The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 15, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY Al VO )\\}’V., 1\0 5307 ?_ S MAN, WOMAN FUGITIVES CAPTURED: NEWS ALL THE TIME” “ALL THE ]UNEAU ALASK\. \X/EDNESDAY j \L;\RY 15, 1930 SNOW PILES UP I N TWO STATES, AC.NORTHWEST River Is Flow- ing Under Coating of Ice Today LUMBER MILLS ARE FORCED TO SHUT DOWN re Piled as High as Feet in Poriland Snow Elsewhere 7. mbila Drifts /2 F e 15.—~With uthwest , the Columbia River is flowing under a coating of ice, par- { nd causing ul dn\n\ in that t time since the arted 10 days ago. and Longvie re dig- from between four to ol k of snow which fell during the night and is continuing today. Drifts are piled as high as five feet in Portland. On the Olympic Peninsula at Aberdeen and Hogquiam, ches of snow has fallen. WICKERSHAM FILES TODAY FOR DELEGATE Judge James Wu,kersham Juneau ,-today filerl with. the Ter uditor his declamzlun of y for the office of Dele- gate to Congress on the Republican tn ket subject to the April pnmary ection. More “than two months Judge Wickersham announced that uld be a candidate for the ion, as did Attorney-General and John Rustgard, who filed last week | for Delegate on the Republican ticket. Judge Wickersham came to Alas- | 1900, tment as U, 8. Dis rved until 1908 w his t at Fairbanks In was elected Delegate to Con- s and re-elected in 1910, d 1914, In 1816 and 1918 ran for Delegate against Charl A Sulzer. In each case the latter received the certificate of election and Judge Wickersham contested the election before Congress, win- mnz his seat in each instance just before the termination of the Zon- gress. rict Judge. o.ll"-l.a.‘..’[ . TODAY'S STOCK . QUOTATIONS .o-:o-uo-u--o- NEW YORK, Jan. 15. — Alaska | Juneau mine stock is quoted today American Ice 37, Bethlehem 97%, General =iotors 39%, Kennecott 57%, National 19%, 60%, 64%, Radio 422 Anaconda 73%, Alloy 32%, Granby 55, Gold Dust 44%, Grigsby 19% Packard 15%, Nanonnl Brands 27%. Express Col]ides with at 8, Steel Freight Train; 12 Dead NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 15— Twelve persons were killed and 11 mj d when the Pessawar express collided late yesterday with train at Clitterbuckan. Sev- eral coaches of the express wers| telescoped. - Two Fliers Take Off forNome From Fairbanks TAIRBANKS, slaska, Jan 15—Gifford Swartman and C. F. Mewes took off for Neme with parts and sup- plies for the Fairchild planes. With the fliers are William Glasgow, operator-in-charge of the radio station here. The take-off was at 9:30 oclock this morning. Glas- gow is going as far as Nu- lato to act as relief operator during the search for Eiel- son and Borland. The parts are for Capt. “Pat” Reid's plane which craft must be taken to Nome before perm- anent repairs can be made. . . 000000 ecocco®0c0e00 six in-| ago, | with a Presidential| head- ¢ 1908 | 1012, ] € | Comm! Acme Standard Oil of California| Standard Oil of New Jersey | , U. 8. Steel 172%,| 2 |arrested last December. May Wed Actor GANNIBALISM NOW REPORTED Cocked and Eaten— Typhus, Famine p\x eight ,000,000 are die of starva- all adult males ;3 of the Kansu the ted Press Photo In- 21% University o co-ed, who it *f to Richar( flc the on various dis Southern € many reported to be e~ i Dix, the film aczier. The the roads. as couked n‘ human flesh n by the des- he Province of Kansu SK A IEME BEl \ OF /\S\,OCI \TED PRESS As Flames Raged at U. S. Capitol Dome | CHINA REGION Flesh Carved from Bodies,: coming year, | the | abandoned attempis at| 1eht before the au- Wny should I be ing what the dogs ies ,*m’i puniched for eat me eating?” w are reported consum g bodies of those who have fallen hausted on the roadways. Decent burials: are and large pits are dug bodies are thrown in. - e FEDERAL RADIO COMMISSION IS UNDER ATTACK Report Made bv Senator Wheeler . that it Is “Political Football” WASHINGTON, Jan. 15—Inves- tigation by the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee of reports that an attempt is being made to make a “political football” out of the Federal Radio Commission is demanded by Senator Burton IZ. Wheeler, of Montana, as the committee continued hearings on Senator Couzen's ocmmunications | bill. The Montana Senator said he received a report from a newspaper- - SUBJECY TAKEN ~ UP, HOUSE COM. Immlgnallon Committee Gives Attention to Hoover's Program im; and the WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. — Steps 4 or minigture pa l"r] on one of the longest b' undas any nation ever at- |tempted to guard, claimed the at- ention of the House Immi uon mmittee as it moved tc carry President Hoove: hibition Enforcement reorganization program and taking the lead over other committees which must pass lupon the various phases of the | program. | Chairman on summoned | Commissioner of the Immi- |gration Burcau and other officials {of the Labor Department for ques- ng. In the House, a group of “wet” !members returned to discussion of the question. The Immigration ttee been only more or less active in recent years but it is |known that some members now feel |it should announce a definite aim and w toward that goal ONE THOUSAND : STUDENTS ARE UNDER ARREST |cd attorney for the Federal Radio Commission who had had no ex- perience in the radio field and he said he understood that two negroes from Ohio would assist him later. Senator Wheeler added that the latter two had no exper- ience in the radio field either. | was attorney for , Commission. | S eee \Texas Governor Wants | Mexican Consulate at Laredo to Be Opened WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. — Gov. Dan Moody, of Texas, has asked recently named as the Federal Radio R attorney, Strike Called in Korean Educational 'Institutions —Js Sympathy Move | SEOUL, Kansas, Jan. 15.—One '|thousand Korean students have been arrested as the result of a istrike in 13 colleges and high ischools, including two American ! missicnary institutions. The strike involved students, es- timated at a number of 10,000. It |occurred during the post-holiday {examinations and was ostensibly out of sympathy for 900 students long distance conversation between himself and President Hoover on Mexican Texas. It is said at the White Hous3s that Gov. Moody will be advised telegraphically that the State De- partment is doing everything pos- sible to bring about the reopening of the Consulate and it is not believed that President Hoover Consulate at Laredo, { The strike is said to be due to long standing quarrels between the |Korean and Japanese students in |the schools. | Many students arrested last month are still in prison. Those arrested were loaded into motor trucks and taken to police stations which |quickly became overcrowded. | - e {James Stewart Clark Passes Away, Victoria VICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 15—One of the best known architects in day, who has credit for build- ing three of the Spanish cruisers sunk in the battle of Santiago in! e APy 1898, and ‘was the founder of the[ A movement has been started to steel ship building industry in Ja-‘establish a national park in the pan, James Stewart Clark, died Ozark mountains of Missouri. here yesterday following a pro- - longed illness. He was a native' Northwestern university is di- ‘of Troon Ayrshire, Scotland, born rectly responsible for the expendi- 80 vears ago and came to Victoria ture of $10,000,000 every vear in lin 1908. He is survived by his Evanston, Ill, says the city's real- widow and one son. lcstate board. ment's efforts. The Laredo Consulate was closed after District Attorney Valls at Laredo, threatened the former President Calles, of Mexico if he passed through Laredo from his recent trip abroad. cused Calles of conspiracy to mur- der in connection with the slaying of a Mexican Army Officer, in ,the United States. man that a man has been appoint- | T. D. Brown, of Columbus, Ohio, |the White House to arrange for a the subject of the closing of the f could add anything to the Depart- Y arrest of '\ Valls ac-| flames shooting from the United States Capitol, shortly after seven | o’cloek on the night of Jan. 8rd. 1 The blaze, uarung in a manner not yet determined in a room oe- cupied as a studio by Carl Mober- ly, an artist, spread umehecked to an sdjammq document room, Writes Final Chapter o In Michigan’s “Life Tor Liquor” Law LANSING, Mich, Jan. 15—Go’ red W. Green to- day wr the final chapter in Mickdgan's “Life for Li- quor” law when he commut- ted life sentence of five Prohibition tors. The commutations bring the sen- tences to a term of 7% to 15 y to comply with the new amendment to the State criminal code. viol Judge Joseph Sabath, of Chi. cago, decided | that Ethel Car- & roll, 15, shown 3 ° ° ° ° ° ° . o ° ° ° © . ° @ec0ce0c000es0ee in picture, who PHITTACOSIS IS CAUSE OF MUCH CONCERN Federal Health Officials Report Two More Deaths WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Fed h officers view with 1 deaths and illnesses tributed to the strange malady d from parrots, known a With three new deaths °d, the list mounted to five. n cases are reported serious presented a pe- tition asking ; m ainte nance and a little money to live on, is too young to be re- ceiving ali- mony. (International Newsreel) MANY KILLS PARROTS LN, Jan. 15—Divergent views the exact nature of phittacosis or fever” was voiced today at a meeting of the Micro-Biologica Society of Berlin. The upshot the discussion was that medical science has no known germ, period of incubation or process of trans- mission of the disease. All sick parrots in Germany hav killed. Healthy birds in- at a testing station have iven no results. - eeo CHAMBER TO HAVE TWO GUESTS FOR LUNCHEON THURSDAY Charles Goldstein, who refurned week from a trip to New City, and A. E. Wick, new of- man here for the Du Pont Powder Company, will be guests of Juneau Chamber of Commerce at the regular weekly meeting t morrow noon at the Arcade Cafe Further discussion is expected on feasibility of importing federal prison labor to Alaska f road construction work. This matter was discussed last week and caused considerable - comment among the members. ! Reports on the card membership drive, made at the meeting of thc |Executive Board yesterday, will be given members tomorrow. Work on this matter is progressing quite fav- orably, and it is expected addi- (tional cards will be forthcoming be- }ore the meeting. AS THIRD OF NEW YORK, Jsan. 15.—Ac based upon an American dram v decade or so ago, will I premiere broadcast on W hain Saturday evening 1 opera AF “The /Girl of th e. the third of the si operas being presented on dio this winter. It was w ter the Italian composer David Belasco's hit of name in New York nearly 2 ago. The first and sec are built wholly on the play, while the third act cini invention “to make i It is a story of the Californi rush days. In the radio presentation Fr Alda, Pasquale Amato Chamlee will have the leadir Amato, who is a barit v the (part of Sheriff Jack which he sang at the prem the opera in New York in ber, 1910. Mme. A who recently reolgn(d Metropolitan Opera compa sing the role of Minn lee, tenor, will be Dick Johnso: outlaw. Gennaro Papl will d formance, and the ope ten by Robert A. Simon read by Alois Havrilla. Go fice 4 AN -3 while firemen fought frantically4 to reach the highly inaccessible spot. Fire fighters from twenty- seven companies arrived to battle Too Young for Alimony, Judge Rules “GIRL OF GOLDEN WEST” GOES ON AIR Pl (“,INI BROAD( ASTS " Chief Justice Taft In North Carolina To Recover Health ASEEVILLE, N. Japn. 15, f Justice Willlam Howard Taft he Supreme Court of the United States, has arrived here for an indefinite stay at a resort hotel to recover his health. D SITKA MAN REPORTS DISCOVERY OF ROAD Reports of a tt -m raded road from waterlin > on the slopes of Mt Sitka, were brougl es G. Burdick of > U. S. Forest Servic 1r. Bu said 1 n an opportunity to personally t the road, but had rec: liable information as to Whether the It for logging or othe ot known, N rmingham, Al music spell in terms of with sharps and flats and musical i re- stu- instead instru- | PRICI: TEN CLNTS )LD WEST BATTLE | HUNTED PAIR CAPTURED BY ARIZ. POSSE Man and Woman Wanted in Pennsylvania Shooting Are Taken After Battle |AIRPLANE PILOT SPOTS |CGUPLE IN MOUNTAINS |Couple Kidnaps Deputy— Engage in Gun Fights and then Surrender PHOENIX, Arizona, Jan. 15.—The oper, spaces com- | bincd vnth !F hard riding sherlffs, W% es and cow- punchers i the undoing |of Mrs. jJ SeSchroeder, of 1 l Damages to the Capi- ltrel was slain and Private the blaze. tol were estimated at $3,000 m addition to the loss of some able papers. Lindbergh’s New ’lane Regular Flying Laboratory th[ ES, Cal 15, Maddux, executive of the commercial lin2 which emplay? Col. Charles A, Lindbergh, revealed thal the famed a or's n heed v win LOS AN o ° 1 lo dux sa the craft fc s ° pose of testing titude o | flying in anticipat future development port aviation. of trans- @ ° . ° | SUGAB TARIFF GUNFHUVERSY IN SIXTH DAY Drive Camed Forward in| Senate to Resist In- crease in Rates © 000600060 | JASHINGTON, Jan, 15. — The| rsy over the sugar tariff| entered the sixth day in the Sen-| as opponents carried on a drive | the Cuban ugar levy to 220 a pound tor Barkley, Kentueky, lared that the proposed increase ot justified either from reve- farm relief standpoints. - increase in 1.76 of liam R. Barnetl, of the local radio station, has been transferred to Ketchikan as radio expert and |Jeft for his station on the Alameda. - s Eva Yurman is a passenger on the Alameda for a vaca- M 1 De nwoes . | | ! [tured in the Arizona moun- l A‘Virginia, and |Glen Da, voth sought since December 27 when Cor- poral Paul Nerady, of the Pennsylvania Highway Pa- |Ernest Moore was wounded 'near Newecastle, Pennsylvania. The pair say they are man and wife. They were cap- tains after kidnapping a De- | puty Sheriff, engaging in two gun fights and wounding two | officers. ‘The pilot of an airplane, swoop- pver the ricky weses of Ostrella Mountains, saw the man ' and woman wending their way to- :»ward the mountain top yesterday. The pilot reported to the posse and the fugitives barricaded themselves |behind boulders. A gun battle |followed reminiscent of the Old ® | West. More than 100 shots were fired, then the man and woman surren- dered. The prisoners are here today awaiting extradition papers from Pennsylvania. The two abandoned | their autemobile and planned to leave the State on foot but the mountains proved a barrier. 11 MAROONED, SNOW DRIFTS 1l’arty in Three Automobiles Are Rescued by High- way Workers DURANGO, Colorado, Jan. 15.— Eleven persons have been rescued after being marooned since Sunday between here and Silverton by a blizzard and snow-blocked roads. The party was found without food but were suffering severely from exposure. Gasoline of the three cars of the party was exhausted through efforts to break through the mountainous snow drifts. State highway workers effected the rescue. S SRR RS Voters of Stonington, Conn, gathered to devise means to dis- charge a $50,000 bond issue. Then they discovered the bonds were re- jon trip in the States. deemable in 30 years 1nstead of 29. TRAGIC LUXURY OF OLD RUSSIA IS . By JAMES A. MIL AP. Correspondent) S MOSCOW, Jan. 15—Establish- ment of museums, one of the chief tishes of the Soviets, continues in | all pa of the union. Palaces, churches, synagogues and t uctural Czar ne are co g ded- at wl w education of the present | at. They usual 1 art objects in- show the masse ist r ic the ao\emmnn' against religion cl han 450 religious institu These included churches, ories, mosques and sy s but the Anti-Religious So- NOW SHOWN |ciety estimates that there are still {50,000 churches open in the union. The closed institutions have been |made over into schools, homes, |clubs, hospitals, libraries or mu- |seums. | [ $11,000,000 Cathedral In this last category are included ‘hr $11,000,000 cathedral of St. Isade 'and the Kazan cathedral, one of the in oid Russia, both in Le- ; the Church of the Re= c‘ncmer built at a cost of $7,000,000 to celebrate the deliverance of Moscow from Napoleon, and the | Petchorsky monastery in Kiev, an eleventh century structure which was claimed to be the oldest re- ligious edifice in Russia. Another late addition to the mu- = eum list is the palace in Lenin- (Coxxunm 8ix)