The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 11, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXX.. NO. 4606. JUNEAU ALASKA TUESDAY OCTOBER 1, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 SINCLAIR, FALL TO FACE TRIAL Amerlcan Federation Attacks Injunctions of Courts LABOR MAKING DEMANDS FOR LAW CHANGES Resolutions Committee Re- port Starts Attack at Convention SENTIMENT AGAINST PRESENT INJUNCTIONS Repeal of Amendment to| Sherman Anti-Trust Law Be Sought LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 11. —S8mouldering fires of organized labor’s resentment of court in- junctions as applied to labor dis- putes, broke out on the conven- tion floor of the American Fed- eration of Labor here late yes- terday. Leading champions of the working classes took the platform and gave voice to their senti- ments against the new weapon of the Equity Courts after the legal question had been brought up in a report of the Resolutions Committee. The report declared the courts’ enjoining mandate transcends all cther questions before’ American Labor and demanded the repeal or amendment to the Sherman anti-trust law, or any other anti- tiust law,: and substitution of _ leglslation’ which will not act to prevent workers combining in at- tempts 't6 gain. collectively what they cannot gain individually. - ————— New Model Ford Car . """ Now Being Assembled| DETROIT, Mich,, Oct. 11.— Assembly of the mew model Ford will begin within a few days by the Ford Motor Company it was announced today. ~ Major parts of the mew car have been under production for several weeks. The first assembly of the new bodies started some days ago. About 75,000 men are em- ployed. Comes to U. S. Because He’s Sick of Scotch NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—One rea- son given by Captain G. Duncan| C. MacLeod, Larid of Raasay, an island in the Hebrides, for his visit to New York is that he is sick of Scotch whiskey and de- sires to be where it is not so plentiful. Fliers Reach Africa on So. Adamic; Hop PARIS, Oct. 11.—Fliers Costes and Le Brix, enroute to Argen- tine over the (South Atlantic| Ocean, safely completed the first leg of their jourmey, landing on time at St. Louis, Senegal, on the ‘West Coast of Africa. They made the 2,700-mile fiight from Paris in 25 hours and 27 minutes. To Be ks, Tunney? —: & SO Caroline Bishop, pretty Los Angeles girl and niece of Fred Thompson, cowboy star, de- clines to admit or deny her ru- mored engagement to Gene Tunne( ST, I.UIIIS MAN URGES RAILROAD BUILDING BY U. S. Missouri Excursionist to Alaska Wants Govern- ment to Build R. R. ST. tensified was urged by Walter B. Weisen- burger, a St. Louis banker, in a recent address here before the Chamber of Commerce. Weisen- burger was chairman of a Cham- ber of Commerce delegation which toured Alaska last summer, “Alaska,” he said, “should not be looked upon as a giant ice- berg, but as a land of enormous wealth and golden opportunity. The government needs to launch into a more extended program for the extension of its already splen- did railroad building program, im- provement of highways and de- velopmeni of means of communi- cation.” John Coolidge Married; Not President’s Son GREENWICH, Conn., Oct. 11.— John Coolidge has been married. He's a mechanical engineer of Dedham, Mass. LOUIS, Oct. 11.-—More in- - WOMEN COOPERATE WITH NATION TO ELIMINATE HAZARDS OF FIRE WASHINGTON, Oct. 11—Presi.| dent Coolidge says of fire protec- ‘tlon, “There is need for earnmest study of the principles of fire ‘protection as a practical measure of national economy.” In line with this admonition the Genmeral Fed-| eration of Women’s Clubs: is urg- ing cach of its 14,000 member clubs to observe in some fitting manner National Fire Prevention Week, October ‘7—14. Speakers on the humanitarian .and economic phases of this great question are suggested. Education- &l work, especlally among school _children, if offered as a ‘means “Decide what you will' do; see that the children are out of the way; you can beat out a fire with a broom or a kitchen rug; keep a fire extinguisher in your house doors to keep out all drafts; it your. clothing is on fire tear it off if you can; if not wrap some- thing woolen, not cotton, around you and roll quickly on the. floor. “These are a few things that we can’ learn, can teach our chil- dren and pass on to others in our efforts to combat the fire menace. In 10 cities in the United States the past two years, citizens and city officials concentrated in their result inat instead of n-m development of Alaska | | | } i the { would not be certified by the com- Personal In]unctwn Sectwn . Of National Prohibition Law Is Declargd U nconstitutional Spectacular Raids by Dry Forces Banned W \le\(‘:'lO N, D, C., Oct |11 Spectacular raids in night clubs and cabarets will | | nct be tolerated by Prohibi- tion Commissioner Doran | who has sent out a new manual of instructions to dry agents. Orders have also been issued to cease the prac- tice of dramatically rushing into cabarets with drawn | | pistols in making raids. Arms, Commissioner Doran said, are to be wused for only self- | defense. |REORGANIZING DRY FORGE IS DELAYED SOME Reorganization to Be Start- ed Nov. 1—Handi- cap Reported JWASHINGTON, - Oct. 11iRaor: ganization, of the Prohibition Bu- reau on a civil service basis, au- thorized by Congress to take ef- ,fect on October 1, will not be before November 1, at the ear- liest, it was announced by Assist- ant Secretary Lowman, in charge {of dry law enforcement. The civil service commission, he explained, has been handicappe:! by lack.of funds and unable to complete examinations as rapidly as had been expected. It has informed tha treasury 'lhat the list of eligibles for the positions of assistant and deputy prohibition commissioners and for 25 distriet administrators mission for a month or six weeks. The rank and file of the enforce- ment service is not expected to be filled with civil service ap- pointees for several mcuths. While several changes in per- sonnel among the administrato.s are looked for as the outcome of the examinations, the administra- tive officials stationed in Wasa- ington are. not expected to be affected: Examinations for the positions of administrators are nearing com- pletion but those for the agents, clerks and other employees have not .got under way. Undesirable and inefficient agents are being gradually weeded out of the service, Lowman said, predicting that considerably more than a majority of the present agents, if successful in passing tne examinations, would retain their posts. There are nearly 20,000 appli- cants for the 3,600 positions n the bureau, One Dead, 14 Wounded; ‘Crazed Negro Runs Wil BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Oct. 11. ~—One man is at the point of] death and 14 others are wound- ed, while the body of Charlie Pinkston, crased negro, who yes- terday ran amuck- to terrorize the negro section is in the morgue, literally perforated with bullets from guns of more than 100 policemen. y Apparently "losing his mind when George Kirkhoff, City Sani- tation Officer, attempted to in- spect his ice cream stand, Pinks- ton slashed the inspector’s throat and fled to a nearby house where he barricaded himself. He took a stand at a window with his shotgun. Deputy Sferif Sam Williams, t policemen apd six’ bystand |ers were dropped by shots before the negro was shot. - Willlams, fir- oeing five dollars per nr» condition is serious. e U. §. Marshall Albert White ar- Mmmmhlufl'flen-‘ He was sccompauied by Mrs. '] Judge Woodrough's OMAHA, Neb., Oct, 11 T'hat portion of the national prohibition {law which permits a court ‘grand personal injunctions has ) been held unconstitutional by Fed- eral Judge Woodrough, here. ruling was made in answer ,be granted against Fred Cun- ningham of Scottsbluff, Neb, Tha petition charged Cuhningham wich {tive offenses against the prohibi- tion laws, involving sale, transpor- | tation, possession and solicitation of orders for whiskey. ed, would have made it possible to jail for contempt if he at any time should be found in the possession of liquor. Contrary to Constitution Judge Woodrough held that such an injuction would mean that Cun. ningham might be sent to Jjail{ without a jury trial, contrary to the Constitution. The right of a trial by jury, the Court rules, is assured by the Constitution and “an injunction re- lating solely to the commission of personal acts and not affecting property is a deprivation of lib- erty in violation of the Constitu- tion.” According to the opinion, “the defendant denies that any judge has the power to try him upon an accusation and asserts his im. munity under article Ii, Con- stitution of the United States, ‘the ]t trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by ju Admits No Argument “To my mind,” the opinion con- tinued, “the matter does not admit of argument or debate, if this defendant has a bad reputation as a bootlegger, let the matter be inquired into, a charge formulated, and a jury of his peers called to- gether. “But the bill in equity, though it is based upon a section of an act of Congress, calls upon the Judge to do that thing which the Constitution forbids that any Judge shall ever do; to.try 2 person for crime and deprive him of his liberty without a jury. “The bill should be dismissed, and it is so ordered.” WILL NOT APPEAL WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—There is little 'likelthood that the gov- ernment will appeal from the de- cision of Federal Judge Wooi- rough at Omaha holding that the personal injunction section of the Volstead Act is unconstitutional. This provision has been resort- ed to in only raré instances and there never has been a test case on it carried to the Supreme Court. The general policy has been to proceed against individual boot- leggers under other provisions ca. rying penalties upon conviction by a jury. s Ever since the enactment of the Volstead Law there has been a difference of opinion among lawyers as to the constitutionality of the personal injunction section Many holding with Judge Wood- rough that it deprives the accused of the right of trial by a jury guaranteed by the Constitution. The general view of those charged with the enforcement ot ithe law has been that if there is evidence to warrant Court action criminal prosecution should be in- stituted and the case tried in the usual way. ht for wsi"mma ABERDEEN, Wash., Oct. 11.— Arrested us a n‘un after par- ticipating in & cheap rooming house brawl, Stamley G. Crandell is held in jail om a. charge of kidnapping Veaner Alexanderson, son of the radio .xnwr. of Schnectady, N. Y. The long: it tu;mn was identified by ° ts and| confessed, amfl ‘to the po- lice. T stated that he kidnapping of son five years Harry ed as an ago and sel d’ Crandell ‘part in the er Alexander- 0| sitting | to a petition}: | | which asked a personal injuction The personal injunction, it grant for a Court to send Cunningham {! selling or IFIFTH PRESIDENT PAYS TRIBUTE | { | Oc! at | r 13 to pay tribute to the “unders Dey exsrcises ot Carnegis Institute, late Andrew Carnegie (right), A view of the Pregidcrt, S8amuel Harden Church, above at theleft. PITTSBURGH, -Penn,, Oct. 11. —~When a 12-year-old Scottish lad came to America years ago to toll long hours in American 1 he hardly dreamed of ding"‘an educationnl ‘center that would win him the plaudits of five Presidents. And yet on October 13 a fifth Chiet Executive of the United States, President Calvin Coolidge, will come to Pittsburgh to deliv- er.the Founder's Day address at Carnegie Institute. The Institute, with its mammoth free library, its art galleries and music hall, and its 2, OUU ents of technol- Bootlegger Wants Parole; His Plea BALTIMORE, Oct. the ground that his earnings | as a bootlegger were only $15 | a week, Russell Dunn of Som- | erset county, today filed & | petition for parole with Com- | missioner Parrish. Dunn was | sentenced to six months in | | the State penitentiary for at- | tempting to sell the Sheriff of Somerset county a pint of | whiskey at a country picnie. The sentence, the petition | | said, was too harsh consider- | | ing the slender profits Dunn ! had made. | | | BSOS SO ————— FAILS T0 PAY HIS ALIMONY; UNDER ARREST Edward Curtis Arrested Complaint of His Dlvorced Wife SEATTLE, Oct. 11. — Edward curtis, . internationally known authority on North American In- dian love and noted author and lecturer, was arrested when he walked.down the gangplank from the steamer Alameda when he arrived from Nome.. Curtis 48 accused by his di- vorced wife, Clars> Curtis, with having been in ‘eontempt of court for sevem years for failure to pay alimomy which is said to total: $4,600. Curtls was ased on a $2,000 bond after he had been -locked In jail for a few hours, Mrs, ‘Curtis charged that her hushand, studying Indians and “"""' »‘u, Alaska, had evaded| _courts 4 oft {now 11~On ! ogy, is a shrine to the memory of Andrew Carnegie, whose gifts| to it aggregated some $36,000,- 000. When Carnegle, the spinner boy, had become former “the 1o master’. back 4n ‘1881, hel decided ' that™ Plttsburgh, " whers most of his interests centered, needed a free library. He offer- ed $2650,000 and in 1887 increas- ed the gift to $1,000,000. In later years he established| the fine arts and museum collec- tions and the music hall, enlarg- ed the original library, and gave the city funds for the establish- ment of the Carnegie Institute of Technology. l‘hhu one rs ugn the men HEARING ON HALIBUT 1S - NOVEMBER ] International Will Convene at Ket- chikan for Views VICTORIA, B. C., Oct. 11.-— Commission| T0 CARNEGIE’S PHILANTHROPY As four Preadents have done before him, President Coolidge (center) will go to Pittsburgh iron master” and philanthropm., school is shown below, ond its trusted by Carnegie to conduct the Institute declded to set aside one day each year as Founder’s Day. S8ince then more than a score of men high in public life have journeyed to Pittsburgh to pay tribute ‘to Carnesfe. | “The list of FKounder's Day speakers has’ included four Presi- dents of the United States, Grov- er Cleveland, William: McKinley, Woodrow Wilson and William Howard Taft. Founded by a man who was denied the advantages of higher education, the Institute now is a leader among the schools training the teéchnolc7ists necessary to carry toruard a complex clvili- zation, ] | President’s Views on Tax Reduction WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.— | President Coolidge feels that | the tax reduction by the next Congress should be con- siderably less than $400,.- 000,000. This s the an- nouncement made today from the White House. £ IR RC { | | | [ SR A S B Ui November 8 has been fixed as the date for the ‘opening of public hearings of the International Fisheries Commission at Ketchi- kan. The Commigsion will hear halibut fishermen and others in- terestéd in expressing their views on ‘halibut depletion and preven- tion. The Commfssion will go to Prince Rupert on November 20 and then later to Vancouver and Seattle for similar hearings. The Commission will then file a re- port with the United States and Canadian Governments. 5 Pouches Registered Mail Stolen in L. A. LOS ANGELES Cal, Oct. 11. —Five pouches of registered malil containing mesly checks amount- ing to more than $100,000, were stolen from Frank F. Wilmoth, bank messenger, by two armed robbers who jumped into Wil- moth’s automobile and forced him to drive uuy F lm Eqncull "M‘ West Is NEW Y,ORK. Oet. 11.—For beau ty, especislly blondes, zo West, young man, Bernard Censterman, Swedish. painter, seeking Nordic purchritude; expects he'll have to go to the middle west. But he intends over New York girls tirst. He'll find all of them already Dr. Q. A" Lurle, Guard Cutter Unalg: the Aleutian of the Coas returned on a Reveral weeky Wily Scot Goes To Jail to Save Legacy - HOBOKEN, N. J, Oct.” 11. Willlam Gray, stone cutter, is in the hoosegow voluntarily to avoid extravagance. He walked into the Police Station, sald he had been on a bit of a spree and desired to be locked up lest he spend a legacy that was due. He ex- pects to be normal in a day or so and bank the legacy. William\ is a Scot. CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY COMING UP Oil Magnate and Former Secretary of Interior to Be Tried GOVERNMENT BRINGS CASE AGAINST TVO ‘Suit Results in Connection of Lease Teapot Dome Oil Land WASHINGTON, Oect. 11.—Har- ry F. Sinclair will go on tral next Monday with Albert B. Fal, former Secretary of the Interlor. jon a charge of conspiracy to de- fraud the United States Govera- meut in connection with the Tea- | pot Dome oil lease. The suit touches on the Gov- ernment’s allegation that Fall received $230,500 in Liberty Bonds from Sinclair in connec- tion with the lease. Justice Butler declared the evi- jdence showed Fall was a “faith- less public officer,” and that tie company was organized for tha purpose of purchasing the lease out of which the Liberty Band transaction arose which was for “no legitimate purpos ' CERTAIN PUNCH {Uses mgnsh Precedent for ‘Choose” to Prove that He Said He Was Out WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Presi- dent Coolidge was told by Sco- ator Gillett, Republican, Mass?- chusetts, today*that he had foun! a precedent for the executive political statement of August but that he had to go back inio British politics of the Victoriay age to find it. During the time when Lo~t .| Palmerston and John Russell, both, Prime Ministers for Queen Vi - toria, were engaging In a bit'e* political fight, Lord Palmerston remarked to a friend: “I do » & choose to be rubbed into the dirt by Johnny Russell.” Senator Gillett said Mr. Coolidg was greatly amused with thi; analoy. After his call upon tho President, the Senator sald that Massachusetts was regretfully ae- cepting the President’s statemca! as meaning that the intended t leave office. He belleved that t':- Massachusetts delegation to tha Republican National Convent would be uninstructed but fav able to Secretary Hoover; alwa hopeful, however, that if a s lock occurred the convent' n would swing to Mr. Coolidge. M~ would not hazard whether th- President would accept the nomi nation under such circumstance . MAN DOES BEST WORK AT 50, DOCTOR FINDS CHICAGO,* Oct. 11--Fifty is man's most productive age, Dr. W. A’ Newman Dorland, Chicago physician, says. (S He reached the conclusion after long study of the lives and achievements of 400 of the world's :ruten men, undertaken to find out whether the oft repeated state- | ment that the world’s work Is performed by young men would “hold water." Comparative old age, his re- search showed, produces the world’s masterpieces in every line of human endeavor. Dr. Dorland has written three articles, em- bodying his conclusions, which will be published in the official mag- azine of the Hiinols wmt B0 for performance of the great est work of their lives. The ave: age age at which the labo'n: reached his zenith was 47; 5r thinkers, 52. He studled the lives of Colum- bus, Lord Nelson, Dickens, Con- rad, Chopin, Robert E. Lee, Hnx- ley and ‘a host of others of like calibre. His fiMhn showed th: prodnction peak for men in vari ous vocations at these ages: Chemist and physicists, 41; dr~. matists and playwrights, poets -M j inventors, 44: novelists, 46 plorers and warriors, 47; composers and ‘actors,. 48; and ministers, 50; essayists reformers, 51; raic and statesmen, - 54; n |