The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 11, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5097. —— “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1929, FIVE BURNED TARIFF SOLE | ISSUE TODAY Prize-Winning Debs Chosen by J U.S.CONGRESS House' Wrestling with! Measure While Senate Is Adjourned FARM RELIEF BILL DEADLOCK PREVAILS | Administration Leaders Have Hopes of Reach- ing Settlement WASHINGTON, May 11.—Tariff g is: the sole legislative concern in| Congress today as the House is be- « ing held in session to continue de- bate on the measure. The Senate took a rest on the Farm Relief bill. Despite the adjournment, Sc o leaders are confronted with the problem of trying to work out| an arrangement ugfly: Jyhich the final enactment ofl_a@werti bill will not be delayed by the con tre y in the House over the de-| benture clause. They are hopeful | that the House leaders, instead of refusing to receive the Senate bill| on the ground the debenture plan | violates the constitutional requh‘e—l ment and is revenue Ilegisiation as such should originate in the House, would permit the meas- wre to proceed in joint conference for adjustment of differences The - Sernte Mitewd Committee is conducting hearings on Senator Couzens' proposal to set up a Federal Communications Com- mission. The Senate’s Special Committee, which inquiried into primary cam- paign expenditures in Pennsylvanie, has been called upon to determinc the course to proceed during the ession on the contest of Ve right to sit in the Senate, deferred from I session because of illness of Vare. e STREAMS ON RAMPAGE NOW fieavy Rain in Kansa Causes Water to Rise and Flood Sections TOPEKA, Kan, May 11. A heavy rain has soaked the State| and sent streams on the rampage. | Lime Creek left its banks and caused damage to property esti mated at $200,000. Three Mexican laborers are reported missing. i Tlood water wasned out 100 foundations from houses. 1 The downpour lasted three hours| and was near a cloudburst. | At Salina the river is running' waist deep through the town. Gyp- | sum Creek is rising. ——————— ENTERS HOSPITAL Clarence Geddes entered the hos- pital this morning to receive treat ment for a severe cold. 0ot 000 es0000000e 00 S0 S| the | i i KEme - Left, Lilias Moriarty, Boston society girl and ayiatrix, who was adjudged “America’s Most Fascinating Sportswoman” in a ¢ n:gkiov)-widc beauty survey by a committee of judges consist- Ing“of John Barrymore, actor; F. Scott Fitzgerald, novelist, aad Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. Righ,t Natica de Acosta, of New York, who was selected from hundreds of girls by the same fudges as “America’s Most Beautiful Debutante.” (Inte nal Newsreol) -ooooooooo‘ { MOTHERS’ DAY Mothers served as it Aside one’s candy will be ob- 1 tomo: P A ay in Jur will be other from remembering mother with flowers, or some other appro- priate gift, it is the custom for everyone to wear a flow- white if one’s mother ha < on, and red if she is s080 00 00 livi Credit for the observance of Mothers' Day in America has been claimed by the Fraternal Order of Eagles, for twenty-five years +{ Frank E. Herring, Editor of the Eagles’ Magazine, made the first appeal for a day to be set aside and observed as Mothers’ Day. Later Miss Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, organized a campaign which led to National and then In- ternational observance of the sccond Sunday in May as Mothers’ Day. The day will be observed by the Elks' Lodge- next Wednesday cvening, at the regular lodge meeting. . . ° 00000 co000o0oe | A BRITISH PREPARE NEW VESSEL FOR ANTARCTIC WORK GLASGOW, Seotland, May 11—) new British vessel ‘for Antarctic | exploration is under construction here to the order of the Crown| Agents for the Colonies, with the | sanction of the Secretary of State| for the Colonies. ! It will be operated in conjunction with the “William Sooresby,” now at work in the Antarctic under the direction of the “Discovery” Com- mittee which since 1925 has been investigating the life history of whales with a view to the adoption of a rational basis for their ex- ploration. Research is being di- rected to founding or developing| fisheries and to general oceano-| graphic surveys. They are also concerned with hydrographic sur- vey for the purpose of facilitating navigation. The new vessel will be a steam- ship with a superior radius of ac- Miss Eleanor Kauer, of Chi- | cago, who married Garland Grange, brother of the cele- brated “Red” Grange, “The Galloping Ghost,” as he is af- fectionately known, was his brother’s best man. ‘1aternational New PRESIDENT 18 S PLANNING TOUR a specially designed winch, carry-rchi(.‘.f EXCCUiiVe Announces ing 5,000 fathoms of wire rope for . & working large nets at any dvpth.’ TWO Tl‘IPS. If Tlme Permits will be provided. There will bel three auxiliary machines for small- | er nets and hydrological obscrvaA’ tions. Large biological and chemical laboratories will be built on the upper deck, and there also will be a photographic room, a survey of- fice, a work-shop, and a storeroom in addition to other necessary ac- commodations. The vessel will be fitted with (Continued on Page Six) tion which will enable it to make long ocean trips, for whith the “Discovery” is unsuited. I will be eguipped with the most modern apparatus for sounding and for the | biological and chemical investiga- | tion of southern waters. | WASHING1UN, May 11.—Presi- dent Hoover contemplates a tour of the South. lative program will be sufficiently cleared to make an extensive tour in the faii. The trip will be sep- arate from the one that he is to make to the West Indies in an ef- {fort to round out the good-will tour tof the Latin-American Republics ‘lwr:un late last year, § toba 8 a stiff breeze He hopes the Legis-| OLD LANDMARK IS DESTROYED; 5 MEN BURNED Tourist Hotel Burned Early This Morning with Fatal Results ONE WOMAN INJURED MAKING WILD LEA]" [Four Bodies Burned Be-| yond Recognition— | Cause Undetermined AMARILLO, Texas, May 11— Five men were killed and one wom- |an is believed fatally injured, and Four bor recognition third s were b They we floor of the rned beyond found on hotel by One man was killed when jumped from the third floor. None of the dead have been identified. | Mrs. Birdie Rhodes, owner of the was seriously hurt when she 1 to safety. ter was saved and |through it the authorities may be he With their plane in which have arrived in New York. and Jean Assclant, co-pilot. MEMBER AMERICAN MARINES ARE LANDED AT CANTON, CHINA FRENCHMEN 'ARRIVE; PLAN OCEANr FLIGHT they plan to fly from New York to Paris in June, three Frenchmen Upper: Single motored Bernard. Lower: Pilot Rere LeFevre, M. A, Lot!v,‘ i W i ' PLANE RIDE |able to make a check and identify the dead. se of the fire has not |been determined. FOREST FIRES " CONTINUE To RAGE, CANADA | n Washington, D. C. ! sherman, 81, and Mr | \Flames Being Fanned by | Stiff Breeze —Roar i i Heard for Miles WINNIPEG, May 11.—A score OK‘ fires have parched fore in Mam-‘ and Saskatchewan and de-| stroyed huge stands of timber and ic threatening scores of settlements. The flames are being fanned by Lack of rain aided the fires. The roar of the flames can be heard for mlies from one large town, Cold Lake. -~ - CANCELLATIO ORDER CAUSES SERIOUS CASE Instructions to Spanish Fli- | ers to Quit Mexico, % Is Resented FIVE HUNDRED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTSOUT Stage Revolt Following : Dismissal of School | Athletic Coach | ' SAN MATEO, Cai, feth May 11.—A mbling revolt echoes in the halls lof the High School as the authori- {ties wonder if the students will re- turn next Monday. | Five hundred pup | Mintst | daughters of of the best led the Government to withdraw his known families of California, walked iname and name his successor in|out vesterday in protest to the dis- | consequence of a terse order to missal of George Reed, a‘s.sistam Spenish fliers Captains Ignaco athlctic coach and the resignation Jiminez and Francisco Iglesias, now |0f football coach James Spaulding lin Mexico, on their way to Cuba| The announcement then |and Spain I de by Frank Boren, Superintend- | The jish Legation announced |ent of the dismissal at the end of Ithe Government had directed the the present term of Principal Ray fliers to go direct to Cuba and Diether and Princij R. N. Faulk- rica. Iner, because they failed to come an Foreign Office is-'up to school standards. -ss - MEXICO CITY, May 11.—El Uni. {versal has learned that Spanish arquise de Rilp has ask- Is, sons and The Me {sued a statement characierizing the | order as “very strange.” { Newspapers term the order as|Mrs, Geme Tunney | disconcerting and a mistake. Prep- arations had been made to welcome | Is Operated Upon the fliers here and a scroll of wel-| e rconand come had been prepared. | R BROUGHT TO HOSPITAL l BRIONI, Italy, May 11.—Mrs. Gene Tunney, formerly Polly Lau- ! der, has undergone an operation for [removal of an old undiscovered Knute Copness, well known pio-|appendix abscess. She is reported neer, who lives at Norway Point,|doing well. So serious was her was brought into Juneau in the|condition that it is felt that her |ambulance yesterday afternoon and |life was saved by the prompt in- teken to St. Ann's Hospital, suffer- |tervention of two Berlin specialists ing from a partial stroke. |M~n operated upon her. ) CORDOV A COUPLE WED | ABOARD GORST PLANE TRAVELING FAST CLIP , by going up in an airplane with Mrs. Mary ' Mrs. Maria Snow, (center) celebrated her eighty-seventh birthday | May Folsom, 82, The latter two live in Reno, Nev. They were early settiers in the west. Miss 1 f Ph Alask May 11 4 youngest Brown, | ! cher in | | the Cordova Public Schools for th |past two years, and Howard W. Stewart, noted Alaskan Photogra- pher, resident of Cordova, were cunited in marria csterday after: noon v rough the at the es a minute n the Gorst amphibian plane in which Clayton Scott pioneered the air trail over the Gulf Alaska | from u to here | This is beileved to be the first | aerial wedding in Alaska and per-/| haps the first in tne world where | was performed in the United States Commissioner ood issued the > in the plane in the plane include Faugher, ' bridesm ewart, mother of L Mrs. George Dooley Aalbu and Miss of | 2| | Mrs bride- Mis Ph; Mar Ida € groom; Dorothy Buc! 1 - > BIDS ARE OPENED ON | AFOGNAK LAKE ROAD, st Company of wash., was the low bid- | der of three for constructing Afog- | nak Lake Highway on Afognak Is-| land, t for which were open- ed this morning by M. D. Willlams, | District U. S. Bureau of | Public The low bid was! $59,408, mmended rtance. | Schaffner, Spo- nd Warra Seattle, Sier kane, bid $60,616.90 | Construction Comps $64,397. The road will be 455 Imiles long, extending from Afog- nak Bay to the hatchery station maintained by the U. S. Bureau of Pisheries on the island. | id } (One Fire Controlled, An- | dent OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT TO DEATH IN HOTEL FIRE 0. S. MARINES SENT ASHORE, - CHINESE CITY Are Placed on Guard at American Consulate in Fighting Zone BOMBARDMENT IS CAUSE FOR ACTION ed at Canton—Auviat- ors Are Executed CANTON, May 11.—Twenty Am- erican Marines are guarding the American Consulate at Shemeen, in the foreign concession of Canton. The men were landed from the Tulsa when the Cantonese bom- barded four rebel ships and threat- |ened danger to those ashore. | British guards have also been |1anded. Five persons are known to have | been killed by machine gun bullets. Residences and business houses {in the concession have been hard hit by shot and several aerial bombs narrowly escaped foreign | property including the Standard ~0il plant. s34 4§ | Two Cantonese aviators, suspect- ’.[ Wilson Is |ed of Kwangski sympathies, have [’_»\',)"”(-(.' /rmn |been executed. They were accused .:!l' .‘1.‘-‘.\'0('1"“0” |of deliberately forcing their planes {to the grounc .. a collision when (ordered to take the air and bomb »!the revolters. The- pilots are b= ® lieved to be two men trained in ® the United States. %6 AIRPLANES ~ LEAVE COAST FOR THE EAST Army Planes Start Flight i to Ohio—War Maneuv- [ ers Are Planned OB -ANGILE; Profe ° Cal, May ° jonal Pilots © ion has who ma chute jump fer the movies from a falling plane in which his mecha Phil Jones, met death on March 22, be- cause he “violated the un- written law of the air in leaping from a plane before all other occupants W clear, unless the plane less than 100 feet from the ® ground. Jones was operating smoke pots in a war movie and did not knew Wilson Jjump- ed. The report d U plane, which took fire, w 6,000 feet up Jones was ° . . ° ° ° . ° . ° ° ° ° ° . SAN DIEGO, Cal, May 11.— found with a parachute e Twenty-six army planes took off strapped to his body. e yesterday on theoretical war ma- e o0 0000 o e 0 o e o o neuvers to join approximately 180 |other pianes at the Wright and |Norton Fields in Ohio. MOUNTAINS | The flight to Ohio will be made |in ecasy hops. ! The combined fleet will “bomb™ |New York and “defend” Cincinnati |in maneuvers late this month. | it e sl s MR LINERS - TOFLY OVER ~ THE PACIFIC NOGALES, Ariz, May 11—Fire Ten Million Dollars Base which swept the Patagonia Moun- | Wanted in California tain Range for a distance of seven | miles is controlled put a second fire! —Plan Announced in the Pajarita Range has caused fighters to be rushed there. The first blaze started from miner’s lamp Several mines path of the flames. - other Breaks Out—Mines Are in Fath of Flames NEW YORK, May 11.—The Good- year Zeppelin Company, of Akron, Ohio, has presented plans to Presi- |dent Hoover for a $10,000,000 air e ST ybase somewhere in California to provide facilities for airliners to Ha- Hofivers Ofi on i (wali, the Philippines and Orient. Saturday Outing! The Company wants full mail WASHINGTON, May 11.—Presi- contracts including as much parcel Hoover and Mrs. Hoover left |post as can be carried in addition White Hou. this afternoon|to first class passengers. The rate on their usual Saturday outing in|will be about twice that charged the country. )hv steamship companies. a located in the FORMER RESIDENT OF JUNEAUCHARGED WITH MURDER OF HUSBAND STOCKTON, Cal, May 11— |Dance Hall severai nights ago. Tuclemne County officials maintain| The defense issued a statement they have a 100 per cent case de»\]h‘“ ““l b ‘!am"!fi'fi Z’; g RS gL | prosecution >0 far wil nied veloped Mrs. Eva Rablen.\and fought in court. Standard City woman, charged with | The couple married sixteen the murder of her husband, Carrol |months ago as the result of nego- B. Rablen, by placing poison in his, tiations through a marriage bureau. coffee served as he sat in his ma-| The woman is said to be a former chine outside of a Tuttletown |resident of Juneau, Alaska. inst