The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 15, 1926, Page 1

¥ . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXIX., NO. 4352, FALL-DOHENY CAS ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESPAY Are Frozen to Death on BLIZZARD N - CANADA CAUSE OF 4 DEATHS Farmer FPerishes Trying to Seek Shelter — Little Girl Also Victim. CALGARY, CANADA, Dec. 15 Reiben Shannon Alberta’s third bli rd vietim. Shannon was driving his team om Sedalia to his home 12 miles a He cut the horses loose and tried to reach safety with one horse. Shannon and horse pevislied one mile fr arm. is FASKATOON, Dec. 1 aged five years, daun nonite Bishop, is the fourth death since last Friday in Albertu- Saskatoonn blizzard. lireme was prac tically frozen to . delrn when the family fled from their farm Rostern home which was destroyed by fire The mercury was 40 degrees below zero. The Bishop is not expected ‘c walk again this winter his feet are seared from frost. WOMEN SPIED ON COL. 6RF™N For_nner Pichibition Admin- istrator Claims He Was Shadowed. SAN FRANCISCO, De terious men and women him constantly during months he was Prohibition istrator, Col Ned Green testified yesterday In his trial in which he charged with embezzlment of nt liquor. tamiliar with police work the time I assumed office I knew my atched,” said ne Toews, er of a Men the as 15.—Mys shadowed the 10 Admin- is Govern “foam and from until 1 was suspended, every movement was w Col. Green “This watching reached a point where women planted in my hotel to spy on e Skagway Resident Dies As Result of Pneumonia (Special to Empire) SKAGWAY, ALASKA, Dec Peter Goedel, resident this city for the past two year died th morning at the White F Hospital as a result of pneumonia. He came herve from Pittsburgh where he leaves several brothers. A brother also re- sides in San Diego, Calif. Jim H. Rogers, Agent for the White Pass and Yukon Route was taken to the hospital this morning. even were me." 15. of The Masons elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Arnold Gutfeld, W. M.; P. 8. Ganty, S. W.; R. A. Bruner, J. W; J. Dande- 1, Treasurer, and L. G. Gault, Sec retary. Wife Missing 4 Years Is Found to Be Suicide NEW YORK, Dec. 15 hesitantly climbed a rail on the Riverside Drive viaduct late yester- day afternoon, Mary Kipchak, aged 22 years, plunged 115 feet to her death. Two men tried to stop her. Her husbhand was in the crowd of onlookers. He identified her body. He said he had not seen her for four After she vea Astronomers Plan to Shoot Bomb to Moon BERLIN, Dec. 11.—An attempt to hit the moon with a bomb is the an- nounced purpose of a newly founded astronomical society of which Dr. Franz Hoeff, noted Viennese astrono- mer, is one of the leading members. Discounting American plans for shooting a man up to the moon as a “bit too famtastic,” Dr. Hoeft is quoted as saying the society will at- tempt next year to obtain virtually the same scientific results with a|earth, [ Weds Again ]| IWANT JARDINE® | the Philadelphia Widener mil- lions, eloped with Carter Leidy ta Tennessee, only to divorce ture, this with Milton C. Hol- den, of Camden, Englishman Pays His Re- spects to America After L States ticia Tre don the members at or here yesterday on his return from his Si the surplus pay this would make Americans immense- ly popular RI NEW LONDON. CONN,, Dec. 156.— To graduates of Connecticut College for Women has added for sport class and rifles with and light-bomb one engineers and savants are now work- |ing 18 designed in 10 hours, propelled through space at the rate of a little more than six miles a second by a series of Pow-|countered a storm in der explosions within. When the|ihat was too much for her. With her rocket lands the impact is intended | gquipment washed overboard by the to the Iy " REMOVED FROM SECRETARYSHIP s 2 'National Corn Growers As- | sociation Have it in for Cabinet Member. DES MOINES, lowa, Dec 14 The National Corn Growers Ass)- ciation demanded the removai of Secretary of Agriculture Jardine and vassed the following r lution: “Believing the Department of Ag- riculture was established to improve |the condition of the man who oro- yluces food products, we believe the sent Secreta should ve replaced \ i by some man whose practical t ing qualifies him to represent petion the Nation that t of the Nation's veaR 1926 18 TOUGH ONE FOR MARINE LOSSES Worst on Records for Storms at Sea—Radio Opera- tors Prove Heroes. u- a of produces tood " YORK, Dec. 15.- The vear 1926, one of the worst on record for storms at proven, paradox ically, that safety is the new slogan of sailors Radio this its greatest se Standing agai side of the ledger the brusque words, * | Lloyds Register, 124 | first three months a loss of 105 for the previous year losses have not yet compiled, the figures show more | than 400 lost in_the Florida | hurricane and 100 schooners wrecked | in Havana rbor in the Cuban blow Standing to the credit of radio ig) the assertion of shipping men hece that the at sea this year would have reached startling figures| had not wireless on shipboard sput-| tered its cry for assistance. To those who sail the seas the wireless has given a comforting thought of safety that Mariners and travelers of other days have not known Hurricane Swept Seas Within ten months there have been two hurricanes that swept the south Atlantic seaboard and the Weather! ! Bureau has sent out ninety-nine| storm warnings to ships at sgeg.| The Those who insure shipping say. shig| ¢4’ vear's losses have mnot been abnor-) sea, has it sea | has fought one of | tles to save lives | it on the failure; are listed under | otally lost,” in vessels for the | of 19 Hunih\l: the same period | While this year's | been completely | dencer Leidy, heiress ta ! b whe six years aga o J. tional Newsreel) S.15 HAPPY LAND FORALL POLITICIANS (Int cla i bar Cit of Adosses Returning Home. ONDON, Dec. 15~—The United is a happy land where poli- merely dispute the size of the asury surplus and whats to be e with it, Sir Alired Mond told American Chumber of Commerce a luncheon in his hon- S, h based on a falling off of claims since | the use of radio became general, | have been reduced. Many ships! which otherwise would have been a| total loss have been saved by wire. less and towed to port. | trom Wireless has changed the stories minio: of the sea which are no those of|ventic thrilling rescue rather than of total disaster and lonely death..The Royal American trip. ir Alfred jokingly suggested that United States could give the to Great' Britain to help it debt to America. He said G. Mc her “l s CLEV Private Robery | rested VANCOUVER . member of Parliament | { impossible ‘bLoves 3 Men lov red, when arrested nd, Alfred Young. Wallis, at Plattshurg. (Iuternational Newgreel) Jers, — e Marine Mail Guard Is Arrested for Robbery ILAND, OHIO, Dec W. Russell, of Marine corps, has been for pilfering registered n loss in the mail in was assigned to guard — e was mally large and that insurance rates,| Says Rum Smuggling DECEMBER 15, 1926, E GO Stor ¢ them all,” Mrs. Mar- garet Young, twenty | r n New York on complaint of her hus- It was charged she had previously married, but failed to divorce, Kenneth cy and Harry Heath, 15 the mai the, Prevention Impossible B ¢, Dec. 15. Quar New Westminster, n Rum Commission m of told the that A Do- pre- wholesale - smuggling was | in Great Britain. Humane Society gave its medal [or| the bravest deed in 1925 to a sailor.| With the wireless a new hero was | born—the radio operator. Half for-| gotten by the passengers so long as all goes well his is a courage not' of action but of endurance. In the Bermuda storm of last October,| the Valerian, a British maval th,y,' turned turtle. By the time the cruiser Capetown had fought her way to the | i. - o FLE PRACTICE FOR WOMEN its sports calendar the under- rifle practice but will be a miner will be inter- ollegiate, Army on will be used is sub-calible. the as present it completion not in bolt ac the ammunition scene only nineteen survivors of the crew of one hundred and three could be found clinging to the life rafts. In a bald statement they told a stoiy which s almost a commonplace of the sea, yet which carries implica- tions of a glorious fortitude. “The wireless operator,” they sald, “went down in his cabin, still sending out the S0S.” Heroic Rescues From all over the world come to reach the moon|gioriey of storm and shipwreck, and herole rescue in answer to the SOS. A little freighter last January en- mid-Atlantic weighing about on which rocket ton. The moon rocket explode a huge chemical bomb,|waves she began to flounder in the blaze of which is to be sufficient-|gea. But her SOS had gone out, and brilliant to be observed from the (Continued on Page Two.) More Shopping Days Before Christinas 1slv§ m HOUSE VOTES ALASKA R. R. Representative Treadway Withdraws His Point of Order in House. 15 adway Repre sontative lican of Massachuset drew his point of order raised against | the Department of Interior bill propriating for the Alaska Rail and the House passed that section | carrying $1.400.000 for mainte and improvement. This was Delegate Sutherland failed ort 1o increase the $1,700.000, Later the House passed propriation bill for the which carries 100,000 > - MEXICO -HAS CONTEMPT FOR THE U. S, New York Representative Advocates Withdrawal of Recognition. WASHINGTON, ive John J. Boylan, Democral of oW York, advocates United | States withdrawal of recognition of the Calles government | Represen e Boylan said: Admiral Latimer's statement Mexican interests are conniving mportation of munitions into Ni Iragua, despite the United States | arms embargo and to be supplied (o the faction fighting the government | the Coolidge administration recogn- i should be sufficient proof for retary of State Kellogg that Mex-; holds the greatest contempt United States and is not afraid show it. “It is also clear Sheffield has not plete confidence in {to the ap-| Interior | Deg | | i i 15. Repre- | “Rea that | fo | the to that Ambassador enjoyed the com and support of his own State . Department. Complaints heard that the Cal'es govern in Mexico will put into effect w& of confiscating Ame ) pro- rty and affecting American citi-| ens adversely, This will be done un- the State Department opts definite and strong polic | SKAGWAY GARAGE DESTROYED, FIRE are | ment {Flames Break Out at 2 A. M.| with Mercury 8 Above | Zero—Gale Raging. (Special to Empire) ! SKAGWAY, ALASKA, Dec. 15 Fire caused hy an overheated stove, broke out about 2 o’clock this morn-! ing in the garage of Frank Suffe.! {cool. A big six Studebaker and Ford iSedan were badly damaged. The loss lis estimated at between $1,500 and $2.000. | The thermometer registered § de-| rees above zero and a gale was| | raging. The fire boys did good \\‘m!:; and they had water on the bl {within 10 minutes after the fir whistle blew. The fire boys are all volunteers and were asleep in th respective homes at the time. Mrs. Suffecool and daughter are mourning the loss of two cats too, Toto and Blacky. | | i | v | Fire at Fortymile DAWSON, Y. T.. Dec. 151t s reported ftire has destroyed the hotel | at Fortymile, known as the first| camp in the Klondike region. The hotel was owned by A. Shulze, - e — Senator-Elect Proposes New Stunt, Senate Rules! PORTLAND, Me., Dec. 15.—Sen-| ator-elect Arthur R. Gould an-| nounced today that he will raise a question ‘of the Senate's right to pass on qualifications of its mem- bers, $1,400,000 appropriation | Persian | | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ES TO | | | ! The name of Mrs. Barclay Warburton, a divorcee, was mentioned in connection with that of W. K. Vanderbilt 1I, although he denied that either he or his wife planned a divorce. International Newareel, -oo Queen Marie Purchases Own Christmas Presents LONDON, shose some presents for | Princess Ma magnificént inches in white De very 15 Queen Mary othodox Christmas royal grandchildren vis elder son will get vacht, more thar lengtl and with pig sail Princess liza a big white, wooly doll with v¢ pink cheeks and o up-todate red, Russian heo The lit tle Princesd will also r ive a very HOTgeOus cushion with ani mal figures embroidered on it The presemts are the vork of dis abled soldiers and sailors, -+ a toy 24 turesque bheth will v (s nursery Workers Hourly Wage Said to Be $1.14 BEDFORD, IND. Dec. 15 ized workers in the huilding try of America receive a totul wage of $1140,000 an hours it was found in a nation-wide survey made by the Indiana Limestone Company. The average hourly wage of each worker was 3114 Organ- indus- A ———— "PRICE TEN CENTS JURY JURY IS GIVEN ‘r CIL LEASE CASE THIS AFTERNOON Final Arguments Are Made by Counsel—Spectre of Tomb Appears. BULLTTIN—WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—1Le oil scandal case went to the jury this after- noon at 2:47 o'clock. WASHINGTON. United States government against E. Fall, told Hills was navy and mine. It nuval reserve but it serve and was geerot. | tomb of Dec Senator counsel in Doheny jury aside 15.-- Former Pomerens, the oil case and Albert B, today that Elk as oll for your i no Jonger a is Doheny's re accomplished i desecration of the President Harding in the defense attempt bring forth his shiroud to cover infamy of the transaction.’ Attorney Frank for Toheny, tention ment of L. the sot his resent up J. Hogan, counsel yesterday directed at- Attorney Robert's state- Harding's executive order 1421, transferring the oil re: from the Navy to the Iu- terior Department, which was the be- ginning of the case and declared “how I wish I had strength to break An twain the traducer's of Harding's ‘Hame.” i 4 to of May, Wilbur Chided Hogan also sald: “We come to a sorry spectacle in the testimony of v of Wilbur, a governmen? r.oon the witness stand, de ritely withholding truths at (he of sending two old men to the entiary. He told you he did it ause (o answer questions would opardize National Safety. That's why he did it.” Tainted Money Mark Thompson aid : days of Judas | riot betrayed the Master, it has immutable law that no money could be applied to a case. Fall used the money land to establish a heritage children.” ng of Fall's statement that money from newspaper McLean, Thompson said Hlied shield his friend pack of politicians, led by that little grey wolf from { Montana, and every red- Attorney Since the { when he been tainted worthy o buy for his Speu he obu publisher that trom a Walsh, the hills (Comtinuea on Page Eight.) >oo - Man Cun Get Drunk as Often As He Wants PORON'T O right o get ren as he A nellate Liew 15.—IU's a2 man's drunk when and 2 pieases in Ontario, the Division of the Supreme ‘o has ruled in sustaining the fecizsion dismissing an action for Wimeny Mrs Victoria Lang brought agaiust her husbhand Jercne. She declared her husband tihuaily drank. The court j: con- of the opiuion that mpn wey get drunk every day of nis life onu Justice sugges:ad Mrs. Laug should exercise more li cretion in the selection of a hus- hand. i Ten Million Christmas Trees for U. S. Homes WASHINGTON Yuletide cheer with thoir hts, about ten million trees will find their way ican homes this year. The mas tree hill will be about 000 for the growing of the now an industry. Dec. 15.--Carrylng twinklin Christu into Amer. 15 $5.000,- trees 13 “Cut Christmas ly for conservation is the American Tree Associ when done propérly m ning which the forest nee Prope: iy gathered for the market these trees do mot represent a drain upon our forest resources.” vour trees proper. wise,"” thin- The Nalure Association agrees with | Prof. Woodbridge Metcalt of the School of Forestry of the University af California, who says: Christ- | “Because of the wastage and an exanggerated notion of the influence lof Christmas tree cutting on the | future cupplies of timber for the na- {tion some well intentioned but mis- {guided individuals have, in recent ivears nrged that the cutting of | Christmas trees be prohibited by law lor at least frowned upon by for- jward looking citizens. ' The snccess of the movement for iforest protection depends largely on the development of a very * wide- |spread appreciation of the forest im |the minds of the American people. | There is probably no better way of |instilling a love for trees in the hearts of the rising generation than the use of the little evergreen as the central figure of the Christmas Festival,”