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VOL. XXIX., NO. 4463. “ALL, THE NEWS ALL THE T JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APR e IL 25, 1927, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS S¢ PRICE TEN CENTS DEATH TOLL FLOOD AREA GROWING SCHOOL BONDS T0 BE ISSUED FOR BUILDING Council Committee and School Board Acts—Prob- ably Purchased Locally. School Coun- Board, At a joint meeting of the Committee of the Juneau City ¢il and the Juneau School held yvesterday, plans were adopted for the prompt issuance of $100.000 bhonds to insure the immediate pur chase of the site for the new school house and the early commencement of work upon the building Both the Councilmen School Board members desire permit the people of Juneau ami n ihoring communities to purchase the bonds which will be offered fo. sale in odd lots as stated in an| advertisement appearing in The Em pire today Inquiries by Yiave been so anticipated the seribed locally days The bonds will side the tervitory, unless dents fail to take up the Arrangements will be week (o purchase the lower half o Block 22, and the negotiations for the purchase of the two lots that are desired in the upper half of that block are expacted to be closed wit! in the next few days. In the event those negotiations fall through, an alternative plan as been adopted that will result in some chang:s 1w/ the school structure suggested by | Architect Harlan Thomas on his re- cent trip to Juneau. That plan will Y follow~d out in the main, but the school house will be placed entirely on the lower half of the block and| e gymnasium will occupy the twH! upper floors of the building instead | of extending into the upper half cf, the block FIFTY MARINES LANDED, HANKOW Chinese Pickets Attempt to Remove . American Em- ployees Standard Oil the and purchasors that it be over nexte 14 H prospectiv numerous issue will within the | out- o8 not he placed local issue made this | some SHANGHAT, marines were when Chinese pickets attempted to Temove three American employees| of the Standard 0il Company .mrl‘ take them to the headquarters of the General Labor Union. Foreigners hovered about erfront last night The tension exists, Wireless dispatches from Hankow say trenches are being dug on the| outskirts of the city and two |\Ill|)l)‘ suns are being mounted on a hill| at Wuchang trained toward Hunku\«vl‘ Fifty April 25. it Hankow | anded the wat- greatest | | Peary Fired Upon E SHANGHAI, April 25. Chinese | fired upon the American destroy TPeary near Kiukiang yesterd able to locate the source, stroyer did not return the fire imultaneously three British w ships silenced Chinese al -kers neay Shinkiang with a heavy bombard- ment. the de e — TAYLOR GOES TO YAKUTAT P. Taylor, Alaska Road Com- mission Engineer, left on the Ad- miral Watson for Yakutat. He will inspect the property of the oil com-! pany now drilling. Mr. Taylor will be absent about two weeks. ———————-—— HIGHWAY LEAVES Capt. Ed. Clark, of the Highway, U. 8. Bureau of Public Roads boat left this morning at 10:30 o'clock on a trip to Wrangell and Petersburg He wlll be gone A’ll)llf a week ito be a | Hoonal ! Retriever | quarter |and foreman of the |ish The engagement of Countessine Marina Volpi, Italy’s Minister of Finance, and Prince Charles Ruspoli The wedding was schedu’zd to take place in reported abroad. Venice in the Fall. NEW CONTROLLER BILL DEFEATED BY 4 TO 4 VOTE Latest COI][;‘OIIC‘!' Bill Loses —Memorial to Move Capital Beaten. For the the Senate today troller Bill, Senator Steel's latest measure calling for clection of t Controller being lost on a tie vote. The lineup on the issue was anchanged, Senators Brown, Frame, Hunt and Steel voting yes. and Sen- itors Dunn, Jensen, Pratt and President Howard, no The measure was read second time, advanced on mdar to 1 reading. vote tuken without debate same vote defeated the troller Bill, and likewiso President Howard's ruling on the| bill passed by the House and re-| jected on a point of Hrder ’ Defeat Capital Memcrial Speaker Smith's memorial for re- {moving the capital from Junean to Auchor or Seward met its face «t the hands of enate this morning It. too advanced | from second to third rexding under suspended 1ules o meer the Senq towal axe, being defeated hy a vots i five to three. Senators Dunn, | Hunt, Pratt, Steel and Jensen vot-| ing against, and Brown, Howard and| Frame for it. There wus no debate, weceding the vote | Three other measures he Senate's guillotine today ! mesure anthoriz the legal organ.-| zation of poitical parties and pre-| {scribing how sneh i | <hould be effected, nam g nomine for delegate as unational third time this session rejected a Con- ol the { the cal the “The first Con sustained for the and | marched to! Al daughter of ot | iBoy for a Day Dad’s Role 'On May Fourth CHICAGO. bhoy Hv' may be May April 25— Dad again for a day roller skating to ¥ 4 with his son keeping pacs Balos bt lliamsport, Pa., he will obey the “knuckles up” command of his boy at a community marbl tournament Claremont, N. H., hs will find out. at a track meet, whet- her he can run as far or jump as high as that youngster of his. In many {other cities he will go hiking with his and other lads May 4 is the day set aside Week for fathers and recreation in common thousand bankers, lawyers chants will go roller their sons, according to Colonel € Seymour Bullock, a director of th Recreation Association of América, and every male parent is expected |to tind some sport which he and hi oncan play together - [FLOATING CANNERY RETRIEVER IS HERE; JUNEAU, HEADQUARTERS ) Retriever, of Packing Co., Capt. F rived in port this and other ports of call is making Juneau the for the summer. The Retriever is a floating cannery and will be in and out of here fre quently this summer, shipping a! the canned salmon from Juneau. Capt Wright is also the owner of the boat cannery. — —,—— HALIBUT PRICES PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.. April 25.—Two hundred and thirty thou- sand pounds of halibut werc sold here today. American nalibut sold for 7 and 15.10 cents and Canad- 7 and 13 cen fan for 7 A. MacNeil, of Columbia Provincial Police, ar- rived in Juneau last week in con- nection with some special work with the Alaska Game Commission He will leave on one of the early boats for the South is going worl in Bov to enjoy Several and mer skating with the Red nk Wright, morning head Sergt. the Brit- Sweeps Over By JOSEPH E, SHARKEY GENEVA, April 25. For many years the world has been hearing about the psychic—psychic this and psychic that—without perhaps real- ly knowing what it means. But at all events it seeme clear that a psychic wave of war preparedness has hit Europe. Europe is nervous. It has been borne back and forth on a wave of preparedness without anybody real- ly knowing why. It is just psychic. Nobody wants war; nobody can stand war, economically or financially, yet in many countries the nerve cer- ters are taut with apprehension, Yet a glance across the European — BN ychic Wave of Preparedness Nervous Europe on explains why the wave e. Relations between Great tain and Russia are frankly mitted here to be bad. There almost daily allegation that the So- viet is the real force behind the existing civil war in China and es specially behind the anti-foreign movement there. Travelers from the French Riviera tell of rumors picked up there that Italy has not abandoned hope of soms day regaining the French province of Savoie and that little misunderstand- ings between France and Italy (though the French deny this) have actually led the French to reiuforce (Continued on Page Twe.) is Bri. ad- is an | | lost two to s A hill umm; | M {the present jury act, by requiring| all the names of legal voters to be| nen for theirwgspective parties, w placed in the furs box before the| drawing of regular fury panels, was indefinitely postponed. The third! casure to lose out was a bill giv-| municipalities wide latitude of |power in abatement of public nul ;“un.» the vote being two for and| [six against ; Passes Eight Measures measures were passed by enate, four orviginat in thef and four in the Senate. In-| in these were: an appropria $7.000 for the crection of a house at Yakutat small | The New |appropriation for reliel of the | York World, { Moose Lodge to reimburse both supporters of Gov. Alfred [abor and expenditures Smith for the Democratic nomin PlonserstiHome for President, say Democratic srs are seriously discussing the lation of a round robin among leaders (hroughout the country eall ing upon both Gov. Smith and Wit liam G. McAdoo 1o withdraw as can- didates for the Presidential nomina tion. The Times quotes some lead-| ers saying that the withdraws have been asked for “to save the| party from defeat which will be in evitable should they remain in th race."” LOCAL DRIVE FOR $500 T0 START TUESDAY Juneau Chapler to Stage Campaign for Miss. Flood Sufferers. The active campaign to raise the|to drink in defiance of the law and $500 asked of the Juneau Chapter|declared that the only way to get rid of the American Red Cross to aid of Prohibition was through nullifica- in the relief work in the Mississippi|tion. “It is a minority act and legal River flood section will start to-{tyranny. It has proved a failure and |t morrow with a house to house can-|will not and vass by a committee appointéd by!declared Da B. M. Behrends, Chairman of the| Wheeler Chapter. The committee is made|successful up of R. E. Robertson, Allen S]IAI | which js . S. Pullen, and B. the liquor M| Nation lief fund is in response to| N a proclamation issued by President| SURGERY EMPLOYED TO Calvin Coolidge asking for §$5,-| SAVE MT, VERNON TREES 000,000 for the relief of the flood | suffer It is estimated that tlu-u‘ WASHINGTON, April are 1,0 000 homeless and is constantly growing. {in an effort to preserve or According to Associated Press dis-|[the health of nearly 100 fine patches received today, Secretary of aging trees at Mount Vernon, som Commerce Herbert C. Hoover, rep-|of which date back to George Wasl resenting Presicent Coclidge, ar-|ington's residence there. ¢ rived in Memphis, Tennessee, to| Dr. Charles Sargent, director assist in relief work. [of the Arnold Arboretum of Har-' e, vard Universily, has been ealled in | JOHN RITTENHOUSE IS {to direct the operations, and work VISITOR IN JUNEAU men have been busy for severa! —— {weeks. The crowns of some of the John Rittenhouse, well known San|oller trees have been lowered to Francisco engineer and resident of|permit the roots to raise the syp to Pebble Beach, who with Mrs. Ritter.- wn. hranches more easily. and a spe- house spent soveral months in Al cial tree food has been placed about aska last summer, arrived in Junean|the hases with the hope that they on the Admiral Watson. He came|vill be brought into a flourishing north on a business trip and will|condition once more and will be ahle be in Juneau for several days before|to survive another hundred years ur‘ AND M'AD0O TO GET OUT OF WAY : Some Democratic Leaders| See Only Defeat if Both !itonse Leaders Stay in Race. ;:.u.. of | school light | the { iouse a NEW YORK York Times and New April on on mm (cflmnln{ 1 Kight.) HISS WHEELER DURING DEBATE | “ WITH DARROW, tl-baloon Official and! Criminal Attorney Clash Over Prohibition. NEW YORK, April 25 Wayne | Wheeler, of the Anti-Saloon League, ‘\\Am Inm.-tl and hissed Saturday night said Prohibition was achie: u| m a majority vote. This was |the debate with Clarence Darrow, 'umm« criminal attorney ciren iy as An in ta- Wheeler was interrupted by loud cries of hat of the soldiers who | were overseas? They could not vote.” Darrow boldly championed the right | deported shops, ¢ w. asserted Prohibition despite wet propaganda conceived and fostered by |¢ interests. He claimed the|! was still preponderantly ¢ { 5. — Surgory this list|and dietetics are being resorted to returning south, 50, priests revolutionary not been enforced,”|authoritie: holds was | breaks of in the history of ITwo Women Killed in vestore | Miss Harriet but | Schau lors Girl E;scapes Shadt‘)w of Death That Pursues Her < Tragie death seems to follow Mrs. Joy Bright Hancock. Her first husbandy €harles G Little (left), was killed in the ZR-2° disaster r second, Commander Lois H, Hancock (right), died in the Shevandoah disaster, and a fiance was killed in an air- plane fall. But. due to her vitality, she has just won her own fight with death in a Philadelphia hospital, her suffering, a suffering born of rebellion against a ruthless and un- reasoning ftate. His sympatiy rip- ened Into love, and Hancock took the place of his buddy in her heart. Hancock, urmindful of her pre monitions, kept to the air. H. was pleased when opportunity permitted him to sail on the Shenandoah when the dirigible started off to display itself to the nation, Again death struck through the air. The dirigible broke into pleces and left the crew dead and injured in the foothills of Ohio, Recently Mrs. Hancock was forced to undergo 2n operation. Physiciar knowing the ehocks she had sw talned, feared that she would not be able to resist the added shock, But Mrs. Hancock wis determincd to hest the enemy that b 80 real to' her. Now she Ing, This time death was —Death, striking through the air, has thrice robbed Mrs, Joy Bright Hancock of the man she loved. By cruel coincidence, a husband, a flance and her second husband were killed in the same manner. Mrs. Hancock, the beautiful daugh ter of State Senator William Han- cock, of New Jersey, was the bride of Charles G. Little when he sailed as Lleutenant on the famous ZR-2. When the dirigible crashed to earth near Hull, England, in August, 1921, it carried him to death. Time healed the girl's heart, She fell in love with a dashing aviator. Their wedding date was set. On the eve of the ceremony his plane fell and his life went out, Commander Louls H. Hancock, a war comrade of her first husband, comforted the girl. Ie urcerstood “Pmmwwnm (LIN Spectal). ‘Unrest Prevails in Poland As Hmlth of l)u‘lulnr Fails: BLAME PHlESTS | warsaw | culation as to what will happen | Poland when Joseph Pilsudskj become rife with reports that MEXICO Poland. April health of the marshal is but encouraging and that tired man Having | Since the Pilsudski eight Archbishops and Bi-|last May the narshal has held ecuted one priest, the Mexi.| country in the palm of his hand an government is seeking out other| More and more of late there alleged to he implicated in|been rumblings of growing movements Despite | Hon in vavious groups that aim he vehement denials of the Catholic | De preparved 1o assume power the Mexican government|€venL of “an emergency Lttt teanoraihls o b Lack of harmony among ymen. For the first time Mexico, the Catholic | He hurch is without a governing boay | (he n Mexico [y oo g he CITY, April 25 coup d'etat et | the by @ the is supported country, but personal create other for himself Pilsudski is a man of today morrow may take care of itself Plane Crash, Vancouver mnc lack of consisience of the | sudski cabinet is partly explained the lack of unity its bers, as royalist la rate with difficulty leaders, These dissensions manifest by the vidual members tion to the policy a whole, Roman Dmowski, deavoring to form a PIONEER TOM WARD DEAD | !/o0 Which would be tae 1 ZOVer| o) sysfen fie Tom Ward, well known pioneer| ';',,:";','::J::, Actateraliin;. the Interior, died in Iditarod.! gon™See Dilsudski's shoes on April 10 of pnenmonia. His fun-iye,q of a movemeht which has eral was under the auspices of theiociomal form of a fascisti. The Inditarod P'ioncers of, Alaska. O jyiry of Dmowski has taken a which he had been Sed nounced anti-communist aspect (\Ee llxltn{:n')»;l 06 s g view of the Soviets, too, having ord of “the pioneers’ dea ready lain plans with the hope received here by Karl Theile in a|i " L S telegram from Al Walsh of Iditarod.’ [(8 ontinued on I‘uge Eignl; majority support ties than VANCOUVER, Wash., April | Franklin and Mrs. Zola | both of Portland, Ore., passen- . were killed, and Danny Grecce, pilot. was seriously injured when a | ommercial plane crashed on the raii- | tracks near Pearson Field. The went into a tail spit and hit | first on a railroad right-of-way S with the often activities of in open of the cabinet road plane who has bec Nnos¢ h strong o |h. hope as of Organiz Spe- | relin- have an thjon anything is the but | injured havo | opposi- is pure-! He has made no attempt | sentiment | To- pit.| mem vners collahe socialist ar indi- contradic- n en end 5 tol iha the act- pro- 2itul TWO HUNDRED KNOWN DEAD FLOOD REGION Fate of Othres Doubtful — v Reported Hoover Ar- in Dla rict. MM jthe tlood | towns clat Tenn., April Waters swept over and farming communities mates of the probable dead | reached 200 and the fate of others is the far flung zectors is doubtful. Thousands have heen rescued fron {perilous situations while other thou sunds ave roported still marooned, hronghout the flooded valleys ‘x'imv of bouts continue pescue wo i sald that it is impossible nvpm te Drainage Canal to reach reons marooned on the levee top ar ‘\\ ayside, Laer ureed on top a mile ed th to t P orti- night by aw steamoer V! off 500, | s ave felt the Delta County and Vicksburg warnings and Secreiary of Hoov has ar resentative of flood rolie Cap sere Henry ms from the m Wayside hash up the Myer, levee pilor canal ke for inhabitants between Greenvi who refused 1o heed leave their homes, Comme Herbert . rived as personal rep President Coolidge in of 23 Are Drowned VILLE. Miss., April 25— ce white women and chil- dren who sought refuge in a house at Wintervills, five miles north o! here, w swept to death in the flood wite sald a definite repor to Ma’ J. 8. Allen, of the Army Enginoor Corps. ‘Allen said & conservative estimats the total drownfngs in the dalta is at' least 200 with the pos- of 1 actual number to be siderably aroater, el i e here. DAMAGED PLANE " LANDED SAFELY; L LIVES SAVED World Endurance Flier Chamberlin, Warned in Air, Proves Expert. GRES | Twen v il uf w put into effect | MINEOLA, Warned white in landing gear was ordinary lanling trous, Clarence enduronce flier, [down pertecily N. % April 25— the air that his broken and an would be disas- Chamberiin, world brought his plane T saving the lives of {two young eirl passengers, his me- {ehanic and his own As tie Wr ltook-oft yesterday ing ar foll it Bellanca_ plane part of the land- Other planes immed- liately took (he alr and warned |Chamberlin. One pilot was holding wheel aloft a signal The \nn.lmni crawled from the cockpit and Chamberlin held his feet as he dangled in midair in an unsuccess- to ful attempt to repair the damage ! The plane circled in the air for hour until an ambulapce arrived the field The girls were bhraced covered with padding to pre- vent injury. As the plane finally ground t careened, wing, but the wnd a slid to the smashing a oceupants were not of will be repaired im| scheduled hop-off New York to Paris The plune time for the 15 Thusday on the ,‘, flight >-oo 'ul lowers of Pilsudski is pronounced, »GAFFNEY DvaRs of MOOSE MEMORIAL SERVICE ADDRESS Territorial Representative Thomas A. (affne of Nome, delivered the address yesterday afteruoon at the annual Moose Memorial Services at the Mo Hall and it was heard {hy one of the largest crowds ever attending a memonial service' in Juneau Ve complimented the Moose Lodge n their wonderful work done 'u (he past ye toward their home at Mooseheart and he cited an instance of the work when they car: of a family at Nome. Mr. iaftney, though not a member of the 'ge, expressed his desire to hel ¢m i any way he could and ©'s nterested in the work they Iw doing throughout the United | States. Mr:. C i \ by a8 1. MacSpadden and Har- land King endered several delight- tul vocal solos. Henry Roden ad- dressed the audionce ou the wonder- work accomplished by the or- gaunization. in al- of | b e

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