The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 29, 1931, Page 1

wit THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5706, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” FAST EXPRESS INFLAMES AS ixty-one Persons, Includ- ing Many Children, Among Dead BODIES ARE BURNED BEYOND RECOGNITION Scores Are Injured, Several | of Whom Not Ex- pected to Survive CAIRO, Egypt, April 29.— At least 61 persons, including 10 children, were killed and! 41 others injured when the Cairo-Alexandria Express caught on fire this after-|- noon. One foreigner, a French woman, is known to be among the dead. Many of those injured are not expected to live. Most of the dead, particu~' larly the children, are unrec- ognizable. The disaster is desecribed as the worst in Egyptian uilrua}i history. three crowded third class coaches. Unaware of the fire, the engineer sped until flagged by a signalman. Many pasengers were kill- 2d by jumping from windows | )f the coaches. ———— 6OLD BRAID GREETS KING ‘WASHINGTON, D. C. April 29. —The Nation’s Capital is turned into a city of gold braid and high hats for formal calls as the King and Queen of Siam, the first ab- solute Monarchs to cross the thres- hold of the White House, called on President and Mrs. Hoover today for a formal visit. - —e——— . | > NEW YORK, April 29.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 12'%, American Can 111%, Anaconda Copper 27% Bethlehem Steel 48, Fox Films 18'%, General Motors 37%, Gran- by Consolidated 14%, International Harvester 47%, Kenneco.. 20%, Packard Motors, no sale; Stand- ard Brands 16%, Standard Oil of ‘California 35%, Standard Oil of New Jersey, 36%, United Aircraft 25%, U. S. Steel 115%, Curtiss- Wright 3%, Hudson Bay 4%, Cali- fornia Packing 24, Armour of Il- linois Class A, 2%, 2, 2, Checker TODAY' STOCK QUOTATIONS Cab 9%, 9, 9, United Cigar 5%. ———— LEAVES HOSPITAL Mrs. N. Seimens left St. Ann's Hospital yesterday for her home She entered the hospital April 17. ————————— Women are better students than men at the University of Wiscon- ENGINE . SPEEDS | Associated Press Photo | Mrs. Florence Ober Adams, widow of Prof. E. D. Adams of Stan. i vord university became the bride of her step-son, Sidney F. Adams, | in ceremonies at the California institution. Her two daughters, whose half-brother became their stepfather, were flower girls. The coupld | will live In Gilman, Colo. SAYS SANBINO KILLS HUSBAND - AID OF REDS HEART PIERGED Nicaraguan Rebel Leader Woman and Her Lover Are| ! Was Offered Money and | Charged with Crime— Arms by Communists | Boy Is Witness MEXICO CITY, April 29. — Dr. DECATUR, Tenn. April 29.—The Pedro Jose Zepeda, foreign repre- story of how a mountain woman, sentative of Nicaraguan Rebel Gen-| Mrs. Willlam Bunch, aged 23, and eral Sandino, said he was offered' her lover, Hudle Hickman, aged | Communist financial aid of 5,000 25, killed her husband by piercing APPROPRIATION . AND TAX BILLS ARE INTRODUCED: Former Totals $2,132,660 —Several Boosts Pro- posed in Tax Rates 4 MANUEL AZANA The Ways and Means Commit- tee, Chairman Foster, last' night . brought in the general appropria- | tions bill and a revised bill pro- viding for slightly increased raiscs '| in existing tax rates on the ‘fish- eries and mining industries, . The total of the appropriations measure, with one item mot defl. nitely fixed, s abou: $2,132,000. Tt | was not read in the House session last night, but the tax bill'" was | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRES NY AREDEAD R J D0 DE L0 RI0S. ALEJANDRO LERROUX Niceto Alcala Zamora, republican shown above. Miguel Maura is mini Alejandro Lerroux, foreign affairs; read in Committee of the Whole and several amendments proposed . FER but not put to a vote. No General Change In the general schedules on lo- cal business and trade, as well as occupational licenses there were no increases or decreases. A g & T U RS S - section, covering moving pictur theatres, $100 on houses doing ) tween $5,000 and $25,000 business annually, and $300 on those doing, | more than $25,000 annualy. T The canned clam schedule was completely revised.” At preseny; | there is a flat rate of three s::fi | per case. The committee bill MAYuR WALKER for 10 cents per case of lB-ounce) cans, seven cents on 10-ounce ct.li and five cents on half-pound cans. All cases to be based on 48 cans Leaders of Civic Affairs to the case. . TR i ot Committee to Carry The base rate on kings, reds and " . " Case Tnto Courts sockeyes was raised five cents per | case. The present rate, enacted Npw YORK, April 29 —Follow- in 1927, is 10 cents per case. The ing dismissal of the charges Committee boosted this to 15cents.| ggainst Mayor James J. Walker, No raise was made on pinks, €0~ mage by the City Affairs Commit- hoss, abd: chums. | tee, by Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, The levy on mild-cured salmon jeaders of that Committee said of any variety was boosted to 15 they would continue to fight cents per 100 pounds. . The pres-'goginst the Mayor, taking the case ent rate is five cents on reds and ¢ tne courts the next time. 2 1-2 cents on all other kinds ex-| .. Roosevelt dismissed the cept codfish which. pay 10 cents cparpes on account of mot finding Codfish was ., per hundred pounds. sufficient justification” in the cut to two and one-half cents. {oompiaing by which the Civic The iish trap schedule was al- joo40r wanted Mayor Walker tered materially. The license fee ousted. tollowing the abdication of King Alfonso. Caballero, putlic works, and Fernando De Los Rios, rifles and $100,000 in cash if San- dino would pose as a Communist Wishing to keep free from any ob- ligations, Sandino refused the offer although badly in need of money and arms, said Dr. Zepeda. his heart with a hat pin, then| hacked his body to pieces, is under official investigation. The report of the crime was made by Frank Thornton, aged 16. Mrs. Bunch denied the charges, saying her husband disappeared. on pile-driven or floating traps, was retained at $200 per annum but the graduated take tax was rewritten. At present the rate is $2 per thousand on all fish taken in any single trap in excess of 100,000. The new measure provides the Th eMayor was accused of con- doning incompetency and encour- aging corruption. AiSul TS LT; [ SOVIET REGION FOR The boy sald he visited the Bunch home and found the woman and man hacking the body. He | said they covered him with guns and would not allow him to leave 'until on oath, he said he would § never tell what he had seen. ——,———— MER B.B. MANY INJURED BY EARTHQUAKE Villages Are Reported De-' stroyed—Government MAN IS DEAD i e 5 4 i Will Give Aid | | YOUNGTOWN, Ohlo, April 20.— MOSCOW, April 2¢». — At least James R. McAleer, aged 66 years, 100 persons are reported to have one of the organizers of the Am- been killed and injured in an erican Baseball League, and former earthquake striking three districts owner of the Boston Red Sox, St. of the Soviet Republic at Nakin- Louis and Washington clubs of the chevan in Transcaucasia. league, died here today after a long Several villages are reported to illness. have been wiped out and many ———e—— houses in other settlements de- AnMIRAL EvANs | stroyed. The Government relief. is organizing e MISS LINDSTROM HOME Miss Helen Lindstrom, who en-! SEATTLE, April 29. — Steamer tered St. Ann's Hospital April 12, Admiral Evans sailed at 10 o'clock returned to her home in Douglas, this morning for Southeast and ccnvalescent from a surgical op-'gouthwest Alaska ports with 116 815, grades shoy, eration. | tirst class passengers and 68 steer- 2° X . |age. Passengers aboard for Juneau » 4 . jare A. H. Sonsthger, V. C. Rivers, Missionary Proves To [ Be Paroled Malady CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 29— Masks of “Reverend” Ralph H. ‘Thurber, who claimed he con- tracted the deadly disease known as distomiasis while serving as a missionary in Korea, were removed today and reveal him as a paroled forger from the Ohio Penitentiary. The police said he admitted he had served from one to three { - i Forger,-. But {mfl OFF ON Exists, However! TEST FLIGHT | years in Ohio for a Cleveland for- | gery. The Police also said the Ber-, ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., April tillon records show he had served 20.—Flying a monoplane they pro- sentence in San Quentin in Cali- Pose to use to travel around the | fornia for forgery. world at a later date, Clyde Pang- | } irat | don took off Thurber is at the City Hospital|born and Hugh Hern where he is believed to be in a/today on a 2,500-mile test flight BRIEF REVO ALL 1S QUIET RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, April 29.—Complete quiet has been re- stored in Sao Paulo following sup- 'pression of yesterday's brief re- volt. following rates: “On all fish caught in one trap in excess of 100,000 $3 per thousand; on all taken in excess of 200,000 and not in excess of 300,000, $4; and on all fish caught in one trap above 300,000, '$5 per thousand.” (Continuea on Page Two) All Aboard for the Dippy House, Crazy House, Loone House; See What Is Doing! In the lull that came to the the married couple, to feed, clothe, House this morning, there was educate and provide medical and brought forth a bill, which Mr.| hospital services for the children Nylen sponsored, aimed to discour-|and to provide for such children age bachelorhood and spinsterhood when too old to be profitably em- by taxing unmarried persons of | ployed.” either sex. Mr. Nylen disclaimed| And in order that custom and the whole honor and gave the tradition may not be violated, it is names of his co-authors as Messrs. | further provided that, “no person Brosius, Murray, Johnston and|born, raised or educated in Alaska Boyle. |shall be qualified to hold any If a man, or woman, prefers responsible position, but that all single harness to double, then it such positions shall be filled by is proper he should pay for his people imported from either the preference, said the bill. Thus a|States or Timbuctoo.” tax of $100 on bachelors and spin-| Thirty years is the maximum age sters, ranging from 21 to 50 years,‘!or employees, and after that limit is proposed. |is attained all person: shall be | considered too old to be profitably No advantage is given to either,| ompioyed. Which wont affect some, since the right of women to Pro-|anuway pose s expressiy provided. ADdi Tyen as an additional attraction, to prevent mistakes, misunderstand- | freedom from taxes of any kind is ings and misrepresentations, either|nrovided for those who comply with party on the eve of assuming mari-| tne conditions of the proposed law. tal relations is given the right 0|anqg freedom from restraint of any “investigate the financial status of |1aw passed by the Legislature de- the other, including the right.’ gigned to punish criminals is prom- without objection and wl_thout;mu. but it is made the duty of search warrant, to examine alligyery person in the Territory to private correspondence, bank state-'inform on and aid in the prosecu- ments and accounts, contents Of)tion of any persons “who shall vio- safety deposit boxes, jewelry and;h“ any such law.” personal property of every descrip-| ne bil was read in full and leader, ster of interior, Indalecio Prieto, Manuel Azana, war: instruction, COLORADO HERO WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29. —Bryan Untiedt, young Towner, Colorado, 13-year-old. Colorado bliz- zard hero, has arrived. at the White House to spend today and tonight as the guest of President and Mrs. Hoover. The lad was re- ceived with the same formality as is accorded all White House vis- itors. ——— GIRL KILLED; SUSPECT DEAD NEW HAVEN, Conn, April 29.— William Wetmore, aged 26 years, a farm hand employed by the father of Emily Kird who was slain at Hamden last Saturday has shot himself. He was one of the many questioned during the inquiry. Wetmore left a note reading as follows: “I did not kill Emily but I am not going to take all of the blame, that's why I am going to take my life.” The girl was found Sunday, shot four times in the head and body buried in the mud WALES, CEORGE ARE BACK HOME WINDSOR, England, April 20.— tion in the possession of the other.”) given a number which entitles the | The Prince of Wales and his broth- Burdens need not become oppres- fauthor and his co-workers .to free | er, Prince George arrived home sive under such a system since it|transportation on the first ship to|at 1 o'clock this afternoon from serious condition from the mys-!to Porto Rico. The first stop will terious malady. be at Jacksonville, Florida. is made the “duty of the Territory Morningside, with. St. Elizabeth's tq provide medical treatment forjas an alternative if they prefer. l Paris by air, ending the 18,000~ mile South American tour. INDALECIO PRIETO MARCELING DOWINGO Assoclated Press Photo took over the government as provisional president of Spain Members of the tentative cabin et of the new government are finance; Alvaro Albornoz, justice; Marcelino Domingo, labor; Francisco Largo BIG MOMENT SENATEKILLS HAS ARRIVED * FIVE MEASURES - AND PASSES 13 !Passes School Refund Bill Without ; Annual - Maxi- mauro ‘Refund Proviso Senate was in a killing Tuesday afternoon and be- | fere it recovered its usual serenity, it had crushed five House Bills and one Memorial. But in the | same sessicn it passed six House | bills, and the same number of memorials and one resolution. It carried over untll today the House measures to repeal the Ter- | ritorial primary election laws and |2 measure to stock interior lakes and streams with game fish. Pass School Bill It passed the House measure making changes in the Territorial school refund system, but amended it drastically. The House had raised the refund for larger schools to 75 per cent, an increase of five percent and removed the $40,000 annual limitation provision. The Senate restored the 70 per cent refund but left the maximum off. It killed another bill dealing with schools. This was Johnson's measure to appropriate $10,000 for a survey of the public school sy$« {tem. By a vote of six to one it was indefinitely postponed. | It killed the Ketchikan hatchery appropriation of $20,000, Shaltuck being the only member to vote for | 1t also killed a $4,000 appropria- tion for the Douglas school Mr. Foster’s memorial relative to the consolidation of the Alaska Road Commission and the United | States Bureau of Public Roads was indefinitely postponed by a unani- imous vote of the Senate. | Pass Air Mail Memorial | Mr. Johnson's memorial asking for the establishment of air mail service between Juneau, Wrangell, Petersburg, Ketchikan, and Seattle was passed six to one, Mr. Ben- | jamin voting no. | The same author's memorial asking for the extension of the provisions of the Smith-Hughes Act for ald to vocational training schools was also enacted Mr. Foster's resolution requesting Ter- ritorial offices to buy needed ma- terials supplies locally was passed (Continued on Page Two) ‘?Lamb— Causes Plane to Go . Into Spin; Millionaire Of e P WS ST e SR st B e o S ROt S RN, e e ————————— e e e e e OVISIONAL GOVERNMENT &l 7 ! toniak covermmeENT GUSHER BREAKS LOOSESPREADS * DEATH, FLAMES ;Regular Inferito Is Created in Old Fields in State of Texas SEVEN ARE DEAD IN SEETHING FLUID Rangers Are Investigating 4| if Disaster is Com- munist Plot GLADE WATER, Texas, April 29. — Men and equip- ment have been rushed to the Sinclair No. 1 oil well, four miles southeast of here, in efforts to subdue the roaring caldron which burned seven men to death last night. Two others were pulled death in a hospital. It is possible others have met death but the operators are hopeful all men have been accounted for. FATALITIES The dead are: BOB MURDOCK, of Orland, Ok~ lahoma. BILL HAROUN, Canadian, Ok- lahoriia; ; GEORGE ALB) Penn. ROY BLANKENSHIP, Tulsa, Ok~ lahoma. BILL McCASLAND, Sr., and BILL MCcOASLAND, Jr, Winona, Okla~ homa. VIRGIL WOLTZ, Hunter, Okla- homa. RIGHT, Carthage, Believed Dying Those In a dying condition are John Keys and Frank Flouck. The oil geyser léfped unabated gathering moment; through the night. The heat was intensified as thousands of barrels of crude oil were lapped up by the flames. The well was brought in last Sunday and was a running well for 3¢ hours, Gales Are Feared Other wells in the vicinity are not endangered unless gales blow the flames into the forests, It will be several days before nitrogleerine will be placed to blow out the fire. The Sinclair officials said Texas Rangers are investigating the al- leged Communist plot to blow up oil field properties, —_—————— FLIER STARTS FOR LOST MAN COPENHAGEN, April 20—A wireless message has been re- celved at Keykjavik, Iceland, pur- porting to be from Augustine Ceurtauld, British scientist lost in Northern Greenland, which said: “absolutely without provisions, MALMO, Sweden, April 29.—Al- bin Ahrenberg, Swedish lvrlln&' took off at noon today on a to Greenland to search for auld. ————— Congressional permission has been received by California Indians to sue for land losses involved under treaties made in 1851 and 1852, g Seattle Meets His Death SPOKANE, Wash, April 29— | Thomas D. Stimson, millionaire | | lumberman of Seattle and aviation | | enthusiast, fell to death in his| plane last Sunday on the Colville Indian Reservation because he ai- tempted to take a Tamb home as- a pet for his children. This was learned today. Stimson landed at a sheep ranch on his way home. He bought a' lamb and tied it in fron. °f him |in the cockpit im the plane which had dual controls. Stimson had not disconnected the front controls, Capt. C. V., Pet~ Us, Aeronautical Inspector of the Department of Commerce said, af= ter an investigation, The frigh ened lamb got its head caught the controls causing the plane €0 into a spin from which Stim- son was unable to right it. e The cause of the plane crash was a mystery until the lamb - cident came to light. i i from the inferno and are near+ i . ol Court-