The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 8, 1927, Page 1

I / \ THE DAILY ALASKA ’EMPI “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXX., NO. 4604. JUNEAU ALASKA SATURDAY, OCIOBER 8, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PR YANKS TAKE FOURTH STRAIGHT AND WIN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP CIVIL WAR OF CHINESE Foreign = Troops Watching' 8 sautiigle 1e e g Action—Will Defend |, atitate of Mi | > of Mining En- Concessions gl the Columbia section| fof the Institute, meeting here. | TIENTSIN, China, Oct. 8.—Serv- W adal e mlaRe: . dot] ing as guards of foreign conces- vement metal mining. sions, 10,000 men, the largest con- President of the Bunic- centration of foreign troops inep nd Suallivan Mining Com- North China since the Boxer Kollogg, 1daho. | days, are watching the latest de- B. Blalock, Manager of the velopments in the Chinese civil 8 R | Trail, B. C,, smelter, jas en- war and keenly contemplating | pes in | pany, S, | for F.W. Bradley Is Endorsed As Candidate to Receive "munders Medal A.LM.E. dorsed | the Columbia SE&['(HI tha James Douglas medal,y given each year for achisvements in non-ferrous metallurgy Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Comme and John Hays Ham- mond, inventor, are also bzing considered by the committee of awards. F. W. Bradley, mentioned above, is President of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company of Juneau. defense of the concessions, if| needed. Major Burden Fall, of| the American forces, which num ber more than one third of t International force, is here. Ths city is orderly at present. TIDE OF BATTLE CHANGES PEKING, Oct, 8.—The tide of | the battle north of Peking hnfll turned with the capture of Suanh- wafu, 85 miles away, by the North-| ern forces from ‘the Shansi in-/ vaders, after two days of fighting. | The Northerners captured fhe battalions of prisonérs and a large | quantity of ammunition. ————————— FOUL: SCHEME N. Y. SUICIDE: Auto Dealemnned Mur-| der of Double So He Could Elope MAPLEWOOD, N .J., Oct. 8-/ Failure of 1 scheme to kill his| double and ise the body to ob-| tain $250,000 insurance for his| wife and then elope with a 19 year | old girl was advanced by the Po-| lice as a motive behind the suicide ' of Raymond Bloch, aged 35, Maple- Wwood automobile dealer, in New York last Wednesday. | Bloch slashed his wrists, swal-| lowed ' poison, twisted a cravat about his neck and then submerg- éd himself in a bath tub, Police Chief Helf said Bloch | Miss Phoebe Foster, LeRoy Whijtney, cret ceremony. stage career. actress, Mrs. ACTRESS WEDS MILLIONAIRE who was married to Harold millionaire New York clubman at a se- Whitney says she will continue her obtained the solution of suicids| from the .girl with whom Bloch planned to elope. Unwilling 'O}KnENNEcKE Is leave his family in financial straits Bloch seized upon the jdea of killing Michael ~ Phepopoulous, IN AIR AGA'N waiter, Wwho resembled him, and Ll leave the body in Bloch’s car so as to enable his wife to collect ingurance, KARACHI, British India, Oct. ©. Bloch lured Phopopoulous to his’ —Ljeut. Koennecke, on a flight > car, and attacked him with® althe United States from Germany hammer. The waiter was struck{bhy way of the Orfent and Alaska several blows on the head but|has arrived at _Bender Abbas, Pe- cscaped by diving through the|gja, plate glass window. Bloch then Liedt. Koennecke has been re- went to a hotel and killed him-|pairing his plane since September self. He left a note stating that|30 when he crashed at Bagdad. he loved his e. B D — Junkers Plane Held Three Saved from Up by Bad Weather Death by Parachutes LISBON, Oct. 8—The Junker:| BUCHAREST, Rumania, Oct. 8. plane D-1230, enroute to the Unit-|-—Parachutes saved the lives ol ed States via the Azores, is mln three passengers when a military held up on the proposed flight on ' plane crashed today at Per{s. Tha account of bad weather. pilot and observer were killed. COURT RULES THAT WIFE CAN SIT ON HUSBAND'S LAP AND “SPOON” IN REAR SEAT OF HIS AUTOMOBILE CLEVELAND, Oct. 8. — Judg-]Rolfe’ and a police squad =wers ment for $3,676 has been awarded |out looking for a gang of rowdiss, by & Common Pleas Court jury!Light suddenly was thrown on to . and Mrs. Joseph Mack, |the Mack automobile and disclosed who had brought suit against|Mrs. Mack on her husband’s lap Pélice n_the act of kissing him. ’ charging Sergeant Rolfe dragged them:. had (them when he ‘found | from the car and took them {o them mfi ug.u- mnd mm‘nu, ‘where they were nm _six i Kills Wife Because She Powders Nose | |! CHICAGO, Oct. 8—Hugo | | Zepanski shot and seriously | |, wounded his wife, aged 61 ; | 'years, because “she persisted | in powdering her nose,” “he | | told the - police. The couple | | 'had been married 43 years. | — e Long Trip for 2,700 Sheep NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—Two Rus- slan peasants, who never before had been fifty miles from their homes, have arived in this coun- try to escort to Russia 2,700 thor- oughbred sheep bought in “Utah, Mont., Oregon and Ohio. The men ‘were selected from thousamnds of shepllerd candidat Gas Pocket Explodes In Mine; 2 Men Killed . . HUNTINGTON, W. Va,, Oct. 2. +Two men were killed in a gas explosion in the mine of the Price. Hill Fuel company last night. Nc other casualties were reported. The damage to the mine 1s slight. A 838 pocket is sald to have ex-|T—— ploded. | JH. W. Kleeb Dlsappears on| " the Institute, which handles theselw. Kileeb, MISSING MAN CLAIMS TO BE IN THIS CITY, Ferry, Reported Lo- cated in Juneau PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. ol Portland, who dis: apppearad mysteriously from a ferry boat between Astoria and Megler, Wash., last week, has been located at Juneau, his wile has been notified. He is raportes in a serious nervous condition. ; Kleeb's auto was found on thy ferty but no trace .of him ‘was found until the Juneau report. at St. Ann's hospitai, hotels, and from Federal author- ities and doctors, failed to find| trace of Kleeb, as reported In the above dispatch today received by the Daily Empire from ths Associated Press. BOES TO DEATH UPONGALLOWS ; cunsE ON LIPS 8.—H, Inquiry J Murderer Curs-| 13 mg Everybody when Trap Is Sprung SAN QUENTIN, Cal, Oct. 8. Milan Vukich was hanged here for the murder of Richard Stone. Placer County sawmill operator. Vukich put up a fight against . the guards when they entered his cell to strap his arms and lead him to the gallows. Spectators in the execution room ! could hear him demonstrating. . ‘ :' em Iur || Washington U screaming and | | As Vukich mounted the gallows | steps, he glanced at the 40 spe:-| tators gathered about the death' structure and burst into a volley | of &urses against them and the! executioners. He was shouting curses through the black hood drawn over his head when the trap was sprung. Vukich was convicted of killing Stone after an altercation over $160 which he claimed was due . him for wages. Los Angeles Bank President’s Wife Sues for Divorce| LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 8.— President George L. Browning of the Seaboard National Bank, was charged with falling in love wlth| his private secretary in a suit; for divorce filed in Superior Court by his wife, Mrs. Theresa Brown- ing. The complaint states that Mr. Browning began giving extra at- tention to his secretary, Miss Mar- Jjorie Parks, two years ago, charg- ing that he frequently visited her| at her apartment, took her rid- ing, and once financed a $350 trip to Chicago for Miss Parks. Mrs. Browning ' asks alimony and division of community prop- erty she valued at half a million dollars. Appeal of Wife Slayer Deni Ih Sup. ‘ Court SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8.~The State Supreme ,Court denied the appeal of George Waters, Sacra- mento wife slayer, against his | not more than three years in the sentence of death. He killed his pfld——-—.——r 1DOL AND IDEAL OF LONDOH ' Phil Arnold——probably Phyliss to her mother — is now ‘a xalqnlnz queen of both English mgvies -and the London st New picture almost does ‘justice to her lua the aegret .l Jm- charm. B MINISTER IS SENT PRISON Is Convicted in Notth Caro- lina of Two Wives CHARLOTTE, N. C,, Oct. 8— The Rev. Willis Jordan, Colum- bus minister, has been sentemced to serve not less than two yeais ILLEGAL IN U. S. DES MOINES, Ta, Oct. 8.—Men and women who obtain Paris di vorces may be heading for trou | Glee Club Is ble, in the opinfon of A. A. Mor- row, dean of the Drake Univer, (om"‘g N?"h sity law school. SEATTLE, 0‘: E L8 e | There is no provision in either ! l'r;l\;el'slly‘ "M 'W’;shlng(un | I tederal or state, constitutions, he Glee Club faces a busy sen- | | 895€rts, that requires an Amer. | son with tours in this State | i ian court to recognize as valid a | and ome tour to Southeast- | decree obtained:abroad. | ern Alaska. As planned, Ju- The test will gome, he believes, | neatr atid Ketchikan will be when an Ameriean man, divorced visited during the. Alaska | ;abroad, remarries, then dies. Both trip but the dates dre not | | bis “divorced” wite and wife No. | announced. A night will also | |2 could legally claim his prop- | be glven to Prince Rupert. | | €rty, according to Dean Morrow. { 1f he did not have a bona fide s | residence in Paris prior to obtain- ing the divorge—that is, if Paris was not his permanent home—his first wife would be entitled to her statutory third share of his es- tate and his second wife to noth- |ing except what he had willed {her, Morrow bslleven Mine Operltors and Miners Sign Agreement— to Rflnme Work state prigon after conviction o the cha of bigamy. The jury found Jordan guilty of having con- tracted & bigamoug marriage here on August 19, this year, withIndiana coal operators and miners Mrs. Emma hno dge while hajhave reached ‘an ugreement, simi- had an undivorced wife in West |lar to the ome reached ‘in Illinois, virginia. An appeal was granted | The agreement will be in effect to the Supreme Court. until Februaty 1 next year, It LISy calls for . same wages as the 87.000\,000 Spent lllinols ag t. The mines car Yearly with Bakers be epened immediately but it is not expected production will b: For Bread and Rolls CHICAGO, om. t-—lrmlng the increased until the mines tind & for the coal. About 25,000 are affected. Amvflm”b.rud basket requires ¢ B3 2.240,000,000 loaves of bread an - nually, Henry SM. president nllm { hmd the Amerlean Bakers' Association, Charge estimated today. Mr, Stude waul one of the speakers on today's ‘Cal,, Oct. 8.— program -of the association’s an- . debonmair screen nual conyention. actor, on nonsupport Raking, he sald, {s ove of the|charges by his former umurry. Tirst siz | wife, I d “not guilty” woman judge, _ him_ just like that comes be . that the actor LOS Cullen d. Of|fore me” hing | jurist h ‘bread, | had rolls BOX SCORE AND SUMMARY PIRAT AR R 4 1 0 Waner, farnhart, . Waner, Vright, Jrayna irantham, farris, 1b imith, Hill, p ddoch, diljus, ‘Yde . i Brickell ef. If. rf. 4 4 4 4 4 3 1 c. p. 0 1 0 1 Totals 3 3 lu 16 “*—Ran for Smith in Tth. t—Batted for Hill in 7th. YANKEES AB R H PO A B lombs, cf. 3 -2 1) foenig, ss. Ruth, rf. jehrig, 1b. Meusel, 1f... Lazzeri, 2b. Jugan, 3b.. Jullins, c. Moore, p. - - 4 5 4 5 5 3 4 3 4 oo w I,flflflllfi Totals 37 ins; Home run—Ruth; 1its—L. Waner and 3toien bases—Ruth; balls—oft HIll 1, oft Milj Moore 2;. Struck out—by, by Miljus 3, by ifoore l Bfl serl to Gehrig, Traynor to Wright, to Harris; Wild pitches—Miljns 2; First base on errors—Pitts- ourgh 2 New York none; Losing pitcher—Miljus; Umpires—Quig- ley, Mallin, Moran and Ormsby. 25 TRAPPED MINERS ARE BROUGHT OUT MAMMOTH, Utah, Oct. 8. Twenty-five miners trapped on the 1,600 foot level of the Mammoth mine, when fire broke out causing an estimated damage of $75,000, were rescued this morning. None of the men had suffered serioas effects. The blaze is believed to have started in the gable end of the compressor and boller room caus- ed by defective wiring or ignition of coal dust. . . Marines in Nicaragua o o Are Becoming Bigamous MANAGUA, Nic., Oct. 8.—Uncle Sam proposed to investigate be- fore his Marines marry any more Nicaraguan girls. Some of tha benedicts apparently have forgot- ten that they have wives in the United States. In the future per- mission to go to the altar must be obtained from the commanding officer, who wants the Nicaraguan Government. to prohibit marriages |. until approval Is given. el . TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Oct. s—|Girl, 9, Plays Hookey To Fly with Stunter LOS ANGELES, Ci Mrs, H. P. Coupe, report that her 9-year-old daugh- ter, Betty Lou, has been playing truant, yesterday discovered that Miss Betty had become a stunt flyer's mascot. = Betty played hookey .in order to loop the loop with Aviator Ray Solomon of Callies Field. Mrs. Coupe found out that Betty had often flown with Solomon.* COUPLE IS WEDDED, THEN KNOT IS ol 1I1With Thre-e_—& and Two MILIUS MAKES COSTLY HEAVE IN 3TH INNING Sluggmg Yankees Cop World Championship in Four Slrmgfit Games GIVEN WINNING RUN ON {WILD HEAVE BY MILJUS Men Out Pirates’ Pitch- er Hurls Game Away Y Wo: champion. ship by defeating the Pitts- burgh Pirates in the fourth straight game, the final contest 4 to 3. Earl Combs, Yu‘:e:l center fleld- er scored winning run in the ninth frame when John Miljus made a wild pitch with the bases fall. Miljus relieved Carmen Hill on the mound in seventh frame after the sairs had tied the coun three all, He got by m:h and eighth safely, going for a Combs went to second. and With Bl 8 g g S £ seemed little chance weather would game to be i sling rain fell (Continued on Page 1 UNTIED; GROOM FORGOT HIS LICENSE. ——— LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 8.— A would-be bridegrom yesterday found himself in a predicament, having been married in a church filled with soclety folks, only to discover after the ceremony thal :‘l had llf'“fl to get his mar- age license, pective bride w,hflj by her father and frantically for train and hotel Five days l&. applied for a to return fi ple