The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 16, 1926, Page 1

THIE VOL. XXIX., NO. 4353. “ALL THE JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1926. # DATLY ALASKA EMPIR NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEM e BER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTS DOHENY AND FALL ARE ACQUITTED SENATE FIGHT STARTS ON SMITH ACTION TODAY STARTS PROBE INTO CAMPAIGN Frank Smith Name Successor to McKinley Eli- gibility Probe. Heads Corps 16, United . Dem Senatc WASHINGTON, s Senator 1 ocrat of Missouri, called the Campaign Committee mecting today when he had been informed Gov Len Small, of Hlinois, had appointed | Senator-elect Frank L. Smith to suc ceed Senator William B. McKinley, dece d or in introduce to seat a reso | prevent ! Ashurst the Senate from taking the Campaign Committee on Smith's campaign expendi Sen Tution Smith The report tur was 1o Senator Watson, who pleaded with | Smith not to actept the seat and art a fight over eligibility, said the | Senate “will e it up immediate- Iy Senator Committee, appointed.” Campaign Fund Reported committee met and reported as been spent in the Smith | ndidacy including personally. Contributions cluded $125.000 from Public Utilities magnate Ashurst’s resolution provided nors lslan(] N. Y. the oath not be adwinistcred . 3 e Smith until the Senate considere UFU 3. SHOWS 600D GROWTH: retions diz- the am greatly said Brigadier General Hugh A. Drum is shown at his desk after he assumed commuand of the Second Corps Arca, with headquarters at Gover- 547 | in-| muel nmm‘ primary spent nat | w. Ca vot« leades ay Chamber urged imme rlmll snator Curtis, Republican sd that the resolution one day and the 8 R ask for 50 Ate p:rwrl Seattle Loan Association Is Robbed, Broad Daylight SEATTLE, rying pistols and wearing chiefs in front of their tercd the Prudential vings loan Assoc on today after ing “Strike while the Iron took $500 from two employees departed. An]l 1'iL"1 NO\\' I{dnks as| World's Leading Producer | —Facts A\e Stated. Dec. 16.—Two men car handker faces, en-; anl read Hot and | The the | two from WASHINGTON, growth of the toy L United during decad in which time la relatively insignificant position that of the world's leading toy [H'I Senate Passes First tdu is revealed in a trade bulleting by J. M. Calvin, Specialties Division,| Appropriation Bill 1cpaiiment of Commerce made pub:| tlic today | The Sen-! nty dis- | appropria - | cle the | the | present session car-| world’s 8 for the Treasury|United dominance mlll Departments, exists, country German | the House toys now account for only about 5| per cent of the domestic demand, {although in 1904 the proportion was | not far from 50 per cent. In that | year the value of toys made in Amer- Yican factories was only rmuu, | |while imports were valued at ! proximately $5.000,000. La { American toy production u-‘uhnl a |value of not far from $80,000,000, { while imports Lad fallen to a position where they represented only about {5 per cent of this country'’s demand. In 20 years, then, while the popula- ition of this country has increased 1170 per cent, United States toy pro- !duction has risen approximately 1300 | per cent. At the same time the pro | portion of imports to demand has dropped from 49 a trifle more than 5 per cent (Continued on Page Two.) Iht 16, industry in the last it rose > L WASHIN(C today bill of $894,0 Post Of 30 more proved. N, Dec. 16 itss first ¥ the report dominated Outside of s ago iny toy trade, States this but in this ate o tion rying and |hn than ) Girl Elevator | Operators Stick To Jobs, in Fire NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-—Girl elevator operators stuck to their posts when fire started in the Hotel Ansonia this morning. Thirty minutes before the blaze was under control, the | elevator giris carried 1,000 guests to the main floor. The guests crowded the lobby and streets. x | STORY OF M’KINLEY’S DEATH IN SCRAP BOOK BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 16.—The stirring tale of the assassination of President William McKinley and the inauguration of President Theodore Roosevelt is unfolded through a col lection of newspaper clippings, photo- graphs, records and notes hidden away in a big, leather-covered scrap book in the stately old home here of Ansley Wilcox. may be preserved. Some ar- have been painstakingly edited by Mr. of the events described. Have Rooseveli's Message Few persons have seen the old vol- ume as it is seldom brought forth from its hidding place in the home| where Roosevelt, as Mr. guest, was inaugurated president, and where he held his first cabinet meeting. Perhaps ment in Mr. Wilcox plans to turn the col- lection over some day to a museum or historical society, in order that the true story of almost every in- teresting incident of those exciting the most valuable the eollection docu- consists of — e e (Continued on Page Five.) {mean ther !Governor l Wilcox. who witnessed most 1 \Mkox.' coats shown at the Empire Producte LARGE. LIQUOR CORPORATION IS T0 BE FORMED | Treasury D(‘parlmf’nt An- nounces Plans for Manu- facture of Whiskies. WASHINGTON, Dec Department the bill authorizing $100.000,000 [ corperation to control the ture of medical whiskey | Secretary Mellon | ment funds will go prise and he predicted no difficulty in obtaining in 16 has a | Treasury manufac said no into the there would 360,000 - $10, ! 1 000 and | <tock 1 000,000 in bonds and The corporation will take over 11 000,000 gallons of legal liquor stored {and holders are to receive cash and curities. Two distilleries are to be | established for and the lother for rye | - > | > WASHINGTON U BEGENTS WILL BE IN CHARGE lRepolled Regenls Will Work with Hartley when Ideas Are Similar. subscriptions notes one corn ‘» SEA’ [Daily Times source the Dee. 16.—The Seattle announced from an un- the m of W it is learned th conduct the Univ v o hand from Gov. ll‘um,\ said: “This does not a breach between the the ents, but carry onj they dee best | the State.” | of The close to of University ington, that gents will with a free The article and means the Regents the University as for the welfare of will The informant Times quoted saying that “‘where Regents’- ideas clash with the Gov ernor's, 1 feel confident the Re-| gents' ideas will predominate ul- timately.” GERMANY PLANS | ARMING: CHARGE IS MADE TODAY | | | is | the! as Semel Fund for Manufacture| of Arms, Airplanes, Is Alleged. BERLIN, D¢ 16. Phillip Q| Scheidemann, H of the Social | Democrats, attacking Defense Minis ter Gessler before the Reichstag to- day, charged the budget contained a/ secret fund for the manufacture and | hoarding of arms and airplanes in| Ruyssia. Parties of the “Traito The Nationalist pointing diplomatic box, cried: “Why these things to our enemies” left the Chamber. Scheidemann replied that the Allies knew all about the “rotten milita- ristic conditions in Germany and we might as well correct the conditions ourselves as have the Allies act for us." Chancellor Marx denied charges of Scheidemann. - Prince Is Interested In Clothef for Women LONDON, Dec. 16.—~The Prince of Wales displayed keen interest in a number of beautiful women’s fur Right Wing cricd; | to re the then the Exhibition. A special mannequin pa- rada was held for him and he en- gaged one of the most charming man- nequins present in conversation. Af- completed | zovern- | Poland veal | x l B | e | | The ) enter- | Edward W. Bok, peace-by- prizes champion, smiled broadly, for peasons not dis- covered, as he'feft the White House after a call on the President. Gatarvations) me—— % $96,000,000 PAID AMERICA IN WAR DEBTS - WASHINGTON, © Dec untries have paid the 6,000,000 in debt and { the ¢ pa | which 000,000 was for Czecho-Slovakia has the principal Belgium has paid est Esthonia [1and $181,150 3 16 war Great ment interes of interest paid $1 on $1.000,000 has paid $50,000; 750,000 PO Deserted Blue Snake 16 terrified SEATTLE foot blue house tenant deliers, coil slipping thro lice caught quarters where “Alice.” The snuk serted by Muadame in bath tubs transoms, the it docketéd ad been Zanzibar, 1 i took ! had Light | United States| installment Britain has mada 92,000,000 of 500,000 inter- Fin Lithuania $16,000, and Runs Amuck in Seattle After a six-| rooming dropping from chan- and po- to head- as | de- snake; charmer, who rccently left the room- | ing house. ' More Shopping Days ter a few inquiries about the prevail- ing fashions he thanked her for her display of dresses, Before Christmas i* R PLEA MADE T0 | PLAGE NAVY ON FULL STRENGTH -~ 'Sccretary Wilbur Asks More Money—Dilemma Has Developed. WASHINGTON, for Dec. 16.—A plea| for a loosening of the government's purse strings so that the Navy may | maintain the full strength provided | by law, was made by Secretary Wil-| bur in his annual report to Presi officer pe l‘\ul\lll*li into dilemma, the | dent Coolidge. and with Hnmwl" a question of The had developed had been necessary | rather than | Secretary said funds at hand it to concenirate ton alterations to keep first line chips up military | standards for fleet service In 1525, Mr. Wilbur said. the {zot along with an undersized per sonnel— 5,160 line officers being on | the rolls when the report was com- piled. The authorized strength 5499, Lack of funds also made possible the utenance of the “re quir 86,000 enlisted strength, the average for the year being nearly 1,000 under that figure. Serious Question The Secretary gave it as his view| that reduction of the Naval Academy | [enroliment had brought the Navy to face a serious question as to how it | could function with an insufficient number of officers. He urged that aDDumtmLfitg sl0 Annapolis ain be made on the basls of FIVE for “euch | member of Congress instead of the three necessitated by recent cuts in | the budget “The present limit of appointment to three for each member will not provide sufficient commissioned pes sonnel for maintaining the strength of the line of the Navy on a mupm‘ bas the report said “even if no| appointments are made to the various | staff corps from graduates of the| Naval Academy.” Destroy Squadron No. 2 was men tioned as one in which improvements | heen deferred because of the | Economy was also exercised by | striking from the list small crafi and wooden vessels acquired in 1918 | and 1919 which “require extensiy repairs, on e required to essential ‘ | Navy { is | im- | | cost Enlisted Personnel | Except for the fact that the pro-| per enlisted strength could not be| afforded “the enlisted personnel| situation during the year has been| uniformly excellent,” with three out) of every four men whose enlistments expired re-enlisting or extended their! the report continued of man-power in the mitigated somewhat by delay the completion of the air eraft carri Saratoga and Lexing-| ton. On their completion these tw )| vessels will require complement aggregating more than 3,000 men Since funds have not yet bheen ap- propriated, the report said work on the Navy's projected new airships of 6,000,000 cubic feet has not been started. Some concérn was noted among air officials in this connec Ition because the supply of helium obtainable from the Fort Worth, Texas, plant has been dwindling. | The etary made brief mention | {of the disaster to the Navy arsenal| at Lake Denmark, N. (.w-nnw\ that operations of a were attended by hazards ing degrees and that consequently ;m'vlllt-lns oceur no matter how di- ligent the efforts to avoid them. Re-| commendations would be made to ) Congress, he said, covering plans to | guard against such occurrenc |the Denmark explosion. | Navy's Work 1 ; llustrating the variety and scope of the Navy's work in peacetimes, scretary Wilbur pointed to the act- ivities of warships in protecting life in, China, Central America and else- where, and of the Navy's part in 'aiding in the relief of Florida hur- {ricane sufferers, and in doing a hun- |dred other jobs, important in them- |selves, but which do not grip the | popular imagination As to aviation, the report sald a study of requirements of aviation material had shown the percentage of rejections, due to failure to meet physical standards, coupled with those due to eliminations during flight training, remained high, at | enlistment {The shorta | was | fleet | in | a (Continued on Page Seven.) JURY RETURNS VERDICT, 0IL SCANDAL CASE Doheny and Fall Cleared ct Conspiracy Charge— More Cases. Banker Now WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.— Former Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall and E. L. Do- heny, oil magnate, were ac- quitted today of the charge of conspiracy in securing a oil lease of the naval reserve Elks Hills, California. The jury returned the verdict ! at 9:30 o'clock this morning. | Doheny walked slowly from the dingy court room into the sunlight and sat on the steps for protographers. As Doheny entered his lim- ousine he said: “I got just what I expected and just what I deserved.” The defendants and relatives received the verdict with un- disguised emotion. Mrs. Fall wept in her happiness. Fall said : “My confidence in the courts is justified. I've never liked to try cases in the newspapers.” The acquittal vedict left Fall under two criminal indictments, Doheny under one and Doheny’s son also under one. The jury stood six to six ‘when -looked- -up for.the up -aight at 10 o'clock last night. Short- ly before 9 o'clock this morn- 00D PROGRESS S o BEING MADE BY Within half an hour. fter MINES GOMPANY the verdict was returned, Gov- nent Counsel Robinson and Dr. Bunneli Teiis of Progress in Development—Col- m Pomerene began plans to ar- lege Grows Steadily. | | | | | | Eleanor Goss, national amateur tennis champion, is shown at her desk in a New York bank. Although she has entered business she will con- tinue as a tennis amateur er, h id. \ play she sai Iw-‘-l) i raign Fall and Harry J. Sin- clair tomorrow for conspiracy charges. e Bonus for Head lOf Family and {His Children the Fall ani| considerably ail of the Fairbank on its big mining dington am, according to ol six President of the | earner weather during early winter wecks vanced the work Exploration Co. development br. . E. Bunnell, Alaska Agricultural it SYDNEY, New South Wales, Dec. Industrial Commissioner Pid- has recommended payment hilling a week to every wage- and each of his children College and 'from a fund provided by a six per School of Mines, who visited local cent tax on payrolls. friends last night, He is on his way Piddington said: Encouraging 1o Ketehikan with the college bas- ' an increase in population is a Na- ketball squad and will return here | tional necessity. If the experiment next week {proves feasible in this State, it Dr. Bunnell college should he tried throughout the Com- tinues to show growth. The building | monwealth.” program there was fully carried out last summnier men dormitory wa completed, building fit up a y, and motors building Envollment | larger than last year, and nine students are expected to uwln.m' next June, the largest number in, the history of the institution Little Cold Weather | “We have had the finest i have ever experienced in Interior | Alaska,” said Dr. Bunnell a mat-) ter of fact there was no cold \\'l".xllu-l': | | | rog sadd the con ->oo— — \ 2 campus dormitc reted women al | Vice-President Dawes Shows His Hand WASHINGTON, Dec - President Dawes ruled out of order” on the fund Assistant Sec- Treasury Andrews asked for under-cover Prohibi- tion agents’ use in the Treas- ury appropriation bill. This rul- ing was after the wets made a bitter attack on the provision in the Senate late yesterday afternoon. o is 16.— Vice “clearly 500,000 ary of until Noyember 1 ter which for| few days the temperature ranged from five to 22 degrees below zero, Up to the day of our departure, De cember 10, there was practically no snow on the ground. 3 “A season of fa on a ble weather E | (Continued Tage Two.) MODERN YOUTH FINDS HOME SYSTEM BROKEN Dec. 16.—The little red and all that its simpli- city implies has been shoved off the picture by “the rebellion of youth™ which sees the world today through eyes nearly as practical were these of their parents of old fashioned days of the past SIS S they did formerly, and that the chil- dren of the present are not inclined to submit to authority unless they can be shown good cause. Base Discipline on Love The questionnaire was amplified by the discussions of the “parlia- ment of youth” at Helsingsfors last August at which 46 nations were represented. The results have been circulated by Y. M. C. A. headquar- ters here. The only thing in the GEX A school hou as the Conclusion culated by countries, believes of a questionnaire cir- the Y. M. C. A in show that modern youth the old home system of Western civilization has completely broken down: that parents do not understand r “home-making,” as discipline worth any- home now, youth is ¢Continued on Page Five.)