The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 2, 1929, Page 1

| BOMBS WIND ST A Wedding That Bridged an Ocean | REOREANIZE LAlong THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXIIL, NO. 5063. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1929. FROM REBEL AIR RAIDERS DROP ON U. . TOWN “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS FURIOUS GALE SWEEPS FROM SOUTH, NORTH l Thirteen States and Section ence Sterm EIGHT KNOWN DEAD, SCORES ARE INJURED Thirty F oot Waves Lash Shores of Two Lakes —Damage Large NEW YORE, April 2—The death tell from the furious wind storm wh pt across thirteen Stages and rt of Canada yesterday mounted to eight today and several score were hurt and much property damage done. | The storm reached a velocity of 70 miles an hour in some places. The storm iginated in the Southwest, tearing across parts of 5, M ouri, Nebraska, Iowa, | s, Minnesota, Wisconsin and upper Michigan, Ohio, Pennsyl- vania, West Virginia, New Jersey | and New York. i Buildings were unroofed, wires are down, trees have been uprooted and both Lake Michigan and Lake Erie were swept. Much prope of the Dominion became the Weir, eldest son of Lord and L: wedding at Christ Church Cath | damage has been x reported along the lake fronts. Waves as highi as 30 feet dashed | —— the Illing and Wigeonsin shores. At B ee ships were torn from their mioorings. The storm was accompanied by | et and rainx :n Canada. The| is estimated at 5!,000,000‘ Make resulted in $125,000 damage! WASHINGTON, April 2—The by a bolt of lightning which Coverment is arranging to send the steeple of the Roman | 1ar8¢ numbers of .emp‘oyees on a Ghurch St. Paul at Du-|32 98y cruise of Alaska du the Quebec. | ner, at a total cost $520 e 6 h. The Dep: RETURNS SHOW BIG INGREASE |to make the trip have been com- Ipleted with railroads and steam- ship lines. The party will leave | Washington August 2 on five spe- cial trains for Seattle with numer. lous stops ond then the steamer Aleutian will carry the party to Alaska. Rising Stock Markets Cred- ited for Income Tax Pald Th‘s Year i VANCOUVER, B. C, April 2.— |Graham Chambers, well-known | British Columbia salmon cannery- |man, died here yesterday. He was born at Ingersoll, Ontario, 1854, and 36 years ago. of artment of Interior ation ent cl ho wish {Well Known B. C. Canneryman Dies WASHINGTON, April 2. — The ng stock markets of last year wre credited by the Treasury De- partment for the unexpected in-: $ % crease of $80,000,000 in the March |came to this P.ovince income tax returns over the same I o period last year. Collections this| OLDEST BANK CELEBRATES year have already reached $595,-! 000,000 and indications are that| NEW YORK—The Bank of New by the end of the fiscal year, June;York and Trust Company, foundcd’ 30, the total will be the largestls:x years after the colonies de- since 192 iclared their independence of Great Officials estimate that probably |Britain, has just celebrated its one| the Treasury surplus will be raised hundred and forty-fifth birthday.| from $26.000,000 to $100,000,000. :!t is the oldest bank in New York| Furthermore it is disclosed thatand recently had a house warming | the individual income tax returns|at its new Wall Street quarters. increased to such an extent for the| Ol T | first time as to exceed the cor-| At Emmerich, Germany, the pop-! poration tax collections which came julace so delighted in crossing thgl up to expectations under the re-|frozen Rhine on foot that Lramc[ uced rate of 20 per cent. (policemen had to be called. FRENCH PROFITS OUT OF TOBACCO COULD PAY DEBTS in order to modernize it and to get | greater profit. Spurred by criticism, | |ihe Government appointed a busi PARIS, April 2.—France's pro- fit on her tobacco monopoly is more than enough to pay her war Government Clerks to | nie debt to the United States. Cigarette and pipe smokers buy of the Government $160,000,000 worth of goods and the Govern- ment makes a profit of four-fifths of the total receipts. France's war debt to America un- der the unratified Berenger agree- ment is a little more than $4,000,- 000,000 gnd the interest over the 62 years in which she was to pay runs it up close to $7,000,000,000, or an average of $110,000,000 a year, de- cidedly less than the Government’s yearly profit on tobacco smoke. Not many years ago there was much talk of turning over the to- bacco monopoly to private industry, particularly to an American group, ness men's committee, presided by e ORMS SWEEP PRICE TEN CENTS [here were brilliant ceremonies in Ottawa when a daughter bride of a Scottish nobleman. | Miss Lucy Crowdy, daughter of Mr. James F. Crowdy, assis- tant secrétary to the Governor General of Canada, and Mrs. Crowdy, is shown with her husband, the Hon. James Kenneth ady Weir of Scotland, after the edral. Tour of Aluska Col. Lindbergh Goes to Visit His Fiancee b4 BROWNSVILLE, Texas e April 2. — Col. Charles A. ® o Lindbergh took off for Mex- e ® ico City this morning to e ® visit Miss Anne Morrow. @ ® The Colonel said he expect- @ ed to arrive at his destina- e tion by noon today under ® normal flying conditions. His e ® hop-off here was straight o e for Mexico City. . ° . e — MRS. KENNEDY BREAKS DOWN AT GRILLING California Assemblymen Unable to Secure De- position from Her PORTLAND, Cre, April Weeping hysterically and suffering with a severe headache, Mrs. Min- Kennedy broke down after two hours grilling yesterday by Wil- liam Hornblower and Walter Little, California Assemblymen, and was forced to retire. Another attempt to get a deposition in connection with the impeachment trial of Judge Carlos Hardy, of Los Angeles, | will be made later. Mrs. Keiinedy broke down under Little’s grilling regarding events dating from the disappearance of Mrs. Aimee McPherson, Evangelist, her deughter. Mrs. Kennedy is to be quizzed about the report of a “love offering” of $2,500 from Mrs. McPherson and Mrs. Kennedy to | Judge Hardy. Nove_i C r(;ft; io POST OFFICE _ DEPARTMENT New Postmaster General Proposes Entire Change of Present System i e | WASHINGTON, April 2——The! Post Office Department is on the verge of general reorganization which will include a large part 01‘ the administrative branches and ex- | tend through the entire system. | Postmaster General Walter F.| Brown is determined to bring the | Post Office to a paying basis and | also raise the standard, character and ability of the tremendous per-| sonnel if the present plans are car- ried out. It is understood he has! submitted his plans to President Hoover and received promise of sup- port t | The only Assistant Postmaster | I B I S The “skimmer ship” above ha: | sistant Robert S. Regar will be re- W YORK, April 2.—A saucer- iplaced by a certified accountant.|shaped, wooden island with engine, | Regar will be retained in another masts and sails, has been designed capacity than financial. by Capt. Robert Bartlett, for near- First Assistant Bartlett will bt |1y 80 years sea captain on the Arc- replaced entirely and his office re- tic ocean. modeiled. Instead of settling per-; He calls the craft the sonal disputes and selecting Post ship.” “skinner % C It is a vessel unsuited Ior}and salinity tests, and sonic depth Office sites, the office will be used any of the seven seas except thel finder in action, he would measure MANY STATES “Skim” OQver Arctic Ice Fields \ \ E <3 at- s been designed by Capt. Robert Bartlett (inset) to be used in 'fl.’xt, The craft is elongated lik: | a salad dish. | From Alaska, Captain Bartlett wants to drift northward over the pole, sending daily weather obser- vations by wireless to Washington, | with meteorological balloons aloft, | wires and cables down for water nd ers 4 veteran € , the captain’s dream ship is also his life dream, the achievement his thoughts have been set upon since he first went [ W with Peary in 1897. “Some say,” he remarked, the sbip won't do it. But I know the Arctic and I know she will. “She’ll slide over the ice instead of being crushed. Her rudder and her propellor gan be lifted straight up to -deek when wé see the ice closing in. She will be the first Arctie ship with a Diesel engine, which takes up so little space that we can build her rigid throughout, something not done with another power vessel.” He wants to build the skimmer at a Puget Sound port and take her by easy stages, using inside s as much as feasible until hts the eternal ice pack. |the polar elements from two miles above the surface of the sea to two ‘milcs below, the maximum known | depth of, Arctic midocean He | would take magnetic observations, today and current readings and make special experiments with the BYro compass. | 'The drift over the pole in the direction of Europe, says Captain Bartlett, has been established by wreckage, but Arctic lore is blank ‘ns to speed of this current. | The polar Viking would like to %mkc small planes to range the ad- | jacent seas. At times, he says, | there are perfect flying days atop BRITISH DISPLAY NAV T0 FORGE NE ‘Brander Matthews, Author, Dies at His Home in New York to formulating policies and their Arctic, but adapted to perform in execution. {that ocean functions unknown to | o) Tt will carry eight or 10 scientists | |for a three to five-year‘cruise, all | {of them housed on its roomy decks, 1 lopen to light throughout six months | SEG MELLGN of day, and for observation dur- | ! |deck, 125 feet long and 45 wide, bears living quarters and labora- ,tories, and will rest only a foot 1 Bove water. Its horizontal level {is expected scarcely to be disturbed QUESU?" O_f Cabinet Mem'ilhr‘ ice, for the keel is only 12 feet ber s R]ght to Hold iI:olow deck, and the bottom nearly % Position at Issue | | | WASHINGTON, April 2.~Senfllcr whelming number of precedents to| RO, B S |support President Hoover in re- |taining Secretary of Treasury Mel-| { ilon and Secretary of Labor, Davis | H in the Cabinet without sendingj PASSES AWAY However, the Senate Judiciary | Committee, which has been direct- ed to inquiry into the status under' a resolution of Senator McKellar, will be called early at the forth-| each point raised, whether Mellon {is serving in violation of an old| Istatute forbidding the Secretary of the Treasury to be interested in trade and commerce. Whether commerce seems to hinge on the extent to which a stockholder is interested in business generaily. It is conceded that Mellon is a stock- yholder. Supreme Court decisions | - ey {other ships. ) ing the long polar night. ‘This |if pressure squeezes the ship up on iinvestigators have found an over- their nominations to the Senate. coming session to examine into| Mellon is interested in trade and on this point are being studied NO BLUFFING: ' BULLETS WHIZ, TWOMENDEAD Rivals for Affections of Housekeeper Settle Dispute BRANDER MATTHEWS ASSOQ/ATED PRESS NEW YORK, April 2—Brander ‘ WAYNESVILLE, N. C, April 2 —OIld rivalry for the hand of a} |lumber camp housekeeper is blam-| ied for a gun duel between (wo Matthews, author and educator, s 'died at his home here yesterday af- AL STRENGTH [AST RESPECTS W LINK WITH FRANCE | wams ey | (JE FRENCHMEN ARE PAID ENVOY Thousands Pass Bier of U. S. Ambassador Her- rick in Paris LONDON, April 2—A quarter century of surface understanding | between Great Britain and France | { will be celebrated all this week by | a display of British sea power off ' | Cannes, France. | The occasion will be the tweniy- | fifth anniversary of the signing o{] |the “entente cordiale” fostered by | |the late king Edward. The Medi- terranean fleet will take part in| paprs April 2 Frenchmen the display and Sir Austen Cham- pagsing the bier of United States berlain and Aristide Briand may | Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, who represent the foreign ministries of{med suddenly Sunday afternoon, their respective countries. |signed the register at the rate of Some observers regard the fete 10 a minute. Over 1,000 added their as another attempt to regain the names and other thousands came solidarity which existed between the yesterday to pay their last respects two countries prior to the world|to the American Envoy. war and which was given a jolt by | Those passing the bier compris- the recent collapse of the Anglo-|ed the most humble as well as the French naval pact in the face of most distinguished and aristocratic. adverse world public opinion. Cardinals and Ambassadors were Anglo-French cooperation was ! among those passing the bier with somewhat strained at the close of French officials and representatives the war and in the peace negotia-|Of Royalty but the mass were just tions because of differing interests, | Plain French people. There have been consistent at-! The body will be taken aboard tempts by certain British and the Tourville the newest and fast- French statesmen ever since to put 65t cruiser of the French Navy, at the relations back on a pre-war Brest, at a time to be determined basis. The guaranteeing of French by the family. security by the treaty of Locarno | gave the movement impetus, but the failure of the Anglo-French naval pact acted as a brake. t | Students of Anglo-French rela- tions are realizing more and more“ just how efficient King Edward was as a diplomat. The entente COLUMBIA, Mo, cordiale, signed April 8, 1904, wlthi‘steudy selected April supply of fresh not | “that | ONE AMERICAN IS INJURED BY ' REBEL BOMBERS 1/\ir Raiders Shells Drop on [ American Side of Border Line POPULACE FLEES | TERROR STRICKEN Federal Forces Reported | Held in Check by In- surgents at Jiminez i | | | NACO, Arizona, April 2.—Ferris |Baker, aged 35 years, of Alliance, gomo. was wounded on the head ;todny by flying fragments of two {rebel bombs which fell on the |United States side of the intetna- t over the North Pole. The saucer shaped vessel is expecied to withstand the pressure of |tional line during an air raid onm {the Mexican Federal fortifications \across the border from Naco. Baker was immediately placed under treatment of a physician. Four missiles were hurled, one of which shattered every window in the business section of Naco sending the terror-siricken popu- lace in a hurried scramble from the danger zonme. BATTLE AT JIMENZ UNDATED — Held in check by stubborn resistance after a heavy |day fighting for possession of Jim- enez, the powerful Federal forces |the Insurgent stronghold, contra- dicting Federal reports of a partial victory in yesterday's battle. The rebels claimed a sweeping victory during which the Insurgent forces drove southward for a dis- tance of 20 miles along the West Coast. The revolution appeared today entering a decisive phase, the bat- tle for Jimenez being the most ex- tensive. For 14 hours the battle raged. Late in the afternocn yes- terday the Federals ceased firing to draw lines for resumption of the attack today. The Federals claim possession of part of Jim- enez with the rest of the three- mile front appreciably nearer. No definite statement of cas- ualties is available. Each side states hundreds of the enemy were killed. Increase in Licenses Shows Growth of Radio WASHINGTON, April 2. — The tremendous growth of radio in the last 15 years is illustrated by the increase in the work of the Radio Division of the Department of Com- merce. In 1914 the Department li- censed 83 commercial and speecial land stations compared with 1,260 such stations in 1928. There were 239 commercial operators licensed in 1914 and 3,816 in 1928, ————— WAY OF BOOTLEGGER HARD IN DRY MEXICAN DISTRICT BROWNSVILLE, Tex., April 2— The Mexican State of Tamaulipas s one place where bootleggers are scarce. Prohibition laws are enforced by community police, without State or Federal ald, in 170 agrarian com« munities or “ejidos.” When violat- ors are caught, they are expelled from the community. The State was declared dry terri- tory upon petition of its citizens to the Governor. FRESH WATER CLAM 2—A | When left alone during his first |two weeks’ life the young clam or {poised for another onslaught against: Andre Citroen, the principal auto- 1 mobile maker of France, which‘U' s' Rec_elves Benefit Of AntiJapanese Move suggested reforms some of which| MANILA, April 2—Japanese im-| have been adapted to the great| advantage of the Government's| pocket book. Great increase in smoking, aided prove their facilities for distribut- men who lay dead on their facc within ten feet of each other. Joe Ray, aged 43, and Walter McCracked, aged 35, quarreled fre- quently, the police said, and had made threats against each other’s |porters have been obliged to im-|lives. Yesterday the two men met on by the active cooperation of wom- ing goods through the Philippine |the street. en, has helped the receipts, which islands because of the anti-Japan- have been growing rapidly each ese boycott launched by Chinese|few witnesses are quoted as having of the year while better methods have shop keepers. continued to reduce expenses. “Pll take no more bluffing” & heard McCracken say. As Ray ad- |ter an illness of over two years at |the age of 77. Immediate cause 'of death was influenza, which he icomrncted a week ago. | DROPPED FIRST NAME James Brander Matthews, who idropped his first name early in his 'literary career, was one of the last “Eminent Victorians” of | American origin. He was a crony | Importers of staple American|vanced with a drawn pistol, Mc-lof Mark Twain and William Dean Probably a big factor in the im-'commodities have been the chief|Cracken drew his gun and both Howells, a friend of Kipling atg mense profit is the fact the Gov- beneficiaries of the boycott, but the|men fired almost simultaneously. crnment owns warehouses, plants Chinese merchants, by purchasing| Ray fell dead with four shots in'ang Prance with writers and stage and equipment on which there are American products, chiefly textiles,|the head and body. no charges and the Government have been brought into competition| MecCracken dieG w=i two bullets pays no taxes. |with older distributors. i in the head. Roosevelt, and co-worker in England ;tolk of »the seventies, “elegant l (Continued on Page Three) France, was promoted largely by King Edward’s influence and his|the $1,000,000 pear]l button and nov- reception of President Fallieres inlelty industries, will be made possi- England did much to assist that!ble by a propagation and restocking \ historic document, Moreover, thnlprngram to be undertaken by the closer ties between England and|federal government in Mississippi ‘smaller countries like Portugal and valley streams. Spain, effected by King Edward,| A process developed by Dr. M. M. exist to this day. | Ellis, professor of physiology at The naval display is regarded by the University of Missouri, removes some students as the beginning much of the uncertainty from the of a new drive to consolidate pub- early life of the mussel. Millions lic opinion in both countries in fa-'of tiny specks which grow up to vor of the old solidarity. A good become the best pearl button stock show is likely to be made by the‘uvmlnblc will be brought (hroughiyears the clams develop shells that | British jackies and the publicists the first two weeks of life in a nu- of both nations will probably makcl_trmve fluid discovered by Ellis /the most of the occasion. rand safely deposited in river beds. ) ‘wnmr clams, the raw material of | mussel leads an uncertain life. Only |a few of the millions left by each mother clam to shift for them- | selves in the depths can find fish, and fewer the right kind of fish, on which to live the 12 to 20 days of their early parasitic existence. | Their fish-ride over, the minute clams find growing beds by hit or miss methods. Experimental plantings have been | successful at the bureau of fisher- |ies fresh water biological station | at Fairport, Towa. In five to eight $150 a ton. not a costly process, Ellis says, bring, for the best quality, $125 to | The propagation is