The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 20, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA VOL. XXXV., NO. 5311. IXTEEN PERSONS ARE KILLED JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, | LA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ENFORCEMENT F PROHIBITION 1S PRESENTED IN NEW ANGLE forcement Officials Kill- Doran Makes Caustic Statement ed — CHARGES CONGRESS WITH 2 FATALITIES Further Statements Expect- ed as Congress Takes Up Prohibition 'TON, settled of work Jan. 20. — down to another ind the Prohibi- foreibly thrust for- killing of two Dry Palm Beach, Flor- subsequent statement rissioner Doran that tterances from Capi- t the Enforcement per- in part to blame for | it £ tion West 1 Hill nnel was the killinge. In both Houses of Cor hibition legislation has | couspicuous part and a program | s now been mapped out. [ Opinion prevails that comment will shortly be forthc ng on both | the slayine of the Enforcement of-{ ficers and Doran's announcement. e . progeem far. holste | the Prohibitio: vs was taken up today by the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee and subcommittees were ap- | pointed to consider pending mcas-1 ures. { ! | TWO DRY AGENTS ARE | KILLED, WEST PALM BEACH | | W 20. ST PALM BEACH, Fla, Jan.| Prosecution of George W.| Moore, in the State Court on a| charge of murder, the slaying of two dry agents during a raid on| his home, is asked by Federal| authorities coincident with the statement of Moore's attorney that | the officers attempted to raid! Moore’s residence without a “legal | warrant.” | District Administrator Tuttle, of | Savannah, said data gathered at; his investigation of the killing of | Robert K. Moncure and F. R. Pat- | terson, will be turned over to the Florida officers with a request for action against Moore. He said war- rants to search Moore’s home were | obtained upon information that 12 quarts of liqguor were purchased from him last Saturday and it was further shown that Moore was an alleged bootlegger. MELLON AS WITNESS WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Secre- Mary of ‘Treasury Mellon will be the first witness before the House Ex- penditures Committee at the'hear- ings beginning Wednesday on Pres-, ident Hoover's proposal to transfer the Prohibition Enforcement unit | from the Treasury to the Justice" Department. S e Sub-tropical Hawaii is closer to the Territory of Alaska than to the| United States. ) BEAM OF LIGHT OUSTS N LEGAT ciated Press Photo Members of the French naval delegation who will attend the five- power disarmament conference in London. (left), foreign minister, and Premier Andre Tardieu. Aristide Briand Below: M. A. Above: de Fleuriau (loft), ambassador to London, and Georges Leygues, min- ister of marine. HEAVY TASK OF ARMS Arrives In New York Associated Press Photo Kathryn Carver, wife of Adolph Menjou, screen actor, arrived in New York from Paris for the holi- | days. More than 50> ciues and towns IS AHEAD CONFEREN ° . ® ° . . This is the first five articles of a by Price, chief of the Washing- The A ton Bureau of ed Press, on at London, beginning Janu- ary 21 to limit naval dis ament. Mr. Pri companies the Am cgation, has stripn val strength question of its perplexing technicalities and tells plainly and understand- ingly what may happen 1 | 1 of 200009000000 By BYRON PRICE (Asoociated Press Staff Writer) As the season of preparation 108 to an end, cvery day is bringing into clearer outline the chadows of those coming events which are to make history at the naval conference of Londen. It is evident now that when the gates of the United States, Britain, Ja , France and y meet for the first time Jannu- ary 21, they will sit together in an mosphere of high hope and seri- lous purpose; yet with a full con- scicusness that they are in the presence of real differences of na- tional viewpoint. = Although much has been accom- |plished in the pre-convention n NAVAL ISSUES .~ BE DISCUSSED ON TOMORROW Great Conference Opens in London in West- minster Palace BATTLESHIPS LOCM AS PIG PROBLEMS {Hoover's Announcement Is i Received—Powers Are Silent—Conciliation | LONDON, | !for the elaborat physical settings Conference, which opens tomotrow, have been complet with the Am- erican delegation playing a pfom- inent part tleships, momentarily, arethe orbing topic of conversation. Disclosure that President Hoover is ready to move for battleship re- {duction, was received generally to |day as one of the most hopeful {signs although it is realized the {offer must be conditional on what lother powers are willing to do. The British, who will be , made no comment. apparently, 20.—Preparations diplomatic and of the Naval af- The distinetly favorab | Great Britain cated she will go far ing down battleships but the course of yeql difficulty is - paleulating the / reduction which would mean ‘real parity. Ital purpose, it seems, stand p on her demand for par- ity with France, In the meantime, some lesser clouds hovering about Westminster Palace, where the conference opens tomorrow, are also troubling the delegations, although on the whole the atmosphere is tempered with conciliation. CHENEY AWARD 'PRESENTED T0 LIEUT MATHENY ‘flying Officer Rewarded I for Act of Valor in Nicaraguan Jungle are WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. William E. Matheny, of the A Air Corps, has been given the Che- | ney award, made annually to cificers performing an ou ng humanitarian act of valor or self sacrifice, | Lieut. Matheny attempted to| scue his companion from a burn- airplane after a crash in the Nicaraguan jungle at great peril to himself. | Lieut. Matheny's home is in Car- rington, North Dakota. { The accident oceurred last August. | in Texas teach fire prevention in|gotiations, it can be sald with as- His companion subsequently died.} their schools. QUAKE RECORDING PEN CAMBRIDGE, Mass.,, Jan. 20.— escaped the larger machines. They jsurance that the sessions at Lon- the truest sense of the word, and inot a ratification meeting to pre- sent to the world a completed pro- m worked out beforehand aking broadly, the public dis- iclosures thus far have indicated a approach to real agreeme! the™ United States and The old earthquake recording pen, will be used in cooperation With Great Britain; a disagreement of wh .once wobbled clear off the | paper in tr the record of the great Japanese quake, has been re- placed at Harvard by a beam of ¥ do styles in seismographs change, te fit recent discover! that mother earth's face is not the stable vase it once was supposed, but is a surface full of delicate tremblings. the Canadian government station at Ottawa and its branches at To- ronto and Halifax to run dow: earth movements in the eastern sec- tion of the continent. Although they are capable of re- cording quakes 10,000 miles away, they open a more fascinating branch of scientific study. With some proportions between these two and France; a separate and diffi- cult rivalry between France an Italy; and a disposition by Japa |to keep aloof from these involvi (ments but to ask for a sligh ;grP@ler recognition than she h. had heretofore in the naval world | This situation will be seen 10 The prige is an engraved bronze ——— {don will constitute a conference in plaque and $500. Advertising Aids Texas | To Settle Ranch District LUBBOCK, Tex., Jan. 20.—The| South Plains area of Texas has found that it pays to advertise its ming opportunities. | A year ago Lubbock started a| [& gn to bring settlers to the ion that formerly was ra nch lagd. This fall alont 600 milies oved into the district, id more than 90,000 acres were sold at low prices, | Several large ranches that once Prella cover round her waist spread over thousands of acre them Harvard will investigate mi-'cmpbrace much that is encouraging have been split up into farms av- |as earthquakes. The new instruments replace the comparatively sluggish records of pens with highly accurate tracings made by beams of light falling upon sen < paper, which is developed like a photograph. Where the old | s ographs weighed hundreds of | s, the new ones weigh con- | siderably less. 2 These modern instruments can | reccrd small tremors, New Eng- land’s baby quakes, many of which The cause of microseisms is NO%!tne past events which always are a crease its population still mor fully understood. At Harvard it Is said that some observers think ; partial picture of the way mat- tional advertising of the South last minute. they may be due to sudden €hanges ters stand as the delegates assem- Plains area. |in barometric pressure. In India similar instruments have | hazardous. Taking into account part of such negotiations, here is {ble on London: | croseisms, small tremors not classed |and much that might easily be eraging 160 acres aplece. | Next year, in an effort to in-| Lubbock will spend $22,000 for na Cotton, corn, Sudan |grass, wheat, grain sorghums and | | At the Washington conference in live stock are grown on the former at formal dinners and rece given definite records of storms 2t jgo) these same five powers agreed rench land. 1 sea, some of them more than a thousand miles distant. ‘The preliminary reports of these tremors attribute the delicate vi- brations to the pounding of waves. |to limit battleships and aireraft | jcarriers according to certain ratios, wiht Great Britain and the United 000 Worth of standing timber in the | eyes. (Continued on Pag: Six) —————— | Western pine beetles killed $30,-| |Deschutes National Forest in the| Jlast three years, JANUARY 20, 1930. l3tn b [ KING GEORGE WILL O ¥ i MEMBER OF ASSOCIATE D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CRASH MISED LONDON NAVAL PARLEY ot associated I'ress Ihoto King George (center) will deliver the opening address and presice over the first meeting of the five-power naval conference at St. James palace in London. Charles G. Dawes (left), ambassador to London, and Henry L. Stimson (right) secretary of state, are members of the American delegaticn. THE BIG FIVE OF THE LONDON NAVAL PARLEY Associated Press Photo Leaders of the naval defegations who will represent their respective countries at the five-power conference in London. They are: Foreign Minister Dino Grandi (above, left) of Italy, Reijiro Wakat- sukl (above, center) of Japan, Premier Andre Tardieu (above, right) of France, Premier Ramsay MacDonald (below, left) of Great Britain, and Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson of the United States. BRYAN’S DAUGHTER EVER JUST A4 SKIP AHEAD OF CLASSES ess joins in their reminiscence: H. CI w Nebra the General Women's Clubs, went through the hop, skip and jum Pv SUE McNAMARA (A. P. Feature Service Writer) WASHINGTON, Jan Bryan Owen, member of C end noted for her trim, att appearance, used to tie a when she couldn’t find her belt! Former teachers and cla from the University of smilingly recall the i jous shift costumes in which Ruth to skid into the class room Her life in t home Tsity, he finished he: and her has breakfasts on the litt bench by the car line. the days when hats wer off with the old, on witl was one of Ruth's pet last dive n The story of the silk u + cover which she tied waist one morning when not find her belt is now Gamma classic at the w mate was one frant These old nds meet They note her beautiful costumes black and silver, her waved hair. A twinkle comes into a Delt versity they be- of Ci “Remember the time The woman mer VMary T. Norton Asks I or Referendum On 18th Amendment cescocosecace Pennsy WASHINGTON, Jan. 20— Asserting that “as an periment, noble or othe Prohibition has failed,” Rep- Mary T. Norton, Democrat of Jersey, and a wet, has introduced a resolution to amend the Constitution to permit a referendum on the question of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—To de- | ti ne how many trees are grown s and grow is the object of of the United Stat mic § > United St: ice for the future A Ziegler, f the Mt. Al have ch: y of the financial ge Yy to be conducted ates forest service. information gained will form eloping a forest pol- former direc- |qualities . o forest school in |tience. . 1APASSENGERS, | TWOPILOTS ARE (ILLED, CRASH Air Liner Plunges Down, Crashes and Burns on Sunday Afternoon 'ACCIDENT IS WORSE IN AVIATION HISTORY All But Two of Victims Are Burned Beyond Recogni- tion — Is Mystery LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 20.—Fourteen persons, spee- tators at the Sunday horsé races at Agua Caliente, and two pilots of the Transcon- |tinental Air Transport Mad- dux Line’s trimotored Ford liner, died as the result of a plunge, crash and fire late | yesterday afternoon, at San Clemente when the plane was | bound to Los Angeles. | Witnesses related that the pilots were weaving low over |a steep hill sloping to the |ocean, in the fog and raim, and vovp. apparently seekine. |a landing place. One of the (motors were useless. All aboard the plane were burned (bemnd recognition except Mrs. Doris Cantillon, wife of a prom- inent Los Angeles attorney, and Mrs. Ada Glover, her relative. Other victims, whose names were obtained from the Agua Cliente register, follow: | Mr. and Mrs, of San Francisco. Francis Jameson, of Pasadena. Elizabeth Squibbs, of Pasadena. Charles Rabold and Hannah Col= | liston, both of Fairhope, Ala= bama, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dowen. wed on hree) THREE KILLED ASMONOPLANE DIVES TO LAKE [Two Persons Are Dragged 1‘ from Wrecked Injured | | | Benjamin Miller, —Taken to Hospital PALM BEACH, ‘Florida, Jan. 20. |—Three persons were killed and |two injured when a cabin mono- plane dived into Lake Worth late yesterday afternoon from an alti- tude of 500 feet. The Florida ’Mrways' plane was enroute to Day- tona Beach from the Bahamas at {the time of the disaster. 3 1 The dead are William Lindley, |Pilot; Arthur Umph, Mechanic, and |Ed. Lipsky, a passenger. The injured are Ed. S. Butler, (of Miami, and Elbert Stossell, of West Palm Beach. They were dragged from the wreckage and taken to a hospital. The cause of the accident has not been determined. Woman Chauffeurs Grow To Popularity in London | LONDON, Jan. 20—The latest fad adopted by London's haute monde is woman chauffeurs, complete in | m uniforms, powder puffs and. ® |spare parts. b The season’s grandest social fune= have had an ever inereas~ pleasant concomitant of femi- drivers parked across |street waiting for the con of the festivities. Employment bureaus say the de- mand for them is increasing daily, ’and that they have proven them- selves possessed of two admirgble . . . punctuality and pa- of i They are paid the same wafes aspects. 'men.