The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 15, 1927, Page 1

i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE OL. XXXI, NO. 4636. SAYS CALLES WAS AGAINST U. S. ACTION Mexican Government Pre- vented American Peace Move in Nicaragua FURTHER SECRETS DIVULGED IN PLOT Facsimilies of Documents| Printed — One Is In- criminating' Telegram NEW YORK, Nov. 15 Hearst newspape in the of a series of articles cop, od the Washington H today prints purported facsimi of documents - from the archives. of the ment showing that Peace ference, the the Corinto arranged by Department dag Octe ye in the hope of the Nicaraguan vevolt, wus broken up by Presk dent Calles. of Mexico: One of the doecuments is a- tele-{ | gram purporting to have been wigned by Gen. Alvarez, Chief of ('q’,yes staff, to Aaron Saenz, then | Sagretary of the Mexican Depart- of Foreign Affairs, It in- ted Saenz to have Mexican passador Gravioto, at Guate- TN TR CSucasa, Witdris L’nnn Liberal leader, that if pea('e arFngements were not baged-on | arvgngements concluded in Mex- ieo City, with the Liberals con- trolling the exccutive power, the Mexican Government would retire all moral and material aid im- mediately The first of the serfes of arti-| cles, printed yesterday, to show the Mexican ment paid for arms and ammuni- tion for the Nicaraguan Liberals and that funds were given the revelters. purported Old Time Prospectors Are Off for Novikaket RUBY, Alaska, Nov. 15—John Campbell, one of the discoverers of Spruce Creek, has left here by dog team, with Ben Deacon, for the headwaters of the Novikaket 1o mpend the winter on a pros- " pecting mn Two Qlla !u‘e Felt At on Sunday SBITKA, Alaska, Nov. 15—This saetion was shaken again Sunday. One shock was felt at 3:26 o'clock in the afternoon and fha second #hock -at 8:10 o'clock in the eve- ning. F. P. Ulrieh, in charge of theé magnetic station, said the quake was light and of long dis- tance. A slight quake was also uu‘ Saturday afternoon. Mexican CGovern-j Govern- ! I'ITTSBl RGH FOE OF UNDERWORLD | .S AGAIN | | | | / | | | | i Wiilam L, King (allofi), Pl e oy i 1 PITTSBURGH, Noy. 15—Mys. terious absences from Pittsburgh of William L. King, coupled with his hasty marriage in June to Mrs. Rachel Carr and her subse- quently reported effort to divorce | him, has brought the youthful| vice crusader to national atter i tion. ¥ In his days af a law student a. Drake University, in Des Moin King became the youngest le {lator in lowa history -when he w elected to the house during the! world war. { Brought to Pittsburgh early this year from Kansas City, where he was Anti-Saloon League counsel, | King conducted a spectacular vice campaign as executive director of the Citizens League. He dropped from sight, to re- appear in Des Moines charging that a blackmail ‘plot caused him to hasten his marriage to Mre. Carr. Returning with her to Pitts- burgh, he resumed his work and filed blackmail charges against several persons, among them Supt. of Police P. P. Walsh. In October he vanished again. The league (Anhl he was on leave of absence, ‘but it was reported that his wife, who also had left the city, was seeking a divoree in Reno, e ——— G. P. MeCormick, assayer of the Jacob Marty Mines at Wind- ham Bay, left on the Princess Mary for the Outside. W)MAN S CURIOSITY SETS FREE FREETOWN, Sierra fao0no, INO¥. 15—Freedom will come to <al,‘n.~n a quarier. million slaves n 'this British Protéctorate on tha West Coast of Africa next New Year's Day because or an- inguisi- ‘M woman. v ! fady Kathleen' Shudn. 1d being ‘hailed as the inspiration of the ement which will wipe out i last remnant of human slav- .ery under the British flag. Great astonishment was voiced ‘the’ English press a few weeks I when the announcement was e that 220,000 men, women, «children were still siaves here in Sierra Leone, The réport’ was by Sir John Shmon, a lead- the Liberal party, who with is’ wite was making a tour in{these ish Africa. The revelation of 'these comgi- was followed quickly by popular . clamor for their ipation. MW Brlfilh lal office went 0 the legislative ¢ Leone 4 SLAVES OF SIERRE LEONE COLO Y congratulated Sir John on his hu- manitarian activities. Sir John turned aside their praise, “lI am not the person to whom | th ecredit is due,” he said. ‘I is my” wife.” It s Lady Simon, her husband Ingisted, who was curious emough about labor conditions to gather the facts for the public expose “of slavery, which brought on the ‘legislative action. Previous_enactment in the colo- ny had provided that the pumber of glaves in Sierra Leone coul mot be increased by gurchase or by birth. Children hofn {o : pre- sent slaves should be freemen. Slaves wera given the right also |to purchase / their liberty. means slavery should even- tually disappear. “But Lady " Sifion, inquisitively |’ discovered what the public had not taken_ thdught of. More [two hundred thmund 0! » “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA TUESDAY NOVEMBER 15, 1927. LINDBERGH GIVEN RAREST OF HONORS WASHINGTON, Nov. Charles A. Lindbergh Col. Lindbergh has the 'unpre(edented of being introduced to the audience by the ent of the lw'niled St in makmg the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris, has brought him to a new pin- nacle of fame, when President Coolidge presented him with the Hubbard Medal of the National (,eo;zraphn- Societ The accomplishment of Col. stinction, it is believed to be DEATH TOLL | MOUNTINGIN | PITTSBURGH , | Twenty - '[:wo Bodies Are! | Recovered from Scene of Exploslon PITTSBURGH, The death toll Penn., r(-x\llmn-. | |the explosion yesterday nmn 3011 tof the world mounted t gas storage| rescuers dug| their wi into the rains of | homes, factories, waré es and| industrial plants m. th ‘dnmw o | area. One body was rwfi ed this| morning, making the yg;\n dead | twenty-two. { Frank Kuepferle w: ‘lllenl and! two others injured, 8 steel fel! on them w with rescuers, . The Fire -Dep. psmipt oficial believe thal at Teast seven ditional bodies will be found. Many Critical Condition More than 450 persons have been treated at the hospitals and 150 are in eritical condition. Insurance experts estimate the loss will run into the millions, most of which was uninsured be- 1se insurance does not provide or explosions. One case of looting has' been reported. Relief agencies including the Red Cross, Salvation Army and Boy Scouts, are functioning full blast, caring for the homeless and supplying food and clothing to the destitute. The \City Council has appro- priated $100,000 for relief work. BUDDHA CENTURIES OLD ° TO BE SEEN IN BERLIN BERLIN, Nov. 15.—Lovers of art will soon find a rare Bpddha exhibited at one of the state art collections at Berlin. Dr. Kurt Zickel, representative of Germany in the negotiations for a Japenhese-German trude treaty, was presented with this statue by Dr. Tamaki, represen-. tative of the City of Tokio, in recognition of his siccessful ef- forts to consummate the treaty. Zickel deceided to turn the gift over to the State for its museums. The Buddha is 850 years old. R —— COLD STORAGE MAIL SJ‘: PETERSBURG, Fla., Nov. 15.—Perishable vegetables, flow- ers and fruit, mailed in great quantities through the parcel post station here, will be preserved while awaiting shipment in a new cold storage room. Stamps also are to be kept in the cool, dry room to prevent losses caused by sticking together in the moist atmosphere of the region. ’ - ank, as STOVES SELLING WELL WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—Can- ada continues’ to be the largest buyes#of American made heating stoves, furnac boilers and ‘rad- iators - and Mexico of cooking toves and ranges, British South Africa is the second best customer or rooking stoves and Japan for house heating -boilers and rad- iators. « POOR 5 ‘ ‘M*{fi BOYALTTES R .lwltdbu Dkla., Nov. 15.—| ug, unfit for agricultural .,b, pronounced barren g nn by _geologists 1s belng for ofl and gag by e Five Cfvllill*“ v | “about as ol WET AND DRY ! gent, 1y conscious thatith Coolidge Is Against Tariff Reduction WASHINGTON, Nov. 15— ! | President Coolidge feels that the problems confronting ag- riculture are not to be aided by taritf reduction. ISSUE COMING | NEXTCAMPAIGN, Senator Walsh Says if Wet! Nominated, Prohibi- tion Be Prolecled WASHINGTON, Nov. 15— Nomination by thewDemoerats of - n ‘“‘outstanding wet” for Pres will force the wet and dry, issue into the next campaign re- gardless of party tle(‘larnnox Senator Thomas J. Walsh, Montana, ardent dry, asserted ln speaking at a mecting of the ’h- tional Women's Democ ratlb League. questions ight: Donald 4 mistrial of case. " Senator Walsh outlined Ns; KILLED BY DHY views of a platform but emphasized | the platform was immaterial if a| wet candidate was nominated. ! While not mentioning any| names, Senator Walsh left no' doubt in the minds of his listen- ers that he considered Gov. A. E. Unlted States Senator Ed' Smith one of the candidates, and; if nominated, would preject Pro- wards Makes Charges Against Prohi. Umt | mhmnn into the rnmpnlxn I | | NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—United PANAMA CANAL cle published in the December ,luque of the magazine Plain Talk, (estimates that the toll of lives taken by Prohibition * Agents ‘must run into four figures.” Is lNAnE uATE Senator Edwards sald no na- tion-wide research has been made {to establish the accuracy of the L estimate, adding that as “‘long as . 3 ohibition lasts, statistics will Chairman Madden Returns ...\ cuten up with ‘(e number from Zone — Wants of versons killed by Prohibition . lofficers, Federal, Staté and mun{- Base on Pacific Coast i ator Bdwarda said Federal WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—Chair- pen had killed about 200 and de- man Martin B. Madden, of the clared that many had been shot House Appropriations Committee,! iy the back and died in cold will soon call to the attention of piood President Coolldge- the question! e DO of increasing air defenses of the DENIAL IS MADE Panama Canal. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—Pro- Chairman Madden has just re-|hibition officlals ‘dispute the turned from the Canal Zone after statement of Senator Edwards as a trip of inspection and said that|to the number of persons killed at the first opportunity he would by Prohibition Enforcement offi- discuss the question with the fcers. James Jones, Deputy Com: President as ho is convinced Dr% missioner, safil no accurate fig- tection of the Panama Canal will [ures are “uvailable but that he not he adequate until additiops|was certain the number killed are made to the Aviation Units)was nothing like one fifth of a in that area. thousand, - ‘more, likely around Chairman Madden said at pres-1100. He declared the policy of ent, practically all of the Air!sgents wus to use the gun only Force, both planes and personnel,|to protect thelr own lves. is concentrated at France Field and Coco Colo on the Atlanti: - < Interior Alaska Town “I helieve wé #nould mave an| Dissolves Incorporation equally strong force on the Pacific | —— Coast,” said Madden. | TANANA, Alagka, Nov. 15—Th e ———— ltown council held the last me: SLEEPS ON AIR TRIP ing last Saturday might, turning — g over the town funds to the Terri- nAurmolw. Nov. 15—Travel-|tory and completing the process| ing by &m F routes is|of dmolmmt of memonuon of @8 riding on|ine town, an ocean liner on 7 to —— Ry n. G . SLX DORORTS GROW ness man. “I dol ting,” he sdid, * NEW N’m, 16; — Raw| London-Paris -|silk imports for 1927 ‘will reach ooo.no m the Silk As- soC estimates. The today. is the an inch or s¢ tween me lurnlnc 1 to bo MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS, MORE REVELATIONS ARE EXPECTED SCANDAL FALL-SINCLAIR JURY ILLINOIS WELFARE Wo&KER sns | SPRINGFIBLD, Iil, Nov. Crime fs an essential factor ln nw | progress of the human race, and ranno( be eliminated by jails or moral codes, Dr. 8. W. Brownstein of the illinois department of pub- lic health believes. Dr, Brownsteinls views written for the' lilinois Welfave Magazine, publication of the state department, and were considered $0 unusual that the magazine dis- claimed msmzulty for, the theories pro ¥ “Crime,” says Dr. Brownstein, “is the urge to trariety, inher- ent in matter, érganic or inor- ganic. It is ,a natural phenome- non, the manifestation of all ac. were its working )r&lple is beyond the influence of Buman ingenuity. “Can you imagine,” he asks, "a progressive social system without exploiters, thie! murderers, riots, revolutions, wars? Such 4 state would spell stagnation and death to the soclal system. 1If there was no antagonism, no con- trariety, no contrast be no resistancej Where there is no resistance, re is no force. Where there is §o force, there i= no life.” SCIACCA, Sleily Stefano Sabella, barber, sold hig wife for 2,000 ‘lMre on the in- stallment plan, But the purchaser didn’t keep up his payments. Ste- fano denounced him to the police for alienation @f his wife's af- fections, and ny the sold-away spouse has d. ced Stefano for his “business’ al. To add to , Ignominy, Ste- fano, thinkinj Fcould make the third party, Giikeppe Russo, come across quickeér With the promised sum, is all have started a systematic pe mtion of his bar- tered better hall trusting to Rus- 40’8 chivalry $8puy up promptly and thus to re her freedom trom mol Both the caval- iers are now locked up. ! SQUARE | PARIS, No 1lines seem than they o ' = | CK LINES it Square neck less in favor hey have by no meansdi from the col /lections. of ¢ five dressmakers but the I8 aving tho higgest success 1 show round oi V necks B square line. In eve v one of the newe: moderate p U in back. invariably to tivity, growth and development. It | is the law of life'and motion and | there would | er left Edwnrd Kidwell, member of Fall-Sinclair jury at Washington, being bombarded {8 nfl reporters after his arrest in connection with tamperin, King, Washington newspaper wer left: Deputy U. S. Marshals Cerimele and s and secured proof of “shadowing” of jury. Circle Justice Frederick Siddons, who ordered that halted case. an, who unearthed alleged bribery plot. larkson, who raided Burns detective quar- | Assassination ,;' Of Trotzky Is Rumored LONDON, Nov. 15—The | | Daily Mail's correspondent at | | Berlin says a report is current ' | that Leon Trotzky has heen | assassinated. ° Messages from | | Moscow and Leningrad give | | | the same report but there has | | been no confirmation from of- | | ficial sources. 'ALLEGED FIRE BUG ARRESTED Former ]amtor of Apart- | ment Building May Ex- plain Fatal Fire INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 15. i—Working on the theory that ithe Graystone Apartment Hotel fire early Sunday morning was of |incendiary origin, the police have arrested Clarence Mead, former negro janitor on a vagrancy charge and are holding him under a high bond. Rigit persons were (burned to death in the fire and 13 injured. Mead was discharged several PRICE TEN CENTS ! INEW MYSTERY MAN BOBS UP JURY SCANDAL Witness Suddenly Appears and Is Closeted with Attorneys {CCNNECTION WITH CASE KEPT SECRET New Testimony Said to Be Regarded with High- est Importance WASHINGT® Wov. 15.—An- other man of mystery has ap- peared suddealy in the oil con- spiracy jury scandal. This man has been introduced by William McMullin, Government informer against the Burns De- tective Agency. This man's iden- tity in connection with the cage I8 carefully guarded by Federal attorneys. The stranger came from Phila- delphia with McMullin and was closeted with Government counsel for nearly an hour. The secrecy which the prosecu- tors threw about the new witness has- convinced observers his tes- timony is regarded as of high importance in corroborating that already given by MecMullen nx%nlt the detective agency.' Sherman Burns urged / z- ba. permitted to go betore rand Jury and answer McMuls lin's charge that reports of ac- tivities of the oil case jurors and. Government employees were to be used as a basis for making a mis- trial should the defense find such . a course necessary. It was agreed to let Burns appear before the Grand Jury again, ORDERS INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, Nov. 15—Jus- tice Siddons has ordered an in- vestigation to determine whether jthere has been criminal contempt of the District of Columbia 8- preme Court in connection with the Fall-Sinclair trial jury surs veillance scandal. Justice Siddons has namod three United States Attorneys to conduct the inquiry and if causs is found, to proceed “as expedi- ously as possible and prepare, file and prosecute in this court, against such person or persons on- charges of criminal contempt of court to the end that the authort ty and power of the Court be vin dicated, sustained and enforced.” Saving Bank Books lsTnvdu"sllobh' DULUTH, Mlnn, NW 15— Other travelers may ecollect ans tiques and what not, but Paul Morneau’s hobby s ntharln‘ bank books. Four ycars ago, when he was 20, he left his home in’' Duluth weeks ago because of complaints|to visit every State in the Union _{of occupants of the apartmemtiand to collect 1,000 bank books, hotel that he refused sufficient fire in the furnaces for heating purposes. He is alleged|deposited §1 in each bank to to have told several residents of{gain his book. Today, he has the apartments that he would get|{700 books of 700 different banks even with them by “burnm scattered from Maine to Cali- them out one of these days.'” fornia and the ecredit side of Detectives said Mead denled|each shows §$1. being near the building at thc| He expects to get the other time of the fire. . 18300 within a year or so. to keep|each from a different city. As he traveled he worked, and TEMPERANCE WOMEN PLAN FOR WORLD MEET CHICAGO, - Nov. 15—Ameriean temperance women have begun now to prepare exhibits for the World's Woman's Christian Tem- perance Union meeting at Lafk anne/ Switzerland. starting next July 25," which they say witl fute many wrong impressions world has gained from tion’s course jn the United They intend to answer the charge ‘that young people drinking heavily under by presenthig a huge roll natures of high school students who have selves to total planned to send the d 4 from California to New York with a special retinue and hail it with appropriate demonstrations . en- route. ¥ The delegates intend to empha- size to European countries their .| conception of the economic beme-. . | fits of prohibition, p drinking among laborers, ~ fl‘ child life betterment. Plans for the American part in the meet were by Miss Anpa A. Gordon, “8lg- | ston, president of the C. T. U. She sald | vmmnmflw ing. e e