The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 10, 1930, Page 1

BURKE FOUND DEA THE DAILY ALASKA K VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5586. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDA\ DECEMBER 10, 1930. v $170,000,000 VOTED BY [ BIG MEASURES ARE PASSED BY HOUSE, SENATE Emergency Const ruction| and Drought Relief | Bills Acted Upon WASHINGTON, D. C, Dece. 10.—The House has passed the $110,000,000 Emergency Con- struction Bill. The Senate has passed the $60,000,000 drought relief bill. The Empoyment bill now goes to the Senate and the drought rclief measurt goes to the House for further action. The Houce disregarded Pres- ident Hoover's request for $150,000,000 a lump sum, to be spent as the Cabinet Commit- tee saw fit, by slashing $40,- 000,000 from the bill and mak- ing specific instructions how the money should be spent and also that all employment funds be spend before Septem- ber 1, 1931. RUSHED TO SENATE WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 10.— The $110,000,000 Emergency Con- struction Bill was rushed to the Senate today with approval of the Appropriatiops Committee. i ALASKA ITEMS Accocding te advices recelved to- day by The Empire, the $100,000,000 ‘Emergency Employment Appropria- tion bill reported out of the Senate Committee after passing the House contains the following Alas- kan appropriations: Ketchikan Creek $272,000. Port Alexander $17,000. Harbor Refuge at Seward $45,000. WHEAT, BREAD PRIGES T0 BE | INVESTIGATED There’s a Difference and Department of Justice Wants the Facts WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 10.—The Department of Jus- tice has launched an investiga- tion to ascertain the differ- cnce between the price of wheat and bread. Chairman Legge, of the Fed- | eral Farm Board, previously pointed out the farmer gets only 39 cents of the $1 the cus- tomer pays for bread, the rest going to the miller and other handlers. Sam R. McKelvie, Grain Member of the Board, con- tended that whether the farm- er received $1 or $1.50 a bush- el for wheat it made no differ- ence in the retail price of the bread. ——————— MISSES WILLIAMS AND YURMAN LEAVE FOR SOUTH | Enroute to Seattle and other cit- ies for a vacation of 30 days, Misses Bessie Yurman and Belva Williams | left Tuesday on the steamer Ala-, meda. Miss Williams will spend; most of her time in Seattle whil Miss Yurman, after a few days there, will go to Portland'to visit a sister. ———— 'Teeth Pulled; Jaw Rubbed; Sight Returns CHICAGO, Tll, Dec. 10.—Mrs. ! Lillian Wallace’s jaw hurt after she got home from having five 'EVANGELIST ARRIVES IN NEW YORK/ REGUMMENDS Associated Pros Photo With her recovery from her recent nervous breakdown ¥ii! Incom- plete, Aimee Semple McPherson, New York City after a cruise in the Caribbean. Los Angeles evangelist, nirived in, She is BFevan with her business manager, F. C. Winters, who met her at the pic.. PIONEER OF ALL VEGETABLE LIFE FOUND IN ALASK WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 10.—Liverwort, a small, deli- cate plant growing in Alaska lava beds, is advanced by scien- tists as a pessible pioneer of ail vegetable life. An expedition of the National Geographic Society scientists found liverwort growing in lava beds where no other vegeta- tion could survive. Robert Griggs, botanist, said lava hed‘s of the Katmai Volcano were absolutely barren of nitrogen necessary growing. for the plant, of soil and there wers no traces but thc liverwort was i } o INCREASE FOR' LETTER WAL ]Two and One-Half Cent | Rate Is Asked to : Avoid Deficit ! WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 10 3 Postmaster General Brown's scription for that old aggravlnm the postal deficit—is to charge B half cent more to deliver tl letters mailed outside the X for two cents. ¢ Appalled by the $58,779,000 which the department found i behind for the year ended last Jumg, he spoke out to President Hoover in his annual report. & The recommendation was for @ two-and-a-half cents per oumge rate for. first class mail of a nom- local destination, while the two- cent rate would remain in effect for local deliveries. This “0i practical” remedy, under the Ie§- islation proposed, would go imo ! effect next April 1 § Deficit R Last year’s receipts reached $708;- 484,000. Despite that tremendols total, the deficit exceeded that of 1929 by $1,913,000. | “The Department should con- {duct its. strictly postal operations |lwithout a financial loss,” Was | Brown’s _ starting . point. He 8 mated the’ increase wouid 4 income $55,000,000 annually;’ and recommended ' nominal revisien of | fees for money orders, insured and | registered classes of mail to net an additional $8,000,000 yearly. Post- | card rates would remain as at pres- | ent. | The Postmaster General also termed leasing of postal quarters lat annual rentalsexceeding $6,000 | “uneconomical.” The general sub- | ject has been under Senate inves- tigation, with a report in the off- REPORT ORGIES | OF KILLING AND LODTING, CHINA Party Leader Boiled Pub- licly in Pot of Oil— Communism Spreads HANKOW, China, Dec. 10— China’s latest scourge Communism, appears to be gaining momentum despite efforts of the Government. Dispatches from Northeast Hupeh Province where 2,000 Reds are sald to have massacred a like num- ber of Government troops last Sun- day, said Comumnist activities have increased greatly. Dispatches said Communism is spreading rapidly in Southeast Ho- nan Province where bandits are re- ported holding a regular reign of terror. Dispatches of described orgies { killing, looting and burning espec- ially against the Muomintang Peo- ples Party. One party leader reported to have been boiled pub- licly in a pot of .oil. Many tax officials in Honan Province are re- ported to have been executed Some reports said Red leaders had members of their own famil- ies executed. WATSON RETURNS TO SECRETARY’S BERTH After a furlough of several months, H. G. Watson today re- turned to his desk in the Gover- is |nor’s office as Secretary to Gov. | George A. Parks. His place was filled during his absence by Mrs. Florence Oakes who is taking a vacation: until the end of this year. PLOT TO KILL " CHILEAN PRES. IDynamite Discovered in Time to Prevent De- struction of Train SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. Carlos Ibanez and members of his party was thwarted last night by Government agents who discovered dynamite set to blow up the Presi- dential train ‘as it neared the sapi- tal from the south. against the President and his Gov- ernment for several days. They saw conspirators set a large quantity of dynamite under a railroad bridge. Their names are withheld from be former generals in the Chilean army and the fourth is a medical student. - Senator Laval Trying PARIS, Dec. 10—Uneasiness and | uncertainty as to what may de- | Laval to form a new cabinet con- (tinued in Government circles. Senator Laval is determined to try despite opposition of the Radi- cdl Socialists. It is not believed he will be able to announce his list jof Cabinet members before to- MOTTOW. ~ IS FRUSTRATED | 10.—An | | attempt on the lives of President The police’ and Govrenment de-| tectives have been watching the| development of an anarchist plot| the public but three are said to; To Form French Cabinet velop in efforts of Senator Plerre| {ing. Meanwhile, the Postoffice De- | partment was shown in lts report to have formulated a plan for the | ultimate ownership of all quarters \now costing more 'than $6000 a year. Recommendations Noting that present first class rates have been the same since | 1885, except during the war, Brown iargued for the increase as follows: “Since 1916 there has been an increase of 82 per cent in the sec- ond class rate, an increase of 21 percent in the third-class rate, and an average increase of 10 per cent in the parcel-post rate. “When there is taken into ac- (Continued on Page Three) BANK ROBBED OF BIG SUM EARLY TODAY | | The officers removed the exploslvel before the train reached the spot.,‘Four UnmaSked Men Take Four men have been arrested. Complete Charge—Ev- erybody Lined-up KANSAS CITY, Kansas, Dec. 10, —Four robbers held-up the Inter- State Bank here this morning and made off with cumrency estimated at between $50,000 and $55,000 The quartet, unmasked, took charge of the bank when the porter arrived. Officers and em- ployees were lined up as they ap- peared, while waiting for the time lock to permit opening of the vault. Before the vault was opened ap- proximately 30 persons were being held* under cover of the robbers’ guns. The robbers escaped in an auto- mobile. SUOPPING VAYE MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 PRICE TEN CENTS USE, SENATE FOR RELIEF ~OR TEN YEARS Maj. Elliott Predicts Con- struction of Interna- tional Road Quickly An automobile highway connec- ting Sea and Fairbanks will be | completed within five years, or ati the outside, ten years, it was pre-| dicted by Maj. Malcolm E!hot&! missfon and members of the Inter-| national Highway Commission ap-{ pointed by President Hoover. He| made this forecast on his arrival| today in Seattle enroute here, ac-| cording to an Associated Press dis-| patch to The Empire. | He is returning home after his! annual trip to Washington to pr?-i sent annual estimates for road and| trail work carried on in the Terri-) tory by the Road Commission As he pictured the 2,200 mile route between Fairbanks and Se- attle, the project presents no in- surmountable difficulties from an engineering standpoint. He point- ed out that already 1,200 miles of | the total is built and in use. He estimated the cost for the remain- der of the route to be $10,000,000. The American Commission is; composed of Herbert Rice, Chair- iman, Maj. Elliott and Ernest Walk- er Sawyer, Special Assistant to Secretary Wilbur of the Interior Department. The Canadian. Com- mission has not been selected. Surveys Being Made A Washington, D. C. dispatch from the Associated Press to The Empire indicated, however, that the Canadian Government is al-| ready actively engaged in promot- ing the project. Surveys are being made of the gaps in the route in British Columbia. Aerial photographs of lakes andl mountains on the proposed route| have besn delivered to Mr. Saw-| yer by the Provincial Government | of British Columbia which in-| formed him that the route had| been surveyed during the past sea-| the present northern terminus of | the highway from Vancouver. Push to Dawson There is one step of consider- able length still to be surveyed to| take the route to Dawson. This work will be pushed to completion as rapidly as possible. A book of photographs collected by the Se- attle Chamber of Commerce has been sent to Mr. Sawyer to be pre-| sented to President Hoover. The American Commission is; awaiting the apointment of the Canadian board to confer with it on the location for a route (o cross the International. Boundary into Alaska. Proposals for financing, it was| American financiers. More President of the Alaska Road Com-| | | { | ALASKA’S NEEDS GET Attorney General Relates son 500 miles north of Hazelton,|————— WASHINGTON, Dec. added, have been laid before Pre-little series of numbers, but At- | Fede mier Tolmie, British Columbia, by |torney General Mitchell relied on ily than it to tell Congress the story of a|runner in the last fiscal year. tidings | i Marion Benda, beautiful so- ciety and show girl, whose secret marriage to Baron Rupp- recht Von Boecklin was revealed in Norwolk, Conn. The couplé sailed from Mqntreal & week sgo 'for G&ermu ly AID FROM s Baroness ROUTE INFNE, : t B will make their home. The bride is known off stage as Marion Wilson, daughter of the late William G. Wilson, financier. The Baron’s mother was Gertrude Berwin, of the rominent Philadelphia . coal WESTERN BUSINESS LEADERS PORTLAND, Oregon, Dee. 10—The W tern Division of the United States Chamber of Commerce, at a clesed m ting yesterday adopted resolutions ur way in Alaska tc Scuth Amer ging construction of the High- extens'on of the airmail lines to Alacka, maintenance of thc Alacka Railroad cn the basis of its value as an instrument for the development of the interior and a survey of the fiching wat The resoluticon will be ber at its next meeting. OF LIQUOR 1S REVIVED Progress on High Seas for Year | 10.—Just a two-thirds of the portions of the|recent revival of liquor smuggling, project yet to be built are in Brit-|on the high seas and our territorial ish Columbia and Yukon Territory. ! waters. [ >oo —— | MILLIONS OF The showed 35 foreign ships had been|cu | seized in 1 | the t table, in his annual report it 17 and {finally 29 in the year gone, ARE REPORTED WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 10— | hopes—the dead ing the 1930 fiscal year. The annual Postoffice report to-| day estimated 770,445 money. After every effort to deliver had failed, £aid, the lett it ea [fl'lm'wml mu | seas. letter office—| ber of there drifted 22,685,940 letters dur-|rendezvous and suppl | liquor-smuggling fraternity off our ste! contained | subs DEAD LETTERS |, country knifed int “The Info the harbor of so many lost|Plerre-Miquelon law this Canadian to the li new resulted ving some high o The report we of § which fi a num- been the chi y point for th French p on f has has experienced a| g2 in this form of coast, antial inc business “It Postmaster General Brown|of the were opened and|ed dur 70 per cent of the $105,000 fo\mdlvc\ in currency and 98 per cent of the|dominate in the is 9 forelg g the els of this nationality still pr rade even tho year submitted to SMUGBLING BOOTLEGGERS, r traffic, | British. | ers adjacent to Alaska. the National Cham- RUM RUNNERS ARE PUNISHED Arm of Law Reaches Out in All Directions— Heavy Sentences WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 10.— al punishment fell more heav- the bootlegger and the rum Congress received the through the annual report of At- torney General Mitchell, which said enforcement as reflected in prose- improved over 1929. ividently tne having it co sentences commercial vio- more of his day inued. “Jail and were imposed 1930—5,107 lator wa in cour prison 21,709 in T cases moar? 1029 I z business a re British, did no! but f The prot under 1 the ne 30 Guilty ohibitic 8 of ly terminated : pleas, ahbc bro: enilty 13 pe g PILOT DIES OF EXPOSURE AS 2 OTHERS SURVIVE Rescue Flyer Everett Was- son Successfully Ends Long Search LOST AIRMEN WENT | 40 MILES FROM PLANE Emil Kading and Bob Mar- | ten Are Brought Safe- { ly to Whitehrose i BULLETIN — WHITE- HORSE, Y. T., Dec. 10.—Pilot 2. J. A. (Paddy) Burke died ! from exposure. His compan- ions Emil Kading and Bob Marten were found safe 40 {miles from where Burke’s | plane was discovered by Pilot ! Everett Wasson and brought here by Wasson today. AT WHITEHORSE | WHITEHORSE, Y. T., Dec. | 10.—Pilot Everett Wasson re- 'turned at ncon today. He ;found Burke’s party about 35 | miles north of the stranded | plane. | Wasson brought back Bob !Marten, the passenger on | Burke’s plane, and Emil Kad- {ing, mechanic. | They both are feeling fine jand look well. Pilot Burke died on No- | vember 20. | Marten said the party had | been 23 days without food ex- ’cepl for a caribou which they had killed sometime ago. This |was just exhausted when W on picked them up. | Marten has two frozen toes ihut otherwise both men are {in good health, according to :reporls they made to Agent noted | (Continued on - | ge Two) { B # TODA TOCK | oy o I QUOTATIONS NE YORK CITY, N. Y., Dec. 110 —Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, | American Can 111%, Anaconda Copper 33, Bethlehem Steel 58, Fox Films 30, General Motors 33%, Granby Corporation 16; Interna- jtional Harvester 55%, Kennecott Copper 25, Montgom: Ward 19%, | National Acme 7%, Packard Mo- tors 9%, Simmons Beds 16, Stan- dar Standard Oil of C andard Oil of Ney nited Alrcraft 25% rtiss-Wright ad 56, Pa- ¢ Gas and Electric 26, General 16, Wes Electric and Mechanical 94 - ouse Says Navy Cannot Be Built to Strength by 1936 WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 10.—Admiral Pratt today said the United States Navy would not be built to the maximum strength allowed by the Lon- don Naval Treaty by 1936. Such a program would cost too much, he said. He expressed the hope that authorization for such 10 CTHRIS TMAT Mr. Watson was engaged during| teeth extracted. chief smuggling base is French and the re-| esmeteweiien would ho-giiie She rubbed her jaw and also rubbed over her left eye. 1mcst of this year {sand and gravel for the capitol in supplying | Capt. Kingsford-Smith BY checks and drafts, totaling $5,286,124 ' t ! were returned to the s;nders. - I por Te in Nova-Scotia ed because has been missed ad jury t cen ma of « The ratio remained ials. then. Admiral Pratt was a witness | building. His contracts on that pro- | Married in Melbourne| | ject have been completed. J | . MELBOURNE, Dec. 10. — Capt. Mrs. M. O'Brien is a passenger | Kingsford-Smith, well known aviat- | She discovered she could see out of -the eye which had been sightless for 14 years. The dentist said her teeth had long been infected result- ing from pressure and had paralyzed the optic nerve. Lefore the Naval Committee of the House. Secretary of Navy Adams id a general construction program for the Navy will be ! precented to Congress. 1 ope out of Deputy United States Marshal most of the vessel C. J. Sullivan has returned to his{in the smuggling A | headquarters at Haines from 2| are docu Your for Juneau aboard the Queen,|or, and Miss Mary Powell, pretty | business trip to Juneau. He was au\’s a ports and a € ey work had | which sailed north from Seattle Irish-Australian girl, were married| outgoing passenger on the Estebeth )least ostensi > iooday. here today in the Scots Church. ! " ‘lut evening, ' zens,” | consta Genera of enforee- | been em- 1id harge (Continued on Page Five)