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

T RpT THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. )\XXIV., NO 5089 ]UNrAU ALASKA THURSDAY W\Y 2 1929 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HEAVY SNOW STORM IN TWO STATES MiSSOURI AND ILYINOIS ARE COVERED, SNOW Traffic Is Demoralized and Communication Is Interrupted TORNADOES ADD TO SERIES OF TROUBLE Six Lives Are Taken in Two Towns and For- ty Are Injured LOUIS, Mo, May 2. — A ¢y snow storm struck Missouri Illinois today demoralizing and disrupting communica- tratfic tions. Temperatures dropped to below freezing and there inches of snow has already fallen. A nado is reported in South- tern Missouri. Yesterday another ado struck two widely separat- ed regions and took six lives and ir ed 40 persons. The deaths oc- cur at Brinkley and Weathey Another storm has hit Arkansas and injured a dozen at Fort Smith and Sand Prairie, Texas = A 60-mile an hour galeyw il e \Coast Windjammers Are on Last Vovya To balmon Habitats |\ DOUBLE HOUSE PRAISES GOV, PARKS FOR " HIS ATTITUDE ‘Passvs Resolution Endors-| ing His Administration by Vote of 14 to | oe ) | | | The House this morning by a vote lof 14 to one, the remaining member ;bmm; absent, passed a House Res- |olution unreservedly endorsing the jadministration of Gov. George A. 'Park and praising him unquali- iedly. While it does not refer di- ctly to Senate Memorial No. 1,| |attacking the Governor and alleging him to have been politically active, it makes reference to it indirectly. Winn, F Division, w the member to vote agai it. He signed no reason for his vote. Mr. McCain was absent, having left last night for Ketchikan to visit his son H. G. McCain and | fami! Text of Resoiuiion text of the resolution fol- “BE IT RESCLVED, by the House | :—’]Djf\<’lf:;‘:lfiCglee‘é’f;::l’::mi';e;i:fi;‘ The Star of Alaska is making her last trip out of the port of San|Of Representatives of the Alaska| snow, hail, sleet 9 Peancisco fo (M salmen banks, Capt. Carl Peterson (inset) .i8 her| Territorial Legislature in Ninth| rt, S “That we commend, without res-| and snow fell along the border for SR Boms ¥ e —_lervation, the Honorable George A.) Balf an Bour, | SAN FRANCISCO, May 2.—For| Othe neariy as ,n‘l,r' . of men in their vei sailing of the Star of Al Rer tinal trp 1o G of the north has with salt on | SENATUR EDGE ken some of of old co. She pi is the last full rigged American ship which ever will nose out through the Golden Gate and point FOREIGN POST south in search of the trade winds industry. naedan "t - taka, Har~ northwazd . o], The, ‘addition| of a fiflit, steam | 105 bs IBbor e, hag ol i s the cold waters. Dhtip;: iwhileh - could: ot e gotten| TUMnk. Himselt with Sihe meens Of New Jersey Man May Be " . s behind the Star in time: for ‘this seasos|the VAribus regions dsialaska, and Selected as Ambassa_ aska, also en route to nor e, will enable the / a Pu:k-if}"‘:felL‘h?:“l’;::“;n‘j“:";f"(::::g:;h‘sh}i‘:; d By waters, is the four-masted bark, |ers’ Association to discard the two |SIVR 10 L0 Many I eyt ior to France Star of Holland. When the two of | remaining sailing craft and the five | ©OnrOnY hlm;- we commeng him e them, fortune willing, return to|ste: enceforth will'do the | or, Ml sorupizious icars in\ganh- V»".'\S}*!IN(?'I’ON. May 2—Diplo- port, the era of the sailing vessel matic circles seem convinced that in this romantic sea-faring venture United Stages Senator Walter E. of the far north will have come | ve: Steam driven ships have crowded | The Star of Alaska will operate on except these two old wind-|the Pacific side of the Aleutians in s of |the vicinity of Unimak pass. Edge, Republican of New Jersey, will likely be the choice for the appointment as Ambassador to gyt a1 Irance to succeed the late Myron B. Herrick. to its close. ammers, from all of the po: ) ¢ the Pacific at which once mighty| Eleven sailing craft of the fleet B ; , Mithentle information, HOWeVr: fishing flcets of sailing craft were [basing here are tied up waitihg thacs ely) . g e ok S Soapet (has. 10y nend, sale or junking, one has found a|PY Men who in POEBSTRERD intention of making this selection public for some months or until after the special sesison of Con- gress. 1t is regarded as lending fuyth- In its prime this largest sailing fleet under American reg! bered 21 ships of variou tions ranging from 1,300 to , the large, Alfon bafiks | west coast poit the tanZ of the sea from the port of Bellingham, { ™ :;’01"(’”;0‘;\1 o Al“ka'l o4 a_ and other |true and loyal Alaskan, an mncr-! | out Wash., Portland, Ore., able and upright man, and an. cellent administrator, of whom Alaskans may well be proud. We commend Governor Parks for the marked ability with which he has performed the duties of his offi we commend him for his fairness and impartiality; we commend him { but the eccnomic {advantages of modern craft forced their replacement il this year | one port, San Francisco, wit- d the clearing of a wind driv- en boat in the annual exodus of ! vessels that compete in the salmon ing his activities to the proper per- formance of his own duties, and in | never invading the field of action reserved for the Alaska Territorial Legislature by the provisions of the Organic Act of Alaska; we commend him for his good temper and sanity when he has been (and or The will be ssel of ar of Holland this season the only American sailing erating in the Bering Sea. obtain political jobs at public, ex-} were sold for ore-carrying m-gons{iish?‘(“trq?:;e‘:;n?rdzgzsgd- "39! south seas, and three have gone | Siass 'l’ him bepanse. b y,". " {ollywood to serve the moving RONRARG. D 5008 8. gen: tleman. |place in a museum at San Diego, er color to the report Senator (oD {Picture LR Ten To Delegate Edge will scon go to Paris. = 5 “BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, Other goscip has it that Jacob That a copy of this Resolution be Schurman will remain in Berlin Final Story ,,f and L. S. Swensop will retain his peniReR 4 y and Hugh S. Gib- | Two Aviators gon will be Ambassador to Bel- On Rudder gium. | e b S e Sorme transters are Mkely tn the! SYPNEY, Australia, May 3-8 bled on the rud- told the tr rough diary sc e of the planc American countries Eumb.m. RN R0 e of Robert Hitehcosk and Keith An- e made. . derson, aviators who sought the . . | plane Southern Cross. The last vaorced WIfe of entry was April 12 and said: “At- Arbuckle ls suing‘tempted to take off, \and thirsty. Anderson left in searci LOS ANGELES, May 2.—Doris [F Water Arbuckle, divorced wife of Roscoe| Hitchcock's body was found be- (Falty) Arbuckle, brought 'suit to neath the plane. Anderson':s body compel the former film comedian Was nearby. He had evidently to convey to her their home in walked in circles until he collopsed Beverly Hills, which she said was and died. given to her in a property settle- ment last August. She said the property is now in the hands of Joseph M. Schenck, trustee for Axbutklo Study Sun to Predwt Change in Climate - M. 8. Wilson left for Kcichikan on the steamer Yukon. Mr. Wilson is making the trip in the interest of his firm. WASHINGTON, May 2—Daily forecast of the general trend of the studies of the intensity of the sun’s sun’s energy, but prediction of cli- REVOLUTION IN but too weak | |Gen. Almazan and his army 'Prince Henry rays soon may make it possible to matic and terrestrial changes de-, pendent on the sun. Solar radiation to rise to a feeble maximum in the Regular periodicities have been gpring months and fall to a marked discovered in variation of the in-'pinimum in the autumn. tensity of the rays, according 10, nree observatories of the Smitii- forecast the general march of solar energy a year or more in advance. | Dr. C. G. Abbot, Smithsonian sec- | sonjan institute, situated on moun- | getary and divector. of he astro-tain tops in desert localities of physical observatory. |southern California, southwest Af- If the periodicities continue to rica, and Chile, are cooperating in ally bestow the Order of the Garter | ¥ 4 s | i on »prevail, not only may there be a the studies, has been found | ,the oldest reigning house .world today extended a welcome | sent to the President, a copy to the United States Senate, and ten) copies to the Honorable Dan A. F | Sutherland, Delegate to Congress LE .8 L from Alaska, for distribution among the heads of lh(* departments of the Governmer The resol \tion was introduced by | Mes: Lomen and Foster by unan- { pPass Two Bills MEXICO CITY, May 2. — The| mphe House this morning resug- public has leaned for the first| o toq the two measures relating to! |time, that the final collapse Ofyne creation of Auditor's office and the Mexican revolutionary move-|eeotion of its encumbent and to ment n Soncra is imminent and|in, ejection of Territorial Treasur- pmxr_xcatmn of Northern Mexico is er. These have been slumbering in o T |the Judicial Committee awaiting Bulletins announce & meeting at|some definite action of the Control- |Mogales and surrender of the reb-jer Bjj) which carried sections pro- els, and flight of the principal leaders to the United States. The announcement is made that the battle at Sonora last Monday 'was the last encounter in the up- viding for the same things. While |it was not so stated, there was a, general belief that the bringing out | of the two independent bills indi- cated that the House has little) hope of being able to compose 1Ls| differences with the Senate major-| ity on the Controller Bill and is' going ahead on its own initiative} |to make proper provision for look- ling after Territorial functions now | performed by the office of Secre- |tary of Alaska. The House also passed Benja- min’'s bill creating scholarships at: the Alaska College which as amend- ed by the Senate establishes one| scholarship from each high sw_hool; TOKYO, May 2—The head of in the Territory. The bill carries | ‘n the |an appropriation of $3,300. Beats Senate Memorial Senate Memorial No. 13, intro-| duced and passed yesterday by that body, failed of passage in the House. It petitioned Congress for | The rebels attemptea to ambush | but | failed as the attack was decisively | beaten off and the rebels laid |down their arms. Rkt AL Is Welcomed | By Emperor to a scion of the second oldest. Emperor Hirohito met Prince Henry of England at the station. The latter arrived here to person- | TRANSCONTINENT AL f MAIL QFRF'I('I" | measures {an hour !the Community Property bill, AIR IS NOW ANNOU SEATTLE, May 2—The Boring | ystem has inaugurated a double anscontinental mail schedule| | whereby letters will be carried be- | tween the Atlantic and Pacific| coasts with a loss of only one busi- |ness day. Planes will cr the continent in 32 hours leaving twic CED, 8; 1 day in each direction. | The Boeing Company has com- | pleted 25 planes capable of carry- ing 60,000 letters at a rate of 142 | miles an hour. i The Bocing Systems, all told now have a daily average of 10,000 miles m ng. -es SENATEORDERS BILLS BROUGHT ACK THIS P.M. Committee Blocl\adc Is' Broken—All Bills Are | Ordered Cut at Once g piockade of certain! in the Senate was ap- parently ended at noon today. Just| before it recessed at that hour until 2 p. m. a motion was made by Senator Hess that all commit-| tees be instructed to report to the Senate all bills held by them. | Senator Benjamin, who has vot: at various times with the ma- The 1 ed Powm ful S pa Among the leaders in the new V(’w (;umts N. Y. OFFICIAL Fin Wall Swreet). 1€ SISTERSY ke PRES. HOOVER William l—)g}root Loses Position — Public Hearing Denied 'ACTION IS TAKEN TO " SECURE EFFICIENCY Two Other District Attor- | neys Have Handed in | Their Resignations WASHINGTON, May 2.-—Williom | DeGroot, who has repeatedly re- |fused to resign as United States | District Attorney in the Eastern |New York District, has been sum- Imarily dismissed from office by | President Hoover, the third District Attorney forced from office since Attorney General Willlam D. Mit- chell undertook to comply with the President in a desire for increased - jefficiency in the Government serv- ice and has initiated a nation- | wide survey of Prosecutors, which is still in progress. | Attorneys John Cook of Missis- | sippl, and William Gober, of Flor- |ida, have submitted resignations in |compliance with requests of Hoover. | The President rejected DeGroot's |request for a public hearing, an- Upper left, Arthur‘“ed‘“g that it seemed to be no bull market are: difference in the opinion of judges ty old r - | F. Cutten; hi, Wil of ¢ [ | |jority to hold a number of meas Cutten; upper right, William C, Durant{; lower right, John J. Raskob. "mrl meniliere’ of the bar a8 1ok ures in committee, at once gave no- tice he would support the motion.| And Senator Anderasmiwhase pame | is first on the roll call blank, voted yes. The motion then passed by & unanimous vote. Money Bill Unconsidered Senator Sundquist, Chairman of the Finance Committee, said it had | not had time to consider the gen-| eral appropriation bill, that he had called two or three meetings but had been able to get the members| to atiend but once. “If that is the| case,” retorted Senator Hess, “we had better have it considered by | the whole Senate.” At noon the Senate had made but little headway on its daily cal- endar. It had passed House Bill No. 82, making it a crime to con- tribute to the delinquency of minor!| children. It read Senate Memorial N { Bill, but on the motion of Senator, Benjamin this remarkable docu- ment was carried to the foot of mcmun when the company declared a market. calendar and possibly would nct bo‘ reached before the evening One Senate and five House bxll and two House memorials were on | the regular calendar in addition: to the biils reported when the body | reconvened at 2 p. m. After a hearing for more than last night, during which ! Mrs. Mildred Herrmana, represent- ing the Alaska Federation of Wom- an’s Club, demanded in the name | of the clubwomen the passage of the | . | J Senate passed that measure by a unanimous vote. But it amended| the House bill in several important | respects before its enactment. | Four new sections were added giving a protection to bona fide| purchasers of property by provid- | ing for a record title, requiring| claims to community property to be filed, making such claim a cloud upon the title and providing a' method for its removal. The clause that took away the dower rights from married women was also stricken from the bill, | Beat Poll Tax The Foster measure for a special | poll tax of $5 per year to raise a fund for indigent and relief pur-; poses was lost in the Senate Lx‘u Inight by'a vote of four to four, Anderson, Frame, Sundquist and | Steel voting no, and Benjamin, Di-| mond, Dunn and Hess for passage. Winn's jury bill had short shift in the Senate. It was killed by| indefinite postponement last night, the vote being six to two, Dimond and Hess voting against such ac- tion Lomen’s measure appropriating {815,000 for codification and publi- cation of the laws of Alaska was defeated, all eight Senators voting| against ite passage. The Bennbe' earlier in the session had consid- ered a somewhat similar measure and was told at that time it would cost not less than $25000 and {that it would hardly be possible the Japanese Ruler, (Continued on Page Seven) | (Continued on Page Eight) | Keene, Fiske and Gate: | never | rector of the Sinclair comy I | have acquired a considerable inte jest |off DBy WILLIAM R. KUHNS (A. P, Feature Writer) NEW YORK, May 2—Gould, e giants of a when there few shade trees left in Wall Strect. Today we have Cutten, Raskob, Breen, Durant, Higgins, the Fisher brothers and a host of others. The whirling tides of the recent bull market have receeded far enough for us to seec whose heads are towering above the rest. They gallery of new faces, new and new names, name Wall Street's elder states- George F. Baker, probably heard of until he was past are a Froups which man, 60. Arthur F. Cutten, trader, was one of veteran in the original 1, attacking Govcmor‘l"buns" on Montgomery Ward stock. | has large interests in Internation- | Parks relative to the Controller ge began to acquire shares when al Combustion and Packard. th were selling around 80 and| pyramided on the way up to abave stock dividend. He also is reported to have large interests in Radio corporation, At- lantic Refinery company, Loose ! Wiles Biscult company and Sinclair oil He recently was clected a di- ny. in addition The Fisher brothers, to large holdings in General Moto in Atlantic Refining, Baldwin CGRAMER AND GAMBLE ARE FLYING EAST Leave Wisconsin Early To-/ day — Cramer An- nounces New Flight LACROSSE, Wis, May 2.—Par- ker Cramer and W. S (..unbl« in an easterly direc early morning after having spent the night here. Today's destina- tion is Watertown, New York. Leaving Edmonton yesterday, the two fliers from Nome this mediately left for St. Paul. While in Winnipeg, Capt. Cramer reealed he was planning another Stockholm flight via the Arctic Ocean. Cramer will not stay long in New York and is expected to fly back in the plane to the factory |at Wichita, Kansas. e, C. M. Jones, traveling broker, is a passenger for Ketchikan on the steamer Yukon. The trip is being made in o sales capacity. still were @/ took | | existence of unsatisfactory condi- | Locomotive and Yellow Truck ‘mdtnons in DeGroot's office and. the Qoach.s*Thefr holdings became &9 | ! neeessity of supplanting him. wibhs's large that they formed a pmomfl a competent and reliable man. wities corporation to take care | R - e S of them. I George F. Breen, a quiet, unas- |suming trader, is one of the most gures in Wall Street. E ade markets” in h\mm‘o'i‘, of issues for some of the larg zost | banking houses in Wall Street. He is closely associated with the Fish-| er and Cutten interests. ! | William C. Durant, head of Lh"\ motor compa bearing his name, | has made several fortunes in auto- mobile stocks, including General Motors, Chrysler, Hudson and Hupp. | He was reputed to have b: | central figure behind the ser al rise in U. 8. Cast Iron Pipe and ON FINAL DAY Important Measures Stiil Pending—Controller Dis- pute Still in Air At the outset of its final day of the present session, the Legislature | Joseph Higgins is one of the big- was still facing an unsolved situa- gest traders on the New York Curb tion as to the Secretary’s office, or His huge bids for certain rather the work that it has been lcurk stocks have made exchange doing under Territorial statutes, history He is jokingly referred to and Controller Bill, general appro- as “buy 50,000 shares Joe.” priations and money for the main- John J. Raskob, former chairman tenance and operations of the Ag- of the finance committee of the ricultural College and School of Genes Motors corporation, started Mines, and one or two minor mat- career with the Du Ponts a | ters. stenographer. He acquired a fos The Controller BHI conferences ,itune in General Motors and Da had not produced any tangible re- Pont stocks. He a large in-|sults and a report from the Senate terest in Radio corporation. !managers to the Senate yesterday id little progress had been made. arrived at| Winnipeg at noon and almost im-! ] | The Senate had on its calendar the {Plane Juneau {memorial attacking Gov. Parks, ac- l;; ‘ins in Race ‘eusing him of defeating this meas- . ' | ure through political activities and (With Death |alleging he and other Federal offi- | | L 2 i ‘cials had used their influence to |o SEATILE May - MGG 2 beat the bill It was expected the [@ 'ac10008mR TR00 ViGN | memorial would lead to much de- {® the airplane Juneau landed °'bating should it be attempted to |® here at 7 o'clock last night e pass it '. W';"q‘f :u::'”;:“’l:‘l;"’x‘]‘::"; :; But the matter of appropriations Iz f}fl- kit {N' e ¢, Was of more than political interest. it 1A measure c i 2,116,681, pass- le was rushed to the hospital @ ey st Satusday by thélgfisep;fd § e for trestment for septie ol e seoi s o At o [¥:. saning ek A‘[‘*f:j‘f”"f:‘;‘": ¢ mittee all week. And it was not : ;‘f"'c'x:;"“l‘:":x 2 rtur‘)éx?;a % lon the Senate’s daily calendar when esterda ning d that d ning. o 1o tring ta womean fo Seats . DS Un0x SERvEROR I Bt ° tle o (Conunued on Pnge Eight) | IN FIRST AID WORK | CHARLESTON, W. Va., May 2.— |victim of an accident beneath the |The largest peace time unit formed 'earth. care for the injured is being| Already hundreds of miners have trained in West Virginia to reduce | been enlisted. ~Within two years, Ithe state’s fatilities in mine disas- oificials of the department of ‘,ter:;. | mines expect to make the first aid | course a requisite to working in the About 125,000 miners working in | gtate's mines. Miners will have to |the heart of the West Virginia coal ! show ' a certificate that they have belt will receive first aid trainirg. | completed the first aid course be= Py Two years, officials say, will see a |fore they may be employed. well trained rescue organization in| Care of wounds, treatment of men | which every coal miner in Lheloveu:ome by gas and methods of |state will know how to help his fel- | resuscitation are included in the {low workers should he become tha ' course,