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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-05
C0MMERCEF0R
LAST MONTH is
ABOUT NORMAL
t t al Value of Outgoing
Shipments in January
Placed at ST, 1861


Alaskan products shipped to
the States in January remained
about normal fer that month,
which is generally one of the
lightest in volume of the entire
year, according to the monthly
summary of commerce issued by
Collector of Customs ]. c. Me-
Bride. The total in value for the
month was $1,455,651 as compar-
cd to $1,5O5,5S6 in January,
1928.
Copper ore gained about $685.
600 over the latter month. There
was a heavy decline in fresh
halibut, from $32S,5S6 to $1S3,-
709. Fresh and cured salmon
gained about $4,000. Furs also
showed decline and other COM
modities were about normal.
The list Of commodities and
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-05
MUTUAL AIR LINES
ARE RECAPITALIZED
AND START SERVICE

An announcement Of the re-
capitalization of the Union Air
Lines was received today by Judge
v. A. Paine, local representative,
in which the authorized stock is
sue was increased from 100000
to s2,000,O00. The present share
holders will receive new shares
for the old issue on very favor
able basis, he was informed
Coincident with this announce
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-05
StabIer Appointed
Temporary Dist.
Attorney by Harding

H. d. Stabler was today APP
pointed temporary U mite d
States Attorney by Federal
Judge Justin w. Harding, pend
the confirmation of the for
mer's recent nomination to
that office. Mr.. Stabler was
nominated about ten days ago
by President Coolidge to sue
coed Judge Harding upon the
latter's elevation to the Fed
eral bench here.
He took over the District
Attorneys office today. 1t is
expected that his confirmation
viii be made in a short time.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-05
ToRkELSoN is FOUND
NOT GUILTY BY JURY

T. H. Torkelson, local lock-
smith arrested last week by Fed
eral officers and charged with vio-
iation of the Alaska Bone Dry
Law and assaulting an officer,
was acquitted yesterday afternoon
by jury in the U. S. Commits
sioners Court. On the latter charge
the jury took but one ballot. and
on the first count, the vote is
said TO have stood 10 to 2 for ac-
quittal on the first ballot.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-05
Florida Women Dodge
Worries of Business

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Feb.
5.-W ON n of Florida are not
interested in lifting the mantle
of business from the shoulders
of men, concludes Mrs. Ethel I.
Best, a field worker of the
women's bureau OF the United
States Department of Labor.
Mrs. Best says that few white
women within the State enter
business and that the majority
Of these are employed in stores
and hotels. The number of pro
fessional and business women IS
small, she AYERS
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S1yhxcrihn In The Emni~a
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-05
SHIPS WASHED
out TO SEA BY
SEVERE STORM

NEORINNA, Spain, Feb. s.
Dispatches from Cocuhion say a
terrific storm washed several ships
out to sea with number of
sailors on the vessels. Steamer
Iciar and several motor launches
went to their rescue and lowed
some back. Twenty sailors are
still missing aboard eight vessels.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-05

sam Baker, representing the A.
i. Love Company of Seattle. a
wholesale dry goods firm, is In
town on his regular selling trip
Mr.. Baker arrived ON the steamer
Queen and is to leave on the next
boat for the Westward.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-05
Lecturer, Explorer
Is Sued for Divorce

RENO, New, Feb. 5.-Gregory
Mason, lecturer, explorer and
writer, war correspondent for
Outlook in the European war and
Joint member of an archaeological
expedition into Yucatan was to-
day sued by Mrs. Mary Turner
Mason for divorce and for the
custody of their infant son. They
were married in 1922.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-05

Walter Jeffery, handling the Sell
lers Shoe line out of Ketchikan,
will return to his home town on
the Northwestern. In Ketchikan,
Mr.. Jeffrey is associated with Mr..
Gilmore in the ownership of the
Gilmore Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-05

for any mail contracts offered on
that route.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-05


NoTE-ohservations Paul, Harbor, Kodiak,
Prince Rupert, Edmonton
cisco made
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-05
Weather Conditions As Recorded by the U. S.
Weather Bureau

Forecast juneau and vicinity. beginning today:
Snow tonight Wednesday; moder-
ate southeasterly winds.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-05

is falling in Eastern Alaska 1t is low south of the Aleu-
Light
in Western generally
tn Gulf
Temperatures have risen decidedly Nome
Beth Kodiak, with little change elsewhere
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-05

will
honou BovsSc SUITS
make to a
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-14
7. U. TO SPEND
THREE MILLION
Program Calls For
New Work to Start
His Year

AUSTIN. Texas, June 15.P1-Al-
most 100000 worth Of new con-
struction for the University Of
Texas will be started before the end
Of the present year. There will be
seven projects, two of which are ex-
tensions of present buildings.
The institutions building fund is
growing steadily as royalties from
its oil wells in West Texas come in.
Only the income from the fund
created by oil can be used for build
ings. however. else the more than
100000 0 now on hand could give
the University n of the greatest
plants in the nation.
Structures now under construction
and which will be started this year.
eliminating the last of the wooden
shacks," are: gymnasium. $500. 900:
mechanical engineering extension.
$4,000; chemistry building. $780,
600: Library extension, $500 600:
women's gymnasium. $3.50 900:
students activity building. $780,
600; memorial arch. S250.000.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-14

now being attempted by several
other ports on the eastern and
southern seaboards. The item OF
annual cost is made up Of some
thing over Sc, O00,O 900 for capital
charges, about 100000 for main
tenance and operation. and the
balance for permanent bettermellA
and claims. II the canal was scrap
ped today. the capital charge cost
would continue for many years.
since canal bonds were generally to
run fifty years.
Under the laws at the time OF
bond issuance. the tax to meet these
bonds upon maturity was four or
five One-thousandths Of a mill on
each dollar Of valuation Of real and
personal property in this state sub
iect to taxation. for each and ev-
cry $1,000, 900. or fraction thereof
in par value of said bonds. BY sub
seouent enactments. IL has been
made possible to raise the moneys
necessary for this purpose and 9TH
or state needs through various
methods than direct taxation. In
1928. the direct tax for all state
purposes was one-half Of one mill,
but for the year 1925. there is no
direct tax paid by farmers or 9TH
ers upon real estate or personal
property TO produce state funds. All
revenues required are met by taxes
on inheritances. various corpora
ton taxes. foreign bank taxes. etc.
and this is not the first instance
Of no direct tax in this state by
any means.
Would these various taxes be at
all reduced if canal payments were
unnecessary?
The fact that canal tonnage has
not yet met expectations does not
prove it will not ultimately do so.
Expectations may not have been
well founded. However. there are
certain facts which should be re-
membered when the success Of the
New York State Canal is discussed,
viz:
AT the time Of the agitation for
the enlargement of the canals. the
automobile truck had hardly been
thought Of. That this has become
an important transportation agency
the railroad companies as well as
canal advocates have had good rea-
son to realize.
During its construction period.
canal vessels then in use becare
economically obsolete and larger
vessels could not be used until the
canal was opened to through navi-
CATION. which was an undeterm-
ined date.
when opened to through navi-
cation. this country was partici-
pating in the World war. Every
energy was being exerted to win.
Federal government control or
boat operation on this states canals
was not relinquished until 1921. and
it certainly was not an opportune
time TO build canal boats for COIN
petition with government control
led vessels.
Larger Boats In Use
Nevertheless. larger and better
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-14

boats have been and are being reg
istred for canal service. In 1925
there were TIL cargo boats in canal
service with an aggregate capacity
Of 398. 1000 net tons. The following
season ITO boats had a capacity Of
4l6.960 tons. while in 1923 the COM
bined capacities Of 782 vessels ag-
gregated 449 sos tons.
Prom 1,159,27O tons. in 1918, to
1881 1872 tons, in 1927. a period Of
exactly ten navigation seasons. the
gain IN canal tonnage was 1.422.-
622 tons. or over 100 per cent. An
average increase Of over u per cent
per annum would be conceded to
be good in almost any enterprise.
why call the state canal a failure?
In 1923 canal tonnage amounted to
3.O89, 998 net tons, an increase or
1851 per cent over 1927.
The Produce Exchange. Of New
York City. reports receipts at that
port. during the year 1923. via all
railroads. Of 62.O67. 200 bushels Of
grain; SOFT ASH bushels Of flour.
and 407, 400 bushels of meal; total
1877. $50. O5l bushels. Via canal route
there were transported 3~9.l38.902
bushels OF grain. We contend th=.
a water route which transports TO
New York at reduced rates approx
mately 80 per cent as much grain
products as all the rail lines COM
bined should not be called a fail
ure as a direct benefit TO receivers
of freight.
Saving Is Shown
"The Barge Canal Survey Com
mission created. by the state legis-
lature in 1925. to make a study
and survey Of the operation and
facilities Of the canal system Of the
state, the use thereof for transport
tation. and the requirements for
improving and developing the sys-
tenn and the promoting and
increasing the use of its facilities.
reported in part as follows: From
testimony given BY traffic men. it
would appear that during 1925 the
barge canal saved the people OF
this state approximately s52.000.-
600: $4,000. 900 OF this is estimated
as being the direct saving on ton
mage floated at the lesser water
rates: the 5000 900 is accredited
to freight carried by rail, which due
TO canal competition. is apparently
handled in New York state at low
er rates than in states which lack
water competition"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-14
Barge Canal Holds
9Down Freights On
Railroad Is Claim

NEW YORK, June IA. H
Moore, traffic manager Of the New
York State Division Of Canals and
Waterways. replying yesterday to
recent criticisms directed against
the state barge canal by Edward
+. LOOMS, president Of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad. declared that the
waterway is playing a prominent
part IN upholding the states pres
tige and at the same time is an
important factor in keeping rail-
road rates at their present level
which, It is estimated. means a saw
ing OF Approximately $50 900 900 a
year TO the people Of New York
state.
After tracing the development Of
the early waterways and the infIu-
ence they eXerted on making New
York the Empire state. Mr.. Moore
takes up point by point the critl-
cisms raised by Mr.. LOOMS against
the barge canal.
Admits Traffc Has Fallen Short
AtN 70 NC nEIAtCllN lIdlk ana
admit az the outset that the barge
canal, including terminals. has
cost approximately SITS. 900 900;
that the annual cost is around Sl0.-
100000, and that the amount OF
traffic transported thereon has fall
en- short of expectations. There !
nothing to be ashamed of or COW
cred up in these facts, said MI.
Moore.
THE cost Of the canal Is well
worth while IL 1t enables us 10 re-
tain the prestige now generally
toyed by this state. when its lead
ership along many lines is even
now being impaired and when the
united effort ot commercial and
civic organizations has been in
voked to halt the onslaught on the
commerce of the Port Of New York,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-14
New Edinburg Gin
VIII Be Ready For
Operation July !
(Special To The Herald)

EDINBURG. June 14.-W. T..
Lipscomb announced here Wednes-
day that the new cotton gin un-
der construction seven and one-half
miles north of Edinburg is expected
10 be completed and ready for OPP
Grafton by July 1. Liscomb and
John Edmiston Of EdinDurg are
owners.
The gin will be modern and up
to-date in every detail and will cost
its owners approximately $4,000.
Lipscomb said the prospects for
a bumper cotton crop in this dry
land district were never better and
that in some places he expected the
yield to be around a bale per acre.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-14
DREAM LEADS TO
FIELD OF JEWELS

CAPETOWN. June 14.-For II
years PETER Baldien. a crippled
Boer, had sought for diamonds at
Bloemhof. but fortune frowned upon
him and he and his family lived in
dire poverty. a week ago, however,
he dreamed that he would find the
precious stones at a certain location
on a new claim that he had secured.
He began work in the middle Of the
night and already has found enough
diamonds to make him wealthy.
CENTENARIAN IN COURT
BELFAST.-Mrs. Mary Mann.
aged 100. appeared in court to
prosecute her 75~-year-old son for
abusive language.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-06
Narcotics In Flat

Los Angeles, June R-With discovery of narcotics in the apart- ment of Mrs. Virginia Patty, slain wife of a Portland Ore. investmen broker police today pursued new line of investigation in the affairs of the comedy 2S-year-old woman.
 Mrs. Patty's battered body was discovered Wednesday morning in the closet of a rooming house. in 3 section of the city far from the ex- elusive district where she had main- tained her residence.
 William Tallman, Oakland radio operator, was arrested on charge of murder. while aboard the steamer Admiral Benson, en route to San Francisco.
 Confirms Husbands Story
 The finding of narcotics in Mrs. Fatty's apartment seemed to the police to bear oLt an expected sus- picion of her husband. Frank Pat ty. broker of Portland. Ore, tha. his wife had become addicted to the use of stimulants. He had previous ly tolt police of his wife's i'll health.
 Patty. was graduated from the University Of Nebraska in 1922. He formerly lived in Fonda. Iowa, with his father, a druggist there. Tali- man was born in Rock Island. III.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-06
Man Goes For Ride in Automobile;
 Wakes Up Robbed in Cemetery

William Mason, 2l, of l Ann 1 street, and Ignatz kowalski. g, of l o7 stXton street. were bound over to the September term of superior court for Hartford county on the charge of theft, by Judge NJ. D. Sake in police court today in bonds or Sl ,0CO each. Both have police rec crds, Mason having been arrested the first time when he was 13 years of age, while kowalski who is l known as Frank koval. lgnatZ ko- l val and other aliases, first came to | the attention of the police at the age of years. Since then he has been arrested more than a dozen times and has served sentences in 1 .jail in Greenfield, Mass. from whicf he escaped, and Charlestown, Mass. having been in the latter prison when Sacco and Nanzet,i were in mates.
 Sergeant r. A. McAvay testified that Frank Piorkowsik of 132 Cle> e. land street complained to the police on May 25 that he became intoxicat- ed in a store on Grove street and two men put him into an automobile and drove off. When he came to his senses he was in Fairview ceme- tery and his watch. valued at $50, was missing. as were his chain val ued at slS.50, his ring valued al S20 and S25 in cash.
 Watch in Pawnshop
 Yesterday afternoon the watch, bearing the owners initials. was re- covered in Mrs. Bessie Feinsold' s pawn shop on Lafayette street and Mason was identified by Mrs. l'ein- gold as the man who pawned it. Mason, in the presence Of kowalski. told the police that the watch was given 10 him on Main street by ko- walsk. with the request that he 1 pawn 1t. koWaiski, according 10 the story. told Mason he had tried to pawn it ln Hartford but was unsuc- cesSful because the serial and case numbt had been scratched off fl.
 Mason. according to Sergeant Me- Away. pawned the watch with Mrs. t'eingold for $50. and kept 30 cents. kowalski having told him 10 keep whatever money he obtained l for it in excess of S5. kowalski, according to the sergeant, would not admit anything.
 | Sergeant r. J. O'Mara testified that he was present when Piorkow- ski made the complaint and since then a lookout was kept for the l watch which, lt was expected. would make it's appearance in a pawnshop. Yesterday, he and Officer F.. R. kiely recovered it in Mrs. F'cngold's s place and learned that it had been l pawned by a man who gave his name as Fred Pason of 153 Corbir avenue. Mrs. F'eincold gave them Q description of "Pason" and they brought m kowalski. Mason and a third young man to her place. She picked out Mason at once. but he denied that he knew anything about ;he transaction. Later. however, he admitted if.
 ] The sergeant noticed that kowal-
New Britain herald., 1929-06-06
SCHEIDL'S APPEAL DENIED
 IN U. s. DISTRICT COURT
Judge Thomas Rules for Trustee in Case of Hornk ohI Bankrupt
 Estate.

Judge Edwin C. Thomas in the
 United States district court in New Haven yesterday rendered a decision
 adverse 10 the petition of Mr. and Mrs Felix Scheidl of this city for against them, obtained by Leo B. c. Fox as trustee of the bankrupt estate of Edward Hornkohl Of New Britain. Judge Thomas decided that
 the bill was an original one and not
 a petition for rehearing and he
 will dismiss the bill for failure to state a cause of action. if the trus- tee. before June 12. will file a mo-
 tion to dismiss.
 The Scheidls claimed that two
 witnesses at the bankruptcy hearing. Stewart Porter and R. F. Porter of
 New Britain. had periured them i selves 10 testify that an instrument
 in writing. alleged to have passed ! between Hornkohl and the Scheids
 was lease with an option to buy Edde's Filling Station property on | the NeWington turnpike. The trus- | tee enforced the alleged agreement 1 by foreclosure proceedings in superior court through which the
 Scheidls will lose their property un- ! less they redeem it.
 i George F. Ruhinow has since been i named trustee in place of Mr. Fox 1 Attorney Thomas F. McDonough. acting for the ScheidIs. states that 1 if the bill is eventually dismissed
 he will appeal to the circuit court of appeals.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-06
Darrow Cheered In Liquor Speech;
 Dr. Wilson, Dry, Booed and Kissed
Washington Debate Proves Hectic Time for Prohibit tionist Speaker - Heck ling Frequent.

Washington, June 6 P0ln the presence of an audience which gave vent to it's feelings with hisslng. booing. heckling. jeering and cheer ing, Clarence Darrow, noted attor- ney, and Dr. Clarence True Wilson. secretary of the Methodist board ol temperance. prohibition and publi'' morals. have told Washington what they think about prohibition.
 BOO Tess illness
 They debated the question last night: Resolved. that prohibition is right in principle, a success in practice, and should be enforced Senator Barkley of Kentucky. pre- siding, announced that no decisiCn would be given and that Senator Fess of Ohio, who was to have spoken in the affirmative. had be- come suddenly ill and that Mir. Will son would take his place.
 II am very strongly against pro- hibition," Mir. Darrow said, "because l like to take drink and because I want to mind my own business I object to any organization of preachers or other highbinders get ting together and telling me what I can't do.
 "Nlind Own Business
 "As long as l live I'm going to live my own life and to choose my own religion, If l want to, without interfering with the rights of my fellow-man. We propose 10 mind our own business, and we propose to make you mind yours, if you have any,
 Dr. Wilson urged that prohibition be given the same chance for suc- cess given the liquor traffic during it's approximately 14O years of lesalized existence in America. He insisted that Uncle Sam has gone out of the liquor traffic forever" and that the prosperity of the last 10 years was due almost entirely to prohibition.
 We've had ten years of prohibit tion, mostly under the wets" he said Prohibition has given Us the greatest cleanup in American poli- tics of any single movement in the history of our country. It was in tended to annihiiate the license sys- tenn, and has ended the system"
New Britain herald., 1929-06-06

ski and the third party disappeared from the streets quite hurriedly and after hearing Mason's story. search was instituted for kowalski and Sergeant McAvay and Officer kiely brought him in.
 He Lived in Pond
 Tine Corbin avenue address which Mason gave corresponds to the To- cation of the Doerr property. where there is a pond but TO houses, Ser eeant O'Mara said.
 PiorkowsSi testified that he had one drink in the Grove street store on May IS and remembered getting into an autom obile with two men, whose names he gave the police. He was positive that kowalski and Mason We're not the pair. When he awoke in the cemetery his shoes were off and he was wit thout money, ring. watch and chain. He identified the watch which was recovered in the pawnshop
 Mason. after being warned that if he said anything It might be used against him, chose to make a state ment. lie mad no idea that the watch had been stolen. he said, and the reason he gave the name of Pason was that kowalski told him he got the watch from Pason. "I would not have hooked it if l had known it was stolen," he said. He kept 50 cents of the $5.50. koWai- ski having told him he could keep anything in exec ss of s5,
 Positively Identified
 koN alslli declined to make a statement and Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Greenstein. asking that proba ble cause be found and the rair bound over 10 superior court, admitted that the facts were meagre hut said he felt the evidence point He expressed the belief that further evidence may develop before the cases are called in superior court.
 Judge Sake hesItated for several minutes and then asked Piorkowsk' if he was positive of the identity Of the mon who took hlm for the ride from the Grove street store. He replied that he was positive and had told the police who they were. Mr Grcensteir called Sergeant O'Mara to the stand and the sergeant said the men mentioned by PiorkoWski had been interview cd by Sergeant McAray and claimed to have taken
New Britain herald., 1929-06-06
Girl in Fear of Father
 Stays Away From Home

Supernumerary Officer Anthony Pechout received a complaint last night that Olga Zotter, 16, of 1858 Gt ,enwood street had not been home for week and was at various homes at night. Last night she was at the Sandberg home at 346 Park street and when she returned about 12:30 from Lake Compounce Off cer Pechout turned her over to or ficer Kun. who brought her home. Olga told the police she was afraid of her father and for that reason she absented herself from home.