The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 21, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” L. XXXIIL, NO. 4951. HOOVER ENJOYS FISHING; MAKES STOP ON VOYAGE Battleship Swiligs at An-| chor for Fishing Trip Off Lower Cal. ABOARD U. THREE RUTHS IN CONGRESS S. 8. MARYLAND, Enroute to Ampala, Honduras, Nov 21.—President-E Hoover, late| vesterday announced his intention | of engaging in his favorite sport| of fishing this morning off Cape' San Lucas, the extreme southern| tip of Lower California During yesterday the Maryland | speeded up two knots an hour in| order that Hoover would not lose! time by his fishing expedition. The | battleship made 17 knots an hour| through the calm seas. The Mary land was to lay-to while Hoover! and his put off in the Ad- miral's | for the fishing grounds | It that the Presi-| dent-Elect will visit Honduras and | Salvad befcre Nicaragua and) the mplated stop at the Canal| o is announced Zone will he eliminated. | All three of the new women Represcntatives in Congress are experienced in politice. Mrs. Ruth Bryan Cwen (upper left), Democrat, Florida, and Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick (right), R publican, Illinois, lcarned from their nct:1 fathers, nings Bryan and Mark Hanna, Mis. Ruth Pratt (lower left), Re- QUIT PEACHES publican, New York, gained her experience as an Alderman in New AND cfll InN Tu York City’s so-called “silk stocking” diztrict. .‘ #, Found Guilty! RAISE CATTLE|' ... Market | Yesterday, Wildest | In History Roosevelt Has New Pro- + ‘position ta,Growers in Georgia NEW YCRK, Nov. 21.—With.J four high prices skyrocketing | $35 to $65 a share and § setting new hi WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Nov. 21. NCANT Sideet - va S oo | | market in history. Tha total convineed there no profit in| A o sales set a record of 6,812,000 peaches and cotton under pre-| The IR vailing conditions and is urging| S ame ot Gecrgia farmers to center on beef RIonriing, valieg .o cattle production. Roosevelt, who is spending a month at his winter home here, recommended the change in dis- cussing the situation with others interested with him in Warm Springs Foundation of a 2,000 a tract of which he is or- ganizer and trustee. | { | | | | | | | | is sha volved $600,000,000. 0CK RULES ARE CHANGED {Effort Being Made to Keep| ! Pace with New *“Hoover Market” 1 Anti-Saloon Official Criticises Chairman Demo. Committee 21.—F. Scott Me- sneral Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, speaking at the National W. C. T. U. con- vention, in session here, criticized John J. Raskob, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, BOSTO! Bride, , Nov. | NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—In an ef-| {tort to keep pace with the reccrd | breaking “Hoover Market,” the New York Stock Exchange, begin- ning tomorrow, will drop from the ticker all sales of volume except William Jen- : DECREASE IN "FOOD FISH IS - SHOWNREPORT Halibut Yield is Decreas- ing Says O'Malley in Annual Report WASHI of the pr |fish are TON, Nov. 21.—Some ncipal sources of food showing alarming . de- (clines, United States Fisheries Commissioner Henry O'Malley ex- |plains in his annual report. | Mentior the (ies of the North Pacific Coast he estimates the yield has dropped 10 per cent of what it was a few ago while on the Great akes somewhat similar diminu- [tion is being faced. | Special Studies studies are being ree- for these areas next halibut fisher- ommended | vear Less difficulty | portant Atlantic |serious declines some breeds Commissioner that the {erica’ is noted in im- a fisheries but are reported s to 0'Malley nt state should says occasion concern for future welfare. ile the total yield has creased steadily since 1883, there s convincing evidence that many of our great fisheries are suffers ing actual depletion.” Seal Industry Grows The greatest fur raising enter- prise in the world, the care of the Pacific seal herds, is under the Bureau's direction, said the Com= missioner and from that sourde he predicted a larger future re- turn. The herds have increased to 808,870 at the last computa- tipn showing a 6, per cent gain in one year. - e AMER. LEGION CHIEF MAKES APPEAL, LABOR Asks Support of Labor for Universal Draft Legislation 1 NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 21.—Paul V. McNutt, National Commander of the American Legion, urged a un. fon of labor with the Legion support legislation for prevention of war, speaking before the nual convention of Federal Labor, appealing for labor to support uni- versal draft legislation. Commander McNutt said it would be a “service for all, creat- ing equal responsibility in citizen- ship, eliminating the slacker, climi- nating and plun- an- L of Am-| in- | JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1928. - PROPOSES PUBLIC WORK FOR DULL Tunney and Bride to Haye Bc Al = When Mr. and Mrs, Gene Tunney (left) return from their h their rcsidence, tempeorarily at least, in London’s exciusive Mayfair, they will have for a near neighbor Bombardier Wells, English ‘gentleman boxe.” who, like Tunney, has now retired from the ring. The Tunney apartment on Down Street (above) i in the row on the left of the picture.|ithe best forms or MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN o sxer Neighbor HO CVEP:W ANT STATES AID IN STABILIZATION Reccrves for to Be Released in Time of Unemployment ! ocal acal Wor GOVERNOR OF MAINE ES HOOVER PLAN Would Have States Coop- erate to Raise Fund of 43,000,000,000 NEW Ral Nov. 21— f Maine, quest o1 President- outlined be- of Governors, rection of a na- truction reserve of hree bil dollars be re- lensed in 8 of rprodietion and unei.poyment. Gov. Brewster recommonded that public anuthorities store up | & reserve of construction projects equal to two years' normal ex- penditure on improvenents and release this rescived work at times of unemploym. at Such artund would URLEANS, acting up lect Hoc re the Confe plan for tk on-wide 1c6 o ov oneymoon in Italy to take up he one of usurance a3 B By BATES RANEY ring. For Bomhardier, who Iis (A. P. Feature Editor) also in retirement, now oparatcs a LONDON, Nov. #1.—Geno Tun-;hotel and “pub” within half a block ney's little home in Mayfair is|of Tunney's apartment walgig g roced world’s cham-| Bombardler wag as surprised to plon ighter qlx 1 Ni8 befde, who are{hgyr thaty Tobney. was (o ba i now honeymooning in Italy. neighbor as Gene propably®will be It is a sastefully furnished apart.to learn that Bombardior lives meft in Down street,. somewhat|nearby. larger than one Wwould expect for| “So he is really coming, is he? one couple, but in keeping, aceord.| Well, he was one of the best. He ing to caretakers, with Mr. and|was as good as Corbett, good as Mrs. Tunney's plans to do a lot|any other champion we ever had,” of entertaining. One of their{Bombardier said. first visitors is expected to be| “No, I haven't met him yet. George Bernard Shaw |like to meet Gene and welsome | They have taken the apartment|him. He did a good thing quitting | for one year. {when he did. He's made his! | Although has sen one| Down street, where Tunnoy's| of the most exclusive tions of!apartment is situated, is only tw London in which to live, he will{blocks long, but it is in tha very have at least one neighbor to re.|heart of Mayfair and all that May. | boxing days fair hmplies in the way ol society.| Hyde Park js at one end of the Bombardier's “pub” 1is at But: then nearly every | London has a Gene ch mind him of the old before he quit the r This neighbor Bombardier| Wells, the “gentleman boxer” and darling of the English prize fight street; the other. corner in DWIGHT MORROW MAY BE CHOSEN AS NEXT SECRETARY OF STATE | rec: against National panics, said Gov. . Buckingham | Prewster, who added I'hesg views of ways in which itee thor-|Blates amd o1 onblic awthori- oughfare in which ‘the blnds ars ! tios mag o ite with the Fed- nearly always drawan and tho ORal GE¥ernmiRe (0f conirulling chanftieprs )t At the whoel.ct|390y mea CONETIEIRIRT P thefr cars with unvmnnrumi‘inx' or Tlne “non are pre- mien, ple move alonz tho |Sent he Conlerence of Gov- street slowly, and an of ex.|ermors at tlie request of Herbert clusiveness hangs perpetually over|H0OVer as an autiorized exposi- the place, ‘llu” of a portivn his program Although Tunney bas quit fnr A,u‘h.ll‘v.‘ng prosperity of the professional ring, he is booked nited States fight five bouts for charity in one[ 1B Teduesting 3 this sub t night scon after he a Braad When Tunncy v I just before his marriags, Harry ',',“'"L"” Preston, English sportsman, s marked that Dempsey still hud on« *d that Tunney had not beute “What's that?” asked Genc “Dempsey fought four heavy- weights consecutively at my char- ity boxing tournament three years ago,” answered Preston. ‘Is that s0?” said Tunne ther in palace. Down street is an y's even one 3 t [ - 100k the to g «entution of Conference, the im- coopera- Federal, State moents in ae- nee with propasuls cutlined the time of Unemploy- uent Conference 1922.” - - LR IGHER TARIFF T DEMANDS MADE To Banking Business; Happy ives & as v Londo . i amnong the iicipal gov WASHINGTON, Nov. 21— Numerous demands are before Prosident Coolidge for increases n the tariff on farin produets | limportations and believed Vice- | ithat th ! play <ome prom- Dawes | (Incnt part in the good-will mis- Presideut-Elect | { 1e CHICAGO, Nov. 21.- President Charles G. of for “leaving his own party to join the Tammany Party.” He added: “Raskob left his par- ty and joined the Tammany Party in a ruthless effort to get rid of his damnable affliction of Prohibi. at the opening This action was decided upon when yesterday's tape, at the close of the market, was two hours and forty-four minutes behind. By carrying only the prices on sales, privilege, profit der when the emergency arises The Commander declared that the close of the World War “a new millionaire’s mansion could be checked against every white cross announced today that he will | return to the banking busi- | ness after Senator Charles Curtis steps into office, say- ing: “I never made an an- nouncement that gave ms A By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Baby Dies as Result Acute | Alcoholism WASHINGTON, 21,—1In. formed opinion in Washington an-| the seléction of Dwight Morrow, ambassador to Mexico, as| Nov ticipates | 'has Hoover |to Sot me h America. count i of South Am- 1sly opposed to tariffs. This tariff wall een the source of consid- er higher tion but got instead a dominable affliction of having his own can- didate accept the role of the worst defeated candidate in any presi- dential race and with nearly $2, 000,000 deficit besides.” - e it is ‘believed the ticker will be ! speeded up 25 to-50 per cent. The | total sales of individual stocks will be given the press associations and newspapers two or three times | daily. Hundreds of visitors are throng- ing the financial district daily, swelling the crowds of employes and traders and straining restaur- ants, customers rooms and broker- age offices to capacity. 4 Jose de Leon Toral (below), who will pay with his life for slaying President-elect Obre gon of Mexico, and Mothes Concepcion, alleged to have in spired his mad act, who must serve twenty years in a penal 'eolony. (International Newsreel) First Snow Shows Up, New York City NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—Snow began falling here this morning, the first of the season. Another Hold<Up Man Goes Wrong; Lost His Gun CHICAGO, Nov. 21. — Daniel Falco walked up to Milton Fields early today and said: “Hands up.” As he spoke, Falco reached to his hip pocket for his gun. It was not theve. In a quandry he began to search his other pockets. Fields, observing Falco's actions with growing interest, asked: “¥ou have no gun?” Falco said: “No, it is gone.” That was all Fields wanted to know. He began burying his fists in Falco’s face and when the police arrived, arrested Falco and locked him up, he was still mys- tified. _ "It certainly beats all where I put that gun,” Falco said. Bank Teller, Wanted For Theft of Large Amount, Under Arrest NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 21.— Admission that he is James B. O'Neil, former teller of the First | National Bank of Los Angeles, wanted for the theft of $676,000 was made to the police today by the man arrested last night and who 'has passed as Kenneth O’Hara. He said he would waive extradition. He has worked here as a mewspaper reporter for the past nine months U. S. Naval Plane Crashes; None Dead| GUAM, Nov. 21. — A United States naval plane crashed here today injuring the two men, but not fatally. The plane went into tail spin. N Cheyenne Storm Takes Toll of One; Man Is Found Frozen, Death r CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Nov. 21.—The week-end storm which was especially severe in the area along the continental divide where more than 40 motorists were marconed, claimed one life. The frozen body of Roy Palmer was found by a searching party one mile from a hunting camp. Palmer apparently became ex- hausted in search for the camp and was frozen to death while resting. —————— A high school chamber of com- merce has been organized by New Bern, N. C. students. ! and star on the battlefields.” ALASKA TRAPPER NEARLY FROZEN CORDOVA, Alaska, Nov. 21.—J. W. Crompton, trapper, is in the hospital here after an 85.mile mush over ice and snow with the weath- er at 35 degrees below zero. He was four days without food. His feet were frozen and he crawled the last few miles to a roadhouse. He was in a serious condition when he arrived. He will lose several toes. Fiendish Crime Is Discovered in Texas: Search for Murderer HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 21 old baby girl, was found late ye terday in a lonely gulch on the outskirts of the city. The police have started on a search for the slayer. A man, exercising his pet dog, made the discovery. The baby had been decapitated, arms and legs severed, five stab wounds were found and several bird shot were extracted. Justice of the Peace Overstreet characterized the crime as the most fiendish he had ever | dismembered body of a 9-months-| Secretary of State under President Hoover. LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov 21.—Acute alcoholism caused the death of two.year-old Francisco Saurez, the autopsy revealed. The child's parents returned home to find the baby with' half of an empty | whiskey bottle at its side. The baby died later in a hos- pital, i that developmeént, know hold, although Mr. is declared to have g the campaign without having com mitted himself in advance in any way as to his cabinet sclections. | Morrow To Succeed Kellogg? | Among compelling reasons for Morrow’s probable promotion to head the cabinet is the belief tha the Hoover administration will concentrate every effort ex- pansion of the Latin-Amorican market for American manufactur- ed goods. Mr. Hoover is described as realizing fully the probability that he will have to deal with an industrial surplus as well as with the farm products surplus. | He gave Indications frequently as Secretary of Commerce that he | regarded South and Central Ameri- |ca as the natural outlet for Ameri- can manufactured goods which R must find foreign consumption | Ana with Morrow at the helm in s | the State Department, fresh from what amounted to his single hand-| M‘ed success in restoring amicable %" |relations with the Calles govern-| ‘mc-n! in Mexico, the old ery of| in the Hoover through those TYou L Lhristma SHOPPING TO: JONLY'( ‘m‘;r’;'o]‘ e pLOAS any great value to anti-American| agitators in the south. Morrow| is a proven gquantity, an anti-big- stick diplomat, due to his Mexican experience. i (Continued o_n Page Three) i Many considerations will prompt | * | that American imperialism cannot have | erable aggravation to South Am- erican nations, particularly to Ar- —-g3 gentin The Administration now finds itself coifronied with the demand Tha Pacific Coast states led all from agricultural regions for even other groups in regional consump- & higher taliff again:. farm pro- tion of fuel oll during 1927, says duets importations. most of which the bureau of mines. comes from South Aweriea. U. S. LIFE INSURANCE | TOTAL IS MOUNTING greater pleasure,” NEW YORK, Nov. total of 100 billion dollars of )'fe insurance in force on Americans probably will have been attained by the end of 1929, 21.—A net)Few life insurance executives then visualized the roaching of the 100 {billion dollar milestone before 11940." fund in those days after allow- ances for death claim und em- dowment payment: an! lapses, he xplains, amonnted to lictle more |than one bilion. During the world war, however, ‘hiz annual net increase doubled and tripled, and immediately after the eclose of the war it jumped still higher. For the las* six years it Las This statement is based on facts disclosed in a survey being pre- pared for the 22nd annual conven. | tion of the Asscciation of Life n- surance Ppesidents here December 13 14, says George T. Wight, se ary and manager. This says Mr. Wight, whereas ars, up to the of 1922, were required to|from six to eigh! billiy reach 50 billions, this tote) Will|The total amount oustanding ve been doubled in only sevenithe end of 1927 was more tham 87 ears additional, 1922 (o 1929, il the oy shows, “Fifteen years ago,” he recalls, | n, which emphasizi the general econom . COIRHE! ignificance of the increase, “wheufcy ives from ull parts of i States aud Canad: ;5 ©-|the «of of this hugi American life insurance was 70 vears old, this fund of legal serve life - insirance pro‘ection|fund® upon he soeinl Bl | amounted to 20% billien dallars.! nomical lite of tho Ukited ind cre means, end & foct o The annua! net accretions to the |