The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 19, 1930, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA VOL. XXXV., NO. 5337. LONDON DEMAND SCHOOL GIRL FROM ICE-CHAINED FUR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” " JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY 1930. REPEAL NO FLIGHT 10 1 IP| | ! SCENE WRECKED BIVEN, HOUSE - HEAR!M}TUDAY{ sy es Ask Transfer of Liqguor Power to | Various States § Witnes CHARGES ARE MADE AGAINST GOVERNMENT Claim Thugs Are Employ—} ed and Murders Are | Being Defended : | INGTON, Feb. 19. — Out- epeal of the Eighteenth endment and transfer to the States of the power to late intoxicating liquor was de- manded by witnesses today before House Judiciary Committee ™ hearing | William H. Stayton, Chairman of L vard of Directors of the As- WASH regu EIELSON PLANE ’High Wirid Prevents Aviat-| ors from Taking Off from Nanuk SCHOONER NANUK, NORTH CAPE, Siberia, Feb. 19. — There was no flight made yesterday from the Na- nuk to the scene of the wreck- ed Eielson plane due to in- creasing wind. It is not known whether searchers have found the bedy ef Eielson or not. Fliers here are rcady to take to the air the moment the' wind dies down. ——.——— | 18TH KMPIRE MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NAVAL CONFERENCE TAKES ADJOURNMENT AMENDMENT RECESS TAKEN BY DELEGATES NAVAL SESSION Suggestion [s Made by Sec- retary Stimson, Fav- orably Acted Upon FRENCH CABINET CRISIS IS CAUSE FOR HOLIDAY Senator Robinson Says Americans Will Oppose New Security Pact BULLETIN — LONDON, Feb. 19.—The Naval Confer- ence adjourned late this after- i noon until next Wednesday to give the French opportunity -.o\\‘l-j 1] N ¥ CHITA AyVOSTOK dvLovsi M to adjust their Cabinet prob- Associated Prey Hoo VER'SNAME ars (left), record-round-the-world flier and New York theatrical ni‘oduur, signed a ) of the Detroit Aircraft carporation to make another flight next who plloted Rear Admiral Byrd ov* John Henry Me: lem. FRENCH TROUBLE ARISES tion Against the Prohibition Amendment, asserted that the peo-' throughout the country had | government because of the| Prohibition law also because it has | lost efficiency. The witness hurled | usations against the Govern-l ment which has employed thugs, 1 ng the dry statutes law, i Oftar vitnesses testified along similar lines. CRMEWAVE CARRIES ON IN' CHICAGD Woman and Man Shot and“ Killed — Two Women | Criminally Attacked CHICAGO, IIl, Feb. 19. — Mrs.| Agnes Lavander, aged 35 years, a| mother, was shot and killed and| her body left in the Lavander Lum- | ber Yards, after being robbed. Dong Poy, aged 22, was shot in the back four times. | Two women were criminally at- tacked. The above are the high points in | the crime wave here while the| Police continued a roundup of| criminals. ! Mrs. Lavander’s body was found! after an all night search. She| was to meet her husband down town for dinner then go to a show.! A cab company employee saw a} man pursue Poy, catch him and| shoot him. | One of the attacked women said she was seized by a man and! jturns and two { | contract with Herbert Fahy (center | i H summer. He will have with him as pilot Bernt Balchen (right), | the south pole. A map of their route is shown above. - LOBBY HEARING Marion Swenson, Seattle school girl, who has flown out of the Arc- and is defending murders in en- tic after cight months on her father’s fur ship. stead father, Capt. Olaf Swenson, Since weeks of short ratio and ho waited her. Then ators a lost plane. The Nanuk two weeks ago by plane for Nome ed a reward for her long stay in the Arctic zards, and the gray vastness of the Arctic. flew to Nome with Oapt *|the Nenuk, frozen-in at North Cape, Siberia, then to Fairbar lare now enroute to Seward and will possibly be pass |the steamer Alaska due to return here last June, Miss Swenson he ved as the Attempted to Bring Var- ious Groups Together on Muscle Shoals ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Testi- mony that Herbert Hoover, while Secr y of Commerce, attempted to aid in solving the long stand- ing problem of Muscle Shoals in an effort to reconcile the divergent views of the power and chemical | groups, was heard before the Sen- ate Lobby Committee today. \ This information was received in a letter written by Claudius Hus- |ton, new Chairman ¢+ tiie Repub- ing the gay city lights in- She and her Pat Reid, from , and south on ‘Tuesday ednsday. as been on her fathes ship. Many arcund anwoil stove in the cabin at the s for Eielson's base. She :\{ld her father left A trip to New York City waits as M otoristsf ]";l yf C i uibt Income ) WASHINGTCN, Feb. 19. — Nine | deductions from gross income may be made by automobile owners who must file federal income tax re-| ilems of expense may not be deducted. | Deductions are allowed on the following items: Sums paid as registration fees,| drivers’ licenses, state, personal pro- perty taxes and municipal taxes. The total paid as a gasoline tax where it is a consumer’s tax. Interest on money borrowed for the purchase of an ,automgbile. Operating and maintenance ex- penses, including depreciation, on automobiles used wholly for busi- ness, of a pro rata share repre- senting business use where a pas- lican National Committee, to J. H. | Worthington, Chairman of the Ex- |ecutive Committee of the Tennes- | see River Improvement Association. b i The letter said that Huston and Tax Deductions wosmson “siemped i bing _______|the groups together but failed and added that Huston “along with | Hoover attempted to do so later. |Hoover even undertook to bring these interests together through Owen D. Young and failed.” H e ——— CONTRACTS FOR 'PUBLIC WORKS 1S INGREASING Wife Of Senator i |and public utility construction more | ton, Jr. (at left). !than doubled in January says an |announcement of the Department | By SUE McNAMARA QUIET MARKS TAFT’S HOME AS JURIST BATTLES ILL | Behind the wide windows of his bedroom (upper left) Ex-Presi- o) whose chances for recovery are| WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Con- dent Taft is fighting his greatest battle. ¢ | |tracts in 37 States for public works a sympathetic friend on the sidewalk, as she did Mrs, Horace H. Lur- cral of those will be permanently LONDON, Feb. 19.—A recess for the London Naval Conference un= til February 26 appeared likely to- day following conversations between ENGAGEMENT i miss | the American delegation, and t BRUKEN UFF?E:}:.‘% Praisr Ramay MAMNE The chairman of the American Ruizire = lated About |delegation urged a holiday of the Princess Ileana and conference in order to gige the Count Alexander [ment of their domestic situation |growing out of the fall of the Tar- |dieu Cabinet. i Premier MacDonald immediately BUCHAREST, Feb. 19. — Post- |consulted Grandi and Kakatsuki, iponement of the wedding of Prin-‘hcads of the Italian and Japanese icess Tlena and Count Alexander delegations and a decision is ex- | was the only official answer of Ru- pected later. mania to reports that the engage-| {ment of the two, which the Prin- cess announced several weeks ngo.! had been broken off definitely. + Premier Maniu said the govern-| ment was investigating the ann-[ LONDON, Feb. 19.—Belief that |cedents of the Count in Germany American public opinion will be PeeolF 7 woalmi o ad)ste e NEW ARRANGEMENT IS DISCUSSED BY SENATOR ROBINSON >times Mrs. Taft meets‘doubtrul |and seeking further information |“slow to accept the new arrange- | | was voiced by United States Sen- ! lator Joseph T. Robinson in an ad- | ber of the American delegation to the Five Power Naval Conference. (opposed to the Government's en- ELIZABETH, New Jersey, Feb. |19.—Sixty workman were seared fry Info-s sectiiity peot Among |the list of fatalities has already, i Sgen: Ireached ten. Haiti Commission Is To Leave U. S. Feb. 22 It |mer United States ambassador to |Italy, sald that the presidential |about him. iment” which does not have reduec- dress before the American corres= 1 . ? WITH NAPTHA Senator Robinson said he believ- | with exploding naptha at the|°Pe®R Dations. Among the bandage swathed la- | WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Henry commission to investigate condi- iblinded 4f they survive the scorch- ————— |ing blast. eeoe dragged into an alley. The other |senger car is used chifely for busi-; woman said she was attacked by /ness.. ¢ two youths after an automobile! Uncompensated losses sustained ride. by reason of damage to any auto-| of Commerce today. who has been his wife for 44 years. | S gt L |tion of naval armaments in view, | pondents in London. He is a mem- ' ed the Americans are emphatically |Standard Ofl refinery today and| T borers In three hospitals there are| Is feared that sev-'p Pletcher of Pennsylvania, for- tions in Haitl planned to sail from Contracts for last month made a record for the last six years. Fig- ures issued by the Department to- i (A. P. Feature Service Writer) WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Serene in the sharp winter sunshine, and —————— Six college graduates filed appli- cations when it was announced that Fort Worth, Tex.,, would add three | women to its police force. mobile used for either pleasure or business. | Damages paid for injuries to per-‘ sons or destruction of property pro- Ivided the automobile at the time of | CHICAGO’S PRIVATE AIR FLEET SWEEPS SOUTHW ARD TO DODGE WINTER’S BLASTS CHICAGO, Feb. 19.—Winter is| pounding at some empty homes| here this year. Southward on the | wings of a privately owned air| flect swept more than 200 Chica- when blasts began. Office telephones ring in vain for the boss who may be found fluttering along the kindly coasts of Florida or over the sunny Carib- bean. In summer planes provide com- mutation between offices in the sultry loop and cool summer homes in northern Illinois and Wiscon=| o'+ his summer home at Lako| sin | n Hertz, Well-known race, horse fancier and taxicab king, is| cpending the winter flying around | Florida and over the Caribbean in | his Sikorsky amphibian, “Three| Jehns.” Ceol. R. R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, flying in| his Sikorski, the ‘“’Arf Pint,” hov-llhips themselves. ¥ | Antilles. - | near Biloxi, ered over the Bahamas. is equipped with two-way phoni¢ anfl telegraphic radio. tele- Mrs. James B. Simpson, the for~1 mer Alica Patterson of New York, gdaughter of the publisher, Joseph Medill Patterson, spends part of | her winters piloting her father’s land and water plane through the lot and accompanies her. William C. Grunow cruises wilhl his amphibian along the gulf shore! Miss. In the sum-| mer time he uses the ship to com- Geneva, a half hour’s flight from | Lake Michigan. Charles R. Walgreen, drug store magnate, is spending the winter in Florida with his ship. In the summer he commutes in it to his warm weather home in Dixon, IiL Many of the 200 Chichagoans who own their own planes, fly the The ship | Ito protect the finance company's New Automatic Patterson also is a pi-| 5 R ol & {mobile used for business purposes ASu('!‘L’SSfu"y Tested 1 talled $112,000,000 as compared to 1$66,000,000 in January, 1929, and ;Iar $51,000,000 last December. 'Aged Woman Burned | To Death, Texas Fire Assoclated Preas Photo ) A recent picture of Mrs, Wililam | SMITHFIELD, Texas, Feb. 19.— E. Brock, wife of the United States ;s Lora Buckworth, aged 76 senator from. Tennsuses: |years, was burned to death in a|goctors move softly about. fire which is believed to have start-| A pathetic little figure em the accident was being used for ed from an explosion of an ml”mm the door, Mrs. Taft is st business. istove in her room. Five build- |ing out for some much needed cxer Finance charges on automobiles|ings were destroyed by the flames.|sica purchased which covers interest and| Three men were injured in at-| paithful Anne MeNamara accom- risk on loan, but not the amount tempting to rescue the woman. Ipanies her mistress solicitously to covering the premium on insurance the door, blinks back tear: watches Mrs. ner. “It was such a shock to us to |see Mr. Taft come back so cha | ed,” she said, wiping her eyes. “I'v e ST. LOUIS, Mo, Feb. 19.— o (likked it so much here, I won' e A new automatic pilot was e |want to get another job. He was successfully tested when C lalways so jolly and friendly-like P. Oleson and Otto Greene, e | This morning he opened his eyes an inventor, flew here from when I was in the room Chicago without touching ®| “‘Why, hello Annie’ he says the controls once in the e ‘Come and shake hands with me, flight except at taking off and I did.” and landing. | .She suffers for both of them— The device is known as a e this Irish girl who humble “guardianair,” an electrical e scribes herself as “just a waitress for information as to the present e apparatus. e —for the ex-President, the ex- whereabouts of E. L. Dalrymple or e e President so spent and broken in (Earl), and Stawford T. Byingwn.xn oo s oo ww e oo o o slan upstairs room; for the woman still—too still—a comfortable colon- ial home on a quiet street of Wash- ington gives a little hint that Wil- liam Howard Taft is fighting there the greatest battle of his life. There is little traffic in the street. An occasional passerby gaze curlously or sympathetically jat the white curtained upstairs windows. Behind them nurses and interest. 2 Loss sustained where an auto- Plane Pilot Is is traded in for a new car. Deductions are not allowed for the amount paid for an automobl used for either business or pleasure $ and loss sustained where an auto- i mobile used for pleasure is traded in for a new car. il i—— DO YOU KNOW THEM? de- Postmaster Lottie C. Spickeit has e received two inquiries, one asking e | |she was a girl of 17. *leyed Irish gisl answering the bell. Taft turn the cor-| Aly they have been “win’ Power Works, Munition and “Nellie” to each other—these | . " « Ni two who started their honeymmni De pot Dps""-"‘d' Nine in a little house over a stone| quarry and went up and up until' they landed in the White House. | ATHENS, Feb. 19.—Nine persons Mrs. Taft made her first visi'.“wpre killed and a number of others1 Either Miami or Key West Pebru- 1ary 22, to the island republic. Persons Reported Dead Mexican Bandits Again on Rampage MEXICO CITY, Feb. 19.—Dis- She enjoyed |which destroyed the powder works ! pPatches from Vera Cruz state that it so much that she declared she and munitions depot at lesia.}Benlzno Hernandez and Gregorio must mArry a man who would be surburb of Athens. == \Espinosa, employees of the Reo- President. | The depot contained 200,000 hand gande ranch, eight miles from Vera That glamorous page of their |grenades. |Cruz, were captured by bandits, lives has been turned. In the quiet| Complete details are not avail-|tied to trees and exectited. dxstmgulshcd‘ame but the authorities say there| Soldiers have broken up another brick house the statesman talks a little, gives a|is no reason to suspect incendiar-/band of outlaws, killing four and But it is a mere |ism ! capturing two. to the great white mansion when injured in an explosion and fire feeble smile. ghost of the famous Taft chuckle. It's terribly still in the down-| s hall, so shiny and orderly with its vases of roses and a red- Perilous H bps Esisentialw,“ : Plane Builder Asserts GLENDALE, Cal, Feb. 19.—Long, {continental air passenger service hazardous fligh are essential to|be developed,” he asserts. advancement of flying, concludes| “Wind and general weather con- Allan Loughead after 16 years ditions can become known only in YORK, Feb. 19.—Alaska|spent developing fast airplanes. |this way. Upper air winds espec- au mine stock is quoted today| But this does not mean indis- |ially concern long distance fliers. i, American Ice 35%, Anacon- criminate ocean flying, he adds. {on his second projected non-stop da 72%, Bethlehem Steel 100%,| Long hops, Loughead says, give |Tacoma-to-Tokyo flight Lt. Harold Ofntral Alloys 32%, General Mo- builders an accurate record of per- |Browley expects to chart the upper | tors 42'4, Gold Dust 42'%, Granby focrmance and stability. They de- air winds. 45, Grigsby Grunow 17%, Kenne- termine what weight can be car-i “Aviators know what that means, cott 55%, National Acme 25%, ried without danger. Also, it is | If one flier can tell others what Packard 18, Radio 45%, Standard learned how a plane acts in the conditions to expect at a 4,000-foot Oil of California 57, Standard Oil upper reaches with a full load. |altitude at points along the route, of New Jersey 58%, U. 8. qui} “Only through these experiments |they can determine their m“ 185%. r'an trans-continental and inler-knccordmxly." - ®ee s 00000000 TODAY’S STOCK QUOTATIONS s e 0000000