The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 16, 1927, Page 1

VOL XXXI., NO. 4637. FARM RELIEF IS “ALL THE NEWS ALEL THE TIME” jUNEAU ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, VEMBER 16, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RD PROBLEM; PRESIDENT PRESENTS NO PLANS OIL SCANDAL INQUIRY NOW NEARING END “ Gover nment Practlcally ! Rests Case with Grand Jury, Justice WASHINGTON, 16-—Al most suddenly as it boiled up to cause a mistrial of the Teapol Dome case, the government's in- vestigation into tampering the Fall-Sinclair jury has return- ed to the mere simm ng down stage, leaving future action to the Federal Grand Jury and Justice Siddov V. as three United States Dis- Attorneys appointed yester- y by Justice Siddons to investi- gate the case and bring contempt of court proceedings, if charges can. be proven, have made no statement and no. reports of fur ther findings and conclusions the result of mystery witne & before the Grand Jury have besy made public SNOW DRIFTS REPORTED IN MANY AREAS ok First Taste of Winter Ex- perienced in Middle West States CHICAGO, Nov. 16—A forecast of winter has rushed down the Middle West disrupting traffic and closing schools in Wisconsin and covering a wide section with snow. Rain followed the snow in some sections. Thermomete: s dropped as the first storm swept .across the. Prairie States into the Great Lakes region. Ironwood, Michigan, snowbound. Other places have drifts of snow from three to four feet deep. Prince Deeds Lands As Son Takes Vow BERLIN, Nov. 16. which his son, manuel, took the in the Swabian abbey of Nere- sheim as Brother Emeren of the Benedictines, the Prinee of Thurn and «Taxis deeded the chloister, church and all the vast domain of Neresheim to the Order of the Benedictines, which up to then had cccupied the premises merely as tenant, The value of the deed- ed property is estimated at ove: 8,000,000 marks.” In return the Prince of Thurn and Taxis was proclaimed patron of the abbey, which was founded by a Bishop 0g Augsburg in 1695, as is almost On the day Prince Em- moenastic vows on Among those taking passage from Juneau on the Yukon were Mr. and Mrs. Albert Brown. Mr. Brown is stopping off at Ketchi- kan on . business and bhis wife will continue to Seattle. - e G. L. Rich, traveling man, was an arrival on the Yukon from a trip to lhe westward. Jazz M usic Blamed Now for Indigestion . LONDON, Nov. 16—Jazz musiz with meals is so stimulating that it takes too much blood away from the stomach and causes in- digestion. This is the latest conclusion of cultists whe are battling against the epidemic of noisy bsnds in the cafes and restaurants of Eng- land and most of the continental - lower with | ‘GOVERNMEN T TO ASK RAILROADS FOR $300,000,000 OF EARNINGS| AUT ()\l()lilLbb ARE GIVING bTORI& H4Rl) RACE, SAY.S ONE PHY.SI(,IAN PROVIDENCE, R. L, Nov. 16 Automebiles are competing “x.h_FAlR SEX Do the stork in the opinion of Dr. Harmon Jordan, Superintendent of | the Providence Maternity Hos- pital. The city Dbirth rate was ICommander Byrd Says, r Women Dread Cold and | lce—Take Chances | | probably be lower this y than last. Some decrease, ldoctor believes, is accounted by the fact that many persons are ‘unable to afford both automobi and children, and prefer autom Diles. | will th — e HEARINGS ON LABOR ISSUE ALASKA R. R, last year than in and LOUISVILLE, Ky., Commander Richard, E, red here that women ike exploration and that | man’s job “Women not mind chances but they dread the (oul ,m.l ice, id Commander By “When | went to the Aretic, u.nly Attempt Being Made for'ruur or five women wanted to £o Ad]uslment Riskivien When | proposed to span the A.- lantic, 20 women to one man Smith, Unions | wanted to take the risk.” | Commander Byrd characterized | {the Antarctic as the “last great | ehallenge to both man @nd avia- tion.” He said three-fourths of the area is unexplored land, twice the size of the United States and has never heen seen’ by a humarn. Nov Byrd do it ny is a do WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—Sec- retary of Interior Work has begun a series of hearings to adjust the dispute between Noel W, Smith, General Manager of the Alugha Rallrgad, and labor unien nmunn over dismissal of twe firsmen, reputedly for partieipa- tion in union activities. Attending the first hearing were Manager Smith and Marion P’. Reynolds, of Seattle, Vice- President of the Order of Rail- and proceed to New Zealand, then g0 to the great ice barrier, 2,000 miles away with a party of 50 men aboard an oil burning stean:. er,” said the Commander. “We will establish a little city on the! way Conductors; Fred W. Lewis,|ice and maintain liason through of St. Louis, V Preésident of| radio. Three planes will be use: the Order of Railway (/undmturs,“" the lli"ht !u the South Pole.” and Joseph F. Gartland, Interior Department Investigator. Reynolds and Lewis recently returned from Alaska after an| unsuccessful attempt to adjust! the matter with the Alaska Rail-/ ATTEMPTING road ofticials. - - Stork Works Overtime for , igs Western Families MEMPHIS, ¢ Tenn., Nov. Storks have been flying in eys, swarms or howsoever they travel over the tri-states lately, or perhaps favoring the mid-South with a convention. At Greenville, Tenn., storks lef: quadruplets—three boys and «a UPAVON, England, Speeding eastward mountain, desert and city, British airmen, Capt. R. H. Mec- Intosh and Bert Hinkler, are at-| |tempting to achieve the first non- stop flight to India, flying the Princess Xenla, the same plané which made an unsuccessful ef- Nov, over 16.— 16— sea, cov- down at Can- CHICAGO, _;o—v._ 16—Gideons, 2 who have placed :‘“flh in. most. v hotel room the waa"; extended thelf -flduw the theatre.~ Chorus girls and girl-—at the home of Mr. and Mrs. [fort to span the Atlantic. the parents of four children. The|tablish a new unontop long dis- quadruplets are all normal and|tance record, replacing the one| The same night The distance between England triplets—two girls and{and Karschi, India, is more than of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sparks.|Chamberlin’s record. Mr, and Mrs. Cparks were already | The fliers left here shortly| Mrs. Sparks is 39 and her hus.|n0on. band 41. Old "Doc Stork dropped over the Nm’ Pedm next night and left triplets at the | Hess. Two more boys and ope| BERLIN, Nov. 16--A world's 'a girl and so healthy were a'llnongtop record In musical per seven pounds each. ' Twins were | mixed orchestra in a cafe In left previously at the same home.| Koeslin, Pomerania, which played Hitherto a record of 22 hours had been credited to an English jagz None of the numerous dinérs and spectators in the cafe were medley of operatic selections, juz, the silence prize .to Italv.|gongs mTiitary marches, etc. of the betterclass hotels and|, gnooze only to return after sev- cafes either have no music or|eral hours to stimulate their some- a distance from public dining ..dm“n "50“0" rooms that dyspeptic ‘diners suf- Even in Austria and Ge: ‘which used to put the soft pedal and confined programs to classic music, the drum and triangle and invention of ;Ic jazz * age have Tourist agencies 1- hulol now. Sam L. Chase, who already were| Capt. McIntosh hopes to es-! healthy. made by Chamberlin y—were left at the home|4.000 miles 100 miles more than the parents of three sets of twins. after 1 o’clock yesterday after- Not wishing to slight Arkansaz, | By German Orchestra residence of Mr. and Mrs. John the children that they weighed | formances was claimed by the A uninterruptedly for 30 hours. orchestra. equal to sitting out the incessant Edoe cially in Northern Italy most|now and then would go home tor have dance bands located at such | what deafened sensibilities with fer no ill_effeets. g erhany, Gflm Will Plue on_ orchestras in dining cymbals ‘and other mmm. have many da- | takinz | U pian (o leave next §éftember | NEW RECORD two | and Levine. | u¢ [Ing planes at a total cost of ‘ TERRIFIC FLOODS I i | ‘ BY CLINTON COFFIN (Associated Press Staff Wri ) WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 ov- ernment claims against the most | | prosperous of American l'uih‘umlsj for stupendous sums of money | {now are in course of preparation in the Interstate Commerce Com-| | mission and will be presented for | settlement during the coming vear. | The commission proceedings | istitute an endeavor to carry out' the law of 1920, which pro.| ,vides for the recapture of excess! I'-um!nm attained by common carriers. If the government con tentions, now carefully ' Dbeing ! shaped out of the morass of liti gation and accountancy covering the subject, are sustaived, federal revenues will be increased by 1$300,000,000 i While the law has been on the {books seven years, and the lernment claims under it are retro- active, the commission, the treas- {ury and law officers have not been to proceed in an Up to September 80 of this year, the government had collected 7.140,930 of the ‘exncss earnings claimed, and not | ‘a dollar of the amount had come |from the great railroads whos earnings are teally involved. Liii {gation and the natural obstacles arising in the enterprise combined | ito prevent more substantial ~|l‘ tainment of government revenues {in the field. gov I'\l)l? until now effective way. | Some Have Paid ' As ‘the court decisions have, | slowly marked out the boundaris -«1‘ within which the = government | claims are rightful, a series of | comparatively small railroads e have gmiven up the struggle and| W have undertaken payment. Among | Millions of dollars in damages \ the I)nlmh Messabe and North-| | ‘Bellows Falls, Vt. Center ins Botwm F loodl ragm PPICKETS TO BE SHOT - \ IF RETURN TO MINES; ULTIMATUM IS GIVEN DENVER, Colo, Nov. 16.—If pickets appear at the |property again they will be shot by the mine guards, offi- {cials of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company have informed Gov. Adams. The Company operates the Columbia Mine in North- iern Lolurado and it has heen the only mine in that section| i Demonstrations have been held by strikers at the mine for several days and miners have been stopped while on their way to wvrk :Ruth Elder’s Im: Called v Swagger” (,oodbw and |Good Luck! May See You Later NEW YORK, Nov. 16—Ruth! Elder snatched a few minutes {from her business conferenc:s by I !late yesterday afternoon to biilDaily Express to Ruth Elde goodbye to her husband, Lyie|flight and other sensational | Womack, as he embarked for Bal |stunts by women. boa, Panama, his home. She had| | can beat you mere men at to hurry back for amnother busi- ey hing—and I always take my ness meeting. lipstick with me” is’'the attitude The farewell took place on the which immediately gots other w Nov. 16—“Sex swag- the terminology applied Arnot Robertson in th | [ LONDON, ger” is :sanx She left the pier half an lhmn- before the boat departed. 150 Airplane Engines Ordered by N." Dep' | gether nnd pe WASHINGTON, Nov. lO.—Ih'w Navy Department has ordered luol AR air-cooled 200 horsepower airplane| CHARDON, 0. Nov. 16—Aad! engines from the Wright Aero-| .,y there is the mashed pota.n nautical Corporation —and also!cuiing contest. Such a tourna- spares for observation and train- lm(,“, is an event at the Geauga! county fair, |attitude provokeg the contemptu- |inclined to Jump all women to- eneralize abuul then: e ANOTHER CONTEST $877, 923 15. SOARS TO HIGHEST " POINT EVER REACHED BY,MN IN'AIRCRAF . . 16.—0n the basis of examination| of the hmph of the bal- y is cl lown ’m 10 feet, the Ilhhli[h lted of aircraft. those which have contributed are | states, hundreds of homes bcmg swept away. |to work since the 1. W. W. strike was called a month ago. | \ pier before a crowd of 260 per ‘nu-n\ backs up, say the writer; in the Express, who declares this| tous amusement of men ' who ars. RAVAGE NEW ENGLAND PROPERTY have been caused by torrents and bursting of dams in fou Top: The raging Connecticut River flowing pas highway between Westfield and Springfield, Mass et: Inundated g over spot where dam was swept away at Bellows kalls, *BOGOSLOF ISLAND . HAS SLIPPED FROM PREVIOUS LOCATION SEATTLE, Nov. M —_ llonoslnf Island, Alaska, has moved four miles sSouth and one mile ‘'west of the charted position, Commander James F. Hotell, of the Coast Guard cutter Northland, reported after unretul astronomical ob- servations, | ! | | Guard vessel visited there in 1907, says Commander | Hottel’'s report. | “Between Castle Rock and Grewingk, no channel exists toda 'Y‘A new peak has arisen 175 feel ahove sea level from 1,000 fathems of water.” The Nortlahnd proved successful in all ways on her imaiden trip to the North. EXPLOSION'S DEATH TOLL REACHES 26 PITTSBURGH, Penn. Nov. 16 The known deaths as the result |of the explosion of the huge stoi- age gas tank last Monday morn- ing has reached 26 with the find- ing of four bedies in the ruins {last wnight and the death of on: ;man in a hospital. NO HOGS, NO COLLEGE COLUMBIA, Mo, Nov, John Compton's “collateral” died and he had to leave college. He raised a prize litter of hogs anl put them up for security on a Iloan for his college expenses. The hogs died and the hanker who made the loan compelied him io return and raise another baich to nnf(‘guuld the lonn. ALASKA WOL 16-- | Among the twlsted steel anl {heaped up brieks of various { plants, workmen are looking for| | more bodies. Offfcials of the gas | company sald 32 employees are | not accounted for. Work of prob- ing the debrls of the gas com- pany plant {8 difficult on account of the tlond mr in the cellar, WINNIPEG, Man, Nov, 16-- Packs of Alaskan black wolves, the most ferocious killers of th» far north, have invaded the Lake of the Woods district fu Northern ‘ Ontario and are taking a heavy tcording to word reaching herve. Indians have brought the feas. DEPUTY EDDY BACK ful word of the incursions of the —— black raiders, whe, it ls thought, Deputy U. 8. Marshal Eddy of{have been driven from their anb- ; Douglas retured to Juneau on the| Arctic retreats through scarcity ! Margnita from’ pgway bringing jof food. One Indian trapper no- Iwith him t and Tessis|ticed a large pack south of Ver- | Starkloff. Both were convicted | million bay and similar st I some time ago of wolution of tho!have trickled in from other” dfs- | National Act and ap-|tricts. Wi lite is' abundaut 1 pealed their case but lost, it was|around Vermillion and the wolves nld at the Marshal's office here.|bave spread terror among prac- Bom will ffore Judge T. 23 for sen. \' i { tically every sapecles. The maranding bands have bec rou-dhw-num | “I found conditions radically changed since the Coast|; toll of large and small game, as-| NO SOLUTION IS INDICATED BY COOLIDGE Administration Puzzled Over Best Measure to Be Proposed TWO POSITIONS ARE FIRMLY ANNOUNCED Equalization Fee and Tar- iff Revision Are Strongly Opposed WASHINGTON, With the convening of Congress oniy three weeks away, the Ad- ministration Is bendlng efforts to meet the four-year-old farm relief problem, but there is no Indiea- {tion yet that President Coolidge {fs committed to any particular Nov, 16.— Two facts have emerged from {the conflict of generalities, name- Iy, that the President is unaltor- ably opposed to the equalization lfee of the type embodied in the vetoed McNary-Haugen bill; also that the Administration is pro- ipared to resist any attempt to revise the tarilf structure by |those who contend that this will tbring relief to the farmers. is learned that Pyeth: idgs had mot campleto tudy of the farm question but he is keeping in touch with the leaders in Congress who are work- ing on the new measure. U, S, MARINES - KILL REBELS MANAGUA, Nicaragna, Nov, 16 Six rebels were killed and sev- en wounded when they made two acks Sunday upon United ates Marines near Lacruz, ae- ing to reports received here. No Marine casualtles are report- ed. Liberal Gen. Augusto Sadino is reported to be sending distress calls for more men a3 the Marines are gradually dispersing the sur: rounding rebel forces. PRSMARES CbAEE | { | — Ten Cities Are After National G. 0. I' (‘onuentum | | \\';\SI”\(I'I'O\I Nov. 161 The location of the next Re- ! publican National Convention ! Hes among ten cities of the West, Middle West and one in the Kast. The cities which H ha\o indicated they are seek- the convention are Chi- . Cleveland, Detroit, Den- | ver, Kansas City, Minneapolis, ! Omaha, Philadelphis, Seattle, | Antonlo and San Fran- | clsen, = Mot i | | l F PACKS TAKE TOLL OF GAME IN NORTH ONTARIO tricts, trappers report, and are being augmented dally by new arrivals from the north. Hunters and trappers fear that it they stay until winter they will vot hesitate to attack humans it other game has Dbeen scared away and food becomes scafee. Larger than the feared Outariy timber wolf, the black beast is far more ferocious, The anima's which bave come south have heen known already to have attacked and killed bull moose single: handed. Even the timber wolves have not been known to attack the antlered monarchy nl”nip packs. Game lite is already llhl pletod and _Arappers Te part that mmmm €