The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 6, 1928, Page 1

& 'HOLD EXPENSES THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXIIIL., NO. 4963. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1928. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS WEALTHY MAN, l(ll)NAPPED, HELD FOR RANSOM, FREED CONGRESS MUST T0 4 BILLIONS Senate and House Start Work on Fiscal Year Appropriations TWO DEPARTMENTS REQUEST BILLION Hurricane Suflérers Seek' Relief—Debate on Boulder Dam WASHING plea for the nation's Coolidge placed the budget four billion Government next year Senate and House began work on legi ed to hlfl th of this ON, Dec frugality in funds, before calling for dollars to 6.—With spending President Congress around run the and the immediately slation design- for above one- amount Treasury and Post Office bills, carrying billion dollars for the two departments, were laid before the House while the Senate took up the Boulder Dam bill involving an expenditure estimated at $165,000,000 | account appropriation above one Tor juneau Iioney The Post Office bill includes allocation of $60,000 for Juneau. During the afternoon the House voted to authorize pay ment of $14,800,000 for repairs to the battleships Pennsylvania and Arizona and $10,000,000 for Navy and Marine Corps statio Kellogg Pact Senator “(lld]l and the lm(u:n Relations Committee -postpened consideration of the Kellogg peace pact until the Secretary of State can be heard later this week. Hurricane Relief Fund The Senate tcok up the Porto Rico-Florida hurricane relief fund, although the Boulder Dam had the right of way. When the Floridans, seeking relief, were lenced, the Boulder Dam got its place. si- Vestris Disaster resolutions for the inves- of the disaster to the stris were offered in the one by Senator Jones of Washington and the other by Senator Wagner of New York. Senator Walsh, of Montan submitted two bills dealing with the reported utility propaganda in public schools. Boulder Dam Debate | The name of Herbert Hoover figured in the Boulder Dam de- bate when several Senators specu- lated to his attitude regard- ing water distribution. Two tigatibn liner Ve Senate, as (Continued on Mage Threo) | : { —| Welcome News | | On Condition | King George LLONDON, Deec statement that the King's general condition is slowly improving is made in the of- ficial morning bulletin from his physicians and is the most welcome announcement from the ace since His Majesty's illness became critical. he bulletin read King passed a fair | Temperature lower. condition slowly and infective process, which | | remains severe, becoming | more localized.” | | 6. — The “The || night. | | General | | improving | ! | dius of several bloc KING GEORGE OF ENGLAND ILL under King George of England is ill at Buckingham’ palace and is under the care of royal physicians. He is suffering from congestion of one lung caused by infective catarrh. Above is a recent picture of his majesty taken when he reviewed cavalry units in the uniform of a field marshal. AI]VOGATES MR | Toree LINKING,NORTH, =~ § SOUTH AMERICA Hoover Proposes New Travel System at State Dinner in Peru Presid of Cupxd' i 15 ] I LIMA alect Dec. 6. speaking Dinner President Peru, Hoover, at a State honor by ght en h eguia in the Presidential Palace, advocated linking of the countries of North and South American continents by a system of airways. He declar. ed it was not impossible and would be possible to quickly a Pan-American Airways s tem if representatives of each gov- ernment held a conference, and “We will realize such a service within another ‘twelve months, if, action is taken.” Mr. Hoover expressed the view that aviation “would be a benevo. lent party that destroys distance | between peoples and constructs|® friends Imn lul\\un them.’ { ADEADAND | 15 MISSING NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—Four per sons were killed, at least six in-| o jured and 15 others are ‘“““_“,”””_“When she sailed last Summer ed for in an explosion in a disin.,it was said Peggy Hoffman fecting plant near the East River. (above) would return with a Windows in houses within a ra. French nobleman, but there ks were broken|Mmust have bcen a catch i it by the shock. \,omu\lmc She returned alone Ambulances from half a dozen | —with praise for the American hospitals and fire apparatus, also|doy, and—or BUT—a gor- Police Reserves, were rushed to geous square-cut diamond on the scene. \aer finger. The beauty would The explosion occurred late this|aot reveal the name or nation- afternoon. lht of the lucky man. —————— Y n-rnllluJ Newsresl) Mr. and Mrs. John Laurie, Ju R of neau residents, returned home on| the Victoria yesterday. They have [Law Observance High been in the south vacaticning for some time. | vise Increased A ppropriation Asked for Transportation Of Mail Alaska Territory SHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Second Assistant Postmaster General Glov. er, asking for an increase for ap. propriation for mail transportation in Alaska, told the House Post Office Appropriations subcommit- tee that the demand for airplane mail service in Alaska is particu- larly responsible for the request. The Assistant Postmaster Gen- eral said that “for the past year and one-half advantage has been taken of spacial airplane trips op- BOSTON, Dec. 6. etts’ state police patrol found a high percentage of law observance among motor car drivers during a surprise campaign against viola. tion of the automobile law Less than 1.4 per cent of the drivers and automobiles were found to be at variance with the law. During the 24.hour drive to send the mails in Alaska, and|the police stopped 29,815 cars, and thus many days, and in N,,,“.viu this number only 410 law viola- cases, weeks in time were saved |tions were detected. in delivery of the mail and at a| The most frequent offense was cost in most instances similar to|unlicensed driving. ~Next to the the rate paid for other means of|197 unlicensed drivers in number transportation.” j\vnru cars with defective lights, Glover added there were a “good | totaling 166. Other offenses in- many” airplane compahies operat.!cluded: licenses unsigned, 53; de- ing in Alaska with “very g(m,[“remive brakes, eight; transporta- success and making a lot of tion of liquor, four, ‘and operating ¢ after license expired, four. erated for passengers and freight, 4 | brunette, i | being tl Miss il on Among Auto Operators Massachus- | | _BEN EIELSON MAY BE GIVEN HONOR MEDAL Alaska Fliér Deserves Rec-| ognition Declares Representative WASHINGT Congres would be dent to "ON, Dec. 6. A Medal of Honor by the Presi- elson, of Alaska, introduced by Rep= B. Burtness, of ward would ervice ed in add= the cientific knowledge frozen North and in show- ssibilities of aviation in region.” on Ben a bill entative Ol rth Dakota for res N be ing of 0 the rende the % pe son is from Fair- pilot of Ahe fi inter flew acros: re with Capt. Wilkins and latter in the TOURS NORTH, GOES SOUTH, DISAPPEARS |Attractive Brunette Drops | from Sight—Seattle | Police Notified SPATTLE, Dec, 6 |ing as mysteriously as s Miss Beryl Ma aged he had just returned from nopths’ toux of Alaska, is sought by the police who fear she may have been a victim fof sudden illnc foul play Madison registered at local hotel a month ago. She ‘q ot ‘work but med plent supplied with money Tuesday, November 27, Madison told the clerk she feeling i1l and thought was coming down with a dreadful cold |She said she expected to go t the bank and draw meney and | then return to th She never returned A week later the hotel ment notified the ‘police { woman left a handsome w |trunk, and other costly art |She owed the hotel vir |nothing, having pald all bill | promptly. Aviator | hank He planes in th th Poler i re H the ions Antarctie. Disappear- a threp 8 or Miss she | | mana Th a 1robe tually e Two Bandits Caught By Posse Shortly After Robbmg Ihml. KELLYVILLE, After a gun battle between bandits and a posses of and deputy sheriffs, both were captured near here thi afternoon., Ome of the handits was shot in the back. One | the members of the posse suffer a slight flesh wound. The dits cnly secured $1,000 from {bank here and this was tered. Okla., Dec. 6 two citizens recov- P+ A PAUE S . H. F. Preston, well known Alas. ka travelling man, was a ger for Jumeau on the arriving here last night. ton covers nearly all "of towns of Alaska for the represents and is well known Juneau. . pa Victoria, Mr. Pres- the coast firm he in o‘fwoun; DPPING)TO:DAY: JONLY'! | now noggl al robbers | en-| Trade Problem Looms as Hoover Visits Chile ABDUCTORS OF GAMBLER LOSE THER NERVE R(‘lCflSP Prominent LOUiS“ ville. Man and Send Him to His Home | ) op o0 e o 0 : o IS HELD CAPTIVE ; v 4 = : . g il | FIFTY-FOUR HOURS !Publicity and Police Activ- ity Cause Kidnappers Abandon Scheme i LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 6. i iy £ : —TFear because of widespread ' 2 publicity and also police ac- tivity are believed to have caused the “gentlemsn kid- nappers” to abandon the ab- duction plot and release Ed Alvey, wealthy Louisville gambler and colorful figure in the racing world. After hclding him prison- er.”~ B4 hours, Alvey, none the worse from his captivity, was returned to his home this morning, having been - ; released without payment of b F ; P p., the rantom money demanded. Chile, undergeing eocial and cconomic changes and now trying to solve its mitrate export prob- Alvey was kidnapped Mon- will be an important stop on President-elect Hoover's goed-will tour. Above is the lmlbqr at‘ dav_night while out for a aiso, where the American party will land. The President’s palx;ne {lower le]flt}) at Sunm\go.i ;nlk mfl'ro:: pf' his h‘o‘l:e. rlos Ibancz and hxs wife (lower righ e was forced into an 0- is the hcme of President Carlos g BOVIE by thres Rela el men, Alvey caid he was royally heated while held upflve. lem, | Vaipa the Chilean capital, WA Apssviiis. LGk Safl ,UAVIS URGES } IMMIGRATION RESTATIONS ‘(‘("IC‘(“V ()f La}ml‘ WOUId"hIl half th e Further Restrict Flow | BONYT nor ¢Rt ¢ lu»m nitrates, the fertiliz Of Almns If Muscle Shoals were deve! 1 to its fullest ext a produce effect | com s pos some | By L. A. BROPHY | (A. P. Feature Editor) | HINGT Dec 6 It is that l‘ eside m.n.» t good-will at {unll‘xm_cuul{ the sozial « as comm at com Confessnon of Man in De- troit Results in Finding Body in New Jersey hanges in the of the of g1 opinicn synthetic Chile's export would b in the NEW YORK, - bedy of a Dec. 6 The answering the description Joseph Storela, aged seven who was kid- napped from his home on Novem- 17, has been found under a bridge near Secaucus, New Jer- | | WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 | revamping of the URop modity sib boy of ye sive immig of further | aliens into commended | one with the the d States ary Davi f th in his ani purpose flow of laws rietin H TS, rvers Bloodles adual 1 r Revolution rdja volut way sine president | ber tment, has A 1kin to a bloodless r een quietly search of the swamps started at daybreak as although his firm hand the result of the alleged confes- Chilean govern- sion of Petpr Kudzinowski, aged govern ars before them.' 28, made police in Detroit, whil Ibanez, a most of his lits,| where he was arrested for in- {2q |18 a vigorous man of His HII"II—‘[|t)x|(‘u'|nl\ that he kidapped and 1nt s of refcrming the government killed a boy 8 \ava been inexorable He has| The Detroit police reports Kud- fought alleged waste and has exil.|zinowski as telling them of kill- ed individuals of power and promi-|ing a boy in the meadows near Susquehanna Bridge, in No- Kudzinowski said he nence | the Ihanez on becoming president de.| vember boy to movie then w Jersey city where clared J ary to form a new | took the for walk in the A systematic last wa | ; | i »s Ibanez became | an a men timates 1,400,000 workers May | ; children, have been placed ik | - . durin ar by b | me employment | of eonciliation L. Kerwin, hi , ) n 478 industrial dur seeking t . 1 nate di woman mer ! in job ed the nt for n a few oldier ne to he y Y nt lir v disput termi pu on which unted turbed pay workers are roil 350,000 a Industrial Conditions O. K. »f the RBurean in sersice for women and child 1, for the supervision of iralization of alien and the istical study of prices industrial eeconcmics ave like wise reviewed and the Secretary's final word expresses great satisfa I'tion with existing indust con. | | ditions, and optimistic : ; 2 | turther bettermen | . i . B! The chiet effect of s g iegislation Se ved would be to cu from Mexico, nearly 80,000 per yea above 7,000, the countries hemisphere. national Wity “for honesty, #o.|to the erity in customs,| they wern ial life.” His|meadows that aim ad.| The boy's throat was cut. revolutionary b i . d as expre Assist U. 8 »n for the Unit.|H. D. Stabler returned | toria from Ketchikan, where he {has been for some time in con- nection with court business. Mias Ann Gaynor, Court Clerk, also re- umn-ll to Juneau on the steamer. - | 4 ; Work eng mj, a s and carry have been been quo Imira riety expend efforts to | mittedly He has District Attorney on the Vies wage Nitrates nitrate fields of only appre- natiral nitrates increasing consump-| has been estimated there sufficient supply to last 100! Natural In the des Chile is the | clable supply | Allowing for ite even world's mm Dav | tion — | appr | migration ni w now run Haugen Doubtful About Farm Bill This Session htly undisturbed ¥ value ni exported was $86,447,000 that amount th Unitd took $41.474,000, Estimated gures for 1927 show a 60 per ent American consnmption The government owns the source supply, and the practice has to’ lease the land, under vir- ale terms, to private wor the total of while 1 movement fr of the w However, the ai Beautiful' Ruby Keller i | Al Jolson), who tc leontract and a carecr window when her ing husband wi to him. She quit 1 | Pittsburgh and was enroute to Hollywood before friends learned she had taken Frenclrleave .o IR WASHINGTON, Chairman Gilbert of the House Agricultural Committee, said today, after a meeting of the Committee, that there was grave doubt 25 to the possibility of pass- ing an adequate farm relief bill at this session of Con- Eress, Dec. 6.— Haugen, also cOmpromise the “quota” @nd “nation »riing” al$ERANRS R etormoin admissibility to the United ind would relieve some of th dicaps now imposed on alien admitted, Would Compromice ymmended i Alaska Fisherman % i , : b \etween the quota and nat Is Held in Seattle, | origins methods of determini; Mam&m;zhlvr(Imr;.o admissible numbers and indorsed | |the proposals to fix a quota limit An.|to immigration from North $2.000 South American countries, now have no quota, | “Following the slowing down of| immigration from Europe, there| |was a large inerease in the num.| s ber of Mexicans entering the coun. | © | SANm- tr, the Secretary continued '“’"“ han 18 years ahead of the b took and are continuing to| United States as a whole, statistics the places formerly filled by Offered by the Boston chamber of and east Buropeans. Under|commerce indicate. existing law they can continue to come in increasing numb they undoubtedly will do, creasing numbers, thus mammy put come | tween ow in red her to han- ;a1 king| Wi ompanies, Revenue Is Large | more than thr decades lare a compromisc | He 71 ‘Co ntlnuufl on l'.’IEB Twa ) _va Englaml Is First In Savings Deposits mal to and SEATTLE, Dec. 6.—Anton derson, in jail in default of bail and charged w manslaugh- ter in the death of | Borgan Alaska trainman, last Thanksgiy ing day, is an Ala fisherman according to the It is| said he has been with a cooperative group « eattle. | ey Anderson is reported by the po. | take lice to have admitted beating Bor-| 20uth gan after the latter attacked !mu‘ during a carousal. Anderson was arres ett after he slashel a lll’cllk lmunx:t which , Dee. 6.—In per ) person in New England was ew kngland is|while in the United States as ;*g whole it was but $88. In 1837 = the figures had increased to $52 in New England and $220 in the | United States. The average | the nation in 1927, therefore, Charts prepared by the l!urmluwh‘,hmd that of New Bfldfll‘ #5{of Commercial and Industrial Af-) 1912, A e ‘hn' show the outstanding posi-| Actual savings deposits in defeating | yjon of this region in savings. | panks increased from $1,659.8 In 1912 the average deposit per'in 1912 to $4,291,506,000 In 2 BOSTON, Ma apita rating, Qr i ted in l‘\"r.[ 1is wrists lul | (Canunutd on Page Eight.)