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changed his mind. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVL, NO. 5469. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 24 1930. MEMBE‘ROF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NEARLY 2,000 PERSONS KILLED IN QUAKE, ITALY * * @VER F @UR TIHI@USAND ARE INJURED NEW EVIDENCE . REVEALED IN * . BUCKLEY CASE Affidavit Purports Slain | Radio Announcer Was Extortionist POLICE COMMISSIONER MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT | Rewards for Arrest Con- viction of Assassins /- Reach $70,500 DETROIT, Mich., July 24.| —While poor people who con- gidered Charles E. (Jerry), Buckley their champion were contributing funds to blanket‘ his casket with flowers, the| police said they possessed an; affidavit purporting to show| the slain radio announcer was extorting money from boot- leggers. Police Commissioner Wilcox sam he had a sworn statement from an admitted bootlegger, accusing Buck: | ley of inducing him to take oa! liquor running, then demanding and receiving sums totalling $4,000. The reward offered for the cap- ture and conviction of the slayers of Buckley was increased to $70,- 50 with the Detroit Times offering £2,500. } Buckley, political commentator of radio station WMBC was shot and na killed Tuesday night, by three gang- slers, as he was sitting in a hotel lobby, two and one-half hours after he had announced that Mayor, Charles Bowles had been . recalled in the spdcial election held on Tuesday. TRIANGULAR LOVE AFFAIR Beautiful Vj:r—nan Takes Five Shots to Get g Man She Wants "MARLEROI, France, July 24— ‘Lady Owen, beautiful and wealthy titled woman, is held in the prison at Versailles on charges of wound- ing the wife of Dr.. Paul Gastavd| of - Paris. The police said Lady Owen, French born, widow of Sir Charles Owen, shot Mme. Gastaud as the climax in a triangular drama. » Lady Owen became a patient of the doctor a year ago and an ai- tachment grew between them. Then he decided to get a divorce, thea 1 : Lady Owen, according to the po- , went to the Gastaud residence drew a revolver and fired five shots, four taking effect, in the body of Mme. Gastaud. It is believed Mme. Gastaud will recover. FOUR LODGES ARE INDICTED, s BOSTON, Mass.,, Juiy fraternal lodges and 150 persons have been indicted on charges of violation of the liquor laws. The lodges indicted are the Lowell Aerie of Eagles, Lawrence Lodge of Moose, L'Union Franco- Belge and the Lawrence White Eagle Home Association at North- ampton. lCathohcs I nmte Lalty SAFETY FIRST WHEN HOOVER ' GOES TOURING New Precautions Will Be Taken Hereafter on President’s Trips To Eucharistic Congress WASHINGTON, D. C., July 24— New dafety precautions when Presi- dent Hoover goes on his week-end trips to Virginla have been de- vised by the White House Secret Service as the result of the acc!- dent that occurred to one of' the Presidential party cars twn _weeks 280. The road to the President's tamp will be more thoroughly patrollel to curb fast driving on Sundays. It is also the plan for guests to g0 separately in their cars instead of five or ten cars in a line. On'y the President’s car and Secret Serv- ice cars, possibly one other, will lcad the procession. { CHARGE GIRL - WITH MURDER - OF HER BABE: ABERDEEN, Wash., July 24—A first degree murder charge has been filed against Miss Minna {Krom, aged 24, for the death of a new-born babe found in the ingin- erator of af apartment on 8 i The girl admitted being the mother. She said the child was born dead. Doctors said the child was ;smothered. Laundry marks on clothing around the babe led to solving of the mys- | tery. Bishop Joseph Rummel (left) will be host to National Eucharistic Congress in Omaha in September. Bishop Joseph Schrembs (right) has issued the call for the gathering, some parts of which will be held in Creighton University Stadium (below). of the Blessed Sacrament in St.| Cecllia’s gathedral. ‘Preparations are being made to accommodate 50,000° persons ‘Sep- tember 24, when Cardinal Munde- lein of Chicago will address a mass meeting in the Creighton university stadium on “The Blessed Sacra- ment and Catholic Action.” OMAHA, Neb—Omaha will be \the goal of approximately 25,000 American Catholics when the sixth national Rucharistic Congress is held here September 23 to 25. Heretofore -the congresses have included the clergy only, but the laity is invited this year for the !first time. Bishop Joseph Rummel of Oma- ha, who will act as host to the visi- tors, ‘plans to welcome the largest number of Catholics ever gathered together in the United States with the exception of the International Congress in Chicago in 1926. At the same meeting Martin T. Manton, senior judge of the United States. district court of appeals of New York, will speak on ‘“The Cath- |olic Laity and Eucharistic Devo- | tions.” | The call forethe national con- | gress, the first since 1911, was is- The investigation brought out that similar marks were fount ony clothes wrapped around a still-} born babe found here a year ago. ' Miss Krom and her family under- went a quizz. The girl denied caus- ing the death of the babe and said the clothing was stolen. The same Biondi, of Washington, papal dele- gate to the United States, will open of a sblemn pontifical votive mass |sued by Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland, president of the Priests’ Eucharistic league. ‘The last National Congress was held at Cincinnati and the first at Lille, France, 50 years ago. FOUR YOUTHS 'ON LONG TRIP Go from Saskatchewari to Arctic, Now on Yukon Bound to Tropics FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 24— Victor, Allan and Evans Fisher, brothers, and Charles Bruder, are paddling up the Yukon River on an 18,000-mile trip from the Arctic to the Tropics, by canoe PFrom the Yukon they will go to Wile Portage, to the Canadian streams, thence to the Mississippi, and ‘down that river to the Guif of Mexico. The youths are from Saskatche- wan, They started 14 months ago from the Great Slave Lake, followed the Mackenzie River to the Delta claims were made Sunday. The girl's father, Jacob Krom, one of Aberdeen’s merchants, re- cently committed sulcide. lHetch Hetchy Project Closed For Six Months SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 24~Due "o the prevalence of gas in the Hetch Hetchy tun- nel project, the City Enginecr s ordered a six months’ close on part of the construction. Four hundred men have been laid off. The revised safety program is estimated to cost $1,000,000. One dozen men have lost their lives, three recently. A o o STUFF THAT CHEERS NOT | RECOGNIZED Champagne,_‘\—Vines, F bidden Luxuries, Theé Most Rev. Pletro Fumasoni- the Congress with" the celebration Caroline Hyde 24.—Four |® Hyde, daughter of the secretary of agriculture. CUE CHAMP IN SYDNEY SYDNEY, Australia, July 24— Walter Lindrum, Australia’s billiard champion, who claims every ‘bil- |liard record in the world, has re- turned here from an English tour and may go to the United States next year. Says 3,000,000 Children H ave Defective Hearing ) ""'CAMBRIDGE, Mass.,, July 24— ‘A" record of restoring to normal hearing in a single summer 25 per cent of the average defective hear- ing children is reported to the Am- erican Federatjon of Organizations for the Hard of Hearing. The report is by Martha S. Ma- Congress of Parents and Teachers. She says in 1929 the summer roundup campaigns of the con- gress, conducted in 1520 localities in the United States, examined | 56,865 chlidren, from 2,110 hearing defects and corrected 565 of these. She estimated 3,000,000. .school | sop, vios president of the National|chlldren have hearing defects, g © BACHRACH in the Arctic Ocean, and stayed in et oarama | 6e and skin houses. They ate meat| . Government Expense g they trapped. For a month they paddled up the Peel River, crossed| WASHINGTON, D. C. July the Portage to the Porcupine and|—Bubbling champagnes and down that to the Yukon River. wines at governmental expens ———y— forbidden luxuries in American bassies and Consulates abroad After a six-year fight for tertainment funds, Congress rec ly allotted $92,000 for the pur; but the order cited in detail what the money was to be used for ard intoxicating beverages were not in- cluded. 600 ANGLERS TO COMPETE IN GULF COAST TOURNEY MOBILE, Ala., July 24.—8ix hun- dred anglers from many states will vie here August 25 to 27 in the second annual gulf fishing rodeo with tarpon, the silver king of the sea, the principal objective. The anglers, novices and experts,| ~ SAVES 16 FROM DROWNING also will pursue king mackerel, bo- nitos, Spanish mackerel, speckled! STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jul trout, redfish, blackfish, cavalla deleteen times a rescuer of h ling. from drowning is Harald Ju Fort Gaines on Dauphin island,|crack S8wedish swimmer. at the entrance of Mobile bay, vi11| His latest feat consisted in < be the center of the rod and reel ing a six-year-old boy who carnival. fallen off a bridge on the isla AL o e b R {Ingaroen, in the Stockholm Cuba’s. new $20,000000 capital pelago. Julln made his first rescie !ruilding soon will be formally in-'at the age of 20, for which he Jsugurated, received & medal, —————— CRACK- SWEDISH SWIMMER .| mearing an end. i-|Jersey 73%, United Aircraft 59, U. SEEK ARKANSAS covmnonsmp Assoolated Press Photo Gov. Hnrvay Parnell (upper left), Brooks Hays (upper right), Little Rock attornay: Judge John C. Sheffistd (lower left) of Helena and THornberry Gray of Batesville are seeking the democratic nomk | nation for governor in the Arkansas primary August 12 WOMAN WHO CONTROLLED FORTUNE IN NEW YORK CITY, PASSES AW AY ; ONE OF leio Senator May Head G. O. P. { ‘24 . —Mrs. Rebecca ‘Wendell Swope, |last of a line noted for a vast real © ‘esute fortune'in New York Oity, | died last Sunddy at the age of 87 years. In accordance with the oustom |of the family, no announcement |was made of her death, and Mrs. | Swope was buried quietly on Tues- }day. | ‘The family shut out the modern world. Mrs. Swope was the only one of six sisters to marry. She had one brother John €. Wendell. The sisters decreed no man was good enough to marry. There were no telephonés, no electricity, no newspaper nor other ‘modern conveniences allowed in the four story mansion in the heart of the department store district of the city. Mrs. Swope personally ruled a fortune and under her creed she | “never mortgaged, no property was for sale, and tenants own repairs.’ ARE SEEKING HIGH HONORS ~ ATELECTION | B Four Representatives After Senatorships — Two Others in Primaries Senator Simeon D. Fess, of Ohio, above, has been favorably men- tloned as ‘a successor to Claudius ‘Huston, chairman of the National Republican Committee. Huston’s days as Chairman are believed Four of six House members seekinz into the hazardous primaries and the remaining two will take pre- liminary jumps in August. Representatives McCormick of II- linols, White of Maine, Dickinson (aternationsl Nowsreel) Carolina, rominations in recent primaries. Representative Sproul of Kansas is waging a heated campaign for .| | TODAY'S STOCK i | QUOTATIONS | g J— State on August 5. NEW YORK, July quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5%, Alleghany Cor- 22%, Anaconda 49%, ‘Bethlehem Steel 82%(‘ General Mo- | party nomination on August 1. Holder of Medals for World War Valor, Now al Harvester 82%, KennECOtt 39%, Montgomery-Ward 36, National Packard Motors 14%, ons . Beds 26%, Standard LOS ANGELES, Cal, Standard Oil of New| 8. Steel 165%, American Can 130%,|purse snatcher. He was at Fox Films 47, Hupp Motors 15%.|time Squadren Leader of the J3rit- Stewart-Warner 247%, Jish Royal Air Force, FAMILY NOTLD FOR ObD *@FIARACTERS’ ‘DEA TH LIST IS EXPECTED 'TOBE INCREA SED BY RAIN; HURRICANE HITS NAPLES; VESUVIUS IS ALSO ACTIVF Sltuahon Expecled to Be Disturbed by Outbreaks of Epidemics—Health Authorities Take Precautions —Entire Villages Are Reported to Be Almost Obliterated in Disaster f / ROME, Italy, July 24.—Latest official figures of yes- terday’s earthquake placed the dead at 1,778 and injured at 1,264. lists as result of rains. | Naples was swept this m It is said more victims are expected to be added to both orning by a hurricane which drove huge waves ashore and added to fears of the stricken populace. | The situation is also disturbed by the possibility of epidemics. | Health authorities have’ disease. | Mount. Vesuvius has also glowed dully in the sky.: taken ‘' précdutions against added to fears as the summit | The earthquakes started shortly after 1 o’clock yester- day morning, sharp shocks undulatory in nature. | In some instances entire villages were almost oblierated. | Villa Nova is completely lost with more than 350 per- sons including the Mayor a_md his family. i AMERICAN RED CROSS OFFERS AID | WASHINGTON, D. C., July 24.—A cablegram has been ient by the Amercan Red Cross to the Italian Red Cross, as #* follows Mk come ?” "Profoundly dlstressed at tragic dlsaater which has NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, July hefallen your beautiful -country. Would our help be wel- PSYCHOLOGY USED IN CAMPAIGN FOR | WHEAT REDUCTION By FRANK l. WELLER made their WASHINGTON, D. C., July 21.-—! Senatorial seats have been hurled $0, PACIFIC IS REPORTED IN NEW DEAL Purchases Controlling In- terest in St. Louis and Northwestern RR. 24.—Alfhough the report on Wall Street that the Southerh Pacific has purchased a controlling inter- est in the St. Louls and Southwest- | ern Rallroad, lacked confirmation, the report gained wide credence. Information has spread that 135 - 000 shares of voting preferred stock have been purchased by the Kuhn, Loeb, Company, Southern Pacific bankers, from the New York In- vestors, Incorporated. | 'Funeral of Aviation Pioneer Is Tomorrow HAMMONDSPORT, New York July 24—~The body of Glenn Cur- tiss, aviation ploneer, who died in a Buffalo | NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. July| (A, P. Farm Editor) WASHINGTON, July 24. — The wheat farmer who reduces his 1931 acreage is going to believe it's his own idea. Largely it will be his own idea. For when the campaign is over the farmer will have before him a cross-section “of every economic reason for bringing American pro- duction down to a domestic basis and a startling realization that neither the farm board nor the de- | partment of Agriculture has told 'him to chop off a single acre. The psyenoiogy of the campaign |became apparent when the de- | partment released the world wheat outlook for 1931 a month earlier than usual. Showing increased world produc- tion and decreased demand, it thundered the warning.that only a domestic market held any immedi- ate hope for American wheat. Before the echo waned in the ears of the winter wheat farmer, now pointing his plow for the 1931 crop, Secretary Hyde and Chairman Legge were in the heart of the winter wheat belt—playing their aces at meetings called by state agricultural colleges. At the meetings were all the county agents, who brought with them the “key” men of each neighborhood. Again the subtle strategy of the of Iowa and Pritchard of Non.hl all Republicans, won | the Republican nomination in hig Representative Hull, Democrat of 24—Closing | Tennessee, hopes to receive the Under Arrest in L. A. July 24— Capt. George R. Clifford, holder of \ad |Brands 21, Standard Oil of Cali-|medals from every World War Al- {lled nation and who conquered 42 |favored by students at New York (enemy planes, has been arrestea farIUnlversn.y, says a report to the one jAmerican Eugenics society by Ru- |suddenly yesterday ‘hoapunx following an operation for nppendlcmx arrived today. Rev. Summerville, Rector of 8t. James | | Episcopal Church, will conduct the | funeral services tomorrow utar- noon. | campaign appeared. The key men were farmers already convinced of necessity of acreage reduction and who were counted upon to take |back to their neighbors the argu- | ments presented at the state meet- ings. Wherever the Secretary and the Officials of Manila have con-|Chairman spoke no mention was tracted with a cooperative livestock |made of specific reduction. They association to supply meat to the|had their aides—Nils Olsen, chief city's markets. f— | (Continued on Page Five) - et Students Vote Against Companionate Marriage NEW HAVEI, Conn., July 24— Companionate marriages are not questionnaire on companionate mar- riage. It was a complete surprise. A very small percentage was in favor of that novelty, and then only ‘for the other fellow’.” Only a few of the boys favored it and not one of the girls, E dolph M. Binder of the university. “Last year,” he says, “we had a