The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 4, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIIL, NO. 5065. ]UNEAU ALASKA; NORTHERN INSURGENT ARMY REPORTED ANNIHILATED “ALL THE NEWS THURSDAY, D APRIL 4, 1929. HOOVER ENDS FIRST MONTE AS PRESITENT Worked on Government| Problems, Made Many Decisions WASHINGTON, April 4—At ncon today Preside Hoover reached the end of his first month in the White House ,a month in which he ] himself unremittingly of the Government and numerous impertant decisio: announced outstanding policies of the new Administration, / on Sundays and the seen Cong extraord ration of Farm Relief and lim- ited tariff revision. The President has announced the Administration will follow the pol- of rigid conservation of oil s and ordered that tax refunds r $20,000 be made public. President has also lated a plan for distribution ¢ Federal offi in the Southern States and in addition he has made numerous appointments to positions responsibility in the Government President Hoover is now scanning the lisi of men available for a commission to make a study of law enforcement . »nd court pro- cedure. It is also learned that the Presi- dent disapproves of sporadic or spectacular attempts to enforce Prohibition and rather prefers to the building up of the American people to a substantial respect of all law realizing that they must be obeyed, Sun-back Dresses Banned; Girls Ordered Home Jacksonvilie April 4—Sun- back dresses may be the latest fad but are not to be worn at school if the Dean of full say. Six girls who appe d at cla: frocks with abbreviated , felt the Dean’s wrath when decided the dresses “actually hed the poi of immodesty.” ordered t s home to put d blem: s he allowed rest of o she reac The girls maintained the dresses admitted many healthful rays of sunshine They were cut extreme- ly low in the back and were above the knees. The girls became indignant when they were ordered home. Five com- plied with the order but the sixth girl did not see why she should be forced to change. The question will be settled the Superintendent of Schools more girls attempt to appear with the sun-back dres - STAR HOOP PLAYLRS HIG HIN CLASSROOM by if in classes BROCKTON, Mass., April 4.— A basketball team that stands near- ly as well in its studies as it does on the court is the Brockton high school quintet, which just ended a stiff schedule of 20 games without a setback. In the squad of nine men there are five on the school honor roil. One member, Herbert Semino, has been an honor man for all four years he has been in high school. Two other members of the first team are honor students. The re- maining four players have marks high enough to be classed but under those on the honor! formu- $250 000 Rlcher Ig to | [ enm————— Galina Kopernak, young Rus- sian actress, finds that her re- ward for befriending a Russian royalist, is to be given to her right here on earth. Twenty years ago she advanced funds to enable Nicholas Arliokop to come to Canada where he made the fortune he now wills to her, (International Newsreel) THREE STATES T0 SEEK AID FISHINDUSTRY SACRAMENTO, C: A combinat.on of three the Federal Government for the e of seekil comprehensive n for the conservation of salmon ught by a resolution introduced Senator W .R. Shark: of Mar- Z. The Sharkey April tes with by tine: ) resolution directs the State Game and Fish Commis- sion to confer with the off 1s of the states of Washington and Ore- gon then the three states to seek the advice of the United States De- | partment of Fisheries on protection and control of the mon industry. Salmon fishing by trolling in off- shore waters is one regulation to be-sought. The Senate Game and Fish Committee is conside the resolution. To Coinstnz‘ct’fiaflft;ad Into Heart of Olympics SEATTLE, April 4—Construction of 60 miles of railroad into the heart of the Olympic Peninsula tapping vas ber, is announced by Vice-Presi- dent Coman, of the Northern Pa-| cific Railway. The proposed road will cost $6.-l 000,000 and will require two years to complete. Application for permission to be- gin work has been filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission jointly by the Northern Pacific and Unmn Pacific. RULES APPROVED FOR 1929 YACHT RACE TO JUNEAUFROM OLYMPIA. Final touches were placed on the 1list of rules and regulations which, providing they meet the approval of | officials of the American Power Doat Association, will govern the Second Annual Capital-to-Capital | | tle, the Tacoma, and the Olympia | Yacht clubs. Danger Element Eiiminated Rules of the race will not differ ‘materla'ly from those that endured for the 1928 race, Secretary B. F. stands of virgin tim-} FRENCH HONOR DEAD DIPLOMAT ~ IN PARIS TODAY | Re<pccts of Nation Paid to| M(‘monv Of Il(]"'ll"'l M. T. Herrick RIS, April 4 cr the death of Mars and Fech, the people a: | rent of nce today poured unbounded tribute to the me of United S 1 m T. Herr! self ir Frenchmen in | the World War ound the bier s and Str n of the Am members of t} Army officers Diplomatiz Corps 5 paid th -Still grieving hal Fer | Sabinet, and many ir last affection- notable gathering ever spects to the memory of a Woveigner in the French Capital. With the C ion of Marshals 1e French Goverr uding the utmost simp! cortege to the 1 and cere: am American y the: at the D e M()T OR l‘l()\l' ER WILLIAM E DETROIT, April e One of days of the automobile industry| {was William E. (Billy) Metzger. Originally he was a bicycle deal-| In 1898 he began to sell the| old style steam cars, then later ad- ded others. When the Cadillac Motor Company s organized in 1902, Moetzger one of the founders fn 1908, with Walter Flanders .and B. F. Everitt, he formed the E. M. F. Company, which was sold to Studebaker following year. He then organized the Metzger Motor Car {and in 1912 merg {Maxwell Com % foll retired, but and 2 wa ! with car Mr. Metzger was too great in harness the Wills! ainte Cl(;xre Company of Michi- gan. t 4 PIONEERS DANCE TO LEGISLATORS IS GIVEN TONIGHT Tonight in Elks Hall, starting at 9:30 o'clock, the Juneau Igloo No. 6, Pioneers of Alaska, will give a dance in honor of the members of the present Alaska Territorial Leg- islature. The affair is and a good time is promised by the Pioneers. e Men Burned to Death When Plane Crashes SCOTT CITY, Kansas, April 4.— Three men were burned to death this forenoon when a monoplane - yacht race to start from O‘ymp'alHume said, although there was a|crashed to the ground and then for Juneau, mately 10 am., June 15, at a meet- | ing of members of the race gules committee in Tacoma on March 26, according to the Daily Olympian | 4 in the last mail by The | Toc Empire. Representatiyes, though not all| members of the rules committee, were present from Seattle and Queen City Yacht clubs, of Seat- men to those suggestions having to ;do with eliminating the element of | danger, to both men and vessels, from the contest. Accordingly, measures were adopted to insure | that all craft are equipped with full }salety devices, including, besides | the regular requirements of the \Gwemment Rule Book; a search- | (Continued on Pagc Six) | Alaska, at .approxi- decided favor shown by the yachts- |burst into flames. - — F. R. Bigford, traveling represen- tative of H. J. Heinz Company, arrived on the Yukon to work lo- cally for several days before going on to the Westward towns. eee Deputy U. S. Marshal H. D. Campbell of Wrangell arrived on the Admiral Rogers to be here while Court is in session. Poin- | the dominant figurcs in the early | Company. | the ! informal | i st FRANCE PAYS L AST TR!{BUB" TO T CRIME PUZILES * CHICAGO POLIGE \let}‘} Wmuw Found l)y- ing—Maid Is Dead— | Theories Advanced | CHICAGO, A])Hl 4.—What .mwun-d to be lllr.\‘!)ti"l »d by suicide in which a thir layed a murder’s Two aged women, one a wealthy | |widow, and her maid, were found | n the former’s apartment. | The maid, Mrs. Ida Peterson i |dead, a bread knife having beer | plunged ‘into her n e maid’s mistr 50, aged 70, is 1 ammer blows The first theory of the police s at the maid attempted to kill Kelso and then took her own| Only slight hopes are ent tained for the recovery of Mrs. |Kelso who has not yet recovered consciousness. Physicians the maid wo w.nouph to plung h“r own neck wi uch fo {break off part of blade isicians and police also believe, cause of the flow of blood |Kelso was attacked er the first | murder | Mrs. Helen | death from e bt, the knife, into to Phy- be- Mrs. | m oo GRAND JURY - NOW AT WORK | Nineteen members or the Grand {Jury were examined in the U. S District Court this morning after reporting at 10 o'clock and by 10:30 they had been sworn in, admonish- ed by Judge J. W. Harding ar started to work on their first case.; fore this Grand Jury, and it pected that they will be sion about two weeks. Those serving are {don, appointed foreman; Baroumis, Mrs. G. Blomgren is nick, Dorothea Harland, J Hud- son, Gudmund Jensen, Tom McMullen, Mr: tenen, J. P. Morgan, son, Gladys M. N Pigg, George R. Rig and Carey L. Tubbs S e e John E. MOUNTAIN GOATS ON A pair of mountain |through Juneau on the ¢ Alaska consigned to St Washington, it was lecry Alaska Game Commission morning. They are par lsku'pment of eight goats which Territory owes to the St ‘Washington, in return for elk the State gave to Alask aoat n‘ d at the a| he sixt of | | | j i two elk for one goat Th: Zlk were sent to the West year and this is the first goats to be sent Outside. of l jh Funeral cortege of the former generalissimo of tha allied armie final resting place in The Invalides. The body will repose alongside : (Assccxated Press photo transmitted from Europe by radio to Now York of the 2g through crowdsd Paris streets to his cleon and other great figures of French history. co by telephone). MOTOR CAR BUILDERS INWORLD STRUGGLE e e NEW YORK, April 4 national struggle for s the world motor car ufacturers of the Unitec those of England, France d | Germany. ‘The Ford company Twenty-five cases are to come be- |forts to plant subsidari v, .gic points spurred the G |poration to conte | measures, | Street additional Christensen, Alex Gair, Anita Gar-|the amounting to $800 hnU will + made. It is reported that :‘ Motors corporation and 1 | French motor car concer |roen company. |fact by Wall Stre ALASKA|Sloan of the Ge; poration purchase of European comps e ;hy agreements with of ! pare for Ford's inv: S| BRITISH CADDIES HIT attached to English club The | fered heavy Joss from the trade was decided on the basis of lof the past winter last | |the caddies who for the last few!colla the | { months have earned almost nothing | fron ER oL (‘: w_\r@r\v_.AN IN RAID- EEK WITNESS | DRY RAIDERS MURDER CASE, lan W]m C]"!mr‘] He Se cured Liquor, Denies It —Perjury Charge I, April 4- being sought by County for the second atal shooting ing by dry ri s have so far | AURORA, Fairchild is 1| anthorities r]«mw the r]‘ De 1 of M ers failed lrr[. e hvm Fairchild out of the when he denied buying liquor Officials state was made, he purmasmi liguor - - TWO KILLED having Joseph Deking was beaten insensible in his Aurora, Il home by a prohibition agent and as Mrs. Deking bent over his body, one of the officers fatally shot her. Their son, Gerald, 9, seized a gun, fired and wounded one of the men. (Associated Press photo transmitted by e telephone). sewan, Weyburn, Apri | 4—Roley i | John Sytorchuck. killed yesterday plane piloted by Ford hit a tele: of and ave driven golfers One sportsman I 1 taries of States and their club-houses inviting members Italy and 'to contribute to a fund for the re- ilief of caddies whose inco rgetic ef- been frozen out. > " Bahlke Is Elected Mayor, I"on,e Election arctic wind i WHICh, prought a passenger here while waiting for him to comp “ his business, agreed to take up pa: sengers. He made one such fligh oping between the has children, s enc R Two schools of sale throu; equipped with modern re! of Commmu in Paris, Well Eugene me to is wanted on a perjury | in- the Deking home, it was on account |of an affidavit Fairchild had made that the raid on the Deking place | stated he| “from a \vuman." and Khedive, were afternoon when a Ford was a World War flier. He|® before going up with Sytorchuck. ® The latter leaves a wife and two ® \anship | ® stores, have been opened by the Chamber MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS SMASHING BLOW A DMINISTERED TO INSURGENTS ‘l/\rtiller_v, Cmry, Infantry and Airplanes Make Attack REPORT SLAUGHTER MOST TREMENDOUS | i Remnants of Rebel Army in Flight — Three Generals Escape EL PASO, April — A terrific |slaughter of the sirong rebel force {trapped at Lareforma north of |Jimenez is reported to the Mexi- |can Government at Mexico City, by Gen. Almazan. Commander of ’the Federal advance guards. This |is according to advices received 1 here. Artillery, cavalry, infantry and airplanes coordinated in the smash- |ing blow, the dispatches state. ; Insurgenis Retreating | The Insurgents are retreating full isp:-vd from Jimenez in reported vir- {tual annihilation. It is described ilh:\t number of dead is stu- {pendous with at least 500 wound- |ed and the rest captured or di ‘m‘rwd The army is originally es- |timated at several thousand. | From Santa Rosalio, midway be- |tween Jimenez and the rebel strong- |hold at Chihuahua came conflict- J ing reports. This report declared the Insurgents have launched a |counter attack and there is again fighting on the streets of Jimenez. |In some quarters this is thought {to refer to a rebel cavalry charge {of 1,300 men against troops of |Gen. Ontis belore the retreat be= - {gan. Diverting Forces Commander - in-Chief Calles an- nounces the campaign of exterm- ination will continue and 5,000 men are being diverted to the States of Jallisco and Guanajuato to combat the so-called religious Insurgents there. | Rebel lepders Escobar, Caraveo " land Urbalejo are said to have es- |caped with a pcrtion of their |original army of G,000 men and are enroute to Santa Rosalio. AVIATOKS KILLED NACO, April 4—Two Mexican | Federal aviators were killed this afternoon when one of their bombs exploded while engaged in a raid on Gen. Topete’s troop train. The bomb sent the plane crashing to earth in flames. The plane, at the time of the accident, was on the fifth trip over the rebel train. AR o 12 oo 4 PLANE CRASH #tane compteres Round Trip, 1|Seattle to Juncau SEATTLE, April 4—The round trip of the Boeing fly- ing boat from Seattle to Ju- neau ended near Olympia last night when it landed five passengers including the first two women, Mrs. P. T. McCarty and Mrs. Jack Mc- Cord, to enter Alaska by air- plane. The ship left Van- couver, B. C, yesterday, pass- ed the customs at Port Townsend and continued to Olympia where it landed on a private estuary. The party then returned to Se- attle. qle o 1 ® |e e ° sources understand flotati Ford Comp: (Speeial to The Empire) —A 2ahlke was elected Mayor in Tues- election without opposition, Sam Anderson and Ar Wright re reelected Councilmer also Swanberg, without opposition, he one-year te; For City Clerk Ja IN RUSH formed betwe obsgaard lected over two opponent by | better than 2 to 1. Mrs. Sarah was reelected to the School| Hugh O'Neill was elected| NEW YORF y Attorney and Jack Stran- ing has proved room, Treasurer. able in the e o st five ars, and the pl(JlLs&lOn J , al “bears” have b |Wukan-China Armies lcader since the | Are Reported on Run It is accepted as N W. PRENOSIL lent ncial Editor) By STANLEY (A. P. F is undertaki April 4 extremely stock market during th them { Europe - o n BY NON-(}(H ING WINTER | of Jesse Livermore Livermore wrecked many “bull” 4—Golf caddies have suf- verit LONDON, April HANKOW, April 4.- es which have been opposing of inflated market advance of the Nationalist|market sponsorship. «rnment troops on Hankow h‘ne‘ There has been only one major sed and are retreating on all | reaction in the current “bull” mar according to reliable m-,ketvme disastrous collapse of pric on received here. Jes in March, 1926, This was due t the are ! Go J Hundreds of ex-service men covered | [ /) cause of frozen or Wi Short sell- | unprofit- without a' tieal xedremnnt i . BEAR DISAPPEAR OF BULLS IN RECENT YEARS an accumulation of adverse de- | velopments involving the raising of the federal reserve rediscount | rates and the interstate’ commerce commission’s rejection of merger plans which upset speculation in 3 the so-called “railroad merger s'xnce that time there have been !a few sharp set-backs of shori du- ‘ratmn one in June, 1828, another e | campaigns years ago by his ““"in October and a third in the early The Wukan |canny ability in ferreting out stocks| part of March, 1929. These have value or weak|poon followed in each instance, | however, by railies which sent the * |general average of prices to new "hlzh levels. 3 0 (Continued on Page Seven) ;