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THE DAILY VLASKA EMPIRE
“/ILL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. XXXV., NO. 5271.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1929.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
JUNEAU MINING DISTRICT IS GIVEN GREAT BOOST
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SETTLEMENT
IS MADE BY
RUSS'CHINA
Agreement Is Reached Be
tween Governments in
Railroad Dispute
protocoiTsigned
IN SIBERIAN TOWN
Soviet Government Re
gards U. S. Peace
Move, Unfriendly
NEW YORK. Dec. 4. — Moscow
made her own peace with Mukden
over the Chinese Eastern Railway
dispute in Manchuria yesterday
and also rebuffed the nations seek
ing the same end by reminding
both Russia and China of their
obligations under the Kellogg anti
war pact.
Dispatches via London told of the
signing of the protocol at the Si
berian town of Nikolsk-Hussuriisky.
Under the terms, joint control
of the .railway will be restored in
accordance with the treaties of
1924.
Russia withdraws from insistence
that the former Russian General
Manager and Assistant Manager of
I the road be reinstated but reserved
the right to appoint them to other
positions.
Surprise at U. S. Action
The Soviet Government, in a
note handed French Ambassador
Herbette, in Moscow, said it could
not regard as a friendly act, the
American note with reference to
the Kellogg pact and stated that
the note constituted “an unjustified
attempt’’ to influence the Chinese
1,’ Russian negotiations, coming as it
did when these were already in
\ piogrcoS, and surprise was express
ed that the United States, which
refrained from official relations
with the Soviet Union, should have
undertaken to give “advice and di
rections.”
The agreement as negotiated by
by the Mukden Government will
presumably be accepted by the
Nanking Government since the
Provincial authorities had quasi
authority to negotiate it and since
the protocol appeared to fulfill
conditions imposed by Nanking.
TWO ARE FINED FOR
GAME LAW VIOLATION
Two arrests for violation of the i
trapping laws, were made last week
by Game Warden Charles L. Cad- ;
wallader near Cordova,' according
to advices received at local head
quarters of the Alaska Game Com
mission. Both entered pleas of
guilty before United States Commis
! ' sioner K. G. Robinson.
George Nikolai, charged with
trapping mink put of season, was,
fined $50 and costs and one mink,
skin confiscated. Willie Dude was J
fined $50 on a similar charge and
five mink pelts were forfeited to the j
government.
MRS. ETHEL HAYES
PASSES AWAY HERE
Mrs. Ethel Hayes, aged 37 years,
who entered St. Ann’s Hospital De
cember 2 to be treated for a se
vere attack t>f pneumonia, died
last night. She is survived by a
sister, Mrs. W. Fleck of Douglas,
and four children.
Ileir to Millions Finds Happiness with
Mother’s Chambermaid
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Once more It has been demonstrated that heart and mind, despite materialistic findings, can win happiness
through following tile dictates of the God of Love. A few days ago, the social world was startled by the
marriage of William Willock, Jr. (left), heir to millions end his mother’s chambermaid. The upper picture
shows the humble dwelling where the youthful heir brought his Norwegian bride. At the right is a facsimile ol
the license to wed which was filed in Brooklyn, N. Y. The lower picture shows the mansion of his father, where
the young man first met his twenty-year-old Norwegian bride. Internationa) Newaree
LIST the story of a man and
woman who followed the prompt
ly mgs of their heart and mind.
And just a story that shows us that
despite the market slump and other
troubles, this so-called materialistic
old world still loves a lover. For
the marriage of William Willock,
Jr., and Adelaide Ingebretsen has
interested everybody except the
tfoung people themselves who can
not understand why there should be
such a fuss about a conflict between
wealth and family and love, when
everyone knows or surely should
know that love is the only thing that
matters.
Life in the magnificent Willock
home at Syosset, L. I., was just a
series of functions that young Wil
liam Jr., never attended. Overalls
rather than dinner clothes tor the
young heir to a vast fortune. And
so he spent his time tinkering in his
machine shop, rather than escort j
society girls, who did not mean a j
thing to him, to parties that he 1
hated. And when the elderly butler j
acted as an unwitting cupid and
hired the pretty Norwegian cham- '
bermaid, William has declared that
he knew at once that he had found
his ideal.
Lakewood, N. J., was the setting
for the beginning of the romance
that the couple insist is going to
last for ever. The Willocks main
tain a wonderful home there also,
and when they returned to Long
Island, Willock knew that he was
going to show the world how a
democratic American really does be
International Ncwsree!
have, regardless of his family or
1 expectations. And Adelaide wants
to show the world that she loves
William for himself alone, and is
quite content with their little eight
dollar a week bridal suite, and
wears cheap lisle stockings with a
run carefully darned. And she is I
perfectly satisfied with the flivver |
that is taking them to Florida,'for
isn’t it her William’s car and hasn’t
she got the be tieest chauffeur
in the world?
The parent., of young Lochin
Var of Long Island have not yet inti
mated just what their attitude to
the young people is going to be, al
though Mrs. Willock has been quite
emphatic about her views on the
matter. It is not known whether
Willock senior’s check for $1,000 is
a present or a final gesture.
GRAPH OF STOCK
FOR YEAR IS LIKE
CHURCH STEEPLE
By WILLIAM R. KL'HNS
Finance Editor
(Associated Tress Feature Service)
NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—The stock j
market graph for 1929 will look like
a church steeple.
The pinnacle will represent the
memorable third week in September
| when the average price of com
' mon stocks reached their high,
1 level for all time.
Starting with February, 1928, it |
!tcok the stock list 19 months of;
' laborious climbing to hit the top. :
| Scarcely a fortnight was needed,
once the debacle got under way, to \
carry prices back to their level of
February, 1928.
At the beginning of 1927 the three
[ principal classes of stocks—rails,
industrials and public utilities—got
away to a fairly even start. They
were slightly above the average
for 1926, but no higher than they
GRANGE HEAD SEES
\ ' DANGER IF FARMER
IGNORES COMMUNITY
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By FRANK I. WELLER
Farm Editor
(A ; opiated Press Feature Service)
WASHINGTON. Dec. 4.—Agricul
ture faces the danger of farm com
munities being divided against
themselves, L. J. Taber, master of
the National Grange, declared in a
warning to the Seattle convention.
The progress made in coopera
tive marketing, and the assistance
of the government and other agen
cies in developing commodity or
ganizations, threaten disaster to
rural community life by dividing
communities along commodity lines.
“When community life and wel
fare are lost sight of and neigh
borhood is thought of in terms of
its various commodities, discord will
develop and unified agriculture will
become impossible.’’ •
While the Grange believes every
farmer should support commodity
cooperatives, Taber insisted that the
welfare of agriculture depends upon
maintaining general community or
ganizations with their social, educa
tional. fraternal and legislative fea- j
tures and “their background de- j
veloping the best in morals, patriot- ;
ism. and spiritual life in the open'
country."
“The farmer must perform for ■
himself most of the tasks that af
fect his own welfare," he said. “He
must meet 6rganization with organi
! zation. He must meet centralized ,
| buying with the strong arm of
j collective bargaining.
“Great nationwide cooperatives
j are being organized and in the im- j
| mediate future there is a possibility,
that the voice of agriculture will
be made articulate in the markets
of the world.” j
had been for a few weeks in the
fall of that year.
Toward the middle of the year
industrials broke away and took at
slight lead over rails and utilities.
It seems almost like ancient his
tory to record that utilities, which
were destined to achieve an as
tounding popularity in les than
two years, lagged behind both rails
and utilities until after the middle 1
of 1927.
Utilities passed the rails on an
upward swing in the third quar
ter of 1927 and began to creep up
on the soaring industrials. It wfis
not until the end of 1928. however, ;
that utilities came abreast and b\ !
that time the average pric;s of i
both rails and utilities were almost
twice what they had been at the
beginning of 1927.
In the second quarter of 1929
utilities leaped ahead of industrials
in the speed of their advance and
began the last dizzy climb that was
to end catastrophically.
In June of this year both rails
and industrials felt the violent up
ward pull of the public utility!
group but even at their highest ■
points were far short of the point'
of the steeple on which the utilities'
perched.
Treasury Still Has
Healthy Net Cash
Balance, Report Says
• The net cash balance in • j
• the Alaska treasury at the •
• close of -business November • ,
• 30. was $701,455.64, according • 1
• to the monthly statistical re- ® j
• port made by the Treasury •
• Department to Gov. George •
• A. Parks. This is $28,635.69 •
• in excess of the balance for •
• the same date of last year. •
• The total cash on hand •
• was reported to be $765,214.63 •
• with outstanding warrants •
• aggregating $63,758.79. •
• •
BURNS PROVE
FATAL; JAMES
NOONAN DIES
Vice-President of American
Federation of Labor
Victim of Fire
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dee. 4 —
James P. Noonan, Vice-President
of the American Federation of La
bor and President of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, died from burns received
in an early morning fire in his
apartment.
Firemen, who broke into the
apartment after an alarm was
turned in by a neighbor, found the
Labor official lying on the floor be
side a burning couch.
It is believed Noonan had gone
to sleep while smoking and the
fire started from a cigarette.
• TODAY’S STOCK •
• QUOTATIONS »
NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Alaska
Juneau mine stock is quoted to
day at G'i, Alleghany Corporation
24',. A.merican Alcohol 24’4, Am
erican Ice 36' k , Bethlehem Steel
93 . Corn Products 95 %, Combus
tion 11 'A, International Harvester
84'i, International Paper A 29'4,
Paper B 19%, Paper C 14. Kenne
cott 60Vi, National Acme 18%, Pan
American B 62"., Standard Oil of
California 64. Standard Oil of New
Jersey 68%, Texas Corporation 58%,
Cities Service 30, Magma 50. Mont
gomery Ward 50M, General Mot
ors 39%.
REITEN EXPRESSES THANKS j
Capt. Holten Reiten, of the
wrecked halibut schooner Seabird,'
left for Seattle on the Alameda i
with the other three survivors. Be- '
fore leaving Capt. Reiten expressed J
thanks and appreciation of the.
work of t' • rs and men of!
the Coast G - .er Unaiga, who!
made rescue po; idle from Wingate I
Island which the crew of the Sea- |
bird reached after being wrecked.
HOOVER GIVES
FIGURESSHOWING
STATE OF ONION
| President Presents Budget
and Financial Statement
—Recommendations
_
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Presi
dent Hoover laid before Congress
a maze oY figures on which he based
his recommendations in favor of
tax reduction and his request for
| $3,830,000 000 for the use of the
J Government next year.
A bright picture of the state of
the Nation’s finances is drawn from
the history of lowering taxes in the
past. The President said there is
new no doubt but that increased
revenues have always followed and
have been partly due to the stimu
lus given business through tax re
ductions. The upward jump of the
Government's receipts have be^n ir
refutable evidences of growing pros
pe:ity. They have uniformly been
gre ater than estimated in messages.
The first budget submitted by the
President estimated the Treasury's
outlay for twelve months beginning
next July 1 at $4,103,000,000 and
: estimated that there w ould be a
$122,000,000 surplus during that
period. The difference between
the appropriations asked and the
expenditures forecasted is explained
as being due to the fact that the
i President has not included any
I amount for a revolving fund for the
I Federal Farm Board because it had
been undetermined how much would
be necessary.
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COL LINDBERGH
OFFERS AID IN'
PILOT SEARCH
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Air Mail Flier Disappears
While Flying Over
Eastern Route
CLARION, Penn., Dec. 4— Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh offered hts
aid to search for Thomas P. Nel
son, Plainfield. N. J., air mail pilot,
on Itie New York-Clevcland route
who disappeared while flying from
Bellefonte, Penn., to Cleveland,
early Monday morning.
Col. Lindbergh telephoned from:
the home of his father-in-law,j
Dwight W. Morrow, at Englewood,
N. J. ;
W. L. Smith, Division Superin- j
tendent of the National Air Trans-,
port Company, told Col. Lindbergh
that everything possible was being
done and while the offer was great- |
ly appreciated it would be futile
lor him to join the search.
Nelson was associated with Lind
bergh In carrying mail from St. 1
Louis when the noted aviator was I
an air mail pilot.
Hurry Mailing
Of Christmas
Packages
Postmaster Spickett called atten
tion today to the fact that the
sailing of a steamer for the south j
next Tuesday will be the last mail j
for the States which will insure'
Christmas packages from Juneau |
reaching their destination before
the holiday. Mailers are asked to i
hurry their mailing and not wait
until the steamer has blown the |
half hour whistle for departure.
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"CHRISTMAS
►HOPPING EARiy
AFTER TODAY THERE
ARE ONLY
17
more shopping days
LEFT
Reconciliation Attempt Brings Arrest
C. J. McRcavey, one-legged war veteran, Annapolis football star and
naval aviator, who is in jail at Hollywood following his arrest in the
Hollywood apartment of Naomi Childers Reed, former film star (at the
right). He denied that he intended robbery, declaring that they had been
friends and he called at her apartment to “piake-up” a trivial quarrel.
’"ternaticnM Newsreel
ACTING HEAD
OF WAR POST
ONCE COWBOY
I
By L. A. BKOPHY
(A. P. Feature Service Writer)
| WASHINGTON, Dec, 4.—Person
ality plus is the way Patrick J. Hur
! ley, assistant secretary o£ war, is
often described.
And the description is heard in
the busy cubicles of the gray gran
ite war. state and navy building
; where the country's military affairs
i are administered by mufti-clad
army men,
l Across the Indian-straight shoul
' ders of the assistant war chief de
scended the mantle of war depart
; nient responsibility when James W.
Good lost his courageous fight for
life in V/alter Heed ho ipital.
Hurley is a lawyer by vocation.
For more than two decades, the
military has been his avocation.
He came into the war department,
by Hoover appointment, last spring
and his advent has been likened to
iansfuf mmm rnun t
PATRICK J. HURLL f
one of those hearty breezes of the
wide open spaces that have played
so important a part in his life.
Just under 50 now, the assistant
secretary of war was born in the!
Choctaw nation, Indian Territory.
He roamed the plains as a cow
puncher; took a fling at mining,
and at 25 became an attorney in
Tulsa, Okla., where he has lived!
since.
He carries his six feet odd with
an erectness that testifies to his
active life. He Is easily one of the
handsomest men in Washington
public life.
An ability to make people like
him. and to listen attentively an i
courteously to the troubles of any
one in his department—be the trou
bled one of high, low or intermedi
ate rank—are commented upon as
facets of his character brought out
I during his tenure as assistant sec
I retary of war.
Colonel Hurley—he reached the
J grade of lieutenant colonel durin'i
; the world war and now is a reserve
i colonel—began his military service
: in 1902 as a captain of cavalry of
rthe Indian Territorial volunteer
I militia. Prom 1914 to 1917 he was
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Hoover Asks for
Funds for Building
Fifteen Cruisers
o WASHINGTON. Dee. 4.— o
® President Hoover today ask- •
• ed Congress for funds to put •
• under way the full 15 cruis- •
• er program authorised just •
• before he took office. •
• The President explained ®
• this was a precautionary •
• measure only and the cruiser •
• program is .subject t.r su/;h • !
c modification that -
e entitled by any agreement on » j
• limitation of cruisers adopt- • j
• ed at the forthcoming Lo 1- • I
• don Naval Conference. • I
QUICK ACTION
OPONPROPOSAL
TO CUT TAXES
mn I
—
House Ways and Means
; Committee Adopts Reso
lution—House Thursday
WASHINGTON. Dec. 4.—The Ad
ministration's $100,000,000 income
tax reduction plan has been ap
proved by the House Ways and
Means Committee and it will be
brought before the House for ac
tion tomorrow.
The Committee placed its ap
proval to provide the reduction, a
short time after Under Secretary
Millof the Treasury Department,
appeared before it and gave the
details of the proposal.
WRANGELL MAN CONVICTED
I’OR ASSAULT, SENT HERE
Paul Alexis, convicted recently at
Wrangell on an assault charge, was ]
brought here last night by Deputy;
United States Marshal Campbell
of that city. He was sentenced
by Judge Thomas to 10 months
imprisonment In the local Federal
jail.
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11 askn If' an tod for
Penal Colony Ity
Ref or mod Kidnapper
• Pat Crowe, reformed out- •
® law. who attained interna- •
' a tlonal notoriety about 25 a
a years ago as the kidnapper a
• of a son of Edward Cudahy, •
• Omaha meat packer, has a •
• scheme for making a penal •
• colony in Alaska, according •
a to an announcement in a •
• Washington. D. C., news- a
a paper. •
• Crowe made his radio de- •
• but over WOL on November a
• 24. at Washington. He was •
o scheduled, according to tl»e •
• Washington Star, to give • j
• some of his adventures, re- • 1
• late plans for settling re- • j
o claimed lands with youthful •
• criminals, and the colomza- •
• tion of Alaska with life •
• termers. • |
a •
FINE PROSPECTS
SEEN FOR LOCAL
MINING REGION
Destined to Be One of
Foremost Districts on
American Continent
F. W. BRADLEY MAKES
STATEMENT, SEATTLE
Alaska, Canadian N. W.
Mining Properties Are
Brighter than in Years
SEATTLE, Dec. 4. — The
autlonk for minim? properties
n Alaska and the Canadian
Northwest arc brighter than
for years, Frederick W. Brad
’ey, President of the Ameri
an Institute of Mining and
'Metallurgy said after his ar
rival here from a tour of the
Qrient.
“Development of the Alas
ka-Juneau and Treadwell Yu
kon mines are progressing at
i rapid rate,” said Bradley.
“The Alaska-Juneau mine
bowed a profit of $17:5,000
in October. That district is
destined to be one of the
foremost mining districts on
the American continent.”
Discussing the “proposed
Trunk Highway^ from Seattle
| to Fairbanks,” Bradley said
jit was an “excellent idea. The
1 • r« * t*j iwjin
well mineralized country and
development would well re
pay the Canadian and Ameri
can Governments with re
sources it will tap.”
DORBANDT AND
CROSSON MEET
FOG OK FLIGHT
1 orced to Return to Teller
! After Attempt to Search
for Col. C. B. Eielson
—
NOME, Alaska, Dec. 4. — Pilots
Frank Dorbandt and Joe Crosson
hopped off from Teller at 11 o'clock
yesterday forenoon for Siberia to
search for Col, Carl Ben Eielson
and his mechanician Earl Borland.
,They fought fog conditions at an
altitude of 7,000 feet while over the
Diomede Islands, Bering Straits,
and were forced to return to Tell
er at 1:30 o'clock yesterday after
noon.
Weather reports seemingly indi
cated calm weather and it was
clear with a temperature of 17 be
low at the frozen-in schooner Na
, nuk while the sky was overcast at
1 Teller.
GRAHAM MAKES FLIGHT
NOME, Alaska, Dec. 4. — Pilot
Graham made a flight from here
to Teller last Monday but on the
return was forced to land 30 miles
from Nome on account of fog and
snow. Graham spent the night in
his plane, then took off and land
ed here yesterday afternoon.
Bok Tower Dedication
Has Choir Outgrowth
WINTER HAVEN, Fla., Dec. 4.—
: A choir is the outgrowth of the
j chorus of 600 voices formed last
winter for the dedication of thi
Bok singing tower at Mountain
I Lake.
Hundreds of singers from nearly
I every community in Polk County
twill comprise the choir, which will
I have units in Winter Haven. Bar
Itow. Lakeland and Lake Wells and
will give concerts in each town.
The entire group will give con
certs in each city. Henry W. B.
Barnes, who directed the chorus
i at the Bok tower dedication, is di
' rector.
FOR ROAD1- JO AVOID CITIES
OKLAHOMA CITY. — Arterial
highways of .ne future, says A. R.
Losh, Oklahoma state engineer,
should be built for through traffic
only and should avoid all cities,