The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 7, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIML” ]U\H\L ALASKA M(NDA\ FEBRUARY 7, ————— VOL. XXIX., NO. 4397. PRESS A ————— PRICE TEN CENTS ——— e REVOLT BREAKS OUT IN PORTUGAL 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED Emperor of Japan Is Buried; Spectacular Affair FUNERAL OF EMPEROR IS HELD, TOKYO Georgeous Cortege Viewed| by Million Subjects— Artillery Salute. TOKYO : Yoshihito most Feb waus Emperol the hiss 1 ous T.—Former tonight accorded pretentions funeral in the tory of the Orient. Approximately 000,000 subjects viewed the gorg ed the passing of arded as the lincal mythical Sun God cortege which m: the personat of re descendant the dess Nine when i marched and through- guns and thou they nd started, men artillery e nation fived 100 18 gun of the 10-foot buttleships The lighted 1 ston ' lant wooden route by Imassive proct wi wooden s braziers on poles Four the ove kinds black oxen drew vehicle weighed one ton and was made of foui of wood. Musical instruments Were conees in the hub, and emitted wailing halt supressed sob. Men and wom wept and joined in the wailing vehicle passed Crowds braved the cold and tonight awaiting the Imperial funerals are held at night because of Diety's spirit must darkness into darkness R MOVEMENT T0 OUST HARTLEY FLAT FAILURE Executive Chairman A. S.| Kerry Makes Statement— Recall Law Responsible. alimost catatalque coal wheel dirg ed a a ) as the all procession from SEATTLE, Feb movement to recall Gov ley iz indicated in sued by AL S noof circulating the ouster With the exception of those attle, all offices of the Faiiure of the R, H. Harl- ement 18 ive Chair-} wide organization setitions, in S organization sl { erea 1100 over | was tshipments Isilver during have heen ordered closed Signatures for calling 1 recall election have not heen obtain- | ed, Kerry said i fhe recall law itself is respon-| sible for the failure of the move-| ment,” said Kerry. “It prohibits em-| ployment of paid petition circulators and clothes the recall movement with necessary Captain Wilkins Plans to Scan Uncharted Arctic; Leaves Detroit, Westhound ;Alushan Commerco in 1‘)26 Valued at $113,595,685:Third Largest Y Alas had a to| commerce | ce in 192 . according of S an comme value of $113 the annual compiled records John ( toms tory statement from the U and made publio McBride, Collector Only twice before of the Territory has thi in 1917 conditions customs | teday by | Cus in the his figure 1918 exceeded, and wartime been under prices Th was in for the r 2,439 year ov Outhound it r 1925 $18 ship ments were 134,651, the valued last year $81 il 137 ding 12 of incoming $32,161,024, trade as compared 10 $62 months. The was for prec vane shipments of that in- a balance of t Territory $49 617, 1,249,393 over leaving in favor to 20 Many Commodities Gain ins were made ny except which t deline as a result e in the market ore. The fisheri worth ten production 1925; the lumber the output of about 86,000, A58 fish 50,000 amounted e an ase of 1925 « try every indus showed of price mining al the de- of industry’ $56,578,7 Gold and $578, stry per production the largest silver was i, in years increased ne $108,985 the marble canned sal- meal and oil fresh or quarries mon §19 than §3 F800 000 more fish Decreases were expel of all herring small Copper ienced in the production fish, varieties of cured cod and salmon. There a very decrease in fur ipment but the was virtually o declined in value tonnage of unchanged duction was in Southwest the herring Placer Mining Gains Shipments of domestic gold and 1926 amounted to $6, as compared to $5,682,842, ning $478,100 over the previous year. In spite of the fact that placer mining was badly handicap in many production The loss in herring pro attributed 10 poor Alaska where salte locate runs most of es are 160,942, ped sections by of w sioned by fall in the the production of ed a marked a d\l)l'l.lg. lack of I':llnr ting season, placer gold show- Most note- e ope increase s0 many prohibitions that attempt to oust an offic of the state almost an impossibility.” Kerry declined to state the num- ber of signatures obtained on the ground “it would give our enemies information they are unable to cure.” is se- | Prince of Wales to | ;o ‘ To Canada Next August Tt that fhe LONDON, Feb. tively stated is authorita- Prince of Wales will sail for Canada about the' _ first week in August. MILW AUKEE LINE MAY ATTACK MERGER PLAN ST. PAUL, Minn.; Feb. 7.—The first thrust has been made in what theat- ens to “develop into a war for the rail control of the Northwest. H. E. Byrum of Chicago, formerly president of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, later coreceiver, and since its reorganization acting president, in an interview announced his opposition to the proposed merger of the Great Northern and Pacif Railroads. Mr. Byram said that he had heard the proposed unification plan discuss ed by Presidents Ralph Budd of the lin Alaska during Northern Great Northern and Charles Donnelly of the Northern Pacific in addresses here. “This is the first time that [ bave kmown officially of the nature worthy gains, were shown in and Fairbanks districts Record of Travel Commenting on the travel during the year, the report said: | “The number of persons arriving| 1926 was 30,974.] The departures totaled 30,934, rep-| resenting nearly the total of ar-, |rivals. The total arrivals, however, | are known to be in of the figures shown as a large number of | canne employees are brought to the Territory in private vessels be-| Mr MeRBride, said S rd Peninsula excess (CQnr.Inued on Pan Eight.) of the consolidation plan,” he mented. “I can't say what action the C., M. & St. Paul will take if the question comes before the Interstate Com- merce Commissiol This has not vet been determined. But I believe the plan will upset the entire tran- sportation system of the Northwest. “The original plan proposed to the Interstate Commerce Commission a few years ago linked the Great North | ern with the Milwaukee and the| Northern Pacific with the Burling- ton, “The two Northerns opposed this suggestion, but the new plan certain- ly will upset the railroad equilibrium of the Northwest.” com ino car ear in Hi Divorced Mrs. Francis Burton Harri- son, third wife of the former governor-general of the Phil- ippines, was granted a divorce in Paris. “Tnternational Newsreel) » > REPORTS TOWN IS IN FLAMES Nicaraguan oneral.s Capture Chinandega and Set it Afire. MANAGUA b, has reported that the have captured Chinandega, northwest of here. He also the town. which has a population of 10,000 in flames >oo — - ‘Stole Car to Take His Wlfe to Theatre. GLENS FALLS, of his own An Liberal 60 aviator forces miles I~vl|_ 7.~ Having his bride of six the theatre, Je Hewitt of South Glens Falls is reported by the police to have appropriated the Buick coupe of John Doran as it was parked on Glen Street. He is then said 1o have driven to the theatre, picked up his wife and tuken her for a ride The car, with couple in it, found by the when the pa parked in Ridg reet, Judge Glas brook held Hewitt in $1.nol| bail on charge of larce second gree. The ased., have the police grand was re - - Sen. Jones, Stricken wifl Heart Agtagk, Improves| WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—The con dition of United States Senator A, A. Jones, of New Mexico, who was stricken Saturday with a heart al- tack, is reported much improved to- day. lory} reported in which to take months to and from ! was | de- } DETROIT, Feb. 7 -Seeking the an-| swer (o the Aretie’s last great riddle Capt. George N | this into [ the polar crypt Sometime in March he will the his “flying gas northward from Point Barrow, aska, in a second effort to nml {ont whether land lies under the ice- jvumu-.l wastes in the vast region labove the nortifAlaskan coast | The region has been designated | {the Arctic “blind spot” by explon | ers, for none knows for certain whet. | | ner it land | or Byrd and Amundsen have conquer ed the north pole by air, but thei exploits have not removed opportunity !for further exploration in that clime Captain Wilkins believes. He tried last summer to chart the blind but adverse conditions | prevented achievement of of ! Vith the valnable | he obtained:® ae will try again even if he trustrated a sec time he expects to make im portant meteorological and zeographic | rvations in the obscure area. | The Wilkins flight sponsored by the Detroit News fwill he stock airy manufacture. His is s0 called becanse ing capacity of 2,000 of which will be gasoline in tanks. The plane will cruise twenty hours without refueling Wilkins plans land on the ice, and to prove again that an airplane can handled successtully in any | | temperature fly | ol | | Wilkins the “blind will spring spot’ I turn | nose of |.n|l\ X thousands of acres are seu | | spot some his objectives I data and lond ol is and e ving gas it has a pounds his ship Detroii tank carry most | five | for of be Off for Seattle DETROIT, Feb Capt. Wilkins has left here preparved for few | weeks' flights or (wo years afoot on roice if the planes are wrecked | A I Smith | Staft s companies | the Detroit pedition Capt Fairhanks “ airplane the P of the News pondent and he Wilkins as Commander News Wilkins Arctic Detroit corres ac ol X Wilkins " expects to Dbruary 220 He attle by Chief Carl B, Eielson, radio operator ard Mason: mechanic Orval 11 ter and assistant radio operator planes enroute to Seattle transshipment 1o Fairbanks Alger Graham leaves this week and al Seattle simultancously "with the planes. A second mechanic will be engaged at Fairbanks A third plane, now at Fairbanks, | | will also be taken to Point Barrow | The three planes will take-off gether over the Brooks Range. Capt. Wilkinsg plans to land on tie | .) BUILTY WIFE * TRAPPED; MAN - IN CASE DEAD Husband’s SuSpIClOnS Are| Aroused — Shooting Affray Follows. reach | will Pilo How- | Por Two for hy be joined at rrives (Continued on Page Five. > \ VERNON, Wash Ewing, aged 46, Saturday nd - clubbed Napoleon Downie, aged 3, to death, during la right over Ewing's wife | Ewing and his wife, who witnessed |the Kkilling, ave held in jail. After the slaying, Ewing drove his | wife to Burlington and told the offi-| the slaying. He said he had | suspected his wife of having clandes-| stine meetings and hid in the back | of his automobile. She drove to nearby town, picked up Downie and | rove to a quiet spot and parked the Ewing crawled out, confronted ! holding a pistol and flash- Downie leaped upon | Ewing and during the fight, Downie | was shot through the head. Ewing clubbed him when he continued fight- ing, | MOUNT Charles I night, shot Feb. 7 | al car. the pair, light upon them | WOMAN | She led and | joined him unbidden at St. Thomas. HALE FPEDE’{él K ILYNN FRAZIER QOHN T TAYLOR CHESTER > MILLS M'nuh»r Frederick Tale, of Maine, aske «l Congress to override il Coolidge's objections and provide for additional naval cx[mplmnl Senator Lynn Frazier, of North Dakota, introduced a resolution requiring the President to call a special session of Congress hefore taking any mililary move against Mexico. An investigation was asked into charges that John Thomas Tavlor, American Legion lobbyist was carrying on [ll‘fl[hl”'llll'l financed by chemical compar e block ralification of the Geneva poison gas treatly. M Chester P. Mills, New York Federal prohibition adminis- trator, denied charges of incompetency maie by Congress- man I, H. La Guardia. UCCEEDS IN SWIMMING CATALINA CHANNEL,; II4RD TRIP cal, Feb Mg Myrtle Huddleston, 30-year old moth e esstully completed her third attempt swim the Catalina chan nel, by superhaman effort from the water a WILMINGTON 17 1o 9-Year-Old Girl Proves Herself Little Heroine almost dragged uncon cious the land Mrs. Huddleston experience with which bit her Peter Meyer, two and one was as soon she ceached harrowing - harracuda and innati from had savage the arm of Cin hall miles Ly LIMA Charles Reese and children, under six years burned to death this the farm Martha caped, carrying child sufet el Mrs. her age, Ohio a of three on legs quii the wer morn when home troyed ing was goul Mrs York, yaeht de Reese Charlotte stopped Schoemaker when her developed — trouble unable to accompany her Miss Martha Stager, also gave up Mrs. Huddleston made the in 20 hours and 12 minutes finished in a state of semi-coma and helped her the spurt. of convoyi and ¥ o8 old yeur o wits | of > oo | Indian Boy Accused e Of Killing Farmer, and ide | Wash 18 vear Portland Feb. 7. James old Indian, shot George Nelson 25, when the over placing of the murder h»-l n jailed. He said he shot \.lu.“\.‘ Several persons witnessed the killing last | YAKIMA | Strong, an > fand killed fa farmer, |Fails to Say Grace; [ estariiy Pastor to Workhouse" waves in aged quarreled Strong and has two traps accused CHICAGO, Feb clergyman collecting | Grystar, thirty-five Posing money, Thomas Detroit, failed | = er say grace before meal at the {suspicious that led him into Judge Frank M. Padden’s court, charged | with disorderly conduct. He was fin- when proved an impostor, to Bridewell to work i as a sent the ; WASHINGTON, i o AT B land nighways may surfaced Unbidden Rat to Be e tskhus -tk i worln Diek Trnpped by Sea Rover traffic allowed to [ll“(‘Hl skidlessi, through rubber-to-rubber contact A of fact report to Commerce department from a Hdon notes that a rubber pavement, of London's heaviest traffic bas withstood one month ot wear and stress and damp- ness under English winter conditions { without showing any Feh. Streets in dur ¥ payment Teb. P the foot been at the Lon- T00-yard laid for SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Capt. Tom Drake, lonely who is leisurely encircling has arrived he in the Pilgrim. Dr; 22 months since he started. He plaus to go to Kurope. He will remain here long enough to trap a rat which 00 matter ovey globe boat observer a “ area of sea | tests in one streets in self-| signs of de ) BOMBARDMENT OF OPORTO IS IN PROGRESS Rebel l<l.ml',s Refuse to Ac- cept Conditions of Surrender. LONDON, F announcement [ rebelling rendered, indicated The nentary Despite official Lishon that the Oporto have sur patches sived sumed on and the indicate a Portuguese from troops at 1 re ting has v in fransmiss dispatches wship by the later delay strict cens government An official Tunconditional | ton oA ! ient 10:30 tensity communigue surrender last dispatch said the of the Opor- night said hombard was resumed at morning with jin. number of persons garrison Renter was ol the o'clock and | were killed [ A ugeso | bels of swmrender I ment of ! elama feivilion LT city this a | asx dispatch says tinister of War efused to accept imposed DOTto v the “Port- says the re. the condition and bombard- 15 resumed. A pro- 18 been issued requesting to feave the city. Fires have I in Oporto. Restlessness is in- in Lisbon.” on creasing BULLTTIN—LISBON, Feb. 7. -—— A revolutionary movement has broken out here with col- laboration of rublic forces and people supporting the Oporto revelt, The police have joined the revolutionary mobs. ———e———— KELLOGE HAS “NEW CHINESE PROPOSAL NOW N(‘uhah/allon to Insure Pro- tection for All Na- tionals. WASHINGTON, I'eb Secretary State Kellogg's proposal has been public arding the situation in China. He asserts the fate of nerican interests jn Shanghai “is sion of great anxiety to the Am- evican government” and he wants neutralization so that “American eiti- and other foreigners may re- adequate protection.” | | | | | i of made e loce 7en ceived Artillery Is Heard SHANGHAL Feb Messages from Hankow declare that the boom- ing of artillery heard indicating that the Southerners have advanced again Marshal Sun Chuan Fang has rush- his last reserves and his per- sonal bodygnard of 8,000 men from Nanking 1o hattle front. Uncomfirmed reports state the at- tackers have reached Fuyang, 15 miles southwest of Hankow. | It is said the Cantonese had an- nounced they will not attack Shang- hai | >oo - VANCOUVER, B. C., Fe | Father Eugene Chirouse, [ among the British Columbia | for nearly half a century, ‘ln-r the e of T4 vears, an 1ess contracted when he 1ked through the for a distance of five to administer the last sac- to a dying Indian rament the Rev. missionary Indians died yes ay at ag after Snow mi I een As thm-wnt of Future ieriorn experit nes i ion. A much longer time of atation, however, will be before the engineers and ex- «ach conclusions makers of | hard surface als need not be disturb- prospects, however, be. port adds that the rubber used the test merely supplements ordinary materials in making a road- way. The test -ireet is paved first with a concrete foundation, headed over with saad, and on the sand is 'ull rubb o topped brick, sealed with 1 rebber cement, American road nate ed by the cause the —