The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 31, 1927, Page 1

Collateds ' i Compie'ss HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXX., NO. 4623. : NHO SAYS CHORUS - BB e SEN. NORBECK T0 SUPPORT F. 0. LOWDEN| South Dakota Senalori Comes Out for Former | Governor for President WATERTOWN, 8. D., Oct. 31— United States Senator Peter No heck today anmounced he will support former _Governor Frank 0. Lowden, of Illnois, for the Republican presidential nomina- tion. Senator Norbeck logical situation points den. It is generally he has developed into most champion of the agricultural equality. am for him. He strong in this and other northwestern states.” - e ULTIMATUM SERVED UPON COL. STRIKERS LW.W. Must Stop Picket- ' ing—Decision Must Be i Made, 30 Ms Oct. 31—Gov.| has . gre said: ie to Low- considerad the fove- cause of 1 DENVER, illiam I, tha requast ., Industrial Worker of the World leader. that the organization be given 30 hours in which to con sider the governor's ultimatum that picketing in the Colorado coal fields must stop. Gov. Adams granted the request on condition that picketing must stop during the 30 hour period. TREMENDGUS INCREASE IN Colo., Ads Gladys Glad, one of Mr. Zie beauties, has disproved age-old ager soon. GIRLS ARE DUMB? VT R i ] ¢ ]UNEAU ALASKA MONDAY OCTOBER 31, 1927. TAX PROGRAM IS SUBMITTED TODAY BY SECRETARY MELLON MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS HARD CASH T0 BE SPENT FOR SENATE RACE Washington Congressman Declines to Wage Bat- tle with Money WALLA WALLA, Wash, Oct. 31.-—On the ground it will be a {mere battle of hard cash versus hard cash, Congressman John W ! Summers, Republican, today Iis sued an emphatic refusal to en ter the ‘contest for a seat in the United States Senate. “I will make no attempt fc purchase a seat in the United States Senate and it looks like ¢ millionaire’'s race in this State for the Senate next ye: sald Summers. “I have repeatedly warned that the inherited anc married millions will be repré sented in the primaries and in the general election and will flow like water from the spout be- fore the next election. Washing- ton may rank with Pennsylvania and Illinois in appalling expen- ditures. It is apparent that fraud by the Vare and Smith forces tc secure the Senatorial togas shock- ed the Nation. Such election: threaten the very foundation of our government. There is little hope for the mean in the street and on the farm, with Newber- rys, Vares and Smiths in the Senate.” It is announced that prospec- [{ tive aspirauis for the nomination 4 Court gfeld’'s most gloriously glorified theory that a pretty face is un- accompamed by brains. Gladys has just writlen a three-act play, and, what's more, it's going to be produced by a Broadway man« (Internat/onal Newsteel) FED. PRISONS More Prisoners Now Con- fined than Any Previous Time _in - History PRESIDENT OF GREECE IS WOUNDED Is Shot by Waiter as He Was Entering Auto— Probably Recover WASHINGTON, Out, 31.—An- nouncing a Federal prison popu- lation of 18,788 at the end of the fiscal year as compared to 8,927 in 1918, the Deparlment of Justice today said more pris- oners are now comfined in insti- tutions than at any time in the history of the United States. ATHENS, Greece, Oct. 31--A twenty-five year old waiter se- verely wounded President Paul Statistics, showed an increase| Kondouiotos here yesterday. The of 100 per cent in the last nine|yaiter, Zafiolos Goulsios, fired k years against an increase of 20two ghots as the president was per cent in the country’s Popu-|entering his automobile from the fation, Municipal building. The most striking inerorse is found in mnarcotic vislations| One bullet passed through the which jumped from 29% ‘n 191%|windshield of the automobile and to 2,116 this year, representing|struck the president in the head. the largest number of Federal|He is expected to recover. prisonera ever incarcerated for Sk violating any one Federai law, The waiter's luggage contained The next in line were viola-| COmmunist literature. The wait- tions of the Volstead Act witn|©" declared he had been long un- 2,046 prisoners, violations of the(®mploved, the State gave him no Motor Vehicle Act with 789 pris.]#id and he wanted to kill the oners, IR ¥8 head of the State. BLAME DEATH RATE ON SCANTY CLOTHES LONDON, Oct. 31—*Itold-you- %0s8” who haye been finding much fault with the scanty attire of Eo‘m young ‘'women and their dulgepce in cigarettes and moil- ern dancing feel they have won a wictory in the recent British vital statistics, These indicate an m- crease in ithe death rate of young women between tho war women. Dame Mary Scharlieb, a promi-| nent Harley Street physician, be- lieves cigarettes are the chief cause of the decline in the health of young- women. to five cigarettes a day they harm but the rapldly growing ha- bit of incessant smoking is very deletefions to the heart and nerv- ous system,” liu Dame ‘Mary. She also says. women do not pay : ‘mflfi-m%mmm | Koennecke Off Again On Flight BENDER ABBAS, Persia, Oct. 31—Lieut. Otto Koen- necke and his companions | | hopped of? today for Karachi, , India, 700 miles away, on his | | flight to America, via Alaska. | | |t e I S 4 KILLED IN NOSE DIVE OF BIG AIRPLANE SOUTH PLAINS FIELD, N. J; Oct. 31—Four persons, including Pilot Leroy Thompson, aged 2§ years, and his fiance, Elizabeth McGowan, scheol teacher, were killed when a big five-passenger Fairchild cabin airplane, fell at Newmarket, little more than a mile from a plane crash in which seven persons were killed on Sep- tember 17. Thompson was a pilot for the Colonial Air Transport Company and was taking a party of friends on a sightseeing flight. The plane apparently went into a tail spin at an altitude of 2,000 feet. 3. H. CANN IETUIHS IS m IMPROVED J. H. Cann, pcrt owner ot the x-El Nido mine at Lisianski L companied by Mrs. Cann, return- might not suffer great physicaled on the Princess Alice from a{- eral weeks trip to the flmu went outside some time ago for ‘treatment st hy Brothers Institute fm, Minnesota, and is m red a8 a result of medical ment 0 mu‘ on m“ sturn ter, | shal Phil 0. of nator include Ambassador Miles Poindexter. State Supremse Justice Kenneth Mackin- tosh, Lieut. Gov. Lon Johnson State Senator Charles Myers, all Republicans, and United State: Senator C. C. Dill, Democrat. 11 married Miss Rosalie Jone: declared to be wealthy, and Mackintosh is ' reputed to have inh ite(l a fortune. FLIGHT TO COPENHAGEN IS OFF NOW Mrs. Grayson Postpones xpedition Until Spring —Returns to N. Y. CURTIS FIELD, N. Y., Oct. 31 —The amphibian plane Dawn, in which Mrs. Frances Wilson Gray- son hoped to fly from Old Or chard, Maine, to Copenhagen, ha returned to the field here, the ex pedition having been postponed until next spring. Pilot Wilmer Stultz, who 1e signed as a member of the expe dition, said: “It is a good flight for someone else, but not for me, eflpe(mlh at this time oY the year.” Mrs, Grayson said: “In my disappointment of today, I can only strive for, bigger and great- er success for tomorrow.” Mrs. Grayson made known her decision to not fly at Old O chard last Saturday night, when in a dramatic way, she told newspaper men that the expedi stion was off and she would re- turn with the plane to New York She and her party were at Ol1 Orchard for three weeks. ->oo—— Depositors of Defunct Bank Get 85 Per Cent OLYMPIA, Wash,, Oct. 81—Five percent, the final dividend, will be mailed on November 15 to some 22,000 depositors of the Scandinavian Ameriean bani which closed its doors in Tacom: 4n 1921. This brings the total to 85 per cent upon approximately $12,000,000 assets. The loss of 15 e women confined themselves|ang of the Gastinean Hotel, ac-|per cent is to the depositors. e s DOUGLAS m Roy Bondug»‘n de Sat- urday aftern lr Deputy Mar- imann following the issuance ¢ E out by Gus Douglas with ,hallume WOMEN TO END DUPLICATION OF WORK BY ()P(,ANIZFD GROUPS NBW, ©ORK, Oct. ency is becoming the watchword of women's organizations and in their efforts to attain this even rival groups are coope ders of the most influen women's clubs of this country have agreed to disenss ways and means to avoid duplication of el- for At present, many of them ha‘g programs concerning wel 31—Etfici- faré of women and children, poli-| gen- | eral cultuval: activities of women, | and | tics, junior education and whieh though interesting valuable are repetitious, Delegates from 34 organizations comprising the National Couancil of Women of the United States vd"l attend’ the 14th amnual con- tion at which its presideng,] aleria H. Parker of York, predicts a do-operative pi gram will be adopted. ings are to be held at dorf Astoria Hotel from Decom- ber 5 to 10. More than 200 wo- men from all parts of the United States will assemble. “At a time when sinister forces are endeavoring to create suspi- cion and antagonism between cil- izens of differing races and ligious faiths,” says Dr “the National Council of Womnn of the United States has an im- portant duty to ‘fulfill in binding more closely the women of its many large and powerful organi- zations. We want them to see the possibilities of an association which, without interference specific programs. ond activities| offers nevertheless, a clearing house for a comparison of the accomplishments and for the pro- vention of duplication of effort.” The convention plans three subjects as keynotes of the dis- -ussion. They are, and activities of the Bureau; contributions towards the welfare and progress of our coun- try made by women in forty years of organization, and the afterma‘h of the Mississippi valley flood The meet- the Wal- and its relation to family welfare. ; The evening sessions of tho conference will be of interest to the general public. On December 6th there will be a President’s night meeting when the follow- ing club presidents will speak: Dr. Mary E. Woolley, American ciation of University Women; John D. Sherman, General Federation of Women's Clubs; Miss Lillian Clayton, American Nurses’ Assoclation; Mrs, Mary McLeod Bethune, National Asso- cistion of Colored Women; Robert E. Speer, National of Y. W. C. A Mrs, Friend, National Council of Jew- ish Women; Mrs. Lena M. Phil lips, National Federation of Busi- ness and Professional Clubs; Mrs. J. Walter Frieberg, National Federation of Temrl(,, Sisterhoods; Miss Belle Sherwin, ! National League of Women Vo'- ers; Mrs. Ella A. Boole, National W. C. T. U.; Mrs. Thomas J, Preston; Jr., Needlework Guild of America; Mrg, Frances E. Burns, The Macabees. Under the auspices of the Na-| tional Federation of Music Clubs, | Mrs. Edgar Stillman Kelley of ew York, is arranging a musical | program for Dec. 7. ' Mrs. Carrle Chapman Catt will be chief speak-| at a mass meeting December Boarl Joseph LONDON, Oct. 31—Eight sheep furnish materfal for, one . English tennis. racquet. - So declares a! London manufacturer of racque.s, There #re special winter racquets, however, which require the inter- e Parker, | 1 Mrs. | Women's | | Ao eration of the importance | Children's | 1 | | { nal nmfiillm of ten sheep, th"' ing mmia_xn man’s Clubs; Mrs, U.; Mrs. Robert E. Sreer, .Natio Parker, National Counczil of Woman operative idea. Below (left to right)—Miss Women ng.to e Johh D. Sherman, Genént Ella A. Boole, National W. C. T. mal Y. W. C. A;; Dr. Valeria H. and criginator of thé co- rtg include: Belle Sherwin, National League {of Women Voters, and President Mary E. Wooley, of Mt, Holyoke ! College who represents the American Association of University MAXIMILIAN HARDEN DIES, SWISS TOWN " Noter German Editor, Who Opposed Kaiserism, Passes Away BERLIN, Ocf 31 Maximilian Harden, noted @German editor, who founded the “Bie Zukunft,” died suddenly yesterday at Mont Ver. mala, Switzerland. — Maximilian Harden caused more uneasiness to the former royaity of Germany and men who occu- | pled ‘political positions during the o than in Ger- regime of the former ka any other mam or agency many. He hated the former war lord more and ‘feared him less than any oghn'(n-rumn subjec was viol mer kal eriti- rtunity to the ruler ani | admirer of Bis- Page Seven.) Louvre Statuary fy ; | PARIS, Oct. 31—The new Greek haircut, which combines sleckness | with skillful waving, Is directly lru(-(-uhle to the Louvre. is not the first time that lxulqlun style makers hpve gone 'lu the ant museums for inspira- ,nnn. Many of the designers Ispend days at a time studyiag Iwurkn of art for new ideas. The Greek coiffure, the hair- | dressers’ latest, disposes hajr | which is congiderably longer than | that of a year ago, in flat waves | which give a feminine effect but | keep the boyish silhouette of tha head, - - WHERE WISHES COME TRUE EDINBURGH, Scotland, Oct. 81 ~The most popular wishing well in Scotland Is at place of Captain and Mrs. Gerald | Lefgh on Loch Etive, where “ngar- ly every reasonable wish” comes true. Mrs. Leigh Is an American. At the well the hopeful ones {drinks a glass of water and then |wM| three times. { ! Harry Peehan, oldtime resldent {of Killisnoo and Angeon. was an larrival in Juneau yesterday and |18 visiting friends here for a few days ‘ierican bankers’ Inspires Hair-Cut: the country ! PRICE TEN CENTS TOTAL AMOUNT OF REDUCTION SET BY MELLON Quarter of Billion Recom- mended Limitation Pros- pective Tax Cut FOUR ITEMS ARE TO BE CHANGED, FOR TAX |Wartime and Miscellan i eous Tax Reduction Are Opposed by Dept. WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Sec- retary of Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, at the opening today of the tax hearings of the House Ways and Means Committee, {recommended limitation of pros- pective tax reduction to approxi- mately $250,000,000, a lower {figure than previously estimated. The Secretary submitted the following reduction program: First — Reduction of corpora- tion tax from 13% per cent to 12 per cent. Second -— Extending permission to corporations with net income of $26,000 or less and with net more than 10 stockholders, to file teturns and pay tax as partner- ship or corporations at their cption. Third — Revision of surtax rates applying on individual in- comes between $16,000 to $90,- 000. i Fourth—Repeul of estate tax. Fifth — Kxemption from tion of income derived from Am- acceptance held by foreign and central banks of issue. Changes Opposed Contrary to u-xpsunuvns. Sec- retary Mellon opposed any change whatever in the remalning war time excise and miscellaneous taxes, e Secretary argued at lengta for retention of the present 3 per cent levy on automobiles and 10 {per cent tax on admissions apply- ing to tickets selling for 756 cents and also the excise duty on to- bacco, both of which should be in ‘‘the interest of a well bal- anced tax system unless we-.are Drepul‘l’d to see our National on Page Three.) o WILL DISCUSS DISARMAMENT Soviet Governmen! Will Participate in Gen- eva Conference GENEVA,. Oct. 31—Ruasla has notified the League of Natlons that the Soviet government will participate in the work of the Preparatory Commission on Dis. armament. The absence of ths Russian delegates had been con- sidercd ‘one of the biggest ob- stacles to the convocation of the conference which would stand a chance of success in reduction of land armaments, The commission meets here on Nov. 30, 'RUSSIAN EXPEDITION §. LENINGRAD, Russia, Oct. 31— “The lost world,” in the Yang tss district near the eastern horders tof Tibet, is to be explored by Leningrad Ceographical society, h iis preparing to send out an ex- pedition under the direction of M Kozloff, a well-known scientist and explorer. Nothing Is known to science of the vegetation an} fauna of this vast territory, which covers hundreds of square miles. The scientists of western Ra- rope are said to belleve in the existenge there of forests of the enormous dimeusions, ferns Jas large as oaks and d rutd h him in the ‘which would provide (ood or | passes have always been hundreds of thousands of 4. |of danger to m The animals of this unexplored region nllo are nrn‘on C PROBES “LOST WORLD” Regarding his plans M. Kosloif says, “The sources of the Yans- tse-Kiang have attracted much at- tention for years among scientists’ everywhere, as the country has never been explored thoroughly. The oxpedition's task will be < Investigate the upper tributaries of the river, the source of which * is outside China and lies on the Tibetan plateau near the Lun Chain, which likewise e mains uninvestigated. The fllfi ition will have to carry out i tly opposed to the for- b#‘;e'v(” )p“mme] richest varieties, . with trees ‘of | work under most trylng tions, sometimes in passes 16,500 feet high. much - on account of mld'flll’!