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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
UALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. XXXIII., NO. 4995.
IUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1929.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS
HOOVER EXPECTED TO CALL EXTRA SESSION, CONGRESS
SENATOR REED
IS ATTACKING
KELLOGG PAGT
Makes Two Hour Talk In
Senate for Interpre- ,
tative Resolution
ACTION TO LIMIT
DEBATE BLOCKED
Calls Treaty Trojan Horse’
and Assails Secre
tary of State
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2t— An
agreement to limit debate on the
Kellogg treaty was blocked yester
day in the Senate after Senator
Reed, of Missouri, launched an at
tack on the pact which he de
scribed as a “Trojan Horse.’’ For
two hours he attacked the treaty,
closing with an appear that the
Senate place some construction on
the ii a c t necessary to protect
American rights.
Pacing up and down the center
aisle. Senator Reed warned that
the treaty would lead to the
League of Nations, repeatedly
turning to look at the old ally in
battle against the League, Senator
Ilorah, who is sponsoring the
treaty.
When Senator Reed concluded.
Senator Borah asked that debate
on the treaty be limited to 30 min
utes. Senator Moses objected
until he could confer with those
seeking an interpretative icsolu
tion on the pact.
Kellogg Assailed
During his two hour speech,
Senator Reed assailed Secretary
of State Kellogg for insistence on
no interpretation of any sort.
Explaining that he did not in
tend to filibuster, Reed concen
trated his appeal for a note of in
terpretation and suggested that if
nothing else, the Foreign Relations
Committee incorporate in the re
port tile views expressed by Sena
tor Borah on America’s position
under the treaty declaring: "Why |
not interpret it? Why not say on
paper what you are willing to say
with your mouth? We are not
asking anything which will require
this document to be returned to
other nations of the world for con
sideration. You talk about the
treaty resting on good faith and in
the same breath you are guilty of
had faith with your own nation.”
“Trojan Horse”
Referring to the pact as a “Tro
jan Horse,” Senator Reed said:
"They have put inside of it the
doctrine of right of balance of
power in Europe. They have put
into it the right of every nation
signing it to be controlled by Lo
carno Treaty and the League of
Nations.”
As he spoke. Senator Reed point
ed frequently at a large map of the
work! resting on an easel before
him on which the Dominion of the
British Empire was painted in red.
He said he had no enmity against
Great Britain but declared Great \
Britain, in reserving freedom of
action under the treaty in her ter
ritories, had reserved freedom of
action in almost every sphere of
the 'world.
One Interruption
Only once was Senator Reed in
terrupted and that was after he
remarked that Senator Borah prac
tically “admitted that the treaty
was nothing but a gesture of good
will.”
Senator Borah interrupted with
"when the Senator gets through
here, there won’t be that much
left.”
Reed continued: “Well, Secretarr
Kellogg won’t listen. He sets up
his own opinion as final so there
is nothing to do but debate this
to the end. The Secretary of
State is not the watchman for this
country.”
Last night Seni.tv.is Moses and
Reed, with others favoring inter
pretation, appeared holding out in
a last effort for a compromise.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
gt ii T -
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—Alaska
Juneau mine stock is quoted today
at 9%, Consolidated Cigars 94%,
Chrysler 12214. Cudahy 64%, Eiti
gon-Srhilds 38%, Kennecott Cop
per 155%, Nevada Consolidated
41%, Packard Motors 143%, P09
tum 77“4. Sears. Roebuck 173%,
Stewart-Warner 140, U. S. Steel
166%, National Power and Light
45%. _ , ’
; . V -ti £ .
“Poor Little Rich Girl!”
o
With an allowance of only $2,000 a month, pretty Elizabeth
Plankington (above), daughter of the late William Woods
Plankington, Milwaukee’s richest financier, can’t make her bow
in society because of poverty. So her mama is petitioning a
Wisconsin court for an increase of 33 1-3 per cent in daughter’s
allowance.
(InUrnfttloMd H*w»re«ll
FIRE DESTROYS
FAMOUS CHURCH
AT FORT WORTH
Church of Dr. Norris, Fun
damentalist and Slayer of
Big Lumberman, Burns
PORT WORTH. Tex., Jan. 12.—
The First Baptist Church of which
Dr. Frank Norris, noted fundamen
talist, is pastor, was destroyed by
fire this morning along with the
adjacent four-story Sunday school
building and gymnasium belonging
to the church.
When discovered the fire was
in the main building and had made
great headway. It ate rapidly
into the church, which is located
in the heart of the down town dis
trict. The bulk of the City's
fire-fighting forces responded to
the call for duty.
Dr. Norris was in Austin when
notified of the fire. He left at
once for Fort Worth.
It is claimed that the Sunday
school building housed the larg
est Sunday school classes in the
world.
Dr. Norris has been a storm
center in the Baptist church of
Texas for many years. This
wais partly because of his efforts
at general reform and partly as
a result of his radical fundamen
talist views.
He came more prominently in
view two years ago he shot
and killed I). E. Chipps. wealthy
lumberman, in the study of his
church. He was indicted and
tried for murder, but was acquit
ted on the plea of self-defense.
The Pastor had repeatedly charg
ed from the pulpit that threats had
been made against his life and
church establishment. Recently
he had been unusually vigorous
campaigning against alleged vice
conditions here.
D’. Norris was charged a num
ber of years ago with burning the
cnurch of which he was pastor,
but was acquitted after a long and
stormy trial. He insisted that his
enemies burned the church and
laid the blame on him.
•
Rcapportioment
Measure Is
Passed by House
WASHl'ivu i ON, Jan. 12. j
| After ignoring for almost a |
decade, a reapportionment of |
| its members, the House yester- j
day passed the Fenn hi.’ de
| scribing the method by which |
| seats will be allotted among [
j the states after the next cen- j
| sus which will be taken in
1930. The measure passed |
| by a vole of 22G to 134. Simi
I lar bills have been defeated in |
j the past six years.
SEVERE FIRE
IS FOUGHT IN
WASHINGTON
Scores of Companies En
gaged—Ice Forms
on Clothing
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—The
entire fire fighting force of Wash,
ington, I). C., and 29 companies
from Maryland and Virginia, in
cluding 10 companies from Balti
more, were carried into action
this morning in the business sec
tion when fire destroyed a china
war? store wit? a loss of $200,000.
Ice formed on the firemen’s
clothing as they worked in a high
wind which drove sparks two
blocks away through the center
of Washington's commercial area.
Three foremen were rescued af
ter being forced to ifang on by
their fingers from a fourth story
window ledge when caving in of
one wall and three floors below
trapped them above the flaries.
Confidence Is Voted
In Poincare, Cabinet
PARIS, Jan. 12.—The Chamber
of Deputies has voted confidence
| in Premier Poincare and the new
1 Cabinet by a majority of 64 votes
GREAT TUNNEL
TO OFFICIALLY
OPEN TONIGHT
First Train Will Pull
Through Cascade Tun
nel of G. N. Railway
NATIONAL RADIO
HOOK-UP PLANNED
Hoover, and Others Will
Speak—Singer and Or
chestra on Program
SEATTLE, Jan. 12—The first
'scheduled train pulls through the
longest railway tunnel in Am
erica, the Great Northern Rail
way’s eight-mile bore through
the Cascades in Western Wash
ington tonight.
The nation will listen in at
that time over the biggest radio
hook-up ever attempted in which
four cities on either edge of the
continent will broadcast with two
unheard of mountain villages.
President-elect Hoover and
.Johnston Campbell of the Inter
state Commerce Commission, will
speak from Washington.
Gen. W. W. Attebury, Presl
, dent of the Pennsylvania Rail
toad, tb :II talk f. om Philadelphia
Orclftstral and band number?
will be broadcast from .New York
and Mine. Schuman-Helnk will
sing from San Francisco.
At Tutt hamlet, or Berne, in
the Cascades, at the eastern end
of the $14,000,000 tunnel, Ralph
Rudd, President of the Great
Northern, will be Introduced by
Graham McNamee, dean of radio
announcers.
i The brief program at Berne
! will be ijivoeded by the passttlg
of the’official train through the
'tunnel. Passengers will d'setn
'bark at the western end of the
j tunnel to attend a banquet at
j Scenic. Here, Judge Gilman,
I Vice-President of the Great
(Northern Railway and Gov. R. H.
| Hartley will talk over the na
tional hook-up.
| The tunnel is the fifth longest
I in the world and was built in
| the record time of three years.
The previous time for such a pro
ject has been five years.
Over KOMO broadcast from Se
attle, at 5 o'clock this afternoon,
Juneau time, the program of the
above event will start.
EXPEDITION IS
BELIEVED TO
BE MASSACRED
DOUGLAS, Arlz., Jan. 12. A
lone horseman. Policeman Jesus
Valdez, commissioned by the Gov
ernor of Agua l’rieta, Mexico, to
day rode through the snow covered
Sierra Madre mountains, b a c k
tracking a return member of Fim
bre’s expedition of 11 men which
officials fear have been massacred
by a wild band of Apache In
dians.
The first news of the punitive
expedition, led by Francisco Fim
bres, which set out eight days ago
to wipe out the band of marauding
Indians, was received when Ra
mon Quejada, was brought hack
to town, half delirious, by a Chi
nese vegetable grower. From his
j disjointed story it is learned that
lie left the expedition last Wednes
1<lay' i
Fimbre with others was seek
ing the Indians to recover his
son whc was stolen when l'imbre,
wife, daugnter and son were at
tacked last week while on their
return to their ranch. Mrs. Fim
| bre was killed and the son kid
l napped. Fimbre and his daugh
| ter managed to escape to their
ranch.
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Execution of Two
Is Again Stayed
NEW ORLEANS, Jan 12.—
The noose which today was to
claim the lives of Mrs. Ada
i Lebouef and Dr. Thomas Dreher,
for the murder of the woman s
husband, was again thwarted by
a temporial ordet and the execu
tion was stayed by the Supreme
Court to permit counsel for the
defense 15 days to file appeal.
J
AMERICA’S LONGEST RAILWAY TUNNEL PIERCES CASCADE RANGE
.1) S«Ult
1. Emit Portal of Great Northern** new Cascade
tunnel, S mile* In length.
2. Mill Creek Volley, 2miles en*t of the F'ast
Portal, where nhnft aviin sunk U22 feet to point from
which tunneling fhrec* would hore east ami west
to connect with operation* from main portal*.
3. Map anil sketch show relative position* of pre*ent
(■rent Northern line whleli wind* up mountain side*
under massive Miiowslietl* and the new line wlileh
bore* straight through mountains nt lower elevn
tlout also relative position* of Mill Creek shaft nnd
Pioneer tunnel whli'h enabled liulldcrN to lunik
world record* for Npred in tunnel construction.
4. One of H^ht portable concrete plants which
poured more tlitin quarter million cubic yards of
concrete for IIkIiik rock Interior of gigantic bore.
5. Section of two-foot concrete walla which extend
from one portal to the other.
(J. Loading drill liolea with power which on October
1*0 blasted lii'm 1 continuous hole through new tunnel.
C onnection between Pioneer tunm N was made Mnf
1 by President Coolldge who tired .-last by pressing
key at \\ ashing ion, li. t
KEEPER OF
ROADHOUSE
SHOT, DYING
Father of Girl, to Whom
Liquor Was Sold,
Displays Wrath
CAMDEN, Ark., Jan. 12- Tlio
wrath of a father of a 15-year-old
girl, to whom liquor is alleged to
have been served along with 75
other students at a party held by
Camden High School students at
a roaShouse near here last fall,
culminated in a shooting affray in
which the proprietor of the road
hofise was critically wounded.
Alex Harding, proprietor of the
I roadhouse, lies in the hospital in
I a serious condition, with four
bullet wounds in his body.
F. E. Sullivan, the girl’s father,
is in jail charged with the shoot
ing.
Little hope is held for Harding's
recovery.
1 The shooting occurred when Sul
livan met Harding in 'af*y.
'Sullivan shouted: “Y< in't f*
my daughter.’ ««*d opened fire.
Immediately after the shoot
ing, Sullivan surrendered to the
Police.
Queen Mary Is Note
III: kin17’* Condition
Still Cause: ‘ ’ i°ty
LONDON,, Ja.tr. 12 -Physicians
[attending King George bad an
I other Royal patient today jn
Queen Mary who is reported suf
fering from catarrh in common
with thousands of others of her
I subjects. She did not take her
usual drive yesterday. Her con
dition is understood not to be
serious.
The King's condition remained
stationary but without indica
tions. Anxiety has increased and
his weakness is taking all the
skill of the doctors and nurses.
MEXICO MAY TRY
TO CONSOLIDATE
ON REVOLUTION
To Wed U. S. Banker
Mrs. Henry Lyden of Amster-i
dam, widow of famous inter
1 national financier, who, dis
1 patches have it, will become
the wife of Fd^ar Leonard,
New York L.m'.. li e cere
mony is scheduled to take
place in Italy.
(Internatdot&i N«wir««l)
MRS. ANDERSON IMPROVES
i
Mrs. Sana Anderson, who has
been in St. Ann's Hospital since
i December 12, was discharged this
morning. Mrs. Anderson has been
fighting a long case of the flu.
About two weeks ago her condi
tion started to improve and she
I was able to return home today.
MEXICO CITY, Jam 12. Effort:;
to weld Mexico's so culled "evolu
tionary elements” into one '.'.mg
group will lie brought to a loud
in March when the national revo
lutionary party holds its conven
tion at Queretaro.
The party, now in the organisa
tion stage, is an attempted merger
of many small political clubs and
associations spread throughout the
country and whose platforms agree
in that the program of the revolu
tion, formulated in 1910 when the
Diaz dictatorship was over thrown,
should be carried out. Some .of
the organizations disagree in theii
interpretation of the program, but
the organizers of the big party
hope to bring about an under.
! standing and formulation of one
general platform with nomination
of a common presidential candidate
to run in the elections next Novem.
< ber.
i If the convention prover suc
cessful perhaps the strongest yc!!
''leal party ever built up in Mex
i ico will come into being. Hereto.
! fore most of the revolutionary
^groups have been acting indepen.
| dently.
i Formation of the big party i
1 an idea that had its inception in
j a speech made by the then Presi
dent, General Calles, before Con.
I ocouupie a.s it * in as chiei exe
cutive he became head of the o.
| ganizing committee. in view o
i later political events, however, ht
j resigned from this post and ha>
! retired to private life.
There is much speculation as tv
the party's choice as presidentia
, candidate A short time ago i
1 appeared that Aaron Saenz, gover
1 nor of the stale of Nuevo I,eon
had the support of the majority o:
the groups that will make up tht
| party.
EXTRA SESSION
CALL EXPECTED
EARLY SPRING
I wo Important Legislative
Issues Must Be
Disposed of
FARM RELIEF AND
TARIFF COMING UP
Situation Is Outlined and
Placed Before Presi
dent - Elect
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Pres
ident-elect Hoover, as a result of
a conference with Republican
Congressional leaders, is expected
to call an extra session of the
Seventy-First Congress early in
the Spring. Such a session is
considered Inevitable, irrespective
of whether farm relief legislation
is enacted before ».AUuch 4 be- •
cause rev it r f a rrMfetoer of the
tariff schedules of industrial as
well as agricultural will be made.
The leaders desire to get these
tariff changes out of the way as
speedily as possible so there will
As the situation is outlined,
tariff revision will b< taken nj»
concurrently with farm legi aa
tion and be an auxiliary to it
since it is the purpose to afford
a measure of protection to agri
culture comparaie to that given
culture comparable to that given
ing revised law.
NO FARM RELIEF
I \yA 5*4-ij*. v•. r4\.*-, j
gessional leaders have abandoned
plans to put through farm relief
legislation at the present session
in view of a special session of
Congress.
TO MAKE FIGHT
ON MELLON FOR
SEC. TREASURT
Concerted Drive Indicated
Against Reappoint
ment by Hoover
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. —A
group of Senate Republicans and
Independents appear to be behind
a concerted drive against the re
appointment of Andrew VV. Mellon
as Secretary of Treasury and it
has been indicated that this selec
tion will meet a determined oppo
sition In the next Senate.
| Senator Nye yesterday added his
voice to Senator Brookhart and it
is expected Senator Couzens, who
will call on President-Elect some,
time today, will strongly oppose
Mellon in the Hoover Cabinet.
' Couzens and Mellon have en
gaged time to time in bitter con
troversies over tax matters In
volving both the administration of
the Income tax division of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau and the
Treasury's attempt to reassure a
large sum against Couzens on the
! sale of his Ford stock years ago.
M. J. SULLIVAN HERE
AS BUSINESS VISITOR
M J. Sullivan, well-known Atas
I ka pioneer, arrived today at noon
! on J. W. McCord's deisel schooner
, Decora.'and will remain in Juneau
for a while. Mr. Sullivan has
1 been in Seattle for the last sev
jeral weeks. He spent last sum
mer with the Alaska Railroad as
(timber inspector. That branch
1 of the service ceased operations
1 with the beginning of winter. Mr.
Putlivan *« s* *V OasMnra’i Hotel.
POWER FLUME WORK
IS TO BE STARTEO
The construction department of
j the Alaska Electric Light and
Power Company is preparing to
jilo the annual repair work on the
.large water flume on the Basin
road. Several truck loads of lum
ber have been taken to the scene
of the work.
The work is a part of the year
ly maintenance that is carried on
by the company and of which the
flume comes in for a major part.