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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE - ——— -~ = . — e e —— o —p———— VOL. XXIX., NO. 4422. JUNLAU ALAbKA TUE SDAY, MARCH 8, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRLSS PRICE TEN CENTS 2,000 REPORTED DEAD, JAPAN QUAKE Three Power Naval Conference Proposed by U. S. OLDPRECEDENT | )COMMITIEESIN .. ,...... CONFERENCE ON THOUSANDS ARE WED QU7 gy (| ECLATIVE CROS CURREN SENATE FORMED it i, LIMITATION OF REPORTED DEAD, No “battle of ballots” is ever won hours before mnoon Monday when tiov, Haotgs 4. Dtk e i | until the votes are counted is an sometime after 9 o'clock, Mr. Smith b .v.“‘l» w0 gl '-l17 e m-l [ NAVY PRO ‘ UAKE 'N JAPAN axior as old as political campaigns.|let it be known he had been prow- | el ‘_“”'L‘“\" 1§;~:IM|..\\;.’,:" adjournment, will appear before And that it is as true today as it!ised the support of those ulu.m.xl\\\ | was when it was first coined will be|for Mr. Ross. It was conditioned Committee on Committees | attested 10 by those members of, on Mr. Smith's abandonment of the ‘LI‘P"" Branch of Le%“latu'e‘ iy LR e Lot ol TiegiRidiuee Glc(ll Britain and ]d[um Ask-! 1Official Announcement of Named by Spt’-aker In- the Dighth Alaska legislature wio | candidacy of a Third Division man COIH});C(C& Formal Or- | 1',1\.‘,- I\lh :,:,mn.n‘y‘u-:..\p ”::‘ will ed to Join U. S.—Gen- | Yeo ')d\\" Didagten : first induced Representative Sum-| for the clerkship. The latter event G ' Sl ; ; . stead of Delegations. ner Smith to enter the race for ually was never put in the race Tett| ganization Monday. :” his first official appearanc, 6Va Conlcence Shows ng Death Toll — Speaker, without a candidate just when the ; before that hody L s k | The Senate Jate yesterday 8 Arrangements for the joint BLE g 3! {noon completed ifs formal organiza-| | session, which will be public WASHINGTO The ! TOKYV0N, Japan. March 8.— {tion when President Bartley Howard| | were being made today, It wil I nited : oy pro-| )Aye ;IYL 4l announcement said Iz the previous seven sessions and | indicates he will make an_excellont | D of e Fourth, Mossrs Ross au JiRa i B s e e B el ol Haame | three power nuval lmitaton con-| terday P"(’la"q’)‘(sc perished in yes LSO SEaHIIQL RDEESr BN Iresiting wiliter. e 18 soltpD sthoal, ';;;‘”:.\-:t’m\\i-f. llnm’ :l\y\‘,;lfh-ull“:‘nwn ‘:.I..t the Committee of the Whole which,| | crowd is expected to hear him Keroll 0 n ! enova after! Officials of Osaka Observatory ner Smith the power to appoint the | calm and collected and carries him- ¢ sujp- | ; iy, it i i | ol the el s ey | = 3 ’ " accord with the p tice ol tor read ver| g ittee ymmittees, | se i Ras ity that be.|Dort to Mr. Ross whose supporters| il accor iy . PONER i DGR O o e BRI D an gnes BT UL Bl TG0 g o Mo S | mer sessions. acted as a Committee | | d VoW abl in Westc.n Japan since 1854. Heretofore, since the very first ses- fits the chair he wccupies, It is o had abandoned him for Mr. Smith.| : e DE L U S i L bl ; sion of the Alaska Legislature, this{safe bef, as they say on the surf Undoubtedly it would have been a0t Committees tenn the Seue i i ; adjourned yesterday afternoon it was power has reposed in the hands of|side, that he will not suffer any hy | Political upset had it worked. And|2) e conferer « TREMENDOUS DEATH TOLL had Mr. Johnston voted for {he|ready to set its legislative, machinery ower reposed handsof side, b g suffer any hy | POUHIC ; 4 4 LR ead s legisle 4 vy | : it undey ! ¢ vitation TOKYO, March § aly dis- Vi Fourih Division man, it would haye, 0 motion i s 4 ; L Jupanpatches received lhere during the the delegations from the four Di-|comparsion with his predecessors The stripping of the delegations| There is however, more to the his-|taken the vote of Mr. Ross, then| It had appointed two special com | s ¢ tfor fiX-inigit re i quake lite yes- was opposed Dby seven members,|tory than his mere election indi-joccupying the chair as Speaker pro 1”‘1”“"7.‘ “';"“” _“';""‘ "'I"‘”('_“"': and :I"I'H“‘ 3 e i i'.!.':-!l!w lay and ch continued at in- headed by Representative Murray,¢ates. He had nine votes 1o six|iem. to have decided the fssue. jojlhe second to inform the Governor.| kLS : b-|tera Iy last evening. indicated Cordova, but they were overridden|for Representative Ross. However,would have elected him without any|!! “"‘I"'LI"";"'j‘ FRETeR G for luisl ticuendous death toll. Fire fol- by the majority. And the Speaker [fhere were but two out of the entire|condition, pledge or anything in the [MOss M bad AI:«; “'“Ht'”l ]mn atl BRITISH A I'“‘”"" the quake in muny sectiong promply named the committee which [ Bine which he received that were [nature of a promise. In that position. | 11! lecun '_'”"“,'I‘; by ')’|~”“"“' RIVE iR TO \A((“-. oo Army airplanes flew over the Tan- is charged with the duty to appor.|counted for him as late as Sunday!he could have strongly influenced]dtter was vrganized. It elected Miss a fave & It Iy stuted)go region, which was the hardest night. And thereby hangs the more | legislation throughout the session !““"""“"' -"":“‘"“““" l“' "\:"'“'”““ in “"'(""‘_“““" cireles that =‘I*'t‘l‘l' hit. 1 is not heavily populated P il e o interesting tale. Mr. Smith entered| Observers who saw the situation | 'S Office staff. succeeding Miss Ber- " funce of the thice power naval con-lhut is studded with small villages. i : i ¢ which | Mr a 3 dtation of two | position. Twice he had been a lead.| ™ the Hous I in Ching : | B4 o cating a wiber of the village w The motion, the adoption of which | M at the solicitation of two | position in hina o 5 g4 WiRE of his colleagues from the Third, ing candidate for Speaker only to| List of Committees an ; i ; { 3 blazing and anti-Mke swarms of swept de the precedent and prac- ¥ R ) e o 2 & s e N | i-Hk E DES tice of 14 vears, was made by Mr.| Representatives Murray and Scott|he defeated by political exigencies.| ll“; tanding ‘“"'"“{"I‘l' s named by March on Cities. | retugecs were sishted walking along 5 Sk cad. that | s assurance of (he votes' It was admitted generally he would 'le Senate were Qiows | : i the snow-covered railway track Sundquist, Candle, who moved that[and with the assurance o Ml RAAE R l . e ailway tracks. of four other members. There with|have made an able presiding officer.| Finance and Corporations: Sen-| SHANGHAL March 8. - New r joint the Committee on Committees. | s own vote and that of Repre- Now his chance had come. His vote| #1101 Steel. Frame and Pratt {ports show that the Shangtungese | ‘ AR 5 ki 3 s R A d sentative Grier, were enough to in-{and that of Mr. Johnston were all| Taxation and Transportation: are in a pincers drive and the Can- GAN Nuw vu E Mr. Murray moved an amendment 3 ‘um-s Dunn, Frame and Hrown ! | 5 S5 7 sy B _ Drean ¢ 2V RN rode VR g & (tonese are threatening to march on that the delegation from each di-|sure hi major Representatives that were needed to achieve hi ok i vislon elect its own member to that | Gaffney and Rydeen, Second Di- ambition. And for the third time.| Rules. Elections and Election Laws:|Nunking and Foochow. Capture of By a vote of cight to seven, House | That he elected Speaker is House was preparing 1o meet, and vesterday afternoon overturned the | now history. And performance Sensing an opportunity to form a practice of 14 years, prevailing dur-|in that position during the first day ' coalition with the other two mem tion the assignments to members for the Speaker be empowered to ap < ® S lade . 2 T . 9 TR I B e | Senutors Brown, Dunn and Steel. leithe: Hed “wil i committee, as fh the past. The|Yision and Fisher and Sheldon from pelitical necossity intervened and his| Senators B _fx"‘l_\ nd Steel, feither place will cut railroog "\11Demor rd“L L(‘aders See! ] § amendment was lost. Ross, Paul |the Fourth, were his other support-| chance, the brightest he or any other] 1 D ) (munication with the north whicih fs (h P “ F : Fico. Jlare | unsuccessful candidate for the posi. | 410 Dunn. necessary tor maintenance o e| Change Possible in Future Sundquist, Benjamin, o ’ i i This was the lineup until a few ' tion had ever been given, was lost, | Fisheries, Game and Agriculture: |siangiungese campalgn e a Worth, '.!nhnailm‘:’ and .I_m:h‘ ‘1'~"lr‘fg £ ! L OB e natore: Hunt Bradni aniiaiag oo i I 1 | State Elections. ag a A rray, Fisher, aff- Lok C against it, and urray, isher, A L Judiciary and Federal Relatione: i Pie e s nace oonms | ney, Rydeen, Sheldon, Scott and northern defenders found; 1o xas, March 8 The origing ic o) assed ne lace The Cantonese have strongly | 1 g1 1 ry The original motion then passed nin i Engrossmen: and Enrollment: Sen-| |ity of & negro vote to carry to six, Mr. Grier vcting for it with F : I D I Litana s et occupied Wubu, 65 miles up thel jpo peimari some sections as the m Sprngs Ul S those who had opposed the Murray or ,llstl(‘(? 8 enounce« 1“""" vougeus Smeng nm Vanglae frame Nanking: uni 200 esirt oe (e Sumore Qb Town Springs .l./p at Scene MRS ; vesult of the Supreme Court decison g amendment ining, Manufacturing and Labor: i, . weut of Shanghai It it el of Gold Strike— Jump- J.‘n;llnl\ Pratt, Hunt, Brown and ] Speaker Smith then named Ross, B W ll H 9 l T f ‘ b SR it e ol R e e Te L 5k Paul, Grier and Sundquist on the v tiram owarc a t fptey = P [ Yung, Governor of Anhwei Proveithat the practical effect will b s Run Out of Town. Committee on Committees. It was lince with the Cantonese has com-|g since fe AORABE oW % s | he Ca ] mall since fow negroes now quality| mONOPAH. Nev., March S—Wee- expected to report its recommenda- \T D’A B ipelled Chang-Tsunk Chang, whileleven in the general election, al | s g : A ” A Q@ - o . » ) wi m: 4 il he sceng o Vv E W B0 tions this morning. I Buu MARINES AABHINGION, Mazohty Tie WO utremont Boys Istanding off the Cantonese at|though some counties have a pre| i e 41 2 Dew iR Supreme Ci iag el strike, is hegl : to W the Other Committees Named EUIeIG POUIEG Al calice ahdl ol May Be in Canadian .lall‘:\..,..,\.. to wheel about and guard|ponderance of negro rike, 1s DenUEUE ug on; ik The Speaker then appointed Messrs Shbnan ractioe allowing [ {appearance of 4 mushroom mining ¥illenpread practios af allowiti lo-| [the rear against the menace toward| Gov. Moody believes legislation | o0 i il faaas e e wa I Htown, long familiar in the life and Rydeen, Sheldon and Benjamin as O heace offleers 10 Dockel 4 DeT| ASBESON, Quebce, March 8.—-An|Nanking should be enacted anthorizing the [ it o1 EEERE a committee to inform the Senate y |““'I'_|“w”ml it 4 ml')\" h“l):‘;i;‘:”_\nwru an Postal Inspector is coming | Democratic party committeemen 10| poliaens pointed fo two bootlege the House was organized and ready g PO “here to examine two men jailed herc! BRITISH SEE CHANGE formulate rules supplanting 1 zers who “opened up the town's for busine: He also appointed Invalid the Obio law whicl permits| "y bijon of being Roy and Ray| LONDON, March 8,—British offi-|Texas statute prohibiting negroos | noe gt OPEReE D Ul LOWE S Messrs, Fisher, Murray and Fergu- pa son to inform the Governor of the|—Sixteen hundred American marines|judges in prohibitior cases. then] MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 8. | mayors of municipalities to act as! i : £ . S BanE i MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 8. ! | D'Autremont \\.mhl;(l]hll' an_Oregon |« l nhw!]x'vl'\]Inrvar 4].;;|.l.1'.ux. con-| voting in the Democratic Primaries. | Jiiched and the new comers began " (train wreck and killings. The two|trol of Shanghai by the Cantonese e receiving furniture and the ca n ave arrive \ tr 3 en- | 1 ces oporti ( | ! % sagiva g e canmp same facts, The House adopted the|have arrived on the transport Hen-jdraw f in proportion to the | men refused to make any statement, {shortly as the result of the realign-|{ 1925 rules with the provision that|derson from Quantico, Virginia. Two|amount of fines imposed s LG i el ilis o I:m:/:-rl with activities of home mak- changes might be later in the ses-|trainloads of men were dispatched| fhe Supreme Court declares that! jequested a night's lodging at the R, v O i s £ sion immediately to protect the railway|everyone accused of violating the|police station. A third man, com. SR R Name Other Employees lines and others have been sent t0|jyw has a right to a trial before a| panion of the two, made out an af col. MII.I.ER R, R Late yesterday afternoon the|outlying posts. judge not financially interested inlfidavit they were the D'Autremont ! FA". Tu DPEN ng to |‘¢;.;. :.‘4\: ‘m I‘hv‘ hl‘.u-\l:st House appointed its staff of clerical — e Ithe result of the case. i brothers | Gasoline stations are working and stenographic employees M Sh .fl A td fo The decision was read v Chief | - > | louble shifts : i o Nita McQueen was named tant erl rreste r Justice William Howard who | T * 9 3 7 e ? iy Gl in i Dorotne Goadan f Edi L e w“”M,New Hello System Is WEST PALM BEACH. Fla. Marchf Oue Tollywood movie company has 5 ) othy . Hoggmg o itor |said “ev P | 8 The First Bank and Trust Com-| ameramen at Weepah filming scenes MEDAbne sEby, M1 Alige Cade; lgtler: Bx nomsists clampiation o, onn Completed in Europe' e o R pany of Palm Beach and the North-|and reenacting the discovery of & Mrs. Nadja Vestal and Mrs. Ben A SOf 0. a March 8.—She. | AVerage man as a judge to forget e NEW YORK, March 8. Thomas wood Bank and Trast Company of | mine by two boys who took out i e tubiata g e " sop ) ., M She- | £ i ¥ ; Sontp s " § i S 0 to Grler for typtats and atenographers | @ . Thigen and three othars|the burden of proof required to con-| ppRLIN, March 8.—The (..m,n»-"“I“"' former Allen Froperty U] West paim Beach, closed their doors [ v assaying §78,000 to the ton :ll’:“:""":‘) ;’i(":"'g""“'”"l"' Somete | nave been arrested on @ charge of|Yict the defendant or which MIEDG o of a4 new 310 mile underground |10t Wi O ricon and| M morning when the First Amer ——-ee committee notify e Send e ] lead him not to hold the balancel,, s 4 able ba. |MONLLS e Feder: lson andf, o mink and Trust Compi iled e was organized. participating in the flogging of H. M. et 1 » between the State| cicPhoue and telegraph cable be-|g5.q ¢5.000 for conspiracy to de-|;*" I ‘“", o ‘| B mpany failed) B ' Salmon Are ’ f Flanders, Editor of the Sopertonclear and true between the State| w.on Berlin and nna marks an g o Miller|to open. Runs began on three other Committees Selected bereicd S = and accused, denies the defendant | wud the Government. Col. Miller)y oy o pie police were called | Nowwe Menaced by The report of the Committee on|News on the night of February 25. 1 it 3 b toian anilty Tast waak The er I all DU enace Dy L i . ica ; due process of law as fo guilty las to control the mobs which gathered sQ Committees was rendered at this| Flanders is still confined to his bed. v o control the mobs which gathered | pras. Saals {important step in the program of { In addition to Ohio, the States ,'- 1 of "Millans co-dafandaat, Hans (s o o il ions morning's session of the House and linking up all large cities of Europe His assailants told him he was flog-| with a reliable and speedy telephone | ; ey 3 g gL ANS: Kentucky Nebraska o y A M Daughert former Attorney The First Amerlcan lank nd — iged becanse of his activities against |0f Arkansa. . ‘|service. The new cable will con-|" precs B & e / can - Ba a W = y was adopted without discussion. The has twice resulted in 8 dis-| s Company announced it was|, NEY WES TMINSTER, B, C., following standing committees were March < An enormons increase in named in it: lawlessness and hootleggers North Carolina, Georgla and Texas|, ... tne Balkans with London and y and will reopen after reor hale at 5 ottt & bl e ! i at the mouth of the Fra- G allow inferior ju;l;:vs n;“ r;'fl;x"'{"*"' Paris, through Vienhe und Henting|oseoament by the: Jury solvent ; . Siam oxcept by fees collscted from (i i, Vien i Berlin) « : Banks, Banking and Corporations: | Fined $1 for Violating ! Dr. Stingel, German — Minister of {0007 tine an appeal o1 River is serious mepacing the Miller's bail was continued at convicted defendants, i Scott, Lomen and Fisher. PPosts and Telegraphs, n-umunnu-.x} e b | n's salmon pack. Many salmon o O So. Car. Old Blue Laws on the value of the cable for thel hepa o University MONEY FOR BAN:S aught in nets were neatly nipped Murray, Paul, Worth, Lomen and ‘ 5 " Cs Matoh 85 TEN WORD TITLE FOR promotion of peace and commerce, | 5 WEST PPAL BEACH, Mar( ff by the seals, leaving only the Johnston. QOLUMBIIS,iB0E Uuk: M a1 o . 4 GERTRUDE STEIN BOOK *'Ying that « speedy telephone serv-| Marks 90th Blrthday‘ An armored car bringing $2,000.- | peads. Efforts to reduce the num- Education, Public Health, Quaran.|Fred S. Asmar. cafe proprietor, has ol {ice with Vienna and the Balkans ins 006 in curveney arcived from Aiamé | hor of scals by rifle and machine been fined $1 when he entered a tine and Morals: Paul, Sundquist, might have done much to avert the| GREENCASTLE, Ind, March ¥ early this afternoon to prevent clos- | enns proved futile as they do not Grier, Ross, Johnston. gllty, ploe ol *l“‘“,‘"“ cleajeties on Il:"l\"""\-"_"'.“”\"’ "‘“."'"H"‘:": Soon:war. The cuble was officially open-| Founded by three Methodist cireuit|ing of two other hanks. While runs Lherd like sea lions. The government Sunday in violation o he dustcluding With As 2 ¢ Has ) % [ed by President von Hindenburg and|riders, and now fourth in the list of] continued throughont the aftem|will be asked to take immediate (Continued on Page Two.) covered blue laws of the state. (i the title of the latest literary|, i, .. Michael Hainisch of Aus-|highly endowed American schools,|noon. officials of the banks helieved | steps for extermination of as many R product of Gertrude Stein, American| . were the first to talk over|De Pauw University will lvlvhl4it-1|n||n-nl|lll" closing has been averted |am possible of the halr seals |stylist. The book, published in Paris, )y, - i, its ninetieth anniversary Feb, — St NEW TREASURES MADE - [Phoit it 0 00 i MOTHER LOVE YRAUCHT HONOR MAN SUICIDES James Armstrong conceived the stand as the text | - school in 1832, but it was five years| FOR STAMP COLLECTORS e : BRINCETON, (BT Mateh (8 Hiklee 1R o tvoatory. DIIOE o WITH JIAN} DANGERS Frederick Wilson, for the past three|put up, bearing the name of Indiana | Butcher Butts | years honor man of Princeton Uni-| Asbury University -a title by which WASHINGTON, March 8-—Several| 2,000,000 of the blue and black .’.-,B""-ns Afl(’l' ',\u sity, was found hanging in iis{some old graduates still prefer to of the newest postage stamps al- |cent and 10000000 of the red and P 4 | room this afternoon. | know it CHICAGO, March 8.~'ihe strong [Ins 1l ii the minds of the little ones ready are becoming rarities and black 2-cent stamps were produced.| Killing Girl | >oo It struggled for 40 years, and when | ogt influence in the world towara |1 sense of fearlessness that is the soon, no doubt, they will become!Another potential treasure for col- ! FRANCE MAY PAY it seemed destined 1o close for lach| moulding character - mother love | important thing. prizes for collectors. |lectors was the recent issue of 20} ALLENTOWN. Penn., March §.--| repe—" of funds Washington €. DePauw of | was classed today as among the mosi ‘Mothers are too likely to destroy by 000,000 5-cent Ericcson memorial|J. 8. Fuenfstueck. Bethlehem bul(’hl PARIS, March 8.—The Chamber of | New Albany, Ind., came to its rescue | dqangerous, or minimize courage in ‘|]|Pil‘ hubie; Among them is the 2cent stamp | eamne ler, shot and killed Evelyn Ummel,| Deputics provisionally approved to-|with a liberal endowment, and it | The child learning to walk totters, recently issued to commemoraté the| o, (he other hand, the 300,000.-| young girl. hecause she refused to|day of Poincare’s provisional agree-|took his name. Now more than «| Mothering children with too much | ooiie Gue for mamma and falls Battle of White Plains, N. Y. radi-|y) jarge 2.cent stamps printed for|continue their friendship after she|ment with the United States to pay [score of buildings stand on the|affection s fraught with the dan-| 050 0 g oo 0 the cally different in design from any| .o i connection with the Sesqul-|learned he was married. Today he|$10.000.000 on the Washington debt{campus, and the university'’s assets|&er” warned Dro Alfred Adler, noted | gl pye” child gets a bump; it previously Isrued. The supply of 42, | .ontennial exposition at Philadelphia,|attempted to butt out his brains on| settlement this year are more thun six million dollars. | Viennese psychiatrist, “of developing | .iing’ ana is soothed by the mother 650,000 has been exhausted, ex(ep(\"e present difficulties. a piece of furniture in his cell. He Y Al The school is, conspicuous for its| a1 inferiarity complex” in the child mother is always ready “; possibly for small lots in vnrioui\ The public having satistied its|knelled, knocking his head against A London bamk honored a post | Rector scholarship foundation, whose| “All minds are alike. All children | soothe it. The result s the foun- postoffices. curfosity about them, now is re-[the furniture until be cut a deep|card check sent through the mail|donor, a late attorney of Chicago, | except feeble-minded ones have the ! cation of what is mu" recoen i The Norse-American Centennial is-|luctant to lick so much stamp just|gash in his forehead and fell un-|directing it 10 pay the iul‘lreme"lznvn- the school more than four mil-| same brain capacity. The big thing in adult lite as the inferiority com. sue also may become rare, as only‘tu mail a letter, conscious. 7 ¢ » tae sum of une pound only."” lion dolfars. tin developing children is courage. | plex,