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

—— VOL. XXX., NO. 4474, “ALL TIIIa NLW ALASKA ALL THE TIME” JUNE.AU ALASKA SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BIG FUND NEEDED, FLOGD VICTIMS CIVIL WAR IN NICAPAGUA 1S BELIEVED OVER Personal Represcnlalivc of Coolidge Has Laid Down Peace Terms. WASHINGTON, Stimson, personal President Coolidge, that the Nicaragua and end. He has transmitted to the State Department a summary of the terms for peace laid down a con-| ference between Liberal and Conser- | vative leaders. | The peace terms ! Ma Henry representative of expresses belicf Civil War is at provide for dis-} TOM TAGGART PICKS BANKER FOR NOMINATION Indiana Tieaders: Latinh Boom for Evans Woollen for Demo. Leadcrshlp. Former Alaskans, Man and Wife, Go to Prison May Mrs. Ella aged 5 years, lifelong of Seattle and Alaska, to the State Prison at la Walla last night to serve from one year to 13 months hav ing boen convicted on a charge of operating a bootlegging joint She and her husband, John O'Brien, aged 61, were tried and convicted last month. O'Brien started his sentence two weeks ago. O'Brien is a veteran Alaska pm-umuu 1 PARKS 1SSUES INDI/ Thomas party leaders -andidacy of ‘napolis banker, for the Demoeratic | Presidential nomination. Woollen | wvas the Democratic nominee to| jucceed the late Senator Samuel M. Ralston, but was defeated by Senator Arthur R.' Robinson yublican, by a plurality of Farm organization representativ Ind., and ve May 7.— 100 launched ‘Woollen, the tem Mo | suads armament of both factions. A porary, truce will enable Gen. cada, Liberal Commander, to per, his followers to surrender their arms to the American marines. This is disclosed by the State Department. ORDERED TO DISBAND MANAGUA, Nic., May 7.—Gen.| Moncada, Command n-Chief of| , the Liberal forces, has issued aj| proclamation to the troops to dis- band and Has urged them to turn over their arms to the United} States Marines in Nicaragau as soon as possible. This proclamation, it is said, follows that the understand ing is the United States will use| force to restore peace It is understood the announce-| ment was received unfavorably by several Liberal leaders. — ., SNYDER CASE T0 JURY ON MONDAY| el ! NEW. YORK, May 7.-The jury will_get the Anyder murder case on Monday. Testimony was con- cluded yesterday at the closing ses-| sion of the trial's third week and adjournment was taken until Mun- day. Mrs, Ruth Snyder, contra to expectations, did not take the stand In redirect examination. | Gov. Gen. Wood Shaken | Up in Auto Accidesit|? MANILA, M: 7.—Governor Gen-| eral Wood was badly shaken and, narrowly escaped serious injury to- day when returning to Manila from| Bagulo. His native chauffeur shunt-; ed the automobile into a diteh to, avoid hitting a pony cart. The automobile went over rock pile} before landing in the ditch 'I‘hs-l steering gear broke further on gl\-‘ ing additional trouble. >, Boy, Kept Alive By Friends, Loses Battle a ROANOKE, Va., Boothe, farmer lad, kept alive for more than two weeks| by artificial respiration, died this morning. Friends had worked in relays raising and lowering his arms to force air into his lungs which collapsed on April 21 when he was about to undergo an opera-| tion for a dislocated vertebrae. i SECOND CASE FAILS CHICAGO, 111, May 7.—The third failure in recent weeks of artificial respiration to save life after sus- taining it for several days, came last night in the death of Harry O. Thompson. He had been kept alive 60 hours. Several weeks ago, died after his friends had worked in relays to keep him alive for| 100 hours by maintaining respira- tion through pressure on the chest. May 7.—Walter who has been Albert Frick |and their children that all STATEMENT ON HOSPITAL DAY {Urges Alaskans to Join in Observance on May 12, by Visiting Hospitals. old Woollen's backers at the lunch-| 'on that Woolen is held in as much| steem by the farmers as former| jov. Frank O. Lowden of Iilinois.| A scout, representing Indiana! democrats, who had returned from | alifornia said that Democratic | leaders throughout the West were| casting their attentions toward Woollen e T TWO HUNDRED HAVE NARROW ESCAPE, DEATH Great: Northern Passenger Train Hits Trailer Load- ed with Piling. Alaska are urged ance of National ay, May 12, in today by very resi-| The people of to join in the obs Iln\[n!:ll Day, Thurs short statement v. George A. Parl dent of the Territory should be par- ticularly interested in the work ol hospitals,” the Governer said In Juneau, as is customa both St. Ann Hospital and the Federal hos pital will be open to the public. A the former institution arrangements are being made to present a fitting program which will be announced later. In his statement today Gov said ‘National Hospital Day served throughout America on day, May 12, 1927. On this day hospitals will be open for mspection and” people are requestefl to visit the institutions and familia » them- selves with the humanita 1 work of those who are in char; 1 “The evefit marks the anniversary |at {of the birth of Florence Nightingale and is a memorial to this famous nurse. All Alaskan communities in which hospitals are maintained should | give heed to this annive y anl make Hospital | notable. Every 6f the Territory should he interested in the work of these i nd it is urged that the people generally show their appreciation by visiting their locai hospit carrying m s of cheer to the afflicted and ng encourage- ) nent to those who are working for the benofit of mankind. We should show our appreclation of the im- portance of adequate hospital facilitivs | in every community by assisting in making the anniversary a success.” | PARENTS, CHILDREN ARE WARNED TODAY BY CHIEF GETCHELL Chief of today issued Parks Wakh., May T:=-Twd hun-| ons narrowly escaped death injury last night when an en- gine, tender and three cars of the Great, Northern train, bound for Se attle from Portland, were derailed and jack-knifed as the train struck stalled trailer loaded with piling | Kelso. | The driver of the trailer unsuc cessfully tempted to flag the trai The conductor and engineer d clared that they escaped death mir culonsly in the crushed The train tore up the tr striking the and piling flyin through the air splintered telegraph poles and sent them down amid a mass of twisted wires, The big locomotive over and the engineer call when a twisted the side of the cab Railroad officials a crew of 40 men repair the track. badly shaken, lumvul d on another teain, B Seattle Bricklayers Out | On Strike for More Pay SEATTLE, May 7.—The Brick- layers and Affiliated Trowel Trades, Getchell{out on what promised a one d parents strike while negotiations with the rifles| general contractors for a five i and sling shots will be seized and|weck and increase of $1 a ¢ anyone using them will have|continued today. Five hundred trouble. Several months ago, | onejars affected. lad was injured in the eye by a Was ismea” st that time that - tne| GOVERNMENT DOCK dangerous instruments CONSTRUCTION 'l'o START ON JULY 1| were under the ban. | Yesterday another lad was in-| Major L. E. Oliver, representing| the Alaska Road Commission, Dave jured in the eye, this time by a staple from a sling shot. Another Femmer, and Tom Knutson appeared before the Juneau City Council ut boy was injured on the cheek by a similar firing escapade and Chief the bi-monthly meeting last night, regarding the approach to the new Getchell is bound to stop the use of the air rifles, sling shots or other Government Dock. Major Oliver placed before the Council the blue devices before more serious injuries prints of the new dock and explained are committed. ———————— the situation fully. He said the gov- ernment construction will commence One of the. largest spruce trees ever felled in Maine was divided into about July 1. Tom Knutson and Dave Femmer are the property owners on will be o Thurs: !l parti turned had rail partly a close piercen it will two days to sOme m Seattle | Polic a W eorge rning to men | 31 PASSENGERS ABOARD ALASKA FOR THIS PORT PROHIBITION LAWS NEVER NEEDED IN SPAIN CAFES FILLED WITH FOLKS DRINKING COFFEE MADRID, May 7.—Prohibition laws will never have to be made in Spain. A drunked Spaniard is a rarity. Recent statistics show that an in. toxicated man is seen only about once in fifteen years. There are cafes everywhere and they are fill- ed with people from early morning —this means ten o'clock in Spain— until late at night, and this means two or three in the morning after, But no one i them is really “drink- ing,” in the American sense of the term. Coffee is called for more than any other liquid refreshment, that is, very little coffee with a great deal of milk, except in the case of the demitasse. Milk comes next. Al most every Spaniard drinks two o. three glasses of milk a day. A “va- queria,” or small dairy-depot, takes the place of the corner saloon in this country. When warm weather comes along more beer is taken in place of hot coffee and mllk, and al the “hor- six 12 foot logs. It was 33 jnches which the dock is to be built. It was in diameter and was cut on aa Aroostock cuunly farm. estimated last night that the cost of the approach to the dock, which is to be built by the city would not be more than $7,000. Fire Chief J. L. Gray approached the -council on behalf of the Juneau Fire Department for a new fire truck. The matter was given much discussion and put in the hands of the fire committee for a report at chaterias” open their doors. This is where one finds “horchata,” which is a Spanish specialty, a very refresh- ing drink made from a kind of al- monds, called, chufas.” A curious mixwre of beer and sparkling lemo-|next meeting. nade s also a favorite. Bothello Brothers filed the only Tea, which was almost unkmown [bid for the old White Truck and! here a few years ago, has now be-|received the car for $150. come a great favorite with the la-| , Councilman Freeburger, (‘hulrmxm1 dies who have even changed their|of the School Committee, reported | Spanish word, “merienda,” to “five|that $70,000 of the school bonds havu‘ o'clock.” been taken by -local people. Tea-time, however, in Spain, is| The question of selecting a night usually about the hour when many |patrolman was laid over until next Americans sit down to their eve-|meeting. Only one additional apph- ning meal, midway between the|cation had been filed. Fred Campen three o'clock luncheon and nine o'-|has been appointed temporary pat- clock dinner. For this is one of|rolman until the next meeting. the first things the traveller learns| Monthly bills were ordered paid, upon arriving. Hours for meals are IR = 8 TR about two or three hours later than| DENVER, Colo., May 7.—Eddy M in other countries. It all comes|Glidden, aged 63, cousin of Mrs. Cal | out the same in the end although|vin Coolidge, died here today. He the early riser is likely to find the|was president ‘of a music concern time long before the midday menl. ~here, take |y ) ceased wh other | Indi-! weaders of the American Red Cross and members of the President’s Cabinet, meeting in Wash- ippi River flood relief programme, Secretary of Navy Wilbur retary of Trcuaury Mellon (4). and \].Ihvl Bor ‘l.n an, director of the Red Ci ington to organize a great M of War Davis (1), ¢ Fails to Adopt Young Girls, But Leaves l/u'm Woney SALISBURY, Maryland, May Dr. Edward Tull, not who died last we to Edna Davy whom lwe unsuccess adopt. He gave her Ruth aged 15 years, a lifetime income of $300 a month. Both girls made their home with the Doctor for five years tried to sister D MARTIAL LAW IS DEGLARED IN BOLIVIA iStudents Stage Demonstration f\ll(l Tl'()()ps Cillle(] to Preserve Order. Martiai B in Bolivia Lanacion rioted and ainst th was e sage to'the tudents hy after the demonstrat government, martial clared law Mob Is Charged SANTIAGO, Chile, May 7. Seriou disorders in La are teported b the Chilean Minister to the Foreign Office. The report says the police and troops were compelled to cha the demonstrators who thronged be- fore the government Palace. Many of the rioters were wounded — . SEATTL Alaska saile May 7. Steamer at 9 o'clock this morning for Alaska ports with 262 passengers, the following for Ju- neau S Kotch, J. Popovich, James Carlson, W. George, Mrs. M. K Keller and son, Dr. Howe Vance, Florence Lewis, Francis Gibson, A E. arts, Sidney Marie Donovan, N. Se L. R. Hogins and daught Tobin, C. Kuhl, Mrs. Anna Lowell, H. Hanson, H. B. Doyle, 0. Freel and 10 steerage. >—ees GEORGE FINLEY LAID TO REST THIS MORNING The funeral services for Finley who died Thursday were held this morning at 8§ o'clock in the Catholic Church of the Na tivity. Rev. Gabriel Menager officiai- ed at the mass. The church a5 crowded with friends of the de cmpanied the remain to the cemele ‘The pallbearers w W. H. Pittman, Julius Times Willia Lott, Gus Padin, Henry Wadkins and Silvie Robertson. There were no flowers either ar the church or the cemeterv, out of deference to the wishes of the de- ceased, who had always insisted th: he wished no flowers ai his funeral. George Finley was one of the mosr popular of the colored colony in Ju neau and was a well liked figure of #he city George morning high known am'l (2), Sceret " HUDSON MAXIM - PASSES AWAY; ILL 2 MONTHS { [Inventor of *‘Concentrated Distruction” Dies at His N. J. Home. A ATED PRE S5 C PARICR) HUDSON MAXIM LAKE HOPATCONG, N. J.. May ' Hudson, inventor of explosives, died late erday afternoon from anemia and stomach trouble from which he had been sufforing for the past twe month ves Hudson “concentr Maxim, inventor of d distruction” form of high explosive: powder and antomobile other man in the United States neverthel a life-long hater! war; a staunch advocate of peace: ful arbitration, champion of all mankind in troubl and the self appointed guardian a thousand lit tle birds that nested in the great trees of his palatial estate in Ne Jersey Two of Maxim's discoveries in his experiments with high explosives may be sald in a large measure to have slutionized modern” wa They were the first smokeless powde: made in America and the first to be lopted by the ,United s KoV nment; and “mlximite,” the first explosive bursting charge ever successfully employed in armor-pierc ing prejectiles, In addition to these, he also invented a steam-propelled torpedo and perfected a high-velocity rifle shell with a speed a mils a second Self-Taught Scientsit Hudson Maxim as a boy recelved ctically no education it as gelf-tanght scientist he bordered clos- upon - the ambition of Goethe in an other line, “to make all knowledge his own.” He was nine years old before he learned the alphabet, and despite the violent winters of his native Maine, he was 16 bhefore he owned his first pair of shoes and his first hat. He pitched hay for three days to e cents to buy his first geogr chiefly that he might look up F to see where Napoleon used to The senjor Maxim, miller, was an insatiable student Philosophy, history, science, astro- nomy, and the mystery of space and eternity were the subjects discussed mor the smokeless torpedos than in of pri although a poor ary of Commeree | story 'HOOVER MAKES STATEMENT ON MISS. DISASTER | Declares E;'ery Penny of $10,000,000 Needed for 338 000 Victims. VICKSBUR.G Mus. May 7. —Secretary of Commerce Her- bert C. Hoover, personal repre- sentative of President Coolidge, summarizing the Mississippi Valley flood situatien, deciered that every penny of the $10,- 000,000 Red Cross fund and as much more as the American public can give, is need to care for refugees. Secretary Hoover said 338,- 000 people must be cared for as the result of de.astation al- | In the greup are Seeretary | | | ready wrought. | } | | i | Hoover (1), Scee The Mississippi River has al- ready spread ove: 3,400 square miles of the Lounisiana lowlands flood is SEVEN ARE DEAD INMYSTERIOUS | EXPLOSION . Yi Two Story Concrete thL(‘r Building Is Wrecked ! Water Mains Burst. | NEW YORK, [ being made to of the explosion Yellow Taxicab concrete day afternoon stenographets KiMted One rom the and_stores Nocks were torn awny harlod At least ed through first floor into and the crest of the just passing Vicksbury. ‘T" eve iz aheut € N00 square NS o o kepl dry by I vud ehiese levees, upon whic. housands of men are working, have not yet felt the full power of the flood.” said the Secretary. FLOOD END IN SIGHT NEW ORLEANS, May 7.—With 30,000 persons in the North End are and Old Rivers already either driv- ascertain the cause en from their homes or have been that wrecked the compelled to seek refuge on upper Company's two-ifloors or tops of dwellings, the be- building late yester- ginuing of the end of the greatest in which two girl flood in the history of the Missis- and five men were sippi River Valley, is today being i felt below the mouths of the rivers kendved oTHO ched' W wonn Cregeent City and tge shaking near-hy ses mouth of the Red River. Indications are that the Waters timbers; which have been running free over were the lowlands are returning to the were main stream slowly, of, Relief must be given the hun- tdreds of thousands for perhaps many weeks to come until conditions n become normal. May 7 Efforts of econcrete and doors persor wreckage I. asement the the Earth in a radius a Russia Makes |Economic T.—Al ()L(’rlurvs broke May circus mangled (Ill4| and injured 13 women before Hungar bear in The seven killed crushed filled with water from a bursted g main | EARTH SHAKES The possibility of strangers inl MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 7 of the scarch of the ruins for more gozen other towns within a bodies, {of 100 miles this afternoon. ——ee Several small tornadoes and sev- FRENGH FLIER nied The earth movement and added freak touch to the flood ituation KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 7.— Terrific rain caused one delta ‘and RIO DE JANERIO, May 7.— filled the streets with rushing wat- as the hours passed without a word this morning, marooning thousdnds from the whe bouts of Capt. on their way to work. The rain Saint Roman, French aviator and fell so hard that the instruments who left West Africa Thursday|c stopped and parked cars were morning in an attempt to fly acr ished away from the curbs in the the Atlantic Ocean {down-town streets, Circus Bear B.eaks Loose and Kills Girl EGED, a this afternoon kxll.-u 1 little girl other children and or drowned in the basement which ag the building caused a continuance' yremors were felt here and jeral electrical storms also accom- Anxiety gripped the populace here ers to a depth of three inches early his companion Commander Mounyres were unable to record it. Street - ; —— e | erforming it was captured ~—Russia has the olive branch jof peacful economic collaboration |to capitalistic cfl.lllnl{lefl. Grecoire | Sokolikoff told the , International e NRRY . SHIPE ¢ SALL | Bconomic Conference and said the SEATTLE, Ma 7.-The motorship ! t Union would welcome an in- Libby : Mwine, will =clokry jucy n"'“(lunmlnl agreement with _ foreign afternoon for Bristol Bay' with can-\eoinifioe “51 Captiatists. He stated nery supplies and a crew. The Steam: | yyore is no reason why the world ship General W. C. Gorgas clearcd {ourt not hLave pacific competition Thursday for Bristol Bay also with | peiween two economic systems rep- crews for canneries and supplies. Both | rasented by the Soviet and other vessols are owned by Libby, MeNeil | countries. and Libby Company T —————— D ! The wandering tinkers of the north | Only eight states have *been with- of England speak helta,” u sur-|out lynchings since 1889. They ara vival of the Anglo-Saxon language |Wisconsin, Connecticut, Maine, Mass- otts, New Hampshire, New Jer- entirely unintelligible to the average }"m.llhhnmn Isey, Rhode Island and Vermont. PRESBYTERIANS MAKE 125TH ANNUAL REPORT NEW YORK, May 7 very though he be at the end of the trail or at the very bottom of the| social ladder—is of equal importanc | hefor God. We cannot count the cost of a soul won in labors or in dollars spent. A soul is without price So that new settlement in the wilder- ness, that band of massacring In- dians, huddled in the prison stockade that handful of natives, relics of the stone age, ratching a precarious living at the every edge of the po- | @ EVA, May officially offered an Board of National Mis- sions, introduces the Board's 125th annual report, to be presented to the Presbyterian General Assembly in San Francisco, May 26—June 1. Reviewing the Board's 125 years, Dr. Marquis expressed the conviction that the Presbyterian Church is a missionary body, a national church. an evangelistic church, an agemey of service, that it must promote and practice spiritual unity, and that i« must be an active agent in the edu- ma | Presby at his tireside, hence his children came early and naturally by their (Continued on Page Eight) (A Marquis, general secretary of the lar ice cap—they are alike precious in the eyes of the Church.” With this declaration, Dr. cation and direction of the Christian |conscience to deal on a CI basis with all the practical affairs of lite, John