The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 2, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXIIL, NO. 5013, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, S ATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1929, MEMBER OF ASSOC TATED PRERS PRICE TTN FAMILY OF TEN IS WIPED OUT BY EXPLOSION AND FIRE WINE TONIC PUTS HOUSE Introduction of Bottle, in Prohibition Debate, Starts Something WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—While Prohibition was being discussed in the House yesterday after- noon, Representative Emanuel ! Celle f New York, exhibited a bottle of wine tonic which he sail contained 20 per cent of aleohol He declared the bottle was purchased in a Brooklyn drug store and it was sold freely. The display of the bottle throw | the House into a hubbub over the propriety of the exhibit. Representative Celler declared | that the wine tonic was ‘‘tokay wine with a slight tinge of pep- Celler sin in it.” Representative also de- clared the Department }l Agri- ture was distributing free mphlets . telling how to make ne while millions of dollars were being appropriated to en- force Prohibition. | Congressman Greene demanded the removal of the bottle charg- ing violation of the House rules. Congressman LaGuardia, of New York, defended Celler, de- claring that the tomic was sold under Government permit. The Chair held the bottle should be removed and a page took it off the floor and the dis- on continued. Southern Democrats, headed by Representative Byrmns, of Ten-| , initiated a new move yes-| to get House approval of $24,000,000 extra Prohibition by proposing a revision of ohibition clause to meet Secretary Mellon’s objéctions.Re- vised wording, it was élaimed, would allow all dry agencies to use the money in accordance with Mellon’s wishes. Meanwhile the measure, however, had been turned over to the conference committee with the Senate. CEORGE MILLER KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT TODAY 9. a | | | | | i PONCAN CITY, Okla., Feb. ——George Miller, one of the own-| ers of Miller Brothers 101 Ranch | and the 101 Wild West Show, was killed today pavement near here while he was | on his way to the 101 Ranch. George Miller’s death the violent death cf Col. Joe Mill-| er, brother and assodlated in the ranch and cireus business who| was found dead in his garage a year ago from monoxide gas. One brother is now living, Jack Miller The trio operated one of the largest ranches in Am)- erica. MARSHAL FOCH AGAIN SERIOUS PARIS, Feb. 2.—Marshal Foch had a second setback today and | develcped another center of con- gestion in the lungs. There is an air of uneasiness about his home. He, however, has less fever. - e Prof. Einstein Publishes His Latest Pamphlet i ) { | E | | i i | when his auto- mobile turned over on a slippery | | recalls | | Sues Circus Km; 4 Sarah Jane Stonehouse (above), wife of Al G. Barnes- Stonehouse, or, as he is known to the circus world, Al G. Barnes, who has filed §uit for separate maintenanceé in Los Angeles court. She formerly was a star equestrienne in his show. Her bill asks $2,500 monthly allowance and $50,000 attorneys’ fees. Coolidge Perhaps Makes His Last Executive Speech MOUNTAIN LAKE, Fla, Feb. 2.—President Coolidge has deliv 1 what is probably his speech as President, dedi- cating to the Americ reopla the Singing Tower, established | by Edward Box. lent devoted his rgely to exposition | of the view the American peo- ple were achieving and con- | stantly growing in apprecia- tion of the beautiful. i NEW POLITICAL MOVE IN W, VA. Hoover Democrats May Unite with Repub- lican Party RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 2. — A mevement is under way to unite the so-called Hoover or anti- Smith Democrats with the Repub- lican Party in Virginia, at least for the forthcoming State cam- paigm: Questions have been asked three Democratic leaders by A. J. Dunning, “Hoover Democrat,” and on answer to these may de- pend whether the anti-Smiths BERLIN, Feb. 2—Prof. Albert|will make a concerted move to Einstein, originator of the theory.; of relativity, today published his| latest work, a six-page pamphlet containing mathematical formulae | which required ten years to write. It is called “Uniform Field Theory” and provides a single .theory for both gravitation and electricity, ac- cording to the Einstein theories. et Believed Dead for 50‘ Years, Two Prove They Are Alive, Fighting 1 MODESTO, Cal., Feb. 2.—Believ- ed dead for 50 years, the widow and daughter of John Pratt, Mo- desto pioneer, made it known they were alive and arg residing in Bos- ton. This was made known when litigation began for the disposi- tion of Pratt’s $15,000 estate. +163% jcin the Republicans at the anti- Smith Democratic conference at Lynchburg next Tuesday. — .- STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted to- day at 87%, Canadian Pacific 262%, Chrysler 1097%, Cudahy Kennecott Copper 160%, Nevada Consolidated 477%, Na- tional Power and Light 55%, Packard Motors 136, Sears, Roe- buck 1661%, Stewart- Warner 140%, U. S. Steel 1847%, Pitts- |hurgh Coal 74. B BERLIN — A jazz band was heard for the first time in a Prussian jail when the inmates cf Ploetzensee Prison near Berlin were given a special holiday treat. Bach number was received ]wlth thunderous applause. i 1 | | | | | Shark Grabs | Fish Hoover Is About to Land KEY WEST, Fla., Feb. 2 Herbert Hoover yesterday 1 ed his second sail fish, X- footer and weighing above 60 pounds Before “this catch, he struggled 35 minutes with another sail fish which a shark grabbed just as he was about to land it in a boat. | “A shark got him,” Hoover exclaimed. PRESIDENT IS SUPPORTED ON CRUISER LIMIT | . Democratic Senator Comes to Defense — War * Talk Again Given WASHINGTON, Feb 2.—Demo- crats of the Senate yesterday fur- nished support for Coolidge's views that immediate construction of 15 jcgaisers and cne aircraft carrier was ‘undescribable. Senator Pat Harrison, of Missis- sippi, who seldom supports Admin- istration policies, declared the clause requiring starting of con- struction of warships by July 1981, “unprecedented” and unadvisable. Other Senators attacked the clause which Chairman Hale, of the Naval Committee, is Sponsor and defender. Toward the nd- | & end of the debate Senator Norris rallied opposition to the bill with an attack on a “big navy.” He declared that if it is necessary to build these cruis- it is only because there is ers danger of war with Great Britain, saying: “There is no other na- tion in a position to cause any {uneasiness. It seems logical then that we are building t navy for a war with Great Britain, yet no one admits there is anything on the political horizon which indi- cates war.” TWO HANGED FOR MURDERS ST. LOUiS, Mo., Feb. 2.—Leon- ard Yeager, aged 31, and Thomas Lowry, aged 23, both convicted of murder, were hanged simultaneous- Iy this morning. Yeager paid for slaying a bystander in a hold-up and Lowry for killing a motor- le officer. Both men went to the gallows calmly —.——.— German School Offers Course in Americana FRANKFORT-ON-MAIN, Feb. 2. —The political, e con mic. and cultural prouiems of the United States fcr the first time form the subject of a popular course of lectures at the University of Frankfort. In eleven weekly discussions, which began in December and will last through February, Am- erica is being given a thorough examination by professors, parlia- mentarians, editors, former Cab- inet Ministers and Under-Secre- taries of State, almost all of whom have visited the Western hemisphere. Among the lecturers are ex- Minister of Finance Peter Rein- hold, ex-Under-Secretary of State Carl Bergmann, Professor Emil Dovifat of the Berlin Institute of Journalism, and Member of the Reichstag Friedrich Dessauer. RUSSIA DRINKS LESS VODEKA THAN IN 1914 MOSCOW, Feb, 2. Recent official figures show that the consumption of vodka in Russia under the present system is 40 per cent less than before the war. In the past 12 months over 530,000,000 itres of vodka were gold by the State monopoly. . HOBOKEN, N. J. — Having crossed the Hudson River 465,- 1436 times, Captain William Frost, has retired. For 46 years he was a ferryboat captain and once | | house. POVERTY IS GERMAN REPLY TO GILBERT | |February 9 BERLIN, Feb. 2.—Since an inter- ynational committee of experts has |been named to meet in Paris in to elaborate a plan for solution of the reparations prob- | (lem, . the Germans are collecting |data to demonstrate Lhat the coun-| try is not so well off, as shown by | the report of S. Parker Gilbert, ragent general for reparations. Mr. Gilbert is told by the pr that he has not looked deeply enough under the surface. A series of figures purports to | show that railwaymen work 25 per cent harder than in 1913, min-| ers produce 27 per cent more, en-| gineers 40 per cent and metal | workers even 43, while wages have | risen only from 7 to 10 per cent. and the consumption of various household staples, such as meat, ' | coffee and cotton goods, has fallen off considerably in comparison | with pre-war years. This diminution power is regarded problem. Prof Gustav Cassel, the Swedish economic expert, is widely quoted | for his yiew that if the payment of Dawes annuities is to be continued | with borrowed money, a time will| come—after 10 to 20 years, aczord- ing to interest rates—when Ger- many will be burdened with a new | foreign debt. The annual service of that debt will equal the present Dawes pay- ments and absorb the whole of Germany’s capacity to pay, leaving | nothing for the Dawes payments themselves, he says. ————— DISM ISSED The interesting children, whose yJforiune is ingreasing. approximate- As WITNESS $240,000 ‘a day, are Daniel and purchasing i a serious | of as An artist's idea of the golde Daniel and Payne Whitney Pays ney millions. Right, Mrs. Charl By International On bright, sunshiny days in New York City there may be seen in park three children, aged three, two, and one, who are growing richer at the amazing rate of $10, 000 an hour. Sandra and Payne Whitney Pay- andchildren of Payne Whit , who left the almost incredible {estate of $194,329,514 when he died No Cross Examination Is'they will become the eventual ; to a fortune of tremendous Made—Tells Story of Family Life . Beauty Winners | RIVERSIDE, Cal., Feb. 2.—De- fying court authority to make him | speak, young Northcott was dis- missed from the witness stand late yesterday without cross exami nation on the long prosiac of his family life and monotonous ranch life, after attempting to lay | a heriditary stigma u him- | self as “mitigating circumstances.” Northeott| pleaded ignorance on| all of the state’s hanging evidence against him. Leaving the stand, he placed Mrs. Chrisza Collins, on the stand. | She is the mother of Walter Col-! lins, aged 9 years, for whose slay-| ing Sarah Louise Northcott is now serving life at San Quentin Prison | and Northcott himself is on trial She previously stated she did not think Walter was one of North- cottls victims but was not given a chance to say so on the stand| yesterday. | INAUGURATION BE BROADCAST | GREAT HOOKUP, | | story I | WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. — The! inauguration ceremonies on| March 4 will be broadcast by the -up ever o ;fl:;zrx!kee:sive EREe Hlook-up Margaret Denney of Conway, h * ittee will! Arks has been selected by students Fhe Sggursl Co»mm”tf'. | @8 the most beautiful coed at have 58 stations of the National Arkan, State Teachers college. 42 }I;’;l& ;)f ihe Latt; i’u $10,000 Richer Every ( Illustrated News n shower that wn upon th n, who, with ndra, will es Shipman Payson, their mother rains If the present rate of increasing | | value of the estate continues, they | undoubtedly will become the rich- | est young people by inheritance in | the world. With about $60,000,000 the Whitney estate bequeathed to pub- | lic nstitutions, charity and friends, the remainderof some $135,000,000 was divided into four parts, tho| ncome from two of which will be livided equally between a son of Whitney and Mrs. Charles Simpson Payson, while the other goes to the Tow proportions | | YORK, Feb. |increase of the capital stock of the National City Bank of New York to $100,006.000 will establi:h more securely its position as the largest bank in the world | The new capitalization will bo! nearly three times that of the big Dex bank of Germany than 10 times that of the Societe Generale of Franes and 00,000 larger than either Lloyd's or Bar- clay’s Bank of England. 1t is, about $40,000,000 larger than the | Midland bank of England. | SNOW CAUSE | OF 3 DEATHS SEATTLE, Feb. 2. — Three: deaths, attributable to the snowy lwon(hvr. oceurred today. | Rufus R. Upper, aged 67 years, | | Manager of the Savings Depart- ment of the Seattle National !Bank, dropped dead upon the |snow while waiting for a stage after walking through deep snow {frcm his home. | Ben Carney, laborer, leaned | jout of a hotel window to see if| |it was still snowing. He leaned |too far and tumbled 20 feet to his death. An unidentified aged worker fell through the skylight while' shovelling snow off a flat roof business building and was killed.' NEW 2 Propose e more yne“ hitney Grow }Na—t-i‘bnal City Bm{k | Again Adds to Ca pitul: ‘Buyer and Drinker |State Senate. Broadcasting Company and stations of the Columbia network on the broadcast program. In addition, Herbert Hoover's ad- dress will be carried on a short wave to foreign nations New Kind of Thief Is lDi.scovered he LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb A fellow who is so tough caps evidently lives here. The police are looking for a {vandal who has been stealing Ehenvy iron caps off of five cis- terns. Two or three have been appearing each week and dis- thus | trians. | Silas Snow, also of Conway, was .take your wife's arm and go. POWDER, LEFT " T0 DRY BEFORE FIRE.EXPLODES {Explosion Starts Fire which Burns House with Occupants Hour |FIREMEN HELPLESS | WITHOUT ANY WATER . Early Morning Accident Occurs with Disas- trous Results BUCKHANNON, W. Va., Feb. A can of blasting powder in front of an open grate to dry is believed to be the cause of 10 persons being burned to death at midnight last night. The dwelling. was razed by the flames which practically wiped out the entire family. The dead are Pete Simes, his wife and six children and a mar- ried daughter, Mrs. Troy Gibsom and her three months' old baby. Mrs, Gibson's husband escaped with severe burns as the fire |raged. Firemen stood helplessly by because no water was available. The dwelling was located on the cutskirts of the town out- side of the hydrant zome. Neighbors said an explosion preceded the fire, Gibson is unabie to teli a jcoherent story of the explosion and fire except to say a can of powder was being dried at the open grate, e Whitney heirs, inherit Upper left, the multiplying Whit- | However, little Daniel, Sandra and Payne Whitdey Payson are | the ujtimate living heirs for liey; will receive all of their mother's money as well as their grand- mother’s trust fund. Undoubtedly many will find in- teresting material for speculation as to how #he children will be af- R P feoted by jirib Vaso fovtamas ‘Mmk‘ ) ot while the youngsters continue to| accompany their nurse maids to BE AIRED NOW the park, where the two older ones laugh and play, just as other chi dren do, as yet blissfully unaw Legislative Committee Sum- mons Keyes—Ormiston Is to Testify of their tremendons LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb, 2.— A subpoena was issued yesterday for the appearance of former Dis- trict Attorney Asa Keyes, before Col. |the State Legislative Committee s a next|investigating'a $2,500 check which door neighbor to Herbert Hoover|Almee McPherson gave Superior today while preparing for his Judge Hardy. The committee in- flight Monday to inaugurate Pan-|dicated it wished to ask Keyes American air mail between the)if Judge Hardy ever conferred United States and Panama. with him regarding the McPher- Col. Lindbergh is quartered on|son kidnapping case which was the Belle estate of Joseph under investigation when the check Adams and will be Hoover's guest | was given in August,, 1926 tomorrow. Kenneth Ormiston, radio opera- {tor, whose name was linked with Mrs. MoPherson, also will ba called to testify, it i8 announced. CONGRATULATE HEROIC CAPT. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Capt. George Fried of the liner Am- erican and the erew of the Flor- ida, recently rescued in a storm by the American, today received B congratulations of the Shipping NEW YORK-—Louis Orefice of|Board and United States Navy Brooklyn was in court for beat-|for courage on the high seas. ing his wife while her mother| The Shipping Board expressed was visiting them. After a con-ladmiration at the meeting during fab between the women the judge|which Chairman O’Connor said imposed this sentence: Kiss your'he felt many officers operating wife; kiss your mother-in-law; { American ships will be ready to . brender similar heroic service. | | Col. Lindbei zh Is to Be Guest of Hoover Tomorrow MIAMI, Fla.,, Feb. 2. Charl Lindbergh w; and Bootlegger May Suffer in Wisconsin MADISON, Wis, Febh. 1 bill to make the buyer and drink-| er cf intoxicating liquor equally guilty with the bootlegger, h:u{ been introduced in the Wisconsi 1 | 2 The measure would provide a jail sentence not less than 30 days nor more than 90 or a fine of $25 to $100. voted the most handsome youth. R Two Members of French Cabinet Il with the Flu PARIS, Feb. i Briand, Foreign | Georges Leygues, Minister of Navy, are both ill with the in- fluenza and could not attend a 9 tide and | | Minister, \plays tiddledy winks with sewer scheduled Cabinet meeting today.!Duluth has an advantage that | Neither case is reggrded as se- rious, Influenza in France this year has been in a mild form. SO NEW HAVEN, Conn preme Convention of the of Columbus will be The Su- Knights held in Grant rode with him in the pilot 'endangering the lives of pedes- Milwaukee in August it was an- old, is on the way to Argentina ¢ nounced today. {TRAPPERS GET TASTE FUR PRICE. Marriage License | Price to Be Reduced In Wisconsin Town | { OTTAWA, Canada, Feb. 2.—The SUPERIOR, Wis.,, Feb. i has itself as ‘Marringe license prices in this lcounty are to be reduced from $1 to 50 cemts in an effort to|j; get some of the fees that have i i 5 i the boulevards, but it is sending :i:" going to Duluth across lhe;w,nummlin- W Ith and comfort to The e {the trappers who obtain the essen- The Duluth price is $2.25 but fial pelts. marriages may be performed im-) According to advices reaching mediately following fssuance of,Dere from the Canadian northwest, |licenses, whereas in Wisconsin, | (FAPPers are becoming prosperous Ifive days must elapse. with an average per capita income i s | of $5,060 to $10,000, ranking among I MALAGA, Jo-!the highest in the dominion, and sefa Sanchez Castell, 102 years|are using their increased buying power to obtain elaborate equip- ment for their woodland shacks.s 2 fur coat established an economic factor. Not only is bringing wealth and style to join a 72-year-old daughter. to | OF LUXURY; RISE TO NEW LEVEL Men who mush out to trading posts with sled loads of furs re- turn with cargoes of radios, talk- ing machines, sewing machines, canned fruits ,cigars and other good things of modern civilization which a few years ago were re- garded in the northland as unat: tainable luxuries. Radio sets are said to be especially popular be- cause the fur region is shut off [trom civilization many months of each year. Even native eskimos are reports {ed sharing the prosperity and for- | sakinge their kayaks for moter boats with which to cruise in the Arctic ocean.