The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 1, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXI NO. 4624. “ABL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA TUESDAY, NOVhMBI:er 1927, MISTRIAL IS INDI MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ATED OIL CASE PROPOSES NEW MARRIAGE LAW 5- YEAR TERM . OF MARRIAGES IS ADVOGATED Los Angeles Judge Pro- poses New System— Too Many Liars ! LOS ANGELES, Nov. perior Court Judge Charles RBurnell advocates a five-year! 1.—Su-| term of wmarriages, with option in order to adjust! of law in current! that the “divorce! re making liars out of| nds of persons who want! nothing more than to be allow to continue their lives alon Judge Bunrnell suggested that ¢ouples be permitted to enter| marrizge contracts for periods of! five , renewable by mutual| consent, for additional periods. Divorces would be granted on! two grounds only, inconstancy| and extreme cruelty. Division of proparty and custody of the chil- dren of the couple desiring to gepurate at the end of the five-| ar period, would be settled by| Nw court. | PIGKETS ARE . - CALLEB-OFF *~ INCOLORADO Striking Miners Accept| Governor’s Ultimatum Without Trouble { DENVER, Colo.,, Nov. gt Striking miners in the Colorado coal fields have heeded Gov. Wil- liam ‘H. Adams's ultimatum that !‘picketing must stop.” In Huerfano and Las Animas @ounties, where pickets have been| active since the strike, the pick-| ets have been called off and not a picket was on duty today. The coal mines are operating Wwith a slight increase in the sumber of men who reported for work but the working force is §till far below normal. ——————— A ——— No Revolution In Rumahia; False Reports *~VIENNA, Nov. 1. — Re- ports of a revolution in Ru- mania have been found, after strict inveatigation, to be meré verbal rumors set afioat by elements of travelers in Rumania. Travelers report an_atmosphere of uneasiness t but no disturbances in the {* couhtry. | lé 1 i | Ll BOSTON MAYOR'S WIFE NEAR DEATH ] Y()UNG NEW YORK BOY’REFUSES TO BE | | | gy | not HELD UP; ROBBER REVISION OF - - TARIFF RATES | NOT PROPOSED { Administration Understood! to Be Against Any Tariff Action WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—Sec- retary of Treasury Mellon de- clared that his department will propose nor suggest a re- vision of the tariff rates to Con- gress at the Winter session. The Secretary’s statement is ln line with the policy the Admin- istration has pursued regarding the tariff and it is understood to mean that revision of the tarifi will meet the opposition of the Administration .as in the, last Congress. Several Democrats declare downward revision of the tariff will be en‘e(ls(l |BRYAN'S WILL Mrs. Carrie M. Nxchols, wife of mnyor of Boston, is bnvely | waging fight against death at Boston City Hospital, where het . condition, is reported critical, (Ioternational Newsresl) TWO BANDITS NEARLY BAFFLED BY PRICE OF SAUSAGE, PORK CHOPS, BUT GET AW AY WITH IT, ALSO GOOD SUM, JUbT AS LOO GOLD STRIKE IS REPORTED RUBY, Alaska, ¥ov. 1. — Tom Hughes, oldtimer, has arrived here over the trail from Tacotna and reported that Paddy Sheehan, of Ophir, has made a gold strike on Agate Fork. Several miners from Cripple have left for 'the scene of tHé reported strike. —6—0-0—- LONDON, Nov, 1. — A gold, pearl and anlmefi knife which plays a tune when picked up was bequeathed to the Victoria and Albert Museum by Charles Gregg- Carr, a_wealthy Hampshire man. The knife was once the property ot Quean Marie Antoinette. RRITONS DENOUNCE YANKEE APPLE PI . LONDON, Nov. 1—Apple pie is ‘now blamed for- American pros-| iperity. | . “American, ple b dyspep- ‘sla, dyspepsin breeds restlessness, ‘and - restlessness begets a fever- ‘ish but nome the les formidable ‘material progress,” declares The London Evening News in lament- ing displacement of the good oid art by foreign sub- stewed fruit in it. Others de- scribe it as stewed fruit baked In a pan with a crust over the top of it, and still others it is stewed fruit baked wltl pastry both over und under it. But whichever it 1s, Americans In England_remain loyal to the old apple pie of their homeland and are even more emphatic in| the denunciation of British tarts than Britishers are in their slan. rlan upon American pfe. Wfl Amarm apple don. g, 'g;-.w“ced in Lon- * sort of { customers walked in. T b CHICAGO, Nov. 1—The price of] sausage and pork chops almost baffled two bandits as they held up a butcher shop tmln;fl While the thieves were busy searching the butcher, whom they had shut in the refrigerator, two One of the bandits hastily donned the butchs er's apron and stepped out to serve the patrons while his pal stood guard. He came . back shortly and asked the imprisoned butcher the price -of pork chops. In a minute he was back again t» learn the price of sausage. After the customers left, the thieves emptied the cash register of $275, took $100 from the butch- er and then drove away in his automobile. — e — Three Pounds of Tea - Can: Purchase 6 Wives NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—The tea business in India apparently” is much better than in America or England, observed Sir Thomas Lipton, former tea upon his arrival here. He guoted a letter from Lord Dewar which said that for three pounds of tea he could purchase six wives in India. Noted Painter Leaves Estate Valued at $50 LONDON, Nov. 1. — Righard Caton ‘Woodyille, noted ter of battle pictures, “who at the age of .71, left an estate valued at'$50. o ¢ — oo —— PLANS PARTY EARL ¢ NNA’I'I Nov. 1 "| Dayton, Tenn., July 26, 1925. meérehant, . IN COURT FOR mmm»fi%@ ' Widow Files Suit, as Ex- ecutrix, Asking for an Explanation l MIAMI, Fla, Nov. 1—Court construction of certain paragraphs of the will of the late Willlam Jennings Bryan was asked today in a suit filed by Mrs. Mary Baird lu-ynn his widow, who was named executrix by the eourt when the testament was filed for probate. Ambiguity of two paragraphs of the will was alleged by Mrs. Bry- an in her petition which set forth that in one paragraph the testament provides that after all debts are paid and certain spe- cific bequests cared for she is to receive one-third of the residue. In another paragraph, the peti- tlon declares, the will provides: that William J. Bryan, Jr., Holly- wood, Cal, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, Coral Gables; Mrs. Grace Bryan Hargreaves of Beverly Hills, Calif., and a proposed col- lege for religlous education ave each to receive one-fourth. The estate left by Mr. Bryan get forth as being worth $1,111,948.50 in the petition which named the other beneficiaries as technical defendants. Of this amount $358,644.76. is in personal property and the remainder con- sisting of real estate in Los An- geles county, Cal, Lincoln, Neb., and Miami. Mr. Bryan died at B Walks 150,000 Miles; Now Going to Retire PROVIDENCE, R. I, Nov. 1.— After covering the same mail route for 45 years during which time he estimates he walked 150, 000 miles, George E. Becket is to retire but only, he says, be- cause he has reached the compul- soy retirement age of 71 years. 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL WINS PRIZE FOR BEST POEM ON LINDBERGH'S FLIGHT NEW_ YORK, Nov. 1—Nathalia Crane, a ' l14year-old Brooklyn school girl whose poem, “The Janitor's Boy,”. aroused a contro- versy a year ago, was announced today as the winner of the $500 prize offered ell Kenner- ly for the, on Lind-| bergh's tlig] Her n | verse, enti RUNS AND (‘APTURFI) v. 1—Sidney Perlow, aged 13 and weighing ofily 85 pounds, was enroute to a bank yesterday with $3 in cash Bd 67 checks, when a stranger ized his arm, pulled him into 2 :rn'way and shoved what appear- to be an automatic in his face. ; But Sidney, a sophisticated citv ‘odunet, recognized the gun as a rick cigaret case and with quick move, grabbed it and struck the hold-up man on the forehead. Astonished, the man fled, with Sidney in hot pursuit. The chase - NEW \()Rl\. ended when the hold-up man ran | frito the arms of a patrolman. Sidney way to the bnnk SEA MYSTERY IS REVEALED; CRAFT .FOUND «| Japanese Fishing Smack Drifts Across Pacific— Bodies Aboard Boat SSEATTLE, Noy. 1—A gruesom? sea mystery was unfolded with the arpival of the liner Margaret o, which picked up, off the fasbington coast, an 85-foot Jap. o the Ocean with the lifeless bodies of two of its crew as the only cargo. They were apparently survivors of a crew of more than 12 men, in the opinion of Capt. H. T. Payne, of the Margaret Dollar. What happened to the other mem- bers of the crew may remain a mystery foraver. Capt. Payne believes the others of the crew leaped overboard when food amd water supplies were exhausted. | The discovery of a pile of bones on the ‘derelict craft added fur- ther horror the to mystery. | Whether the bones are those of} humans was not determined by | the Margaret Dollar's crew. Capt. Payne said: “We found | little on the drifting vessel, save; clothing for more than half a! dozen men. 1 am familiar with| the type of fishing vessel used on the Japanese Coast and thsrei is no doubt in my mind the boat| | drifted across the Pacific. Tae hoat was equipped with gasoline engine, in addition to hemp can.| vass bamboo salls. My opinion is that the two men aboard had| been dead for at least a month. I should judge that it took ‘more than 100 days for the vessel to! drift across the Pacific. Empty water casks and food larders in- dicated the boat had been caught in & storm or calm and that most of the erew succumbed or ended a! then continued on his’ Pacific | SAYS SMITH ! many Flock” *_l'vy Col. | Roosevelt in address, amplify- ing the ke; speech of the Republican e Convention in PRETTY WAR BRlDE SLAIN IN FRANCE SECRETS ARE TOLD JUSTICE IN OIL TRIAL Indications —A:; that Mis- trial May Result— Counsel Confers WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.— iracy case, A. arry F. olair, defendants, was taken under advisement by Justice Siddons today. was after a seciet conference with attorneys for the de- fendants and G o vernment who told the Court they had something to present which gave the prosecution ‘“‘grave concern,” not disclosed but it is indi- cated it involved one or more jurors. £ 1S ARRESTED FOR SETTING Porter Admits Crime in Order to Gain Admira- tion of Woman NEW YORK, Nov. 1—In the wake. of & fire which destroyed the Staff Building of the Methol: ist Kpiscopal Hospital, imperiling the lives of 326 patients, came the story of Ernest Rhodes, 42 1year old ‘porter, that he set the . !ftire to provide a setting for the irescue of the woman he loved, Rhodes was taken from the |scene of the fire while telling of his herolsm. Fire Marshal Brody | recognized Rhodes as an alleged |“fire bug” and had arrested him in 1917. Rhodes had been faking smoke suffocation. He admitted the fire had galned for him the ad - tion of Mrs. Stella Dedemagf,"one. v Felle Lord, wife of Horace Wilfred Lord of Fal River, Mass,, was stabbed through the heart at her villa in Nice. | Captain Wenceslas Dekrupfell, iormexl of Russian Imperial Guard, has gonfessed to slaying, Mme. Lord marsied American AYS SMITH IMELLON T00 LOW, CLAIMS 1.S.SENATOR Treasu Is Mnie. Mai IS CANDIDATE OF TAMMANY {Col, Roouvel t Brings Political Charges Against New York Governor — NEW YORKy Nov. 1—Gov. Al- fred E. Smith®was characterized as the “bell ther of the Tam-Si Theodore % Surplus Estimate| rong Declares * Sen. Simmons WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—Unit-| NEW YORK, Nov. ed States Senator Furnifold ML, [3hoUld be no more difticult for immons, of North Carolina, ) ¥Omen to become succesatul den- ranking Democrat of the sm-ul"‘“ than to achleve success in Finance Committee, after he call-|%1Y Other ~profession, ”m ed on President Coolidge toddy,|M!* Olive Regina Meyer, first declared that Secretury Mellon’s| WOman Who entered as & fresh report on estimates of the Tregs-| 2R to be graduated from the ury surplus, were too low. New York University College of Rochester. their lives in a worse fate.” - e —— snake Perfect Tutor on Pedestrianism NEW YORK, Nov. 1. — The wiggly snake has been found to be the model pedestrian. “Go to the smake, thou jay- walker,” proposes Dr. Raymond L. Dittmars, Curator of Reptiles of the New York Zoological Gar- dens, who regards the snake as the perféct tutor against the perils of pedestrianism. awardéd to" Thomas Hornsby Fer- rell, of Denver, Colo., for his poem, “THe Arrow -of Acestes.” Miss Crane’s tribute to Lind- bergh is sftar m Kipiing man- ner, a parrative of the flight, a cture first of m.“‘ looking dowp .on. a dyll- world and de-! ciding o . ithum, it to extra- uullury 0 .ithe ) “Why, the im- Just ! the Assembly Roosevelt Smith repre: phy, late Tai rged that Gov d Charles Mur- any Chieftain, 11 years. Roose- other charges to the one con- Senator Simmons said tax Dantiptey,; duction could reach §400,000,000| “Ib maDY ways the fisld 4 instead of $226,000,000, recom-|TOr adapted to them,” she mays. mended by Secretary Mellon, ' Children .8re leas Siviif ot women dentists and usually wom- TANANA, Alaska, Nov: 1.-—|°n use more tact and . patience The Yukon River closed here last|!n dealing with them. Msay Sunday night at 7:25 o'clock, |women also prefer women deh- Y sts, American Plane Makers : Are Too Bwy to Compete 'NEW YORK, Nov. 1—Aero:, heim fund, told ti W 4 nautical (activities, of the past|Press, “that our hl:lll i summer have brought such & are so booked upswith orders of orders to American airpligne | they can’t think of anything. manufacturers that prllu “of | getting out planes. Wi $150,000 may go begging, or however, that many d them abroad, because the hig com come in later.” In thig' country are too b In a recent Mnm try for them. g | img the competition, Q id improvement in The safe aircraft competi = spousored by the Daniel M safety ~characteriatics has heim Fund for the ¢| ‘badly neglected™ by Aeronautics, has been who have bt -HNee most two months, yet ¢ {largely to progress American companies, and ance. Now, his relatively. small, have velt summarized- which he said I clusfon that th was a Tam- many man and goncluded: “Thera is no nuch th” as a new Tam- many.” 7 e Reds’ “Inteimationale” “Insults® Cops of Paris o 1—The “Inter-|* of revolutionary ver, is definitely psult” when sung ‘ppm‘lm! this con- plice and imposed three cases re- tention of the.J jall sentene cently. A The song sions by meetings It might any of the selves p | Justity m 4 tious, but the the armed struggle” are, 18 tensive | ng on all oce: nists, at their their parades. batable whethar es are in them- offensive to termed sedi- derlying idea of pution, “the final R things as they sufficiently of- government, ‘the song's dark itied police | famous "{these energies are