The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 10, 1927, Page 1

and exercise " dividual THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE OL. XXX, NO. 4632. —— JUNEAU ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER |0 1927. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BIG RAID PULLED OFF, DETROIT Says U. S. Can Dictate World Peace by Preparedness Demes Tunney Trolb GLAIMS PEAGE BE DICTATED FROMAMERICA Col. MacNider Declares U. S. Is Great Power for War or Peace CHICAGO, Nov. 10-—Americs can d :te peace by preparedne Col. Hanford MacNider, tant Secretary of Wa de- red here in an address. “We huilt the greatest Nation in the World. We became credi- tors of the world. No man can dispute the fact that we can dic- tate and if that be true we can dictate peace,” said Col. Mac- Ntder. “No tions cs help or No nation or group of nations will be able to plunge the world war against America’s will have vigorous leadership Y i MaeNider predicted that ihe veterans of the World War form a majority in Congress,’' Pgome kind of Defense Act will! be passed “When the law nation or group of na- n fight along without our acquiescense. into ir we ol there is written into that no resource or in- within . shall remain in a favored position,| America shall go [or(hi # or all aloof that ag one wan to the Nation's De- o0 and then only .will be on its way to-| Then we wi authoritativel then ir mandate “ld fulfillment. way not “only wani t America Qe lnEl Amtrla lnt able to NEW MERGHANT : |his wif2 §250 monthly and more| i iher % that her husbs MRS HALLER IS GRANTED HER DIVORGE Judge T. M. Reed, Comes as Climax SEATTLE, Nov. 10—Mrs. Con- stance Reed-Haller, daughter of Judge T. M. Reed, of the Iirst| Judicial Division of Alaska, has! been awarded a divorce from Theodore N. Haller, Seattle capi- talist who is more than 30 years her senior. The matter ot alimony over for a later date. A letter ‘which Judge wrote seven years ago to his daughter's aged husband, begging him to do his part to make their! life together hearable, won the divorce for Mrs. Haller. Judge John T. Ronald said:| “This letter dispels any thought of a mercenary motive.” Wife I Praised Theodore Haller praised his wife’s housekeeping and denied that he himself was stingy. He claimed on the stand he'aliowed wes put Reed | when wanted opered chargs he knew she He said ghe had accounts bocanse would mot abusc| credit. He said he never questioned his wife's re money becaus v idin business abilit:. Wife's Teati Mrs. Haller | opening of th Haller beli sible storable “now | her system a why we cann | MARINE PLANS | ARE OPPOSED CHICAGO, Nov. 16—4 that railroads were vitally inter- ed in overseas traffic, Edward grlu ., wartime chairman of the ipping Board, has dispatched a tter to Chairman O’Connor, of } the Shipping Board, outlining a plan for the establishment of a permanent Merchant Marine to be peiated out of a half billion dol- r revolving fund which it is pro- posed for Congress to appropriate for loans to Shipping companies to build modern passenger un.l| ryor, daughter of Parmelia fyor of New York/ Mrs. S. F. nied rumors of her engagement to Gene Tunney, heavyweight, king. Miss Pryor's brother,’ | Marine Corps buddy of fighter, 'has been with Gene on hunt,' !ing trip. et nnnruuon-l Newsreel) b il WEALTHY MAN UNDER ARREST erting freight steamers. These ship @re to be built in American yard &nd engage in overseas business on new routes. Roy: Olmsted Has Surrerdered; Jailed / SEATTLE, Nov. 10—Roy Olm- sted, who voluntarily surrendered Rimgelf, is kept in jail to await thal of what |i called the “little Olmsted case” Friends are en- dy‘envurlns to raise §5,000 bail. i e { WASHINGTON, Nov. 10—Shel- don Clark, wealthy Chicago oil man and sportsman, was this af-| ternoon placed under technical arrest after he refused ta testify in the Grand Jury investigation of the Fall-8inclair jury surveil- lance scandal, Clark s Vice-President and General Manager of the Sinclair Refining Company. Clark jvas released on a 325, 000 bond. The cor-plaint against Clark is similar to one lodged against Harry F. Sinclair and his l.eaves 86 000 000 E‘tlte confidential agent, Henry Mason! pheseey Day, consplracy fo tamper with a CHICAGO, Noy. 10—John Mil-|ju ¢hell, noted hanker, killed 10 days .o John Mitchell, Banker, ago in an automobile accident and Miss Madge Case -is' on tha Which also cost the life of his|Aleutian on her way to Seattle Wife, divided his estate of $6.-{where she plans to spend the 000,000 equaliy among his Wife|winter. She has been visiting in hd five children, according to n’.lunutm ‘the past week, the guest Will filed for probate today. of Mrs. Douglas Austin. —_— fiORRORS’ STAID BRITISH COURT % PERMITS GIRL TO LIFT SKIRT : AND DISPLAY HER KNEE; YESSIR LONDON, Nov, 10—A staid[the crowd by remarking, itish ecourt gave spectators the ck of their lives today when it rmitted a woman’s knee to be jown to a jury. A woman. plaintiff in a suit’for mages was asked by her coun- el to exhibit her knee. The d, apparently expecting Lord lord chief justica, “It s quite uspal for women to show their knees nowadays.” The ‘Miss Beck was suing for dam- ages from a surgeon ‘on the ground uuu her knee had been and Greenwich, Conn,, has de-! OIL JURY CASE needs a strong {one substanti.l guide her.” Haller 1:icirogate! Mrs, Haller's attorney .mkedqy‘ ¢’ Haller thought himself a strong and dependable man? ““How about the time a tramp| attacked you two at your home, from where you fled, leaving your wife alone?” the aftorney| ’.Iblfl‘(‘ | | "I did not run but 1 did not want to make a scene. Her fath- ler chased away the tramp,” Hal- 1er replied. B {Hotel Men’s Chief f Flaying Prohibition| KANSAS CITY, Nov. 10—Thos. D. Green, New York, president of | ithe American Hotel Association {in convention here, said last night that prohibition, although sup- ported by all members of the or- | ganization, was proving a costly venture for the business. “Before prohibition we had a} regular liquor traffic which to n| certain extent protected young| people and habitual drinkers from sales,” he said. “But the hoot- legger sells to everybody, so when the bootlegger becomes a hotet | the burden of prohibition diffi-) culties, while the bootlegger col- lects all the money.” |ELLIOTT AND HOWARD TO ADDRESS C. OF C. The Friday meeting of the Ju- neau Chamber of Commerce will} be held tomorrow noon in the display rooms of the Alaska Elec- tric Light and Power Company, it was announced today. Major Malcolm, Elliott, Presi- dent of the Alaska Road Commis- sion, who arrived on the Yukon Tuesday after his recent nppolnt-‘ ment, and Bartley Howard, Sena-| tor from Anchorage and candi- date for the Republican nomina- Itlon for Delegate to Congress, will be the guests of homor and will address the meeting. - BUTTER TRADE GREATER l WASHINGTON, Nov. 10—Wutld | trade .in butter and cheese - in- ed some 200,000,000 pounds last year over the average for Letter from Her Falher.‘ | bilt, now in ‘ Kavaped 3 Prife IDEMDGRATS AT Mrs. Gloria M()rgcm Varder- Paris, admits en- gagement to Prince Hohenloe- Langebourg (below), nephew of Queen Marie of Rumania. Mrs. Vanderbilt was leit for- tune of seven million dollars by | tt)he late Reginald C. Vander- ilt. (International Ni ] SCREEN SLAP IS REALISTIC HOLLYWOOD, cal,: Nov. 10-- Dolores Del Rio haluuiul Mexi- can film star, is under the care! patron the hotelkeeper gets all|of a dental surgeon here, and the| gossips of the Boulevard are cogitating whether, a slap in the face which placed her there was administered by Vera Lewis with a tincture of feminine jealousy or merely in an excess of artistic enthusiasm. During the filming of a .picture scene, Edwin Carewe, director, in- structed Miss Lewis to slap Miss Del Rio. The character actress responded with eclat, also with a| heavy bracelet. The resounding smack loosened one of Dolores’ back teeth, and cut the inmer lin- ing of her cheek. ——————— WILD LIFE IN PHILADELPHIA ————— PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10—Th« primitive occupation of trapping is not yet extinet in Philadelphia Trappers, mostly boys, captured nine gray foxes, two red foxes and ten weasels inside the city; limits in the last year, STUDENT BEREA, Ky., Nov. 10—Paying! their own way through school 15 popular with ' Berea college stu-| dents. Last year. they did. work upon the campus valned at $121.- 846, the dean work they were.able to pay 69 perceiit of “school expenses. R. Yaw of Ohio. ‘SEN. COUZENS' DAUGHTER TO WED Madeleine Couzens, daughter of Senator and Mrs. James Couzens of Detroit, has announced her engagement to William Miss Couzens made her debut in Detroit fow years apo during the Christmas season. She ha$ |put several seasons 4n Washington and now is.studying law, “iniarastional Nawsreald |- i | Thanksgiving { Turkeys Are To Be bhorl NOME CONVENE; | { . PICK GAFFNEY, ¢Sewa rd Pemnsula Demo- crats Suggest Thomas Gaffney for Delegate ‘ NOME, Alaska, Nov. 10—In a Divisional convention held hera |last night by Seward Peninsula Democrats, Representative Thom-| ‘as Gaffney of Nome was recom-| mended to the Territorial Demo- cratic convention, calied to meet' on January 15, next, at Seward, as a suitable candidate for Dele-| gate to Congress. James Cahill of <Nome was appointed tempor- ary secretary pending a perman- 2ni organization of the Divisional committee here. ! The Convention elected 15 del-| sgates to the Territorial conven- tion. Their proxies have been; telegraphad to National Commit- teeman Thomas J. Donohoe of! Cordova. A Divisional Commit-| tee of seven chosen The' question of putting up a Divi-| siona) legislative ticket in the tield was carried over to the next meeting of the Committee. Mr. Gaffney, who was the prin- eipal speaker, declared what he termed “‘the autocratic attitude™, was assumed by Delegate Suther- land in the last legislative ses- giod. “Constructive legislation thwarted by boss-ridden legislature. The Old Age pension bill was held in committee to die as @ reprisal , against Senator John W, Dunn of Ruby, father of th@ measure, because he woul ndt Gsunport. the ‘omptroller Bill,". the Nbme - representative said. P 4 s ENTIMENT I CHICAGO, Nuv 10—Tha ulk%,ih ing turkeys are to be rare hluh this year. The crop is estimated flv« per ceat smaller than last Canvass of National GOP.!” Committeemen Made WASHlucTuN —Deslre Coohdge f NEW YORK Nov, 10—1‘11»'1 o~ World (Democratic) says that a telegraphic canvass of the Repub-' lican national committee reveals a strong sentiment for the nomina- F tion of President Coolidge in 1928 | despite his renunciation of tha | honor in the variously interpretod declaration, “I do not choose to run.” | | Forty replies were received i1 dfly fl.t Bcrkeley— answer to The World's telegram | Huskies Go South ! which asked the committeemen 'f | they “personally favor the renom-| BERKELEY, Cal, Nov. 10—Fa '~ | Ination e Mr. Coolidge,” and, if weathor is predicted for tomor- ;w do tne.).' think he will be re-',,y apq Saturday with a result- nominated. Twenty-four of the!,n; dry field for the Washington janswers were from men and six- ypjversity and California football jteen from women, while offier Re-'game to be played Saturday after- ':ubllci::d f-'ommm;f‘ fl:‘smbfll were moon. The Huskles are predicted esdr as “abroad or out of 1o win, reach of the telegraphic inquiry.”: Kl Ten Men for Coolidge SEATTLE, Nov. 10—The Hus 'h‘)(! ;‘I’G lmen{ ten ;’0;: Wg"lfil'klel left Seattle last night for eaftedly in favor o r. Cool-| Berkeley for the game with Cali- idge and belleved his chances of fronia :,. s.""d.:. renomination good, eleven favor-! ——————— ed his candidacy, but thought him |y .. . out of the race voluntarily, while Lllldbmh Rfilllled three were mnoncommittal. Eight nr the women’s replies favored | Mr. Coolldge, five were noncom- EW |mittal and three expressed the ks T, Nov. 10—Col. By Guggenheim Fund| view that the President would not hecome a candidate. Eighteen Wholly Favorable | Taken as a whole, eighteen committee members favored Mr. Coolidge, and did not consider him out of the running, fourteen jaccepted his refusal to run as final and eight offered no opin- ion. Southern committeemen al- | most unanimously favored the | Coolidge candidacy, eight out of nine replies expressing hope that he would be remominated. The telegraphic poll solicited opinions from the 104 members of {the Republican committee. IRONTON, Minn,, Nov. 10— | Four bandits late yesterday after- Bank here and escaped with $35,- 000 in currency ahd gold. | Charles A. Lindbergh has been retained in a consulting capacity by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics and will not identify himself, at commercial undertaking. His ar- rangement with the Guggenheim Fund will leave him free to en- gage in any aectivities to promote the cause of flying, Harry F. Gug- genhelm, president of the Guggen- heim Fund, said in a statemert issued today. It was under auspices of the Guggenheim Fund that Colonel Lindbergh made his air tour of the country after making the first flight across the Atlantic from the | United Stgtes to France S — Karl K. Katz, Alaska represen tative of the Northern Pacific Railway f, 48 on the Aleu- tian bound for Seattle. He has ~By this|noon rebbed the Wirst Natiopallbeen on an extended trip through- out Alasks I!!\iom. as far as Falrbanks, ' | | | i ,i-nm of money the devils could bk, Aud so she told the ’flhfi. 4 | equalization fee in FISHERMEN OF NOVA SCOTIA MAKEPROTEST {Appear with: Starvitih Story Before Royal Commission LOUISBURG, Nov. 10-—Abject poverty of those in fishing vil- lages on the coast of Noca Scotia were described by fishermen who appeared here before the Royal Commisgion of Fisheries, for re- |lief from the beam trawler which Game to Be Played Satur-, | deserted fishing settlements, once they described responsible for the thriving communities. Intensive trawling, which necs unhealthy fish and gluts the mar- ket with inferior product was also held to destroy wells from which fish deposit spawn and cuts off the source of the supply. Abolition of the beam trawler; and restriction of its use, with rigid inspection of fish brought in by such craft, is recommended. | Equaliaation P WASHINGTON, Nov. 10—The the MeNary. Haugen bill has again proved the stumbling block for an agreement on farm relief botween the three major agricultural organizations m BIG BREWERY UNDERGROUND IS UNEARTHED Large Liquor Establishment Raided Near Main Street of Detroit DETROIT, Mich,, Nov. 10—A subterranean brewery and its in- tricate system of basements and passageways yielding beer and liquor making paraphernalia worth uaalf a million dollars, was found by Federal agonts last night, within a few steps from Detroit's main street. The plant occupied ‘an entire city block of basements and most of the office buildings above. | A fashignable night club, be- lleved to be the headquarters and !central offices of the under- ground plan were deserted when the Federal agents arrived. | In the spacious and elaborate- ly furnished dining room, 200 tables were set, many laden with steaming viands. There was evidence of a hasty exit of all in the dining room. A bar, 150 feet long, contained beer, “whiskey and contraband goods. Included in the plant were {three beer vats containing 25,000 gallons each, several hundred barrels of beer, a large nuantity ]uf bootleg beer, eleven cases of whiskey and a 30,000 galllon wnmlen whiskey tank which was ASKS AID FOR FLOOD VICTIMS, STATE Urgent Appeal Is Sent to Coolidge and Red Cross for Relief BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 10— President Coolidge and the Amer- ican Red Cross had before tham today an urgent appeal in be- half of flood stricken Vermont from. Gov. John K. Weeks who is plainly impressed by the magni- tude of the catastrophe which has overwhelmed many parts of his Commonwealth. Gov. Weeks declared the situa- tion is so critical that immedi- ate aid is absolutely imperative. Cold weather, which has set in in earnest, gave added force to the appeal as relief workers struggled over snow covered roads to take food and medicine to isolated communities. Dona- tions to the sum of $75,000 have been received. Estimates of the actual loss still vague but will reach far in- to the millions. Agreement on Tariff WASHINGTON, Nov. 10—France and the United States have reach- ed a general agreement on all the major points at.issue in the tariff controversy, it was announced at the state department. Only a few minor points remain to be adjusted before France is' notified that the United States Is and the meeting to effect a com- ready to negotiate a new treaty, promise adjourned for further con-jand these probably will be clearad sultation. up in a few days. least for the present, with any HEALER “bXTRACTS" TEN DF, ILS AND $1,013 FROM WOMAN ; SHE TELLS POLICE CHICAGO, Nov. 10—Yesterday driven forth, Mrs. Sarah Mahood had twelve All this was done, but two devils and $1.013. Today, she had |devils remained obdurate. “Purl- two devils—the other ten and!ty” then suggested that Mrs, Ma- the $1,013 having been abstracted |hood take home the money, which by a woman known as “Purity.” 'had been put in a package, and A strange lady who Identified |sleep on it, first putting two herself as a spirit healer, called |glasses of water under the bed at Mrs. Mahood’s home, and u\-mu the devils to drown in when formed her that she (Mrs. Ma- the force of the money and “Puri hood) was the possessor of twelve |ty” finally drove them out. individual devils which needed ta' When Mrs. Mahood awol be exorcised. ‘opened the package, she loutl The same strange lady then that, while there were no indies- suggested that her Mm‘,mnq of the devils having drown: “Purity,” whom ske recommended cd, there were also no indieations as a devil disturber, be called, ex-|of the $1,013 remaining in the plaining that with the ald of a|package.