The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 23, 1928, Page 5

SECOND SECTION MAY REMOVE | GEN, BOOTH, S. A CHIEF VOL. XXXIIL., NO. 4978. Reform Element in Salva-| tion Army May Oust Veteran Ruler NEW YORK, Dee. 23—The York Times this morning says Commander Evangeline Boo'th, Chief Executive of the Salvation Army in the United States, has sailed secretly for England aboard the liner Olympic and that journey may end with the removal of her brother, Gen. Bramwell Booth, as International head of the Salvation Army. The reform element within the Army, for the past eight year has been seeking to persuade Gen Booth give up his automatic rule London. A conferenc the to in has been called for in London on January § to decide whether Gen Jooth will be removed on the ground of unfitness to continue his duties Gen. Booth is 72 years old and has been failing in health for years Negotiations to persuade him to | change the Constitution was halt- ed last May when he became ill. The constitution says Gen. Booth is the Ruler and can the leadership of the Salvation Army to anyone he chooses, by placing the name in a sealed enve- lope to be opened ter his death BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS TAKE RECESS SHINGTON, D. C., Dec. With seasonal generosity and grace, Congress bowed to its own will yesterday and closed for the holiday period. The House and Senate met and transacted routiné ‘business with only a corporal's guard present,| and then called it a day. The House stayed in session half| an hour and heard Representative| McGregor of New York, say adicu He goes the State Supreme Bench. The Senate took a little longer and the proceedings were largely chargeable with the flooding of| the holiday spirit. Senator Heflin of Alabama, had the clerk read the eulogist piece by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, then himself gave| a recitation about the glory of boyhood. - eee — — sole wa to King George Passes Quiet Saturday LONDON, Dec. 23.—The King had a quiet day yesterday and was no change in his prog- ss according to the doctors’ an- nouncement at 8:30 o'clock last night. The statement added no further bulletin would be issued until Sunday evening. pass | | example for all little boys and girls, \ | | | | | | | | Mary Brian, picture star, has done such & fine job on her tree that @anta will be pleased to remember her this year, dnternational Ulustrated News) / Mine Congress Head " Bank Cashier & Refuses to Be Held-Up PITTSBURGH, Penn 23.—A bank cashier, $14,000 late yesterday noon refused to be held al Bank in two bandits | four shots Murray who not fled at Coon and accompanied injured by the after the him R a slender that the will be one, Robert E. Tally of Clarksdale, ' Ariz., is the new president of the American Mining congress, suc- ceeding J. Gi Bradley of Dundon, W. Va. Mize been iRyg has ,one, the to and 36.3 degr ceeded for December 1901 an unus mean temper: including the MERRY CHRISTMAS the entire three times of with 38.7 degre ter he had purchased new auto|3s.2 degrces. |license plates, Clarence Diffenbach. | er returned to where he had park-|the 7th to ed his car and found it had been!15th onward. stolen. The number of the new plates is 31313 10th and Since regular W in Juneaun cathier Burean in 1017, CHRISTMAS MEANS Ibe bare ground. there were 19 bare ground and the SURELY . VISIT HER She 1s getting a _good | i , Dec. || carrying | the doors of the Hays Nation- Haysborough him. C bullets. WHITE CHRISTMAS | INDICATED, JUNEAU There is a possibility, although {reported to have died with th of snow on Christ-! mas this year, says Weather Man!ge 10 in The month, 1y This has been ex- month PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 23.—Af-|with 25.0 degrees and 19 During the current [mcnth the ground was bare from from the establishment of the there n one Christmas, that of 1925, During that | 8P days with o Y ALASKA EMP “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1928. GONFERENCE ON ARBITRATION 18 -~ PROGRESSING ‘Pan—Americarn Session May End During Coming Week Is Belief Deec. 23. WASHINGTON, retary of State Kellogg expects the Pan-American Conference on Arbitration, in session here since December 10 to complete the work by the end of the coming week although unforeseen devel opments may proclude adjourn- ment before New Year's The draft of the treaty conciliation has been agreed upon | by the sub-committee and sub-| mitted to the ful committee. The | draft has approval, in the main | at least, of all delegations and | is expected to be approved by a conference of the various dele-| | gations | | An early agreement regard ing conciliation proceeding in {the Faraguay and Bolivia con trover looked for FULL PARDON "~ FOR LANGLEY WASHINGTON, Dec Prosi- dent Coolidge has granted full par- | don to former Representative John | | Langley, of Kentucky, restoring! {him to full citizenship. | Langley was convicted of con-| spiracy to violate the Prohibition lact. He sefved @.temm. in the Federal . penpitentiary at A:l:nrtu,‘ Ga. His wife, Katherine Langley, | was elected to Mhis seat in the| . | House. | "1 The President’s action wa jon recommendation of General John G. Sargent. - eee UNALGA RETURN FROM MISSION TO INDIAN VILLAGES| o 4 | | | The Coast Guard cutter Unalga| on! 23 s taken | Alttorney | after. up at and | |returned to Juneau late yesterday! tiring | |afternoon after visiting four Indian | a villages to ascertain the extent of | teller | | influenza, administering as much ! were | laid as possible and leaving medi- | cal supplies. { There are 424 cases in the town | of Hoonah that has a population | of 455. Dr. W. A. Borland of Ju-| neau, one nurse and three school, |'teachers are attending to the sick| as best they can. Ome Indian is| di-| at Hoonah. | There were found to be 59 cases ! Tenakee, with esti- | population of 306; Angoon, | 59 cases with 200 population, and | {Kake with 11 cases with 250 resi- l(h,uln. ground | gease an far, {mated warm | urc 21st is Com. E. 8. |ga, was taken to his ap: as soon as the Unalga himself suffering from a cold. ot the Unal- | (ments | arrived, severe | Addison, of record: 1907 with LIGHTED EVERGREEN IN RUSTGARDS’ YARD IS FINE DECORATION In keeping with the Yuletide irit is the decorated tree which of M and Fronting the station husl |stands in greatefil,?w:; s the yard aitin for S o‘ N él “p @ anta Claus PASADENA'S L through the land they are hanging Y tonight, >Placed by wee fingers in breathless delight, Sure to be ready when Santa Clau. knocks— S Gay little, plain little, patched little socks Santa Claus, come, while the little heads sleep, o And little hearts flutter and little stars -V 14; beep; Fill with your.apples, your dollies and U blocks ? - The gay little, plain little; patched. little PAGES FIVE TO TWELVE SANTA CLAUS MEETS DEATH Double Tra ge(-ly Occurs in California City at Holiday Season PASADENA, Cal, Tragedy came all at once for Pasadena's Santa Claus just as he completed one missicn of good cheer for a throng of children ¥ and prepared for another 3 Henry Dickson, aged 57 v club man and wealthy furni- ture dealer, played Santa Claus t a Masonic entertainment Fri- day night Yesterday morning a his from the year-old woman, Mrs. Ryan, stepped acrc way and was knocked Mrs. Dickscn happened to be tanding at a window of her’ {home and fainted when she saw {the accident. ! The husband discovered his wife prostrated when he ran inte |the house to call an ambulance. | After telephoning for aid for the injured woman Dickson at- tempted to revive his wife. g Several hours passed and a son- in-law called a® the house when he became alarmed when the tele- phone failed to be answered. He - found Dickson and his wife ap- parently asphyxiated. He called tor aid and an inhaliator squad from police headquarters attempt- ed to save the lives of Santa ' & Claus and his wife but without = SUCCess. § Dickson was to play Santa Claus again Christmas Eve. L e SANTA CLAUS BROWNING IN NEED OF COPS NEW YORK, Dec. 23— Edwatde Browning, who married Frances (Peaches) Heenan, turned Sant@ Claus -only to discover there difficulties in benefaction as w as in matrimony. i Browning had announcad © he would distribute $700,000 worth' of gifts from his upper Broadway of. fice at 9 o'clock ygsterday morn- ing ok By that time a line of child extended around several blaokss halting traffic and necessitating a call for extra Poli 3 By 10 o'clock, gifts consisting of perfume vials, paper hats and othe ™ or novelties were almost exhausts & ed and the crush was still so great == that 30 children were pushed through a plate glass window. Several mothers fainted Browning sent in a call’ for Police reserves to lend him a han in his Santa Claus business. e Dec. 23.— vears, he drove ge, a Tdaehg Blizabeth the driw down. car ¥ 4 Searching for Negro Porter in Hotel for M urh. CARMI, I, De 3.—OLLly "; of nearby cities have been as |to arrest Hoy McMurray, aged 28, negro hotel porter and exconvish {who disappeared shortly after slaying of Miss Alice Preher, | John Rustgard. socks, BONUS TO WALL ST. It has been estimated that traders’ commissions alone in this' year of unending bull markets| will exceed $350,000,000. With the general public participating daily in the aetivities of the stock market, profits of commission houses also will reach a vast total. Wall Street bosses, thus mnk-l 15, school teach whosa neaj ’l]uc:A])llzlle body was found: e (yesterday morning in her cottag Robbery is believed to have b the motive. That the negro was . junder suspicion was made “kno < Fwhen his father appeared at th hetel where his son has been gi ployed for a year, and said ha disappeared and officers were {ing for him. —l s snow amount on ground was L5 ypi Streer ‘from the top of the linches. ~ There were flve yearsiy; o geventh Street, it is one| | with less than (un' inch of snow of the most striking pieces of on the ground Christmas, tvwo holiday decorations in the city. years with. four inches, one’ year The tree is an evergreen Erows with twelve inches, one with 1(5‘\“”Z just . outside of the house inches, and one with 17 inches. : ot the “HOEME There was a foot or more on the‘er‘ o Mes, Bustgard )"' . w“; bround "I SSG NG 1987 ' 'THe PO BDE GSceESted it with var ft-u(m amount on the ground colored lights which burn bright- this D ly every eveming. The practice this December was 2.7 inches on ;e ,u4q0ep decorations in the| fhe morninf REENE 45 grounds of residences is a recent B M innovation in the Stut It is! Woman Convicted on said that to Mr. and Mrs. Rust- gard goes the distinction of hav- Five Counts of Using ling introduced it in’ Alaska. . . - P RS0 ' Z Xl ba LI NEW YORK, Dec. 23. — Bull markets mean bonuses to the denizens of Wall Street. They used to wait for Christ- mas in a prosperous year to get a bonus, these empldyees of Wall| Street houses, but this year bon- uses were distributed at Thanks- | giving, and even before, some workers receiving gifts equal to three weeks’ pay. ing profits hand over fist, and Long hour and overwork have|most of them have been making been brightened this year by the |profits, naturally are expected to fact that Christmas bonuses prob- | exhibit an expansive, if expen- . R Ailbud ably will be the largest in his-|sive, spirit Chrisimas, and U.S. Mail to Defraud - :: e o emior | Alameda énroute to Seattle for tory. Christmas almost always has been e . | CHRISTMAS EVE BREAD '°“~ e Darfatict Hows |INe Winta The humblest employees are|a synonym for bonus in Wall] LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 23- —_ of Oregon; o Rantnes & talking in terms of $100 bonuses, |Street. After only deliberating a short| According to an cld supersti-|and Patiick Farrell, © ashing-{ although any of them ‘would be| In any event few employees aye ftime, the jury in the Federal Court|tion, bread baked on Christmas ton, D. C, pleased with one ranging from a | worrying. Many, of them, too, late yesterday afternoon convicted| eve will never become stale or Sm‘{ weck’s pay up. Many favorite lave participated in the orgy of Mrs. Alice Sawyer, of Long Beach,| moldy. i ——— { stenographers and confidential speculation and, having the gd- on five counts, for using the mails gecetaries have the fur coat com- vantage of “inside inh»nnulion.",“’ defraud in comnection with her| Pat Gildea, Ketchikan attorney The Sunday School of the|distriet, is an Alamelda passanger, The police belleve bootleggers plex, and the automobile, cloth-| R R, efforts to sell the alleged petrified|and formerly Secretary of the Al-:Lufllr«n Resurrection Church |enroute to Seatfle and other Pa.|are responsible for the shdbting ing, jewelry and other industries B0 81Ways available to the pub- 4,4y o per you, She faces a max.{aska Fish, Gommission, returned will hold Christmas exercises in|cific Coast poluts for (3e winter. |as the Rev. Gordon Jones has undoubtedly will share in the|lic, undoubtedly have acquired jmum sentence of five years on home on ‘the stegner Alameda!the Odd Fellows Hall tonight| i, repoitd s supce sason in|been preaching vehemently - for |each count, |etter. & week's visit’ here. l o o'cloek, thie fdchaitcalarea this year. | Préfitbiiion, thiewania. ~LESLIE DAVIS; in Farm and Rinch) Jy a3 HARRA!S GOES SOUTH Bootleggers Are Believes! Involved Baltimore Skooting 4 ¥ o Denies Appointment As U. S. Com. of E SACRAMENTO, Cal, Dec. William John Cooper, retired § Superintendent of Public Ingtey tion, denies the report arigi in Bakersfield to the /affect he B announced his appolntment United States Commissioner Education. He had been mended. to President Cooll the Federal Post and ghis has under consideration for I months. < I. C. Commissioners Confirmed by Senate| 1turtin Harrias, cldtimer o thc | Dawson, Fairbanks and Three | Itiver districts, and who been developing mining property in the Dan Creek area for several | years past is a passenger on the Copper WASHINGTON, Dec. ‘members of the Interstate Com- merce Commission were confirme BALT!MORE, d., Deec. 23, shower of pistol and shoigin bul- lets sprayed the Lansdowne Meth. udist Bplscopal Church and par-| sonage early evening as an automobile sy twice past the s two buildings. Five windows were J. ©. Murray, pioneer Alaska broken, four in the church and one mining operator who is how min.| in the parzonage. As far as can CELEBRATE TONIGHT | 'U" I8 "0 he.Creck |be learned no person was injured of ¥, ast ¥ .- HAS GOOD YEAR -oe SCHOOL TO procecds. many an extra dollar..