The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 5, 1930, Page 1

» THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE \ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXV., NO. 5349. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS WORLD WIDE DEMONSTRATIONS FORECAST TOMORROW SCORES PERISH AS RESULT OF FLOOD L SWEEP REGION DURING NIGHT One Hun dTed Reported Drowned as River ; Breaks Dikes RESIDENTS CAUGHT UNAWARES, DROWN French Section Experi- ences Worst Flood Catastrophy | | TOULOUSE, France, March 5.— One hundred or more residents of Mossiac are believed to have per- | ished it is feared, shortly after| midnight when the Tarn River,| swollen by floods, broke through the dike and submerged the town.| The disaster, if confirmed, is one ! of the worst flood catastrophies in France during the last century. Two quarters of the cities of St., Martin and St. Catherines are al- most obliterated by the surge of flood waters. Residents were caught unawares and many perished as| their homes collapsed above them. Others fleeing were trapped and | drowned. The cities are in dark- ness as the waters have destroyed | the electric light facilities and gas in_the mains is reported, out. | Reports received mentioned un‘, intermingled- roar.of ‘flocd, the dull | cracking of collapsing houses and - futile cries of the drowning and trapped residents. Twenty-six are known dead in other flooded districts in Suuthez‘nf France besides those in the Mossiac distriet. | COOLIDGE DAM IS DEDICATED: CALVIN TALKS Former President Makes Direct Appeal to Peo- ple of Southwest COOLIDGE DAM, Arizona, Mnrch‘ 5—Calvin Coolidge yesterday af- ternoon formally dedicated the! great dam named in his honor and ! in the same breath called upon the | people of the Southwest to dedi-! cate themselves to the task of] completing another project—Boul- | der Dam. i Coolidge spoke for 20 minutes and climaxed the dedication ceremonies by breaking over the parapet, a bot-' tle filled with the waters of Gila River, saying: “The dam and its| waters do not need dedicating— | but the people gathered here who need to be dedicated.” i ————— $1,000,000, Joseph Horowitz, interpreter, month’s vacation and court dianapolis to California. []U[j W—AfERS J{ ACCUSE EACH OTHE FRENCH Locust Entering 'Palestine; Is Most Serious AUBURN PRISON |ward Beckwith, principal keeper of the Auburn State Prison, has been NEW YORK—Having inherited |Stabbed to death in prison. intends to take a|reach the prison by telephone but follow a Were told all German opera company from In-;They were then finally told they Long a had not been called, the Officer in OF SLAYING @\ g Associated Press Photo Charles Hanna (left) of Wooster, Ohlo, and Earl Conald (above, right) of Orrville were held by Wooster authorities in connection with the disappearance 14 months ago of Melvin Horst (below, right) trom Orrville. They have signed statememt= ~haraing each other with killing the boy. GAIETY GONE IS AUTHOR’S FINDING PARIS, March §.—France no lenger laughs, says Louis Latzarus, prominent guthor, and he can’t decide why. | Galety is gone, in any case, h 8 JERUSALE:, March 5— e /lconciudes, and like Andre Tar The locust plague entering e the new premier, he counsels an Palestine from the Southern e effort to look on the bright side of Desert, is assuming a serious o |things. threat on agricultural land. e People actually do not smile as A force of 2,500 Arabs has e 'they did a generation ago, serious- been enrolled by the Govern- e ly says Latzarus. He finds the ment to fight the locust. @ same condition everywhere, in the Flame throwers and other e cafes, on the stage, in books and devices are being used. e at home. He asserts the average French- man has more money than pre- |viously, has less reason to worry labout public affairs and has with- lin his reach more pleasure than ‘l(‘VCr, % | Nevertheless, for reasons he can't KEEPER KILLED . e e e 000000000 —er—— fathom, Latzarus finds gloom ev- erywhere, on people’s faces, in their specch and in their writings. The better the book, today, he says, the Is Stabbed to Death Ac-Imo Meubriow & 1 cording to Reports— Suppress Particulars BORROW PISTOL, SHOOTS DEPUTY LAREDO, Texas, March 5.—Bor- rowing a pisiol from a Chief Dep- uty Sheriff, Mrs. Elizabeth Thread- gill, aged 40 years, lawyer and business woman, shot and killed the AUBURN, N. Y., March 6.—Ed-| The local Police vainly tried toi lines were in use. lover of opera, he has walked miles |Charge, said. to save carefare and buy seats in! Beckwith succeeded George Burn- the gallery of the Metropolitan ford, killed in the Auburn Prison Opera House. riot of December 11. ONLY ONE SIXTH OF JAPAN’S LAND ARABLE TOKYO, March 5—Only 15 per |five per cent.’of the surface is tco cent. of the area of Japan is cap- [rough or too thoroughly impreg- able of cultivation, says a land |[nated with voleanic cinders to survey by the government bureau of | yvield rice, the staple food of the statistics. | people, or the hardier upland grains | which eke ‘out the national bill of In this respect, the report states, |fare. 2n is less favored than any| The acuteness of the Japanese first class nation. The Unit- |food and population problem is in- ed States already has 18 per cent | creasing, for although industrializa- under cultivation, England tills 22 tjon is enabling the country to per cent of her acreage, France 41 | support more people, the population per cent, Germany 44 yer cent, and \grows by 900,000 annually. Denmark 59 per cent. ‘ Japan’s cultivated acres total 14,- The volcanic upheavals which | 450,000 of which 7,821,000 are de- formed the Japanese islands and |voted to rice paddies. The other made their steep mountains, rocky |6,620,000 acres are in dry field shores and rushing streams among |crops, with 70 per cent devoted to the most picturesque in the world, |wheat, barley and rape, 25 per left little space that could be farm- ed profitably by the prolific race that came to inhabit them. Eighty- ment of silk worms and five per cent. to tea and fruits. deputy in her automobile near here. 'The body was discovered by a man and woman whose attention was at- tracted to the car, parked in an [out of the way place, and by a stream of blood running down one side of it. ——_———— o 8 0 & 5 0 0 0 0 0 0o . TODAY’S STOCK . QUOTATIONS leeencooeeossccece NEW YORK, March 5—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today at 7, Alleghany Corporation 31%, American Iee 37%. Anaconda 74%, Bethlehem Steel 98 Central Al- loys 32%, General Motors 42%, |Gold Dust 43%, Granby, ne sale; Grigsby Grunow 15%, International Harvester 957%, Kennecott 58%, Mis- souri Pacific 94, National Acme 24, Packard 18%, Standard .Brands 26, Radio 49, Standard Oil of Cali- fornia 60, U. 8. Steel 178%, Stand- |ard Ofl of New Jersey 62'%, Humble |Ofl 90%, Montgomery-Ward 45%. .- | ST. LOUIS—Sunnymede Ollie is ia queen of the air. led aloft in a plane, and the milk | i . | ers. Sunnymede is a guernsey cow. RAILROAD RATES! NOWEXORBITANT DECLARES FORD ‘Says Congrgsz Should Drop! Liquor Problem and ; Discuss Rates i \MAKES STATEMENT " AFTER LONG STUDY Carriers Are Already Give | en Handsome Profit || on Investments | g1 FORT MYERS, Florida, March §. —If Congress wishes to do con- | structive work, let the members set about adjusting railroad rates and | leave the Prohibition law alone. . | This is the conviction of Henry Ford. | His impression and suggestion | has been formed after many months of study of the rate situa- tion. | Ford made known his ideas dur- ing an interview as he sat in hls‘ winter office at Fort Myers. He, said: | “Rates everywhere are too high.? Railroad officials every so often ' appear with a plan that they are' entitled to fair returns from thelr | investment. I believe the present | rate structure gives the carriers a | handsome but not less than an| unjust exorbitant profit. Convoys | and trucks everywhgre Jdre ‘beattdy | down the railroads because of cheaper carrying ratés.” | — - FORD AGAINST | REPEAL OF DRY LAWS OF U. S, Vigorous Protest Placed Before Committee by Auto Manufacturer o+ WASHINGTON, March 5.—Henry | Ford, auto manufacturer, has plac- ed a vigorous protest before the House Judiciary Committee against modification of the Eighteenth Amendment. Ford is placed on record that it is his conviction that the “sane people of the Nation” will never see the Eighteenth Amendment re- | pealed. The views of Ford were presented by Samuel Crowther, magazine writer, who read a telegram from | Ford saying: | “The Eighteenth Amendment is recognized by men and women of our country, and the women es- pecially, as the greatest force for comfort and prosperity in the United States and I feel sure the sane people of the Nation will never see it repealed or any dangerous modification.” Storm Lashed Island Crumbles Slowly Away HELIGOLAND, March 5—This little German island, English North Sea outpost until 1890, has lost 13,000 square meters swallowed up by mountainous waves when recent |fierce gales caused havoc along the west European coasts as far as Norway. The damage done here and to the neighboring East Frisian island chain has led the Prussian survey department to appoint a commis- sion to make a sclentific study of the whole coastline to ascertain if there is any dangerous acceleration in the gradual subsidence of the German North Sea shores. It is known that the whole coast is sinking, but only at the rate of about 10 inches in the past 100 years. Coming investigations are expected to show whether the sink- ing process calls for extra precau- tions. ————————— TULARE, Cal—S. 8. Smith quar- relled with his brother, E. E. Smith him with possession of liquor. cent. to mulberry trees for nourish- |was parachuted down in contain-Raiders found 500 gallons of wine nounces the name of some child t in the latter's premises. A fine of $100 was imposed. Anti-Dazzle Device for Autos SEN gA TION |—s FRANCE LEARNS ITS THEATRE IS IN DIRE STRAIT MRS. EDWINS First The United States recently and were Ambassador to Germony, Frederick Sackett, with Mrs. Sackett, pictured at the railroad station at Berlin, w! entlusiastically Ambassador Grecied in who resigned here they arriv.d from Kentucky, greeted. Mrs. Doris Muriel Ibbotson displaying her anti-dazzle device for The device revolves at a high rate of speed, motor car headlights. diffusing the rays, but weakening them very little, “brain child” will enable her to better lugpon her real She has completed the sundry during od finds this children. her housework. PASSES AWAY Patient to Receive Cancer Extract Treat- ment, Is Dead SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, March 5. Mrs. {brought here by airplane from We- natchee, Washington, several weeks | Coffey-Humber grandular extr: experimental treatment for can died late yesterday in St. Mary's Hospital. The pain she suffered on a apparently left after the first in- Jjection of the extract. Blood transfusions were also giv- en. Physicians attending the woman said improvement following was due more to the blood transfusions and careful nursing than to the ex- tract efforts, | {Parisian Stores Solve i Lost Children Problem PARIS, March 5—Large depart- ment stores are adopting loud speakers to locate children who |become separated from their moth- She was milk-|and swore to a complaint charging!ers in bargain counter rushes. | At frequent intervals a voice an- who Is “waiting for his mother a " the inquiry counter.” Gertrude Edwins, who was | ago to receive the newly discovered | " Mrs. Tbbotson | moments of (International Newsreel) [ Mr. Sackett succeeds Jacob Gould Schurman, ' Delegation Germany UNEMPLOYED ARE TO STAGE DISTURBANCES }World Wide Movement Is Indicated for Tomorrow | Throughout World WARNINGS ISSUED : BY AUTHORITIES France and Germany Sta- tion Police — Mayor | Walker's Statement | NEW YORK, March 5.— The announcement of a pro- ;posed world-wide demonstra- tion temorrow in connection with “International Unem- Mr. Sackett is the former Senator (Internationai Newsreel) uh tie Reported Agi-j tated Over Events of Yesterday's Session | By JOHN EVANS (Ascociated Press Staff Writer) | | | PARIS, March 5—The French theater is in a bad way if one is to | believe the official report of the | Fine Arts commission of the cham- ‘ber of deputies. j It is written by Jean Locquin | |who takes it upon himself to fix the blame on “the general medio- crity of authors, the enforced par-| |simony of theatres in casting and | staging plays and the competition of the movies."” | “People would rather see a good | movie at a low price than a poor play at a high price,” says Locquin. | It is the modernist theatre which s given credit for keeping alive |the spark of life in French dra- ima and In it says this parltamen- tar theatrical expert, there is of that dramatic art has with- in it deep forces capable of re- juvenating it and, with the help of |a public responsive to truth and |good taste, it can surmount diffi- culties, conquer new means of ex- pression, adapt itself top modern | |stage requirements and blossom {forth in a renaissance, if the gov- |ernment backs its efforts instead | of paralyzing them.” i And after that long flight, thel | keeper of showhouse appropria- |tions propos raising the ante on, |the subsidies given the two “van- |guard” playhouses, L'Atelier and | L'Oeuvre. Each got $400 apiece last year and now they are to have {8600. He also proposes tax reduc- | |tions [ Locquin says that theatre mana- ‘um.\ have been obliged by the high | | 1L «Conunuefi unfi P;\écv 'Ir‘tu'eve)i - lold murder charge. ployment Day” brought ex- pressions of warning against undue disturbances from cAu D’ Ln {authorities in many cities both in the United States and NAVAL SESSION ... 1ouse Premier Tardieu has in- | : i:,tructed the Paris Prefect of American Delegation Hur- Police that all demanstrations riedly Summoned for ml;,stl'belpr:‘)llll . olice in | Important Meeting |, Pt ol i STIMSON REAPPEARs | " @l lare« |many police will | O | AND ISSUES A cm:duty for immediate summon- 05 0 ing to any trouble centers and prevent any serious re- isults growing out of expect- led Communist demonstra- |tions. LONDON, March 5.—Ignoring ad- | . 4 . vice of physicians to remain at| ,Mdyor W.alku‘ of New Y?rk Stanimore two more days, Amefl-lc'ty has issued a warning can Secretary of State Stimson'thut all demonstrations will came to London today and sum- he h 7 da 64 moned an immediate meeting of | EIg onl'y o pjroper plac- the American delegntl.an attcx\ding'i‘s‘ e said all riotous dem- the London Naval Conference. (onstrations will be suppressed The purpose of the call was not gt onee, disclosed but it created a sensation. ' R o It was disclosed at the same| (?ports from other cities, time that the Americans are prob- received today, indicate that ably agitated over the course of authorities will be on the alert events of yesterday’s meeting of the t chiefs of delegations when it de-| omgr:tow. veloped that Hugh 8, Gibson, who| William Foster, leader of was acting for Secretary Stimson. the Communist Party in Am- vigorously opposed the program laid | .. . 2 down for the Conference when it | 1% denied aslserhons that resumes active work, on the ground the demonstrations are sup- it is premature and ill-advised. [ported by Soviet money as a b 1 5 ;mezms of spreading Soviet , ipropaganda in the United | M | States. | | iy Iwnl'n: HOUSE DENIES UNEMPLOYMENT CONFERENCE . . ience. Government Institution al| The President let it be known today that he has give: nchorage ave Siven no thasigl C g to H Ebo the calling of such a confer- New Personnel ence. WASHINGTON, March 5—The |White House denied reports that |President Hoover is considering |calllng an unemployment confer- | It is said at the White House ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 5.— |that every agency of the Govern- Col. O. F. Ohlson, Manager of the Ment is working to the best of Alaska Rallroad, has returned to his ability to speed up construction for headquarters here from a confer-|eMPployment and will continue to ence in Washington with the heads |40 the utmost possible. of the Departments. He \mnounccsf a change in the personnel of the!Filipi Government Hospital in Anchorage pm;‘al“A:t::lb gotle' de « . Ara effective May 1, when Dr. J. H.| Romig, of Fairbanks, becomes Chlef | Surgeon of the Railroad, in charge| MANILA, March 5—The post of of the Government Hospital, with|Philippine trade commissioner in Dr. A. 8. Walkerwiki, for the past the United States has been created year in charge of the hospital at|to protect and further the island’s Latouche, as Assistant. They will |{commercial interests. succeed Dr. Rex F. Swartz, as Chief| One of the chief duties of the Surgeon and Dr. A. D. Haverstock, |cOmmissioner will be to oppose and as Assistant Surgeon. |block, if possible, American legis- - e e lation detrimental to Philippine SALEM, Ore. The State Su_‘trade. The creation of the post preme Court upheld a decision rul- |Pas prompted by the Timberlake ing the $5 a day expense item Tesolution, which would limit the voted themselves by members of amount of Philippine sugar permit- the 1929 Legislature was uncon- ted to enter the United States duty stitutional “lree to 500,000 tons annually. ————————, | Since the United States is the SEATTLE, Wash—Seattle police best market for Philippine prod~ asked to have Gatano Lorenzi, 60, ucts, Filipinos oppose such legisla~ freed by Oakland, Cal, police, be- [tion. Also, they hold that as long cause nobody could be found to|as the islands are under the Amer- testify aginst Lorenzi on a 20-year-|ican flag, free trade relations should be continued.