The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 22, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS§ ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXV., NO. 5313 JUNEAU ALASKA \W[;DNESDAY jAl\Lu\RY 22 1930 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS KIDDIES ARE KILLED WHEN TRAIN HITS SCHOOL BUS COLD WAVE SPREADING OVER NATION KUSENWALDS ON HONEYMOON MERCILESS GRIP PREVAILS FROM DIXIE TO N. W. Zero Weather in Southwest Where People Strug- gle Against Snow DEATH AND MISERY VISIT PRAIRIE LAND Town on Columbia River: Isolated—Flood Vic- tims Suffering | | CHICAGO, Jan. 22.—Win-| ter held merciless domination| over the country today and from the cectton fields 'in Dixie to the Northwest ter- ritory, there stretched a sheet| of ice, glistening under a cold | sun. | Zero weather stunned the Southwest as it struggled against fetters of deep .snow.j Worse than zero weather| visited death and misery| upon the pepulace of Central and Western prairies. | An icebound river fenced off rescuers who sought to take food | nd fuel to the little town of}| Cathlamet, isolafed four days bv‘ snow and jce on thg north hank of the Columbia Rlver‘ Sixteen hundred Southeast Missouri Arkansas are sufferers from cold | and flood. Two hundred of them! are marooned by spilled waters in! the Big Lake region. Two hun- dreds others are in the highlands, in tents or box car camps. FHENBH FA”_ |divided in Germany as to the feasi- Ibility of creating a Pan-Europe, IN AGREEMENT‘M agreement prevails in many | | Associated £ress Photo Jullus Rosenwald, Chicago philanthropist, and his bride, the for mer Mrs. Adelaide Rau Goodkind, mother of his son’s wife, as they appeared before sailing for Egypt on their honeymoon. families in | and Eastern Germans U oing European i Union as Real Bar to War SRS MRS, WILLIAM J. BRYAN DIES IN HOLLYWO0OD By O. PAUL JACOB (A. P. Staff Writer) BERLIN, Jan. —-Opinions are political and industrial circles that | some kind of a closer fusion of the | continental nations has become im- 5 = i Delegations to London Par-| e ; o ‘ ley Make Further ib‘:f‘(:nhr‘v Vi 1o ‘ Wife of Commener Passes Study of Issues lwith nations i, iin: et szlx_)é-—fHad] ZBe{,in In- LONDON, Jan. 22.—The Brill.shjlzf:ll!{md“v, r g o4l yad oL hass Foreign Office announced that the|w: Pritish and French delegations to| hrough some er- ror o rus the Naval Conference in London,| Even tho not advocating the after reviewing certain points rais- | Pan-Europe admit that it ed in naval memoranda on De-|would at le e the men cember 20 and January 10, found ace of Germa g swampe: some points needed further eluci- dation. It was agreed to discuss points on Friday. neighb Reich s, A deputy nd o by more powerful |Erich Koeh, t} {from Weser Delegates to the Five Power Nav-|the late Dr in - writes al Conference are engaged in num- | Germany's ge position i erous private consultations andw]\c. most u .o hlt 1 studying some of the vital ques-'for war But in a definit tions for pending negotiations pre-!fy; murope, that same paratory to the session tomorrow. , woulq m“kg her the mo: - T country, providing her foreign rep FERN CO-OP OPERATING | oqentatives are clever enough ic TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida’s | baby co-op the Plumosus Fern Growers ‘Association, expects to| handle 30,000,000 sprays of ferns during its first 12 months of op- eration. i nip any attempt at a fusion unde the political and economic influence of some other power. As the method of Aristide Briand (Continued on Page Five) ROUGHNESS OF LIGHT LIMITS HUMAN VISIO] ITHACA, N. Y, Jan. 22—Even|is a limitation to our atom probe though microscopes become power- which is a beam of light. A ray of ful encugh to magnify atoms to vis- |light is thought of as a delicate ible cize, there is a remarkable limit |thing, one which ordinarily does beyond which man now seems un- not hurt when it strikes. likely to pass in peering into the| “But when light reaches so small secrets of nature. fan object as an atom it no longer is This barrier is made by light|so delicate. It gives an atom ¢ itself, and is explained by Prof. G. hard poke. In X-rays we have P. Thomson, English physicist of even more penetrating probe, be- cause the rays are much shorte international reputation, who is George F. Baker, non-resident lec- |than light rays, but the X-ray deal | the atom a still more severe blow. turer in chemistry at Cornell uni- versity, this semester. He is pro-| “And so, if the eye by the aid of b¢ r of natural philosophy at the |instruments, could look at an atom, University of Aberdeen. |you would see g sort of a blur, for “A most- interesting thing,” he you would be examining & dis- says, “is the fundamental reason |turbed atom, one in motion im- why we cannot expect to see in- | parted to it partly by the light, an side an atom, or at least why we |atom not normal. The electrons, cannot see certain things zherem.‘ox which we conceive atoms to bel, It is becoming apparent that there composed, would be knocked about,” MRES. W. J. BRYAN HOLLYWOOD, Cal. Jan. 22— Mrs. Mary Baird Bryan, widow of William Jennings Bryan, died last night at the home of her daughter. She was 64 years of age and had been an invalid for 12 years, from paralysis. She was not bedridden until about two weeks ago when she became worse. At the bedside were her daughter, Mrs. Grace Bryan Hargreaves, and son, William Jen- nings Bryan, Jr., an attorney. BRYAN’S INSPIRATION Mrs. Willilam Jennings Bryan, (Continued on Page Two) REID, YOUNG HOP OFF IN ) MRPLANES Fliers with Two Machines Go to Teller — May 1 Proceed to Siberia | m 22 Both . took off for | Teller at ¢ clock yesterday forenocon, piloted by C “Pat” | Reid and Ed. Young 5 we ied by Mechanics Bill Hughe: Sam McAuley, of the Co flying force It s highly probabie that if Pilots Young and Reid found weather conditions good over Ber- ing Strait, they would continue on to North Cape immediately begin search for Carl Ben Eielson Earl land | Weather here has changed to rain with ter raturg 20 degrees above zero. r—— ‘(}LAIMS PAROLE IS GERTAIN FOR et Bor- and snow DR, FRED COOK No Opposition Is Offered| by Board, Declares Leavenworth Paper LEAVENWORTH, Kansas. Jan. 2—The Leavenworth Times, daily newspaper, says a parole has been 1ecommended for Dr. Frederick ports of people freezing in Cook, who is serving a sentence the Middle West during 0 of 14 ye and 9 months in the weather. The Eskimos sug- Federal Prison here for using the mails to defraud. | The members of the Parole nourdl refused to confirm the report but it is known that no opposition was offered to Dr. Cook’s release and the parole was voted unanimous] the Times says, adding that Cook may be released in February un- less edverse action is taken on the recommendation in where they will, from | of Washington, | bonic acid and benzine. the center of the Thirty Degrees Above Zero at Tip 10f Continent L POINT BAR'{O\‘V Amsku. e Jan —A murky light © bathed the tip of the con- e tinent a few minutes at e noon yesterday for the first le time in 60 days. e The Eskimos, e around their teacher at her |® radio, were mystified at re- . ° |e . ° ° ° ° . grouped 1 gested that sufferers comeg to Point Barrow where 30 above zero weather is being enjoyed. ®e00e0000000000006 ee 000 voevance - eee MELLON NOT | Max Valier, astronomer and rocket car inventor, of Berlin Germany, seated in his new-type recoil automobile which burns a fuel composed of The driver’s seat is in streamline vehicle. 'No Gasoline — Uses Carbonice two are located the In the nessed the test GAINRFEZOT! Acid front of the car are four fuel containers, while in the rear. The first test of the new speedster proved successful as attested by cheering throng behind Valier, which wite on the Avus Speedway D ATl Miesaly) IONIM PARTY ROW Associated Press Photo TEN CHILDREN ARE VICTIMS OF GOLLISION Bodles and Wreckage Are Strewn Along Railroad Track, Long Distance TUS DRIVER FAILS TO SEE FAST TRAIN Crew and Others Render . All Possible Aid to Sur- viving Children CLEVELAND. Ohio, Jan. 22.—Collision of a school bus and a soeeding New York Central train cost the lives of 10 small children and bus driver Sheldon at a railroad cro«ing near Berea, Ohio, 15 miles from Cleveland, lhls morning. At least ren were may die. The train was bound for Chi- cago and hit the bus squarely in the middle, scattering the bodies oand wreckage for several hundred feet down the track. The cause of the tragedy is be- licved to have been failure of the iygr 40 see the passenger train st Qv onl U traek Ly the other ide of a freight train, which he ted for while it passed. s quickly as the train could be pped, the crew and others aboard, jumped off and rendercd all possible aid to the surviving children. IALASKA ITEMS [ ARECONTAINED IN SUPPLY BILL /Approp nahon for Four three other child- injured and two D. C Dr coupled kealth, Cook’s excellent prison record, with apparent failing are favorable to the parole RIS % 7 A DRAWN INTO | Senate republicans gave recognition to the western Indepcndeu(n | and the “young guard” element after a struggle over reorganization o the party’s machinery. Senator John Thomas (left) of Idaho, a meni ber of the “young guard,” and Robert M. LaFollette, jr., an inda- Governmental Depart- ments Is Reported Two Miners Strike ‘Local Gas Pocket” And Pay with Lives SALT LAKE CITY, Utah., Jan 22.—Two miners, Thomas Richards aged 42 years, of Ogden, and Joe Turra, aged 35, of San Francisco, were killed in a gas explosion a Canyon Coal Company’'s mine. men encountered a pocket. The “local gas > o Cage Breaks Loose, Drops 250 Feet Into BAKER, Oregon, Jan. 22—Mile Starr, aged 33, dropped 250 feet to ath in a shaft of .the Oregon r Company near Keating lact A cage in which he was broke loose from the cabls sped to the bottom of th night riding and shaft e e edrrP e ee 000000 . QUOTATIONS . NEW YORK, Jan. 22 —Alaska Ju- neau mine stock is quoted today a' 8, American Ice 37%, Anacc onda | 70%, Bethlehem Steel 967%, Central Alloys 317, Gen. Motors 39%, Gold Dust 437, Gramdy 517%, Grigsby Grunow 14%, Kennecott 56%, Na- ticnal Acme 19%, Packard 15%, 37%, National Brands 27, sStandard Oil of California 59%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 62 U. 8. Steel 170%. e S Frank chevallcr of St. Peters- burg, Fla., is a picture gallery all by himself. He has 563 designs tat- toond on his body Shaft, Miner Killed | . TODAY’S STOCK L& DRY QUESTION Refuses to Commit Himself | on Prohibition—Rec- ‘ ommends Change WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—Secre- whe took r the Treasury portfolio about {the time the dry laws were piaced upon the statute books, todayrec- ommended to a Congressional Com- mittee, transfer of the Prohibition Bureau from the Treasury to Jus- itice Department, but he flatly re- {fused to be drawn into a discus- |sion of the Prohibition question. Secretary Mellon was pressed again and again by members of he House Expenditures Committec h questions on the subject “This i3 a matter of legislation | Prohibition is a very controversial ubject. I do not see any place now to express by personal views, cretary Mellon answered i e Jtary of Treasury Mellon, | |Flickering “Movie” |Film Advanced as |Divorce Ground 3 CHICAGO, Jan. 22.—Mrs. ces Schrader, 26 years old, \mouon pictures: | But every time she goes to a cer- tain show the film flickers \ The answer is simple, she avers, in a bill for divorce. The operator is her husband and he flickers the film just to be mean. Another thing to which Mrs |Schrader takes exception is the | matter of previews—at 3 o'clock of mornings, she alleges, her husband shows the censored parts of certain movies to a select audience of one girl friend, LAURE ¢ Fran- likes pendent, were tendered places on the powerful finance committee— | | a committee usually reserved for the “old guard regulars” only. OLD FOES NOW LEAD ARMS PARLEY WHICH IS MEETING, LONDON | This is the third of a se- 5 of five articles by By- ron Price, chief of the Wash- ton Bureau of the Asso- iated Press, on the confer- ence at London to limit na- val disarmament. Mr. Price who accompanied the Amer- ican delegation, has stripped the naval strength question f its perplexing technicali- and tells plainly and un- derstandingly what may hap- pen ceeesoe0ee90000000 ®eceoeessceccecescesce ANGLO - AMERICAN PARITY By BYRON PRICE (A. P. Staff Writer) Among all of ,the history-making events which usher in the London Conference, one central element centinues to hold the unfailing at- tention of the world diplomacy. It is the spectacle of the two sea powers, agreed on y as between themselves, and standing together as joint sponsors of a new crusade to reduce arma- ments on the sea. For a century and a half the United States and Great Britain have eyed each other inquiringly across the Atlantic. Laws of Seaways Their chapter of diplomatic protest and them into armed co Y ago they became the | s in whe race for world na sl In 1921, at the W on con- rence, they agreed upon equality between themselves as to battle- ships—the largest type of warcraft and airplane carries In 1927, at Geneva, they disagreed pointedly over an equality in small- er vessels. In 1929 President Hoover and Prime Minister MacDonald defi- committed their respect s to the principle that th s should be arly equal as possible for the conference which been started in London practical application of that tion of equality, to whi acy has attached th parity.” In theory, parity means the exact pairing off of the two navies, ship for ship, gun for gun. In prac- has to make condi- h diplom- name of tice that not be done. U. 8. Desires The American navy, for instance with its base wants to buik British na scattered far apart large cruisers. The wants smaller ones. How shall and small cruis- ers, with differing guns, of differ- ent age and design and’ speed, be balanced off one against the other? It is useless for the I fill his mind with the technical ele- large quarrels over the laws of ___ he seaways have filled a bulging | (Continued on Page Six) WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. — In- creased provisions are made for (the growing functions of four im- | portant Government departments— | State, Justice Commerce and La- bor—in the annual supply bill for ]Lhe fiscal year of 1931, totaling $113,799,000. ‘The bill has been reported to the House by the Appropriations | Committee. | The bill carries $65,000 for a by~ !product plant in Alaska and also $176,000 for general service in Al- acka of U opartment of Com- ree. IR ST A ROSE CAPITAL CHICAGO—Chicago is becoming the rose capital of the world, its Chamber of Commerce claims. More varieties of the flower have been developed in the eity's 15 million square feet of greenhouse space than in any other flower center in the world, according to the Chamber. p e e Pantages Appeal Is Now Set For January 27 LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22.—Presid- ing Justice J. P. Conrey has” set January 27 as the date on which oral arguments on the appeal of Alexander I. Pantages, multimil- lionaire vaudeville magnate, from a conviction on a charge of an attack on a young dancer, would be heard in the District Court of Appeals. Justice Conrey allowed the app:! lant until February 25 to file his cpening brief, and the state tey days after that to file its answeg. Transcript -of Pantages’' trial charges brought by Eunice Pringle, 17, has been filed in the appellate court. Observers said the appeal probably would be disposed of by July. Associate Justice J. M. York and Frederick Houser will hear the appeal with Justice Conrey.