The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 7, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA V OL. XXXIIL, NO.r 5017.7 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" BABE RUTH'S MYSTERY CHILD AGAIN IN LIMELI RUMAN |SSUE—’ ‘HONORF:D AT CRUISER LAUNCHING NOW SETTLED FOR ALL TIME Treaty Between Pope and Italian Government Be Signed Sunday ROME, Feb. 7.—Pope Pius has informed all Nuncious, Internun- cious and Apostolic delegates that| complete agreement has been reached with the Italian Govern-| ment in settling the Roman ques-| tion and the treaty will be signad| Sund at the Lateran Palace. Cardinal Gasparri, Papal Secre- of State, will represent the Pope. Premier Mussolini will sign in hehalf of King Victor the (reaty Emmanue The treaty forms the first part of the concordat regulations of all future relations between the Holy S and the Kingdom of Italy. The settlement provides slight changes in the‘ present boundaries of the Apostolic Palace. The of- ficial name of the Papal territory will be “Vatican City.” ' The Pope will have the right to erect his own railway station, telegraph and telephone, postal and wireless station and be privileged to have an aviation field and also coin a money issue of banknote: print postage stamps and exercise other official prerogatives. All crime committed in the Vatican terri- tory will be judged by the Italian Courts. In consideration of the Pope renunciation of an important en- la >ment of his territory, the Ital- Government authorized to increase the amount of indem-: nity paid the Holy 'See. The concordat itself implies acceptance of the Carnon Law by the Italian Government, i e CREDIT FOR SPECULATION Gaily Rich of Utah, now a of the U. S. 8. Salt Lake City, fi light cruisers which will take th an is i SRl N i Father of Alaskan Reported Dead From Fright SEATTLE, Feb, 7.—The funeral for Charles Tennyson awaits the arrival of his son, Hallard 1C. Ten- nyson, from Alaska. Tennyson died Nuw scuRED from apparent fright when a big | icicle crashed beside him V\'II;I('E i ey he was washing the steps of ai downtown building where he was Federal Reserve Bank!employed as janitor. : Statement Says Restraint g Must Be Exercised STATE SENATE FAVORS REPEAL LIQUOR LAWS Votes 26 to 6 to Get Rid of Federal Prohibition WASHINGTON, Feb. The Federal Reserve Board sterday | declared that the use of credit for speculation must be restrained. It d it is neither assumed to be right nor the disposition to set| itself up as an arbiter of security| for speculation but its business is to see that Reserve banks function efficiently as conditions permit The Federal Reserve Board call ed attention to the growth of spec-| ulative credit last year when brok-! Amenclment ers' loans increased from $3816.- —_ 000,000 to $5,099,000,000 saying the | BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 7.—The growth of the volume of specula- tion already strained the creditiof the repeal of the Prohibition conditions causing an advance of |Amendment to the Federal Con- more than one percent in the cost|stitution. of credit, | The resolution, requesting Con-| The statement said: “The matter gress to take action to repeal the is one which concerns every sec--amendment was passed today | tion of the country and every busi- withcut debate by a vote of 26 ness interest as aggravation of to 6. This was in accordance this condition, may be expected to|Wwith the majorities rolled up ln| have detrimental effects on busi-|favor of the repeal in 34 of 40 ness and impair the future.” {Senatorial districts on the refer- s R endum last November. Hoover Is to INewspaperman Dies Linger Longer | I <5 Aot ‘ n Dallas Hospital| At Miami Beach Pl R | HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 7.—C. MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. 7.— B. Gillespie, Managing Editor of| Herbert Hoover intends to return the Houston Chronicle, owned by to Washington only a few days/Jesse H. Jones, died in a hospital} before his inauguration on March at Dallas, it has been learned 4. This was the announcement here. He had been in ill health| made here by -the President-elect. for several years. | BOOTLEGGERS TURN FROM COSTLY CARS WASHINGTON, TFeb. 7.—Boot- leggers are beginning to quit the use of the high priced and flashy autcmobiles in which they com- monly hauled their illegal wares, E. W. Camp, commissioner of the State Senate is on record in favor service seized 1,330 automobiles in the 1927 fiscal year and confiscated 571 boats. 'The total number of automobiles and 761 boats. Some -of the boats and cars are United States bureau of customs, | sold, but many are turned into pursuers of the class of lawbreak- ers from which they are taken. told a house appropriation comi- mittee. Liquor dealers and haulers, it student designated by Secretary Wilbur as maid of honor for the launching SCHG)IL DUNCE NOT SO “DUMB’; T{;‘ACHL'R ELOPES WITH HIM lal, in Waghington, has besn rst of the navy's new 10,000 ton :ater at Camden, N. Jo ELLAVILLE, Feb. 7—The ‘teacher’s pet,” a big, strapping old and the teache middle-aged farmer’s w are sought after they left the Glenn Holly school here in the teacher's car, The M a oman, M sought A. Wellens, kidnaping on w sworn out by the mis youth’s father, W. C apman School mates of Edwin Chapman belie 1 the couple had fled to Ohio, as the boy had often. men- tioned a friend at Akron who would find work for him he should run away from Young Chapman was ed on to answer questions in c but high marks for him wer it was said. Pupils d that occasionally the teacher had pells” during school time, and youth drove her home. Mrs. Wellens, according to her husband, ‘drew her salary of $200 0ol principal and negotia- ted a $300 loan on the farm short ly before she and her pupil disap- peared. —— e TROOPS FIRE ON RIOTERS Religious Fiéhting in Bom- bay Spreading—Cas- uality List Grows the as BOMBAY, Feb. 7.—Troops to- day again fired several times on rioting Moslems and Hindus in religious fighting which has been in progress for several days in the native quarters of the city. The fighting showed signs of spreading to the business sec- tion. Already nearly two scores of iives have been lost and mofe than 200 injured. The list of casualties is grow- ing steadily as night approaches. Latest reports were that three Hindus were killed in a clash with Mohammedans in a Bhendi bazaar. Previously two Moham- medans had been fatally stabbed by Hindus. - Workman Critically Burned in Explosion AKRON, Oho, Feb. 7. — One seizures at all sources was 2,157 | workman was critically burned this afterncon in the explosion of a dust collector in the pow- dered fuel supply house of the | Firestone Tire and Rubber Com- ipany in South Akron. The blast virtually demolished the small was said, choose to lose less when | The Coast Guard gets many of a car is confiscated. The border patrol of the customs ' most of the automobiles. building and started a fire which the boats and prohibition agents|was brought undercontrol with|ing and repairing. little damage to the plant, |LINDBERGH INCOME SLUMP OF $43,000,000 11928 Tax Collection Total, $2.775,276,956— | How States Rank \\'A‘SHINGTON feb. 7.—A de- crease of $43,782,717 in the taxes collected by the government in the calendar year 1928 is shown in figures issued by the Internal Revenue Bureau, which places the | year's collections at §2, | 23. Taxes collected from ington and Alaska totaled $1 925.62, as compared with §1 289.41 in 1827, North Carolina with a total tax Wash: ,216,- of $286.642,027, went into second place behind New York among the states which return the gzreatest amount of taxes to the Foderal government, replacing Pennsylvan- ia, which showed a decr-ase. Penn- sylvania's taxes amounted to $232, 417,910, a drop of 5,000 as compared with Ila year, while North Carolina showe of $19,415,000. New collections moved up from 804,048 in 1927 to $769,122,485 last yea Members of the internaiional Gain in Miccellaneous Taxes Kiss Refutes Rift North Carolina’s income tax in creased approximately $1,1 D00 while its miscellaneous taxes in-| e creased $18,260,000. The income tax aggregated $20,686,000, and the ! miscellaneous tax amounted to $215,956,788, which was approxi mately $110,00,000 less than that levy collected in New York. | Income taxes collected through ut the country decreased $26,089.-| 767.32 in the year, totaling only $2,169,417,231.64. Miscellaneous t&%- es dropped $17,692,549.95 to $60 859,72459. Of the income taxes corporat paid $1,2 98, | and individuals $! 5 It was a decrease of $102,000,000 in corporation payments and an in crease of $75,812,000 in the indi- vidual tax. | While the majority of the larger states showed decreases some of | the western states showed incre ng es. Montana's taxes nearly doubl-: ed those of 1927, increasing from $2,583,382 to § 2,109. - e NAVY'S GUEST ON SARATOCA ! | 1§ |} £ | Is Watching Maneuvers, with Pacific Fleet— Opinion Wanted i e | PANAMA, Feb. 7.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was a guest aboard When the Marquis Henri de the U. S. S. Saratoga, airplane] ! carrier, whlie the ship partici-| |3 Falaise—"“Hank” to his !‘Iol- pated in maneuvers with the Pa-j tywood friends—Ieft f_ur New cific Fleet. He will return here! York to sail for Paris, there 9 = s ise- mar flight to the United States. This| Falaise SW‘?“SO“ Mmoo will reverse the route of flight| gone om the "“Fk t i Phota from Miami, Florida. doesn’t look like it. shows the beautiful Gloria bid- Col. Lindbergh’s visit aboard the Saratoga was by special ar-| ding her husband good-bye at rangement and in compliance | the station. with the desire of the Naval (International Newsreel) authcrities that he be taken along to give his opinion on the naval air problem. Trotsky Is Not Aboarsky Shipsky Reaching Turkey Janet Gaynor Reported Engaged to an Attorney i CONSTANTINGPLE Feh 7 OAKLAND, Cal, Feb. 7 Janet|The Soviet vessel Krasny Flott, {Gaynor, petite film s and for-{@board which Leon Trotzky, for mer high school girl, is expected|Mer head of the Red Army was soon to announce her engagement :f‘:l:]r!e_'l sflil'in;’; for }'l-in.“ ¥ 5 Dec] ng attorney. d in port today bu ) sig being aboard her now was reveal- The engagement announcement is expected during March. At that time Miss Gaynor will have known ed. The belief here is that Trotz- ky, is still in Soviet Russia R I, Peck for one year, and friends| FAST “AMERICANIZING” |say she promised her mother she U. 8. MERCHANT MARINE until ve fi- would not become er she had known her prc ance for that length of tim Peck, whose family lives l WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—The goal of the United States shipping here, | board to have seamen Spe is a member of a San Fraucisco|man American ships is fast near- law firm. ing realization. e In 1917 aliens aboard American D. E. Sheriff left for Petersburg iflag ships totaled 90 per cent on the Queen to be gone for a €W {the close of the last fiscal y 89 days. Mr. Sheriff trave the iper eent of the crews on United Alaskan coast as piano expert, tub-|States shipping hoard ships were His home iSlAmericans. This docs not include in Juneau. Heensed officers. . the Dawes plan and seek a final settiement of the reparations p | Young, United States; Dr. Alberto Pirelli, Italy; Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Germany; Togo Morl, Japan. " Below: Emile Moreau, France; Emil Franqui, Belgium; J. P. Morgan, United States; Joan V. Pari - tier, France; Sir Josiah Stamp, England. []l s. |]|SC|_[]SES 'EXPERTS SEEK GERMAN REPARATIONS commit fe colem. H. L. FAULKNER TAKES OFFICE AS PRESIDENT Says Is Honored by Elec- tion to Head Local Cham- ® ber—Asks for Support In a short talk of acceptance of office of President, H. L Faulkner, presiding at his first . meeting of the organization since his return from the States, today thanked the Chamber of Com merce for the honor and expressed hig appreciation of its action. “I ! shall do all in my power to make its acti s-successful this year,” he declared. He added he was gratified at the personnel of the Executive Com- mittee and asked for general sup- port from the membership of the “hamber. “Every member should Zp up interest in the Cham- ber of Commerce. It is a worth while organization and has done much in the past years for the good of the community He said a program would be drawn up and submitted to the Chamber of the work to be carried out during the To Amend Fish Law Faulkner said he was | Mr in- |formed while he was in Seattle|giing scre {that Congress probably would yamend the law regarding the utill-"tne shattered ice and each other the of fish 48 or more hours after they were taken. Some- time ago the Chamber passed a| resolution asking such an amend- | ment that would permit the pro- {cessing of sueh fish provided they . ywere properly preserved. He said ~Gommissioner Henry O’Malley hal approved the change and had so| &wriuen the committee in charge| ,of the bill. | Appoints Committees | The Chamber’s standing com- mittees for this year were an-| | nounced today by Mr. Faulkner as | |follows: | Local Industries: C. T. Gardner, | Henry Roden and 1. Goldstein. | Civic Improvement: H. Vander- |Leest, W. 8. Pullen and O. M. | O1son., ‘z;lliun ~anenartation and Trada: Rrice N ' s| Membershlp and Finance L.| |Kea, H. J. Turner and R. L.| | Stevens l | Tourist Advértisiz: M. D. Wil |liams, M. 8. Whittier and J. W Lievers. Legislative: R. E. Robertson, E. J. 'White and A. W, Fox. Entertainment and Program: H.| W. McDermott, E. M. Goddard and | {Fred Ordway, | Ask For Tariff { Adopting a recommendation of the Legislative Committee the | Chamber today passed a resolu- | tion urging Congress to imp |duty on foreign clams and cra | “sufficiently -large to enable local industry to operate profit bly.” Mr. Robertson, Chairman of the | | | announced proxies for SETTLEME Above, (it Smith Is Not Candidate for Mayor of ¥. NEW YORK, Feb, 7 New York Times today Alfred . Smith, Governor, will nct be didate for Mayor —The says former a can- next fall as advapstos? fuoahrions anar- | te The newSpaper said it learned that Smith in- formed Mayor Walker of his position shortly hefore he departed for Florida | Mayor Walker has not in- dicated his pesition but Ma | or Hylan is again a candi- | aate. a FOUR HUNDRED SKATERS FALL INTO DANUBE VIENNA, Feb. 7.—Four hun-\jycnia 1o fila Fallls, aged S| dred skaters were precipitated |gienographer, at a drinking partyy. | into (I_u- waters nr_ the Danube|, oroner's jury blamed Tracy for at Raisbon, Bavaria, when the|per death. charging criminal negs ice_suddenly broke there today. |)h “€ipl SRR (o8 e First - advices aid mot say | fe . FRCNE NS LR whether anybody was drowned. ~(pinrE PArty on JEREERY St SHE An indescribeable panic fulluw—i‘,ll i "_' N ed the break and the merry mak- ;”‘”‘!‘m"tn ‘an “‘)?{f)r"“:“)" :m"ve ""‘h“ ers in a moment became a strug- afl Xa Bads i fr i aming mass of human- | 4ter she became ill from drinking ity as the victims fought with "'1(‘};”-} gl b 4 harles E. ass, roker, in in frantic efforts reach shore. i Asserts Rockefeller Forces Will Win Out In Fight on Stewar to NEW YORK, Jan. 7. — Win- v throp Aldrich, member of the| OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 7.—Gov. proxy committee ccnducting the R .H. Hartley, in a special mess: contest of John D. Rockefeller,|sage to the Legislature, urged & = r., to oust Col. Robert W. Stew rt from the Chairmanship of the Standard 0Oil Company of Indiana of the voting stock was assured the Rockefeller forces. NT | | | 51 per cent EMPIRE MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRFSSW . LT CLAIM MAL " CHILD BOAN " FED. PRISON |Coirt Rition Is Taken by | Couple to Establish Birth of Girl STEP.GRANDPARENTS, " RUTH'S GIRL SUING Supyeme Court Judge De- nies Writ—Guardian- ‘ ship Is Denied ; ROCHESTER, N. Y., Feb. 7.— The effort to establish claims that |Babe Ruth's mystery child is the prison born daughter of Mrs. {Fearl Odell has been defeated in ithe Supreme Court, | Basing the petiticn on the sim= |ilarity®of the pictures of Dorothy |Helen Ruth and the fact that the |late Mrs. Ruth referred fo Der- {pthy as “Marie Harring hn” in the will, George Arnold and wife ithe child bern in prison, Septes i \ber 18, 1920, to Mrs. Odell, The icouple represented themselves as step-grandparents of the child. « standing in court regarding guardianship of the child. | /husband, James Odell, ymurder of Bdward Kneip, K ight | Iyears ago. jecuted under the law and the | |ehild was born in prison | {kept with the mother for S o L R CHARGE DOCTOR - WITH DEATH AT DRINKINGPARTY {Girl Dies as Result of Being Given Ammonia When Il from Liquor s Feb. 7 witnesses SEATTLE, dozen —After half a testified that whose offices the party was held, {said all of his guests were intoxi- | cated. Gov. Hartley Urges Change in Taxes of State of Washington % “{complete investigation during the » next two years, of the gross busi- ness and a tax proposal to replace all property levies. He urged the 1 appointment study the state Tax structure. 'LONDONERS FORSAKE BILARARS U LOND( |is becoming more popular among English society wo: en, en turn afternoon to resume the game in ed to them at the tables so thal and products of those fisheries, their game may be uninterrupted. Subseriptions to these clubs are Membership \fees range from about $5 to $50 comparatively low. V(('thmuea on Page Eight.) 1.1 year, but refreshments and “ex- . T—Poker playing | tras after finishing at daybreak, re- the At some of the clubs players may have light meals sery- are costly. At night the gambling runs high, often as much as $1,250 being lost in a single | .| hand. luck between dances. Certain of the long-establish social clubs do not allow poker be played. These are fast be the last resort of yeste bridge players. Their mem who are poker players must zi0ve on to a friend’s house or oné of the new club’s when brid, becomes too slow for further:ems durance. f t TJustice Smith denied the weit lun» the ground they had no legal® e Mrs. Odell is serving 20 years to life for complicity with her oy in the The husband was ox- Dr. Royal Tracy administered am- of a Commission to ' Many clubs where poker is play: ed for high stakes have sprung up So rapidly is the gambling fever |during the past few months, and |SPreading among women in the the majority of members are wom-|fashionable West End that some en. ,Play is continuous from the[Of the night clubs have Installed = early afternoon until the small| “fruit” and “nickel in the slot hours, and a large number of wom- | Machines for them tc try thel