The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 14, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXV., NO. 5333. UNEAU, A LASKA, FRID AY, FEBRUARY 14, 1930. MEMBER * PRICE TEN CENTS OF ;\SSOCIAT ED PRIZZSS CHIEF JUSTICE NOMINATION CONFIRMED AFTER FIGHT TWO ROBBERS ARE KILLED IN CHICAGO CRIME DRIVE Father Risks Slow Death RESULTS; TWO | MEN ARE SHOT OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Feb, 14—While a father, who unhesitatingly risked a slow, painful death to save his baby daughter, and the mother, with a leok of horrer still in her eyes make plans for the funeral of her first born, Mabel Jeldy, aged five months, died, a victim of a deadly acid ad- ministcred by the mother, be- lieving it a common remedy. Earnestness of Clean-up of1 Criminals Is Shown mn Chicago Shootings 572 PERSONS ARE | ARRESTED, ONE DAY | When frantic efforts to get a doctor failed, Clarence Jeldy, the baby's father, reasoned he might find an antidote for the poison by observing the effect of the acid on himself. Total Number of Arrestsl Now Over Three Thou- sand — Grand Jury CHICAGO, 11, Feb. 14—Two robbers were killed last night at-| testing to the growing earnestness | of the present drive to clean out the eriminals. The police killed one man as he holding up a cab driver. A tradesmen slew another man | who entered the store, gun in| hand. | During the day 572 persons werei ed bringing the total in five | FORT MYERS, Florida, Feb. 14. will devote the remainder of nis life to education and in developing ideas and that he would spend one days to over 3,000. hundred million dollars. | Seven persons picked up yester-| Ford said he wants to do every- doy carried weapons and will be|thing he can to help the young | held > the Grand Jury. |men fit. themselves for the world. | During the day only 12 robberies| Ford will build a number of were reported, all minor affairs. schools in various parts of the e e country, sites at present noi locat, - L ed, and the nucleus wili be the 1 Edison Insdluteof Technology, !Iounded at Dearborn, Michigan, DETROIT, SHOT, e | last year, fFERERF S O e Bone Busting Tourney Livens Up Dixie Town | ¢ 1 | ANDERSON, Ala., Feb. 14.—Big- ‘ger and better fractures day was | |recently celebrated here with a| to Capture Robbers |committee of bone-setters in cnarge. in W' U HOld—Up !A good fall was had by all. | Calvin Jordan led the parade of DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 14__N0\broken bones by tumbling off his | private policemen, employed by a donkey and cracking his elbow. | s Albert Jamieson joined him when company operating an alarm sys- | tem, paid with their lives in an:he fell from a wagon and broke attempt to caoture robbers who |his left arm. were holding up the main office of | Next in line of fall was L. J. {he Western Union Telegraph Com- |Fowler, whose left arm was frac- pany. | tured when a big dog knocked him The two policemen, Jesse Catlin, [down. Grady Hammond wound | aged 38, and John Scott, aged 46, things up when his foot caught in fell mortally wounded before the|the wheel of a buggy and his foot | gangsters’ fire but not until they |was broken. ad killed one of the hold-up men TR ey and apparently wounded another MUVIE HEAVY but who was able to join his com- panions in flight, The robbers seized the automo- bile of Capt. Bailey, an Army of- ficer, as he was backing out of a parage, and made their escape. HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Feb. 14— Noah Beery, motion picture “heavy” was operated on late yesterday for appendicitis and is reported rest- ful. The crisis is however, not' |expected for 72 hours. Beery was Pay with Lives in Attempt 1 | | l pany’s ofice and continued to the sidewalk. The robbers then fled in the seized auto, accompanied ) by the outside guard. Part of the same gang, it is said, held up the same office on Feb-| i;' o;d to Devoter Remainder Of His Life to Education; Will Spend Hundred M illion‘ To Save Life, First Born The father stepped into an- other room and hastily swal- lowed a dose of the poison. Soon he noticed a burning sen- sation.” He drank a glass of soda water and got relief. The father preparcd another portion of the remedy and gave it to the baby. Soon the chi'd’s suffering seemed to diminish. When the doctor arrived, he said the proper antidote hal been administered. The child would have recov- ered, it is believed, if lung con- gestion had not developed and which the baby, in a weak con- dition from the poison was un- able to resist. Believes in Marriage This s Mrs. Dudley Field Malone (nee Miss Edna Johnson), of Chi- cago. She was wed to the fa- !mous international lawyer in Lon- don and is his third wife. During the last three years she has been studying music in Paris and Lon- don. Before she left Chicago she was a stenographer and was noted —Henry Ford said here that he| Famous Divorce Lawyer’ General view of the royal gallery of the house of Lords in London showing representatives of five powers listening to address by King George opening naval dis: lame WILKINS HEARD FROM: NOW DUE DECEPTION ISLE OSLO, Norway, Feb. 14—A mes- sage from Deception Island, in the Antarctic, says Sir Hubert Wilkins, is expected there about February 14 (today). The mesage stated he is aboard the ship Shoresby and that he will return to America as soon as possible. Receipt of the above advices is the first received from the explorer since January 28 and it was be- lieved that he had been lost in the South Polar regions. ! FURS AREIN 600D DEMAND \ Hundred Thousand Paid for Alaska and North- | west Pelts, Tacoma TACOMA, Wash.,, Feb. 14—Fur| buyers from many points in the| United States and foreign countries | paid $100,000 for pelts from Alacka and Northwestern States at the| monthly fur auction held by the West Coast Fur Sales, Incorporated. The sale shows furs arc in strong demand. The furs were the first good showing of Alaska | goods to reach Tacoma, of this season's cateh. H nt confetence., OPENING SESSICN OF LONDON NAVAL DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE e | Happy Warrior and Trusty lron Former Gov- ernor Alfred E. Smith, of New York State, on the Biltmore golf links at Miami Beach, about to line one to the cup during an afternoon’s play. Al was ilmost injured when the boat he was riding to Cocolodo Bay Bay collided with a craft containing newspaper- men and pho- tographers. (International Sawsreald in which ACTRESS WIFE OF AMERICAN CHAS. E. HUGHES 1S CONFIRMED AS CHEF JUSTICE United States Senate Takes Favorable Action After Four-Day Attack DILL MAKES FURTHER FIGHT DUKING TODAY Washington Senator Assails Supreme Court—De- nounces Decisions WASHINGTON, Feb. 14— Charles Evans Hughes was late yesterday aftermoon confirmed to be Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court of the United States by the Senate. The vote was 52 to 26. The vote came to an end on the fourth day of the fight against confirmation Associated Press Photo of the veteran jurist. DILL REOPENS DEBATE ing that the Supreme Court has placed itself in politics, Senator C. C. Dill, from the State of ‘Washington, a Democrat, 'the debate on the Senate fodasv which has raged for several over Hughes, whose nominaty co late yesterday. Sefiator Dil,. wn the wos HOOVER STARTS HOME SATURDAY; its decisions upon valuations of GOES FISHING |public: utiiities, which e said were LONG KEY, Florida, Feb. 14— fastening economic slavery upon President Hoover is fishing today‘(he people. 25 miles from here off Sombrero: «“If the people feel the Supreme Light where sail fish are reported Court of the Wnited States has in abundance, The Chief Execu- become their oppressor and that tive and his companions left Long the men upon it cannot be remov- Key shortly after day light aboard'ed, they will find & wa change the Saunterer. 'it,” Dill said. % Two Coast Guard cutters are —————————— convoying the Saunterer and other vessels of the President's fishing fleet. ( LONG KEY, Florida, Feb. M.—E | President Hoover has decided to s]] un“ AWAHD y Sues Artist for Breach of \leave for Washington next Saturday | |night instead of Monday, as plan- Prenuptial Contract —Jury Verdict ned. It is believed the President has changed his plans because of the Londen Naval Conference, which has reached a point where he wishes to be closer in touch with developments than is possible here. - > LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 14—A |Jury has awarded Miss Dolores Salazar, dancer, $17,000 from Fer- |dinand Pinney Earle, artist, for ‘g;ench of a prenuptial contract. 2 e sued for $180,000. | Denied Keyes,Rosenberg, Miss salazar accused Earle of — going through a mock marriage with her in Mexico City, then driv~ ing her from him in a Paris hotel. Rehearing of Appeals | . v . . Against Convictions Is LOS ANGELES. Cal, Feb. 14— | Petitions of Asa Keyes, former Dis- |trict Attorney, and Ed Rosenberg, {former Julian Petroleum Corpora- | (tion official for rehearing of their | appeals against convictions on| KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 14— SALLY CHAMPS WRECKED ARRESTED; “DRESS TO OPEN” The battle started inside the| Western Union Telegraph Com-| taken ill Wednesday with appendix 'for her beauty. gangrenous. I o > — H | bribery charges, has been denied The Knoxville Smokies, Sally league |by the District Court of Appeals. |champs in 1929, will have an al- ruary 4. A general rise has taken place | ——p Ed. Jones, Goldstein Fur Store, returned from Skagway on the Queen, after mak- ing the round trip over the Tri- angle Route. fur buyer for the| & e O AU P Mr. and Mrs. 'C. Magnussen, of iy . 5 | Skagway, arrived in Juneau on the King George’s |Queen, enroute to Kodiak. They |, nlovees Get will travel on the Admiral Rogers to the Westward. :Beer Cheap ALPINE POWER . REDUCES COAL BILL OF ITALY By ANDRUE BERDING (A. P. Staff Writer) ROME, Feb. 14—Harnessing the rapid streams that rush down from the Apennines and the Alps, Italy, in an effort to make herself inde- pendent of the coal fields in the United States, England and Ger- many, bids fair soon to lead the SANDRINGHAM, Eng., Feb. 14— | King George is the ideal employer —at least from the point of view of Englishmen looking for jobs. Seldom does anyone employed on the king’s estate here quit his job, for: He gets a nice nouse with a gar- ly. In 1920 she consumed four|gen iy ;mh‘l:m"”:::':em_” He and his family are looked af- {lion. This year it will be ten .M‘ter by the king’s physician at a 2 \fixed rate of twopence a week. |2 half billion or more. { 3 Mussolini and his government are | He can look forward to an old- |to a large extent responsible for 28€ pension and, if he dies, his |Ttaly’s predominance in this de- | Widow gets a rent-free cottage. : velopment. Realizing that, ]mxy'k He gets milk from the king’s because of her lack of matural re- |Prize cows, wood from the king’s in the last two weeks in prices of long haired furs. e e CRCEE I B A B B B BB . TODAY'S STOCK e . QUOTATIONS | ® 0 0 0 00 0 00 00000 s | NEW YORK, Feb. 14. — Alaska| Junzau mine stock is quoted wduy; at 8, Ameriean Ice 36%, Anaconda |76, Bethlehem Steel 102, Central Alloys 33%, GeneralgMotors 43%, Gold Dust 43%, Granby 57, Grigsby |Grunow 14%, Kennecott 58%, Na- tional Acme 25%, Packard 16’ !Radio 42%, National Brands 27, Standard Ofl of California 58%,| standard Oil of New Jersey 617%, U. S. Steel 189%. Chicago Cuwey | |Employees Given Cash Valentines |charges and, federal world as a producer of hydro-elec- goyurces, particularly coal, would al- | tric power. She is already ahead in Europe. {of other countries with a surplus Today Italy boasts a hydro-clec-|of such resources, he instituted an tric power of 3,000,000 kilowatts.|eytensive program for hydro-elec- Norway is next in Europe with 1-|¢ric power. s forests and an occasional brace of | ways be economically at the mercy |rabbits or fowl from the royall: barnyard. He has the use of a clubhouse with library, billiards and games rooms, and a concert hall where | S CHICAGO, Feb. 14.—Bor- rowing almost $2,000,000 from two city funds, Chi cago city officials late terday found sufficient cash . | . e o o LB . 700,000; France is third with 1- | The American traveler who goes""‘mcens cost him one penny; to pay the city employees Alaska Packers’ Net Reported as $13.02 Per Share SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14.—The Alaska Packers’ Assoclation reports net profits from insurance fund, miscellaneous earning and cannery operations as $749.146 after income tax, equivalent to $13.02 a share on 57,508 shares of $100 par common stock outstanding. This compare: with & net of $751,456 for 1928 or $13.06 on the same number of all | shares. Profit from cannery totaled $241,646 against $25,0 1928 and the insurance fund and | miscellaneous earning amounted to $507,500 in 1929. against $726403 for the previous year. Eiler Hansen, administrative of- ficer of the U. 8. Experimental Station at Sitka, accompanied by Mrs. Hansen, is a passenger’to Se- e attle on the Queen. .. | NEW YORK, Feb. 14—A Buda-| |pest dispatch to The New York | Times said Irene Palasty, widely known European actress, was ar- rested by police as she left a Buda- !pest theatre because members of the audience protested that her dress was too low in the back. | The actress, who is the wife of Hans Bartsch, a theatre manager, and is an American citizen, request- ed the help of the American consu- late. She explained that the eve- ning dress was a widely known model by a Paris dressmaker, Jeanne Lanvin, and had won a prize recently at the Berlin opera ball. She declared its decency was es- tablisned by the fact it included a feather cape. Most ncwspaporsl championed the cause of the ac- tr who says she will leave Hun- 'gary and never return again. e They have two other courts, the California Supreme Court and the SBupreme Court of the United States to carry their fight to. jmost entirely new club this sea- _son. The Smokies disposed of eight jplayers, including Shortstop Eric McNair, sold to the Athletics. GERMANY’S BEER SALES FORECAST NATIO By WADE WERNER (Associated Press Staff Writer) BERLIN, Feb. 14—Beer is more than a beverage in Germany. It is a barometer of national prosper- ity, and the reading just now is “fair and warmer.” Figures published by missioner of controlled revenues operating under the Dawes plan, the com- NAL WEALTH |figure of 68,500,000 hectolitres. But in the following year there was an Increase of 6,000,000 hectolitres, and by the end of the fiscal year 1928- 129 the beer barometer had climbed to 55,200,000 hectolitres. While some of this growing con- sumption may have been due to an |increase in the national thirst, the jcommissioner's report refers to it show that while Germans are not|as one indication of a “consolida~ {drinking nearly so much beer as Peter Kosiremetinoff, proprietor before the war, the steady increase of the motion picture theatre of in consumption within five years Sitka, Queen. is traveling south on R M. E. Holben and W. Patterson, | the | warrants a deduction that the |country is getting back into its in- |dustrial stride. In the fiscal year 1924-25 the tion of the economic situation” | which, in the past few years, has |enabled German workers to buy |not only more beer but more luxury |goods generally. | The rise in beer consumption has |been steady too in spite of higher half | ® |® their salaries which have been past due since January 15. DRI of Seward, arrived in Juneau on|commissioner points out, Germans e Queen, after spending severaliquarred an aggregate of 40,700,000 |creases in the retail price. The weeks at the Goddard Sanitarium hectolitres of the national drink.|per capita consumption rose from |That was far below the pre-war'65 litres in 1924 to 87 litres in 1929, rice for children. Foor - taziad Sl ot 1ol He gets his beer at a penny a|® conseq glass cheaper than anybody else‘O +in England. . 000,000 and Switzerland is fourth with 900,000. In consequence Italy’s use of electricity has increased enormous- o) o| W.P.Mills, President of the St:- ® ka Wharf and Power Company, is ®;a passenger to Seattle on = ¢ » o o ® Queen. ‘by train from Rome to any north- P |ern Italian city or crosses into Aus- (Continued on Page Three) thé