The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 12, 1927, Page 1

“ALL THE NFWS ALL THE TIME” NOL. XXX., NO. 4478. " JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1927, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS A —————— PRICE TEN CENTS SEARGH SEA AND LAND FOR FLIERS LONG ARGUMENT ONINJUNCTION | BY WICKERSHAM Contends Ite_r;s—Allacked by ~Him Have Not Been Leg- ally Appropriated. Arguments on the Wickersham injunction suit against Treasurer Smith were completed at 2:45 p. m. today at which time Judge Reed announced he would take the matter under advisement. He announced he would permit coun- sel to file any additional briefs desired, giving them two days for that purpose. “It is a very serious question and a very important one for the Court to pass on | will take the matter under consideration,” he said, Pending his decision, the items covered by the suit will | remain tied up in accord with | the restraint of the Court at the | time it issued its order to show cause. The appropriations attacked by him in his injunction suit aga‘nst Trea urer W. G. Smith are clearly void, being without the power of the many Legislature which is limited by E of Congress, and some of them even if within the power of the Legi; lature, have no authority in law other than that contained in the general appropriations measure it- self, contended Judge James W sham before Judge T. M. Reed tho U. S. District Court and today. He spokeé for almost four occupying a large portion terday afternoon’s session and con cluding his remarks shortly before noon today. J. A. Hellenthal opened his rebuttal argument at 2 p. m. to day. in vesterday hours, | of vos.| Secretary Is Poobah The Secretary of Alaska a veritable “poobah,” and knows how many tod no one offices he holds “ every legislature seeks to give him | more jobs: all bacause the Secretary, has a wide acquaintance among mem- bers of the Legislature who hav» confidence in him, Judge Wickershan | asserted at one point in his argu- ment. Nothing has beep “left un-| done by a complaisant legislature and CGovernor to make the Secretary of the Territory a Territorial official”| in violation of Section 11, of the Organic Act, he declared, and added| this merely showed a want of intel- ligence and a lack of approciation of tho forms of Amer overnment, | and lack of appreciation for the! opinions of the Attorney General of| the Territory. He contended the Secretary was expressly prohibited. from holding | any office under the Territorial Gov- ernment; that he was not entitled | to be a member of the same Govern- ment; and cannot receive any salary therefor, Faces Criminal Suit | He asserted that the Sccretary was not only prohibited from holding any | Territorial office but that he faced| a criminal prosecution if he m-cen(evl' any salary appropriated by the Tor- ritorial Legislature for him | Iia admitted the Legisiature had the power to impose additional rlml(&l on the Secretary but cldimed it} was poworless to pay him for their| performance, contending he could on- ly be reimbursed from fees fixed by, the Secretary of Interior. Neither has the Territoiy the pow- er nor is it its duty to provide the! Secretary with offices and cler| argned Judge Wickersham. If the Federal Government doesn’t provida him with offices that is its own look- out and not a matter which properly concerns Alaskans, he declared. The payment of salaries to clerks in the office of Secretary, he argued, is illegal because there was no au- thority in law under which appro- priations for that purpose might be made by the Leglislature. ° Overtime Is Graft Taking up the matter of appro- priations to pay extra expenses of the Legislature, including funds for the two presiding officers, chief clerks, and overtime, Judze Wicker- TOBACCO MEN {Change in Niarkel Needs {ofticial report. I to continue, |expanding market, i Getting Tltle | Pola Negri is cn her way to Lulupc—m»! for a vacation, but to marry Prince Serge Mdivani. The wedding is to take plaee on May 14 at Pola’s ctateau, Reuil Seraincourt, .in France: ‘Ter fiance was a chilchood swect- heart, Pola says, e HAVE PROBLEM IN 1921 CROP Brings Growers in U. S. to New Demaan \\'A\I]l\("l‘{)\ '\l 12 — American tobacco growers are facing a num- ber of difficult problems due to rapid changes that have taken place in market requiremen the Depart- ment of Agriculture announces. “For several years there has beern tendency, both at home and abroad for cigarefte consumption to outrun the consumption of cigar, vipe, chew- ing and snuff tobacco,” tob |perts of the Department said in an “This tendency, which has produce? sk the position of groups of tobacco producer: ers of the lighter tobacco for cigarette manufacture are their output at good prices on an while the grow- ers of dark fired and dark air-cured types of tobacco seem mpelled t) reduce their production Foreign Markets of foreign tobacco by the Department in competition e increas- ing stroagly in the production »of dark tobacco. Moreover, pressure is stronger in the inferior than in the better grades. “American growers are accordingiy advised to improve the .quality of their leaf,” the report said. “Atten- expected rp con- ions Grow- suitable selling trasts in A study kets mace dicates that mar- (Continued on Page Eignt.) (Continued on Page Two.) Convicted Hoosier Klan Chief Keeps State Astir from Cell INDIANAPOLIS,' Ind., May 12. ond ‘When state prison gates swung shut | in 1925 on D. C. Stephenson, Indiana | prepared to forget the 34-vear-old ad- | venturer who had been for a brief but vivid day its most spectacular | citizen, A life sentence for murder, in con- nection with the abduction and death of an Indianapolis girl, haa cut shori the role of Hoosier Warwick in which the hlond and chuuky “Steve” had cast himself. But 18 months have passed anl Stephenson is the liveliast lifer In- diana ever had. Already hc has made more trips outside the prison than most convicts make in a lifetime. His activities, real or rumored, at- | tract as wide interest as when he ruled the Indiana Ku Klux Klan. He has taken with him to his cell the atmosphere of mysticism ani power which he began to create sev- en years ago, when he left a job as bond salesman and coal dealer in Evansville to rise with ‘he fortunes of the Ku Klux Klan. He startled his 300,000 Hoosier subjects of the im- perial realm in those days by dropp- ing from the skies in an airplane to address their midnight meetings ia his regal vestments. Colleagues spoke cco ex- | | be delayed | probable to be ¢ | jurors | me eeting of the attorney | wiil be held with the Conrt on June | was | mother | Oregon - ".INew Craft Northland in Com-’ JUROR IS DEAD: DE AUTREMONT CASE MISTRIAL Jury Is Dismissed in Oregon | Train Hold-up Case— New Trial in Fall. , Ore.. May 12.—] homas has declared | the case of Hugh De with the mur- ACKSONVIL Circuit Judge a mistrial in Autremont, charged der of Char Johnson in the Sis- kiyou Mountain train hold-up of 1 The action was taken follow- ing the death of Juror S. W. Dun- ham it the new trial will several months at least, alled next fall. discharged the nking the members He is believed Thomas fter th: servie Judge for their 25 to decide when a new trial will be attempted. De Autremont receiyed the without any outward expression. He alone with his father, his having left for Eugene, news | CUTTER BEAR T0 BE RETIRED; BE RECEIVING SHIP mission—Sails North During July. Cal. May 12 N FRANG - Coast .uurd fleadquarters has received definite word that the Cutter Bear will be retired this summer. The new cutter North- land will arrive here July 1 to re- place the Bear. The Bear will be used as a re- ceiving ship. The Northland was recently com- missioned at Newport New Vir- ginia. She is a 230-foot, electric diesel and sail-powered. The cutter will carry a crew of 75 officers and men. She has a reinforced bow for ice breaking and has been built to resist ice pressure The Northland will leave Francisco for Alaska within a days after arriving here. ——,——— FUNERAL SERVICES FOR FRANK MORENO TOMORROW Frank Moreno, miner, who died at St. pital Tuesady morning, ied tomorrow at 10 o'clock, funeral services being held at that hour at the Catholic Church. Interment will San few will be hllr- be in Evergreen Cemotery. The body is at the C. W. Carter Mor- tuary. it A, STABLER GOING SOUTH; APPEARS CIRCUIT COURT Assistant United Attorney, leaves to- night on the Admiral Rogers for the south. He is going to appear before the Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in the case of August Starkoff and Tessie Starkoff against the United States for viola tion of the Federal prohibition act. It is a Ketchikan case which was appealed from the decision of the District Court, after the last session of Court there. Mr. Stabler intends to be gone until about June 1. Stables District H. States B —_——ee—— SEATTLE HALIBUT PRICES SEATTLE, May 12.—Halibut dropp- ed to 12 and 16% cents yesterday. The arrivals included the Libanon with 8,000 pounds, Arcade with 8,000, Gretchen with 2,500, and Blanco with 14,000 pounds. l.’! | Classified “Ads” | Also Give Out Values on News % | During these days of quick of- fers and equally as quick sales, the classified ad columns of a newspaper furnish a business barometer in themselves For in- of the Empire today are inter- esting news and business an- nouncements. There is a halibut boat for sale, autos dealings are announced; and those in search | for apartments can find relief. e, New Orleans appears to be safe now from flood waters of the Mississippi. Poydras, Miss., was dynamited, permitting water to flow over the St. Bernard marshes to the sea Top picture shows the spot on the levee where half a dozen small blasts of dynamite were ey ploded t6 tear a small hole through. The force of the flood is eating a wide gash in the embanlk maat, ar;.,ifie lower picture shows the break as it is today. ARI\AI\ AS Nl‘(.R()ln TO ESCAPE FLOOD; S ONE THOUSAND WORK TO SAVE LEVEE BREAK W ORLEA Muy 12 Under ure of the steadily rising back waters the Buyou des Glaises levee with warnings that a moment is holding but crevasse might occur any Throughout the night ¢ laborers filled sand bags in an effori to stop the flow of the topping water which nearly reached the top of the dike. Army engincers predict that the water will be cascading ozer the top by tonight. Livestock has been woved from the threatencd area and all' persons have moved to higher lands except 1,000 determined men who sent out word “if it goes out it will go out with us on top of it."” — e Anchorage Broadcasting Station Out of Business BUILD WATER POURS INTO CRAFT | AND OCCUPANTS SEEK SAFETY ON R.R. BANKS | WASHINGTON, May 12. — A check of the Radio Commission records indicated that 681 broad- casting stations are operating leg- ally in the United States under tem- porary permits. Thirty stations are definitely out of business by reason of failure to apply for a Among the stations not legally in business is KFQD of Anchorage. — e Alleged Higher-up in Rum Combine, Indicted LES LOS AN Cal.,, May 12.— Anone Parmagini, wealthy Beverly Hills resident, and sald by Prohibi- tion Agents to be a partner in di- recting the organization of a $10,- 000,000 Pacific Coast liquor smug- gling combine, has been indicted with 10 others by a Federal Grand Jury for conspiring to smuggle liquor into the United States from Canada and Mexico. Seward Radio Station Is Damaged by Fire SEWARD, Alaska, May 12.—The Seward Volunteer Fire Department The classitied columns are used | to find positions and help wants | are made known. Read the classi- | mysteriously ‘of his spy and propa- ganda system by which he could {(funlimwd on Page Six.) fied columns every day for quick | | | | i | [ stance, in the. classified columns | | i | 1 | ! | | | hunches. | [ ol LT, YL A Y made a three-mile run yesterday to quench a fire at the Government Radio Station. The damage to the radio station is estimated at $5,- 000. The radio apparatus was not damaged. The fire originated in the boiler room, licenser | 4 % (nternational Newste ‘ARK” IN WHICH MEMPE Tenn., May 12.—F horted by their parson, commun negroes in the lowlands near Park- ing, Arkansas, emulated the example of Noal { When they heard the flood was, approaching, they hastily built an, ‘ark Into the crude vessel they| crowded themselves and all of lhvu\ worldly possessions, including chick-! ens, do ts and mules, While they waited for the negroes piayed and re P the flood, i The flood came bhut the “arl fused to float Water poured in from a hundred leaks in the uneaulked hull With the water a foot and a half deep on the floor of the flat bottom craft, its occupants fled to L lul.\u\y l‘lll]hlllkflll'l\' SIX DEAD IN EXPLOSION AS RESULT, FIRE Gasoline Explodes in Drug Store—Many -Injured by | Flying Bricks, Glass. DALLAS, | Texa May 12.—Five men -and one woman were killed! d 40 were injured in an explosion, which wrecked a two-story brick building last night The explosion occurred while nu- firemen were fighting the blaze in| a drug store on the first floor of; the building. Upwards of Metropolis Lodge of Odd were assembled in the hall second floor. There were a persons in the drug store. A quantity of gasoline was lxnu- and a terrific blast resulted. Persons in the street were jured by flying glass., Several of the Fellows on Uw doze n members ed in- of the injured are reported in a eriti-| cal condition. The woman was kill- ed when she was struck by a brick as she sat in an automobile in| front of the drug store. Others were crushed in the ruins. e England’s Trunk Murder Mystery Partially Solved, LONDON, May 12, — trunk murder mystery has been part- ly solved by tht police when the husband identified the dismembered body of the woman as that of his wife, Minnie Bannati heen living apart for some time, England’s [ The couple has; ; | | | | | | | The levee 51 1 LIQUOR CRAFT - SEEKS DAMAGES VANCOUVER Appointment of damages against Government May tors to United 12 States for illegal detention of the the liguor-laden steamer Federal- ship will be sought by counsel for the Canadian - Mexican Company, which chartered the v The decision was made at a conference and it wi s0 decided not to issue writ inst the United States but to take advantage of the exist ing treaty between the United States and nama. The Federal-! ship was flying the Panama flag at! thv time of the HARDING BAGS FIRST | BROWN BEAR OF YEAR -, J ey stin. W. Harding, U falls the honor of being first ‘|4|(<I| hunter to bag a brown bear for the season of 1927. He made the kill last night at Montana Creek With G. W. Folta, Mr. larding lef: to an about 5 p. m. yesteiday. Hunt- ing on Montana Creek they soon |tound tracks of a bear which, ap- parently, was in search of food. In o short time they had located the brute land Mr. Harding had killed him. The bear was a four-year old. Its skin was in good condition. It is the first reported killed this year. e, iS'ulv' of Public School Bonds Re(u‘hes “92,500 City Clerk day that $ snepard announced to. ! foundland ¢ | ing | wastes of the |the airmen | Angeles | Lindbergh S. At-leon iSky Six Dollars | end but a: {veyor is not provided with wharf- 500 have already bee. | | pledged to the $100,000 school bonds | NEW CLUE GIVEN ABOUT MISSING FRENCH FLIERS Hum of Anplane Was Heard Over Grace Harbor—Sea and Land Searchers. UNDATED — Word came from Gra Harbor, Newfoundland, that a third person there heard the whirl of an airplane high overhead in the fog last Monday morning at the time when the French fliers Nun- gesser and Coli's plane was due over Newfoundland Police patrols and woodsmen have joined in the search that will carry them far into the forests and wood- ed aterways that indent the countr It may be days before the hunt is comcluded and the dwindling hopes that the French aviators may be found seems to rest on the New- rreh. Meanwhiic the naval vessels of the Coast Guard patrols are thread- g zag courses on the western Atlantic hunting for while the dirigible Los is waiting for better visi- bility before joining the search. LINDBERGH IS IN AIR LOUIS, May 12. Charles hopped from here this for New srk enroute from San Diego to the Atlantic Coast. He Is the only lone pilot entered in the trans-Atlantic nen- stop flight. ST morning BELLANCA PLANE READY NEW YORK, May 12.—The Bel- lanca plane is all in readiness at Curtis Field for the start across Atlantic tomorrow. rence D. Chamberlin and Lloyd Bertaud, co- pilots are ready for the fiight. er Richard E. Byrd will not under- take the New York to Parls non- |stop flight until Captains Nungesser and Coli are found or it has been definitely established they are lost Ilodman Wanamaker, President of |the American Trans-Oceanic Com- pany and sponsor of the Byrd flight, announced this and said the plane America will not enter the race and the flight will be solely in the cause of scientific progress, when it does hop off. SEARCH ABANDONED DAKAR, Senegal, May 12.—Hope for the rescue of French aviators St. Roman and Mounteyres has vir- tually been abandoned. Several ves- sels arriving here from Rio de Janeiro, after passing through the zone where it had been hoped the aviators might be found, reported no trace of the missing fliers. COMMERCE LUNCHEON ON TOMORROW NOON Several important mat.ers will be taken up before the Juneau Chamber of Commerco, at their weekly lunch- tomorrow noon in the Alaska Blectric Light and Power Company's display rooms. The Martha Society will again serve the luncheon. The entertainment committee has roquest ed every member to be present and show the women of the Martha So ciety that they enjoy their lunch- cons. Sre, gty ¥ Government Craft Must Anchor; Is st Alaska, May 12.—For to pay the wharfage charges to the Government Dock, the Coast and Geodetic Ship Sur- veyor cannot tie up over the week- Lors offshore. The Sur- SEWARD, ck of %6 age funds and this explains why 70 men and the citizens are un- able to mingle except by launches. 'for the new high school to be erect- ‘«ll this summer, The officers have taken apartments ashore witn their wives. 'MODERNISM FOUGHT BY PRESBYTERIANS | | LAKELAND, Fla, May 12.—If the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, meeting here ‘Mny 19, adheres to the report of a commissicn appointed last year to umdy edycational conditions, it again will go on record to guard against modernism. The commission was appointed to linvestigate Bethel College. McKenzie Tenn:, after alleged insubordination of a small group of stulents. “Among other things the repor: of the commission will show the denomination is determined to guarl against so-called moderntsm in the school and that only teachers who stand the test as fundamentalists wili be employed,” says Rav. C. M Zwingle of Nashville, airector of church publicity. “This denomination is unaffected with modernism at the presont time and is making a determined stand against its croepln. into the educa- tional program. Moderator 1. K. Floyd, Dallas, Tex., will preside ov.! the assembly. The Women's Missionary Conventioa, headed by Mrs. Johnie Massey Clay, Louisville, Ky., meets simu!taneously, BIRD'E MT#“M NEW YORK, May*12.—Command-