Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Newspaper) - December 10, 1930, Fairbanks, Alaska MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VOLUME XXVI FAIRBANKS ALASKA WEDNESDAY 10 1930 PRICE TEN BILLS PASSED BY CONGRESS HOUSE PASSES 110 MILLION DOLLAR EMERGENCY AND SENATE APPROVES DROUGHT MEASURE By Associated Press WASHINGTON Dec 10 The House passed the ency employment construction and the Senate passed the 000 drought relief The employment now goes to the Senate and the relief measure to the House for further action The House disregarded President Hoover's request Of a lump sum to be spent as the cabinet committee saw fit The House ed from the and made specific instructions as to how the money is to be spent and also ed that employment funds be spent before September 1 1931 Reported WASHINGTON Dec 10 The emergency employment construction was reported by the Senate committee to which it was sent after passing the House YUKON SAILS m BIG LISTING END OF TRAIL LONDON Dec 10 Life's adventure Is over for Bart novelist who fought Indians in the Southwest and joined the Alaska gold rash in the meantime writing 20 books Kennedy who was 69 years old died Saturday after a long ness Bis death was not ly known until today During his life he shipped before the roast worked as a cotton hand was an Indian fighter and pector an opera singer and an actor PADRE OF RAINS DIES PRESENT PRIZE OSLO Norway Dec 10 Former Secretary of State logg now a world court judge received the Nobel peace prize for 1929 in the presence of King Haakon and a distinguished Dr Nathan received the Nobel peace award for 1930 at the same time FATHER S WHO FORECAST FROM SUNSPOTS AWAY IN SANTA CLARA EARLY USE OF ROAD FUNDS URGED By Associated Press SANTA CLARA Calif Dec 10 Father Jerome S Ricard 81 years old known as the Padre of died at the University of Santa Clara infirmary i Father Jerome SIxtus Ricard for I more than 50 years connected with i SAYS ROAD TO BE FINISHED 15 YEARS HIS TWO COMPANIONS FOUND FLOWN WHITEHORSE FORCED LANDING PROVES FATAL FOR PILOT CANADIAN PLANE AND TEN ARE FOUND FORTY MILES FROM PLACE WHERE THEY LANDED AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT AND BUDGET BUREAU JOIN RECOMMENDING ING DATE EXPENDITURE SEATTLE Dec 10 119 cabin passengers and 16 steerage the Yukon sailed for Alaska at fl o'clock this morning The 35 first class passengers for Seward and In- points Mrs N Smith and baby T P Weatherell Mrs 3 Price Mrs O Hallson Lyman Mrs D E Lee Mrs C Mrs Grace Corson Mrs Charles Fowler Mrs A E Lee J Sandvik Mrs E E Porter John Wachowitz Mrs R E Orlando Mrs A D Haverstock Sam Dykstra James Burns C A Lindgren H N Oliver Harry Bowers David Greer M M Noll and Mrs G S Black and daughter Clara es Miss Abbie Rouse Jack Warren Robert Growden Mrs W N Growden William F Thompson Mrs H C Scott A P Olson W steerage P Larson and three MISS FLIES EAST MAKES DISTANCE BETWEEN LOS ANGELES AND WICHITA WITHOUT STOPPING AND THEN LEAVES FOK NEW YORK than on July 1 Allotments to the various states of the appropriation under the 1932 authorization were announced early in August Mr Warburton said with a view of making these allotments immediately available for road con- struction to provide employment Normally these allotments announced before By Associated Press WASHINGTON Dec 10 that the 1932 for road construction ing become y available on approval of the appropriation made to by both the department of agriculture and bureau of the et meets with the entire approval of the National Drought tee C W Warburton its chairman said today If this is agreed to by Congress Mr Warburton explained it will make the 1932 funds available for cash payment early in the year the University of Santa Clara probably before March 1 I had a national reputation TEN YEARS AT MOST WILL SEE INTERNATIONAL WAY COMPLETED SAYS MAL- COLM ELLIOTT j By Associated Press i SAN FRANCISCO Dec 10 jor Malcolm Elliott of the U S army engineers corps predicted on his arrival here from Washington en route to Alaska that w five years or ten at the most the States and Alaska will be connected by an highway Elliott pictured the j link between and Fairbanks and said there are no j j able difficulties in such a plan i i said over miles of the highway j j between the two cities are already built j i He estimated the cost of ing the work at I WHITEHORSE Y T Dec 10 tain Burke aviator died from exposure but his companions Kading and Marten were found safe 40 miles from where the made a forced landing in October Pilot Wasson who discovered the Burke plane found Kading and Marten and flew them here today SAYS SESSION RESTS WITH not have been Jan 1 1931 The weather bureau reports that we have just gone through the most severe and wide spread drought that has ever been recorded and our ords of crop production bear out these figures of scant Mr Warburton said In production of hay and forage crops and corn in particular the drought has left its mark on our granaries and Damage to home gardens truck crops and crops was widespread and shortage of water supplies in both country and many small towns has created a serious problem Less recognized but more im- portant is the toll of human ias the discoverer of a method of weather forecasting by observing of sunspots He was ed Padre of the Rains by the dents of the university because of his success in forecasting weather It was his theory that sunspots were responsible for all weather dis- and also induced quakes Although many scientists refused to accept his theory his cess in forecasting weather 30 or more days was remarkable Father Ricard became in astronomy about 1890 and devot ed much time to the study of the subject He took up the observa Jon and study of sunspots abou 1900 and after six years during which observations in comparison with the weather were made he became convinced that by noting position of the sunspots weather forecasts could be made by them The principle formulated by ther Ricard is that when a spot reaches a point three days from the western rim of the sun a storm SENATOR NORRIS DECLARES ADMINISTRATION ATTITUDE TOWARD CONSTRUCTIVE LEGISLATION MAY DECIDE QUESTION By Associated Press WASHINGTON Dec 10 Elliott is president of the Alaska j of an extra session of the Road Commission and a member of j Congress hinge largely en the commission recently appointed administration attitude toward by President Hoover to foster a j the constructive legislative program through road with the cooperation j of the element in Con- or Canada The Canadian gress according to a statement made ment has not yet appointed a com- by Senator of Nebraska mission to work with the U S FOIL PLOT TO KILL I potatoes INDIAN UNDER ARREST fering which is following in the pears on the Pacific coast Rain cr wake of the drought Isnow may not result but a The area of most severe drought disturbance is invariable Mr Warburton stated extended j With this principle as a basis he By Associated Press WICHITA Dec 10 Ruth ols holder of the east to west men's transcontinental flight ord left for Roosevelt Field New from the Atlantic coast of Maryland and Virginia south and west to western Texas and southeastern New Mexico covering practically all of the States of Maryland Virginia West Virginia Kentucky Tennessee and Arkansas as well as able portions of many midwest and made deductions which he said gave him periods on which to work The critical periods Father ard held were three days before the This program includes votes in i both houses on legislation for operation of Muscle Shoals j on the constitutional amendment tc i eliminate the short session of Con- on the ir i labor disputes and on the unemploy measures of Senator I of New York ASSISTANT UNITED STATES I The country has spoken on ATTORNEY WILL LEAVE cle Shoals in unequivocal DAY FOR FORT YUKON TO j Senator Norris who is chairman Of CONDUCT HEARING j the Senate judiciary committee de- clared Johnny Alexander accused of j I don't want a filibuster if it car murdering his nephew of the same j be avoided I'm not anxious for an name is held In the Fort Yukon j extra I think that whether jail pending a hearing After j we have a filibuster or an extra inquiries had been sent by j sion depends on the administration ties here it was learned that the In- j The Congress should take up the dian had been arrested shortly after constructive measures on the the news of the crime reached Fort j dars which did not receive action at the last session Those left over arc i The younger Alexander died in the j Muscle Shoals the lame-duck j Hudson Stuck Memorial hospital amendment the from the effects of head wounds re- I junction and the Wagner j when he was struck over the ployment bills by his uncle during what Mr Norris described CHILE GOVERNMENT AGENTS DISCOVER BOMB SET TO BLOW UP PRESIDENTIAL AS IT CAPITAL SANTIAGO Dec 10 attempt on toe lives of President Carlos Ibanez and the members of his party was thwarted by ment agents who discovered a bomb set to blow up the as it the capital from the south Police and government agents were watching the development of an anarchist plot against the president and his government several days aso saw the conspirators set a large quantity of dynamite under a road bridge Officers removed it before train reached the spot Four persons were arrested Their names were withheld but it is said that three are former generals and one a ical student URGE AID FOR ALASKA 117 been described as a drunken brawl j junction as the most carefully Assistant TJ S Attorney E B and painstakingly prepared measure tollins will leave Friday by of his entire experience in Congress plane to conduct a hearing in be- j Both of the major political of the government If the ties have declared themselves in Jian is bound over he will be vor of some action on the use of rought to Fairbanks to await the the injunction in labor of the grand jury he said We ought to act if our is not right let the administration WESTERN UNITED STATES CHAMBER OF COM- MERCE ENDORSES IAL PROJECTS Eec 10 The ern division of the United States Chamber cf Commerce at the close of its meeting yesterday adopted urging of a highway from Alaska to South erica extension of air mail lines tc Alaska maintenance of tha a Railroad on the basis cf its value as an instrument for the ment of the Interior and survey of fishing waters adjacent tc Alaska York this morning on a I nd flight in an attempt to set a new record for both men and women She landed here yesterday after j flight from Los Angeles State in agronomy have given at- tention to seed supplies for 1931 corn Widespread publicity given to drought damage early in August re- suited In some flurries of buying of foodstuffs feeds and hay with con- j sequent temporary inflation of j prices The reduced freight and frequent movement of hay and feed which followed had much to do with bringing prices back to able he said sun reaches the central meridian youth and was educated at the high put up a substitute in back three days before the spot school at Turin Italy and the All of these measures are major reaches the eastern rim and three i ult novitiate at Monaco France propositions backed by the submitted to the spot ths to the United States he sive element in Congress They are the national chamber at its next was a student at Woodstock Col- the only constructive measures which meeting lege Maryland and then became are unfinished and are of teacher of philosophy and ethics at importance There is no reason for j GOVERNOR PARKS GOING XO Santa Clara The university delay in the consideration of these covered a large part of Montana central meridian in front Spots he was built largely with money measures if the administration will received from friends and believers stop throwing into in his theory The University of the machinery If the Santa Clara held a jubilee on May tion continues its and will declared travel around the sun in 27 days As the winds travel from west to east due to the rotation Father Ricard explained that storms on the Pacific coast crossed the Uni- ted States in from five to seven days and made the passage of the At- to Europe in three days more He said they always crossed though sometimes broken by local conditions Father Ricard was born at sians Drome France January 21 1850 He traveled extensively in utor to daily newspapers and into law at the short TO VISIT Dec 9 Governor Parks left today for Denver to spend 30 1921 in honor of Father not let them come to a vote in Christmas with his parents He ard's completion of 50 years in the houses there may be an extra north shortly after the priesthood sion of the year Father Ricard was a member of Questioned regarding the astronomical societies in France of further farm legislation j administration got the it asked Belgium Mexico and the United Mr Norris said that he does I am in favor of States and was a frequent think the debenture can i ing the administration a little nwre rica Italy and France when a zines of astronomical subjects We were defeated on 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