The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 18, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL XXXIII., NO 5026 “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU ALASKA MONDAY FI;BRUARY IB 1929 ALL THE TIME” MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRlCE TEN CENTS SON 0F MULTI MILLIONAIRE IS SHOT AND KILLED MAKE READY FOR lNAUGURATlON KOOVER ENDS HIS VACATION, | COMES NORTH President - elect Is Enroute to Washington—Spec- ulation Is Rife MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. 18. —_Herhert Hcover has left for| Washington, D. C., by a special | car and will arrive there tomor- | TOW. Since most of the Presidents- | elect have waited until the day; before March 4 to enter the N tional Capital, Hoover’s dec to go back 13 days before the| end of Coolidge’s administration | furnished a -subject of specula-| tion. Some say he is having dif-| ficulties in determining upon the, complete personnel of his Cab-| inet. Others state that some Con- Zr onal leaders are not sati fied with the plans regardlng. farm relief, tariff revision and the extra session of Congress and | still cthers that he wants to con- fer with some of those he has chosen as members of his official ! families. | Construction work on the wooden platform and seats to be erected in front of the capitol in Washington for the inauguration of Herbert Hoover has begun. Workmen are shown placing the first of the heavy timbers for the stands. 1S NEARLY MOBBED BELLE ISLAND, Fla., Feb. 18. returned to his vacation here Saturday evening from the | BEverglades trip after being al- most mobbed by an enthusiastic crowd at Fort Lauderdale, whvre[ he ammw(l a few minutes. FOUR YEAROLD GRL MISSING Is Believed to Have Been Kidnapped and Pos- sxbly Killed Miami Beach, ! w. C T. U IsSeolung No hume | | | B | Women’ , Feb. Temper: at Ruper Hughes, the writer titude toward anti-eigarette amendment. “The latest attempt prohibition via the cig from Rupert Hughes, |1y has been led astray truthful reports of the 's views of narcotics the statement | Hughes declared the W. to tte com w. C ANCISCO, Cal., Feb, 18. that four-year-old | Doris Virginia Smith - Murphy, who has been missing since last Friday, will never be found alive, ied Police Chief Quinn today to order every available man into the gsearch for the child and sup- posed abductor. Without a single tangible clue to the disappearance of the little girl from the city playground, the authorities are convinced she is the vietim of a kidnap kill- er, The child is believed to hav been taken from a group of pla mates in Jefferson Park by a man| New portrait of Princess Martha of whom the police have a g00d | of Sweden whose betrothal to description. Crown Prince Oilaf of Norway was John Williams, guard at the | recently announced. United States Mint, has been ar-| 1ested but denies the kidnapping. New Army Overcoats For lnaugural Parade SAN FR read. c. carr! fail while it n camp | . continue to s, of the American Medical tion regarding cigarettes. to epdorse certain® adding: lh(\(, are former athletes.” e >, Bride Attempts to . Kill Mate; Is Sorry And | | creams for Aid port WelsGranite Company, | State of Washington Ipany, were filed toda fice of Karl Theile, Alaska. J. L. Reed, attorney | Valdez, was named as agent of the corporation WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—Sol- in the inaugural parade March 4 will be clad- from head to toe in what the well dressed soldier should wear. Part of their equipment will be new, smart-looking roll collar over- coat; The war department has authorized 118,000 of these coats for issue by |reled with his 19-year-old wife, W. next winter. The first troops to!gyver “practically nothing,” Mrs.|O. Cruven, Franc Jbe equipped will be those in the !Tennes said. {coma, and L. inaugural parade. “I insisted that we retire and |tle. P o e Monty said he wouldn’t. He sat corporators. M down and began to read. - W It is understood the Lmdbergh Fo!'ced . jQuarreled some. more and then has taken over the old Down in Fog, Rain CHICAGO, 1L, -t bride of séven a butcher knife into the bre: of her husband and then ran screaming for help that he mig}u’ not die. 4 Monte Tennes, a power in syndicate for dissemination Feb. 18. A diers months plunges a Ing an authorized stock issue Duncan, I ran to the Kkitchen, got a Mine in the Port Wells butcher knife and rushed ' Monty,” said Mrs. Tennes. His condition is critical. “paine, Junean_attorney, ENGINEERS 'TO STUDY V. A. Paine RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb. | 18.~—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh | rested Saturday night at Halter:hl Inlet, the Coast Guard station, where he was forced down by fog |is a Seattle passenger. on the A]‘A | and rain on his way from ' meda. Mr. Paine is going on Charleston to Washington. Ibusiness and will return soon. |operations there this year. Wzlsoano hood Home ,Sought as Memorml 1 { | ditions in Wrangell Narrow ‘nl" er of ion, and G. jeneral Manager H. Weisel, |Alameda for Ketchikan. C., Feb. 18.—A (a number of attempts to make it to establish apublic property had failed, the Wil- memorial COLUMBIA, 8. state movement Woodrow Wilson lott, trame house in which the wartime |jum, Thig development rouse'l’am in the study. President spent his boyhood days again attempts to save the house.! Ag District Engineer, is under way here. Bills were introduced in The house was built in the early | 708 by Dr. Joseph R. Wilson, fa- ther of Woodrow Wilson, who at the Columbia Theological semi- and the property be held by ihe traverses the channel. nary: Oolug into ’l’k‘l’ W‘l after permanent }UW R”!“"fl— jwesum, Ban Agamst Cigarettes 18.—The nce | Union in a statement striking back | who ! lared it is not seekingl | constitutional "7 belittle who evident- | by the un i and cigar- “Mr. | |has failed in its purpose and w ign against Merit, schoolmaster and the journal only three assocla- The statement pointed out what it called “questionable advertising who was killed of a tobacco concern utilizing ath-'States; one to Lieut. Col. Roberto cigaret- | Fierro, “It is noticeable thatCentral America, and one to M Articles of incorporation of the mining com- of- resident It is capitalized at §100,000, hav- of 1,000 shares valued at §100 each. the manufacture Of|yy.o track information, had quar- Directors of the company are: G.lqgpg Duncan, Percy P Brush, N.| Ta- A. Lfivf-nm}or Seat- The first three are the .in-| company i from China more than iranite district, at jand will resume development and NARROWS CONDITION To take part in the study of con- Ma- {jor Douglas H. Gillette, Engineer | the Alaska Road Com-| Asst. of the Juneau | Lumber Mills, left Sunday on the There hey will meet Major Malcolm El- President of the Commission mu- | son home was resold to make room'gnq W. C. Dibhrell, Superintendent seum in the old-fashioned white for a proposed municipal auditor-iof Lighthouses in Alaska, who will Major El- the ' jjott will issue regulations covering state legislature to provide that traffic through the Narrows. Tow- the state appropriate $17,500 con.| lage of log rafts will be included tingent upon an equal amount be- i; these. The study will be made from 1870 to 1874 was a professor |ing raised by public ‘subacnpnou,“hno the steamer Northwestern The party state historical commission as a/will proceed here ou the North- COAL MINERS STARVING IN Arctic Wave Continues Over Europe CARDIFF, Wales, Feb. 18— i Living above the world's richest |coal fields, thousands of miners and their families in Southwest Wales are shivering before fire- less hearths as the Arctic wave continues to hold Europe in its grasp. i While the cold has' brought a heavy demand for coal, it"brought no profit to the miners. Numer- ous mining townships in the lone- ly mountains are isolated and food supplies are held-up. Many miners gre managing {o keep fireg going in some localities with coal dug from colliery tips but thesé lare also buried under deep snow. !Miners are tearing down | boards for fuel while their iies are starving. Many aged miner {from cold and hunger. fam- Use Dynamite To Dig Graves In Vienna VIENNA, Austria, — Dynamite and el drilling machines are || used to dig graves for the | Capital’s inereasing mnumber of victimg of the influenza and cold weather. These measures are being taken not only because of the deep freezing of the ground but gf the serious short- of grave/diggers, many | of ' whom haye gone to their | own graves after working | | B 8 Feb. { a | T Mexico Creates Medal | To Reward Air Heroes illi MEXICO CITY, Feb. 1t 8 decoration, the Aerial Medal of has been createde by the Government to reward flyers for —A new The temperance organizationde- outstanding achievements. clared it stopd with athletic coach- are of gold and of them have been to date, one to the of Captain Emilio Car- Mexiccn good will flyer, in the United The medals awarded | widow |ranza, who flew to Cuba and Ijm Gustavo Leon, who rlrxmm 'nawlgated Mexnn in a plane. _______INEW COMPANY TAKES 'New Buddhist Temple OVER GRANITE MINE TOKYO, Feb. 18. — Modern steel - and - concrete construction brought into favor here by the| jever-present. earthquake and firc !menace, will be used for the first time for a great Buddhist temple| ||n the rebuilding of the Hongan temple at Asakusa, Tokyo, one of {the most famous religious institu |tions of the empire, which w destroyed in the earthquake- conflagration of September 1, a of of of la Buddhist / temples in Japan {have been wooden structures ifrom the beginning, with a n lines all their own, a sand years ago. The traditional lines of Buddhist .architecture | will be followed in the new ten ple, the exterior will be stain to resemble timbers polished lage, and the interior will be Ied by Japan's flnest woods. - o ee— |U. 8. CAPITAL CREATES 1 CUBAN TOURIST RESORTS d y HAVANA, Feb. 18.—Americ capital is coming into Cuba for the purpose of ecreating several winter resorts unequaled in 1the western world and dedicated t travelers, There is a perceptible activity on the part of capitalists and con servative estimates place fort coming expenditures of Ame 'dullnrfi in excess cf $20,000,00( ———,—-— i PARIS, Feb. 18—Fine win have attalned record prices year, The high prices paid unbottled 1928 wine has increa ed the cost of old wines liguors. One hyndred dollars was pa for threé double boitles of I Nignon 1795 at an auction. WALES' AREA Hearths Are Fireless as!l hx]l—l being | | | day and night at their tasks. | | Is Built of Concrete sive dignity and broad sweping| borrowed | thou- | 11113, Camadian Pacific 21 SEEKS OLLEGE BEAUTY TITLE ' Helen Raabe has been chosen by the freshman class at Witten- berg college, Springfield, Ohio, to represent them in the school's beauty contest. PROHIBITION HELD UP T0 SCORN BY SEN. REED WASHINGTON, [ States Senator Misgouri, seorn and Xrb 18.—United James A. Reed, of loosened & ‘torrent of derision for Prohibi- {tion and its disciples In the Sen ate last Saturday afternoon de | livering ‘one of the few extended |8pggches of the | e MigSourat, |himself off the public stage, turn- ed upon the dry advocates with | fu ldom ched in his tur, {bulent career. At the request of Senator Bnruh Senate agreed to remove the limit. Whether Borah will to Reed this week was not sclosed. Senator Reed | ! s Tnited ‘States was in a “re | ; ypocrisy, cant violence, ch i |ery, false pretense and fraud 2 ‘ 4 (he predicted the time wiil | i - when the American people : Ien to the vie n that the iibition law is worst Emily Roosevelt, cousin of the cver taken place GANG SLAYINGS delphia Civic Opera company. She received all of her musira) training | in the United States. Purple Gang” of Detroit Not Involved. Authori- ties Believe B T RN OId Brazilian Estate CHICAGO, IlIL, Feb. 18.—The May Bow to Progress' the | United States Attorney’s office heing has expressed itself satisfied that devel-|the “Purple Gang” of Detroit rs had no important part in the re- , cent Kkilling of gangsters in a and garage here. At the same time {orchard where every variety of investigators have been given ‘m)plcnl fruit and vegetable is further testimony that two slay- | cultivated, besides many acres of ers were dressed as police officers lgrazing lamd, and a tiled swim-| Deputy United States Attorney ming pool two jumps from the Stansbury pointed out therve has [tront porel, been no arrest of a single sus- pect. Opera Debut re i ey the nof an- and come will “Pro crime contended v 1 CAMPINAS, Brazi, Feb jH re in the richest State Brazil, Sao Paulo, where coffee 'king, there are estales |hundreds ‘years old. | The Chapadao Fazenda, boundaries of which are iencroached by real estate opment of this city, is 800 v old. It has 425,000 coffee tr {a sixty-acre garden garden is several CANNERY MEN MAKE PLANT INVENTORIES 'Belgium and Holland Prefer Their Blcycleq | BRUSSBLS, Feb. 18- Th |of the bicycle, the ‘“motor of ries involved in the S & poor,” '§8 inereasing in Belgium ldy-Alaska Consc ed deal A total of 241,000 cycles were jVictor Robertson representing the |reglstéred for 1928, a¢, compared former, and O. P, Nergaard and |with 233,000 in 1927 and 129-'3 . Allison 6{ the Alaska Conzoli- 000 in 1920. The use the'gated, are passengers on the Queen teyele is inereasing also Hol=tor Tenakee, There they will land, - but is on the dec inimake a survey of the cannery rance. {equipment and floating property ithe Tenakee plant purchased Skinner & Eddy. The three men have visited sev eral of the other plants inclnd in the consolidation. T will use the On a tour of mm:m-‘ n of can n in line a oo — - by STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. Juneau mine stock day at 7%, American Alaska | to- 18 .umnh-ml the inventory. >, - REDLINGSHAFER RETURNING H. L. Redlingshafer, Fisc Agent of the U. 8. Forest Se in the Alaska district, will leave 53, Pagl E Motors 1207, Pos- Seattle next Saturday enroute to tum 693, ‘[nndgr,l 0 New his home here, according to -word lersey. 49, ,4U 8. Rubbe T%,1§ received here. He has heen ;n Electie 14 U nt more than two months on 2, Cud new (ahy 68155 General i In- |issue, #9%, Gold Dusp 65%, | ternational Paper 0%, B 19 % 4 5C T, Vlil\ Trunks: 1063, ¢ al Power and Light M "‘m Bethlehem Steel'a combined vacation and business :m’p. 1 i um‘mr! Smelting return to Seattle when they have| about Sale of Smith’s Speeches Bring In Large Sum | YORK, Feb le of 30,000 co; the volume of former Alfred Smith's campaign speech 000 into the De tional Committee Over the radio on January 16, Smith offered a copy of the book to each contributor of $2 cr more toward liquid- ating the $1,500,000 defioit. - FLOODS NOW " THREATENED, SNOW THAWS European Countries Are Brought to Face with New Danger £ Sl LONDON, Feb. 18.—In pros- pective thaws, a new danger ap- peared for Europe. It is feared tha eventually theré will be loods in which weeks of accu- wlations of tee and snow in the mountain areas will speed de- struction ag they seek outlet to the sea. ' Meanwhile flerce smow storms are reported fn Central Burepe. fce conditions are fas bad as in the Scandinavian coun- and winter stiil caused in- tense ~unexh|g in the Balkans. INDIANS BEGIN “TRAINING; VETS ~ ARE REPORTING ISeattle Dlamond Men Start Work-Out in Cali- fornia Camp 18 | | SAN ll‘,Mlm Th. Cal., Feb. 18. The Seattle Indians began Spring training here tolay. Srnde John- son, manager, had 14 veterans and rookies on hand for the. first work- jout Five players who saw serv- were on the scene, namely, Bill ice with the Indians last year, | Steineck, catcher; Kyle Graham, l:»itc‘her: Bill Olney, first scaker; Chick’ Ellsworth, shortstop, and Tom Mallow, former Washington imber leaguer. Flesh Reducers Ma); Shorten User’s Life NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—A report that some fat reducers are also “youth destroyers” is issued by the American Chemical society’s of- ficial journal. It comes from Prof. L. Kofler, of Innsbruck, Aus- tria. He' finds that some fat reduc- ers contain ifodine and says: “It is precisely the chief consumers of fat reducing preparations, the no longer youthful women, who are especially sensitive to iodine.” Io- dine in some forms speeds up the rate of bodily energy consump. tion, a condition that may be com nared to using up youthful energy too rapidly. Mrs. W. J D s Pigg returned home aboard the Queen. Mrs. Pigg spent several d visiting 'her sister in Seattle and when there was visited by her son, Henry who 18 attending college in Cali- '|tornia. EDW DUHENY JR. MURDERED; SHOT - ENDS HIS LIFE 1Son of Well Known Oi! Man Is Killed in Los An- geles Residence #,ANOTHER SHOT ENDS LIFE OF HIS SLAYER i Tragedy Occurs Shbrtly After Midnight—Rea- sons Are Obscure I;lunknll lhuf.~ Yv 0 A'l“heork re H\; h 2 R e 0 E s from single shots. Fishbaugh, who said Plunkett had evident- ly gone mad nervous ¢cllapse. family discovered the hodie; aged 35 years, o with the same pisfol. * ,‘ Plunkett was confidential sec- retary and close friend of the multimillionaire oil man Plunkett and Dohény, Jr., died as the resuit of a D imedi Plunket Dr. Fishbaugh was called to the Doheny home to attend " Plunkett and arrived shortly after b * midnight, Dr.. Fishbaugh said that while ‘he and {q Doheny weré walli- ing toward the guest. m whers Doheny and' Plunkett x‘?gr?'!’fi& kett eamie out and said: “You stay onit of hnre‘ Plunkat turned and. RS badk shut and Nrougiy: the halle s tered the Toonts scrawled & withd W ont on down lay an b iheuy near daverturned of I ‘ Edward Dolieny, ‘Sr., and his ' wife collapsed when they | Were informed of the tragedy. 5 Edward Doheny, Jr., for seme time had been managing, 10 4. large extent,. the business of his father, who has been retiring from activity in the managing of his vast oil interests. West §iMa : An lnaugural Special WHEST BRANCH, Ia., Feb. 18.—" { Herbert Hoover's home folks will ss up in their “Sunday best” for a trip to see a native son take . the highest office in the land, | A special train, the “Hoover: Birthplace Special” will leave West Branch March 2 and return. four days later, The Iowa State university band of 75 pieces will be on !J'mrll NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—Resump- land to this country, even though t total received so far is com- paratively small, restores gold im- ports to importance as a factor the troubled credit situation. influx began, however, just the time New York banks off much of their indebted- to the federal reserve, thus conditions to some ex- he The paid ving Gold imports from London, made possible by dacline of sterling to ;& level at which gold can be pur. tion of the flow of gold from Eng-! GOLD IMPORTS RESUME PLACE IN LIMELIGHT chased by this country with profif, do, however, add to the embarrass- | ment hoth of the Bank of England and the federal reserve banks of © this country in the matter of ac- tion on rediscoun Increase in the English bank's rate might; check the flow of gold, buf would ¥ impose some hardship on business, Increase in the federal rate would encourage er flow of gold and provide basis for d(l(lfll cr »Il' for speai tive purposes, to w! bank is opposed. (Cm.u