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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA THURSDA\, MARCH 7 I929 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRFSS N REVOLT IN SOUTH COLLAPSES; REBELS DEFEATED ESTIMATES FOR 1929-1930 TOTAL OVER §2,500,000 Exceed Revenues $493,- 081.64 — Correction | Urged by Governor In the by th biennial budget presented Treasury 1o ihe Legislature, ted expenditures for the con- of the Government of Alaska the next two years aggregate 7,149.14, The estimated reve- for ed by the Treasurer at $2,054,067.50, thus indicating a surplus of expen- | ditures over income of $493,081.64. ! The Territory’s net cash balance | on March 1 of this year was $918,- | 20157. Thus, if the Leglfiluture‘ should pass appropriations to meet | in full the budget estimates the‘ nt Treasury surplus vxould‘ rink to a mere $425209.93 by the | end of the biennium. | Governor Wants Change t was probably with such a con- | dition in mind that Governor Parks | was considering when he brought, | in his message to the Legislature,| the need for a scientific budgetary system to the attention of Alaska’s| law makers. Under the exist statute the T urer is authori: to receive the estimates of the sev- eral departments for ekpmd)turesw to be made by them durlng mch biennial period and to mates of possible revemveq, but\ there is no one with authority. to | require a defense or explanation of | any single estimate so made. Thei Treasurer is, in fact, an avenue of communication between the de- ! partments and the Legislature and ng else insofar as the budget | i: concerned. Comeénting on this state of af- | fairs the Governor told the Legis- | lature: “This law should be made| more effective and the budget of- ficer, or preferably a budget board, | should be given authority to cxér-] cise administrative control over the! estimates for appropriations that are made by Territorial institutions | and should submit to the Legisla- ture only those items which, in the | } inion of the Board, are justified, wise a hudget law is ineffect- 1 and caniserve no useful pur-! pose.” Worse Than No Law The Governor might have gone a step further in his analysis, it is contended. It has been pointed | out tl if anything the present budget puts the Legislature at | a disadvantage because unless one is familiar with the procedure un-i der which the budget is commled\ E the conclusion is almost necessar-| ily reached that the estimates con- tained therein have the official) § approval of the administration, when as a matter of fact no officer of the administration has any pow- | er to express either approval or dis- approval of any of the items. Schools Head List The most important item in the budget is that embracing estimates for the support of schools. Of the $2,500,000 total, schools alone are asking for $,374,600. The cost oli maintenance and conduct of the| Territory’s public school system is put at $945,000; the Alaska College at $402,500, and the cost of admin- istration of the Department of Ed- ucation at $27,600. Out of the figure given for the Alaska College the Federal Government contributes $170,000, leaving $232,000 as the amount sought from the Territory. Next in the order of costs to the | Territory comes its social welfare and relief program. During the next biennium it is estimated that this will cost for all purposes $410,300, which is equivalent to about seven dollars for every man, woman and child living in° Alaska. Pensions, will cost $193,800; the Pioneers’ Home, $106,500; for the support of dependent children $60,000; for the relief of destitution and financial aid to the needy and indigent an-! other, $40,000; and to provide for the rescue and relief of lost per- sons $10,000. Ancther charge of $88000 can properly be made against this de-| partment, inasmuch as the Treas- urer is directed by law to purchase annually Federal Government bonds aside as a Pioneers’ Home Building | Pund and during the next two, i years this will amount to $80,000. There was a charge for $8,000 es- timated accrued interest during the biennium on bond holdings in the fund, which is avallable for for the same period were plac- | NEW YORK MILLIONAIRE WEDS Less than a month after the his wife a divorce and $3,000,000 settlement, wealthy New York broker, was married to Miss Mary Morrison of Telephoto picture shows Mr. and Mrs. Brokaw after the | eceremony In San Francisco. New York. TOM TAGGART PASSES AWAY AT HIS HOME Veteran Democnatlc Lead-,s. er of Indiana Is Dead— Fine Characteristic THOMAS TAGGART INDIANAPOLIS, Ipd., March 7. —Thomas Taggart, aged 72 years, veteran Indiana Democratic leader, |died at his home here following an illness of several months. Loyal To Friends Thomas Taggart became a power in national and Indiana politics be- cause of two characteristics—loy- |alty to friends and his ebility to! faces and the remember | names, smallest incidents. Proof of his regard and loyalty for friendship is shown by an in- cident in 1915 when with 47 others, |he was indicted on charges of elec- I?.mn frauds in Indianapolis. Having furnished bond for his release he spared no efforts until he faised $200,000 bail, release of the entire 47 persons in- dicted with him. ‘The charges, later were dropped for lack of evi- dence. During the 30 years of his leadership in Indiana politics and his 20 years connection with nation- al affairs, Thomas Taggart, was said never to have deserted a friend in need. Acquaintanceship Mr. Taggart was an ardent be-| liever in acquaintanceship as a fac- {tor to success. His friends related numerous instances in which he| ‘would pass through a crowded hall, | in the amount of $40,000 to be set|meet people to the right and !efti of him, chat only for a moment and then several years later remem- | ber their faces, names and incidents relating to his first introduction to A native of Ireland, born Nov ber 17, 1856, he earned his had | obtaining the | mmwmmnormmwmm but it was not |7 Mrails a total of $260,000 is recom- mmummnm (wipmsqw i mu,n-n&rmmanu‘ f l Carson City, Nev., court granted Clifford V. Brokaw, ‘Durid Buick Dies Forlorn, Penniless, Dmlluswned DETROIT, Mich., March 7. 1@ —David Buick, inventor and | ® .dreamer, founder of the | ® Buick automobile industry, died yesterday at the age of e 2 yea forl penniles @ _.and disillysioned. He had ® Dbeen in the hospital for ‘s months with cancer. He was ® once a wealthy dealer in I ® plumbing fixtures but his in- |® terest in automobiles led to I his downfall and every sub- {® sequent veniure was a fail- jo ure: K] 1-...0-....... S e SEVENCHARGED WITH MURDER, - POISON LIQUOR H . {Authorities Issue Warrants | 'in Peoria—Seventeen { Dead in One City PEORIA, I, March 7.—Three more men have been accused of murder for sharing in the distribu- |tion of poisoned alcohol which {caused 17 deaths over the week- end. | Three other deaths in Galesburg | |ere also believed as a result of poi- son liquor. Louis Fells, owner of the Stock- yards Hotel, Walter Neibert, his |bartender and Maurice Quirk, boot- !legger, are acused in the new mur- der warrants. C. O. Guffin, bootlegger and his wife, are also accused of murder. | Maurice Mansfield, liquor dis- ,tributor and his wife are held with- lout bail. {Fur Catch Lightest In Years in Western Alaska | SEWARD, Alaska, March 7.— Steamer Alameda, now enroute to Seattle via Juneau, has a large |quantity of furs aboard from the westward. It is reported the cateh: | |in the Kuskokwim and Bristol Bay {areas is the lightest in years and /in many instances the trappers have been unable to catch a single (fox. It is reported 1,000 fox have |been harvested on Unimak Island. ———.——— HALIBUT PRICES | SEATTLE, March 7.—Two vessels arrived here yesterday with 12,000 pounds of halibut which sold for |12 and 14 cents and 16 and 17% icents. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, March 7.—Halibut - prices here yMy were 11.50 end 6 cents. A total of Pifty llmh. WACHSATAEL L i R }AH' Line M;ln Talks to| {reach Alaska this WORRIES CAUSE FORERUNNER PLANE HERE NEXT WEEK Chamber—Other Mat- ters Are Considered The first commercial plane jito vear and the plane that will be the forerunner of a Seattle to Alaska airplane service will reach Juneau sometime next week. This was announced by Gerald Smith at the Chamhber of Commerce luncheon today nogn. Mr. Smith has been in Juncau for the past two or three weeks doing preliminary work for the es- tablishment of Seattle - Alaska air service by the International Air Lines. His work has been entirely satisfactory, he said. The plane coming north next week, he sa'c, was at this time in the Boeing fac tory at Seattle, but will leave there next Monday for the flight North unlesge something unforeseen de- velops. Survey Flight This first flight will be in the nature of a survey and mapping trip and to study the conditions that are to be encountered over| the route. After reaching Juneau the plane and its crew will make an exhaustive study of the Jocal conditions that are vital factors to| @ new service in new territory. { Fire Hazard Small | Mr. Smith pointed out and quot- | ed from Assistant Posimaster Gen- eral? Glover's report the relative small loss that is incident to the transportation of air mail, which has a direct bearing to the safety of carrying passengers, from the (COllLTlluEd on Page Eight) SHOT N BACK BY DAUGHTER LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 7.—| Shot in the back with his own| pistol by his 17-year-old daughter, F. B. Smith, aged 45 years, is not expected to live. The shooting Iol-‘ lowed a family altercation on a street corner in which the daugh- ter asserts her father knocked her mother down. Alice Smith, the! daughter, was arrested. e 100 ARE KILLED BIG LANDSLIDE ‘LISBON, "March 7.—A dispatch from Funchal, Maderia Islands, said over 100 persons were killed and many injured in a big ‘landslide in the Valley of St. Vincent. Nine houses in which 100 were crowded fell with the landslide into the flooded river and carried to sea. Torrential rains caused the land- slide. FAMILY TRAGEDY ST. LOUIS, Much 7. — Crazed presumably by worry over the sui- cide of her husband, Mrs. Lena Hawkins, aged 42 years, this morn- ing shot and killed one of her daughters and wounded another while they slept in the family home. She then turned the pistol on herself but all bullets had been discharged. _Neighbors rushing to the home found Mrs. Hawkins in night attire lamenting that she failed to end her own life. Officers were unable to obtain a coherent story from her. Mr. Hawkins shot and killed her- self with a shotgun last Novem- ber. PR TS e . @S e 00000 s 000000 . ® NOEL WEIN HOPS . . OFF FROM NOME . hd TODAY FOR SIBERIA . . L4 Noel Wein, in a Hamilton @ ® Dplane, hopped off from I . e this morning for North @ ® Cape, Siberia, with supplies @ ® and is expected to return @ ® late today with furs. This @ ® is according to a cablegram @ ® from Nome received by the ® ® U. S Customs office in Ju- © ® neau. e . . [ | \ | Miami - Biltmore Liouba Yotzova BULGARIA Here are some of the beauties who will seek honors at the annual beauty contest at Galveston, Texas. Cora Lee Pomeroy GALVESTON 3~ Ladislas CONTEST FOR INTERNATIONAL BEAUTY HONORS Aspea a ¢+ Karat GRE g Liouba Yotzova, 20-year-old Sofia stenographer, will represent Bulgaria; Elsie Goldarbeiter is Austria's prettiest; Ladislas Kostak, Warsaw typist, represents Poland; Aspasia Karatja comes from Gruu. and Cora Lee Pomeroy is Miss Galvaston. Card S(}:Z::fr’ggl;lwgne M| E GLAPP Man Is Killed MIAMI, Fla., March 7.—Mystery surrounds & shooting affray in the Hotel in Coral Gables, in which one man, believed tg-be Thomas Walsh, former body~ ghard of Arndld tein, was killed, another wounded in the chest and a score of fashionable guests thrown into confusion. The police learned that a card !r;:xme was in progress in a suite on from Minnesota for sixteen ye the fourteenth floor when the dis pute arose. Several shots were said to have been fired Officers foun: the body of a man iv'ng on the floor Beneath a card table was Arthur Clark, injured. He said: “You can 23k me all the cuestion you want but I won't say a thing.” STOCKS TAKE GREAT. DROP; BULI.S ON RU Call Money Sends Interest Up—Many Specialties Forced to Break NEW YORK, March 7.—A short- age of call mouey t interest from 8 to 12 per cent erday and the bull forces of the Stock Ex- change, ran for cover. Some high price $pecialties broke $10 and $45 a share and a long list of active industrials, railroad and public utility issues, dropped from $3 to $7. Declining prices, according to the Associated Press index, showed that | industrials have declined 7' points, rails 3% and utilities 9 points in the past four day: TOTH GONGRESS MADE A RECORD WASHINGTON, March 7.—Estab- lishing a high p time record for Government penditures, the | Seventieth Congress mqropnawd $0,291,500,000 during the last two years. Although small compared to the $217,000,000,000 appropriated in 1918 and 1919, during the World War the amount exceeds the appropria. tions of the Sixty-Ninth Congress by half a million dollars ————e HERMAN SIGNS AGAIN CLEARWATER, Pla., March 7.— ‘with the Brooklyn Robins and the| hard hitting outficlder-infielder has signed his contract, after trying un- @0 000000000 to get a raise 1 PASSES AWAY Former Umted States Sen— + ator from-Minnesota < Is Dead i Edwin Clapp, United States ior to 1217, died here this mor ng aged 73 years. ticed law here since ‘he Senate twelve ye: ring from s ago. Scnmo‘ Clapp was born at Del- phi, Indiana, May 21, 1851. He | was educated in the public schools of Wisconsin and the University | of Wisconsin, where he w du- | ated in law in 1873. He practiced law at Hudson, Wis, until 1881 when he located at Fergus Mill, Minnesota, where he practiced law for ten years, moving to St. Paul in 1891. He was Attorney-General of Minnesota from 1887 to 1833: He was elected to the United States Senate in January, 1901, succeeding the late Senator Cushr K. Davis. He was elected to a full six year! term in 1905 and again in 1911. In 1917 he opened law offices in Wash- ington. He took a prominent place when in the Senate and was regarded as one of its able law- yers, 6. 0. P. MAKING PLANS T0 HOLD Executive Body of National| Committee Meets in Washington WASHINGTON, March 7--Vie- \lories by the Republican Party in| the one-time Solid South, is seen by leaders, mot as political acci- (dents but as gains to be consoli- 'dated after the session here by the ;execufive body of the Republican {National Committee. ed that the party would “exert ev- ery infiuence within its power not lent but to encourage building up of a virile militant party organi- |zation throughout the Southern | States.” | With this announcement went ithe statement that this decision is”in response to demands from virtually every Southern State “to |become permanently identifieq with | ‘thc Republican Party.” ———————— J‘ DUNDEE 1S CALLED | CHICAGO, March 7.—Joe Duridee | ! Babe Herman has come {0 wrms:of Baltimore, world’s welterweight | BY REAR ADM. W. A. MOFFETT champion, has been told by the | National Boxing Association to de- |fend his title by March 21 or va- cate his throne. WASHINGTON, March 7.—Moses He has prac-| | . SOLID SOUTH . Chairman Hubert Work n!mounxc-I only to make these results perman- | ’Money for Nome |Harber and Wirangell Narrows . WASHINGTON, March 7. . e —The Secreiary of War an- © nounces an allotment of $41,- e 587,000 ( 4river and harbor -wm endk aminten ance for the year beginning July 1. The improvements include Nome harbor, $19,500 e afid Wrangell Narrows $47,- @ 000. . . . . . . ° ° 000000000000 —— 'EXTRA SESSION 'WILL CONVENE . ON APRIL 15 Badent Hiow e r Lt . Call—Purposes of pecml Congress YJABmNGTON, March 7.—Presi~ dent Hoover has called an extra ,session of Congress for April 15 [for agricultural relief and_limited changes of the tariff. The proclamation for the extra sesslon says these matters cannot in justice “to our farmers, our labor and manufacturers, be post- poned.” LINDBERGH HAS USE, RIGHT ARM MEXICO CITY, March 7.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh had the use cian allowed him to remove the sling which held his arm in place juntil the effects of a dislocated ! shoulder could be overcome. Moffett Tells of Itlme since his accident. His physi- For (EDITOR'S NOTE: Extraor- | dinary problems have entered the efficient use of fighting aircraft as a navy auxiliary. How these problems are being solved and the part the airplane iself may play in future maneu- vers of the world's fleets have been told exclusively for The Associated Press by Rear Adm. William A. Moffett, chief of the | bureau of aeronautics of the navy department.) i ‘WASHINGTON, March 7—Extra- ordinarily efficient, and at the same time very simple, organization is l necessary for the complicated op- of his right arm today for the first | | Problems in Working MANY CITIES " RECAPTURED BYFEDERALS (Vera Cru;?evolutionisu ] | Defeated—Command- er Sklps Out MONTEREY FALLS AND REBELS ARE FLEEM Northern Revolters Report" | ed Marching on Juraez |~ —Battle Inminent = | VERA CRUZ, March 7—A com= plete break-down of the revdutm-r ary movement. in Vera Cruz other parts of Southern Mexico i | reported while rebels in the continued the drive towards {where a handful of Federal are awaiting them. Takes Flight . i Gen. Aguirre, Commander of the rebels in Vera Cruz, is believed have taken flight at sea fighting yesterday which end when the Consular Corps |an armistice to avoid bloodshed. Monterey Retaken The important strategic |center of Monterey has been lost Ithe rebels, Gen. Escobar ev ing the city a severe de by 10,000 Escobar later driven out of Saltillo and day is retreating to Torreon, the western border of ce-hdh. Cities which the Go has been recaptured fiwe h need of some ‘erushing of the revolt, said the rebel forces are in complete rout everywhere 'and were victims of an “inconceiv- able panic.” BATTLE IN PROSPECT EL PASO, Texas, March 7.— Under command of Gen. Ignacio Flores, 200 Mexican Federal sol- diers left Juarez today to proceed against a detachment of 400 revo- lutionists believed to be advancing against the city. The rebel forces are reported 25 miles from Juarez and contact be- tween the two forces is expected within a few hours. \ DESTRUCTION BY SNOW AND WIND CHICAGO, Il., March 7.—De- structive west winds spread snow and cold over the Midwest last night, causing personal injuries, property damage and possibly loss of life. At Tomahawk, Wisconsin, the wind whipped a fire through’ business section causing a loss half a milion dollars. Fishermen Lost In Chicago, six persons were in- jured and three others who set: out on Lake Michigan late yester- day in a small fishing boat, believed to be lost in the gale. The cold wave came just the Midwest was enmlu balmiest weather. Winds, which reached a of 45 miles an hour, broke wi dows, blew down trees, chim and signs in Muwnukee and w.- c:l.go Air Floating Baséy erations of air pianes from théir “floating bases” with ships d the fleet. It is not enough to put single air- planes into the air merely to fly around, and return to their ¢ They must be able to do somethi useful once they have got into t air; they must be capable of ceeding long distances out of of their base ship; and of ing track of their own and that of the base ship is constantly moving during absence. It must be remembered sea there are no conveniend marks or farm meadows wi the pilot loses his way, h (Continued on Page