The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 15, 1930, Page 8

8 | THOUSANDS ARE DEAD AS RESULT - OF STARVATION Fields Are Covcred with | Bodies — Families Wiped Out PEIPING, China, Fecb. 15 —F: ine conditions in Shensi Province are described as gr cach | day in dispatches e. Scenes of utter de: are cverywhere Dispatches describe entire fields as covered with bodies of those who have died as the result of starvation. In the Feng Shiang district, with a population of 203,000, it is said 99,000 have died Nineteen hundred families have been wiped out in another district Women are said to be willing to marry for eight or ten cents in the hope of gaining food R GIRL DEMANDS $250,000 BALM |- YORK, Feb. 15.- her penthouse, Florence Pc ner sat dreaming lovely dr about the big-hearted man was paying for her apartment, her car, her clothes, her jewels and her radio. Just then a rap sounded door. It NEW High up t- in on the was the landlord, come to evict her for non-payment of rent. | And so Miss Portner filed suit in supreme court for $250,000 dam- ages. J. Bond sixty-four, retired ness man, as defendant. She alleges she and Bond had a pact of companionship in anticipa- tion of their future marriage. She promised to be his panion for life on all pleasure and business trips, to abstain from the | company of other persons except those he selected and to give him her entire time, she alleges. retum, he agreed to provide her with necessaries and luxuries, she says. Berlin A Plagiarist, Says Melody Maker LOS AN(:ELES Feb. 15.—Com- poser Irving Berlin should be made to pay him $500,000 damages Taylor, another maker of melodies, contends in a suit filed here in the superior court. The plaintiff avers that in 1927 he composed and copy- righted “Walking Home,” a song which Berlin is alleged to have “pirated” and given to the public as “Waiting at the End of the Road.” .- — FILM ACTOR BETTER Feb. 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HYDER CABIN OWNER SERIOUSLY Ed Fernald, ploneer resident of the camp, was serlously burned in a fire which practically destroyed his cabin on Premier Avenue Thurs- day afterncon The blaze is said to have been caused by an explo- |sion of oil used’ by Mr. Ferna in starting a fire in the stove prior to leaving for his work on the; Premier ore dock, where he was employed on the night shift.—(Hy- der Herald.) — e — BURNE! Attorney S. Hellenthal and Mrs ! Hellenthal are passengers for Ju- i i | neau ‘\hm\r(l the Alas | prrrrrrr vt ) VASSAR UNDERWEAR {} All grades of fine underwear contained in this stock—Cot- » ton, Wool Mixed, Silk and Wool and a fine grade all- Weol. VASSAR is easily the best underwear made. i SABIN’S C. 0. S.ABIN, Prop. |{ We have a few bargains in i Suits and Overcoats left— BUY NOW ) i PHONES 83 OR 85 | H ddNEEN HII%I=I//// _d 0 VALENTINE DAY tine Day crime news of consider: when sevi isinated. | tim ynight aged 35, B I filfl.lll%ll.ll illlll%llll% Entire amount Female sands Ppart of a plant Constitoent of Cut lengthwise QUIET, CHICAGO “On the Spot"—Dif- ferent from 1929 CHICAGO, Ill, Teb. 15 bly different from 1 gangsters were here was only one this year and that was when Anthony one time a rested as He His was “on body put was ST R, Attorney Grover C. Winn, who |prehistoric apartment house in this | has been south for several weeks,state cover a is returning to his home in Juneau jthan that cf the capitol at Wash- aboard the Alaska. IF- | YOU ARE NOT TRADING WITH ARE BOTH LOSING MONEY “Purveyors to Particular People” GEORGE BROTHERS | FIVE FAST DELIVERIES DAILY i US WE PHONES 92 and 95 Costume — Best Sustained Costume Music by “The Store That Pleases” THE SANITARY GROCERY Lambardo, |Only One Man Is Victim of Valen- | the 1930 was | Church, year vic last | Renee Guerin a |ent gang connections of his killing, | was killed in the regulation gang|tine idea. with red hearts f"s!o\’mcd( | manner. spot.” with scores of shotgun slugs. the punctured | Masque Ball | Given by The Women of the Moos heart Legion TONIGHT-Moose Hall Special Door Price—Most Appropriate “MOONLIGHT SERENADERS” Gentlemen, $1.00—Ladies, INDIAN SUITS AUTHORIZED IN HOUSE MEASURE First Step Taken n Indmn Effort to Get Pay for Rights Claimed (Continued from Page One) in any be rendered claiming to be e the judzment, if any to make appl 1bmit preof of descendency from the on two Three Equal Payments Any judgment given in favor of e claimants would be paid in equal annual installments, | first payable on the approval the Act of Congress making the appropriation and the other two in one and two years following he first, with interest at four per-! cent per year. | The Court quire into the contract which the |Indians have made with their at-| neys and with its approval p: ment may be made from the fi appropriation, in a sum not to ex- ceed 10 per cent of the amount of total recov Two Lm al Attorneys An agreement covering the filing and prosecution of the suits was reported to have been entered into |last November at the last annual convention of the Alaska Nativ Brotherhood. Under this Judge |James Wickersham, now a can- didate for Republican nomination for Delegate to Congress, and W L. Paul, President of the Brother- 'hood, and candidate for one of the | Republican House nominations, were | |employed as attorneys. Mrs. Paul i“ s named as law clerk. The rights claimed include fish- mi hunting, trapping, forests,| 1mmeral lands and a great deal h\l-‘ |uable waterfront property in coasc- al towns in Southeast Alaska. - EPWORTH LEAGUE | ENTERTAINS AT VALENT[NE PARTY| | The Epworth Leagie entertained! a group of forty ycung people in| basement of the Methodist last night young people of lively contests Prizes were awarded Graham Young a {Albert Rhodes. Refreshments |served by a committee ably is empowered to in- in a and to| The number | games. joined head- purse snatcher, but with no appar-!ed by Iona Messer. | Decorations followed the: Valen- >bout ‘the room. - e RUINS COVER HUGE SPACE ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.—Ruins of | larger ground area| Jington. Open 7 a. m. to 10:30 p. m. 25 cents -~ - SmnnnGmnms 90 escesseescecccscsese Dlrectc Fmance \ Associated Press Photo Alice L. Englehardt, of Cincine nati, who rose from a five dollar a week shoe clerk to secretary-treas- urer of a $1,000,000 corporation, has been named finance chairman of the National Federation of Busi- ness and Professional Women's clubs. >reliminary Census |Figures Will Be Released Next Week Preliminary figures on the official census for the First Division are virtually com- pleted and will early next week, i known today by Gov. George A. Parks. Any resident of the city who was not covered by the enumerators or other census taker, should com- municate with Director C. E. Naghel in the Goldstein Building at once in order to be included in this count. The final count will not be complete for several weeks. 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