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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIMI™ s e e - e — —— - e = - VOL. XXIX., 'NO. 4444, JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AMERICAN KIDNAPPED, THEN SLAIN 5. ekl PR Y JUNERU DEBT Second Reading Controller PEOPLERSGED ™A SUAL MU0t MEX. BANDITS FREE; §5,000 Bl Completed by Senater 70 FEOISTER e apgagai | KiLL AMERICA CASH ON HAND . o - BEFORE 9 P. M. SR RE Pt G VSR N COLD BLOOD ! Aftor more than two hours con ; 5 T 55 Snam 3 | | sideration, teatured by occasional s o 3 . DA ; i & —_— Financial Statement Shows J@mes Smith. Jr. U his or stinging comment wnd sev Registration Books Close To- y A Edgar W, Willikts, Todes Up Wonderful Record for ' H'(m lntrodurml | ;n‘:u \\}ll."..'.“.'»“::.‘liln y;:“:.\..n‘ylfl’\Ulu\.‘.“;:vxl.\.-.::x, mghthOO or 300 More 4 e o L | 4 I S City Administration. Wilson. Dies I i bt i e Shoulc] Register. Rl - 3 4 K‘d”amkd Before—Mur- 1. the famous Controller lered by Captors. ; NEWARK, N. J. April 2 Owlhig (g the' fade Dinirmanyl o 0 R . 3 , City Clerk H. R. Shepard last night James Smith, Jr., aged 76, United portions of the measure will ha JEens HIEhe HELE A PUS hLLY . £ R . > M presented to the City Council a f Statos Sonator from 1898 tou| |to be ‘mewritten; two. or Giree new | Al By uiiQElEreist NGlers SUine | 3 g e IEXICO CITY April 2. It nancial statement of the City of | 1899, died at his home here last | | sections added. parts of others Wil be lamentably unregistercd for | ! AT p el K is learned that Edgar M. Wil Juneau for the year ended March | night e will be remembered | |stricken, and amendments of a few !¢ election next Tucsday : ; i kins, American, kidnapped near i . as the man who introduced [k\lu:(b or ,.lu.;su I»‘mnm ll.. various )Hl-'h ]"‘H;l-i‘k \‘.I;"\ ~"”.‘""_’““, her 3 & ¥ Guaa.lajara last Sunday, was statement showed the City | Woodrow Wilso y politics | places, it will probably be two op had been o i1 voters X » L e a cash balance of $5.332.90 as ' through his “Inl\::nm”\:lxx‘) of Wil [three days before it can be brought | last fall Juneau cast 1 vote 3 >y t""?"d by his captors 24 hours against a deficit of § a year ago. son for Governor of New Jersey | back into the Senate for final action the municipal clection spring : ke i This balance is left after paying in 1910 | One significant amendment wa e registration was 1.084 i 3 A .~ Wilkins hody was found ly- out $1.626 on the street improve- | | | put into the bill yesterday over 5 Thone JULACRRIRE SWEIS sending out B ; 4 ing ¢n a hill near Santa Ana ment budget for the coming year. g —— . mlvates of at least some of its propos| 28t callsyor FEEIstration, and there) Acatlan School bonds in the amount of nents. Aunother amendment which atlll & HepeEHae 200 or 00 um will get to the City 3 po 4 The kidnappers hearing Fed- R e i a0 would have virtually changed the | ! Bred oy ORI ; y ; sl tiobne saald tinal payments were made on the |entire purport of the measure wis ALt T RITRUL L ORI L L 5 4 AL £ al froops seeking them, slew Mann property, purchased by !In lost by a very narrow margin tonlgh : : ks their captive and fled but sev- City, where the city float is located, | Atreution is called to the fact that | § g erai were overtaken and killed 2 Wants Governor on Board ny citizen of the United States, | ‘ & 7 ;””:rmv’“ mw:l ml““l\”"m”\ re "” T After Chairman Steel. of the Fi-| L 0 flhale, who has resided i - s the mzjority, however, escaping. nent for the high pressure water| 5o 4 el £ ! e ki i P Wives o comet: nance Committee, who s autior o [\ o o year and - Junean JOIIN L. LEWI PHOMAS KEANEDY Wi'kins had been kidnapped This means that Junean is today SLEREI B ety Heall | oSG months be cntitled to rnational President, United — Sorctasy Trea Uinted twice before but released un, s Junes ay | completed amonding the measure in | oy, s ™ 5 b . : s absolutely debt free and had a cash Rbuckrd whii B prosmew [vate st tEE R e Mine Workers of Anierica. fine Workers of Awbriva harmed. AR I o i t i ] ol a taxpayer or not, provided hi — e dunce yesterday 43290 Dunn took the floor and offéred |, T oE LBt O ie Boolis | D e il i el ol gy leny nd amendment 1o the tirst section |japer o oo e i eyening : i g i 4 summary of the receipts and dis no Article IV, which would have| § ot . ; g hursements for the year the Attorney General off th Fon the B3R« Setiion : P o & ’ ) aken T egistrati ks close Statement of Receipts FOHO“H‘B Shut-down, Ma\‘uu;. l-ol Cantral and put on. it el oe . SR GaUERLBRORE WL a0y Taxes 72,1884 = A tonight for the school bonds o 3 ! L e s o $e2isn Reiume on Five Day Week | Governor or e “rervitory. — he | J0RE TS TGSV "N Jee notta ity es 1,08 {amendment was seconded by [section gk Watte place ARRL| 4 Licenses (Peddlers ) *7Curlal]menl Al taxpa ] ; ator Jensen estate or personal property, will H qualified 1o vote at that clection Licenses (Dog) : L Proponents of (he measure were o . - Licens (Vehicle) SEATT April A large num-lalmost a unit in oppo the sug-| Do ¥ paaikte A N ! SHANGHAL April Licenses (Mercantile) 56 her of Western Washington lumber! gested alteration. Senator Frame ".‘""."I"v o SRR a5 Sters - atar tinnalist flne has been Whirt mills, mcluding many of the biggest|admitted he had originally been of [? ©'¢lock 't‘;“ 5 "‘5"" Maiib . {1y northward trom Sha i and Coal ones. the Post-Intelligencer says,|the belief that the Attorney Gene 09""‘”._"‘":‘? i ke T i J I Nanking, The vanguard has reached Building Permits have decided to suspend operations|could not properly serve on the/ i _'I‘r'fi"w' .-in km;!‘ ;-'I“\ ‘:n\v 4 8 1 ngyang, 25 miles from the con- Cemetery [ tor one week to stabilize the market. [Board but afrer more careful study ".;"“k :'l' ‘" st '.'_‘[‘I S bl contration camp at Pengpu, Streets and sidewalks : five day week to begin after|he had changed his opinion and was| (107K e B R allbA kv o ! Nationalist guerrilla are belteved Miscellaneous — (In - Detail shutdown and continue until|convinecd it was not only proper ""'l:'..',‘,',',",".‘,'.'?,..m.’.'..,, Ws b hae A : ’ (o have penetrated beyond Fengyang. Total §151,420 77| The Washington State Chamber of Pratt Sides with Frame gkt Sleiels ity sl ¥ y chowfu, the junction of th eTientsin, Disbursements Commerce has fssued a statement| Senator Pratt agreed with Senator||oy JHie Detwect mow and oo | Pukow and Lunchai railroads, a Miscellaneous 12,72 \dorsing the shutdown and declar-{ Frame that the Attorney General| VN L 00 { : ’ ’ rateeic . point where Gen. Chang Streets 6 ing that virtualiy no Washington jshould be a member but gave slight . : . G Tso-Lin must meet them in a major Coal timber operators made a profit last{ly different reasonms. It is proposed. ] % 2N : yengagemant.or forfeit ‘hin posision de Wharf Gl vear. he pointed out, to (ry out an en ! AN S i Commanderin-Chief of the Northern Schools 8,903, —_———— tirely new experiment in Government { o) 3 armies. Nearly half of the northern City Hall 3.8 [undér thiz scheme. To reject the a8 % . forces ars digging in there. Palice 848.35 1 { Attorney General and veplace him 2 i z Health 2 with the Governor, he said, would X s 5 More Britishers Going Indigent not be ut all in line with the purport H it B LONDON. April 2. -The British Fire Department of the measure. If it is 1o becom Tl | , i i governmont has decided to send an City Clerk & Magistrate, E law, he added, it should be sub- | DETROIT, Mich. April 2. Prose PHILIP S, .MUR,I.{‘\»\ ' fadditional de to Shanghai. Taxes and Election | | stantiaily in the same form as it is{cuting Attorney Toms hi ceepted International Viee-President, - . 075 S Ty Lighting and Cleaning wanted by its supporters so that & |the report of the. Ford organiz United Mine Workers - 'vl |\. \RLIE Streets 1 2 thorough trial may be made of it|investigators that evidence indicates of Americs. Liditor, Unifted Mine Workers’ Cambndge Wins Annual Hydrants p LOS ANG . Cal, April 2 - |and. in case of failure, responsibility { that Ford was injured by an accident = Jouwinal Crew Race from Oxford Cemetery 3 G| Constance Talmadge, screen star, to-|for it cannot be charged to anyon:fand not by design. Prosecutor Toms = - 3 l.“;‘rul;.\'i ; {day denied reports that sho wasjelse has abandoned his plan for a sopa prore s 5 SUTNEY, Cambridg Aprit 2 School Bond Interest i about to file suit for divorce from | n \ogizes Wickersham vate official investigation M II s B k Lo i - [Captain Alstair MacKintosh, her sec \\-m t,,-izk‘:"o,f S iAtiens beantor > i uluionaire denator ro "); o “"‘ l”"‘ ,"',’”“““\'; Rl KL Total 160,981 16 [ond husband Hunt protested against the Dunn i ~ s foe Taiilt one dURTPRE D N B Wharf Account | “I haven't even thought about it."!amendment. His was the longest I ’1 " I B o I) ’l R . g et Outstanding Wharfage $ 97800 she declared when reached at her|spesch made by any member during DE PlNEDn Is ; orced to orrow ouar e Trhamen pshEs el EH Outstanding Dockage suite in the Cayler Apartments. “Iithe Senate's consideration. He di s : ot To BRI MU RS Outstanding Water 2375 [have been too busy working on pic-| gressed. apparently, into a eulogy 3 e Y e ke SRR TR Outstanding Wharfage, Fish 10000 tures and making preparations for|of Judge Wickersham and a verbail WASIHINGTON, April 2 Ui TOweC W Sh GRS S s : Ustarting on another picture.” {assault on those who have opposed States Senator James Couzens, Rop-|loving [ declared to have been the $1,090.70| Miss Talmadge last fall admitted latter and his political allies ublican of Mic 1, milllonatve,-was. driving force. The crews rowed pe Long-shore Sheets 106.05 [she and *MacKintosh were separatod| The people of Alaska have asked i forcedoyGsterdine i SHERIOW ~hotars fecily from start to fintsh keeping . | b | GALVESTON, Texas, April 2 | | i th lish style ~———fand that a friendly divorce suit would |for the Controller Bill and a Board . . Ap could eat lunch ) Total $1,00¢ h,‘- filed. lof Control exactly as provision is|Commander Pinedo, Italian fiier i nator Couzens forgot that the e g i rarw ing | making a quadri-continental flight |,- nate restaurant, where Senators y » Coal Account —— jmade for it, and an overwhelming | FEEAE o BRSO ¥ i Texas Coeds Outstanding Coal $2.450. nu‘ . & !majority of Alaskans are solidly for b LGl have char ccounts, has B | 4 e Big Shake-up Made in it “he declared. He defended the |0rning two hours nd Ao He met Senator Willinm i Agree Knees § Total %3 "fl‘ public career of Judge Wickersham, [Winutes aiter e ving w Orleans. Loutside the Capitol Building g N By » Seor v anton : California Dry Force lini (o, o e avest i | Three United States Aty planes Bititoed - that "t Taa TOEL iw Are Naughty i of his life unselfishly working for[oined the Italtan aviator as Wil oo e Aprll Goy, | DOOK at home and needed a doilar = $13.00 5.490.7 In\\(lwn Cal., April 2 !vln Territory and is even now de.|Plane approached Galveston Dan Moody: HES: Grddred teteinanas | . Boveh. replied That is an old: FORT WORTH Tex., April 2.- Due Ketchikan Wharf Co.. 3 [ Northern California’s Federal Prohi- | voting himself to its service | RN Rangers to Borger, Panhandle ofl | 500 I believe you brok: butiThe average feminine knee is not a - - {bition Army has only 10 agents left| He attacked those who are op- 100 Miners boom town, to stay “until the here isa dollar. This is the proud thing of beat April 1, 192 04 |[following 11 more re ions upon |posed to Wickersham as cannery fin-| - 1e unvoniitiomilly suntender moinent of my life And the efiect of an uncovered Special Fund |demands of ~Administrator K. R.|terests or their tools. The newspa-|fiscape from B T EERAR Y Sent i akdwer ) —————— on the average masculine ming Ricolnta ;s 9 {Rohner. This brings the total dis-|pers, with other agents of the in smplimentary to the owner Disbursements 2 als since Bohner agsumed | arests, are fighting the propositions | Explosion : jlartl or martial liw which) Seattle Newspaper Sued ¢ bit of exposed anatomy Gov. Moody says he doe not he-| announced that since his|put forth by him, doing it for pav | e Sl L SR For $145,000 Damages "/ ciore the lengih of every skin i shape-up he will start reor-|“If they dont serve such interest COKEBURG, Penn., April 2. Six' o [ b Jchould be sufficient to conceal the ] . " $300.00 | ganization immediately | where are they going to get their|miners were Killed, five inured and "5 e TTo ) e i o : oy KDEC from public gazo Suitiangile Sohon, Bonda e R B [support®” he asked. In closing e |d00 rescued from the Cokeburg mine 0% JO0HS S seons “fw\”;l‘.mxulylm JAbrin 2. Damages f0r) " Coeds at Texas Christtan Univer. Bonds ; 50| Four Chicago Election {dectared the day will come when thelof the Ellsworth Collieries when a ih USSR 0 EREECT LG 000 are asked in a Tibel suit o fsity vecenty concurred with the b Territory will build a monument fo]coal dusi explosion oceurred ar fol. ¢t B EEG LA (CHREHITERIAL 0 dolansen tounder of the Mil- above line of reasoning, as announc: $307.50 | Officials Go to Jail| wickersham and when those Wwho lowing an entry shot to loosen coal oty PEC L ENE s out “’;)x e Sule Iflj{ azamsi the Se-joq 1y Moo Sadio Beckham, matron e Dok {have opposed and fought his policies ) trapped in a room. A Jarge rock |t FUE SRR AR i D o Lendlines of |OF Jarvis ilall, and unanimously vet. & Dibter Then €. Tomnas o S[“Wv\ CHICAGO, Apm 2.—Four election | will be dead and their very names|fell discharging —explosives —which! o ovmed it overnight into a| ““I‘ \‘]_-l»‘ *I'» "l ”" ”"‘.'MI tha: no dignitied college girl President of the Alaska Road Com. officials have each been sentenced |forgotten caused the coal dust explosion Leity of 13,000 Wi i !¢ |should indulge in garments so briat mission regarding the Government |to one vear in the County Jail, each| Dunn Defends Amendment e, [ The slaving of two Deputy Sher-! ,M'”‘N 1 Blleres the articles andg jo® ‘Ohisxnose. (he.Kipa dock that has been authorized at the |for misconduct in handiing ballots| The surprise of the afternoon wu< HALIBUT PRICES ffs carly vesterday morning cul-ly S Kisal ik e Sib. 0% site of the Femmer dock, was read.|in the election last November. lin the vigor with which Senator| PRINCE RUPERT. B. C. ADril |5 q00 0 fong reign of cvime andi et 0es SRR DG RO S0 y; TR Col. Steesa called attention 1o a| S [Dunn defended his amendment and | —Fighty thousand pounds of halibut [ ity * gour peace ofticers have Pl 1 I mposed by fmine e } ‘"‘ previous agreement on the part of | PHILADELPHIA, April 2.—Three|agsailed the thing sought to be | were mlnlrhn v; IA()lla_\' American hali-{pe 07 olin T within a year. There ik Iv”“w;””h.“. 4 I wd| ""n“"“ Naval the city to put the approach to ,1.,.”921“("‘1':4 have heen sentenced to a complished in some of the originalibut sold for & and 14.50 cents and |y, ce peen numerous slayings iniiy J00 PERELEE 2 Ok i . proposed dock ftrom Willoughby Ave-|Year each in jail for padding the|provisions of the measure. “What is |Canadian for 7 and 1270 cents. | i0Ce 0 and dives of vice i . il Lease Order | | Club, which was @ charitable oting list with 189 names in the{the use of vou trying to talk about | B all forms flournoshed with the riff|; ”,“,“”” o :.“p:, .’|Hu the time || [s Revoked (Continued on I‘aze %pwn) prima 'vlectiun of September, 1925.(the practices of Democracy and its raft which the country attracted by 1o ! g § hvevoke I ticles ipeared had been hur t 3 President Coolidge has revoked BAKER SAYS AMERICA o o han | ‘Health Examinations fiI)r ::urlluml \l(;\’ I|tte Executive Order of Hreatll the measure through, petitions sent || mployees | D!7the; Lvolution dent Harding under which For- ¥ WARRED FOR RIGHTS: veovie wno had never sen the|| THERE IS STILL TIME TO | Alaska Cannery Employ Is Chief Cause mer Secretary Fall made naval | bill and knew m;lhln:: of whalhll con- | REGISTER! The registration | G I e Bl A i ;»n ’\ 1568 “ml. L h‘.lxs « (lxllwl n: “They I i a a " % . SE B, Ap 2 . c 5 a.. Ap 2. -—~ Al hoth criminal and cf court 'l:;:e‘:&.. \r:,‘:.\ 1‘..:'6:1:"1»;:: ‘de;n‘:"“; books will be open until 9 o'clock ' i Xorhwest Chief of the stadents strike looms at the OKla-| uctions. This revokivg of the INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. April 2. —given to the rescuing of unyl)ml,\l(ome back. Threats are no good. | this evening. IF YOU HAVF; United States 1-..)|.‘|;.)n_u].:||n| Service u!._.n.‘.l Haptist U .m».‘,}m as the lead-| Jiarding order takes thy leasing | The United States entered the World |else’s canse. That is a xood way to get my sup.| | NOT REGISTERED DO IT NOW! |has announced that health examina-jers have petition (he trustees re o naval oil lands out of the | ‘\\'.u only lbe(inmlaq (iernu:n xuhlmar- “Those who »l-anrlfk-wl (h;:lr time, [ port—but in the wrong way! I mlyi Any citizen who has been in "”"\* nd '\l‘llflnllu--"'“";]I'v"“l:l_‘llr;vh.\ ;',‘,‘,’.""“ - Il-y»;l)r;:gillf.lx' |mr ot ',"¢ hands of the Department of the nes torpedoed this country's ships, |strength and substance, perhaps, did |willing to meet them in my own' | Alaska for one i Y eMUOX CERL IO F01 DL L SR SOAS S0P TR Linter Nowton D. Baker, Secretary of War|not argue it all out. Those who gave|qistrict on that issue. Let them A 1 for &l mon{;‘: ;:d“:" 'L'!E continued In the same manner in-jing evolutiog B e e <-—v—--—h under President Wilson, says in their lives may have had but anlcome!" he declared. | | mea ) Whether s | | ,ygurated '\I“' L "‘_"‘I”*\"I""* e r. Harry eVighne, | article in the American Legion | inexplicit consciousness of the thingl Then turning to his proposal, he | ' Dame 1s on the tax rolls or not, |request of Monthly on “Why We Went to War.” {at stake. Yet in the last analysis,'pointed out that the Attorney Gen.; may vote at the municipal elec- |of Juneau. Alaskin Health Com- ”’WICE A [‘IILLIOZ\ AIRE ’ those who died in France died for 1 is elected as general counselor | | tion next Tnmay_nomnn i missio Scntimental considerations are! e ame great cause as those who|gee the people of Alaska, as an ad- oo R TR L T e B e i e o KRS oS M oAl HAVE ABOISTERED B Form Operator s MAN DIES PENNILESS tary. the guns of Bunker Hill and York-|Now they come along with a nrono | BEFORE 9 0'CLOCK TONIGHT. d P N 1/ i N “We could permit ourselves to be|town that answered and overcame|gtion to make him also a judicial | All taxpayers, whether on real Sentence enitentiary JBM B blockaded by a threat and terrorized | the torpedo of the submarine.” ofticer and an administrative execu. | | estate or personal property, other- | | LOS ANGEI Cal., April 2| , 2 into u surrender of our national| Baker takes issue with the view|ijve: 1o give him three jobs instead | wise qualified as electors can| |Mrs. Minuic Foox Hines. alleged baby| MANISTIE Mich. April 2. Rich |totaled several millions but he laat rights, or we could defend them,”|that the country’s declaration of war of one. s the School Bonds April farm operator. has been semtenced ard (. Peteérs. once the richest of (them through profitless investments. he writes. “There was no propa.|was tinged with commercial con-|” g powers proposed for Attorney || VO'¢ 01 the Sehool Bonds Ap: from one to fourtecn vears in San|lumber millionaires in Michigan, died | Peters once owned 1hore standing ganda about this. Nobody debated |siderations, and concludes that “only General under the measure, he o 19. But to do so they mmst re‘- Quentin penitentia for forgery and | last night at the age of 95, blind timbor than any one in Michgian whether the French or British need-|time can answer fully the question |yorted. could be exercised properly| ister. DO IT NOW! Clarence Hines, her second hushand, and virtually penniless and owned several sawmills, three ed our help or ought to have it.|of whether, after all, we did accom+| o ———— —— | [has besn sentenced from one to tenf Two fortuncs were amassed by railroads and a ship line and em- Not & moment's consideration was plish what we set out to de.” (Continued on Page Two.) e o years for embezzlement, Peters between 1867 and 1915 and ployed more than 3,000 persons,