The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 29, 1929, Page 1

o o v HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXIIL, NO. 5009 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1929, - NAVY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM UNDER FIRE IN SENATE RIGID ECONOMY WARNING MADE BY PRESIDENT Government Costs Must Be Curtailed If Prosper- ity to Continue COOLIDGE ADDRESSES HEADS OF BUREAUS Final Plea Is Made to Gov- ernment Officers— Lord Praised WASHINGTON, Jan. 29- dressing the Busin Organiza- tion of the Government for the Jast time, President Coolidge last night issned a warning that ri economy in the Federal expens2 must be continued and the “rapidly mounting cost of state and local government must be sharply cur- tailed if national prosperity is to be maintained.” At the same time, the President declared the Budget System had .Ad- been fully justified by results dur ing its years of operation. He paid a tribute to Brig. Gen. Lord Director of the Budget Bureau, and the personnel of the Bureau. The President’s address was de- livered at the Sixteenth regular meeting of the sessions’ held twice yearly and attended by Cabinet of- ficers, heads of the Government Bureaus and Federal employees who disburse the Federal funds. Directpr Lord declared the and Express ation Em- steady inerease in national expen- | Ployees, today disclosed that ditures must be expected but this{ | the railrcad companies of ircumstance. need not weaken the | | the United States have com- Soverkeno b yidet - paliee pleted plans to purchase all - | fmcilties of ‘the American i | Railway Express Company : « '] 'The deal is said to in- Ralph Mize Sel?cted | volve $35,000,000. For Electrical Course ::— = 3 OREGON AGRICUL- TURAL COLLEGE, Corvallis, Jan 29.-—Ralph W. Mize, of Juneau, senior in electrical engineering at the college, was among the 10 en- gineering students selected by representative of the General Elec- tric company to take a test course in one of the company’s plants. The appointment gives Mize op- portunity to establish himself in the largest corporation of its kind ® with the possibility of advance- ment Bunldmg ment. Men are selected on a basis of LOS ANGELES, Cal.,, Jan. 29. scholarship, leadership, activities At least four persons were and personality from engineering!seriously injured and a. score schools throughout the United States. —————e-— ——— Juneau Girl Given Honors at College OREGON STATE AGRICUL- TURAL COLLEGE, Corvallis, Jan.| 29.—Mildred Morrison of Juneau, freshman in commerce, is the freshman ' girl from the Gamma Phi Beta, soefal sorority, who has| been chosen to be an assoc;alcl rookess from the house in the of- fice of the Associated Women Stu- dents. @irls chosen for this work are to be a general source of in- formation in the office as to the time and place of any meeting scheduled .on the campus. | 1 | Miss Belinda Bass (left) an York, were honored with the C 1920. (Internation i ‘ | || Big Deal Is Reported by Railroads l VATI, O., Jan. 29. | —Robert Morgan, Grand Vice-President of the Broth- | erhood of Railway and Steam- ship Clreks, Freight Handlers CINCIN AWAKENED BY AN EXPLOSION {Match Struck in Gas-Filled Room Wrecks Apart- ‘thrown into a panic when a gas exposion partially wrecked a three-story apartment house to- day. Fire followed the explosion The blast occurred in the apartment of Henry Baker, owner of the building when he arose this morning and struck a match Awarded Medals for Heroism o——— T——— d Louise Marks, both of New leveland H. Dodge Distinguished Service Medal at annual meeiing of Near East Relief held in New York. Miss Bass was for five years superintendent of Children’'s Home in ‘Leninakan, Armenia, while Miss Marks distinguished herself during the sicge o+ Adana, Turkey, in al Newsreel) Richest Woman? if 1 AIRPLANES ARE GREAT BOOST TO ;i 7o { | ments of a President-elect king his oath of office are » be recorded in sound pic- This will be when Hoover is inaugur- The ceremony will be | Sound Pictures ’ WASHINGTON, For the first Jan. 29 time in his- Gov. Parks, in Seattle, Says Prospectors Find | Planes Real Aid [ Herbert oA graphically recorded fer fu- | | ture generations. SEATTLE, Jan. 20.—Alaska| : 3 prospectors are flying high these 3 days declared Gov. George A.| . — Parks, who is here enroute north. He ‘said airplane is revolutioniz- ing Alaska travel | Gov. Parks stated that last year | machines flew one quarter of a | million miles without accident. |The great need now is for low priced radio* transmitting systems to permit outlying points to call for planes. Gov. Parks expressed great in: terest in the Seattle-Juneaw airi mail service saying that he be-| i\[l‘, Of OfliCC IS Adminisl- lieved it would .dev‘elup considar-} ared by Clerk John H able express business in furs. 1 i Dunn at 4 P. M. HARGING GOES IN MONDAY AS Encouraging Prospecting | Gov. Parks said: “The airplané lis encouraging prospecting. Tho| Justin W. Harding, for the past Legislature appropriated $20,000 to, LW0 Years United States District pay the traveling purse of pros-/ Tev for Firet D1 | pectors with a Jlimit of §150 toiYesierday took his oath of of leach mam, Numbers went outfs$ Judse of the. Federal District {fvom clties of all parts of the Ter.|COUTt for the same Division. His s 4 commission was received late yes- jritory, & majority by plane. These |y, 14y atterncon and the oyulh {men will be coming in shortly and | " ®* o FEOTT B |may arrange to be picked up BYip, ., Clerk of the Distriet Court, Iplanes going to Fairbanks and| "on1v s few persons were prese eompt cities. I will not be sur-len: ot the ceremony. . Ampng \prised if discoveries of some Willinose attending were: Mrs. Hard- {open profitable strikes.” fng and their two children, Jus- Guest of Arctic Club Jtin Jr., and Mary Campbell; J | Gov. Parks was a guest lastic NcBride, Collector of Customs; \night of the Arctic Club, at a dir-{ynited States Marshal and Mrs. ner, smoker and reception. Dr.ialhert White; United States Com- | Andrew Smith, of Portland, Presi-|missioner and Mrs. Frank A. 'dent of the Western Pacific Live:jpoyle; Assistant United States stock agsociation, awho is intercstyAttorney H. D. Stabler, recently led in an Alaska sheep ranch, nominated by President Coolidge also a guiest. lto succeed his cilef, and George 'W. Folta; and a number of De- puty United States Marshals and Deputy Clerks of Court. Reappoint Officials Judge Harding this morning announced the re-appointment of Mr. Dunn as Clerk of Court. John H. Newman, Court Reporter, was alsc reappointed to that position. Mr. Dunn has been Clerk of Court VIEWS ON RADIO | Gov. Gecrge A. Parks reached! Seattle yesterday from Denver and| will sail tomorrow on the steam- er Queen for Juneau, according |to advices received by Harry G. Watson, the Governor's Secretary. | {The vessel is scheduled to arrive| ihere next Sunday. John H.| in’'a gas-filled room. blown out. Baker, his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Hartolth, who were their Two walls of the building were guests, were injured by the ex- plosion and burned by fire. Occupants of the apartment house were violently awakened by the explosion and rushed |57 through the building into the|_. 7 streets in their night clothes while neighbors sent in a general | police and fire call. SIX MEN DEFY ANGRY BLIZZARD | Mrs.. A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., probably will become the jworld’s richest woman through | the death of her father, Benja- TO KEEP MOUNTAIN PASS OPEN |min N. Duke, tobacco king. DENVER, Jan. 29.—A whining wind whips thick snow across the faces of rugged mountains and packs it into million crevices which the elements have cut in rocks since time' immemorial, | Once the crystalline barrier would not permit man to travel in motor vehicles over the great di- vide of the Rocky Mountains, but | now man has machines which en- able him to cope somewhat with the, blizzards which block with snow all except three or four of the 40 mountain passes into Colo- rado. Whirring blades driven by a 14,- 000-pound tractor keep open the most important link between the two slopes of the Rockies—Tennes- see pass, almost two miles aboye sea level. Every winter day finds a crew of | six men at work, clearing away the snow and sloughing it down the mountain side. In a temperature of 20 degrees below zero, these men work to keep open a safe highway for the motorist. Blizzards do ‘not deter them, mor do drifts daunt them. They must keep 60 miles of road cleared of snow for five months of the year. Blizzards last a day, two days or even three days. A brisk wind will pile up a drift two feet above the head of a tall man in three or | Evans, Government school teacher | | four hours. Two other passes over the divide | are kept open this winter. One is La Veta, 9,000 feet above a level, and the other, Poncha, 8,500 feet above. Tennessee pass i 10,400 feet above the Atlantic and Pacific beaches. Twenty-one’ of the 40 mountain| passes in Colorado have improved roads. Eighteen of the 21 are closed most of the winter. Berthoud pass, 11,400 feet above the sea, surrendered to winter Indepen-| shortly after Christmas. dence pass, the highest in the state, feet, was one of the first closed. tain national park, is open from June 15 to September 15. During | contractor, by Henry Weck, one two of the three months it is a “snow tunnel” with 10-foot banks{alienation of the affections of Mrs.|Nancy Ann Miller, of Seattlc, has assistant sergeant-at-arms at of ice on each side. S with an altitude of 12,000 (International Newsreely Coal Is Found at WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Ben F. |at Wainwright, Alaska, has report- |ed to the Interfor Department that |a good quality of coal in unlimit- ed quantities has been found near Wainwright. The new supply solves the vexing fuel problem all along the Alaskan north coast, it |is said by officials | ety feas: ¥ iore than SYRACUSE, N. 116,000 letters, dating from 1790 te 1875, written by Wendell | Fhillips, William Lloyd Garrisou, |John Brown, Charles Summer and |others have been presented o {syracuse University by Gerrit | $inith Miller of Petersboro, N. Y. | R {ward V. Hoenek, Bay €City huilding lof nis employes, asking.$50,000 for Week. The Governor's views on thelgince 1921, being appointed by .need for increased radio com-|the late Judge T. M. Reed. Mr. munication facilities in Alaska|Newman has held his position were broadcast last night in the|for the past two years. news releases over KOMO at Seat-| Regarding the appointment of tle. In this the need for thelUnited States Commissioners for |development of a cheaply manu-{the various precincts, Judge ! factured radio transmitter cap-|Harding had little to say. He able of being operated at a 10w had given natter but little cost was declared to be one ofl|thought, h ¢, and was not {the pressing needs of the Terri-|ready to m e any announce- ; ‘tory- Such equipment, the Gov-iments in this' regard at the ernor believes, will prove a great|pregent time. Iboon to the isolated mining set-1 Agked relative to the possibil- tlements in remote interior and|ity of making a temporary ap far northern regions which now!pointment to fill the office of are forced to depend on irregu-iDistriet Attorney, left vacant by lar and infrequent mail serviceihis elevation to the bench, Mr. ! for their communications Harding said he did not believe Transportation, Gov. Parks has, it was necessary at this time. Mr. | INDIZAN QUEEN AT OKLAHOMA U. S, Frances Deal, descendant of a Choctaw ehicf, is ¢ students at the University of Oklahoma. But this petite lass of 19 | summers has more of the features of her Anglo-Saxon ancestors, | Including gray eyes, brown hair al | Romance Crashes Wainwright, Alaska | SAN FRANCISCO.4Suit was Fall River pass, in Rocky Moun-|filed here' yesterday against Ed- pointed out, is for the first time|Stabler was recently nominated ito Percy C. Healy, Wall street Immediately after he took the office yesterday, Judge Harding| broker. She told the judge he signed an order vacationing the proposed to her during an air- Ktechikan term, called for this plane ride, WINTER STILL month, until February 18. At! (International Newsreel) | 1 that time, it is expected that I Judge E. Coke Hill will come to AR the First Divigion to hear crim-| inal cases which were initiated |Oxford Women Logging Camps Also Rural[b¥ the Government auring Judze\ Debate the Sin Harding's tenure as United States Schools Close — No |bistrict Attorney. Judge i 1s|Of Innocence ] s . fnow holding a term at Anchorage| — Relief in Sight ind will come south as oon a¢| e, e that is finished [ ’ g - The first order having to dof : iy ¥ SE. LE, Jan, 25. — Winter o leovered by wor inde sdnate: et Aeid o l:-ele:llmz grip om|WIth any case pending in the|{OVered O WCRCR Hndergrduat loeal court was signed th morn-~ here t is nnocence. the Pacific Northwest today aftert; ! A . taking a toll of life and injuries.|iN8 by Judge Harding for R. E Alfred Johnson, aged 14 years, Robertson. It was an order con- was killed when his sled crzshed|ATming the sale of the Lake B Barnes & Com- This wide-eyed virtue of Victo- rian days was laid. bare of its trappings by relentless nto ‘an automoble: cannery of F, C. of the St. Hiiga's Collega debat- Two persons were injured when |PaBy to the judgment creditor |ing society at a reeent discussion they fell on slippery sidewalks. |the United States National Bankior “pacifism, Vietorianism and Snow- continued to fall. ot Potralnd, Ore., which was rep-ithe Eighth Deadly Sin — Inno- The Weather Bureau promises|Tésénted by Mr. Robertson cence.” no immediate relief. The bapk, Mr. Robertson said.} ywomen ave gbill ‘debarred from have|Bas leased the plant to the ( Several logging eamps ¢ ¢ i, |the Union, Oxford's famous male shut down and rural schools ;n‘e‘:“‘mb‘l Rivers Packers Assocla-|jahaiing society, ‘but their own closed. o for ome year. organization 18 fast gaining a —_———— HARRIEBUR’(“]" Hon s il rival reputation for effectiveness SHARADA RAJE 3, Pa.—Honus Wak{gyer concervaple problem is PARIS, Jan 2. —ihe littlafdier, ‘onetime terror of pitchers,|prought hefore the women stu- Princess born to Maharaneo Devi{is hglping keep order in the Penn- Sharmista Holkar, the former|sylvania legislature He an $7 dent members and enthusiastical- ly thrashed out by their star de baters, of whom there are ing umber. is been named Sharada Raje. per diem. ahead of communication in thoseifor the office and his confirma- sections. Airplanes operating outition is expected in the course ¢ of Anchorage, Fairbanks andlof a few days. However, should } Nome are responsible for this|anything arise before that time condition. The Governor hopesithat called for the action of a for the establishment of addi-|District Attorney, matters that| tional radio stations by the War|could not be handled by an as- | Department to augment the svs-igistant in that office, Judge|aq . |tem now operated by the [ Harding said he would give Mr. Alll(mdorg; 2{)3}1{0‘?3 ;A:ori’tz‘rc“ Signal Corps, and the coastal{Stabler a temporary appoint- S5K€ 5 . 5 hy‘ stations of the Navy. ment. |C. Healy (above), who is fight- ———.——— Vacation for Ketchikan |ing annulment of her marriage \ members grow- | nd a fair complexion. HICULTURE GOING AFTER - HiGH TARIF D P BT s Others, if you wi h Representatives Making “aters Sweeping Demands for Big Increases WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Or !ganized agriculture yesterday |threw its weight behind a move- | ment for sweeping increases '‘in i the tariff rates’of all classes j farm products. | Appearing before the Hous2 W of| MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS 7 PRICE TENCENTE (RRELE HOOVER WITH .COOLIDGE ON CRUISER BILL Sends President Special Telegram Which s Read to Senators MORE STRIFE OVER , LIMITATION CLAUSE {American Legion Com- mander Takes Sides— War Issues Are Seen J WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 A tele- |gram from Herbert Hoover ex- pressing agreement with President ‘oolidge’s views, was read in tae Senate yesterday as the discussion on the pending cruiser hill turnsd to Coolidge’s insistence that the clause providing for immediate construction of 16 ‘warships be eliminated. The communication was address- ed to President Coolidge who sent ) the 8 Hoov My attentio nate 0 o ing cruiser legislation appearicg in this morning's newspapers. 1 made no public or private state- | ment upon this question further than appeaved during the cam- | paign. “I have lvarlous stated callers, to im- universally, it would be {proper for me to express any views jon current matters of the Adminis- tration. 1 regret if this reticence should result in misapprehension {as you know I warmly support {your views and you may so inform to do s0.” RAetion. . As soon as the teleghdm was |read, Chairman Fred A. Britten, of |thg House Naval Committee wired | Hoover he was sending a copy of the press release he gave out rep- |resenting Hoover as favoring a retention of the time clause, to show no offense had been intend- ed in issuing the statement. | Hoover's telegram was read in |the Senate by Chairman Hale of ]!lw Senate Naval Cemmittee. and Means Committee on the McNutt’'s Views [fourth day of the hearing on agri-| gu;qay night Chairman Britten ‘("llltux‘-. Ru[n(-{ ntatives of ”‘PJKSIIG(I a statement representing Farm Bureau )-n-_dvmllnn and Na-goover as tavoring retention of the {tlonal Grange, joined In appealing|iyme Jimit clause in the cruiser [for higher protection on scores of |y, ‘1'0"‘1"\“‘.“*_1"‘(»" St Immediately after reading Hoo- | (Chester Gray, of Washington|yepg telegram, Chariman Hale read representative of the American;, communication from Paul Me- red w | Farm Bureau Federation, dec it is his belief that “tariffs on r farm products will not ne increase the price over the retail i counters but will protect the Amer- fean farmer from the foreign low If the American our farmers to supply food, cloth- ing and shelter for our people at a reasonable price éYukon> Pioneer Passes Away at Home, Seattle se es were held this morning for Victor Lheureaux, aged 64 years, who died at his home here. He went into the Yukon in 1895, | prospecting near Forty Mile. He | erossed Chilkoot Pass locating on Bonanza Creek. With his wife and daughter, he returned to Seatile lin 1898. BULLFROGS WILL FIGHT QUITOES IN ALASKA . MO ) irdou will have a ing—the large of 1 h," new foe next spr |Oregon bull frog This web-footed creature will be :Im!mlmul into the territory by the Alaska division of the United | States Bureau of Education in an effort to aid miners and. others !to combat the pest. The big green and brown frog long has been not- ed in Oregon as the natural enemy of mosquitoes The croak.of the frog has been unknown in Alagka and Jonathan H, Wagner, superintendent of the sion of thé bureau, be- lieves that it is partly because of lack of frogs that mosquitoes have become so numerous. With the start of warm weather arily | ATTLE, Jan. 20.—Funeral! Nutt, Commander of the American | Legion, endorsing the cruiser bill |and declaring that the former serv- |ice men desired “steel ships and |not paper ships.” £ This brought a protest from gagst “producer, | Senator Brookhart, of [owa, who farmer is to be protected fromigaiq j wag obvious that Hale de competitors abroad who have the| s Mot o e w e lowest cost, there: will be enough [ ii b S | OOV O an. Tee efficiency and competition among gion. Furthermore, Brookhart da- |clared he aid not believe all mem- bers of the American Legion fav- |ored immediate construction of the {eruisers adding that he doubted it former service men would support 'such-a “blood-thirsty proposal.” | War Construction | The discussion of bill occupied the Senate for the most part of yesterday's sessiomn. . |Senator Walsh contended that it lis “perfectly evident that eo y |struction of the cruisers looks fe | war primarily with Great Bri land secondarily with Japan.” | Senator McKeller supported (h‘b(' ks the cruiser . ] (Continuca on Page Saven) Ropd 1 Ores ¢ P Alaska and planied the Hleepaps ponds. Small islands were chosen na ‘ Soatheas | better. | 1t the experiment proves sug~ icessful, a general importation will follow. It is believed frogs cam ° isurvive even the cold winter of | northern Alaska. i Another war against pests will {be made on Atka island of Lu“, Aleutian chain in southwesters’ | Alaska. Ermine will be sent to combat rats. The first of these rodents landed years ago from & wrecked ship and, unchecked, h.m become exceedingly numerous. The | fur-bearing animals will be used in another experiment to. check tha spread of pests in the Territory. because results can be ascertained &