The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 24, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE _ VOL. XXXV., NO. 5341 SCORES ARE PO ONE HUNDRED Army Affair Are Pois- oned, San Francisco TAINTED MEAT GIVEN CAUSE.NEAR TRAGEDY/ Authorities Make Investi- gation—Many Chil- dren Among Victims CO, Feb. 24—Poi- | at a Salvation Army 150 persons mo: hem children, cring or the ties began th: those » those of borulinus poison- | tainted ulting from eating . ‘than 500 persons attended nquet, firs pitals two hours aft HEFLIN CAN'T BF CANDIDATE AS DEMOCRAT Chairman Refuses to Ac- cept Application of Sena- tor to Run in Primary 24.—Edmund of the Demo- cutive Committee, ept the qualifi- Thomas J. Hef- for the Demo- ucceed him- not appear, allot in the clection whieh MA, Ala.,, Feb. State refused n of Senat a candid: on on the primary 12 ion to be a can- Democratic primary Heflin said he the Republican 1 ticket in 1928. letter to Senator Heflin ointed out: “You 1 oecur In his of the Democratic ou did not oppose | of Democratic nom- slectors for President election are recov- | stricken diners arrived Crowned | | | of grapefruit and avacados. | chosen to wear the crowm, AWAY ARE | VANCOUVER, Wash. | 2 Feb R. Nicklan, powderman; L. Cush- ! nith and hydro- opmet aid Nicklan was carry- rge from the powder mag- > to the diversion tunnel to have been set off. {cha! exploded killing him instant- |ly. Cushman and Papas were work- ling 75 feet distant and were found dead. i TROTZKY'S LIFE IS THREATENED e Queen of Flori GIVEN WARNING 1 | BERLIN, Fes. 24—The German ! publisher of Leon Trotzky's wor received word from Cz akia that a up of Russi res, living in Prague, plan Bol cho- { ‘be.l attempt leacder’s life. The Tv e ex - Embassy in Ber nt in 1928. As this | has been notified of the report a part cannot be amended, my solution of the adopted is to THOMPSON WILL RUN AGAINST BANKHE OMERY, G2., Feb. 2 1. Thompson of Mobile, { daily newspap in 1 and Montgom- Director of the Asso- . former member of the ates Shipping Board, to- red himself a candidate ed States Senator to suc- ator Thmoas J. Heflin. 1l oppose John H. Bankhead the late Sent r Jok H d and brother of Cong . B. Bankhead, for the nom- Bankhead has been ac- tively campaigning for the nomin- ation for sometime. D of your affidavit!the Turiish authorities ha ' Dies A e heen Irequested to furnish Trotzky with the exp: | special protection at his home near ¥ Istambul. ‘ Trotzky has been | wire. rned by fter Being In Coma for, 130 Hours CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 24—Eugene Bylield, sportsman, hotel owner and !one of the few rightly known as “man-about-fown” died today from injuries received last Tuesday in a 1 from a pole pony. He was 46 of age and unmarried. He vice-president of the Hotel \erman Company. Byfield died without regaining consciousness being in a coma for 130 hours. ITALIAN VILLAGE IS DEMOLISHED BY AVALANCHE OF SNOW : DEAD FOUND BOLOGNA, 1Italy, Feb. 24— ds of men tunneling through | the snow brought out the bodies cf 13 dead persons from the ruins of lage of Villa de Mezzo which was overwhelmed by an avalanche of snow that demolished more ‘man 40 houses. The squads res- |cued five injured persons, Ma: iare missing. | m re Pharaoh’s Curse JUNEAU, ALASKA, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” “ALL MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1930, Florida’s beauty crop this year seemed as abundant as the yield When the Mimi‘i‘udgcs got through casting ballots on pulchritudinous princesses, rgaret Edahl was PREMATURE | EXPLOSION; TWO OTHER MEN 75 FEET ALSO KILLED BY Bl,ASTi FROM THE SKY the Takes Airplane from Ship, Out at Sea, and Flies to Uruguay City uay, Feb. 24 B Wilkin: fternoon by and of Pilot ey left the" Norweg Heinrich Ihsen 125 mi 2 1 flew herc one hour. vas given of The Heinrich Ibsen arrived rd with the other membx ition. -re — ' Giant Boiler Explodes; Ten Men-Reported Kille HAVANA, Feb. 24—Ten workmen » killed at the Palatino pump- plant in Havana yesterday by explosion of a giant boiler. The done to property is esti- 1 at $100,000. Water in a sec-, on of the city was cut off as esult of the explosion. Is Not Taken Seriously ’ LOND Feb. 24.—De- spite the supérstition of the curse of Pharaoh, which is supposed to visit all who had any share in the Tut-Ank- Hamen excavations, the fam- ily of Lord Westbury, who icided last Friday, intend to keep the collection of mo- mentos from the tomb, in- cluding the richly jeweled ornaments carved in Egyp- tian figures. Lady Westburg inftends to keep all relics from the tomb which have been gifts of her late son, Richard Be- thell, who died last year, it is announced. es 20 eveveree “aternational Newsreel) Chess in a lit-! ep- Suspected of Wife's en yes- of | NILES, Michigan, Feb. 24—Phil- ‘;JU.IIPS FROM AIRPLANE IN EFFORT TO REGAIN HEARING ;PARACUTE FAILS TO OPEN, PLUNGES 5.000 FEET TO DEATH SAN FRANC: O, Cal, F —Fred “Dummy” Mahan, we.tor- weight boxer, plunged down 5,000 feet to his death in a parachu.e ljump from an airplane here Sun- DOCTOR'S WIFE ‘\em‘n Th LA A e “iendish Crime Is Commit- | an e pilot of the parachul lowing him to fall prae- without resistance to the parachute “was of a new and was invented by Col. Har- 'ry Abbett, Berkeley aviator. He th on l_'_)ll(‘l_\' Road said Mahan pulled the ripcord too J A soon after jumping causing the Near é"ll Lake pilot to strike the stabilizer. SALT LAKE 24.—Crushed repeatec wheels of her automobile after being brutally att d in her ma- chine on a lonely road, the bady of Mrs. Dorothy Mcormeister, wife of a physiclan, was found by a smelter worker. Several thousand | of Jewelry is missing f which was almost denuded by the battering of the car wheels. The car was found by the Police, rked on a down town street. ept for the | terrific struggle, t they are without any tangible clyes. It is believed the wom: was struck on the head by a fragment of ore, then thrown to the ground, ripped of her jewelry and the car r back and forth over her ilant. HOOVER MUM LONDON, Feb. 24—The fifth | r with -active negotiations RATE ART'GLE suspended on account of the French | FEEL CERTAIN OF SUCCESS OF NAVAL PARLEY Utah, Fab. between the Account of French Political Crisis SECRETARY STIMSON Humanizing Submarine Warfare Is Good Stroke —French Outlook political crisis but with no dread of failure in the minds of the delegates. American Secretary of Stimeon, Chairman of the Ameri- can delegation declared that the Five Power agreement to humanize submarine warfare, in itself justi- fies the American mission in Lon- don. All others feel that the Confer- ence will be a success but the con- census of opinion among the del gates as to the .degree of suc is that it depends on whether the new French Cabinet is strong enough to weather the month or six weeks still necessary to attain , the highest aims of the Five Power delegations. The American delegation wa saddened when Admiral Hilary . Jones, Naval expert, was sent home 4 his illness being dlagnosed as ) ulcers of the stomach. State wspaper Says President Favors Rates as Writ- WASHINGTON, Feb. 24—After a conference with President Hoo- ver, Senator Watson, of Indiana, Republican leader, referring to a story published by the Kansas City Star, in which Hoover favored the tariff rates written by the Demo- cratic-Repubiican coalition, ed that he could say nothi cept that “everything was all r House is silent upon assert- - Senator Watson said stated repeatedly that I resident should not become volved on any particular rates n'l do not think will until the 1l comes to him.” J in FRENCH POSITION tain amount of softening of |French policy at the London Na- val Conference is expected in som?> political circles. . In other quar- ters there is a view that there will be no actual modification of the French attitude by the new Cabi- net, although the Socialists are controlling the destiny of the new ministry and faver the principle of reduction of armaments. Murder, Wealthy Man Takes His Own Life 1- i- ip Plovie, aged 52, wealthy tractor, shot and killed himself af- ter officers questioned him on the disappearance of his wife. ' i Strands of hair of the woman, missing since last November, were found on an ash heap at the rear of his home. . e was the woman’s third hus- pand and she was his second wife. Relatives of the missing woman became suspicious when Plovie told conf g stories. RN U S Princeton to Have con- gate to the Geneva parleys, is the strongest champion of Frances safe-guarding her national security and his party influence is consid- erable. The Socialists are not ex- pected to urge Briand, new head of the delegation, to modify French policies. Albert Sarraut, new Minister Marine, a member of the dele tion, declared he approved pletely of the present policies School for Public A l I A . |NEW FRENCH PREMIER nd nt. ffairs|”"1s 1O ATTEND CONFERENCE | PARIS, Feb. 24—Camille Chau- PRINCETON, N. J, Feb. 24—ltemps, new French Premier, said 1o establishment of a school of ne had decided to go to London e public and International Affairs|yith the Naval Conference delega- e at Princeton Is announced bY tion after a vote by the Chamber o Pr John Grier Hibsen al A |of Deputies but that he would ask . of the Alumni. The|poreign Minister Briand to take @ !school will provide for coordinated charge ‘of negotiations. It is an- ® training in liberal studies, history, nounced that other delegates be- ® politics, economics, political g€0-|sides the Premier, Briand and Sur ® graphy, modern languages and lit-|raut will be Camoureux, Minister of ® jeratures. | Finance, and Dantelou, Minister ol e Men experienced in world affairs’yrerchant Marine. ® will give lectures: 1 o . 0 NSy i AP | PREPARING REPORTS Ttaly's 26 plants for the produc-| LONDON, Feb. 24. — The Naval e 'tion of artificial silk had an out- conference, now awaiting the o put of 62855448 pounds for the tymn of the Frerich delegation rep- o first nine months of 1929. A gain |yesenting the new Chautemps o over the previous year's output of e 44481855 pounds, (Continued on Page Twé; Paul Boncour, Socialist and dele-| [SONED AT BAN | Negotiations Suspended on GIVES HIS OPINION films, widely known as -oeooo...oon‘oo PARIS, France, Feb. 24—A cor- | the | CRC RN R B BB B B | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HUNDRED INJURED WHEN ELECTRIC TRAIN HITS AUTO “Tomboy” of Films Dead i MABEL NORMAND. Feb, 24.—Mabel Normaad, the “Tomboy” of the a comedienne of the Mack Sennett slapstick productions and later star of many full length features, died Sunday of tuberculosis from which she had suffered since the later months of;1928, . 4 Tn private life she became involved I many sersatiofial wrestps. She was linked with the marder of William Desmond Taylor, movie direetor, in 1922, whose murder was never solved. Psmem— MONROVIA, Cal, Mountain School State Demanded Life Hoovers Built, 3 iE 7 Opened Today WASHINGTON, —The schoal for en built President par his camp on r, Virginia, v Feb. 24 mountain of Kentucky. The ing will be later Hoover and oth- , able to help in the At roads PRI R R B R >oo— BUSINESS IS Associated Press Photo, Mrs. Eva Dugan, first woman in PICKING UP BUT SLOWLY, ..o Activity Will Not Reach|ruary 2. atter irantic last minute V()”“al chels Bef()r(» |efforts for commutation failed. 1 B May or June NEW YORK, Feb. Zé—l.lkl"lr! hood that business activity will not reach normal levels before May cor J wounced by the Nationol Conference Board, In corporated, the concensus on of the statisticians in AHRENSTEDT IN JUN H a3 been past h from nstedt of the Silver Cord of Point Astley, r in Juneau for days. He came Seattle on the Alaska. PR Orleans is doubling the ca- d's| pacity of its drainage system. se as New s tatistician's February showed general busin J: ary somewhat improved cember but it was the January since 1922, Signs of increasing activity noted in the automobile indust and iron and steel cdhstructi i dustrie: e ee— Higher-Ups to Be Called Before Senate Committee WASHINGTON, Feb. 24— The Senate Judiciary Com- mittee has voted to call At- tornel General Mitchell and rs of the Hoover Law ment Commission be- two weeks hence to views on the proposed e inquiry into Prohibi- nforeement. <.» Signal Corps O low WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 the far reaches of the Y where the temperature ound 40 degrees below terse staccato telegrapher's key brought a vivid picture of Alaska’s latest gold strike . The ric gold strike in the o | history of e | Poorma o 'm . ® going o tur — From n River hovers zero, the a few days ago. Every the whole vicinity who can ansportation of any kind, is or has gone. The tempera- 40 below zero at Poorman. e| “Every cabin is crowded and the o 'one roadhouse and store are filled . . . . . ° . - . . s camp was struck at | QUET ELEVEN KILLED; ~TRAIN HITS AN AUTO, DERAILED At Least One Hundred Per- sons Injured in Dis- aster During Night DARKNESS ADDS TO HORROR OF SCENE {Dead Mostl;—n—First Coach which Buries Itself in Mud in Ditch KENOSHA, Wis.,, Feb. 24.—Elev- en persons were killed and at least 100 were injured when a Chicago bound passenger train of the Chi+ cago, North Shore and Milwaukee Electric Raflroad struck an auto- mobile at a crossing just north of Kenosha last night and was de- railed, The automobile was hurled di- rectly into the path of a north- bound freight train as five<cars of the passenger train left the track . and piled into an eight- oot diteh. The passenger train was travel- ing at nearly 60 miles an hour. The first coach buried its nose many fest into the soft mud of the ditch and other coaches behind it piled into it. The dead were taken from the first coach and those severely in- jured were taken from the second and third coaches. Frank Buday, driver of the auto- m kilgy & ] e G A K T along the two highways, parallel to the tracks, were the first to give aid. The horror at the scenc was great because of the darkness. Scores of those injured were fran- tically crying for help and others were fumbling their way out of the debris. WEBRIDE NAMED FOR COLLECTOR FOR 3RD TERM |[Hoover Nominates McBride {or Collector of Customs for Third Term John C. McBride, United Stadés’ | Collector of Customs for the Dis- trict of Alaska for the past eight 3 , was today nominated for a third term by President Hoover. This was made known in an Asso- ciated Press dispatch received this afternoon by The Empire. Mr. McBride left early this month for Washington to attend a con- ference of Customs officials there. He expected to be there a short time and then proceed to Cali- fornia for a brief vacation. He was first appointed to be ! Collector of Customs for Alaska in | February, 1922, by then President Warren G. Harding, succeeding John W. Troy. He was reappointed by President Coolidge, his current |term ending May 3, next. He is |supported for re-appointment by INational Committeeman A. E. | Lathrop and is ur derstood to have no opposition. perator, : Bitten by Gold Bug, Off . On Stampede, His Version | “All mining camps arc closed {down and all have rushed to stake in. | “Ground at the new discovery is | panning out unusually well. 2 “I visited the prospect shaft and |was told to pan myself. 1 broke a piece of ground and held the pan in boiling water to thaw it out, finding about $2.96 in fine looking {gold. I washed out two pans.” | Bitten by Gold Bug Thus reported to the Army, Ser- geant Growden, U. S. Signal Corps operator at Ruby, who had been (Continued on Page $ix)