The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 29, 1930, Page 1

a “ w - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXV., NO. 5396. JUNEAU ALASKA TUESDAY, APRIL 29 1930. MLMBLR OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS REVOLTING CONVICTS ATTEMPT TO BREAK PRISON DELEGATES TO LONDON NAVAL MEET RETURN American Representatives Reach Home—Land at New York City CROWD OF FIVE THOUSAND CHEER Ambassador Morrow Gives Praise to Stimson for Achievements NEW YORK, April 29.—The Am- crican delegates to the London Naval Confernce set foot again on American soil at 10:30 o'clock this morning when they debarked at the | Battery from the tug Macom to cheers from 5,000 persons. Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow was the only member of the dele- gation to make a formal statement. | He said; “It is a good treaty. Sec- retary of State Stimson is entitled to the highest credit for accom- plishing the aims for which Presi- dent Hoover sent the delegation abroad.” | SENATE HEARINGS ;’ WASHINGTON, April 29.—Secre- tary of the Navy Adams will be| the first witness at the hearings of the Senate Naval Committee on the London treaty, he has been | informed by President Hoover. The Naval Treaty will be sub-| mitted immediately upon its ar- rival and Senate leaders are pre-| paring to give it early considera- | tion R e PLANE HOPS. - FROM LINER; TAKES MAIL NEW YORK, April 29.—An air- plane catapulated from the liner Bremen 350 miles at sea, landed four bags of mail 12 hours before the ship docked. The plane resumes to ship to shore airmail service started last year. The plane alighted in the harbor here three and one-half hours after it left the deck of {he‘ Bremen. — TWO FATHERS ARE MURDERED Chinese Bandits Kill Two| Captives Kidnapped | Last Sunday SHANGHAIL, April 20—Chinese| Press advices said Fathers Patrick | Lassen and Francis Murray, kid- napped Sunday by bandits, have been shot by their captors. They were from St. Olumbans, Nebraska Mission. ————.——— Raskob and Family i Received by Pope Today, Vatican City VATICAN CITY, April 20.—John J. Raskob, Chairman of the Demo- cratic National' Committee of the TUnited States, and his family were received today by Pope Pius. The eclipse of the sun | source of | quired indoors. {from Camptonville and other | points where astronomers and pho- OREGON Scenes of long ago were revived when St. TRAIL CELEBRAT!ON IN ST. LOUIS Associated Press Photo Louis celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the opcninn of the Oregon trail. Here is brave band starting on the westward trek. SUN'S ECLIPSE CAUSES CHANGE INTEMPERATURE Darkness Also Prevails Brief Time—Scien- tific Aspects for| SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 29. —The rare phenomenon of a total was witnessed over a narrow path across the Northwestern United States. It may have brought to astronomers pew information regarding the chief heat and™light energy. The path was narrow and a rela- tively short, slight darkness and coolness resulted in the 3,000 foot wide path. In San Prancisco, lights were re- As to the scientific aspects of the eclipse full reports are to come tographers were gathered. They areare all optimistic about .the re- ports however. The totality of the eclipse was about one and three-tenths onds and elapsed time of the eclipse two hours and fifty minutes. Hearing on Veterans’ Bill Starts Thursday WASHINGTON, April 29—The Senate Finance Committee has ap- pointed a subcommittee to hold hearings beginning next Thursday on the bill passed last week by the House liberalizing veterans’' legis- lation. The cost of the bill is es timated at betwetn $100,000,000 andi S 00,000,000. Blind Boys and Girls Sensed Sun’s Eclipse BERKELEY, Cal., April 29. —Fifty boys and girls, stu- dents of California School for the Blind, sensed the eclipse of the sun yesterday. None could see but a three degree drop in the tempera- ture and a hush of all ani- mal life about them told of the phenomena transpiring in the sky. They entered into the spirit of the moment heartily as those who actual- ly see and knew that day presentation was made by Monsigor Spellman, of the Boston Diocese. and night got twisted. S0 ceso0evecscone LIVESTOCK AGENCY STUDIES PLAN FOR DIRECT PURCHASES! By FRANK 1. WELLER (A. P. Farm Editor) WASHINGTON, April 29.—Lack of unity among producers as to the part the national order buying company will play in the national livestock association’s program is in the foreground of continued failure to set up a central market- ing agency for that commodity. It is the order buying company which would negotiate direct from | the producer to the packer sales. Its operations would divert busi- pess from the cooperative sales e T s e v A agencies now functioning in termi- nal markets. The point in question is whether the company shall be a member of the national associatipn, on an equal footing with the member co- ! operatives, or a part of the head- quarters organization. ‘The pro- | posed set-up would make it a mem- ber agency. The two elements to be reconciled | are represented by the National Livestock Producers’ association and the “Farmers Union crowd.” (Continued on Page $ix) B 'out the ‘deck aft and the second! 'all were forward at lunch. . San Francisco, has served under 26 . generals, i OLD DOMiNION BLOSSOM QUEEN Associated Pres. . .uto Suzanne Pollard, daughter of the governor of Virginia, will reign as Queen Shenandoah over the nventh annual apple blossom festival at Shcnanduah, Va. Hoover Sends Message to Congress; Senate Too Busy to Have it Read! WASHINGTON, D. C, April 29, -Adopting the unusual course of writing to Congress urging comple- ton of its legislative and law en- forcement program, President Hoo- ver found the Senate so busy with other matters that it even waived he formality of having the Execu- ive message read and it was re- ferred to the Judiciary Committee without a word of discussion. Measures cited by the President included the tariff bill and the Judge John J. Parker nomination | conroversy in the Senate. Leaders in both houses believe there is ample time left for action at least on the high spots of the Administration program. .o Million Dellar Yacht Damaged by Explosion, Fire NEW YORK, April 29.—A gaso- line tank explosion in the after end of Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt's mllhon dollar yacht Winchester, |of the New York Yacht Club, tore {smokestack. The explosion caused a fire which burned out the crew’s quarters and part of the wooden deck awnings. . The damage is estimated at $50,- Gen. Vanderbilt was not aboard.| None of the crew we injured as/ ———————— Berthold Rey, messenger at' the Ninth Corps Area headquanters, Bones of Four Generations of Washingtons, Moved WASHINGTON, April remains of more than 30 members of the Washington family buried on the Wakefield, Virginia, estate where the First President was born, | have been gathered from the graves | and placed in a reconstructed valut. This is part of the restoration of the historic spot of the Washing-| tons, whose bones moved belonged to four generations, all antedating the President, and including Col John Washington, the first of the family to come to America. ———,r—— ’AVIERICAN WOMEN “ADOPT” LONDON CHARITY HOSPITAL, LONDON, April 29.—American women in London have “adopted” the Royal Free Hospital Help given to the hospital by thev American Women's club recently was acknowledged by Lord Riddell, presiding at the annual meeting of the board of governors. “The hospital has been adopted by the American women,” he said, adding that the hospital's deficit thas been reduced from £16,000 to £7,000 through the kindness of !he American donors. The American ambasador and ! Mrs, Dawes, both of whom are. on/ jthe board of governors, were pres-, ent at the meeting. ' -, —— A specialized eye, ear, nose and 29.—The! SITUATION IN INDIA GAUSING | GREATCONCERN British Tai@ Steps to Prevent Recurrence of Sepoy Mutiny NATIVE TROOPS ARE NOW BEING WATCHED One Battalion Ordered Off for Inquiry—Arrests Are Continuing LONDON, April 29.—Advices from India indicated that the Britist Government, remembering the bloody Sepoy mutiny of 1857, is taking steps to prevent possible trouble among native troops. It is clearly indicated that in the present state of unrest the Government does not view with atisfaction the conduct of two platoons of the Eighteenth Royal Garhwal Rifles in the recent out- break at Peshawar and the bat- talion has been sent to Abbottabad for inquiry. Arrests of Nationalist leaders con- tinue at Kalekkar. The principal of the university al Ahaddad is held by the authori- ties. At Borsad, women are campaign- ing against liquor and one saloon has been closed following convert- ing of the owner. ANNEX PLANNED Tabertsler Abitx Propos- ed — Funds in Measure Recently Passing House Expenditure of $20,000 on the Government Hospital in this city is provided for in the current De- partment of Interior Supply Bill, recently passed by the House of Representatives and expected to pass the Senate in the near future, according to advices received by The Empire from Seattle head- quarters of the Alaska Division, Federal Bureau of Education. That service for schools and medical re- lief in Alaska will receive & total of $1,092451 under the measure as ii passed the House. | Included in its provisions is an item of $71,000 for the erection of an industrial school near Wrangell. Other new school buildings to be erected include: Nondalton, $7,000; Akiajak, $7,000; Tuliksaw, $7,000; Akutan, $2,500; Sleetmute, $5,000; $35,000; addition at Kanakak, $10,- 000; White Mountain, $8,000; Nome, | 1$10,000; Cordova, $7,000 | Erect Tubercular Annex It is planned to erect tubercula: annex to the Juneau hospital at a cost of $16,200. The building plan- ned will be two stories high and will cost $10,020. It is designed for the treatment of tubercular cases.! The second floor of the structure will be an open room connected to the main hospital by a passage- | |way. Equipment and supplies, fuel | and light for the annex are cov-| ered by an allotment of $3,000 with | {a like sum made available for freight. In addition to this, the sum of $4,000 is provided for ex tensive repairs to the present hos- | pital, New hospitals are projected for Mountain Village and Kotzebue, the | former costing a total of $10,000, land the latter $16,000. | { | ————— o o000 0000v00 K4 TODAY'S STOCK . QUOTATIONS je® 000 0c00000e0 i= . . . NEW YORK, Aprii 20.—Alaska | Juneau mine stock is quoted today ! |8t 7, Alleghany Corporation 29,! Anaconda 60%, Bethlehem Steel 99, General Motors 46%, Gold Dust | \Hu, Granby 35, Grigsby Grunow 24‘7(; Kennecott 47, Missourl Pa-| cific 86%, National Acme 19%, Packard 18%, Standard Brands 25, ! Simmons Beds 46%, Standard Oil b¢ California 73%, U. 8. Steel 184%, Ward Baking B 10%, Montgomery Ward 43%. ————— SHOCK AT SEWARD SEWARD, Alaska, April 20.—An HOSPITAL BLDS. armed with machine guns, cred one Kengsuchen, North Kiangsu Prov- ince last Saturday, it was learned today. from Nanking, the Nationalist gov {ernment, inot shown themselves capable of coping with the widespread bandit- 'ry on a gigantic scale. of Mr. and Mrs. M. 8. Whittier, |recently initiated social fraternity, Oregon State Col- lege chapter, received here by Mr. Whittier. FLAMES Columbus, Ohio, firemen fought for Hhours to control a fire in At Sweet Briar College {additions to the Eklutna institution | Miss Eliza ‘Ruth Hasson, a Pitts-| burgh, Pa., girl, has been elected ! Queen of the May at Sweet Briat College at Lynchburg, Virginia. | The annual festival starts May 4. (Tnternational Mewsreel) ONE THOUSAND MASSACRED BY CHINA BANDITS 29 —Bandits massa- of SHANGHAI, April thousand residents Thousands of captives were car- ied off with the loot. The massacre occurred 100 mile seat whose troops have [JUD WHITTIER NOW KAPPA PSI MEMBER Judson Whittier, of Juneau, son was into Kappa Psi, according to word Kappa Psi at Oregon State is composed of chemical and mining engineer students. Whittier is now throat hospital is being built at earth shock was felt here yesterdly'in his sophomore year at the Cor- Washington University at St. Louis Missouri, | afternoon at 6:35 o'clock, the first in many months, vallis institution and is majoring in mining engineering. Ohio Penitentiary which tcok more than 300 lives, Associated Press telephoto shows group comhatflng blaze. FOR JUNEAU U. 8. pissburgh Lass Queen BETTER HOMES WEEK LAUNCHED BY GOV. PARKS ‘Movement Here Inaugurat- ed by Governor in Address Over Radio “Today States the attention of out; people }is invited to the consideration of ways and means to combat illiter- acy, improve our citizenship and reduce poverty,” declared Gov. George A. Parks in an address in- augurating Better Homes Week in Alaska, and broadcast over Station KFIU of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company. { In an hour's program, many fea- tures were embraced, Including an interesting talk on Better Homes ithrough Legislation by Mrs. R. R. Herrman, Chairman of the Legisla- jtive Committee of thc Alaska Fed- jeration Women's Clubs, vocal and througnout the Unitad | STATE PRISON IN CHi0 AGAIN TROUBLE SCENE Prisoners Storm Main En- trance in Effort to i Gain Freedom {GUARD’S RIFLE FIRE QUELLS DISTURBANCE Order Restored After Half Hour of Rioting— Streets Cleared COLUMBUS, Ohio, April {29. — Revolting convicts in *the idle houses of the Ohio | State Penitentiary were fired upon by prison guards when they made a concerted effort to escape from the cell blocks this foreneon. { The mutineers were driven back from the doors leading to the main entrance by auto- matic rifles in the hands of prison guards. George Tonoff and Jewell Toffa, two conviets were wounded when the ‘' massed convicts made the break for liberty and attempted to gaim room. ientrance to the back. The gonvicts held several guards as prisoners for a short time but released them when National Guard officers Qbreatenod u: lnhr m: l'm m Half an hour after giards had sent bullets streaming ‘through win- {dows and peep holes, the conviets quieted down. ! Prison officlals ordered the guards in make an {nspection and all streets near the prison were cleared of spectators. Governor Issues Orders Gov. Myers Y. Cooper has issued an order to Warden Thomas, in charge of the Ohio Penitentiary, that ordér must be restored im- {mediately. Gov. Cuoper said the warden will be backed up by the Ohio National Guard. The Governor's orders sald: “The Governor feels that sufficient con- ‘sideration has been shown in the !oxtraordinary conditions resulting from the fire and loss of life and the time has come when the regu- lar routine of the prison must be reestablished.” —— . The Iowa Penitentiary at Fort ‘Madhon has the largest number of prisoners in its history, lccordm( [to Warden Hollowell. S iE lection Returns e instrumental music, and a reading Will Be Received by Miss Muriel Jarman, 'T . . Text of Address onight by Empire The Governor’s address follows: 4 | “Today throughout ,the United|® _The Emplre will recelve ® |States the attention of our people ® °lection returns tonight not e is Invited to the consideration of!® OBl from Juneau, adjacent e jways and means to combat iliter- “"”m"‘ and the First Divis- o acy, improve our citizenship and' on, but from the other ® reduce poverty. These problems ® three Divisions. Owing to the o are not new nor are they peculiar ® 1aTge vote expected to be ® [to any section of our country. ® @St and two tickets to be ® Every community is confronted with ® counted, local returns will them in a greater or lesser degree, ® Perhaps not be available be- o In each community there are and ® fore 9 or 9:30 o'clock. Others @ always have been a numper of pub- ® &re expected to be received ® lic spirfted citizens who have de- ® €ven later. Probably no re- voted their efforts to the relief ot : z;l:l;ewmdb;'hl;::fl”dpo":; those less fortunate. i RORG, or. Fou “The foremost students of these ® Divislons until tomorrow ! problems have long recognized that ® forenoon. owing to cable of- the situation can not be success- * fice hours and difference in b1 fully corrected until the entire na- : time. |4 D A S0 U5 L 5 sl RS, R - ‘Contlnuedonhge’rwo) -o.oo-oooooo. MARKS KEYSTONE TILT (Following is the fifth of a series of stories by Associated Press staff writers showing is- sues in states where congres- sional primaries will be held this spring and summer) HARRISBURG, Pa., Apri 29— | Pennsylvania’s Republican Senator- fal primary takes rank as one of | the year's noteworthy political | struggles. On one side is the power and prestige of William S. Vare of Phil- adelphia, linked with the popular- |ity of James J. Davis, Secretary of | Labor, under three presidents. | On the other is the intrenched 'lnllueme of the pleasantly persis~ 'tent Joseph R. Grundy ,the hlnl* ‘Semux out to keep his seat. Grundy, too is supported by the | Mellon political interests. As a result of the balloting, 20, Pennsylvania forsees the b, sible emergence of a single fi who will assume the mantle of late Boies Penrose as “boss.” It is around Davis, who op (Continued on Page Sfx)