The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 16, 1929, Page 1

i “iaRADS dmi the_nipshborpond THE DAILY ALASKA VOL. XXXIIL, NO. 5049. “ALL THE NEWS 4 {LL, THE TIME” ]UNEAU ALASKA, : \TURDAY MARCH l6 1929 FLOOD PERIL INCREASING IN ALABAMA Rivers Continue to Rise (’U!(] l)]l;(?ase Spl‘ead- ing New Havoc ONE CITY REPORTED COMPLETELY FLOODED Residents Are Moved to Refugee Camps — Di- sease Breaks Out MONTGOMERY, Alabama, March ! 16—Southern Alabama rivers con- | ue to wreak havoc under clear- | skies and the disease dread, the aftermath of floo has brok- en out at the refugee camp on Vig Creek, in the Southeastern cor- f the State. rampaging Pea River, which v ey wmouvawalinee River Waer 20 Feet Deep ing Dothans said 3 20 feet deep in the| district of Geneva and -story post office is com- | Ppletely “submerged. A, radiogram from a National Cuard - pla said boatmen are paddling about in torrents and the cituationds very bad. City acuated of Geeneva's 3,500 rc,xdmu haen evacuated Lo refuge: All have pe | | So far as confirmed, reports in-| ed the death list from the| ds during the last three dfly:s' at 12 but it is believed many have been drowned in com- munities which have not yet been restored to communication. les Break Out rt of the disease out- reak came from the National ard refugee camp at Big Creek, a. Measles broke out refugee children ..nd\ been rushed to ph)sl-w by the State l'mlth | | | there department. APPOINTMENTS BY SEC. WILBUR All Surveys of Oii Leases Are to Be Made— Hoover Policy WASHINGTON, March 16.—Sec- has appointed Commis- Spry of the Land Office; Geerge Smith, Director of Geo- logical Survey, and Solicitor Fin- of the Interior Department, to vey all oll leases granted by the Department. This is to ry oul the policies announced by President Hoover. R GIVEN 8100 FINE sloner i Charles Lamont of Flat, Alaska, wes recently fined $100 for exceed- ing the bag limit of beaver in 1927, by the United States Commissioner of that place. Information leading to the charge against Lamont was put recently brought before the authorities. avoff Pretender Although present corditions do this child U»uul possibly the Romanoffs. He is the son (International WASHINGT LEGISLATU BEAI)L()C K RECORD GED. OLVANY, TAMMANYHALL LEADER QUITS Resignation Is Presented to Committee — No Ex- planation Given [ NEW YORK, March 16—George Olvany, leader of Tammay Hall since the death of Charles Murphy five years ago, has resigned. While ill-health is given as a reason, there is much speculation about the matter. The resignation was submitted by letter at 2 meeting of the Execu- | live Committee of the New York | County Democratic Committee. | Neither the letter nor direct ex- planation was given out. A SO i JURY PANEL DRAWN Panels for tme Grand Jury and Petit Jury for the Spring term of Court in Juneau have been drawn in Ketchikan and will be asked to| 1eport on April 1, according to a cable received by the United States | Marshal's office this morning. Names of those drawn for the iwo juries are expected to be sent to Juneau on the next mail boat,| and will be made public at that time. CHINA BASES ON AIR TRANSPORT, SHANGHAI March 16.—China ( i: oming airminded. Airplanes | and air routes for passengers, mail and freight are being talked all r the ceuntry. Pacific Ocean and from Canton to Mukden, are busy visualizing the glory that is to be China’s when her communities have been brought close together by ultra - modern transportation facilities. Airplane transportation companies are be- ing projected in various communi- ties and agents for foreign air- plane makers are on the job. Lack of funds is the only damp- ening influence and this is being in part overcome by governmental appropriations, stock selling prop- ositions and public subscription. mcmwnswmemum-Ldem“ HOPES ing the way in China in develop- ment of aviation. Through its avi- ation bureau, manned by a score of American trained Chinese flyers and training a hundred others who have never been out of China, the South China governemnt has de-| clared it intends to show all China and the world at large the unlimit- | ed possibilities for commercial avi- ation in Asia. The government at Nanking is also professing great interest in aviatoin. Although it professes to be lacking in funds with which; to buy or build planes it has built an aviation field and an airdrome on the outskirts of Nanking and acquired several planes with which flyers are being trained. These authorities also have an air field aid airdrome just outside Shang- hai where several planes are now training ships. ¥ become “Pretender’ UZ‘/ MENINGITIS not point to such a happening, ’ to the throne of of the Grand Duke Dimitri of Neuwsrect) STATE JRE SETS OLYMPIA, VV‘A‘-I). March 16.— Twenty-First Legislature of | the State of Washington adjourned at 9:30 oclock last night after seing the Road Budget provid- |ing for $23,734,445, Followir The ock the session was car hours beyond the legal limit ttting a record for lengthy deadlockss Adjournment came after the Sen- ate and House conferees settled the differences. RUMORS ARE SPREADING Physicians Seaut Reports that Many Deaths Have Taken Place SEATTLE, March 16—With hun- dreds of Orientals quarantined at Honolulu, Seattle and Port Town- send and a score of their former| shipmates dead from spinal men- ngitis, murmurs were heard here linking with them a handful of other recent deaths in Washington attributed to spinal meningitis, Physicians, however, scouted the vheory that the disease has spread because the first class passengers on ships which carried dying Fili- pincs were allowed to land at Se- attle without inoculation. The most recent victim of men- {ingitis, aside from the Filipinos, was Miss Emma Miller, of Walla ‘Walla, Wash., a bookkeeper, who was taken ill last Sunday and died sesterday. e Constance Talmadge Announces She Will Marry Third Time HOLLYWOOD, Cal, March 16.— Friends of Constance Talmadge, film actress, said she admitted her engagement to Townsend Net- cher, Chicago merchant and that May 8 is set for the wedding day in Beverly Hills at the home of Buster Keaton, whose wife, Natalie Talmadge Keaton, is a sister of Constance. The marriage will be the third venture for Constance. She first married John Pialoglou, cigarette magnate, and her second husband i ]wuu the Orkneys, and the Heli- FEDERALS AND REBELS CLOSE IN FOR BATTLE General Calles Reported Within 30 Miles of Rebel Stronghold AIR SCOUTS REPORT l EVACUATION SIGN Rebels Clail:Ono Railroad Junction—A. P. Man Sees No Rebels long impending battle at Torregn grew closer as the strong Federal armies crept in sf ily upon the 1ebels in an ever-tightening circle. Strong Federal columns are re- ported with 30 miles of the Insur- gent stronghold while Gen. Callgs is reported in Durango. i While the rebel qua: Foscobar will hold el Calles has informed the Gof nt that air scouts noted ay parent preparations for The Insurgents cle railroad junction of C cupied by the revolutionists but ‘pund‘ nt with the Federal army filed a dispatch from that place giving no' indications of rebels anywhergy near it. JUDGE CLEGY'S * LONDON, March planted during the great main a menace to shipping tain areas around the British coast. The admiralty has issued a W ing to mariners against trawling where unexploded mines are known to have been sunk. It is stated that off Land’s End, the South Devon coast, the Straits of Dover, the Nor= folk, Yorkshire and Northumbrian Bolfind Bight, it is probable some !of the mines lying on the bottom may still be dangerous. ungsters by was Capt. Alastair MacIntosh. Netcher married Gertrude Selby, actress and was recently divorced. Hagen, mem- Gustav Hellermann, 91, Germany. Twenty ch bers joined. MEXICO CITY, March 16—The DO6 TEAM IS"‘ WINNER, RACE %3 CROWD STANDS IN RAIN TO SEE HOOVER MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS MPIRE PRICE TEN CENT IN SHELTER INDUCTED Rinic ciatec Press photo tram‘.mfl!cd by telephone). Run Is Made Over Fiflya! Eight Mile Course— Weather Is Cold FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 16. —In a gruelling run over the 58 mile course, Judge Cecil H. Clegg’s team of mixed Siberians and bird | dogs, captured the Signal Corps| Trophy. | The race was won in five hot thirty-three minutes and fifty-sev-| en seconds. Herbert Lawrence, lower Yukon river Indian, driver for Walter Sa- koff, Iditarod entrant, was second.| Fred Stickman, of Nenana, was third. Joe Stickman, of Nulato, winner last year, trailed the string of six entrants. Stickman was handi- capped to some extent when he drew first start and was forced to| break a fresh powdery snow until he passed the half way point The drivers and dogs showed| marked effects of the hard driving over the mountains and drifted trail in 30 below zero weather. — e GUN BATTLE IN DETROIT DETROIT, Mich, March 16— One unidentified man was killed, two probably fatally wounded and a Policeman was shot in a running gun battle between two traffic pa- trolmen and three men when the policemen attempted to stop a speeding car. The reason for firing is unknown because of the co tion of the two surviving men in the machine. Floating Mines Menace British Coastal Ships 16—Mines war re= in cer= | I | President Hoover, Mrs. Hoover, Mrs. Gann, M steps of the white house. TWO INDICTED FOR MURDER OFGANGSTERS Seven Indictments Return- ed Against Jack Mec- Gurn, John Scalise CHICAGO, 11, indictments naming and John Scalise as March 16—Seven k. McGurn llers of | jseven of the Geo sters, slain on St. V: have been returned by Jury. McGurn and Scalis to be followers of Al both are held in jail The indictments are turned by the Grand gating the slaughter Among the witne eral close relati the Grand reported apone, and first re- y investi- s of the seven jvictims, One of the victim to have heard one say Mac” at the death scene Gurn, “Come on to Mc- — e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 16.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today at 7%, American 18, Chesapeake Corporati ahy 58%, General Motors, sue, 88%, Gold Dust 707 tional Paper, A 32 tional Power and I ard Motors 139 Trucks 1067%, U. S. S 188, Beth- lehem 108%, American T and T Commy 215%. new is- Inlen\a- reported | F st Dancer | Janula Poitevent of Shelby, Miss., has been selected as the best | girl dancer at the University of Mississippl by the students. ————— Prince Chichibu Lives TOKYO, March 6—Prince heir presumptive to the throne of Japan, has a daily luncheon which costs much less than that of the average American office worker. The prince, holding the rank of lieutenant, is now a student in the army staff college, where, at his own request, be is treated like any other student officer. There he eats the regular luncheon of the college, a simple meal of rice, fish and vegetables, costinz about 12 cents. The prince rises each morning at 7 o'clock and always walks two miles between his mansion and the college, where he must be in his place by 8:30. Immense throngs defy drenching to hear the new presidont deli Common Soldier’s Life| Chi- | ver his inaugurai address. (Asso- ‘PRESIDENT HOOVER AIYD CURTIS AT WHITE HOUSE . Curlis’ sister, and Vice President Curtis on the S HOSPITAL giund who has been in the hospital for about three weeks recovering from a major opera- | tion, left for her home this morn- ing. Mrs, James Grant of Hoonah, un- ierwent a major operation at the a0spital this morning. Mrs. C. W. Carter, who under- went a major- operation about| three weeks ago, left the hospital for her home yesterday afternoon. —e e ——— Warner, a veteran of Frank E. m‘y one bm this session. he Missouri senate, has introduced ONE DEFINITE REPORT ABOUT PLANE KNOWN Hopped Off from Alert Bay Yesterday Afternoon at 4 o'Clock BELIEVED TO NOW BE IN SHELTERED COVE Plane May Be Awaiting for Improvment in Weath- er Conditions The whereabouts of the six- passenger Boeing plane that left Seattle last Thursday after- noon at 1:45 o'clock for Ju- neau, with one stop enroute, with five aboard, was not def- initely known at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The only definite report con- cerning the plane was received by The Empire at 1 o'clock this afternoon in an Associated Press report from Seattle. The dispach said the piane hopped off from Alert Bay, where it safely landed Thurs- day night, at 4 o'clock yester- day afternoon for Juneau. The dispatch said it is be- lieved the plane is in some pro- tected cove north of Alert Bay awaiting improvement of weath- er conditions. RUMOR CIRCULATED There is a report circulated that ithe plane was in Swanson's Bay, 1scnnh of Prince Rupert, but if this |IS so, The Associated Press, The Empire and other newspzpers know | nothing about it. The Seattle Post- | Intelligencer cabled The Empire |asking for information and this | followed the report of the Asso- |ciated Press that the plane had hopped off from Albert Bay yes- terday afternoon for Juneau. If the plane is at Swanson's Bay, Prince Rupert would most assured- ly have wired either the Asso- |ciated Press or The Empire for all ]lccnlitles have been requested to |report any information obtainable. On Lookout Ketchikan and the Signal Corps wireless station there are on the lookout. The steamer Admiral Evans, now northbound, is keeping a watch for the missing plane and all avenues from which any in- lormation can be secured are alert. ‘There has perhaps been no event !in recent years, which has aroused |0 much interest locally, as the .coming of the plane or its where- |abouts, there have never been so many rumors. The telephone in ‘The Empire office has been ringing since early yesterday morning, day |and night shift, requesting in- | formation and the cable office at- taches have also been busy answer- (ing phone calls. Reports, said to have originated |from the cable office, caused sev- leral small boats loaded with spec- |tators to speed down the Channel yesterday afternoon to welcome the |fliers. These reports had it first that Ketchikan had reported the plane leaving there at 12:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon and again at |1:45 o'clock, but the cable office had received nothing. Last night rumors were circulated that the (Continued on Page Six) ALBANIAN R March 16— ss in ex- vendetta from has inspired the whip over effort to sup- TIRANA, Albania Premier Mussol ardinia rack in a in a blood feuds. solini four years to leaders of the Mafia, an a committed to re- dr rieva by the knife ind pistol and to purge the coun- try of the Mafia’s tyranny. Wheth- King Zogu will succeed in a imilar dsring reform is considered doubtful, because the practice of \mu:. feuds in this remote and un- country is founded upon the dition of a thousand years. In iia a single case of homicide 'often leads to a series of similar crimes or to protracted warfare between neighbering families and Jcommunities. The murderer, as a It round up the took Mu ociation er ULER WOULD SUPPRESS FEUDAL MURDERS rule, knowing that his life is in danger, takes refuge in the moun- tains or remains for years secluded in the house. Mountain tribes in central Al- bania, instead of bringing their differences before the courts of law, seek satisfaction by violence. Many Albanians perish by the sword, because the vendetta system decrees that blood must be washed with blood. No "offense is ever forgiven by the Albanian. Sometimes a truce (besa) is ar- ranged by mediation. It is the mufti, or the local village mayor, who brings the two adversaries to- gether. The truce is of temporary character, as nothing but blood can repair an outrage to an Albanian’s honor. The truce is observed loy- ally by both parties, but when it expires the feud is resumed with renewed vigor; until redress has been obtained by the knife.