The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 21, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” i/OL. XXX, NO. 4615. JUNEAU ALASKA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1,.1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FALL MAKES APPEAL TO COURT New Proposal to be Made to Secure 2 arm Relief 88 Y 1L —— BROOKHART IS DRAFTING NEW | MEASURE NOW Newly Formed Group of| Western Republicans Unite for Action MEETING IS CALLED DISCUSS LEGISLATION . Latest Proposal Would Give Control' Direct to Government WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—The| newly formed group of Western Republican Senators, who united in the hope of solving legislative, problems to their section, havej been ecalled together for a diss cussion on agricultural relief, the stumbling block of the last Con- gress. In the nature of a compromise, a mew farm relief bill has been under preparation by United States Senator Brookhart, H The new bill would replace the controverted equalization fee of the vetoed .McNary-Haugen Dhill with direct Government con-! trol of operatipns. It would in- clude all erops as well as a few named * in -the McNary-Haugen measure and would have sur-! pluses administered by the gov- ornmental ugency. 2 y-formed, . group, ;s mmpnned of Senators Brunkhurt Borah, Nye, Fragler and Norris and it is hoped that the ranks:' will be increased with the addi- tion of ‘Senator McMaster. CHAMBER ASKS HERRING STUDY BY GOVERNMENT Says Information Lacking on Subject ard Asks for Scientific Study After a detailed discussion of general phases of the herring bait situation today, the Chamber of Commerce by a unanimous .vote adopted a resolution urging a scientific investigation. of the herring question by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. The resolu- tion, which was drafted by the Executive Committee, was sub- stituted for one adopted several weeks ago by the Petersburg Commercial Club and forwarded here for similar dctiom. ‘While the discussion developed there were several members who favored ado) of the Peters- burg program, after-comparison o? the two resolutions, it was agreed: that the local program probably was best titted to the situation and the vote for its adoption was without dissent, ¢ Gives Matter Study Reciting that the attention of the Chamber had been called by the Petersburg Commercial Club (Contlnued on Page Two.) “&EAUTIFUL ISLE. OF < HYMN IS BANNED FRO BY ORDER OF BOSTON, Oct. 2{—The singing at funerals of “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere” is forbidden by Card- inal O'Connell, archbishop of the _Catholic dlocese . of Bos- ton. His action has recelved pub- e’ ‘endofsement from _several ‘Je*l* ‘Protestant clergymen. ’lpml. the cardinal says, is “vtur ” but “inane” and identifying “Beautjful Isle | Women Voters Hear Party Viewpoints At Politics Forum Some of the well known women hfing put in the lh York League of Women Voters forum held at the Hyde Park, N. Y., home cf Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt (upper left), and Mrs. James Roosevelt, are Miss Martha Van Rensselaer (upper right) of Ithaca; Mrs. Henry Goddard Leach (lower left) of New York City, and Mi%s Evelyn Preston (lower r’ight), also of New York. HYDE PARK, N. Y, Oct. 21— The open mind and the open for- um are companionate ideas, be- lieve the leaders of the New York League of Women Voters, Ac- cordingly, the state hoard of di- rectors has promulgated a series of meetings in various parts of the state at which delegates from nearby counties are invited to discuss current political igsues with men and women of different party affiliations, A “baker's dozen” of Hudson River counties will send delegates to the fall meeting Friday, Octp- ber 14, wood,” Hyde Park, N. Y, the home of " Mrs. James Roogevelt and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Several of the women attending the Hyde Park forum were also ipresent at the summer gathering at Lake Seneca, N. Y. Under the direction of Mrs. Henry Goddard Leach, the state board will hold a business meet- ing in the foremoon. The official forum in the afternoon will be addressed by Mrs. Carrie Chap- man Catt and Miss Martha Van Renssellaer. | Representatives - of state political parties who will speak on ‘various political issues from their respective /points of view include Assemblyman H. B. Shonk, of Scarsdale: State Sena. tor Thomas J. Walsh, of Staten Island; Congressman Hamilton (Continued on Page flu. SOMEWHERE” THE CHURCH CARDINAL O:CONNELL der that this revolting experience will not be repeated,” says an of- ficial ~ pronouncimamento madée public through The Pilot, official organ of the archdiocese. The cardinal terms the hymn a “flag- rant outrage to faith’ and “s fay- orite sob-producer.” The ‘Rey. J. C. Massee, Baptist pastor of the Tremont Temple; Dr. A. Z. Conrad; pastor of the Park Street Congregational church and “ te Rev. Dr. J, Franklin Knotts,” pastor of th Md Dor- ehuhrv llomrlul (Meth- odist), cflqlnll B’cm-ell in characterizing “wholly to be held at *“Spring- fge. AHGRS BT \ New Heat Records at San Diego SAN DIEGO, Cal, Oct, 21— | | New records for heat for 1927 | ; were established here yester- | terday when the thermometer | | soared to 94 degrees: making & new record for October and | shattering all records for heat | during the last nine years. | | i | ELIMINATION OF NEAR-BEER LEAGUE'S AIM Dry League Also to Fight for Regpuea] Physicians’ Prescriptions DES MOINES, Oct. 21—BElim- ination’ of the near-beer industry in the United States, repeal of the physicians’ liquor prescription law, stricter regulation governing: distribution of industrial alcohol and a mandatory abajement pro- vision in the national liguor law are some of the proposals to be presented to Congress by the Na- tional Civic League, New York, John" B. Hammond, legislative representative ot the league here, announced today. The principal aim of the league, in proposed congressional legisla- tion fs to “put teeth in the Vol- stead Act’” Mr. Hammond sald. Twelve amendatory > bills have been drafted and will be placed in the hands of senmators and rep- case. UNDER ARREST IN COLORADO Plckets Are Rounded U in Strike in Colorado Coal Fields ,FIRST— I W. W FORCE 1 Hsh WALSENBURG, Col.,, Oct. 21. !—Wholesale arrests of pickets !sent out by the Industrial Work- ers of the World, opened the fourth day of the strike in the Colorado Coal Fields. Sixty 1. W. W. cluding 20 women, under guard. Before arrested, the pickets succeeded in suspending opera- tions at the Cameron mine at Ideal. The Heavily-armed mine guards etopped the advnce of pickets and held them until de- puty sheriffs arrived and arrested them, including the women, onc woman with a small baby in her arms and accompanied by her 14= year-old daughter. FRAME-UP IS BEING GHARGED Says Boomers Make Lyle and Other Offi- cers Thmr Targets A g ‘sm’r’rLE Oct, 21—Charge that Prohibition Administrator Roy Lyle and two suspended agents, Hubbard and Fryant, are the tar- get of bootleggers in a conspiracy to oust them from office, was| hurled late yesterday afternoon ‘n the Superior Court by Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Bailey. The purported evidence gathered by operatives of the Internal Revenue Intelligence Unit against the of- ficers has been furnished by “ma- licious bootleggers,” Bailey as- serted during the trial of a liquor in- held pickets, are | i Alabama Students Request Governor Quiz College Head, MONTGOMERY, Ala, Oct, 21— The Advertiser says today that five student leadérs of Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn, Ala., have asked Gov. Bibb Graves to investigate the college admin- istration of Dr. Spright Dowell, president. The student represen- tatives informed Governor Graves that a large part of the student body was opposed to many of Dr. Dowell's policies and that student discipline had broken down be. cause of nneul dissatisfaction. Womn M So She Might Bu y Tombstones| NEW YORK, Oct. 21—A woman was arrested today for stealing in order to buy tombstones for her mother and two sisters. Anna Welner, 28 years old, of the Bronx, admitted, police said. she had defrauded a department store of $1,200 in merchandise, but said resale of the goods had falled to bring her emough moncy | for one tomb-!om Wife Gets Anpulmen Asnulment | For “Extra” Husband| FRESNO, Csl, Oct, 21—Testi- fying in Superior Court that she woke - after & gin party to find that she not only ‘had a hang | over but an‘extra husband, Mrs.| Emma Zachary was granted anl annulment The “par- ty” and the second wedding took | place in San nfim March 8, resentatives friendly to.the pro- gram for introduction in Congress. Would Lift Ban In search and selzure cases, ong of the proposed amendments; would nmx that portion of the she testified. Making Pim Talk, Prize Man Drops Dagd i mo 000 © ‘dead ‘women's imno e ADI&,‘,Jm-luvin. Oct, 21 # nations Icn‘ VAR A Kilkenny cats of Rurope, Italian-Jugoslav military dis- turbances at Zara, Jugoslavia’s ef- fort to build up her air service, | yItaly’s opposition to disarma-| ment proposals advanced by the United States, and thé treaty of, Tirana have' turned the eyes of Europe again to the steaming pot of the Balkans where the World! war was brewed. Tension between Italy and Ju-| goslavia has been growing since the treaty of Tirana gave Italy a virtual protectorate over Albania, How serious it Is, is indicated by the fact that any attempt to talk Itallan here in the capital of Ju-| goslavia is greeted with stony ' silence. The Italiam gnvurnme'nI has sent notes (o the British, French and German governments, threatening war in the event of a Jugoslav attack on Albania. Protests have been heard from Albania in quarters which fear that an Itallan protectorate means a loss of Albanian independence. They point to the action of Italy in landing ‘troops on the island of Saseno in Valona harbor as be- ing more of a menace to their in- dependence than a protection of their territoria] integrity against invasion from the north. On the other hand, Italian diplo- mats believe their duce, Mussolini, has scored a diplomatic victory in Albania. They call it another jachievement to add to his previ- ouu shattering of the Francophile | Little Entente, by ratifying the treaty recognizing the cession of Bessarabia to Rumania, and by his winning of Bulgarian sympa- thy, * * Hungary and Ju;ollnvil have their ;own difficulties over Hun- gary’s desire to use Fiume as a port. Count Bethlen of Hungary has had conversations with Mus- solini, sounding him ‘on Italy's views, Under the peace treaties , Hungary lost her chief port at Trieste. and the whole of her coast on the Adriatic. Hungary has now arranged, despite Jugo; slayian opposition, for facilities foriher traffic in the port of Flume. The island ot Leros, one of the 'welve “Islands” of the Aegean sea, has become an Italian Gibral- tar. Italy, which has. occupled the fsland . “provisionally” _ since the Italo-Turkish war in 1912, has made it almost impregnable. For fear that Information about the fortifications may get out, inhabi- tants of the island are forbidden, under fine of 30 lire, to possess a camera, without permfssion of the Italian. authorities. { 1s mmnz by p its afr force. Twenty- airplanes were re- 1o _the. nation’s sky r and | selt-detense and IW.W.FORCE |DISPUTES OF BALKAN NATIONS BRING NEW TENSITY IN EUROPE, The Balkan States are restive again, and Premier Mussolini of \Italy (right) ; Mustapha Kemal (center), President of Turkey; King Alexander of Jugoslavia (upper left) and President Ahmed Zogu of i Albania (lower left) are prominent in the disputes that keep the powers uneasy. Italy and Jugoslavia are at odds over the former’s virtual protectorate over Albania and Turkey’s large army is a source of alarm. The map shows the countries involved in the Balkan turmoil. HAVE YOU A BRASS BED? MAYBE THERE IS A FORTUNE IN TUBING AT THE FOOT GROOM WALSH AS CANDIDATE Move Under Way for Mon- tana ‘Senator as Presi- dential Candidate MADISON, +Wis., Oct. 21—A group of dry Senators is boom- ing United States Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Montana, for the Democratic Presidential nomina- tion. Miles Rfley, Madison attor- ney, conférred with Senator Walsh. Riley said a state meet- ing Is planned to outline an or- ganlzation favoring Walsh for the NEW YORK, Oct. 21—The mar- ket of second hand brass beds will be vitally affected when the news of James Finn's will be- comes generally known. His be- quest to his widow comprised $26,000 in railroad securities which Finn said would be found in the tubing at the foot of hisl brass bed where he put them wl | years ago. Mrs. Finn recalls the bed but is unable tc remember what became of it. ONE GANGSTER PAYS PENALTY Member of ‘Notorious Ber- ger Gang Pays with Life on G: Gallows MARION, llL, Oct. 21—Redio Millich, former member of the band of Bouthern Illinois gang- sters, headed by the notorious|plane D-1220 took off for the Charles Birger, paid with his life | Azores, on the way to the United on the gallows here today for the|States, this morning but returned murder of Ward Casey Jones, fel-ilater with a leaky oil tank. LISBON, Oct. 21.—The hydro- SENSATION IS CAUSED IN OIL LEASING CASE |[Form er Secretary Asks Personall{ for Admit- tance of Tes(lmony i GREAT BITTERNESS = ARISES AT TRIAL Opposing Counsel Develops Bitter Warfare in Con= spiracy Case — ansiidl WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. — A- unexpected and dramatic appeal to the Court, by Albert B. Fall, to admit testimony vital to his defense, and the development of bitterness between counsel, uh- equalled in all the long history of the Naval oil lease cases, marked the criminal conspiracy trial late yesterday ainst former Secretary of the Ii and Harry 8. Sinclair, ofly nate. 2 The defense had been rep by the Goverment in efforts present its cases on cross ins of direct examination by nesses, again and again. such time came when E. C. ney, First Assistint Secretary the Interior gave his interpréts- tion of the oil lmln m PR undef Fall. Suddenly, Fall arose and niade an appeal, direct to the Court, When Fall concluded, Justice Siddons told him he was mis- taken as to what the Court was passing upon; that the gquestion was not one of interpretation of the law, but interpretation of the language in a letter from Edvin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, to Fall, as to the policy that should be pursued in the handling of oil from Naval reserves. Justice Siddons said the latter spoke for itself. —_————— "|Caruso’s Widow To Wed Former Diplomat of U. S. NEW YORK, Oct. 21—Mrs. Dor- othy Benjamin Caruso Ingram, wite of the famous temor, today confirmed reports of her be- trothal to Alexander P. Moore, former ambassador to Spajn and husband of the late Lillian Rus- sell. She sald they planned to be married in January. Mrs. Ingram was married to Ernest Augustus Ingram after the death of Caruso and they were divorced later. When she ar- rived here recently from Europe on the liner Paris she was ac companied by her two daughters. Men Told to Stand No NEW YORK, Oct. 21—Men are advised by Elinor Glyn to stand for no nonsense on the part of their wives. In a speech at a e sald: “A wite who sound thrashing for a meanness loves her husband all the more.” low gangster. Millich Is the first member of the gang to hang. He maintained to the last that he killed Jones in that he was framed by other gangsters. . — Court Restores Fireman’s Job After Ten Years SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21—Ten years ago the Board of Fire Com- missioners dismissed from the San Frahcisco Fire Department Arthar J.' Landtron, on charges that he stole a small motor from a plant where he was fighting a WASHINGTON, Oct. 21—Farm- ers face a favorable outlook for returng on their year's operations, ulamugh agricultural labor has been slightly in excess of the de- mand, government reports show, and findustrial employment pros- pects for the next few months in ot the nation present s wide range Yesterdsy a Superior u_"nl oungiionss Judge found that the cummlnlon. action ficlent man for the | The farmers are less dependent '.‘not founded on suf {on the banks for loans this fall and ordered the fire-|than a year ago, says an agricul- to duty. tural review of the Federal Re- maem-nd his wages [serve Board, but their bank de-| years, amounting | posits are considerably lower. h he has uummuumnmbuluu YEAR OF PROFIT IS OUTLOOK FOR . FARMERS OF U. 8. the agriculturists, the board points out. The farm labor supply has beea 23paroentlnmdm» due largely to a lower volume of industrial employment, the De- partment of Agriculture reported. But the farm wage scale is 75 cent higher than the period, while still appreciably - low the industrial wages snd ne;;ut of the uu wages. = o 1+ New England Mississippl - and Michigan bor Departn