The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 5, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXIIL, NO. 5015. “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, ALL THE TIME” FEBRUARY 5, I‘;Zé.w MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN C’ENTS PRESIDENT COOLIDGE LOSES HIS FIGHT WITH SENATE MORE CABINET RUMORS AGAIN CAUSE GOSSIP' Henry Stimson, Justlice‘ Stone, Ray L. Wilbur in the Limelight JARDINE MAY NOT | REMAIN IN CABINET Stone May Quit Supreme Bench for Attorney Generalship Feb. 5.—A whirl which agitates WASHINGTO of Cabinet gossip the Capital's emotions, while Her-| bert Hoover lingers in Florida, | turned up a variety of circumstan tial productions today to the effect | that Henry L. 'Stimson, Harlan| Stone and Ray Lyman Wilbur will | sit in the new Cabinet, while Jar dine will not. | Predictions lacked official con firmation but ¢ ed a stamp of semi-o ial assurance. The report that Secretary of Ag- riculture Jardine will be dropped ! attracted added attention because it is directly opposite to previous | predictions. It is known that Hoo thinks well of Jardine, but Jardine has been urged by some of his friends to try his fortune in private business. : Those who believe Justice Stone will quit the Supreme Court bench and again take the Attorney Gen-| ralship declared it is part of Hoo- | ver'’s plans to make dry enforce- ment more effective. ! They added Secretary of Navy | Wilbur is under consideration for Stone’s bench vacancy and his brother, Ray Lyman Wilbur, Presi- dent of Stanford University, will become Secretary of Interior. NO COMMENT TO MAKE MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. 5.—' Herbert Hoover declined to make any comment on reports that Hen-| ry L. Stimson, Governor General of | the Philippines has accepted ap-| pointment in the Cabinet as Secre-; tary of State. i i Bootlegger \Uses City Jail to Make His Liquor Product FOLSOM, La., Feb. S.A)lany‘ men go to jail for making liguor but not the candid bootlegger of Folscm, La. He went to jail to make his. Deputy Sheriffs dropped into] the city hoosegow here and found a still in full blast, turning out; “aged in tin” at a rapid rate. Although the owner evidently| w “in jail” shortly before the‘ deputies’ arrival, he made his/ escape. | Officers explained that the jail, | although in the heart of town,| is seldom used. Troubles of Spanish Dictator Are Not Over HENDAYE, Franco-Spanigh Fron-; tier, Feb. 5.—General Primo De Ri appeared tonight to have crushed the armed revolt against his dictatorship which last night showed its head in Valencia, but travelers reaching here said that his troubles were not yet over. ' She’ll Hailed as the operatic “find” of the year in Germany, Fraulein Suzanne Litterman «(above), Give Conceris Here HOOVERISTO INSPECTFLOOD ~ DAMAGED AREA | 1 2 Two Day Trip Planned— Has Conference with Senator Smoot | E | MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Feb, 5.— Herbert Hoover has decided to spend two days inspecting tie flood swept Okeechobee distriet in | Southern Florida and also attend 'the birthday dinner in heor of his friend, Thomas Edison, at the inventor's estate at Fort Myers next Monday. | Hoover yesterday hegan confer- ences with Senator Smoot, of Utah, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, who is a house guest for a week. Sen. Smoot predict- |ed an upward revision of tariff at |the exira session of Congress in jthe spring and no more tax re- % |duction for some years to come. | 'MIAMI, Fla., Feb. After re- lceiving a few callers today, Her- |bert Hcover called it a day and went fishing with Mark Wood, large Nebraska land holder. Us- ing a small boat, Hoover and his fguest went outside Miami Bay lto the edge of the Gulf Stream | where sail fish are running heav-. ily. THOUSANDS ILL INEUROPE AS RESULT OF FLU youthful singing star, photo- 0 w0 1 T gures " | ON SECOND LEG OF MAIL FLIGHT Expects to Reach Managua Tonight Where He Will Take Rest Feb. §.-—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, flying air mail from Miami to Cristobal, took off from Belize, British Honduras, on his second lap and has arrived at Tela according to a radio mes- > received here. Lindbergh made the flight in one hour and a half. Ccl. Lindbergh BOSTON, planned to refuel at Tela then continue in a direct flight to Managua where he will spend tonight. Abdicatior: of Kin Plot of Spaniards TOLOUSE, France, Feb. 5.—Ab- dication of King Alfonza of Spain was one of the objects sought by political plotters in that country, saild a prominent Spaniard who was interviewed by the Associated Press here today He said that the upheaval was intended to oust both the monarch and the dictator. AGUINALDO 1 S READY FOR AMERICAN TOUR MANILA, Feb. 5.—General Emil-} jo Aguinaldo, hero of the Philip- pine insurrection against the IZnilv' cd Statés 30 years age, is packing | trunks for his first visit to Ameri- ca. He will be a guest of the Mili- tary Order of Carabao at its an-| nual “wallow” or meeting this gpring in Washington. This order js composed of men who have gerved in the Philippines and is named after the carabao, or water buffalo. ! The general probably will spend | several months in the United| States and then proceed to Europe where he hopes to meet Premier de Rivera of Spain and Premier Mussolini of Italy. General Agui- naldo has known Premier de Ri- vera since the time when Spain was the soverelgn power in the Philippines. They once were ene- @ mies, but now are friends. It wa Prgmier de Rivera who, as gover- nor general of the Islands, exiled General Aguinaldo to Hongkong for his part in the revolt of 1 At one time the general wa tually king of a large part of the Philippines. After the collapse of the Spanish regime in the is lands as a result of the Spanish- American War, he proclaimed him- self President of the Philippine Republic and ruled as dictator. There followed a war between the United States and Aguinaldo’s fol- lowers which ended nearly two years later when the general was captured by General Funston. Aguinaldo was freed after the insurrection upon his promise to observe certain promises, chief among them being that he would not engage in revolutionary pro- paganda. He has scrupulojsly kept ltls, promise. 7 It is reported | which few localities are spared. In France some of the most notable figures in public life are among these afflicted. In Paris victims include Presi- jdent Doumergue, Premier FPoin- care and his Ministers Aristide Briand and Georges Leygues. Their ses are mild and not as serious as those of Marshal Foch and Marshal Petain. Sir William Tyrreall, British Ambassador, and S. Park Gilbert, {pitals which are taxed to their capacity. { FLU IS ON DECREASE WASHINGTON. Feb. 5.—Pub- ‘1 |lic Health officials said the influ- |enza reports from 18 States, Di trict of Columbia and New York|] City, showed a decrease of more than 50 per cent in influenza prevalence during the past week. Only 11,305 cases were reported. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Feb. 5.—Fire losses throughout the United States and Canada were $19,000,000 less in 1928 than the | CHICAGO, Feb. 5—Sears, Roe- |buck and Company plans to open |twenty large retail department stores and ope'hundred fifty smal- |previous year according 1o the the ex- ional in ler retail stores during 1929, R. E. ‘Wood, president, announced today |ecutive council of the at a meeting of regional exceutives 'Fire Prevention Association of the company. “session today. annual report made to 'PUBLIC GETS-A LOOK IN AT THE 1‘ PR STANDARD OIL ROW FOR CONTROL “TUSER BILL ~ LIMIT CLAUSE - TURNED DOWN |Senate Rejects Proposal of President by Vote ‘ of 54 to 28 'PARTY LINES ARE SMASHED IN VOTE Dominate Iséue in Cruiser Fight Is Now Safely Passed Over . WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 terday to eliminate from the crulse er bill the stipulation that 16 shipg begladd down before July 1931 }W lines went to smash on the Position with Senator Har- Fisof Ebmont vl ssippl, of- fering an amendment to give the ; ; g President v - of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana will see a hard fight March 7 when_m; ;:mgrax::emr:li‘;fi n;;’;u[l:’l?*::’ (right) will battle ou;t Col. Robert W, Stewart (center) from the Chair- votin e Col. Re AR en : ¥ g against Coolidge's request, John D. Rockefeller) Sr, (lcft) is reported to be backing his sen. | This disposed of the d\)mqlnlnt issue in the cruiser fight and the . R The annual meeting Jehn D. Rockefeller, Jr., manship of the company. most of whom 1 .. and the Morgans, and Harriman | company officia 8 NEW YORK, Feb. 5.—For the and Kuhn, Loeb. The stock at,! created, and of common SChSte adiourned. first time in Wall Street's mem- | stake was Northern Pacific, and holders, whose loyalty W'y, After it gefysed to strike out the ory the time honored mystery of|with the fight going on, it soar-|cl by virtue of enormous div- i@ clause, the Senate turned a financial struggle has ieen|ed to dizzy heights. |idends paid du¥ing his adminis-|30W1 andther proposal of Harrison R |deferring operation of the naval | program for one year. This was The elder Rockefeller is report-| d tc have allied himself with hig| 625t 1to the discard witheut evem a record vote. ares reached sement effectec securities formed abandoned and the public given! On the da a peep at two titans of industry|[000 an a in moral combat. {and a was W ; 4 1o lock up the st et son and it is believed that his H“l‘“"‘.’l'r;":"‘";x'l“"‘ ';f,(,f’:(.‘:::m;,“.r,,:,‘ fell immediately to and alrepresentatives will -conduct the How They Vied Vot Seanbard-ofl of dndidne o the s ot soipitated. The 1 fight on_behals of his son, who EHGRML Repunlioa Qe IRCUIGON Iface of active opposition from ]‘ .'I',’ Al Yy Shed as 15, EFANGIECH e RS m_r}_!.r'-e-Preshh.jnt-'hm-t Vogerdbing i, S R W s b g gt ving set record of 2,000,000 nee of these two is not being lcan leader, voted for the amend-, Jooh T shares of v stocks traded.|underestimated by the Stewart|ment to eliminate the time clause, main, in doubt untl the proxiesmnis mark has hien passed many |faction, i | with eleven Democrats and Farmer are polled at the annual meeti o, L ¢ o | 81 times sifce then, So T T T e 1 erudrtdn | Labh SRaRBRipstendi i Minng !I:‘r:']l)il:lc(ir?fic?Zaa;rflzidv";}cg'}ueiStl:"es. forafenes of concerts. | A March 7, but the public has been| mpe younger Rockefeller is with raiding the market for| Twenty'six Republicans, who S s as pleasing as her appearance is | et onath iy pit¥Rees ot a8 ot g By ¥ ‘ ’ ! e - " g pleasing PP /| France Are Stricken |&x ted spectators privileges aicredited with insugurating the actual siock. The fight still is, blocked the proposal, joined with R S N { h Epldemlc i el L i publicity campaign whic t- for proxies rather than for shares, 28 Democrats including Senator | S s t | i Driecagp i e ey el llz‘m‘ i‘lh tended his fight on Colonel Stew-|of which there 9,136,618 cut-|J. T. Robinson, of Arkansas, Dem- ! LONDON, Feb. 5.—Thousands | terest in these proceedings e e e o B s e L e idiad ; | | . are ill in Furope as the result! The alarums and excursions of | CEy WSEomIL aalte sl 1asieen SRITATOLY AGHTE O N R . R ¢cul-l LINDBERGH | Last Word in Style B an Mokt e tatusnah trom | ier et friudoiat nd excursions oflis pelieved (o have engineered but 1o more s than a number|the amendment of Senator Borah s Rna the public appearances of his'of other stocks on the curb mar- | providing for calling an Interna- shielded from the Stealth was thought elaborately light of da father, once the bitter antagonist |ket. | tional Conference to consider writ- necessary to the strategy of the of newspapermen. \ Most of the activity is laid at ing rules to protect neutrals at 58 strateg matter oF fact, publicity ithe door of the general public,|sea in time of wa Canadian interests which bobhed ; g by pad g T h[pes in tiaie W WAk, AN is essential to this fight, which which has a w of 'rushing in, Reed 0 gt sty 4 8 gihit, 5 18 i Reed, of Missouri, offered a sub- ":.;::rulfll\{i:;(:tlh u::.m:rni_“:f:_'b is not. sc much one of dollars when earthquakes are imminent.|stitute to request treaties with all 1 'lmm;'em“." l;m*xx! hi‘. ; I lone of influence. Mr. Rock veryone pested believes - that principal maritime nations regu- "V(\rl"w(l from - Baldwir U Rsoti: ) ) nts Stewart ousted because of [something will’ oceur followingllating conduct of belligerents in e W ocoTho-(his testimony before the recent|the annual mesting, but no ome accordance with the old treaty nes s cC v Hisigsenatorial committee of inveiti- apy to have a definite ide | , Y S ReElE # ¢ X | &P ave a definite idea of | gotiated by Benjamin F i pocket. But those were actualigation. The Rockefeller interests|the direction in which the stoek| Y Rejepe P struggles for stocks. | control approximately 15 per cent'will move | These days are different from fof Indiana stock and are fighting,| 1In spite of the publicity being | the day of James J. Hill and his not for stock control, but for vot~|given the struggle, the impres-| JAPANESE COMMENT TOKYO, Feb. 5.—The tentative pproval of the United States Agent for the General Repara-|pigqen” office P f 't < i { : ce where railroads|ing proxies wi : carcy |sfon of siurihinat ave e { jtions Committee, are in the hos-}ware pought and sold like sothe ;)u‘nl 1 mp:}q‘m“:h“h i myf}:’.“ of Lraders 18 that evenis of {Senate to the three year | Uil | 1 ing. Ithe future remain as carefully|clause of the pending cruiser bill many dozens of eggs. The most| famous battle of all time prob-{po ably was the contest between Hill|shal Against the. forces of the op-lhidden as in the days of barred| aroused comment ion, Colonel Stewart is mar-'dcors, assumed names and blunt'naval eircles g the stock holdings of details ( in Japanese ' The spokesman for |the Naval Ministry expressed the = > ; i e R A T, 7 S Ry |opinion that the Senate’s ap- o ‘ EUROPEANS COURT proval of the bill with the time ‘ . ! clause will not affect Japan's ; Woman Torn ‘ SOLTTH MERIC 4NS present naval program although ! : 4 1 4 it will affect building plans after | To Pieces by | 1 1931. WITH NEW R et LICOR oarNESPLEADS Famishing Wolves there of a mutiny that has brok-|braska House of Representatives €n out aboard the & ml-‘fh cruis- | today whieh would require all|Spanish and who may be admitted | sonages there were doubtful that er Don Jamies. No details, how-|doctors to 'write their prescrip-ito Panama to a maximum of ten a solution of the Roman nmtl" ever, are availavle. tions in “plain” English. | per year for each of these races.'would be found so soon, % . ey 1! ‘BELGRADE, Feb. 5.— # GENEVA, Feb. 5.—An extension Famishing wolves continue <Tr the relations between variods T to terrcrize the country dis- | | countries of l‘.‘urupu and Latin| tricts. It is reported that a America, especially concerning mi-| | peasant woman, carrying i | gration and commercial matte | d | milk cans, was tern to pieces is indicated by reports r ing! | mear the town of Bihac. Only the international labor office. i ~ | parts of her dress and a few i The monthly record of migration 3 | bones were found. ' 4 ‘glvvs prominence to the fact that! | " Several peasanis in that | |[Rages and Shouts in Court.:mly has ratified the commercial | i | district are reported to have . reaty with Guatemala. By this TLANTA, Ga. Feb Clinton Al £ il —Is Given Stern lthe citizens of the two countrios | cames, former T Capt. Hawks Flying Today|¥*————=<=— Admonitions I seviie or eger iy ihe | \ Tapiiss Home Across Continent— 2Ll e ; RIVERSIDE, Cal., Feb, fi—dor.|SATTY o1 comme Industry, or summer led lo the discovery. of an Two Men in Plane Marjorie Daw, Motion | 5 Rortheots, raged and |Fade, without having to pay any alleged shortage of §1,000,000 in Adr"enne < ot wo ¥len 1n Pwture Actress, Is shouted i couel yodiarng ' tn :m‘ntxlvhwr taxe »"rm)rl 1]!m~u qupr;» 1 n; his accounts, and his subsequent i ) r AT g A oftolk B ak - vt o S o Lithe nationals of the most favored arrest in_Canada, toda leaded ¢ / e g n o . ffort to impeach the testime i & anada day pleaded D’Alene, Idaho, displays one of the| 1LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. .— Married in New York| ot o e tord (‘m"r‘k”‘-‘”‘l’{ fation, and enfoy the Same rights ity 1 the Sneasisicnt & IR latest Los Angeles bathing suit Capt. Frank Hawks, in a Im]- - S lu‘y‘mh i ;’u'p’v‘lul‘.lv tontificd m“_':as the latter in the domain of com- bezzlement and was sentenced to creations. {head rnnu]fla:l}(‘*, h;dwn!';:n!:il “{:- NEW YORK, Feb. 5.—Marjorie| ) State. Glark: v‘m)k the siand |Mmerce and trade from five to seven years. SR way through the skles 0 o isast|DaW, motion picture actress, andlagain at Northeoit's request. Di .| It is recorded also, that the Ar-| The plea was to one indictment Josepll Defreese Dies nonstop transcontinental flight Myron Selznick, movie producer, fing the questioning Northeott drew x,v: ,z;m F ,x.nn has recently con (hf:rgmg the theft of $80,000. s ; 2 record of 18 hours and 55 min- were married today in the Muni-| o iiovs of nrotests from the State |¢luded a conye 1 on workmen's| Carnes agreed to plead guilty on Followmg an Operahon e # - cipal Chapel by the ( Clerk. ] o trormey: and. Maveralis dotas: was | compensatic h Jugoslavia, this condition that 19 other indictments e The plane made a perfect take- They left for Los Ansc d n stern admonitions from the | €!D8 in addition to similar agree-ibe attached in the form of & &y WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—Jos-1 o her;‘at 5:37 n‘ulnlrk vesterday Miss Daw gave her age as 25| . ments “made with other European memorandum and if he attempts eph Defreese, Chairman of "helaflernoun 2 L and snid_ she was born at 1.«;14» Mrs. Northeott, under cross ex-|SWmigration countries like Austria, to seek a pardon before the mini Board of Directors of the Cham-|“" CPOL Lo 0 1o ompanicd by [F240 Springs, Colo., the deus™ e {amination of Earl Redwine, Prose Belglum, Denmark, Italy, Spainimum sentence is served, prosects i) ber of Commerce of the United o ear’ Grupb, mechanic. The des-[oF JOBR H. House. She VWG cuting Attorney, became vehement Rl Snaden; [tion will be started on the other | States, prominent lawyer and| . ..io0 ic either Roosevelt OF er first husband, Albert E. Suth-1 0 "l0 oy Sive when questions Passing to Cuba, the monthly bills but if he does not, they will business man of Chicago, died lerland, in Hollywood, in April, | e 2 ey R record emphasizes that reports re- be dro; 4115 home et nglis i Curtiss flying fields on Long|,g,- relating to Northeott's birth and| o 0 gy i pped. at his ho after opera- y . ace, and th 5 Y oy | €€ty published in the press prove | BOW AP N kiR L Island, New York. o RS race, And the Fench murders Were| o ‘immigration crisis in~ Cuba|Wape d Italy Ma Tire Losses Dro) M“fin’ Reported Broken gL A NG |shows no signs of abating. | vatican an y y iSears, Roebuck Comy ‘ire ? % . 4 | Passing to_Panama, tha labor of-| 'Get Togetller, Rome Issue ! Planni 2 In United States| Out Aboard Spanish Ship| Nebraska Doctors tive Jourial’ elpbasissn Ik b ek Now hmm‘ BI‘ Move e ‘ May Be Required jobject of a mew immigration law, ROME, Feb. ormal announce- LONDON, Feb. 5 An Ex- o g there is twofold. In the first place ment of an accord between the' & change Telegraph dispatch quot-) To Write Engllsh it raised the ban on Japanese and | Vatican and the Government of S ing a special correspondent at &t [Indian immigration. Ta the sec-Italy may be made a week from to= ‘fhnd-yo on the Franco-Spanish LINCOLN, Neb., Feb, 5. — Al ond place it _lmms the number of morrow. A report to this effect = frontier, siates therc are rumori|pill was introduced in the Ne- Chinese, Syrians, Turks and Ne- caused much comment in Vatican