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

| VOL. XXX NO. 4620. DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE_ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” jUNEAU 'ALASKA THURSDAY OCTOBER 27, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIAT[:D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS STRIKE IS OUTLAWED Protestant Epzscopal Clergy Is Agamst Volstead Act PROHIBITION NO SOLUTION LIQUOR ISSUE Clergymen —X/.()_;e About 2 to 1 on Question— Nation-wide Poll SUFFICIENT TRIAL COMPLETE FAILURE More Practical Legislation Is Needed for True Temperance NEW YORK, Oct. 27. — The Church Temperance Society of the -Protestant Episcopal Church announces returns from the sec ond nation-wide poll of Episco- pal clergymen in the United States® The returns show the ymen have voted approxi- mately two to one that Prohibi- tion is not the best solution for the liquor problem. The - nation-wide poll on the lignor qupstipn was conducted by the Natfonal Episcopal Church Temperance Seciety. The poll shows the ministers, as indlvid- uals, voted Prohibition a fail- ure, that it has had sufficient trial, that the Volstgad Act should be modified, that the Eighteenth nendment shéuld be repealed. The poll showed that with the Society to secure more practical legislation ln the} e%fi%'!mnl poa ang the one taken one year ago, Rev. James Empringham, National Sup- crintentlont of the Society, said he was now convinced that ‘it is impossible to legislate morals into the people, that the poll showed an overwhelming majority in fa- vor of modification and, legalize the manufacure and sale of ligh: wines and beer.” EARTH SHOCKS BREAK. WINDOWS LIGHT STATIONS | Cape St. Elias Station Dam- aged—Center of Quake, Gulf of Alas KE’I’CHIA\AN. Alaska, Oct. 27-— Further evidence that last Mon- day’s quake centered in the Gulf of Alaska whas brought by the steamer Redondo, . southbound from westérn Alaska. Windows were broken in the Cape St. Elias Light station and that region was severely shaken. The Cape Spencer Light station received a lesser shock. Heavy seas accompanying the quake, broke the towline from thée Redondo to the halibuter Seymour and the Seymour drifted helpless- ly three hours. Quake Felt on Stikine WRANGELL, Ogt, 27—Trappers who reached here in a small river boat from the Cassiar mining dis- trict in Northern British Colum- bia, report last Monday's' quake very severe at a point'they camp- ed on the Stikine River, 50 miles northeast of Wrangell. " the| clergymen are willing to cooper: |’ Demog:rahc Nominee! *J Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is be ing urged to run for the vice presidency with Al Smith prob ably at the head. She will b | the first woman to run for s important a position in thi ! United States. 1 Heat Wave Hits the Middle West FOUR REVENUE {Main Issues for Reduction | Means Committee will not 'LOOKS FOR NO SOURCES UNDER CONSIDERATION in Taxes Are Being Discussed HEARINGS ARE TO START NEXT Republicans and Demorats Split Over General Reduction WASHINGTON sources of carperations, excise Oct. 27.—Four revenue, that from individual stamp and estates have been mentioned prominently as those mest likely affected by prospective Congressiopal action. Of this group, corporation and excise stamp taxes have been re- ferred most frequently as those to receive first congideration by the House Ways and Means Com- mittee, which has opiginal juris- diction over all revegue matters, While the House Ways and init- NDAY| incomes, | . iate hearings on the subject until next Monday, pr: #ty all of its” membership D;‘.’ urnde to the. Capitol. _#Fhose’ who have apoken have beed” in. mecord as 1to the sources of tax fncome that should benefit by ‘a weduction in While Republfeans opine | ;,\&N)on 000 re ents ! 0 WH g‘wuctlon. Democratic’ members of the t committee come out for a mini- mum reduction jof _uo&’ooo,ooo and maximum of $500,000,000. FARM RELIEF, | SAYS SENATOR CHICAGO, . 27—Over- |coats have gone back to the | closets while the Middle West autumn turned back to sum- mer. Steadily climbing ther- mometers showed sweltering | temperatures in every state west of Pittsburgh to the ! | Rockiés. Chicago recorded 79 | degrees ~and Centralia, IlL, | had a temperature of 89 de- | ) | grees. NSRS New Altitude Record Claimed for Glider MASIENBURG, Germany, 27—Ferdinand Schulz, Oct. noted Ger- man glider expert, has achieved|gress and that body should not what is claimed as a new altitude record for gliders, remaining in the air 4 hours 1% minutes at a height of 752 meters (about 2,500 ih feet) in his gliding plane “West Prussen.” This mark’ was better than the world records for gliders for some time, the altitude record being the only one not credited tu' him. e SANTA FE; N. M., Oct. 27—The Thunderbird ranch, between here and Las Vegas, claims ‘to have the first plano brought into New Mexico, /The house itself was uilt -in 1867 of materials hauled Brookhart Eldm Pres- ent Administration Will Not Aid WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—Farm- ers need not look to the present administration for agricultural re- liet, in the opinion of Senator Smith W. Brookhart, of lowa. He said this view stands for the re- maining five members of the sen- ate’s new bloc, the western non- organization of Republicans, term- ing the struggle for anything but a "gamflna solution of farm prob- as a waste of time. Senator Brookhart declared the solution of the farm relief ques- tioi® was a duty resting with con- take up a decoy bill on the plea that “no better can be had.” HE’.ARTY WELCOME GIVEN CHARLES LEVINE AT NEW, YURK Charles A. Levine arrives in New. York on the S. S. Leviathan and is given a hearty welcome as the sccond man to span th | Atlantic, The plane pictured above is the end of the sturdy Columbia whigh catried Chamberlin and Levine to Europ; vn Lho] longest flight on record. Aboyg is' Levine on the gy French Tariff Rates Are Suspended | | | | .' | PARIS, Oct. 27— Higher | tariff rates recently imposed | on: American imports by the | | French government have been | | suspended pending negotia- | tions for a commercial treaty. | | This is the announcement | | made by Minister of Com- | merce Bokunowukl TWO AIRSHIPS PROBABLY RACE AROUND WORLD Two Zeppellns Being Con- structed by Germans and British ‘NEW YORK, Oct. 27-—Thé Eve- ning Post says a race around the world between German and Brit Ships Would Make Voyage to England In Only Four Days ‘WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—Con- structlon of a fleet of fast pas- senger ships twice the size of a destroyer and capable of making the trans-Atlantic trip to England in four days is practicable, in the opinion of Chairman O’Connor of the shipping board, who has wit- nessed tests of a twenty-foot ship over the old Santa Fe trail by X |imodel at the. Washington Navy team. OFFICER INVADES HOSP‘TAL ROOM AND MAKES ARREST OF SURGEON AS umv YORK, Oct. 21—A depu.| ty sherift invaded the sacted pre- | cincts' of ‘an operating , réom The “order charged Dr Iflw was tryinn to establish a Yard under conditions simulating severe North Atlantic weather. A speed of thirty-five knots an hour was indicated by the tests. to lay its plans before the gh the use of airplanes, the ships would be equip- ish Zeppelins looms for next sum- mer. The Post quotes Howard Min- g0s, aviation writer, sayimg that two airships are umder construc- tion. One is being built by the British and the other by t..el mans. It is indicated that the two Zep- pelins will probably be in a race around the world, e ——— Army Officer Acquitted Charge, R&dflcuflymx‘ ATLANTA, Gn.. Oct. 27-—An army court-martial has found Lieut, George Finch not guilty of one of the cherges of perjury brought against him in connection with an alleged violation of regu- lations pro'mhmu ‘reckless” 1l t bandon Search. | or M. SEVOONGA, (m. earch for the lone seam: ho. landed Octol U. S.-BRITAIN POSSIBILITY| Writer Gives Reasons for Strike — *Japan as British Ally NEW YC 27—Possibili ty of war the United States and Great Britain, with Japan as an ally of the Britisn and Canada neutral, is seen in the not distant future by Lieutenant Commander Keworthy in a book “Peace or War"” soon to be pub. lished in_ this country. The commander writes: “If |events of the next ten years con- | tinue as in the past nine, England will stand at the head of the Ru. ropean federation of distrust (against America. If after 1931 | there i§ no remewal of the Wash- ington treaty of 1921, the World will accept possibility of a devas- tating Anglo-American war. It will mean the end of civilization and the ruin of human culture.” Jealousy and America’s finan: cial leadership and the bitterness {of the British people over the payment of the American war debt, mounting to commercial ri- |valry, are all cited as factors of the situation by the commander. —————— Capt. Amundsen Probably Caught In o« Romance EW.YORK, Oct. 27. — The New York World advances the opinion that romance is a pos- sible explanation for the sudden ,'1’mrtuu of Capt. Roald Amund- for Norway. The explorer left suddenly . yesterday on ‘a teamer, l.nvhu' an uncompleted ‘l-r re four and also the Explor- ' Club: medal, scheduled to be aw mlod at a dlnner in Amund- fsen’s honor next Saturday night. ———— [Seven _Defendants In Will Fight BATH, N, Y., Oct. 27. — Seven vencrable cats are scheduled to be witnesses in what promises to be Western New York's strangest will (onu-t. ‘The seven' tabbies, > 8 $20,000 fortune that ‘t hope to drink up, must hu:nwo against Macom and the welcome glven him by his httle daughter, (Intpoatisonl New: “WAR BETWEEN |U. S. PRO.§PERITY ——ey IS TO CONTINUE PRESIDENT TOLD INVENTION. OF NEW AIRPLANE IS ANNOUNGED Vertically Rising Plane Is Given Most Successful Test. by Company | NEW YORK, Oect. 27— The Cur- tis Aeroplane Company announces a successful test of a vertically rising plane of revolutionary de- sign and propellorless motor. ¢ The vertical plane climbs 1,900 feet a minute. The Curtis Aeroplane Company directors voted to produce a standard plane of this type at a cost of $75,000 or under. The vertical plane has four wings that rotate above the fusel- age. Propellors will be placed in the wings half way out on the leading edge. While the ability of the plane to rise vertically Is described as phemomenal, its for- ward speed will be 75 miles an hour. v by Soviet A dor To Japan Is Named ? As Engoy to France TOKYO, Oét. fl Valerian Dov- solevsky, 8l ambassador to Japan, has been notified of his appointment as seviet ambassador to France to sueceed Alexander Rakovaky, Wi recall from Pa- ris was di éd by the French government, ... M. Dovgi , who was horn in the Ul«mj comes from a Jewish h%ved in ‘France many years: fle an exile from Russia because t'of revolutionary propaganda, - g his stay I France he | the French So- clallst party, ¢ a nrmnlln; After the golevsky s00n Attaine appointed to | to_ Russia. and pinence, being | t of peopl and telegraph ,beumu soviet 4 WASHINGTON, Oct. 27-——A na- tional business Mituation of satis- factory prosperity, giving good prospects for continuance into future months, is portrayed at the White House on the basis of re- ports to President Coolidge by his cabinet. At the presiaent’s request his advisers sketched for him and labor as revealed to the gov- ernment’s agencies for observa. tiom and action, convincing the president that the future outlook for productive indusiry in the | Unlted States was more than or- dinarily good. Tax Cut Seen Secretary Mellon assured the | president that the financing and airplane f banking world expected the pres- ent money situation to continue, with its guarantee of full supply of credit for sound enterprise. The prohability of further tax redume- tion next year was heightened as well hy treasury estimates that it would be possible to ask from taxpayers $250,000,000 less than was taken this year, Emphasis that American exporl trade for 1927 was reaching re- cord levels and that industry as a whole was was given by Secretary Hoover, while the agriculture departmeat told the president that on the whole farm producers during 1927 would experience a marked re- covery of buying power. “(Continued on Page Six,) the | condition of industry, agricwiture fairly well oceupled ! 2 'GOVERNOR OF COLORADO IS UP IN ARMS iStrike in Coal Fields Is De- clared 'Outlawed by Executive WILL ENFORCE LAW + PROTECT PROPERTY }National—al;lrd May Be Called Out at First In- stance of Violence DENVER, Colo., Oct. 27.—Gov. Willlam H. Adams has officially outlawed the I. W. W. strike, in !vhv coal mining district, offering ito use every Instrument within his power to enforce the law and protect life and property. { Gov. Adams characterized the {Industrial Workers of the World as an un-Amerlcan organization which “openly and publicly ad- |vocated and practiced defiance fand violation of the law, picket- ing and intimidation.” ! State Interference will take {place, Gov, Adams sald, when the County peace officers are un- able to enfor¢e the law. This statement is interpreted to mean that in event of the first violenge, he will call out the Colorado National Gnlrd. GHIBABU HEAD ‘Mayor Thompson Gives I Political T'f to State ¥ CHICAGO, Oct. r:—('mlcup and - Cook county are “dripping wet" politically, Mayor Willlam Hale Thompson told the Republican | county central éommittee. With that as his hypothesis he vointed to ‘weveral political . pos- |stbilities, spme ot which he thought boded disaster to Chieago republicanism, If the Democrats nominate Gov. Al Smith ot New York for presi- dent, and the Republicans name a “dry,” he said Cook county Re- publicans “will have a tough fight on their hands.” ¢ “And 1if" the Republican cand: date for president runs 100,000 or 200,000 behind in Cook county, we will have a hard time electing a county ticket,” he added. He pointed to the ppssibility that Anton J. Germak of tha county Wbard, whom he described as “a profound wet,” might re. celve the Democratic nomination for governor. This, he said, would increase the danger for the Republican organization. “You know that ‘Bill Thomp- son’ Is ‘wet’ and that we carried the city last spring,” the mayor sald. “Something tells me we are 1 am more convinced of it than e S el e PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., Oct. 27 —Seventy-five thousand pounds ‘of halibut were recelved here yes- terday. American hallbut sold | for 6 and 19.10 cents and Can- adian for 6 and 17.10 cents. HEART DISEASE DECLARED WORST OF U. CINCINNATI, Oct. 27—Heart dfsease that causes more deaths than any other malady in the United States held the attention of the delegates attending the|' fifty-sixth annual meeting of the American Public Health assocls- tion in session here. Dr. Henry Albert, eo-lnlmlnr it is difficult to determine wheth- er the peak of hegrt disease mor because it 1s produced by so many causes. S. MALADIES cases of heart disease are appar- ently due to rheumatic fever,” Dr. Albert sald. Milkc Nation's Orink The tremendous incresse in America's miik consumption has resulted In heavy responsibility for those who produce, handle :nnd supervise our milk e ll:h he became " w‘ * war Dr. Dov-|of health of lowa, declared thg]guA Holmquist of the New X ‘s| tality ‘has been reached or not T 18 nmdm