The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 27, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXX., NO. 4594, * PRO “ALL THE NEWS . ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1927. H ONE DEAD AND FOUR IN JALL, - WILD PARTIES One Man Killed, Another,! Two' Women in Jail —Investigation “WIFE SWAPPING” IS CAUSE OF SLAYING Police Hear—50rdid Story Involving Mixed Rela- tions, Two Families OAKLAND, Cal, One man is dead, another one, two women and an infant are lodged in jail here today during an investigation by police au- thorities of a sordid story that embraces illicit love affairs, “‘wife swapping,” and wild parties. Wendell Baxter is dead. Those in jail are Mrs. Baxter and an Sept. infant child, and Lester O. Sor-| enson and his wife Mildred. The story told the police is that the families lived across the' street from each other. They enjoyed parties together. Finally, things progressed to such a point that *“‘wife swapping” was agreed to. Sorenson ‘said this state of affaire continued until he re- monstrated with his wife and they agreed they would continue being friendly with the Baxters but would stop the partying. Sunday night, added Sorenson, Mrs. Baxter came to his home and told him Mrs. Sorenson was in the Baxter house with Baxter. Sorenson proceeded to investigate and a fist fight started between himself and Baxter. It was during the course the battle, according to Sorenson, that Baxter fell dead. The po- lice are investigating his story. LAD 12, SHOOTS T0 AID MOTHER Kills Stepfather Because He Was Choking Mother —Confesses to Police BERKELEY, Cal, Sept. 27— Calmly cleaning his gun whil? police .investigators stodbd grouped about him, Jerome F. Cornell, 12 years of age, Boy Scout, admitted killing his stepfather Charles Vanalderwelt, 35, manager of the American Expiess Company’s San Francisco office. The boy gave as the reason for his deed, “be cause the brute had my mother by the throat.” The lad’s mother at first tried to shield him py saying she did the shooting. When Jerome ad- mitted the deed amd his story was corroborated by a 13 year old stepbrother, Mrs. Vanallderwelt re- vealed the truth. She said her husband had attacked her on a previous occasion. Big Liquor Cargoes Are ' PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 27. Canadian rum_runners have sent 19 ships. laden with liquor to the United States within the last year, according to J. M. Long, former wireless . operator on -the steam- er kamas, but now a Fed. eral prohibition agent. All but two-6t, the ships, Clackamas and Bulko, Long said, have landed their cargoes, valued at millions ot dollars. The Clackamas and Bulko ‘were both captured after having. landed part of their car- goes at Newark, New Jersey. it & Loua !A)Nm%‘?’m& 27.—0ne hun- dred and American Legion ‘members, returning home to the United States via , were ‘given a wildly enth tic re- .eeption today when they marched 'R"m'h the streets of Loudon to ‘the Cenotaph where they placed ‘8 wreath. They also visited the of the Unknown Warrior in 2, of| ( Catholic Women Flay| | | Beauty Contests | AN || And Evolutionists WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.— | | Beauty contests and the Dar- | winian theory of evolution | | were put under fire here to- day at the annual convention of the National Council of Catholic Women. | At a meeting of approxi- mately 100 delegates, beach pageants and similar competi- ; tions were bitterly attacked | | and a resolution denouncing | such displays as detrimental | to the weolfare of girls of | | 1 America was framed for sub- | { | mission to the full convention. Evolution and one of its re- . cent exponents, the Lord Bishop of Birmingham, Eng-' | land, were assailed in an ad- | dress delivesed by right Rev. Joseph Schrembe, Bishop of Cleveland. BACK AS MINE CENTER, GLAIM C. R. Settlemier, Veteran | Newspaperman and Min- | er, Reviews Conditions | Among the arrivals this mora | ing from Skagway on the Margnita was C. R. Settlemier, well knowa mining man of the Keno area in the Mayo Mining District of th2 Yukon Territory, and for yearsy leditor of the Dawson News, in | which he still holds an interest. He is here enroute South for a | visit, and is taking in varlous mining centers and coast towns meeting former interior Sourdoughs {and other old timers and getting acquainted with the progressive | northern centers. Mr. Settlemier optimist and confident that de- spite the spiendid showings of the past, Alaska and Yukon's | best years are to come. He speake {as particularly well pleased witix Ithe vigor and evidences of sub- | is an eternal stantial and enduring prosperity in and about Juneau and south- eastern Alaska. Gold Mining Revival Reviewing present conditions in ‘Interior Yukon he said: “Yukon Territory is active at ipresont not only in the old gold | mining industry, but also is heavy producer of silver-lead ores and is likely soon to also be ship: ping copper ores again. “The old placer fields abour Dawson, which passed through the exciting pioneer days, followed by the extensive dredging operations during the exploitation of the richer creeks with dredge and | hydraulic operations at the hands | of the Yukon.Gold or Guggenheim | interests, and the big dredge en- terprises of the late Col. Joe Boyle .and successors, lapsed for two or three years into a com- paratively, idle condition. But un- der the indomitable will and d rection of A.'N. C. Treadgold, who originally interested the Guggen- heims in the Klondike, new capi- tal has been obtained in England, and extensive cperations are now being revived and extended to creeks where ihe former big con- cerns did not work, The Treadgold enterprises are| renewing dredging on parts of the Klondike valley, on Dominion Creek on Quartz Creek and else- where In the old placer camp. More men have been employed in the Klondike this year than for the last ten years, and there wiil be no little activity there this winter in making further prepara- tions for next summer’'s opera- tions. While dredges are being used on the Klondike valley on Domi- nion Creek, helping to add to the old camp’s gold production, now having a grand total of some thing like $200,000,000, it is the jhope of the new company to soon have the Quarts and Sulphur creek properties in the producing column admbcmc power from the ndike river is used to. drive the dredges and also will be used in ' operating mew style diggers with which Mr. Treadgold plani to work on Quartz and othe~ ereeks. Caterpillar tractors have been engaged hauling the equip- i | ent to the creeks, and the power |in depth, whose walls and roofs!St. are adorned with paintings und' i be ¥ Py Fif s wi potted = wi bungaloid | 27—, misi i\ a) sketches dating hckinn' A iloss -After being sing tive daya es have been extended. Copper Development “Copper _development of the Yukon depends upon the prop- i neapolis. NEW PROBLEMS |Etheron Real Gravity Force, Claims Naval Mathematician; Is Smallest Thing in World FOR CONGRESS IN TAX ISSUE | YAdministrative Features Are Likely to Cause Row Between Houses COMMITTEE FAILS TO FUNCTION, HARMGNY ! \ 1 Joint Committee for October Sessions WASHINGTON, Sept. vision of the administrative fea- | tures of the present tax law s a problem which is expected to give the new Congress almost as much trouble &5 that of deciding what rates are (o be lowered an:! the amount of the reductions. A solution of that problem is not made any easier by the riit in the joint congressional com- mittee, which was created under the present statute td® deal with questions of the administration of the tax laws. As a result, wide differences between the House and Senate are likely to develop as the reveaue legislation pro- ceeds on its way through Cou gress. 27.—Re- StartedsLast Year This rift developed soon after the joint committee was appoin:. ed last year cnd grew out of the selection of Chairman Groen of the House Ways and Means Committee, g8 chairman, ove: Chairman Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee. It is an open secret at the Capitol ‘that there has not beea the fullest measure of cooperation between the House and Senate members of the Joint Committee in the prosecution of the task as signed to them, under the pro- (Continued on Page Five.) BOSTONBANKERS AID DOG DERBY 41S0 Delighted with Interior Hunt They Leave Checks to Swell Prizes, Races SEWARD, Alaska, Sept. 27. — In"@ppreciation of a wonderful big game hunt they have just coa cluded in interior Alaska, H. Wen. dell Endicott and John Haley, prominent Boston bankers, eaci left a check for $500 to be used as part of the prize ip the Fair- banks Sweepstake Dog Derby this winter. of Miu- Capt. published of ‘“Whi, H. C. Harper. New Pa., H. Thomas Cottam New Orleans, and Norman Mar- shall, Still River, Mass., have just completed hunts with the Glacler Tours on Kenal Peninsula and the CHickaloon district. They ars feturning with an exceptionally big bag of game and all of them saild they would be back again in the future for other hunts. All of the hunters sailed south on the steamer Aleutian for Seattle. SPANISH KING ADDS TOURIST INDUC TILLANA, DEL MAR, Spals, Sept. 27.—Everything in 8p: likely to attract visitors from abroad interests King Al- fonso, who has inaugurated regu- lar, communications between the royal summer residence and this village, renowned as the supposed birthplace of the famous Gil Blds. Tourists may mnow make the journey there and back in one small expense The birthplace of Gil Blas is not the only attraction, for in the vieinity are the famous pre- (historic caverns of Altamira, more than five hundred metres W. H. Fawcett, Dr. scratched thousands of years. The caverns ec- have been the place the ‘aboriginal inhabitants when Report Being Prepared for| MARE ISLAND, Cal., Sept. 27. —The smallest thnig in the uni verse, the etheron, represents the i real force that causes the migh:- fest of material structures to peo- ple once they are swung off thei: center of balance, Capt. T. J. J. See, U. 8. N., noted mathematician and astronomer, explained in & statement today at his Mare T8 land laboratory So infinitesimal is the etheron, Capt. See explained, that it “has corpuscles a thousand mlllion times smaller than the electron, which is 1760 times smaller than a hydrogen atom.” Explaing Its Size To clarify this explanation ‘Capt. See said that il atoms of com [ 2 200-Year-Old Wine On Market; Is “Sought for Eagerly “n DRESDEN, Germany, Sept. ! | '87.—Wines of former kings of | Saxony, to be sold by a Dres- | den merchant, include two | .bottles of Tokay dated 1700. | All the hottles in the collec- ' |:tion are said to be over 200 | § years old. The value of the | { collection is placed at 200,000 | pounds and hids are being re- | ceived from all over the world. | Antique dealers are offering | || three pounds each for the | | bottle—empty. mon gas such us hyfrogen, nitro-T}, gen or oxygen “be imagined ths size of lemons, oranges or grape fruit, then, on this same scale, the electron is like a coarse gréin of sand, and the etheron, or par ticle of either, is like a fine pa:- ticle of smoke from a cigar.” This explanation of Capt. Seé’s theory leads to his contention tha: the incessant traveling of ether waves, moving at a velocity of 294,000 miles a second, or 57 pe: cent faster (han light, is the the real cause of gravitation. So fine are those particles «of the ether that they freely penei- rate through the earth, sum Or planets, the scientist declared. “Radio waves, as from con- certs in Pittsburgh, are heard n Calcutta,” he said. “A Chicago concert is heard jn Melbourne and radio signals from Bordeaur, France, are heard in the Antl- podes, near Chatham Island, New Zealand—all pecause the radiy waves travel through the solil globe of the .earth.” Triumphs in Research Captain See’s wave' theory, e« pounded in this, his ninth mathe- matical memoir dealing with the cause of gravitation, was proclaim- ed the final and complete triumph of his extensive researches on the cause of gravitation, a problem which “neither Newton nor La place, Archimedes, mnor all the great mathematicians since the foundation of the school of Alex- andria 2200 years ago has been able to, solve.” Not content 'with ordinary, labo- ratory experiments in acoustic at traction, See declared he obtainedl direct observations of the ether waves coming from the- sun (o the earth. He said he found tha: these are conspicuously associatel with sun spot disturbances, as ir the aurora, magnetic storms and earth currents noted in telegraphic and cable lines since actually ob- served at radio stations. He saii, further: “The observers tind the gravita- tional and magnetic waves from the sun to aave all lights be- tween one metre .and 300,000,000 metres. Thus some of these wavel are so. long that only one disturb ance per second passes througn our earth while others are so short that 300,000,000 such waves pass each second.” To this wide range of wave lengths and their steady actie. under incessant traveling Capt. See attributed the real cause of gravitation, Anxiety Increases Over BASRA, Sept. 27| — Anxiety was increasing here today over the fate of Lieutenant Otto Koen- necke and his two companions overdue many hours from An- gora, Turkey. They were due here Saturday night. Inquiries for news of the fliers have been sent in all directions. UKLUKKLAN ' WOULD ENJOIN " KAN.OFFIGERS Seeks to Prevent Enforce-| ment of Ouster Judgment Given Many Years Ago TOPEKA, Kans,, Sept. 27—~Th2> Rhnsas Ku Klux Klan today filed an application in the Federal dis- trict court for an injunction re- atfaining Governor Paulen and llliam A. Smith, Attorney Gen fal of the State, from enforcing ousiter order which the State ained agal t MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS _ DEMPSEY AFTER ANOTHER BOUT WITH CHAMPION Jack Goes to New York to Talk Fight with Rickard —Will Get Hearing REFEREE TAKES HAND IN 7TH ROUND DEBATE Chairman of Commission Says Protest Is Ballyhoo for Return Scrap NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—Jack | Dempsey came here today to over his boxing future with Rickard. He is believed to be seriously considering entering a second heavyweight elimination contest which the New York pro- moter has planned for the win- ter and spring. It was announced that a third fight between Tunney and Demp- isey was one of the main topics lof their talk. Very few of the fight critics and sports writers +have professed the belief that | Dempsey ean he successful in an attempt’ to lift the title but nearly everybody is agreed that he is still the biggest drawing power in the fight business. Jack, himself, does not seem ladverse to making a third try. | “It would not take me long to get ready . I feel fine with two fights under my belt,” he said. | i | talk Tex’ IS GUARANTEED HEARING CHICAGO, Sept. 27. — Under the State boxing law, Dempsey is guaranteed a hearing by the Illi- nois State Athletic Commission if he desires to protest the decision i nst the Klan several :;nch favored Gene Tunno;' last e ursd it was pointed out ’MM&”»N prrimame. Chairman - Regheimer, iDeam, attorney. for the Klan said: “While there i« no pressing nec essity for filing this suit at this time, as no effort is being made by the State to enforce the judg- ment of ouster, nevertheless the head officers of the Klan, de- siring to be relieved from any criticism’ upon the ' ground that they are' not respecting the judg- ment of the Supreme Court, in sisted that the question of th» validity of the ouster judgmen: be finally deétermined.” WEALTHY YoUTH UNSEEN, 11 DAYS Richard J. Reynolds, Heir to Many Millions, Missing —Search Is Futile NEW YORK, Sept. 27. — The Times said today Richard J. Rey- nolds, 21 years old, president of the ;Reynolds Airways and eldest son of the laie founder of R. J Reynolds Tobacco - company, di appeared 11 days ag of relatives, friends and private detectives to find him have been futile. The missing man is one of five heirs . to a fortune estimated at $60,000,000. Fear is expreased that he met nllihar with an accideng or foul play from persons who might have known he had sev- eral thousand dollars in cazh with him, He was last seen in New York on the morning of September 16. —————— PISTOL FOUND GUILTY Charlfe Pistol, who was charged with posgpssion of intoxicating li- quor with intent to sell, in the U. 8. District Court in Ketchikan, was found gullty according to in- formation. received this morning :v U. 8. Attorney Justin W. Har- ing. CHILDLESS AND SERVANTLESS HOMES BY 1950 ARE FORESEEN BY REV. INGE, “GLOOMY DEAN” OF ST. PAUL’S CHURCH LONDON, Sept. 27.—Homes in 1950 will be childless and servant- less, predicts very Rev. William H. Ing lg Dean” of Paul's Cathedral this city. “The whole face of the country couples will sleep after racing| about in motor cars.” he said. “As In America, the typical house- will be: servantless. The art| needs | & button wiil B terrible un part at ‘over popula lecwi - | Mojave Plane Missing with Two Returns to Safety Today SAN BERNARDINO, Cal. Sep*. the Spirit of Holly- wood with Marion Mack, mo- tion pleture ‘'actress and Pilot Frank Tomick returned here safe- lv. They were marooned on the desert engine trouble andnmnn.fl’“u. g OPERAT Glo M. mi morn disy Commission, was inclined to doubt the good faith of the pro- test. He sald the rompus being raised over the decision is an effort to ballyhoo a third cham- picnship fight between the pair. Joe Benjamin prominent Pa cific Codst - lightweight boxer, puts the responsibility for Demp- sey's defeat on Manager Leo Flynn. Benjamin sald Jack wae overtrained at least one week jand he should have beer senl jout to win in the first three rounds. BARRY JOINS DISCUSSION ! CHICAGO, Sept. 27. Dave | Barry, referee of the Tunney- Dempsey battle, today joined in the discussion of the seventh round knockout with a signed statement. He supported Tun- ney's claim that he was per- fectly well aware of what was going on and could have arisen several seconds before he did. Barry's statement said: “My impression {s that Tunney, after he had heen knocked down, re- gained his senses in tiree or'four geconds and, even though Demp- sey had retired to a neutral cor- ner as per {instructions, Tunney would have been able to arise sount.” TUNNEY IS ACCLAIMED NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—Gene Tunney returned to New York this morning and received a tu- multuous home town greeting from thousands of enthusiasts. It took a flying wedge of special police to keep the hedvyweight champion from being rushed off his feet. WINTER BLASTS MOVEEASTWARD Rocky Mountain Cold Wave -Swoo, Midwest » KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept. 27.— A cold wave, bringing snow flur- ries in some places and rain and frost {n others, moved rapidly east ward last night from the Rocky Mountain reglon where winter spread its white mantle over Colo rado and Wyoming. A little snow was reported in western Kansas. Colder : was predicted for most of the area north of M There was a possi ot rain turning to snow in ' Kansas, Southern Ne- brasks and wurn lowa. Snow tell in the k Hills of South Dakota, ‘inches to the de- posit L there. | D BASKET D Sept, 27. — Henrv Int of -the American jation estimated that bread basket e 2 | | Bandage on Eyes of | Justice Goddess Almost Swept Away LONDON Sept. 27.—English justice, which has a wordwide | reputation for moving expedi- | tiou; unhampered by de- lays based upon techinical grounds, lost nome of that | | repute in today's proceedings | | in the Divorce Court. | Justice MacKinnon, of that | | court, stepped on the accelera- tor so hard that the bandage over the eyes of the Goddess blew off. ! i of Justice almost In exactly one Justice granted divorces. minute the 110 absolute MAP OF NORTH AMERICAMUST BE MADE OVER Scientific Expeditions Re- port Many New Finds from Equator North NEW YORK pt. 27. — From scientific expedilions (hai passed the summer in exploring odd places comes information that the map of North America must be revised. New discoveries have been made from the equator to the Far North. One expedition reports the dis- cavery of huge snowfields existing within 50 miles of the equator. “The entire map of North Amer- ica has been nged, a new range of mountains discovered,” saild a radio message to the Assoclated Press from Donal A. Cadzog, ethnologist with the Putnam Baf- fin Island Expedition off the coas* | ot Labrador, The message told of finding ancient houses on Baffin ) et hitherto wnknown - ple who, apparently, antedated present Eskimo tribes living there and the discovery of indications that the island was once a part of the coast of Labrador, ASSEMBLY ENDS WITH OPTIMISM Eighth Assembly of League of Nations Closes—Be- lieve Progress Made: GENEVA, Sept. 27, The Eighth Assembly of the Council of the League of Nations which has been considering disarmament and security problems for the past few weeks came to an op- timistic close here last night. Th2 belief was expressed they its work would lead for armament reduc- tion and better relations for peace. The note of optimism was sound- ed by Senor Alberto Guani, retir- ing President and Uruguayan Am- bassador to France, In his retiring All efforts |in good shape before the final, address he said the work done by the Assembly was such that “ia the near future we will obtain a tirst reduction in armaments and a better definition of the guar antees of securit, —_——————— Former German Diplomat Funeral Is Held Today VOLLRATHSRUNE, MECK- LENBURG, Germany, Sept. 27.— Funeral services for the late Baron von Maltzan, Ambassador from Germany to the United States, was held here today with wreaths from President Coolidge and Secretary of State. Kellogg being placed on the grave by Jacob Geuld Schurman, American Ambassador to Germany, Baroa PRICE TEN CENTS IBITION TAX [IS PROPOSED WANTS BILLION LEVY FOR DRY SLEUTH FORCE New Jersey Senator Sug- gests Raising Fund by Tax on All Necessities ARMY OF SLEUTHS REAL TEST IS NI Fund for Work Should Be Separate from Ordinary Government Revenues WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.— Raising of a special tax of $1,» 000,000,000, laid directly on the public and the employment of an “‘army of sleuths” as the final means of really testing prohibi- tion enforcement. was suggested today as a possibility by Senator Walter E. Bige of New Jersey, one of the SBenate wets. It is not impossible that such a plan will be submitted to the next Copn- gress, Senator Edge said he was con- isidering & proposal, recently made to him, that funds for real enforcement of the Volstead Act be raised from a special tax om all necessities of lite to which all citizens must thereby con- tribute. Need Whole “In order to give the law a real test a cool $1,000,000,000 would be used to employ an army of sleuths really necessary to police the nation,” he said. t had been suggested, add- that the tu for this work bé raised by a popular u‘& en- of the law, then we must admit enforcement 1is impossible or go the furthest extreme to br it about. I am inclined to lieve if the public paid, the try would then show more in- terest.” DEMAND CANCELLATION OF CHARTER OF LEAGUE ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 27.— Assemblyman Louis A. Culliver, Democrat, known as a wet cru- sader in the New York Legisla- ture, has called upon State At- torney General Ottinger to begin court action immediately with the purpose of annulling the charter of the Anti-Saloon League in New York. The Legislator, apparently, {s determined to get some kind of action. His demand on the Attorney General was contained in a letter from Culliver who urged that ac- tion be brought in the State Su- preme Court. In the event the Attorney General refuséd to com- ply with the request, Culliver will seek to compel him to do 80 by a resolution to be intro- contended the charter should be declared forfeited because the right of the people had been trespassed upon. ) As Result Alpine Floods LONDON, Sept. 27.—Scores of lives are believed to have been lost in Alpine floods which Inun- dated the principality of Leich- enstein in the eastern section ‘of Switzerland and the upper Trem- tino Valley in Italy. After tre- mendous rains many villages are under several feet of water. Some of ‘the Inhabitants were caught by rushing torrents be- fore they could reach the moum- tain sides and perished. = The actual total of fatalities cannot von Maltzan was killed last week in an airplane disaster. be computed until broken lines of communmication are restored. Down on |“pRER RABBIT,” LIKE “CITY SLICKER,” IS CREATURE OF MANY ALIASES, IS CLAIM CHICAGO, Sept. 27.—"“Brer Rab- bit” travels under many allases a city “clicker” or a con man de luxe, David C! Mills, general director of the National Anocln-' tion of the Fur Industry, revealed today. At the opening of that organization’s two day convention kere, in voicing the industry’s demand that furs be known oy their right names. The hare outnumbers all others in the number of sobriquets with which his skin has been camou- flaged in' fashionable furs. He i wanted all over the world as “visonette,” “squirreline,” ‘Rus- sian leopard,” “moline,” “nutriette” musquash,’ “French sable,” last count, he had seventy- ed of Seven NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—I Arsenio, 65, was arrested he returned (v his home from work last night a comstruc: tion crew, and of m-: ¢ Angeline Constanza, seven-year ol girl. Arsenio (lenied the m: ‘While he 'llm police officers his s Benjamin, 18, and Peter 40, an uncle, on charges of pas- sessing firearms. - ; ——ate—— ‘seal b | “chichillette,” and “buckskin.” At v