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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUM:Z\L. A' ASKA, W[ DNESDA\ DFCEMBER II 1929. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CONVICTS OF NEW YORK STATE PRISON STAGE MUTINY FLOODS ARE THREATENIN 'WHERE NEWFOUNDLAND TIDAL WAVE TOOK TOLL RIVERS RISING; FURTHER HAVOC NOW EXPECTE Fresh Ga]e’s?fiSVwecpmg Across British Isles Adding to Fears PORTUGAL AND FRANCE REPORT HIGH WATER Thames River Many Historic Spots Near London LONDON, Dec. waters are mounting in Eng- lond as fresh gales sweep acress the British Isles add- ing possibility of further havoe by the terrific storm which has already taken 184 lives along the British and continental coasts. Portugal reports rivers. France is combatting flood conditions in many parts. In England, particularly the Thames River which last year overflowed its banke do- ing grea’ damage to many histeric points ncar London, swollen teday threatens the Stat R i o .a']gmftugam Art Gallery with its rich col lection. Guards are along the river, the Thames mounted. The lower grounds of Wind-, sor Castle are under water, also the grounds of the his- toric Eton College, across the river, are flooded. Rivers in various sections are appreaching to tops of their banks while others have already overflowed. > Future Swedish King Dodges Hazing Stunt STOCKHOLM, DLec. 1i—~The em- barrassment of having to haze the future King of Sweden was obviated at the University of Up- sala through having royal tasks keep Prince Gustav Adolf, eldest son of the Crown Prince, from put- Hunter College Girls Favor Short " Skirts for Comfort and Economy \ Threatens 11.—Flood | {The girls of Hunter College, New York, seventy per cent of whom are against the proposed long dresses, believe the men, for once are reason- able. However, they assert that admiration by mere man is not their only reason for keeping a distance between sidewalk and hem. €omfort, economy and even the classics were advanced as motives by several College guls mtervlewed. As.-.crts I lammg Youth Do Rallis Same in Every Age “Vested Right” | By ALEXANDER GE (A.P. Feature Service Writer) | WASH NGTON, D. C., Dec. 11.— n couri ag: has den ccn!mmon of b icasting they can acquire s in the use of wav operation prop: men and law as the mc important part of the decision made by the court of appeals of the Dis- t of Columbia upholding the a y of the rederal radio ion to order WNYC, New Y /xL Ito divide time with WMCA of the ;samr city. { WNYC, in its appeal, contended | that it had obtained a prop ; ' to operate its station full time a 6 2q. that the commissioner’s order had \ amounted to a taking of property without due process of law in vi lation of the United States consti- tion. “We do not agre¢ with this’ con- tention,” the court opinion the inte: | of radio communica ting in an appearance until the day after the undergraduate razz-\ ing. When he matriculated the Prince Of I enrolled as the Duke of Vester- is subject of federal regulation.” botten. He was elected to “the| S g T Sfilzflfii nation,” one of the st~ Tyonsy Persons Are o Y | A 8 The curator of this particular | In]urn([ when (ur (tml “nation” was worried over carry-| ing out on the new member the law of the university that on a) : certain day every man must be ln-; DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 11.—Twentv itiated into his “nation.” The cur- Persons were injured, none fatally, ator communicated his distress to|When an interurban car and trailer certain officials who saw to it the running from Fort Worth to here royal student was “unavoidably de- |left the tracks near here last ni tained.” Scme “obstacle on the track” ca “In our tin: e Coal mines in Illinois produced | 55948199 tons of soft coal last der ime wreck, the report says. tracks were torn up for 100 feet. The leading car wad smashed when it left the tracks. POLES SOLVE DEATH OF 1812 DIPLOMAT == T{‘:‘ Widow WI” Receive A[)' record for speedy transmission of Mrs. Sidney C. Borg, president of the New York Conference of social °cies workers, convening in Albany, has rstate commerce and as such stepped forward with a defense of the youth of today. Shé denies that young people are any worse or any better than their parent Tnternational Newsreel "y e ks WHRREN LEFT LARGE ESTATE MAJOR ELLIOTT - T0 MEET GRAF AT FAIRBANKS Is ])P:,i;:nat;'d“dflicial Rep- resentative of Maj. Gen. Hines CISCO, Cal., Dzc. 11. John Hinzs, Com 0l the Ninth Corps Area, ha ed Army officers in Alaska 4'!' ©G Jp)l tion to thr ppelin when shs next April for Arcti a Road Commis- 1! representative on 1 of the Graf Zeppelin a r Basil Spaulding, Command- he Seventh Infantry at Chil- ks, on Lynn Canal, Alas- e to the officers of the Zep- ka, has been instructed to give all pelin. - e FILM ACTOR IS SUED FOR BIG AMOUNT Maurice Coslello Sued for $100,000 Breach eof Promise Case S, Cal, Dee. 11.—; one time idol of Broadw, oray haired mem- ber of Iic motion picture colony, is prepared to combat in the Superior court a $100,000 breach of promise suit filed by Viviene Seng- ley, youthful musician, artist and author. Costello declared he was aston- ished at the suit which he termed urd attempt to shake me LOsS A Maurice Co NGEL] down.” Costello, who he father of Mrs. John Barrymore and Helene Cos- ominent a denied there was ever an understanding be- tween himself and the girl. He said she proposed to him and he was startled by the proposition and he had not seen her since. R e T Nude Bathing Is Basis of Divorce BERLIN, Dec. 11—The German| court of appeals will shortly be called upon to decide whether a married woman may bathe absolutely nude in the company of other naked men and women without the consent of her husband. The woman joined one of the numerous naked swimming clubs in the neighborhood of Berlin. Her hushand, with whom she had hith- erto lived happily, objected and sued for a divorce, which he obtained. The court held that naked bath- ing by a wife was in order, but only if the husband’s permission was ob- tained. hEW MAIL RECORD HILO, Hawaii, Dec. 11.—A new Above are two typical fishing hamlets along the south coast of Newfoundland where a tidal wave took a toll of more than 36 lives and heavy property damage. C;;t;v;ago Céllegé President at Thzrly Y[}UNG F Am ENGLAND OVER FIFTEEN HUNDRED MEN ARE IN REVOLT |Convicts Armed with Guns Smuggled in — Keeper Reported Shot Down WARDEN AND OTHERS SEIZED BY PRISONERS Walls Are —S—L;'ounded by | National Guardsmen —Orders Issued AUBURN N Y., Dec. 11. —For the second time wit in six months, a despe group of le- ; 4 == convi jin the Auburn Me P mutineed and soread d and terror throughout | pr ison, sheoting down the ! principal keeper, seizing the warden and seven g who were held hostages for their safe conduct to fnt dom. Within four hours after | the mutiny started Warden Jennings and all seven guai : were snatched to safety by i : State Troopers operating be- thind a berrage of tear gas,. Three convicts, including the spokesman for the mut- {ineeps were slain while the remaining members of the little group of dcsperadoes remained barricaded behind the back wall of the prison surrounded by hundreds of | State Troopers, National Guardsmen and City Police. The known dead are: Principal Keeper George A. slain at the outs | break; Henry Sullivan, lea er of the mutiny, and t A..ociated Press Photo Jnpnrne RN Robert Maynard Hutchins, as be appeared at the ceremonies marking bis inauguration as President of the Usniversity of Chicago. He is the youngest 4 'at University President in the world, baving reached only bis thirtieth birthday. Makes Confession to Dis- trict Attorney—Plans | Were Well Laid WAXHACHIE, Texas, Dec. 11.—A | nineteen-year-cld farm boy, Herman Durnford, 5 held on a charge of mur- g his mother and father and attempting to kill his brother in . s . at he might harvest the pro- unidentified convicts. ce of their farm and “get a start| Three guards have be in life” | 'wnunded one probably fat: District Attorney A. D. Emorw.'m‘,l"v aid the boy confessed that he shot o his parents and brother in the hopes | of “making the crops myself.” | \ Herman’s ent to the Dis-! AUBURN, N. Y., Dee. ¥ trict Attorney that he went to oA , his home Friday night and planned |5 >0 red with guns smuggl the murders. The plans were well |Int0 the prison from outside FIRST REPORTS mail was established when a letter reached Hilo from New York—4,- 800 miles—in eight days 13 hours. proximately $6,400,- 000 as Her Share CHEYENNE, VV‘ oming estate of the late Se who died last mor 15 conservatively est $7,000,000. es approx :Act': n to the Cheyenne r Dec. 11— ator War- in Wash- mated 158 children with two co WARSAW, Dec. 11.—The grave of [of his grave have remained a mys- Joel Barlow, one of the first Ameri- | tery until the discovery by the §0- cpare in the estate can diplomatic representatives to’|clety. |tives, employees, frien Europe—he was minister to the gov- | The records of the little chureh in | ¢he tota] estimated at § ernment of Napoleon in 1812—has | Zarnowiec in the county of Krakow AT AL A been found in a deserted little coun- | | revealed that the minister died De- \STAID LONDON CLUB BARS try church-by the Polish Society for | | cember 26, 1812. The death cer | WOMEN CABINET MEMBERS the Protection of Graves of War He- | ficate in the church archives states | v | roes. | that two witnesses, Jan Blask, post-© 1,ONDON, Dec. 11. — With its | \masu‘r and Idzi Bojerkiewicz, owner 'ysual ponderous decorum, the Unit- | Barlow accompanied the French|of a small farm, made depositions 'ed Services Club has averted an- emperor on his Moscow campaign |that Barlow “died in house number other crisis, Eighteen persons are 56,000 in 1812, and after the defeat of Na- |one while passing through Zarno- | It has had a committee m vetmg | AFTER TODAY THERE ARE ONLY i families. \moans have reached Par fixed in his mind. He waited awhile | “my daddy was still awake. r his father went to sleep, Her- man lit & match so he could see the | s, leeping man and shot him from Y v within a few feet of his mother. The STA TUb ('i4 BOYS IS mother ran out of the house. She! then returned and he shot her as 4RI PU77LE she ered the room. The confes- R(} 6’1’4"1’) S sion was obtained after bloody cloth- % ing belonging to the young slayer VINTIMILLE lian Bor- was found in a seed bin. | { der, Dec. 11.—M ] Ed- | i e ]wardEverett»HalnH ‘:; 08 5meceocoees s e lemma of Th> Man Withot un- i TODAY'S STOCK . . had but one man and on DIE IN MARGH : to deal with. QUOTATIONS } Mussolini and the Frex 5t | Juneau mine stock is quoted today | ...)..h.'.....\ of Foreign Affairs — . o/ Bank Robber Convicted Ja¢ 67, American Ice 3, Bethle- more difficult problem of Murder to Hang 'hem Steel 98!, General Motors | ’ : 42%, Combustion 17%, Interna-| "NO NCW Tnal tional Harvester 83%, National| Acme 197¢, International Paper A This city is in Itali LAMAR, Colorado, Dec. 11.—Over- | 27', Paper B 19'%, Paper C 15,| and the puzzle started aft uling a motion for a new trial by Kennecott Copper 60%, Standard| the armistice when a F: 1 sel for Ralph Fleagle, aged 50, Oil - of California 63 Standard | the husband being e Jober convicted for first de- Oil of New Jersey 67%, Texas Cor-| local Prench cust murder, Judgé Hollenbeck sen- | poration 58, Cities Service 30, Mag- comed an heir. Filt v tenced mm to be hanged during the ma 53'%, Montgomery-Ward 62. incidents took place in oth neh iy of March 29, 1930. —— 0 o( Fleagle's partners in the Tuesday’s Quotations Now Mussolini has an 1tk bank robbery of May, 1928,' Alaska Juneau mine stock the heirs are Its 2y 1} en kentenced to hang the |vesterday quoted at T'%, Ame ng February 15. Ice 30, Bethlehem Steel 98% (wn-" - {eral Motors 43, Combust‘un 12%, | TRIB TL TO D. A. R. \\ORl\l" International Harvester 89%, Inter- WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—A $10,- | national Paper A 287%, Paper B 19%, 58 000 bronze window in honor of a!Paper C 15%, Kennecott 61'%, Na- | woman still living has been present- tional Acme 19'%, Standard Ol of | ver, h untry try in one short volume. How NEW YO;!K D(‘(' 11.—Alaska | to deal with. Undougted umes will be writter children are classified not complaining, cult is problematical, bu children have eight years b lof the walls, dpprommat' ;],:';RU convicts in the Aubus | State Prison revolted an shot down the principal kee er, George A. Durnford, seiz= ul Warden Edward S. Jen-| 'nings and several other keep» ers and are holding them thostages for their relea | There are said to be abo |12 ringleaders. The walls are entirely suj ¢ irounded by National Gu: imen with loaded guns. Ci officials ordered the fron |gate of the prison open and sent word to the con viets to file out. gt One thousand men are ‘pre= |pared to stage a battle sho the conviets refuse. Three Reporters Are Released from Jail; Refused to Te: WASHINGTON, Dsc. 11— repriers of the Washington sentenced to 45 days in jall refusing to testify before a G |Jury investigation into liquor bog \ditions in Washington, compleg /their sentences and were releas {have to serve apprentice 7 ed to the Daughters of the Ameri- California 64'%, Standard Oil of New 'at midnight. poleon tried to make his way by; sleigh through Eastern Europe. Hc| contracted the typhoid that was rav- aging the defeated army and died somewhere in Poland. But the de- tails of his death or whereabouts wiec on his way to Warsaw.” 'and put an official ban upon giv- | The witnesses were unaware of the ing honorary membership in its| | names of his parents but knew that maseuline organization to any he was the husband of Margaret woman who might be made cabinet Baldwin and a resident of an Ameri- minister of one of the fighting can town named Ridgefield. services, 11 MORE sSHOPPING DAYS LEFT army. a0 | Of all mayors in Ker cent are merchants cent of all councilm commissioners are m W can Revolution. It is the gift of Jersey 67%, Texas Corporation 577..1 The reporters are Jack Alfred J. Brosseau of New York, a Cities Service 297, Magma 54%,|Jr, Linto Burkett and 1 to his wife, Grace Lin- Montgomery-Ward 6: {Hendricks. They refused - sseau1, former president gen- | 'mfurmqt.sn which they he D. A R. Tt will be placed| Oil is found in of 'ated in v riling articles new constitution hall, {many homes in San Aut lex conditions ‘or the Times,