The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 25, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIIL, NO. 5056. N THIRTY-SEVEN 1 LWES LOSTIN SUDDEN FLODD Water Rushes Down from‘ Mountains and Takes Death Toll TENNESSEE HARDEST | HIT OF TWO STATES Twcnly Persons Lost One Locality—River Goes Over Banks LOUISVIL Ky., March 25— TFloods rushing down from the Cumberland Mountains took a toll of lives in Southeastern Ken- tucky and Northeastern Tennessee over the week-end, while tornadoes and storms spread death over four Southern States, bringing the South’s death toll to 49 known bly more when all reports | d. essee was the hardest hit 31 known deaths. Six deaths ted in Kentucky. | persons, mostly women were lost when the , at Harriman, left the Sunday morning. ANTIKLAN BILL 1S P, ILLINDIS Measure Is Presented to House—To Tear Off Mask of Secrecy & Lo Fi ot g i oo SPRINGFIELD, 11, Mérch 25— ctment of a bill intended to the mask of secrecy from the Ku Klux Klan or whatever rem- nants of that organization remain active in Illinois, has been recom- mended to the Legislature by the mmittee of the House ntatives. | anti-Kian measure, intro-| duced by William E. King, colored representative of the Third District, | Chicago, was reported out of the committee favorably by a close vote | of 9 to 8. Every Cook County ( member present, except David I.| Swanson, chairman of the commi[-i mn | | | | i i | 1 tee, voted for the bill while the representatives from down state, where the Klan is purported still to | maintain strongholds, opposed it. Representative King explained the | bill is identical with that in New | York, which he said, has been up- held by the United States Supreme Court, and similar to measures pending in Alabama and Michigan. The bill provides that every or- ganization in the state having a membership of more than 20 per- sons which requires an oath as a condition of membership, shall file with the secretary of the state a| sworn copy of its constitution, by- laws, rules, regulations and oath of‘:\'me in a secret take-off at 2:40 | jo'clock Eastern time Sunday after- membership and list of officers. Such organization would be com- | peiled to file within ten days after adoption every resolution or the minutes or any action designed “to promote or defeat legislation, fed- eral, state or municipal, or to sup- port or deféat any candidate for political office.” e A 13-month calendar has been adopted by a large London com- pany to simplify the keeping of| accounts. EAU, ALASK: . MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1929, FOR MAYORON | FIRST TICKET : ‘Warnor, Boi.:\;e“ and Mac~‘ J | Active politically among the women of Virginia, Mrs. Waltes Colquit, above, of Richmond, Va., bétter known as Mrs. Sarah e Tain, ‘thember of the House of delegates of the Virginia General Assembly, is expected to announce her candidacy for Lieutenant Governor on the Democratic ticket. (Iaternational Newsreel) TWO SPANISH AVIATORS ON ATLANTIC HOP Hop-Off from 3eviile, Spain | for Ocean Flight to Brazil Kinnon on Ticket for City Council | The first ticket to make its ap- pearance in the field for the muni- cipal election of Tuesday, April 2, filed telday in the office of City Clerk. It composed of: Thomas B. Judson, for mayor, seek- g re-election, Charles G. Warner, for re-election, D. M. Bothwell, Lockie Mack 101, | Mr. Judson is now serving on his second term as Mayor and during that time has been employed as Street C ner. Mr. Warner has served on several councils. Mr. MacKinnon, who is a pionesr of this city, was a member of the fir Juncau City Council. Mr. Both- resided here since been a candidate | ffice before i It was reported Saturday and to-| day that a second ticket would be filed shortly. Cash Cole, who was one of the Council-! said the ticket Henry Roden, | own local for | r, Emil Krause, local concrete | wfacturer, G. Blomgren, pro-! | prictor of the Sanitary Grocery, and | Mr. Cole him$elf for the counc Mr. Blomgren today told The Em- pire he would not be a candidate. While he appreciated the desire for | him to make the race, he said his| business made too many demands | on his time for him te be candi-| date or a member of the Council. | None of the other candidates had | filed early this afternoon. The fil-4 ing pg¥ad elo nesda; pm. "o registration per es Saturday evening. e S HOOVER AND STIMSON ARE - SOONTOMEET | w {Chief Executive and Ne : Secretary of State | Confer Tomorrow i e | WASHINGTON, March 25. 7PI‘ES-I |ident Herbert Hoover and his new | |Secretary of State, Henry M. Stim-| |son, will have their first meetingJ |tomorrow with the arrival of Stim- | | | | | Dry Officials S Assists War Secretary i retary This is an excellent studio portrait of Patrick J, Hurley of Tulsa, Okla., who succeeds Colonel C. C. Robbins of lowa as Assistant Secretary of War under Secretary Good. (Harrls & Ewing) MISS1SSIPPI FLOOD WATER STILL RISING Missouri River Is Also on Rampage—Both Threat- en to Break Banks CHICAGO, March 25.—The Mis- sissippi and Missouri Rivers still threatened today to batter down levees and overrun their banks as patrolmen and sidents watched eagerly for signs of relief. Members of the National Guard and Naval Militia patrolled the flooded district near Quincy to pre- vent .looting and a t families driven from their homes. The first fatality in that section occurred when a youth fell from the dike and drewned. 5 S O W Mussolini and Fascist Party * SEVILLE, March 25—Two Span-|5on, after a long trip from Man-|\Win Elections ish aviaters over 30 years of age, are winging |their way southward across the At- lantic Ocean in an attempt to make a non-stop flight to Rio de Janerio. Captains Francisco Jiminez and Ignacio Iglesas, Spanish aces of the Moroccan campaign, left Se- noon. The total flight is 4,800 miles. They expect to reach their des- tination tomorrow. Word from Madrid reported they were sighted over Cape Juby Rio- ceoro shortly after midnight. ——.———— The North Dakota legislature has rejected a bill providing for the repeal of a law making the display of the Ten Commandments in pub- lic school rooms mandatory. both bachelors, neither | ila by way of San Francisco and ' | New York. | have a host of subjects to discuss and in order that they may facili-| |tate work ahead of them, sumson§ will be a White House guest for the remainder of the week. e,——— VERDICT IS GUILTY i After being ou: for 40 hours, the jury in the Nixon case brought in| a verdict of guilty, according to {word received at the U. S. Msr-l shal's office from Ketchikan where the case was tried. Nixor. \vas‘ charged with violation of the Na-| tional Prohibition Act. tence had been pronounced when | the cable was sent. L Restoration of the Saint-Romain France, is almost complete. 1omy 136,000 in opposition. ROME, March 25.—Premier Mus- The Chief Executive and Stimson golini and the Fascist Party won | - OFF ON CRUISE an overwhelming victs day’s Parliamentary elections. Practically complete return: ed 8,500,000 favorable votes with in yester D Auto Accidents in Washington Take Toll of 6 SEATTLE, March 25.—Six sons are dead and seven serio pe No sen-|injured in automobile accidents in a second long cruise of her career. Washington over the week-end One death is that of a State patrolman, killed in a head-on col- lision when an auto darted from tower of the cathedral in Rouen,{the line of traffic and smashed | the Balkan countries and Central into his motorcycle. coff at Alarm About Jones Law ireturn indictments against persons | - IE WASHINGTON, March 25.—Many rep e reached the ears of Ppro tion enforcement offi that bootleggers were seurrying to | Cover since the enactment of the Jones bill to increase penalties for dry law violations, but there is no confirmation of such stor- the Treasury Department. ymour Lowman, assistant sec- of the Treasury, in charge of prohibition, and Dr. James M. .Doran, commissioner of prohibition, sald that no cases brought under | the Jones law had reached a deter- ‘m o and it was impossible to judge the effect of the legislation & tthis early date. Lowman be- lieved that most of the reports !reaching the department concern- ling bootleggers quitting business were untrue. Since the day the ‘chc law was sighed by President 5 | oolidge reports have come from | IWarious sections of the country that ! bootleggers were abandoning their illicit trade. | | Penalty Up to Judge i xlnu, ariably these stories have said | hat the big operators among the | Yiolators were taking this® action | father than face a penalty of five years in prison and a maximum fine of $10,000 The penalty, however, | may be set by the judge hearing a ease and may be no more than un-| der the present law if the court so| rules | Coincident with the report that ibootleggers were becoming frighten- ! ed, it was related that the price| fof liquor was being doubled or| {tripled because of the added risks linvolved. These types of repor caused officials to smile, and they expressed the belief that the boot- leggers were using a pretext to ob- |tain from their customers a great, }deal more than the poor quality of lliquor sold in this count was worth. ‘1 Especially did this apply to the larpe operators among thé viela- jtors and to strike at the source of | ‘mpply rather than to pile up in- {numerable cases against small ped- (dlers who are only distributing agents for the big law violators. Lowman said that while there had been a few arrests under the {Jones law throughout the country, no gauge as to its effectiveness could be set until some of the cases had been tried. He pointed out | that under the law it was neces-| sary for a federal grand jury to |charged with prohibition law vio- lations and to give them a trial in {the federal courts, already 21,000 {cases behind on prohibition. | Commissioner Doran agreed with Lowman saying it was too early |to predict what effect the Jones law would have on the situation. GRAP ZEPPELIN \Big German Zeppelin Starts | on Flight of Five | Thousand Miles i | FREIDRICHSHAFEN, March 25. |—The Graf Zeppelin has left the |nangar and was later reported sailing over the Mediterranean on | Five thousand miles lay ahead |with four days cruising over ‘F‘rnnu, Italy and the Northeast- cern shores of the Mediterranean, Europe. AMERICAN AVIATOR CAPTURED BY MEXICAN REBELS MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS National Enforcement Commission PRICE TEN CENTS FLIER BUII ra . Among the possibilities suggested as members of a com- niission which would study mear Rosenwald, leit, George \Wharton Pepper, right, and Newton D. Baker, below, are the most I would also include the study of branch of Federal law. (Internationa. g MORRISON IN REBEL HANDS |Plane Forced Down in Mexican Rebel District —He Is Taken ! | 1 | i i 1 |WAS SCOUTING FOR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT [Plans Underway for Re- lease—Federals, Rebels Clash at Mazatlar | NOGALES, Ariz., March 25.—Am- erican aviator Buzz Morrison is {held by Mexican rebels awaiting | bis expected surrender to American P — | officials. Morrison, who has been flying a solo airplane possessed by the Federals at Naco, was captured Saturday inside the rebel lines as the result of being forced down while making a scouting tour. Negotiations by Mayor Kerns of Nogales with the rebels are ex- pected to effect Morrison’s release. 15 to enforce the dry law, Julius | robable chioices. Their duties the enforcement of every other BATTLE AT MAZATLAN MEXICO CITY, March 25.—The 1 Newsreel) SAMUEL REA ON SUNDAY Former President of Penn- sylvania Railroad Dies in East ‘ | | | | - ASSOCIATED PRESS SAMUEL. REA PHILADELPHIA, March 25— Samuel Rea, former President of the Pennsylvanian Railroad, died at his home “Goldwyne” near Ard- more, a suburb. He was 73 years of age, Outstanding in the career of Samuel Rea was the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad tubes beneath the Hudson and East Riv- ers and the rearing of the mag- (Continued on Pa:j 7rhree) T fourth week of the Mexican revo- |lution found the Federals and reb- .els in the grip of the first major |clash for possession of the import- ant seaport of Mazatlan after a two-day battle with heavy losses ® appeared inevitable for the Federal ® garrison at the seaport. ¢, Outnumbered at least two to one, © the Federals are still in possession ® of the city while reinforcements ® numbering € men are at Ira- ® puato. § i ©" " While fighitng raged on the West ® Coast, the main contending forces ® bhegan slowly to close upon each © other in Central Mexico. \Aged | | | tlaska Air Transport Service SAN FRANCISCO, March ® 25. — Boeing officials today @ announced the extension of ¢ the aerial transport route ¢ from Puget Sound to Skag- ® way and it will be made as © soon a5 ‘the survey will “be @ completed. . e 0c200c00000 e ——————— MER GOV. Woman Dies Following Attack ATCHISON, Kan, March 25.— Mrs. C. V. Jacobs, aged 53, died this afternoon in a hospital as March 25.—W. the result of injuries received when TOPEKA, Kan, i R. Stubbs, Governor of Kansas attacked and severely burned in from 1909 to 1913, died here today the basement of her home last following an exicnded illness. He February 25. was 70 years of age. Louis Glover, negro, who was em- —————— |ployed at her home, is alleged to Three students working their |have confesssed the crime. He is way through Parsons College at being held in jail. He was arrested Faurfield, Towa — Lueille Schwilck, [soon after the attack. Alice Bell and Earl Heiscl—were| Officers allege Glover attacked the only students to receive all his aged employer and then sought “A” grades for the first semester.{to stuff her into the furnace. FOR AIRPLANES CONQUER MOUNTAIN BARRIERS OF SOUTH AMERICA By CHARLES S. SMITH velop the fertile empire which lies (Chief of Foreign Service, Asso- |east of the mighty mountain range. ciated Press) Railways have finally been built LIMA, Peru, March 25.—Alex-|Over passes which rise as high as ander P. Moore, the United States| 14500 feet. But they are few in Ambasador at Lima, says the aero- |Dumber. The cost of construction plane was “God's gift to Peru” |Was so great that freight rates are It was also God's gift to ct,_;almost prohibitive. Trains are not lumbia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile, | Dumerous and vast empires are still When nature strewed the lofty hundreds of miles beyond rail end. Andes along the West Coast of Establish Routes South America she created a bar-| S0 the establishment of local rier over which man has crept with | 8eroplane routes was hailed with great difficulty in his efforts to de-| (Continued on Page Seven) i VAiCE PRESIDENT SECY OF STATE CURTIS " STIMSON Hoover’s helpers, through their hobbies, reflect their chief’s own favorite sports and amusements. Cab MELLON inet Members’ ATTORNEY GENERAL MITCHELL OF Navy ADAMS ECY OF INTER/OR WiLBurR “ BROWN POSTMASTER GFN. szcxog.;fmcurvei —obbies—Le;ul M any ;f Them--To Great ()utdbors > OF LABOR. Skcy.oF COMMERCE SEC DAviS LAMONT DE The President is a disciple of Izaak Walton and is fond of roughing it in the open. Attorney-Generla Mitchell, Secretaries Wilbur and Lamont also like the rod and gun as a diversion. Secretaries Good and Brown and the Attorney-General also golf “a little,” but there isn't a man in the portfolio who can bresk 100. Secretary Brown prides himself on his cooking particularly “chicken paprikasch,” a complicated Hungarian dish. ~Secretary Davis spends his off hours promoting the Loyal Order of Moose. Secretary of the Navy Adams is oppositely fond of yachting and sailing, while Seeretary of Agriculture Hyde appropriately finds farming his chief diversion. Secretary Mellon has long been a collector of paintings and works of art. Vice-President Curtis, who sits in at cabinet meetings, sits well in the saddle. He used to be a jockey and is a frequent visitor at Maryland tracks. Secretary Stimson also rides, but tennis is his favorite recreation.