The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 8, 1927, Page 1

| g THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXI., NO. 4630. JUNEAU, ALASKA TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8, 1927. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER PRICE TEN CEN lS OF ASSOCIATED PRESS STRIKE LEADERS IN SOUTHERN COLORADO ARE ROUNDED UP TAX REDUCTION LIMIT REACHED, OFFIGIALS SAY Deficit Will Result on Com- promise Figure of $325 000 000 WASHING m\ the Treas 2o again before the House Wa and Means Committee for sum- mation of arguments for limit tions of tax reduction to $250,- 000,000, they will claim that if the proposed compromise figure of $325,000,000 is agreed upon, a deficit will be shown in the budget ov. 8.—When This is the statement of Under; Secretary Mills who declared that, of income were “liberal revenue side,” and if Con- gress goes beyond the figure, there is genuine of. the bufiget ‘being thrown. out| of balance. Treasu expressed con pressure being brought for a re- peal of the automobile tax. NIGHT NURSE SLASHED BY DRUG _ADDICT Shocking Tragedy Occur: in Fresno Hospital— . ° Dope Demanded estimat on the Department FRESNO, Cal., Nov. 8—Slashed iy Department officials (yflivlul.‘l ern over the heavy| Coolidge pins Red John Barton Payne, on | Mrs | while | looks Presi i | Interior-Teacher Instructs from Her Bedside | UBY,, Alask Nov. Mrs. Marie Franzen, Bu of Education teacher, Kokrines, is one ot the pluc iest women in Alaska. She is now teaching school from | her bedside, confined with a broken leg sustained last | | | week when she fell on a I | stippery sidewalk. RUTH ELDER'S | ' “NEVER AGRIN" Arrives in New York to “CAL” ENROLLS IN THE RED CROSS on President’s coat relief orgamization, - button dent of :;;For Borah and Teddy HUSBANDSAYS | 1| will be m GOV. PARKS ENDORSES | RED CROSS DRIVE IN | LETTER TO BEHRENDS Gov. George A. Parks, in a letter to Mr. B. M. Behrends, Chairman of the Juneau Chapter of the American Red Cross, endorses the annual Red Cross Drive for member- ship, which begins next Friday, Armistice Day, and con- tinues to Thanksgiving. The lettu' from Gov. is as follows "“The aims and achievements of the American Red Cross are so commendable and so well known that it seems |unnecessary to call attention to them at this time. We iknow from experience that the organization is ever ready. to extend a sustaining hand to suffering humanity through- out the world and that it has given aid in time of distress to people of every nation irrespective of race, color, or creed. Each petition for relief receives immediate con- sideration and no case is too small nor emergency too great to be undertaken. “The annual membership enrollment of the National Red Cross will begin November 11th, Armistice Day, and continue until Thanksgiving. Last year more than 3,000, 000 Americans responded to the call, and this year an effort ade to increase this number to 5,000,000. Alaska has been asked to contribute its share, The people of the Territory always have responded most generously to chari- ties, and I am confident that we shall exceed the quota asked fol' by N‘\tmnal heudquarters Parks to.Chairman Behrends COFFINS ARE LLASHED TOGILTHER TO /lMl&Ia RAFT; FLOOD VICTIMS RESCUED BI)LT()N‘ \olmulll. Nov. In this little town where 8 8iX ibodies have been recovered from Wihen the flood ‘came, there| 1wis not oné boat in the village v. Weeks Calls Confer- |lashed together to make a raft On this grim structure, women ence of All State De- | the flooded Winooski River and | where it is beliaved 20 are dead, coffing became the symbol of life ratucyd than deain. I Flofln WATERs'th which * to effect reseues. { There happened to be four boxes| |in the undert and they were| were taken frem upper story| windows and men saved from| partment Heads iyt BOXER SUES BEAUTY FOR DlVORCE MANY ARRESTS ARE MADE IN . SECRET RAIDS Forty-one Leaders of Strik- ing Coal Miners Are Behind Bars 'NEW ORGANIZATION | WORKS WITH SPEED iProminent I. W. W. Chiefs i Arrested — Strikers v Without Directors) t TENVER, Colo., |known leaders of the striking | Colorado coal miners are held ex- {communicado in Southern Colo- {rudo jails. | tarting a serfes of raids short- |1y after midnight, the newly jformed State lLaw Enforcement i Department did not stop until 16 :men. inciuding 11 promiuent L W. W. chiefs had been arrested. Eieven leaders, arrested Sunday night, with 20 leaders arrested | lnst night and early today, are now imprisoned. The sirikers find themselves Pwithout directing heads. Not a single picketing case has been reported since the arrests and the sitnation is changing. ‘ In Northern Colorado, however, |reports of orvganized picketing {have heen received. The opening )of the Imperial wmine was pre- wnlvq by pickets. Opening qf e \x 1 i | | | Nov. 8.--All two < other- - mines ‘were klw-rted PREHISTURIG = RELICSFOUND | Fern Andra, beautiful American star of' German fils, has heen r sued for divorce by her husband, Kurt Prenzel, former middles | weight tllamplon of Germany, on ch.xrgcs of “conduct unbecoming ! across the face, neck and arms with a razor wielded by a masked gunman, who entered the Union | Greet Flyer—She May MONTPELIER Vit Nov. § Remain on Land Gov. John E. Weeks today sum- “Hospital, Mrs. H. Cohen, night nurse, was the victim of a crazed drug addict, who escaped in an automobile. Mrs. Cohen was seated at her desk when the intruder came in, | pointed a pistol at her and said- “Give me some dope.” Mrs. Cohen explained that sha had nore, that the Superintendent ept the dope locked up. The gunman searched the place, en said: “You have been pretty | od about keeping quiet, so 1| n’'t blow vour brains out but 1l just mark you so you don't . § fget about this.” he gunman then whipped out 4 a razor and slashed two cuts on Mrs. Cohen's right cheek, three n the left cheek, one each on the Elde of the neck and two across ach arm. ———— Professor Quits Class To Enter Boxing Ring BERLIN, Nov. 8—Dr. Phil C. Bach, adjunct professor at the Geological Institute of Heidelberz University, has decided to give up his scientific career and be- come a - professional bhoxer. The | promising champion, however, is | by no means a novice in the manly art, as for the last three | years, besides holding his geolog jeal lectures, he filled the posi- tion of sporting teacher at the University. NEW YORK, Nov. 8. - Ruta Elder’s husband,, Lyle Womack, has arrived here from Panama to |greet his wife and witness New York's reception for her next Friday. “I am here to greet her as Mrs. Womack, ,not as Ruth Eld- er,” said Womack. “I have been through 17 kinds of hell while Ruth did things she wanted to {do ever since Lindbergh made his flight. 1 do not think she will try flving again.” British Beer Watered More Often than Milk LONDON, Nov. $—Watered beer cases have far outnumbered th=z watered milk cases in England. Sometimes beer is watered to the extent of four gallons to the bar- rel, the government chemists have ascertained, and none of the con- sumers knew the difference. Samples of the beer to tha number of 6,562 were taken by the customs and excise officers from the “pubs” and other re- tailers. Commenting on introduction of Pyridine in methylated spirit as & nauseating ingredient, it was an- nounced that there bad been a noticeable reduction in the re- corded cases of drunkenness. 400 POLICE TO MAN NEW HUDSON TUNNE NEW YORK, Nov. 8—Every ac- cident or emergency of which en- Eineers could conceive has been guarded against awd prepared for in the construction and equipment of. the new vehicular tunnel under the Hadson river, . uniting New York and New Jersey. ' Four hundred special policemen will man the tumnel, which is to be opened to traffic Nov. 13. Fires, wrecks and. injuries to persons will be handled with special equipment if they occur. There are twp one-way tubes, “they will be ‘policed at all wall A policeman is to be sta- tioned every 200 Teet along this walk, with telephone, signal switches, fire fighting apparatus and first aid devices at his dis. posal. The chief duty of the police! will be to direct traffic, which will move in two lines in each |1-bo. a slow line for trucks and a fast line for passenger cars. A speed limit of 20 mues an hour will be enforced. At the exit of each tube will be stationed a combination fire engine and wrecking trgck for emergency purposes. The truck, electrically opeated, may be driv in either direction, and Is 40 miles QV “Princess Alice,”” otherwise Mrs, Nicholas Longworth, is said to sponsor Republican slate headed by Senator Wil- liam Borah for president and her brother, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, for, vice-president in (Ifternational Newsreel) — GUATEMALAN MINISTER TO U. S. IS DEAD Passes Away as Result of Operation — Popular C. A. Diplomat WASHINGTO Nov. §.—Senor Don Francisco Sanchez - Latour, Guatemalan Minister to the Unit- e ates, one of the most wide Iy known of Central American diplomats,, died here last night after an operation performed on Saturday for appendicitis. Close friends of the dead Min- ister believe his strength, which was taxed perceptibly since he was found unconscions in his study last July with a bullet wound near the heart from his own pistol, was not sufficient to withstand the strain of an op- eration. The shooting was de- scribed as purely accidental. e ——— Salt: Lake Girl W'lu Poetry Prize SALT LAKE CIry, Nov. 8.— Another girl of Zion has achieved fame! Miss Ruth Harwood has;been notified that her poem “Blown- ing” was chosen first in the Browning contest conducted by the National Poetry Society of America, New York. { Miss Harwood also is winning praise for her art work as well a8 for her poetry. Some of her wrh is to be featured moon ln‘ tbq Arts Magazine q moned heads of all State Depart- ments to meet with him to take first steps towards a state wide rehabilitation from the flood dis aster. The death list is estimated at over 150 persons. | MUD 11 FEET DEEP LITTLE RIVER, Vt, Nov. 8§--! Mud spread across the flats here by the flood of last week, meas- ures 11 feet deep and relief work-| ers expressed belief many bodies | might be buried so deep in the mud, new hard, that they will, never be recovered. | RED CROSS ACTIVE | WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—Nearly 6,600 homeless victims of the New England States’ flood are today | under care of the American Red Cross. This is shown in a sum- mary of reports from the disaste workers. RGNS TS R Status of Radio in i Musical World Is Disputed in Court DES MOINEB. Ia,, Nov. §—The Guestion has arisen in District Judge Zeuch's Court as to wheth- er or not a radio receiving set is| a musfcal inStrument. The court spent all of today| Jearing argument in an attach- ment suit against F. H. Dunbar, and then announced that decision | would be withheld several days. | Dunbar contended that a state law prohibits the attachment of | musical instruments belonging to the head of a household. Counsel for the plaintiff company argued that radio sets, player-planos and talking machines are mot musical | instruments, but rather reproduc ing machlneu “First Flapper” of Nebraska Is Dead LObISVILLE, Neb, Nov. §- Mrs. Mathilda Peterson, 88 yea:s old, known as’‘“Nebraska's first, flapper,” is dead here. 'More than fifty vears ago, when Mrs, Peter- son was building up the ltrzesv merchandising “in she bobbed Her hafr, never allow- ed it to grow I again, and was yproud of her “l?‘:t flapper” title. | Mrs. Pel on known pri marily as a politician who could not cast a vote, but -)o could deliver, sti § " Apeeches TMEXICAN REBELS ARE CAUGHT; DIE Federal Troops Runnmg Down Gomez Support- ers, Near Vera Cruz MEXICO CITY, Nov. §.—Fed- eral troops are rapidly 1Innnlnx lup remnants of the Gomer revo-| lutionists in the mountains of Vera Cruz. Two more Fernanado Reyes and Gareia, are officially announced to have been captured and ecuted. This brings the total to seven Gomez leaders who have] |taced the firing squad since laz l‘l)lvlllnn of Alaska, who is seek- Suturday. The Government ed in killing groups of bandits, > Subber with Family Of 43 Wins Freedom SHERIDAN, Wyo, Nov. lian Chavez, 60 years old, a Me can, pleaded guilty here on a charge of stabbing Joe Stuka in a beet workers' row on a ranch| near here and was fined $250 and ziven a jafl sentence, both of which were suspended after Cha-| vez’ friends had pleaded that he had forty-three children to sup- port. The figure was placed on the court records when two carloads of children came to the trial, swarmed over the courthouse lawn and disported themselves in the corridors of the building. All of the children, Chavez says, were his. ————— om..u..mzz Rattler on Ome Rock| LA GRANDE, Ore, Nov. 8- From West 'Grossman, A& small town in ‘Wallowa County, comes the story that W. D. Ballard kili- el twantytwo rattlesnakes coiled on one large rock. He picked the snakes off ome by one ‘with, a small caliber rifle. The reptiles ranged in length from a foot and K n.uum.‘a leaders, | Silivano| ex-| considers the! (only tagk left will be accomplish- regular| Yh.lunI a wife”” (International 1 Newareel) MRS, HALLER ROASTSMATE, ~ DIVORCE CASE ]Seattle Capitalist Called| Stingy, Home ‘Decrepit, [ Habits Are Crude SEATTLE, Nov. S8.-—Theodore Haller, Seattle capitalist, sat | through a long court session yes- terday and listened to his wife, | Constance Reed Huller, daughter of Judge T. M. Reed, of the First lmg a divorce, Ske called him stingy and referred to the house jas decrepit, hig allowance as in- sufficient, pergonal habits crude, Mrs. Haller occupied the stand throughout the day and she told the Court how she nearly froze {to death, aimost collapsed from nervous strain and suffered rheu- matism when she tried to run the household and keep it warm on $140 to $200 a month e Cabarets Can Sell Ginger Ale, but Must Prevent Mixtures | CHICAGO, Nov. Ginger ale jand mineral water will continue to appear at the tables at Chicago i night clubs and cabarets, but club imnnlnmnnu have promised to be | particularly vigilant in seeing that | |nothing. of an alcoholic nature jgets mixed with these fhuids { E. C .Yellowley, prohibition ad- ministrator here, met last night with representatives of the cab- aret and restaurant owners, who | confessed to some perplexity as ito their procedure after a Su- | preme Court ruling upholding in effect a Mloeg ©Obtained on “ob- | servation evidence. The. restauramt men expressed the fear that ginger ale, cracked | ice, mineral Mr and glasses | might be as prima facie evidence of prohibition law viola- tion, with hip liquor easily could: pi re potent liba- | tions with - innocent aides, | the cabaret rs felt, | 8 Is Married Suddenly SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y. Nov. S.—After suddenly dis- cloging a guarded secret and ! changing her plans, Milli- cent Rogers, Standard Of h 58 dnd. former wile of Count Ludwig Salm, has married Arturo Ramso, weal- thy Argentine to whom she ! had been engaged to since last August, The wedding was expected to take place | Lomorrow IERRE RS Trying‘ i'li;l’lo Prove Tampering of Jurors WASHING1TON, Nev, 8.--The prosecution advanced into a vol- ley of counter fire today in ef- forts to convinee the Grand Jury that the defense in the Fall-Sinclair case wis x.ullU' of jury mmpvrlng, with vmulous protestations from Willlam J.| Bur founder of the Burns De— tective Agency, and Henry Mason Day, assoclate. The prosecution k‘l trying to show that Agency men were in mntuui wlth hlruh ! lite Federal! ARCTIC ISLE _;;Fanbanks College to Re- ceive New Collection Made by Geist SEVOONGA. Nov. S~With 7¢ thoxes of anthropological speci- ! Imens for the Fairbanks College, Otto W. Gelst, scientific colles- ftor, has completed a suceessful | summer on $t. Lawrence Island. Old ivory and hone curlos, imple- \ments and weapons, telling tha story of prehistoric inhabi. tants of the island are included i ;:h\ the specimens which will be fdisplayed. at the College. ! Geist expects to be able lo Iprove, as a result of his investi | gations, that ancestors of the ‘mmeul St. Lawrence [Island na- ‘(luw came from Asia. Geist also made a study- of Es- kimo euperstitions and religlous beliefs, living in native fashioa and eating Eskimo food. Geist left on the Boxer Novem- {ber 4 for Falrbanks via Ketch!- | kan. ' PRRSASLCIY . Sl N i BOSTON, Nov. §—~New England (has just discovered that it makes three-fourths of the tiny clothing accessories used by women in the | United . States —such as needlen and pins, hooks and eyes, and snap fasteves, These “findings” were made by the New England Couneil In 2 pnrvev of New Eng lum! industries. STEEL PLANT STARTS USE OF “DRY PROCESS” LORAIN, O., Nov. 8-—Attempted for the first time on a commercinl basis, n new “dry process” ore re- ducing plant, expected to vevolu- tienize the steel industry, wil) soon be put iuto operation at the Lorain plant of the National Tube company. Steel manunfacturers throughout the world await the first commer- cial production by the new means, successfully experimented with at the Lorain plant for the last two years, If the process meets all com- mercial requirements it will meau reduced . eost of produetion through elimination of blast fu:- naces, together with Its m ties of reducing low grade ore The Logain mamm ments conducted in 1924 in Bng- land and at aryaville. Mich., where a working model proved successful. C. Howard Wills of the Wills St. Claire Company and J. W. Hornsey, patentee, are the Ameri- can leaders in the perfection of {the process. The United Stulas steel corporation, *of which ¢ National Tube Company is e divi- sion, selected Lorain as a proving ground, Through the “dry process,” ore ‘émerges @s granular M granulated fmpurities, which taken out by means machinery. Briquettes pressed out and steel made them by the wu‘ifl Imc wethods,