The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 3, 1927, Page 1

1] 1 35 SUBMARINES SAN PEDRA Cal, Nov. 8.— Preponderance in the submarine ' strength of the Pacific Fleat over the Atlantic Fleet will be in- d when three V-type sub- nes will join the armada £oon Pacific Flést already has THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXL, NO. 4626, JUNEAU ALASKA THURSDAY ANOVEMBER 3, 1927. STRENGTH FOR PACIFIC FLEET More Undersca Craft on Pacific than Station- ed on Atlantic 50 submarines b submarine is 840 feet long and they are the most powerful underwater fighters in the N They have a surface speed of knots and a cruising radius enabling them to cross the Pacific Ocean and return without, refuell They also have struc-| tural design which makes thmn' safe against depth charge at- tacks. SEEK GREATER REDUCTION. OF Corporations Ask for Re- duction of Three and One-Half Per Cent WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 Through various organization: bustness has placed its argument for a Jaduction of the tax ‘on in- come of corporations before the House Ways and Means Ccmmit tee The spokesman advocated three and one-half per cent reduction, compared to the Treasury Depart- ment’s recommendation of a re- duction of one and one-half per cent. The iscussion of thig levy occupied the committee’s atten- tion virtually all of yesierday. Senator Pat Harrison. of Mis- sippi, returning to the Capital, announced he was in favor of a tax cut of $400,000,000. ARE TO STUDY HALIBUT LIFE Six Representatlves of Int. Fish. Commission Going to Banks KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 3. ~—Schooner Dorothy, sarrying six representatives of the Interna- tional Fisheries Commission, have left here to resume study of the) life of halibut interrupted last year when' the Commission's schooner Scandia was wrecked ne:r Kodiak. The 'Dorothy will be at the halibut banks all winter. W. H. McFarland, Chlai of Con- struction at Fairbanks for the Fairbanks Exploration Company, and Mrs. McFarland, are passen- gers on the steamer Alaska for Seattle and will proceed from there to Boston to spend a few months of the company. CONSOLIDATION OF ALL FEDERAL PUBLIC WORK ACTIVITIES UNDER NEW PLAN NOW BEING SUGGESTED NEW YORK, Nov. 3—A plan for the consolidation of all Fed- eral public work activities under an assistant secretary in the De- partment ‘of theInterior was sug- gested today by the American En- ‘gineering Council as a substitute for the lflu of a uw Federal De- at eastern headquarters|’ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS AROONED IN Alabama Makes On Masked Floggers In BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. The state of Alabama has en a finish fight on masked violenc In a series of sensational in- vestigations and trials, reachin. into victually every corner of th state, Attorney General Charli= C. McCall has obtained 12 - convi tions and more than 130 indict- ts of persons aceused of com- in . midnight “whipping arting conviction "o of whipping Jeff Calloway, youth- ful farm worker at Oneonta, in Blount county, the attorney gen- eral has moved swiftly into Jeff- erson and Crenshaw counties, where state investigators have laid bare more than a score of lashings. The most sweeping of the !Ing' ging inquiries was made by a |l grand jury sitting at Luverne, in| Crenshaw county, where 102 in-| dictments for kidnapping and a sault and battery were returnod October 15 against 45 persons af-/ ter they had been charged with complicity in 20 or more masked | floggings. In its report to Circuit Judge A. E. Gamble, the grand jury said all of those indicted were “mem- bers of the Ku Klux Klan nnrl‘ with a single exception all of the | whippings were committed by men wearing the robes and hood\s of the Klan.” Men high in the affairs of tlu- state and cpunty were called be- fore the grand jury. Among those who testified were James Esdale, said to be grand dragon of the| Klan in Alabama; George H. Thig-| pen, stato superintendent of insur-. ance; Ira B. Thompson, Luverne | attorney, and reputed exalted cy- clops of the Luverne Klan unit, and the Rev. L. A. Nalls, pastor of a Luverne Baptist church. The investigating body seized records and regalia of the Lu- verne klavern, Trial of the 45 indicted men will be held at Luverne.. The at- torney general has indicated that he will direct the prosecution personally. Moving on to Jefferson county, McCall examined the cases against 11 men indicted. by a «Jefferson county grand jury of kidnapping in connection with the flogging of two white men and a negro and announced that they would be brought to trial next January. Foremost among the defendants in these trials is W. J. Worthing- ton, 'Birmingham attorney, accus- ed of whipping Arthur Hitt, a ne. gro farmer, and terrorizing him (Continued on Page Eight.) by duced at the coming . session of Congress by Representative Adam M. Wyant, of Pennsylvania. Under the new plan the Bureau of Public Roads wbuld be taken from the Department of Agricul-| ture; the of Engineers of Rivers ‘and rs, the Misais- sippl River Commiseion, and the 130 Indictments e {Two Noted Health Special- War [CONSOLIDATION OF RAILROADS IS SUPPORTED Western Independent Sen-| ators Want Measure for Farm Relief WASHINGTON Nov. 3.-~In a| statement in behalf of the group| of Western independent Republi-| |can Senators, Senator Smith W. | Brookhart, of Iowa, advocated en- actinent of a railroad consolida- tion measure as part of the farm relief program. | Senator Brookhart said: “The farm problems cannot be solved by il mere enactment of the bill. There is no single f3 arm bill that can cure all discrimina- tions against agriculture. About 10 pe cent of the farmers' troub! are due to excess charges in transportation.” | The Adminis tion has long been committed to the proposal to consolidate the railroads of the country into a much smaller! group of owning companies, than| at present RAILROAD HAS BEST YEAR IN General Man a—g er Smith Reviews Conditions of Alaska Railroad | While the last fiscal year, end-| ing June 30, was the best from all | operating standpoints in the his-| tory of the Alaska Railroad, earn- ings for the first three munhm of the current fiscal year are ma- anree Alapama Uounues spur- red hf' ttome{ General C. C. l{chl (upper left), have voted 30 indictments in an effort to end floggings. -Before one Grand Jury James Esdale (upper right), reputed Grand Dragcn of the Ala- bama Ku Klux Klan, was called to testify. Eugene Doss (lower right) is the first Alabaman sen- tenced to prison for participa-| tlon m a w]uppmg DISAGREE ON PROHIBITION; 600D AND BAD corresponding period in 1926, by General Smith. ington Manager Noel W. He is enroute to Wash-! to confer with Secretary! Hubert Work, Interior Depart- ment, and appear before Con- gressional committees in connec- tion with his estimates for next year’s appropriations. Mr. Smith conferred with Gov.' George A. Parks on various rail- road matters while the Alaska! was in port. He is accompanied by Mrs. Smith and her sister Miss Runnel, and by B. H. Barndollar, legal adviser of the management. More Coal Tonnage Mr. Smith said he had been ad vised just before leaving Ancho:- age that the Fairbanks Exploration Company had signed contracts with the Healy River Coal Cor poration, headed by Capt. A. Lathrop, for a five years' supply of coal. It is understood that the contract calls for the delivery of 20,000 tons in 1928, 40,000 iu 1929 and increased amounts for ists Give Opinions— Present Cases CINCINNATI, O., Nov. 3—The effect of prohibition upon public health was traced by two noted health specialists who msed dif- ferent mgthods and reached dif- ferent “yes” and “no” conclusions A before the American Public """F""’e‘ Inghyenn, Health Association here. rom the standpoint of the, railroad this means increased | conclusions upon an HRalag: I eonelislo ¥ tonnage for the road on the nor- (ROirect vathpr than. dienot - aVEY iy Taiviston. “Tligitite 1s sald | dence,” Dr. Haven Emerson of to be equipped t Sribus thol Columbia University, New York, e o8 e tonnage without ecalling for arrangement of material increase | in its facilities or enlargement of | its plant. Big Freight Gain | While only a small net gain| was shown in its passenger traf. fic, freight traffic last year in creased very largely, Mr. qnmh sald. The revemue of the road| showed a 26 per cent increase| over that of the previous year. said that public health had bene- bl fitted. Basing his conclusions upon mortality statistics extending over a period of years, Dr. Louis Dub-. lin of New'York, sald that “pro- hibition has not been effective in decreasing the mortality rate of adult men.” Dr. Dublin; statistician for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com- pany, computed his findings over a comparison of alcoholism mor- tality from 1900 to 1917' inclusive and 1921 to 1926 inclusive, ex- cepting the years 1918, 1919 and ((‘ontlnufl on Page Two.) [ ——o—© 1920 because they were marked Lll'k King’s by severe epidemics. Dr. Emerson computed his find- | Likeness to | | ings on the general economic con-| | Be on Stampa dition, school population, juvenile and home records and divorce and Jail ‘records: Dr. Dublin’s statistics showed that “it is only too what the great body men do'drink no es, 18 B BUCHAREST, Nov. 3.— [ | Little King Michael's like- ness will ppear on ' | the Rumanfan postage stamps replacing that of the late King Ferdinand. The wing Ru- having the | | ITS HISTORY | As | left Misaki, |AIR MAIL LOADS GROW HEAVIER IN WAKE OF LINDBERGH’ A quarter of the people in the United Gtates, it 1 cstimated, have seen Col. Charles Lindbergh terially higher than those for tne Or his famous plane in the three months since h: set cut on his national air tour, concluded Octo- it | ber 23 at New York. And in the wake of his journey, was made known here yesterday | master General New says, by leaps and bounds. partner, Tha pr t o! St Louis, air PRESIDENT COOLIDGE ISSUES WASHINGTON, Nov. 3—Presi- dent Coolidge has issued a procla- mation setting aside November 24 as Thanksgiving Day and calling upon the people to show suitable gratitude for “manifold blessings” which have come to them during the past year, “We have had the blessings of peace and of honorable and friend- ly relations with our sister na- tions throughout the world,” the proclamation said. “Disasters visiting certain of our states have touched the heart of a sympathe- tic mation which generously out of its abundance. In continuing to remember those in affliction we should rejoice in our ability to give them relief.” The rresidenl recalled that “not alone have we enjoyed ma- terial success” in a domestic sense, but that this country has also “advanced in wisdom and in spiritual understanding.” [“Cannibal” Boat {Had Only 30 Days’ |Food Supply Aboard TOKYO, Nov. 3—The Japanese fishing smack Ryo Yei Marn, which was picked up off the State of Washington Coast, U. 8. with evidence of starvation, death and camnibalism on the i high seas, had only thirty days’ {food aboard when she sailed lroml Bvi- Misaki last December 7. dence telegraphed here from | America Indicates that the rice supply aboard had been hoardad to stretch out as long as possible. Soon after the Ryo Yei Maru she was caught in a gale ‘with several other ffshing |boats. The other boats succeed- led in making port and'it was be- lieved the Ryo Yal Maru. had | foundered. ‘—"fl“‘——-— has responded | A. Rosess, with the Alsska o is 2 up since W THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION | Takes Full Charge {(tower), chair: pping Bonrd, ete charge nerchant mflfl‘ en. A. C. Dalton Merchant Flee is the mos mail poundage has increased, Post- Above are the New York-to-Paris flyer and his i the cause of American aviation, ) |slon here of Lindbergh's epochal PRICE TEN CENTS SNOW TOUR i NEW YORK, Nov. 38— Col. Charles A. Lmdbexgh’ flight to Paris last May, stimulated public confi enoo in aviation, that the Ameri- can air mail poundage has increased 50 per cent, Wil- liam MocCracken, Assistant Secretary of Commerce said ! last night. He was one of the speakers at the testimon- i ial dinner to hflnond Orteig who awarded Lindbergh a 225,000 prize for making the rst flight from New York to | Paris, | NEW YORK, Nov. 3—The loads of letters in United States air 'mail planes have grown steadily heavier as Col. Charles A. Lind bergh toured the nation in his Spirit of St. Louis, famous New York-to-Paris plane, to advance Coincidental with the coneiu | flight of 22,350 miles in three ‘months across 48 states, Post- | master General Harry S, New re.! | vealed the attendant growth of| i air mail volume, in a letter to the Guggenheim Fund for the Promo-| tion of Aeronautics, by whlml | Lindbergh’s tour was sponsored. ‘ In September, wrote New, air | mail planes carried 146,088 pounds | " (Continned on Pnn Seven,) LIVINGSTON, Mont., Nov. 3- Friends who circuiated “untimely and unfounded” reports were “re- sponsible for the trouble that caused Mildred Harrison Hill, ex- Follies girl, wite of Walter 1. Hill, son of the late James J. Hill, to |seek a separation, it was reveal- ed here, Last night Mr. and Mrs. Hill occupled the Hill suite in a Liv- ingston hotel and word came from Mr. Hill that they had a complete understanding and tha: there hld been a MANY BUSSES, SINGLE AUTOS, ARE STALLED Highways Full of Drifts Following Three-Day Blizzard SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Nov 3.—Seventy-five motor bus par- ties and many private auto par- ties are marooned at Medicine v, Wyoming, when drifts from ree-day blizzard blocked high- on both side of the Con- tal Divide. veral passengers of one bus re injured when a big car skid- {ded in soft muck under the snow jand capsized. Jack Rawlins, other bus, driver of am- was burned when his | machine ran into a high tension wire. The bus caught fire. Raw- lins drove his passengers out into {the snow where they were plick- ed up by another bus. ——————— VOTE T0 DEFY ORDER OF GOV, ON PICKETING rpayn Southern Colorado Coal | Strikers Defiant—State Oflicia]s on Guard DENVER, pickets are Clll, Nov. on duty 3.—No in the | Soultern Colorado coal fields, al- though strikers held a meeting at Walsenberg Tuesday night and voted to continue picketing. State officlals are keeping a watchful eye on the situation aud It Is indicated that Gov. Adams will send National Guards to the mines in case picketing is resumed in defiance of his orders. There is a large increase In the number of miners who re- ported for work in the Southern fields and ‘mine operators ex- pressed belief working forces will soon be back to normal if there is no more picketing. DAWES PLAN IS DEFENDED Vigoroumatement Is Made in New Book— Germany Can Pay NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—A vig- orous defense of the Dawes Plan, both as to its fairness and prac-’ ticability is ,mide by George P. Auld, Accountant General to Owen D. Young, co-author and first administrator in installing the plan, This defense is made in his book on the Dawes Plan and new economics to be published tomor- row. Auld ridicules the predictions of W. M. Keyenes and other economists that the vlan will break down in 1928 and flouts the idea of Germany's incapacity ” to p:')' \Hill Divorce Suit Is Off; Gossip of F riends Blamed was all a misunderstanding and ihat everything had been fixed up. It is presumed’that now will be filed with State Sena- tor Thomas Walker, counsal for Mrs, Hill, asking that the suit for separation be dismissed. Mr. Hill “You can that the reconciliation brought about between Mrs. and myself ation for “There s standing betwi to untimely ports on ti tendivg that