The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 23, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE XXIlI NO. 5081. “ALL THE NEWS ALT THE TIME” ]UNL—\U ALA%K\ TUFSDAY APRIL 23 1929 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS F!VE THOUSAND HOMELESS AS RESULT LEVEE BREAKING “ @VER UTLHNES NEW CAMPAIGN ENFORCEMENT PROCRAM IS % MADE PUBLIC President Proposes to As- sist Crime Commis- | sions in Work TWO SYSTEMS ARE TO BE EXTENDED Moral Sense of People to Be Awakened on En- forcement Subject WASHINGTON, April 23 —Presi- » has reached out and State and local as well as enactment into an already ass in his law enforce- ampaign. President stated that en- nt of these laws concern jent, both as a citizen 1d one upon whom rests respon- ty of leadership,- for estab- e of standards of law en- ement in the nation mploying this langauge in at the annual luncheon oft to and Wil mblymen who are hardli Pembroke nauer, m Hornb 7 of the Associated Press, ver it ar that one the 15 to gtve “assist- to crime commissions in sev- States which have long been udying methods of reducing , through improvment of the icial and enforcement systems. It is evidént. the, Prgstdnr4 nas et “Htmselr To' thd tbi0f “oon® |4 ting a campaign to awaken 1 sense of the people on the subject of law enforcement as to enlist a public under- ing and public support for the vork which his National Commis- cion will undertake. e — REFERENDUMON BONEDRY LAW NOW PROPOSED et | Murray Introduced Bill to! Permit Alaskans to Vote | On Repeal of Law | The voters of Alaska will be giv-| en an opportunity to express their! views at the next general election] frank Carr of Oakland. on the repeal of the Alaska Bone ™ Dry Law if the present Legislature | thinks and acts favorably on al measure introduced late yesterday by Representative J. H. Murray, Cordova. It was one of three bills introduced ~ just before the time limit expired for imtroduction of all measures, except the one carry- ing general appropriations. The others were: By Mr. Woofter, providing in all prosecutions in the Territory, the indictment or in- formation must charge but one crime and in one form only, except that when the crime may be com- mitted by the use of different means, it may be so alleged in the alternative; and by Mr. McCain providing for suspending sentences in the courts of the Territory of | Alaska, including for all ecrimes except murder, burglary, arson,rob- || bery and rape. Mr. Murray’s measure concermng‘ the referendum on the Alaska Bone‘ Dry Law provides that at the next|' general election, held in Novem- || ber, 1930, there shal lbe submitted ! to the qualified voters the ques—\, tion: “Resolved: That it is the wdl;. of the people of Alaska that the present so-called Alaska Bone Dry Law be repealed by the Congress| of the United States.” Community Property Hearing Advocates of a community prop- law were given an opportun- i L to present their case to the ‘Fagc“ts Land Huv‘ly House yesterday. Mrs. Mildred | Herrmann, Chairman of the Leg- islative Committee of the Alaska | Fedcration of Women's Clubs spoke? on the subject for 30 minutes. She described the measure before the House, introduced at her request! by Mr. McCain. She said she was| the personal representative of 350 club women of the Territory who ‘demanded that such legislation be enacted. She prefated her remarks by (Continued on Page Two) " Called as Witness Aimee McPherson, Leca Angele evangelist, who was summoned t Sacramento as a witness in the im- peachment trial of Judge Carlof, JHardy of Los Angeles. PIOMBINO, Italy,’ April Political forecasting is hardly favor in Fascist Italy, during cms pre-electoral season. 23— ventured to indulge in prognostica- tions as to the candidates from fhe province of Livorno for the forth- quickly ‘“sequestered” by the pro- /ICounsel On Political Prophets. JUDCE HARDY | WILL TESTIFY DURING TODAY Counsel fon Jurlst Mal(es Announcement—Oth- er Witnesses SACRAMENTO, Cel, April 23— for Judge Hardy an- nounced today that the jurist will |take the stand during the day in| the impeachment trial to “throw {light on the charges against him.” The attorneys did not amplify; ithe statement but declared they, will also produce two witnesses in' {an endeavor to counteract the tes-| timony of Mrs. Wiseman Seilaff' who told the Impeachment Court| !that Judge Hardy and Roland| Wooley, Los Angeles attorney, were nvolved in planning the mISSINg peen sued for $50,000 in a breach | legal advisor; i Y nst Judge Carlos Hardy of Los Harry Sewell, M. I, Cronin. FlGHTS SENATE OUSTER PROCEEDINGS Judge Carlos Hardy (seated) denies that a chcck from Aimee McPheruon, Los Angeles evan- yelist, was for legal services and has retained counsel to defend him in impeachment proceedings in Sacramento. Standing, left to right: Rex Hardy, son of the jurist; Ray Nimmo of Los Angeles and AS;d By Preacher T |BIG FIGHT IS SCHEDULED IN CONG. SESSION Export Debenture P.fl-l Vote to Be Test of Real Strength WASHINGTON, April publican leaders in ave he that branch of Congress. position of President Hoover t known that at the earliest portunity he will give notice Repul to ask elimination of the deben- ture section voted into the farm bill by the Agricultural Committee. Senator Watson decided this course after McNary at which it was agreed that the Administration leaders use - REPARATIONS REPORT WILL ‘|Experts Fail to Find Solu- tion—To Report Upon Disagreement PARIS, April 23.—The repara- tions experts again failed in efforts today to find a solution of the long pending reparations problems and began winding up the final work with first efforts to agree on points to be incorporated in a re- port on the failure of the Commis- sion to the interested governments. The Germans still appeared to cling to the hope of reopening talks concerning the main question of agreement but the French and Belgian commissioners remained impassive. 29 STRIKERS UNDER ARREST Demonstration in Tex- tile Mill Town GASTONIA, N. C., April Twenty-nine strikers and sympathi- [zers are under charges and a num- \ber are nursing injuries as a re- |sult of a battle between them and \the police which brought the tex- | tile mill strike to a climax today. Special Deputy Sheriffs swung ‘pistol butts and blackjacks vigor- ously to halt the unlicensed parade |organized in violation of the re- [cently passed city ordinance pro- , hibiting street demonstrations with- lout a permit. Twenty - nine persons, (nine women, were | charges ranging from blocking the ! sidewalks to drunkenness. H ———— JUNEAU TO FLY including 23.—Re- the Steel Controllc the Senate ly drafted jecided to make the vote on gor ort debenture plan a test introduced 1 of the Administration strength in praying C Fortified by the expressed ODP- sreate an Amer 10 o torial Governm: the proposal, Senator Watson made op-! as, an leader of his intention| a conference with Senator all influence to obtain passage of 2 bill ncceptab’e to the President. BE DRAFTED I'Clasl’x with_l;o—lice During (’nat() \lemomtl Attacks Gov. Parks, Charging Him With l’o!uu'ul Activity activity position of the * without men- me spe- land powerful o Governo Parks the infiw against the s impossible to r bill as and introduced by a Ser i | “federal of bill, make it origing Sc Steel, | tion grantir “power to 1 form of Terri- it in Alaska with- |out domination pointed officia The authors of the memorial are: Senators Anderson and Sund- quist, Second Divisipn, “enjamin, First Division, and > of other | nd control by ap- jernment,” in which the taxpayers Steel and | GEORGIA BEAUTY WEDS BABE RUTH VAST AREA I§ FLOUDED WHEN such doe: l e action l y the I;x‘.m\()"un\ not, reqitire action by the Flftcen Hundred Warned and Make Escape running en and one-half p.rws‘ to nghlands of mimeographed mattc hashes most of the old J\w(‘lll!)ll% REFUGEE CAMP IS that all of the Territorial legisla- | tures of Alaska have played Lhc; BEING MMNTAINED part of Esau, bartering away the powers bestowed on them to Fed- Entire Area Within 18 M‘le eral officials until the “present LC vee s Inundated Territorial Government is not in; any sense responsible to the peo- | -—‘NO LiVES LOS[ Is Lengthy Document | It is a rather*lengthy document, | ple of Alaska, and has become and | now is a Federal bureaucratic Gov- | SNOW LAKE, Ark., April 23— of Alaska are pmcncflly excluded , The Laconia Circle levee, encom- ‘pnssing 13,000 acres of rich farm land, broke unexpectedly last night ~ |adding 1,500 refugees to 3,500 oth= |ers, previously forced from their {homes in the lower Phillips Coun- ty by water. X (contlnued on Pnge_ ‘Three) Mrn Clllre llodgson, former New York Follles glrl the wife of baseball's home run king, Babe Ruth. photo from New York. AR TRAGEDY Body of Flier Beneath Wing—Mound of Earth Significant LONDON, Ap.;;!.41‘he London Express, newspaper, says observers. flying over the stranded arrested on|airplane Yookaburra in the Tanimi desert, northern Australia, observed details which led them to believe that one of the missing aviafors buried his companion in a shallow zrave before expiring. NORTH THURSDAY The observers flew as low as 4 !| The Washington Alaska Airways Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, Evangelist Aimee McPherson, mother ol 'seaplane Juneau will leave Seattle hag| Thursday. morning on a return flight north, according to a cable angle in the disappearance story ofl of promise suit by Rev. H. H. Clark message received here by Jack Hol- Mrs. Aime Semple McPherson. e | |2,138 DRAW A SALARY L FOR RESTING IN FRANCE l | PARIS, April 23.—There are 2~ 138 Government _ employees in | France who have nothing to do but |draw their salaries, and- the Gov- lernment cannot discharge them. | This situation has existed for a year and a half, Pierre Forgeot,| | Minister of Public Works, told the| |bring some action. | These workless explained, were individuals, in the liberated | coming plebiscite on April 1 was|regions department, heritage of Lhe'lc" Independent Gas 37'% war, ands the work that remains' to be done occupies only a small staff. Seattlo glergyman. AR A TODAY’S STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April at 6%, American Smelting Light 62%, Texas Corporation 66%, 23.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today 103%, {Cudahy 55, General Motors 87%, Gold Dust 66%, Mack Trucks 106%, Missouri 81}, National Power and {loran, mechanic of the plane on her first northern flight. Mr. Holloran ‘dld not go south on the plane and {will join the ship on her arrival | here. The wire stated that the Juneau would make a nonstop flight to Ketchikan, weather permitting, and after a short stop there would come directly to Juneau. It was not stated that any pas- ‘senger had been booked for the U. S. Steel 186%, Bethlehem Steel NOrthward flight, but it is consid- year Rubber common 1307, he |ieson Alkali 197, International Pap-, Paper B| Stand- on the Whitehorse and Yukon Rail- |at Vancouver, was a roundtrip pas- , Stewart-|road, is a vacation bound passen- er A 29, International ard Oil of California 78" Warner Ti%. | A local weekiy newspaper that Senate, hoping a full airing would |115%, Continental Motors 22, Good- !ered almost certain that passengers Mam.‘wul be carried. e —— John Olsen, locomotive engineer ]ger on the Princess Alice. they dared over the desert tragedy and by use of field glasses definite- ly established that the body under a wing is that of Lieut. Keith An- derson. A low mound of earth suggested that it might cover the body of Robert Hitcheock. Both aviators have been missing ja fortnight since starting out to search for the Southern Cross which in the meantime was located and rescued. S CHIMNEY FIRE A chimneoy fire on the roof of the Jensen residence at Sixth and Franklin, called the Fire Depart- ment out this morning. The damage was slight. —— e — Dr. J. H., Carson, surgeon in |charge of the Provincial Hospital senger on the Princess Alice. He made the trip as a short vacation. ) | 3 |Fliers Cramer | And Gamble | 1§ REVEALED [tk ¥ vt BY SEARCHERS, 18-mile levee is inundated. Residents were warned by tele- |phone’ and bells and they quickly |evacuated the area. For several days, the Missouri. | Pacific - Railway kept a special ’tmln near for such an emergency. Steam was kept up day and night on the locomotive attached to a train of b&x cars which took the refugees and household goods to a place of safety. | No lives were lost and all live- stock is reported saved. The Laconls Circle section is low - {lying area, believed to have once ~ been a lake. It has been farmed Ifor 80 years. A ' POSTAL AGE WOUNDED IN GUN BATTLE IMay Dieas Result of At- tempt to Capture Al- leged P. O. Robbers CHICAGO, April 23—Evan Jack- son, ace among Chicago Postal In- spectors, and four men he sought (Picture by tele- |for an $18,000 post office robbery, fought with guns in a hotel room —]enrly this morning. | Jackson was shot three times and may die. Clyde: Mackin, one of the robber suspects, was slightly wounded and captured. ¥ A woman companion with the four men, Marian Courtney, leap- ed from a first-story window and ghe was found painfully injured in the alley below. The other three men escaped. Eckmann Takes Husky Pup to \His Brother SEATTLE, April 23—With two passengers, a husky pup and $40.- 000 in furs and a quantity of mail, the Alaska-Washington Airways, Inc., plane Juneau arrived Sunday T. G. Stevens, plane pllot and|Dight from Juneau, Alaska. The Jart owner of the Yukon Auw-ys.“éfim“’“ "“"’“3:‘: zy t:u"‘ Anscel is a passenger south on’ the Prin-| AR o rother Ray. A sess Alice. Mr. Stevens is going (S0P Was made at Ketchikan for & south on a vacation and to study |Man named Loughe‘ad brought * the recent development of the air-|Suth for treatment in a Seattle plane industry. The headquarters DosPital. The other passenger was of the company are located at Charles Goldstein, of Juneau. Whitehorso and operates over the| Another flight north is planned Mayo-Dawson-Whitehorse route. for m:a:e:;.k officials 0""“9-“?“.' 3 i Bt | The entire area inside of the who is now WHITEHEORSE, Y. T, APril 23—Parker Cramer and W. S. Gamble, American aviators flying from Chicago to Nome, landed here, Sun- day night. They came via Edmonton, Prince George, Hazelton, Telegraph Creek and Atlin. 000 vcvo0 000 RSP SIS PLANE PILOT OUTSIDE FOR VACATION AND BUSINESS FRENCH SOLONS BALK AT VOTES FOR WOMEN PARIS, April 23.—Woman suf- frage, on which parliament is di- vided, received another setback in the Senate. matter to an issue, opponents of the women taking refuge in the contention that this is no time to raise such a problem as there are Year after year the Chamber has | ?::e;lfi:‘i;g Bapea i indicated its approval of giving thel Premier Poincare long has w ballot to women but the Senate n'lendly to some form of PR, never could bring itself to that | suffrage but he never felt imp TAOREER ow. to make it a primary matter an A seven to five ratio vote defeat- | which the government would .take ed the last attempt to bring.the |its power or prestige.