naturedly the “Vice President has at had another opportunity to a tie vote and having ‘m\p:-(l the opportunity, he was wrong.” As the Clerk handed the vote on the tic amendment to Dawes, the v President declared: “The vote is 33 for the amendment and 3 against nd then in the 1e breath, “and the presiding ticer vot ‘no.’ The amend- tion that st of the BSenate Demo- | ment is lost.” That Amendment The Democratic amendment was designed to help small corpora. tions by making the tax rate on | the first $15,000 of taxable income m percent Instead of 121% per- cent. If the House agrees to the bill as it passed the Senate the rate on the taxable incomes of all corporations, little and big, be 1214 percent instead of 13% percent as now. ICE MOVES FROM NOME SEATTLE, M roadstead ships from y 22—The Nome free from ice and Seattle will haves no difficulty in landing passengers and freight, according to a mes- sage recelved by the Coast Guard officers here The ice went out at 11 o'clock last Saturday morning and is mov- ing, rapidly west. California City Is Shaken, Severe M‘ : BRAWLEY, Cal, May SD——AH described as severs, was felt here yesterday afternoon. !1t rattled dishes and windows, No damage was reported, R