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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-29
ESCAPES FROM PRISON, FINDS
 GIRL, RETURNS
Romantic E.scapade Reveal ed with Setting in
 Two States

STIRLING, H., Dec. 29. = The parents of girl at Rochester, Washington. asked Howard Middle ton, aged 23, to clear his record of a prison escape before their mar riage.
 The young man arrived here yes- terday and again put on prison garb at the Vandalia State Penal Farm.
 The girl promised to await for him until released which is sched- uled for next September. He said he would return to Washington and marry the girl
 Middleton arrived here yester- day, hitchhiking from the Pacific Northwest. and surrendered to the authorities who found he had es- capped in May, 1881 He was serv- ing a sentence of one year for 8 larceny charge. He wandered to the small community of Rochester after his escape and befriended by a family there he found the right girl"
 The prison farm superintendent said the fiancee of Middleton is Pearl Hall of Rochester.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-29
Electric DolIar'' Proposed for Nesv Kind of Money

ATLANTIC CITY, Dec. 29.-- Dr. John Pease Norton, econ omist, proposed before the Am erican Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, a new kind of money, the electric dollar," with 8 value based on electrical energy instead of gold.
 The doctor claims the "elec- tric dollar" would abolish wide fluctuating in prices resulting from alternate hoarding and re- leasing of geld supplies which he declared was responsible for depressions.
 Dr. Norton said the new money would be issued like paper currency.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-29
ROOSEVELT AND GARNER ARE T0|
 DISCUSS ISSUES
Democratic Tax, Bud ge t Balancing Program May
 Then Be Shaped
CONFERENCE TO BE !
 HELD AT HYDE PARK
President-Elect Wants First Hand Knowledge
 of Situation

WASHINGTON, Dec 29. The Democratic tax and Budget bal ancing program will probably be shaped more definitely next. week when President-E Elect Roosevelt and Vice President Elect Garner talk over the nations finances.
 House leaders are anxious to ob- tain the Governors views and what he has to say may influence to 8 large extent prospective action at the present short session, toward bringing the Governments income in line with the expenditures.
 Word from Albany said the Gov ernor wants first hand knowledge of the situation before deciding his tax policy and in this connection he is preparing for meeting with Speaker Garner at Hyde Park,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-29
MOTHER AND LITTLE SON
 BOTH PERISH
 HOME BLAZE
Mrs. A. A. Budnick Victim of Flames with 5-Year- Old Boy - Husband
 Also Badly Burned

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 29. = Mrs. A. A. Budnick, aged 35 years, and her son Robert, aged five years, were burned to death yesterday when fire destroyed the fam fly home near the A la six a Railroad roundhOuse.
 Budnick, an employee of the railroad, in the freight depot, suffered burns of un- determined S CT i O usness at- tempting to rescue his wife and son.
 Budnick went home when his wife telephOned the fur mace was smoking. He found the house ablaze and plunged into the flames but was sun- able to find his wife and son. The heat finally drove him out.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-29
Peat Digging Profitable
 Two Ways in Wisconsin

MADISON. Wis, Dec. 29.--A new industry for Dane County is work ing as mutually beneficial situa- tion for farmers hereabouts and the new industry's workers.
 It is peat digging, in which hun dreds of persons have become en- gagged in the last few months.
 The diggers cooperate with the farmers by digging drainage dAch- es when they remove the fuel thus the farmers get their marshy land converted into profitable pas ture land and the diggers get fuel for the winter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-29
CAPT. STEELE, OF SARATOGA,
 WILL RETIRE
Relinquishes Command of Aircraft Carrier-Capt.
 Zogbaum Succeeds

WASHINGTON Dec. 29.-Capt. George Steele, Commanding Off, cer of the Aircraft Carrier Sara toga, will be placed on the retired list January 1, at his own request, it was announced today.
 Capt. Rufus Zogbaum, Jr., Com mandant at the Naval Air Station at Pensacola. takes command of the Saratoga.
 Capt. Steele made flight in the AR-3, now the dirigible Los An- geles, from Germany to the Unit ed States, as commander.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-29
STOCK RALLY SENDS PRICES
 UP SLIGHTLY
M ark e t Closes Around Days Best Levels
 Aggressive Efforts

NEW YORK, Dec. 29-A New Years rally finally developed to- day on the Stock Exchange CO., incident with the abatement of the year and tax selling.
 The market closed at the days best levels with numerous gains of one of more than three points. Today's turnover was 100000 shares, the largest for the month of December.
 The market clipped back a little in the afternoon but came back strongly at the close. It was the second successive day in which traders made aggressive bulhsh efforts.
 Issues up two to three points in- cluded Allied Chemical, American Telephone and Telegraph, Case, Union Pacific. Issues up from one to two points included American Can, Santa Fe, New York Central, both United States Steel, common and preferred; and Vacuum.
 Air Reduction and General Mot ors closed up a fraction.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-29
BISHOP O'DEA
 LAID TO REST

SEATTLE, Dec. 29-The Most Reverend Edward J. O'Dea, Bishop of Seattle, who died Christmas night, was buried today with all of the color of medieval liturgy. He had been in Catholic service for 50 years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-29
HELEN KANE
 IS DIVORCED

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-The Daily News says it has been informed that Helen Kane, the Boop-a-doop singer, has obtained a final Mexi- can divorce decree from Joseph Kane, department store buyer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-29

In reriouon for the of pumped four bullets into the body of Constable Elliot cufing with her husband Mrs nay at Columbia awaiting executon scheduled for April The remote date fixed because the wife, another child movement steadily all country object who the nexoable machinery the of protests the of alone Many legast hold the wrong fully sentenced nasmuh the State failed verdict of are these: Mrs snpes with her husband Clyde snip friends stopped and searched for liquor while liquor % G found bI, the officer Constable Eio. Harris
  dened with excitement she shots, killing him. Physicians condition into that time
 But the law she Huma "NOW
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-29
s5,000 IS LosT;
 THREE ARE DEAD

CHICAGO, II. Dec. 29-Deprived of an anticipated .$5,000 legacy by the discovery of new will of the, late Clement Studebaker, Jr., Peter P. Stakeholder, chauffeur, aged 27 years, shot to death his wife and daughter, then killed himself
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-29
KETCHIKAN MAN ADJUDGED
 INSANE AND IS COMMITTED

Jack Nahinu of Ketchikan, was adjudged insane there yesterday after lunacy hearing in the Unit ed States Commissioners Court, &C., ccrding to advices received by United States Marshal Albert White. He was committed to Morn ingside Sanitarium oy Judge w. C. Arnold,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-29
LAUNCH SINKS;
 TEN MEN DIE

WELLIN GTON, New Zealand, Dec. 29-Ten men were drowned this morning when launch car rying thirty workers, collided with the steamer Napier in the harbor and then sank.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-29
SYSTEM COMPLICATED

So far as the public is concern ed, many complaints about the Hoover secretariat have been trac- cable to the apparent lack of a definite division of responsibility among the three secretarial offic- es.
 One labor leader, after call at the White House, told his friends that he never would go there again because he had been shunt- ed from one secretary to another
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Confidence Is Voted tn
 Boncour's Cout.

PARIS, Dec. 29-The Govern mcnt of Premier Paul Bonccur wen a vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies today in a preliminary vote on the propcral to lend Austria fcur- teen million dollars
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-29
KEEL OF U. s. s.
 WORDEN IS LAID

BREMERTON. Wash, Dec. D. The keel of the U. S. s. Wor- den, newest American battle craft, was laid today, assuring continued employment for the next g months of BIO men.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-29
CLIsING PRICES TO-DAY

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 1924, American Can 50ss, American Power and Light 6T, Anaconda 5A, Bethlehem Steel 12S, Calumet and Hecla 2A, Chrysler 161s, Colorado Fuel and Iron Az, Columbian Carbon 28, Continental Oil 52s, Curtiss- Wright 1s, Fox Films 17s. Gen. eral Motors 1924, International Harvester 20M, Kennecost 7ss, Packard Motors 2h, safeway Stores 391s, Standard Brands l4A, Unit ed States Steel 26ss.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-27
TWO DEMOCRATS
 FILE IN HOUSE P BINARY RAGE
Albert Vile and J. w, Kehoe First to Announce
 Candidates for House

...Two> Democratic filings. for the Legislature, both for places on the House ticket, have been made in the office of Clerk of the United States District Court, one each from the north and south end of the Division.
 Albert Vile, well known local merchandise broker, and J. w. Kehoe, Ketchikan attorney and former local resident, are the can- didates who have filed their declar- ations for nomination on the Demo- cratic ticket in the April primary election.
 MT. Vile is an oldtimer in the Territory. He has resided in the First Division for many years, and held office as Postmaster at Ket- chikan under the Wilson Adminis- tration. He moved here shortly after his tenure there expired after the Harding Administration began and has made his home in Juneau since that time.
 MT. Kehoe was admitted to the bar some ten years ago. He moved to Ketchikan several years ago and was at one time United States Commissioner there. Upon retire. ment from that office, he opened law offices and has practiced his profession there ever since.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-27
By DENNIS O'CONNELL

CORK, Ireland. Jan. 27. = The Ford plant which was brought to Cork almost bodily from Detroit four years ago is employing 2,000 hands, three times the number of two months ago. and additional men are being taken on every day.
 But tractors and automobile parts are not responsible for this renewed activity. The new hands are making gutter pipe sand caves for houses.
 The Ford plant also is turning out a new household cistern.
 Benefits Debated
 Cork, however, is of two minds concerning Ford's venture here. One group asserts that it has been a blessing, another that it is a hindrance.
 Ford pays the highest wages of any employer in Ireland, including the great Guinness brewery in Dublin.
 Until short time ago the low est paid workers in the Ford works
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-27
House Trimmings DisPlace
 Tractor as Ford Product

received more than the skilled men in other plants, and more than double the wages of men in simi- lar occupations.
 Furthermore, they worked short CT hours and the 5-day week gave them plenty of time for recreation.
 British Workers Hit
 All this attracted many men who had steady employment elsewhere. They threw up those jobs and came to Cork. Many of them now have been out of work for two years and their initially high wages have been more than nullified.
 Others married, made future plans on the strength of the boom days, and are hard pressed now. and workmen from all parts of Great Britain had to be assisted back home.
 While the world trade demanded it the plant gave employment to 1000. Tractors were turned out by the hundreds. When the slump came and agricultural prices fell, tractors couldn't be sold.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-27
REVISION OF GLASS RELIEF
 BILL SOUGHT
Administrator to Press for Early Action on De-
 positors Measure

WASHINGTON, D. O., Jan. 27- Republican leaders have decided to demand important revisions of the Glass banking bill and will press for early action on the Administra- tion's measure for relief of persons who have funds tied up in in- solvent banks.
 The Glass bill is directed par ticularly at the curbing of the use of Federal Reserve facilities for speculation and also provides fol a depositors' relief corporation with in the Federal Reserve.
 The Administrator bill sets UT $150, 100000 for a "depositors' relief corporation" designed to give de positors of closed banks some oi their money without long delays incident to receiverships.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-27
BRITISH SUB
 TAKES D|vE;
 STAYS DOWN
Fifty-four Men Aboard Are Believed to Have
 Lost Their Lives

LONDON, Jan. 27.-The British Admiralty announces the submar- inc M-2, which failed to come up from a dive off Portland, has not been located.
 Fifty-four men are aboard and great anxiety is felt.
 Wives of all men aboard the sub- marine have been sent messages signed by the Commanding Officer of His Majesty's Ship Dolphin reading:
 Regret to inform you your hus- band is missing and it is feared he has drowned aboard the submarine M-2, which is believed to have sunk off Portland Tueseday."
 Arrangements are being made to send divers down.
 All the rescuers know is that something has been found on the bottom of the ocean at one spot which gave forth metallic ring when struck by drags.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-27

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27.- A new possibility that life may have originated from nothing more complicated than hot-water puo- dies formed after the worlds first rain, is pictured in the annual re- port of the Smithsonian Institu- ton.
 The puddles served as "incuba- tors, for low forms of life, an ar- ticle by Dr. Assar Hadding, Swed- ish geologist. contends. Life proo- ably got it's start in what are now the polar regions, said Dr. Had dings article, because those parts of the earth first cooled enough to allow water to condense on the surface.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-27
BISHOP CANNON
 OPENS WARE ARE. ON L 0CAL BILL
Wickersham Urges Com mittee to Rec o mmend
 Measure for Passage CANNON WILL PRESENT STATEMENT NEXT WEEK Delegate Tells Committee Repeal Is Not an At-
 tack on Prohibition

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27.- Opposition of national dry forces to a bill seeking the repeal of the Alaska Bone Dry Law loomed in Congress today, following re- quest from Bishop James Cannon, ,Jr.. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, that he be given an op- portunity to make statement against the bill.
 Delegate Wickersham, author o1 the bill and likewise author of the act sought to be repealed, ap- peared before the House Commit tee on Territories and asked It to make a favorable report. After his testimony was concluded, Bishop Cannon asked and was given per mission to make statement Tn opposition probably next Tuesday.
 Not Prohibition Fight
 The Alaska Delegate to Congress said the 1917 Bone Dry Law was supplanted two years later by the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstsad Act He added: Tn many instances courts have held portions of the Bone Dry Law that conflict with the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act were repealed by the latter"
 He insisted that the controversy in the matter is not over Prohibi- tion but over the legality and val idity of the Alaskan Act. AS an illustration of conflict between the Territorial Act and the National Prohibition Enforcement Act he cited that the former permits raids on Alaskan homes without search war rants whereas the courts have held that it is not permissible under the Federal statute.
 LEGISLATURE REPEALS ACT
 The Alaska Legislature last year repealed the Alaska Bone Dry law, but owing to the doubt that ex- isted in the minds of some of the
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-27
CHARLES CANDIDATE FOR
 6. 0.P. AUDITOR
Ketchikan Man to Seek Nomination for Auditor
 on Republican Slate

A declaration of candidacy for the Republican nom n t ion for Auditor of Alaska has been made in the Auditors Office by Percy e. Charles, Ketchikan business man and pioneer of the Territory, it was announced late yesterday by Cash Cole, Auditor. He is the first to file for that office.
 H. I. Lucas, well known local business man, who is now in the States, announced shortly before ne left that he would seek the Re- publican nomination but made no filing prior to his departure.
 May Be UnoppOsed
 If he does not file, it is possible that MT. Charles will not have any opposition for the nomination. This was indicated today by & brief statement made by MT. Cole, who was elected two years ago on the Republican ticket and has been expected to make the race there again.
 In response to a question by a representative of The Empire today regarding his own candidacy, MT Cole replied he is yet in doubt whether he would file on the Re publican ticket or make the race as an independent candidate.
 T will be in the race, that's a certainty. However, I am in doubt as to whether I can consistently run on the sort of ticket that cer- tain organization managers in the First Division seem to have ir mind," he asserted.
 Charles Widely Known
 MT. Charles is widely known throughout the Territory. He resid- ed in Fairbanks and Iditarod foI several years as manager of the Alaska Pacific Express Company which was later sold to the Wells Fargo Express Company. Later he was Chief Deputy United States Marshal for the Fourth Division under Marshal Love, retiring ir 1913.
 Shortly after that, he returned to Ketchikan after having spent the interim in the States. He t a member of the insurance firm of Hardcastle and Charles. He is a member of the Pioneers of Alaska and has taken an active part in it's work He is a Past Grand President of that organiza- tion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-27
STOCK MARKET CLOSES HEAVY,
 MANY LOSSES
P ennsylv ania Maintains Regular Dividend Steel
 Drops but Recovers

NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-What the halving of the United States Steel dividend did to the market in the earlier hours of trading today was partially repaired by maintenance of the regular quarterly payment by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
 The market closed with a heavy tone with numerous losses of one to three points.
 Industrials, utilities and rails re- covered but closed near yester- days final level. Today's turnover was about l. 400 O0O shares.
 United States Steel dropped four points to 37A, and then recovered and closed at 385s. American Telephone and Tele- graph was a heavy feature today losing three points. Bethlehem Steel, Dupont, Allied Chemical lost about two points. Issues off one point or more in cluded General Electric, American Can, Westinghouse and Woolworth
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-27
FIVE RELATIVES INSANE, FATHER OFWOMAN AYERS
Rev. B. J. McKinnell Bares Insanity Skeletons from
 Family Closets
MOTHER AND BROTHER SUPPORT TESTIMONY
Mrs. Judd Thrills Crowd When She Pushes from
 Seat Out of Room

PHOENIX, Arizona, Jan. 27 switching it's efforts from trying to upset the States contention of jealousy as the motive for the killing of Mrs. Ann LeRoi and Miss Hedvig Samuelson, the defense yesterday and today turned its own endeavors to an attempt to establish its plea of insanity by which it hopes to save Mrs Winnie Ruth Judd from the hangman's moose.
 The blond killers father, mother and brother were called to the stand late Tuesday and this morning, and the first two were the defense's big guns in support of the insanity plea.
 Claims Insanity Frequent
 The accused womans father, Rev. H. J. McKinnell, a retired preacher, dragged several skeletons of insanity from the family closet. and during his testimony Mrs. Judd came nearer to breaking down than at any time since the trial opened Tn fact, it was the first time she has shown any emo- tion other than indifference and unconcern. He brought look Of warmth to her face for the first
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-27
TWO OFFICIALS
 ARE INVOLVED
 F0SHAY DEALS
Arizona Commits s toners Accepted M Money to
 Make Trips East

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 27.- Two members of the Arizona Cor poration Commission of 1929 ad- mitted yesterday they accepted more than $l ,0O0 in cash from rep resentatives of the w. B. Foshay enterprises whose principal sub salaries were chartered in Arizona and were under their supervision. Is Given $500
 w. D. Claypool, former Commits sioner, testified that while a mem Der of the Commission, he accepted $500 to pay part of the expenses of his wife for trip to Minneap- oils and Glacier Park in 1929. His own expenses were paid by the State.
 Expenses Paid
 Loren Vaugn, who has remained a member of the Commission, said he accepted $500 to cover part of the expenses of his wife and daugh- ter for a trip to Minneapolis in September, 1929. He also admitted his wife's expenses were paid when she accompanied him to the dedi- cation of the 42-story Foshay tow Ter in August of the same year but did not state the amount paid.
 Appeals From Order Meanwhile, Mrs. Genevieve Clark who hung the first Foshay jury took her first step yesterday ap- pealing from the order of the court in finding her guilty of contempt of court.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-27
KIDNAPPED AND
 TORTURED;F|vE
 MEN INVOLVED

McHENRY, Iillnois, Jan. 27. = Alvin Bauer, 19-year old son Of an ice dealer, was kidnapped by i've beer runners and tortured over a bonfire while his abductors de- manded to know where local speak easies bought their bootleg liquor.
 The lad was taken down rom his perch above the fire to be given a last chance to talk when he broke away from his captors and escaped in the darkness and reached home. His sweater had been burned away from his body
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-27
Life Came from PuddIes
 Of Water, Says Geologist

He believes the water, collecting in pools in the hot volcanic ash that then covered the earth, was heated and acted chemically on the ash in such a way as to produce the first forms of life.
 Water accumulated in the de- pressions,' Dr. Hadding explains Tt was hot or warm water, and in several basins at least, strongly saline. Thus the conditions for an organic cells formation and growth were favorable. If an or organic cell could be formed in one pool it could also be formed in an- other, and we then come to the conclusion that the origin of or ganic life on earth may be derived from several protoplasms."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-27
ZINE BOMBS
 CAUSE DEATH
 OF Z PERSONS
Man and Wife, Cab are | Keepers, Are Victims
 of Terrorlsts

SPRINGFIELD, 1ll., Jan. 27.- MT. and Mrs. Henry Hungerford elderly couple, were killed by ter rorists who planted time bombs in a cabaret within sight of the State Capitol.
 The couple lived in an apartment overhead.
 Both were asleep at the time oi the explosions.
 Hungerford and his wife operat- ed the place and no reason for the bombing is known unless someone was jealous of their business.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-27
What to Do at l23 Is
 Solved by Aged Sheikh

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt. Jan. 27.-- Shiekh Youssel About Nasr, who has just celebrated his birthday, has solved the problem of what to do when you're l23 years old
 He whistles.
 He never married, hasn't smoked for a century and has lived in the same house nearly as long. He used to be glider. plying his art in the palaces of princes.
 There arnt enough princes now days to make that job worthwhile, so Shiekh Youssel just whistles.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-27
U. s. Steel Declares
 Diuidend
Goes on Two Dollar An nual Basis De-
 ficit During 1881

NEW YORK, Jan. 27. United States Steel is on a $2 annual dividend basis for the first time since the pre-war days.
 The Board of Directors today de- clared 50 cent dividend on com mon stock.
 The deficit last year wes almost $5O,O00 ,000 and was paid out of the $197 100000 surplus left at the end of 1930.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-27
GERMAN BEER
 TRADE FALLS

BERLIN, Jar. 27.-The German Export Brewers Union states that Germany's sales of beer abroad dropped 20 per cent in 1881, total ing around 12,580,000 gallons h. creasing propaganda in each nation for consumption of it's own bever- ages is blamed.