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< DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TINE” = = e — e ———— VOL. XXIX., NO. 4441, " ; JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 500 MINERS ENTOMBED, EXPLOSION Natz(malzsts Fire Upon United States Destroyer U, . DESTROYER 1. oy CONTROL BOARD j(’mr et it i e it oes | WWHIERS MRE onor « ward day, the lav tion Amendm makers adjourned without tak B Wheele W ing up the regular calendars Fo 5 pen £ the ] = Four Inch and Machlno Guns‘ but several commitlees were In_Two-Hour Speech ]“‘]"‘ PREBIGTs WH AT cnable it to ?l.“Pl”\;( n Is So Terrific Brick Are Fil‘(‘d--'Ugl\f Mood busy ’j"‘l‘l g the ‘l“vv" on e Wickersham Extols Vir- | :b' Denefit ¢ t Silboh|| Somanian S : N R G e tues of the Measure. | SM'TH WIlL BU e cl 1 fornin G TR Sl Chh Building Collapses— of Chinese Shown. o s R St i J o i ers | {1 St Rescue Work. 5 the reading of the journal con Cafblat. warnihes wol foo ‘M‘m . nounCen tepr s Grant SHANGHAL March 20 The = stituted the only busin M. Hudsor I Mich United States destroyer John D acted, adjournment 1 ! h\ ‘”“ & ”]\l |(' \(U 1 ! Declares that if Governor | zan, that i mai g Ford, enroute to Nanking, wa en as soon as that was com mer i stic HARRISBURG, Penn. March upon by Nationalist troops. T pleted lat opponents ‘.‘. the : ‘.H“J\.,.:‘ 5 "1 Neminated for | \v.\ldx'nl, e b e 30.7—1( is reported that about destroyer replied with four inchers | [withal a good natured He Will Be Drv tdso 500 miners are entombed as the S i s S _— i P e o | 1€ 3 V. [ AToonc AN it 161 iq{ M \ Y result of a gas explosion in the . | propenents ‘:m the tr 3ill, | PICA, N. ¥ 8erch 36, —Gov. Al “""‘Mv : %J Pennsylvania Ccal and Coke said s just \nvl sxI,\IA;'O(?E[IIE?NA\EEEhS:f.?NEDwm«\ TH“MAS AN[] ;1\‘\:.“!::\“& =) 11;';“,‘r“l u‘.””w ¢ i Smith, it nominated for President, !disclosed that W\ who is ("”51"“3 s Mine No. 3, at Eh- public teaving Nanking wors stoned by| it ‘was woll nitended and. the|°SNth Amendmelg and its enforce-|feag the mouth of the mine was wobs there according o wireless re- GH [audience zeceived the remarks of (he! T but will make: (he peopls c it coholie Tt ;I‘ wrecked by the explosion. ports received here [ ;~|:i1|\ ‘Iy” .|\n \.111.-“ E m“‘\ ‘u:m‘{ 1 Ml‘.‘u W 5. Povgh. predict g Sl H ropag ‘nr“ MILL TB! U DUT The explosion was so ten { f oy were arad, apvlayee| chiam B BOgRL el ; 5 m-t it blew down SHANGHAI March #0.— The Chi-| AL question of wet or dr. S adque | ec the withdrawal of British warships| . 5 \\.m\ -;«1:..an 5 |( “1 hii .ulm‘u‘\\‘u‘\ 10 7Aid. chRca IIETE PH e ok (Be GAk S el ) \‘ w Plant ] Given Fir oi the ;,ffu-r ompl';vrrs were in- ;rnm Changsha on the Siang Kian : ‘".:“f":;:"“""'ml: ]‘\_-]"flj‘]"" }‘I"‘v‘” ';’”’ ! istitational principle of the Eighteenth ¢ teibu for more tha Titn:Orer Tadiy: jured when the building col- ey "":W')'l:":‘h'."' Proint aftar Architect Shows that New/|seitzovornment and the most tm.|A™ nament; Wil BENE . Nave vouifraution reat slush l i 8 lapsed. a = )0 one ever coms ore Y LR Ree in Operation Mot i xperience ek and a party trom the British gun-| Building Would Be Better [Rjriant one that ever come Before i1 fieq with some ather provisions shal! ‘oo A REi NG b ‘,,I‘:“~:’“|P);], I;},::l::so;a;(}i,,'tit ke Aeeilatar: not have %] X ! - hoat Woodock z - A Ry T e cratien el and Not More Lostly . .Oi‘l-‘c:r\s u?:r:;ej n[:cs.nxy“m o LM witl venture that the Republic F o .‘Jm- nery I the ey plosion, little hope is entertain- manded that the British soldier Than Addition. lfthe lagat wiadit of. the L \ure to! National convention decla for t over for i Rt L ed for the entombed men. verything involved in the incident be turned O Kighteenth Amendment and Yoluntesr { M S v ) ut declare iunteer crews - over to enable the Chinese autheri- nact such legislation, but declared |y;qp was found to he working from the en ties to take “drastic action.” | Marlan Thomas, Scattle architeet[that the Governor and Secretary of) “up'yiy venture that it Gov. Sm e st ctorily and. moothiy fnr‘ Cambria field have been Dispatches report that the Com-|Who has devoted a week to invosti-|:he Territory have had imposed O iy pominated for the Presidency, he hie new plint vepresents an in-| - rushed to Ehrenfeld. s v y tr gating and preparing plan co thom by Legislatures of the pasticiigeclare for the Amendment and Ve xm...‘ of over §100,000 in addi A number of workmen on the missioner has withdrawn extra-ter- 8 to solvel oo *Hhov cannot legally perform. I duties they cannot logally p Lanrdiner and make the people it tion to that which had alveady been | gurface were killed by the ex- ritorial rights of all British i.hnu\:m's school housin problem. Ha Thid?he Meow it has Begb do Changsha and consequent » Brit-{and R. E. Robertson, President of|!He saic 10 L That is not speaking in disrospect T ‘ : aqiin - oian fMRAE prior to e ing of the! o & (A coRpedpently fhe brit ohertson. President ofly ¢ " \wasu't going to be done much |y B ) . CHICAGO, March 20.--Four men mill during the las " months, | Plosion. ish authorities are evacuating all| the School Board, who spoke at the . ; Gov. Smith but in eulogy of his oottt GRS A ot 3 thelr nationalis trom the city |Biks' Hell meeting last night, both gonger: that therg are people Wholgpen unilities. G e L L g N g ! d wi People living 10 miles distant | took strong ground in favor of build-|4re, 0N LIl el '"‘“"'_‘"-“ S Rvom toe fihe Gov. Simifh Teaves |84 Jros s Mok U mnew lron Wog voger o the <hock CONSTANT FIRING I didapacate Rign satiod\ Sullding |85 S 00t o imnon of the | e naccen Ialehd (R sEedeing 0V Joseph (omente, who lcot his job e ARl o While diggers aré striving o . o a5 & |instead of putting an addition t z into the United States, he will be head band saw P r WASHINGTON, Mareh 30.—Re-i ;o ) oqany ‘\( Mool :ml:x“..’ \1.-”;1‘ bo|present Legislature, if the system | g, ’tho_ Bighteenth Amendment and | 1" IRUE - WO RInYed ) 15 inches wide on 1 break through ,the mass of moval of Americans trom the long| t EFCOH) JEIOU JBIEE - D LS not changed, these people will €0 ayrreement.” é Killed Tis £ te of 10,060 fect per e ! earth filled in over the open- reaches of the Yangtze Ricer con-jo W I VO AP0 )1 Bo Vi nto the courts with the matter. | b y: or n P ho, contrag and foav logs v t in other miners are standing tinued with an accompaniment of 1\ it L 4 Board as wall|™ . Copport of his contention th 5 7 < th r o ) the plant . by wearing helmets and ski constant firing at destroyers and S himself SENATOR D7LT, FORPTNASTS | th their children ; {oxt by Wearing MeEaE ATE othier refugee ships | form such dutics, he cited|. SPOKANE, Wash., March 30 killed in a batt) s : et 1 1eady to penetrate the mine if Admiral Williams expressed doubt : 5 S from former Attorney Gen """-" Ale gty WL, herelivih ¢ . P e e s ry is gained. ; that a \l_\I ll:m.iw- m{mh;»[ of t,n'mw’r by on the subject of d K‘"] \ i hric ”' O |’“ 3 (vwn (‘w u‘w 1.y fourth man, # Paiumbo, | nilies of the miners en- ' ! : L ¥ | Admintstration and predicted that|was shot and killed while in _ . hs foreign. T ilied wers clthey| a1t of*the block and huif of thejiuch hoavis as. the Board ‘of SBILIC ety o S anutitean not Demo-lantompblle by on. ub ‘ of construction. will remain| of the mine, leh s et Were Litholking ‘the fore[Dorth. half uld not be greater o unindentitied a ' ‘ & her month (o be sure that eve Y § G i State tr 1. SErary [than the cost of an addition to the|from the opinion of the Circuit Court {8010 CowocllEntasunning. Bid State troopers have heen call old 1 that would be large|ol Appeals in the icase of MarshallPFOTHIOS He said the veth of the s g - Wilder i that he had buil ed to control the crowds. S e T eat e ton s RV Galldimns simeeny Ups Trbme el MUBT 1 bill was Hohny ; e i : g MISSION LOOTED separate building, he said, would|local dist it ovet h quistion) OF SRERALLILGE SEVEEIE SR, Kol n the world Siam, 1 EIGHT KILLED: ILLINOIS SHANGHAL March 30.—It is re- of the f the Legislature to im he istrat iRl : AR UREL 1 ey give more room, better light for TuAheIL trait ported here that the American-ijoi huildings, better facilities, more|bose the collection of a poll tax on : oon. Burmah, N p X It miners are reported killed in Catholic Mission at Fuchow has!peautitul huildings and grounds and|U: S Marshals, Commissioners, e | Austr d that thi \ a gas expiosion in the Saline Coun- been looted and the priests have!room in which to expand. Gives Opponents’ Notice mill he has built in Alasi The ty Coal Corporation’s Mine No. 2 at fled. B. D. Stewart, President of th While Judge Wickessham did not K ther was the Ketehikan Sp ' Ledford, five miles south of here. | uneni Bavent-Teacher Asspelation ten Legislative oppon lil“ wit h | which was completed (wo ye ) Ticial il gas accumulated in a ANOTHER GENERAL STRIKE resided and introduced the speak-|Political disaster if they voted | The mill of the Juneau lumber pocket near the entry and was pre- SHANGHAIL March 30.—The Gen- ers the measure, he gave notice in no| : TOROY ;l'u Mareh 50.~The IA]!"‘ Company, declared Mr. Wilder is as sumably touched off by a miner's t § aptil > saster wonld | a oda e final approval to o and as P 1 } 1 i eral Labor Union has decided upon | e : uncertain terms that disaster would ture today gav ) upto-date and as fine a mill as he open r strike but the date has not| Plans Are Shown foliow a nogative vote. In effect, hel y [ the bill which will put digquor underdya ooy anywhere, every piece of | Two workers, 1500 feet from the another Mz, Thomas with the uge of slides : : | ) i ‘I\h',’“l“ IHI;:.;‘M’.]”\\14. 'hl .Iyl; ';:'r .I| ‘J” sajd: “fl you don't pass ]nn\ |.‘\|| 4 4 BOVE H\mvlvlllxm:\ ol ,w‘\ 'Iy‘l.l;l:bhl,“n-), I achinary - afd. adulpmuit »-lexplosion were the first to be Thousands of ricksha coolies, firct dete A tho 1600 §8¢lwe can only go out to the people : | pevienced 19 years of —prohibition.d jyga)y (b last thing In o efficien . |brougit out. They are badly burn- M“_(‘ lhee“ e ‘\.m_““ml .x.u,‘»'”“' determined th location of the| 0 ik them to return a Legislature| CORDOVA, Alaska are The Lientenant Governor is expected|fe also said that if ‘anyone wouldled and were also by flying ke i ‘ new building which if the ssue e will pass it, and keep on going|earth shock which las v sec-[to sien the bill immediately which'y ierested p e Ciihar thecumions. | passes wiil be built oni the block] in "o et such a Leglslaturc onds, i csterday k | ian. IGUBI Gonbrok il oTa0L BRI v ar EO R LA HOE 0 4 Twenty thousand miscellaneous | porith Ml M0 EGE L atreets and |URHE W uch a Legislatu | l 1 1 workers are still Hle from the 1ast|yail and Seward Streets. The new y ( | members of Ivish > | tio « By Wb ’ 4 slgflto =, o : : I building will be placed in line with |lirected toward - embers 0 Ll ANCHORAGE, Mareh 30 [ttong 8o that they would b under Gen. Kal Shek has approved of [ i G T 0 e exactly (o0 No It v | Ssod | Mr. Thomas said the cost of a new building on the hlock between Seward and M and Fifth and Sixth Streets, | din the land dren's Guardians He al quoted o el s cratic, dare take a stand against|gailant | ! |modern saw mill works he wonld he He exercised inimitable cajolers {dio e buildings |\Y' 15 la dto explain the different of Labhorites carrying arms “for pro- |, x elevatio! 4 a ‘ ¢ sction.’” ;"“”' SIRE love self-government too well 41\41‘\‘1 felt here at 9:52 o'clock | tection. The building will be so modeled |0 oo 6 o™ e nhers are of otier it A telegram from Japanese sour-ley .+ wings can be extended iha |1t some o s are o flans and pickets are OVr-running ' eroct now. KEach of the wings when |earts he declaved | af L L the city [ built would consist of 6 class rooms. Presided Over By Howard { Houngad sEOGE gt 8, A dR | [ ALBANY, N. Y. March 30 ~ {The ground floor of the building| The joint session, opening at 5 w|it GEEE UEEEE B UL ot ott A Hufchings, New York ney LONDON, March 30 Poreigninow proposed conslsts of a meta m. way predided over by prosidont | iSOG orn i | MIMPHIS, Tenn. March 30, Two|Paperman, must return to Sun Que v Secretary Chamberlain told thelworking room 25x24 feet, a wood [Howard of the Senate, who was es s thousand persons have fled to the|tin and complete his seven and or House of Commons today that con-!working room of the same dimen-|corted to the chair by Represent P l F Ias k {5 Boal “_"'“h Giiote when thelball v m imposed in Lo firmation obtained was that Chinese gion, a stock room 16x25 feet, a fin-|tives Grier and Rydeen. H easants rorsee Bt R carly | Beles for grand larceny, ‘i : y o O lohdnes Hiraction o e A e o8 "IN varpose ot the mesb Very Mild S | Mississipn river “fegne brolee carly | ELE " o ‘or Rppeatn made tniy | AULO Manufacturer Crowded were responsible for the Nanking feet, boys' locker room and shower was o hear a discussion on ihe| ey, ™ ummer | ] y {decision here today Off Road ] Injured— L ; ; ; — et | i oad and Injure outrages and “steps which might be|j3x} girls' shower and lock-|merits or demerits of the Controlter| PUNSS properly for His Majesty and other | 3x28 feel, boys' toilet,|Bill, and principally for the purpose| BERLIN. March 0. The profuse |y . 4 wovernments whose nationals were!girly' toilet, a class room 24x30 feot,[of listening to Judge Wicke adest wilh: W e Life Prisoner Is |Contempl Verdict Is thus ill-treated and whose flags a dining room 15x24 feet, a cooking|The latter immediately took the | growing on y willow trees (his| Sued for DiVDI’CC Taken Under Advisement. oirroir, Mich., March 30 v a are under cons ——m e ————— |and spoke for about two hours and|spring i warded by peasants in | ' Henry Ford in the Henry Ford (Continued on I’nxe Two.) 15 minute the lowlands as a heaven-sent omen| & Manoh TR " WAWSHINGTON, March 30— | Hospital for treatment for injuries - e He prefaced his reading of the|that the summer will be compara-j N YORK, March s U ATter listening to a two-hour argu-|Feceived in an automobile accident {measure by a declaration that “I{tively frec from heavy raing and v ciglitganty aan ,l.“,‘,,,, ment, Justice Hitz took under ad-|last Sunday night. He has under- have read the bill,” many, many|floods which last year destroyed |James Green, one of the “Cak il e ks T i TRote & minor opeskiien Proposed Hzghwuy Systvm Bave rona e Gy, | {ols Wil ot dotroyen | e, Grou om0 0, 0 BT Vo it tartow ' ot e a minor wperation, parts | for the murder of Angelo Mahairis,|0f counsel for Oil Magnate Sinclair) of Operation Performed. ation . thing to do with the preparation of | The pussy willm‘w in many J50 1 ; 4 is [ to set aside the verdict against Bim | Isgued an official statement saying Would Llnk 1() Nutwns the original_ measure introduced hl:fl‘itilhrl\'- any. 8 in Ciuroe |.."Ty,v."fl"~\"<flllvl-'v‘ iirowiel AedRnptearl Sl | [ for “contempt ot e Senite |hat “white driving a Ford coupe Sena r Steel, L B 3 ad | W “uppli b ] )i K 5 % G he nanufad re vas cl o teted W aver with “Senators and |in Catholic church services on Palm |riage. Former Supreme Court Ju | SEATTLE Leona ..«‘,'.i“.,fl the rond diws o iesnians Representatives,” with them |Sunday. Blooming twigs which have | Platzek heard the case A Leganoc ‘h.qmlln announced that he is leaviog | mankment into a tree WASHINGTON, March 30—A 10-|its work. Although great links of|as to amendments, drafted sucl|been blessed in church are coversd | the action being undefended thg| e nasth any ‘will make ‘e Hotdaf The tacts werd witDhall SCRINEE 00U-mile system of highways, linking | the proposed highw system al.lamendments at their suggestion and |the year und much the palm Ih"',”'mh(l u:u 1\.:““'(1 '\\",,,'"’nlm‘t» in Scattle. He will bring his wife public hecan of the libel suit now 19 nations of North, Central and |ready are in operation or under con-|approved of the Dill as so amende St B L o Chandit gang pleaded |a0d daughter out early next winter. | in “unavoidable and South America, is the aim of bills|struction, proponents of the project| He then proceeded to read the|Canada Wins Right s o " eroond daproe| Sepalla left today on the Admirai|unf o s that may be introduced too late in the G69th Con.|estimate that the commission would|measure hy section, reading in the | jguilty to murder 18 second CoRY00| wWatson for Seward. He whl make d gress tb be enacted but likely to be|have 10 vears of effort ahead of it|amendments proposed. He declared | To Seize Rum Boats| " ""“‘~r ]!;A ast spring, 18 IM-hep pverland journey to Nome Ford's condition, it is said, is not reintroduced in the 70th Congress|before its work could be completed.|while it was a political measure, it| pritoned. i ook thatuces.np. MsLE d0RSS !serious and pressed for passage. The proposed highway would cross|was not political in the oedinasi | .. N. 8., March 30.Court R O R — - Senator Cameron of Arizona, spon-|the United States from Detroit tojacce 1o 4 been given to ire v i 5 ings a s » stica Al Al r; sored the proposal in the Senate, and | Laredo, with Canadian roads easily|for ity r set of 1 ships, a move inter- :],”,']l ",'L,h:.” “:M”"','l',,"l_‘,t,h:l.':.“':"""I:m’;,,_ ICP .BRP /IKl 7P ’)I{I Z E Representative McLeod of Michigan, | atcessible to the north and a Mexi- as ind s | 4 4 £ / e ting cloger co. i i - " b 1ded atrimonial actions in the House, mot with much hope|can government highway now under stween Canada and (he|on4ed matrim that ~they could be enacted im-|construction reaching southward te 1. i the T es in meeting the rum- s R(fi);fids Up i $20’()()() THIS YE/‘R mediately but with the object the Guatemalan I'rmm?lr. B ) t @ ( ation, marily of bringing the plan, for 30 “Guatemala and Salvador,” sa. a1 d ¢ 1 wer, collector of the Port years the dream of James Deitrick, | Mr. Deitrick, “are constructing hig « sis et 'of b enited Bank in Los Angeles| veteran enginecr who has spent|ways in hopes of linking with i ug the certificate of! NENANA, Alaska, March 30 is formed to make arrangements for many years in Latin America, to|Mexican highway within a year.” 1/} ™ ues e schooner Amaranth, LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 30. Year by year the Northland's big-|the event. Tickets are sold at a the attention of their colleagues. R-aching south to Chile, he dredn: ! ication of the present —A lone robber held up the six gest sporting event—guessing when|dollar each to raise the sum that is The hill would create a Pan-Amer-|of seeing the road cross the A @ vas o6 he vessel. The ship|employees of the Hoover Street|the annual br up in the Tanana [awarded. The time of the breakup is ican Peoples t Highway Com-|and Plains of Argentina to Bu: . . & the 5 and v Nassau when Acker Branch of the Merchants National River will come—grows in dimen-|electrically recorded on a clock in mission, comprising all members of | Air stretch northward to Ri PrOpuSE l H tions to take up her|Trust and Savings Bank and es-lsions mxrl interest the town hall. Previously the break- the United States cabinet, “the di-| Janeiro, thence across Brazil t i endment refuse clearance, caped with $5,000. He threatened! This year the person who fore-|up has come between April 22 amd rector of the Pan-American Union, |[upper Amazon Valley, and on i« [ iro [ . dan ships, the steam-[the employees with two revolvers|casts yent most accurately May 13. and three appointed members to act|eastarn Columbia until a juncticn ¢ of r and the schooners|as the doors the bank opened.|to will receive a prize of ap- in case of tie guesses as to the as an executive committee, and|made with the main artéry : — and Morse, have|The robber was hidden in the build-jproximately $20,000. exact minute of the first ice moves would appropriate $200,000 to finance | Panama, ut ! Page Fight, H v false clearance ing overnizht | Bach year a citizen's commitiee [ment, the award is split evenly,