The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 4, 1927, Page 1

VOL. XXIX., NO. 4368. DATLY ALA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1927 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS A EMPIRE " PRICE TEN CENTS TREASURY SURPLUS IS INCREASING Liquor Poisoning Prg_be Sanctioned by U. S. Senate CUNNINGHAM GIVEN MONEY IN B. B. GAME Says Bill Jt;mes Gave Him $50—Substantiates Scan- dal Charge of Risberg. CHATTANOOG Tenn., Jan. 4 The Chattanooga News quotes Georg Cunningham, former Detroit pitche: who worked in two games of four which Swede” Risberg claimed we fixed for the Chicago White in 1918, s saying that Bill James presented him with a $50 bill. e denied there was a frame-up when he was presented with the » containing th money it that he take it and James divulged money a gift iriend him ided among that Bos Sox | | en- | was ask | later that the of Chicago to pitcher crucial The News said Cunnin member of the Birmin (the Southern Association $150 | threc | the who sent 1y dete m im is now | a wam Ciub of Joe Jackson to Talk SAVANNAH, Ga., Jan. 1 Juckson, banished from baseball ter the 1919 series, has offered to tell Baseball Commissioncr pandis froin Savannah, many things correct ing untruc baseball records ————— TAKES SENATE T0 TASK OVER GOULD PROBE ersoll, the atheist, but wa Attorneys Declale Consmu~‘ ional Rights Too Brond- BANK ROBBER | POSSE AWAlTS“ for Senator-elect Arthur R. Gould of Maine, has challenged the Senate's authority to investigate his support-| ers. reputed payment to a Canadian | official 14 The attorneys | 5 of Smith afternoon Wallace relurn to when Mrs him and Ingersolls M. Probasco, New York society his wife, with whom he Robert 11. Ingersoll. wife of the killed herself in her New York shown below Mrs. Probasco to is are u J | ? Land C¢ Her Bir WASHINC Calvin Cool isth birthde annual Chat lard Hotel last night. T the dance fc the ago. PEORIA surrender 1., Jan to a posse 3 te the for Gould asserted the Senate was | putting too broad an interpretation on constitutional rights to de-jed citizens, termine a members qualifications and | Sticided digging too far into the past | holding Gould’s counsel argued that the Al “charges against Gould constitu the most absurb proposition eve presented in the Senate. They de- stroy all thought of reformation ana | He forget to twirl the combi conversion.” [and the prisoner’s escaped telephon nearby On road, the bandit |ing him. He slowed say.| Whipped out ,,";nn the head he! > | | Liquor Schooner Wrecked; | Captain and Crew Drown Attempt tc Resenlt-d its Ve National obtaini uy; Secor ) and 000 Smith escaped from the forcing four employes into the bank - PRESID tion They the await- | his himsei? | 1 WASHINGTO, Jan. 4 Senator McKeller, Democrat oi Tenncssee, opened the Smith contest ing that when Smith presents saw i posse i down cut a gun and shot MEXICO a iskey a at A has pmuul 3, Charles Il silver beer been sold in Lpndon a record prlcp tankard for 545 HAZARDS OF U. S. FARM AGENTS AKIN TO WAR WASHINGTON, Jan. —Bullets, bugs, fire and flood—these are somo of the hazards which confront work- ers of the Department of Agriculture. credentials “with unclean hands” should be included. — > Clemency Given 2,979 Prisoners by CITY, Jan. 4 Puerto | “Ma”® F » the British schooner a ("8“5"" | Caiman with a wl cargo, w {wrecked in a gale Funta Corda| WASHINGT! AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 4.—Gov. “Ma” |anq the Captain and six members of | States Senato Ferguson has commuted to Short (he crew were drowned. The only |Utah, today terms, life imprisonment sentences of | sypvivor went i “llidge for hi two murderers and granted 27 full B I for its critic pardons and one parole. This in-| SE Federal -““'r!\'ifnreiml es her clemency proc Iam.nmxh.?\(lv'rvx lmi » led a new indict-]| Senator Kin 979. | ment against George Comstock, for-|to determine mer head of the Seattle Dry Squad.|eign policy i Comstock charged with being in|thing to atten ‘the office which were the he -lor retard its ters of the rum running orgar eign policy.’ . President |ago said the | capped by the news ape An CHARLOT! Carolina fund | nish legisiato lution probler They are the state leg | whether the lit relates to fas originally ! Darwin | Universi ] Carolina They were sent to China because it | has been a fertile field for the ex-| plorers in discovering new plants for crop exploitation in this country. Bullets often have been directed at livestock inspectors of the depart-i ment. In the last tive years there have been two open skirmishes be- tween cattlemen and the inspectol because of the cattle dipping regula- tions. In Arkansas one inspector was | amushed and killed. One western livestock inspector took away five revolvers from ranchers during al- tercations over his rulings. A new danger—the Chinese civil warfare—has hindered the work of four plant explorers of the depart- ment and caused ofticials here to be zpprehensive of their safety. although latest reports indicated they were safe. The workers are P. H. and James H. Dorsett, father and son, stationed at Harbin, Manchyria; | Floyd McClure at Nanking in south-} ern China, and J. F. Rock in the Altae mountains of Mongolia, China. of Sta talists at a shown First L Pr - GRITICISED BY UTAH SENATOR eign Policy Unkrown. policy.” North éarolim Has shall public &chools. e s e Temploy.a law (Continaed ca Mage Three) ]uvolmion bill. RESOLUTION OF | SEN. EDWARDS | PASSES SENATE All Information on Liquor Poisoning Requested from Sec. Mellon. i | 1 \ | WASHINGTON, Jan U few minutes after Seni today adopted resolution asking Secretary asury Mellon for all liquor poisoning | Simultaneously the House ap- Representaive Underhill, Massachusetts, who ntative Celler’ that Con 1 Within nvening, the Senator 1d i fwards® [of 1 [ pondence corres- | ] | | | | on | I planded | Republ ldenied charges ican of Repr | ade yesterday to excos: Bdward n and controversy | teit pressmen drink Senat out T lution w tely bur pas;sed di its reso im-| 1 medi it pas: 1tors t into a over — . TPHISUN LIGUOR CHARGE DENIED I ' Anti-Saloon Lm"uc Not Rc-‘ \l)ollflll)lf‘ ‘Ol }Ulflon, | Industrial Mcohol 1. br. Superinten Leaguo do League industrial with senc LOUISVILLE, jcott MeBride, ent of the nied that the ousible for hol. He charged responsible for MeBride said about |\_\-. Jan General At 6 Anti-S poison the its “The wets| rum them- ( in order get tax (nrmlunw industrial alcohol. Prohibition s responsible for poison in alcohol. | Anti-Saloon League had |m||\m,\ with putting poison in the | The w would it than 1w BANKS REFUSE BONUS LOANS; START ACTION ENT ls UI)J(LI Takcn Up with Con: gr ! .ss — Direct Treasury & Luans Contemplated. was about top, shot The man, at the watch king, apartment the hoGn Saloon in Miss Varley Sims, twenty, daught we Heil Dr brought selves a poison 5 to jon | not | The "o liquor: rather dy of lebrates thday do | increase itl decrease | | SAN FRANCISCO, hot kiss! Stopped | Market fow Blew | stations | Fillmore streets And at day-—what an for a passionate was thinking of than “hot lips.” Lothario sat on and Bryant streets close to him on [ooked as gentle as cooing doves. In act, they were a pair of pigeons having their own little petting party Little did they realize that through being | the wires around which their di-| were twined passed currents of elec- ofltric power of 12,000 volts Lorelei stretched her neck, perhaps to whisper to Lothario that his burn ished plumage looked especially bril- liant under the first rays of the morning sun Their bills met ing flash and | fluttered to the Investigators following the of the high power wires discoverced the dead body of Lothario id the badly singed but living Lorelei. The fatal kiss! It was no melo dramatic figment of the imagination but real and bitter tragedy. Moral—If lovers must walk® with their heads in the clouds they should keep both feet on the ground ———————— Sumatra Communists Run Against Bullets 14 Jan Jan. 4.1t WAS celebrated by attending ity Ball at the Wil with the President he Coolidges watched v an hour and a half esidential box iTON lidge 1y h |h. la every street Street Railway Iines in outlying districts, out the fuses in the power at Bryant street, Turk and and Stevenson and Second car on the except the hour of 8:14 a. m. to inopportune moment disaster! The hot coffee rather wire at and another a Ninth Lorelei sat wire. They Wide- banks to make bonus certificat loan value ulted in - action Congress to authorize ns from the Treasury 00 in adjusted service funds with $200,000,000 loan | The Federal Rdserve Bank to muke the loans and Secre Treasury Mellon has become about the government | loans. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 refusal Boldier spread of loans | which lday ) Mu//l(- Prses Is!: King Says For- |/ | 5400, i tificate value, on acquir yester re has arted in Ie United | vefused | King .,”Ml\ of Coo. | apprehen s making di iRadio-TaeiJh*();e. Sy;tem Operates on January 7| ON. Jan. 4 William 11 riticised Preside “lecture to the pr of the President’. v ‘There was a blind two feathered bodies pavement et i<m course i said: “I am unable what the country's for- but it is not a wise, \pt to muzzle the pr | discussion of the LONDON, Jan Gieneral announ for- | Trans-Atlantic a5 |1IM|| | (v[n-n;; Ivm | London and was handi.| ondon an | B ¢t some of _. 5 "I New Path to {Sleep Rests | /4 l‘ Evolutlon Problem’” Yon W 4.—The Postmaster today that the| slephone sys- | 7 between | Coolidge several government attitude — rs >oo - { PADANG, Sumalr: Insurrectionists have Jun been —Thirty NEW HAVE Conn., Jan. 4 killed :n Suggestion as a path to sleep, calm and restful, may often be found in ten words, each to be thought of in |its full meaning, says Rev. Dr. Ch to, R. Brown, dean of Yale Divinity: question of' School. He has used the formula theory of evolution as|himself and through it many times the origin of man and| had ended wakefulness. propounded by Charles Each word should be thought of} be outlawed at the|slowly and separately until restless. North Carolina, North|ness disappears and -the subject is college and in the|mentally in harmony with the mean- A hundred fundamen-|ing of these words which, in order, meeting here agreed toare: quietly, easily, restfully, trust- yer to prepare an anti-ifully, patiently, serenely, peacefully, lj(.vmml, courageously, confidently. N. . Jan. 4—North amentalists, plan to fur. rs again with the evo- The trouble started when armed tive bandits attacked government offices and police bar the telegraph lines. The revolution ists are d bed as Communists. Sutherland Introduces N preparing to islature the submit te WASIIL\GT(L an. 4.-Delegate Sutherland has introduced a bill to permit Americans to purchase un- reserved public lands in Alaska at $260 per acre, toes | niece of Admiral Sims, won first place of 1,100 fllow stu ents at Barnard College in a posture contest. This, she says, is the ideal way to stand, 'Hot Kiss, Indeed Even ‘ Street Cars Are Halted ! ‘ | world { Thompson i revolts and many have been arrested. | Navy na- | Bill for Land Purchase| xot 0 long ago, a new la Deputy | Americans, cks and cut | gpicy % ] LARGE SURPLUS REVEALED FOR PAST 6 MONTHS U. S. Public Debt Is Also Reduced Over One Billion Dollars. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—The United States Treasurv ended the first half of the fiscal year with a surplus of $218,280,000. One year ago the surplus for the same period was $125,600,- 000. The income tax and customs receipts Last year the public debt was reduced $1,173,500,000. The debt is ncw $19,074,650,000. Income receipts for the past six months were $1 046,800,000. DEGLARES NAVY IS INADEQUATE; MOST INFERIOR {Senator Johnson Takes Up i Cudgel for Better Navy —Now Humiliating. i i WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. -— Senator Hiram Johnson, Republican of Cali- “fornia, has demanded that the United states Navy be sed from its quota “wocful status to parity with other mation,” and declaring we are out-generalled in the Conference.” Senator Johnson asserted that the American navy, in competition with other Powers, is “underbuilt, insuf- ficient and inadequate and so far inferior humilitate National pride and imperil National safety. We have made an experiment of setting an example of refusing com- petition in navy armaments and that L experiment failed. There is no thing left to unless we wish to fall hopele behind in seaports, and must begin at once on the light cruiser program which will at least bring within sight of other powers.” Repre of a any “that arms BRIBE MONEY IS ALLEGED IN FEDERAL CASE CHICAGO, 1., st States Attorney three men under do, we us sentative Britten of the House Naval Committee listened to- ter questioning| day to testimony that the British . one of them | navy materially outranged the Amer- Marshal, charged that from | ican Navy and announced he will 15,000 to $40,000, and possible more, ! immediately reintroduce a bill for was paid tederal jurors who ac quitted | the elevation of American battleship former Sheritf Peter M. Hoffman ‘ml("z““‘ several other officers for conspiracy SAILORS USED AT WISEMAN Stove Is Diestsoridl, 2 00 AS SMUGGLERS perature Is 40 Degrees NEW YORK, Jan Below l.ero Jan Hope | Assistant United justice | | | | | | Custons of International | uses sailors country ficials are secking an Smuggling ring which to run diamonds into this This follows the arrest of a Belgian seaman caught with gems valued at| has destroyed 5,000 hidden in his socks. Treas | and adjoining large warehouse agents said the man did notjloss is estimated at $40,000 their destination but he was| man is now dependent on Bettles take them man with for supplies. The mercury was 40 handkerchief would be degrees below zero at the time of the aptown_corner fire Fire stoie The Wise- Jan. 4. Dubin’s WISEMAN, '\lxmkn. Sam ury know told red an to to a who i ADVENTURE FOUND IN DIPLOMATIC SERVICE with two guns who asked a showy uniform and strapped to his waist, ride the presidential palace on the road to the legation. He got the ride, and enroute breezily explained that he was a special, secret en- voy of the president. Protests Stranger's Arrest At the palace door the “secret en- got out and blythely stepped forward, only to be checked and taken prisoner by the bayoneted rifles of the bare-footed palace guard. The charge, in horror of what might happen, leaped to the rescue WASHINGTON, Jan, 4.—"Join and the world” is call adventurous who would in strange lands young consuls and budding diplomats of the Foreign | Service? They don't look the part | for one thing, and yet the an al youns ociate seo to but adventures with the sedate luring to charge Washington, American min- {d'affaires, fresh from |arrived to relieve the ister at foreign station. He was dumped with wife, bag and baggage, to find a legation car wait ing and a lanky young American, in a ashore, (Continued on Page Thres)