The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 2, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS 'ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXI., NO. 4650. }UNEAU ALASKA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1927. SENATE REPUBLI( MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ANS ORGANIZE Federal Control of Mmmg Is Strongly Opposed KlNG G OF BOOTLEGGERS’ FATE RESTS IN THE HANDS OF THIS OHIO JURY | GOVERNMENT IS FAILURE IN. INDUSTRY Former Representative Is Against Government Control—Address WASHINGTON, * Dec. 2.—Fed- eral control of the mineral re- sources of the country and Fed- eral regulations of mining opera- tions are opposed by former Rep- resentative Philip P. 'Cameron, of . in an address before the s of the American Mining (amrmu said failures of the Government in past attempts to take gver and run industries had demonstrated ~ the (overnment's lack of ability in industry. In the vernment controlled enterprises, the employees were not inspired to exert lhem%olves by hope of individual réward and| this was one ernment’s failure, clared. ——————— Cameron de- Fight for Offices Splits Women'’s Clubs MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. E.—Ped- erated club women of Minnesota take their politics seriously and; a8 a sequel to a bitter fight for the Pres cy of the Minnesota! Federation ot Women's Tlubs, el-| reason for the Gov-| Dnvm'cee in Teils Mrs. Genevieve M. Paddleford, | internationally knownp divorcee is awaiting trial at Salinas, Cal on embezzlement charges. She! was once the wife of George 15, Paddleford, wealthy Los| Angeles oil operator, and pre- \muslv the wife of Ben Teal, late New York theatrical pro i ducer, Is*arnational Newsreel! PAYS TRIBUTE » N I tion 1t functioned. TATESI company of its kind. iw this part ! of Alaska and did a large lum. ber and fuel business. éafe& 4 Stone, Monument WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—Dedi- The secessionists comprise the| éntire federation membership of] nine groups in Rochester and twol in Minneapolis. tisfaction with campaign s of the victorious adminis- tration main reason for the revolt. The eleven units were particularly re- sentful of a campaign charge by the administration 'faction that eity women were trying to dom- inate members from the small towns. ATTACK MADE BRITISH BOAT HONGKONC, Dec.2.—The Brit-| ish steamship Siangtan, whose home port is Shanghai, was at- tacked by bandits on the Yangtse River today. Some of the crew were Kkilled and the Captain is held for $100,000 ransom. LONDON, Dee, 2.—Two Brit- ish gunboats are proceeding to! the “gcene of the' attack on the Siangtan, according to the Ad- miralty. " Lovi inrnl"ulll mShys, then Suicides 8T. PAUL, Mlnn.. Dee. 2.—M. A. Norton is believed to have killed Mrs. Lillian flllcmlord and ‘then died from self-inflicted wounds. The police ‘believe. the shooting, which took place in a ‘hotel here, resulted from a lov- ers’ quarrel. forces was given as thel cating the New Mexico stone in the Washington Monument, Pres- ’denl Coolidge declared this tri- bute was another evidence of |into ome nation. President Coolidge said that a ‘Union, like a family, in which jeach member has distinctive char- tacteristics and individuality, is bound togethér not only by the Constitution, but by “sentiments of mutual , respect and regard. ‘While each must ‘maintain” their jown peculiar functions and sov- ereignty,,‘edch’ must observe the rights of the others to the ex- tent that each consent to abide by a general charter under which | we exist.” The placing of the New Mexico stone in the monument to the First President, leaves only one State, Idahe, witheut such a tri- bute. U. S. Bars “British” On A-enun Soap WASHINGTON. Dec. 2-—Use of the word “British” to describe bath or toilet soaps manufactured in the United States:has been pro- hibited by the Federal Trade Commission in an order issued gainst the Carlton Soap Com- pany, Inc., of New™York. British-made soaps have gained willespread popularity, the order said, ‘and the commission consid- ers the ude of the word *‘British” in describing soaps manufactured in this country as misleading ad- vertising: TEXAS COLLEGE GETS RICH RANCH . FORT WORTH, Tex., Dec. 2—A cattle ranch won in a poker game now is contributing to the educa- tion of Texas youth. ~ ‘The | last legal formality ha3 ‘been completed by whieh owner- | *8hip of the 6666 ranch .is ;m-- ferred him the pmtruu.l'- d him ma ‘a onilay to s WON BY. LATE OWNER AT POKER TABLE ‘several months’ earnings from cow-punching, he bought chips for a poker . 'The " last chip elinked: into_the pot and the cap- tain.cowboy thought it sounded ‘“taps” for his bank roll. But his luck turned, and he won several ~| bundred dollars. Then an oppon- ent who had lost every cent made desperate -challenge. "“Burnett, Il play my ranca against your yle," he said. "!&u‘n on, “Dql&.u answered, up. a. draw.” th&dqh, m: sot twol du-. 5 kept -the "'Oltitlllv. received b junity which binds the 48 States; ’WANTED- ONE EAR CHICAGO, I, Dec. 2. onal u:lumn nr The P \llunl('_v repr resident sociéty weman, will pay $2,500 ‘or one left car, to be re- moved and grafted on my client. The operation will be performed by a competent surgeon. Keep matlers strictly confidential. Ap- plicant must be young, not over 25, lizht skinned. Applicant will mbmn num(- and photograph tol attorn | It w understood mentioned is a former Chicago society woman who lost her left ear in an automobile accident n Europe two ILumlmr Mill LA Akiak, Total {Loss by Fi ire The 'ribune ement : a nons pe toda, the client P | AKIAK, .mkn. Dec. The | Kuskokwim Lumber Company ‘ | mill was completely destroyed by! ll'uo Wednesday as the result of n overheated furnace and defec- tive flue. There was no fire fighting ap- { paratus. The Eskimo who ope:- | ated the mill, nearly Jdost his life | The loss is estimated at $15, mml | Plans are being made to reorgan ize the company and rebuild. The Company was organized in 11921 by the United States Bureau | of Education under whose dire:- It is the only A N0 ACTION" TAKEN GENEV PEACE ISSUE | i {Security Committee of Dis-| armament Conference Has Adjourned GENEVA, Dec. 2.—The Secur- ity Committee of the Preparatory Disarmament Conference today adjourned at the call of the chair and will probably hold the next meeting on February 20, Germany ' made the step in the campaign for even- tual revision of the Versailles treaty. Speaking before the wpm-[ mittee, Count von Bernstorfl, Ger- man delegate, declared that the study of means of promoting in- | ternational peace was through strengthening of international se- curity and importance should be given to Article 19, of the League of Natlons, which declares. the, League Assembly, may from \time| to time, adviee consideration by members of the League, of treaties which become {inap- plicable i consideration of inter- national conditions and whose continuance might endanger the peace of the world. o Congressional Leaders " Breakiast, White House| WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. — Al number of Republican and Demec- cratic Congresgional leaders wer: gueste of President Coolidge at the resumption of White House breakfast conferences today. Those attending included Sena- tors Curtis, Watson, Smoot, ‘War- ren, R’M ; Senators Rob- inson and arrison, Democrats. | The Representatives were Mad- den, Green, Snell, Burton, Re- publicans; Garner, Democrat. Hip Pocket Bottles SMM -m-unmnop rum runners ws {naugurated here today. W officlals - began searching men / ' ted of carrying a bottle | identity of Brown's opening g 8 ' nd‘b i B. Clark and John Trautman, . Clark and Jol . 1s the complete jury with one alternate selected lor trial of George | Harry G. Bird, Henry Sandberg, James :::u‘ boonen:r klfmryon charge of murdering his wife, Imogene, in | Back row, left to right: Frank Olgates, Joseph Lambert, Ruth Cross, Clnclm’u.ll 0. Front rm;r. left to right: Robert B, Hosford, M. J. Normile, | Joseph Schwab, Henry Hultink, Annie E. Ricking and Fred Oberschmidt. 7 (International Illustrated lel) Acco pts Dmth Semtonce To Save Woman CHEROKIalu. When Dave Brown, youthful Oklahoma bank robber, acceptad the sentence of death to save the woman he loved he placed him- self in the shadow of the electri¢ chair in vain. Pearl Black, case, is under years in prison in the robbery State Bank at year ago, the Brown received ténce, because “squeal.” § Brown pleaded guilty last March. .Robbery with fircarms ia ® ‘tapital otfense. * _He flatly ra: fused to divulge the names of his confederates. The Judge advised him his sentence would be light- ened if He revealed the names of the others, otherwise he would be sentenced to death. The youth kept his silence and heard the death sentence pro- nounced with calmness. Officers finally learned the companions and arrvested Mrs. Black. An appeal of Brown's case is pending. He is the first person to be sentenced to death in Okla- homa for robbery in which none were killed and no shots fired. —————— SAYS RUSSIA SINCERE OVER DISARMAMENT Senator Borah Says Pro- posal Must Be Treated with Respect WASHINGTON, Dec. Attrib- uting good faith on the part of Russia in its proposal at the Gen- eva Preparatory Disarmament Conference for complete disarma- ment of all nations, Chairman William E. Borah, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, de- clared the disarmament proposals must be treated with respect from whatever source they may come. Rurope, Senator Borah insisted, is more heavily armed than at the beginning of the World War and warned that unless relief is af- forded from military burdens, eco- nomic ruin must ensue. Senator Borah declared that while talking disarmament, arm- ing had gone forward among Fa- ropean nations. BAD EGG SPFTZ Okla., 2 Dec the woman in the sentence of 15 for participation of the Farmerz Jet, Oklahoma, a crime for which the death sen- he refused tn He Loves STANDARD OF LIVING HIGH Economic Progress Brings Results Says Hoover ‘in Annual Report N, Decy 2-Bew nomiec. " progress during 1927 brought “Americans to the highest material ~ living standard this country or any other country has ever known, Secretary Hoover declared today in his annual re. port to the President. A situation of prosperity which he said “has now been character- istic of American industry for six years,” was maintained, marred | only by some sion for agriculture, and backwardness in individual of industry. Mr, a steady level of wholesale prices, declining slightly in recent months; a maintenance of relative- ly large building coustruction pro- grams; an increase in the expedi- tion of railroad transportation along with a bettered service to users; and a year of “sound but uneventful growth” in the banking field. Foreign underwriting by Ameri- cans during the fiscal year exceed- ed that of any corresponding peri- od in the history of the United States, the report said. Foreign capital securities privately taken, plus direct new investments abroad probably raised the total to $1, 860,000,000 for the year. Financial reconstruction abroad continukd on the whole to be encouraging. American Exports “The value of American exports & the fiscal year 1926-27 was ter than that of any other fis. 1 year since 1920-21, and when account is taken of the much low- er price level, as. compared with the war years’ trade, was the larg- est in our history,” Mr. Hoover continued. “The value of imports was about 5 per cent less during the last fiscal year, but here again a fall In prices occurréd after al- lowing for“which there is a quan- titive increase.” New construction undertaken in 1927, “amounting to some $7,000,- 000,000 in value, constituted a pow- erful factor in. maintaining busi- ness activity and prosperity,” Mr. Hoover added. He pald high tribute to the man- some lines IN THE U. S, J VlOTHER VlSITS REMUS lN HIS CELL l SENATOR MOSES IS NOMINATED 'OLD POSITION Senator Curhs Re-elected ‘Conference Chairman, Floor Leader WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—Side- stepping all controversial mat- ters, the Senate Republicans to- day perfected -party organization for the first session of the Seven- tieth Congress, which starts next Monday, and unanimously nom- | inated George H. Moses, of New Hampshire, to succeed himseld as President Pro Tempore. Nominations for the two other Senate officers, Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms went over until a further conference, while lead- ers considered proposals of the Western Independents, embodied in a program which deals with officers and farm relief. At a conference held this after- noon, Senator Charles Curtis, of Kansas, was re-elected Conference Cnairman and Floor Leader. Senator James E. Watson, of Touching scens enacted in Cincinnati, O. jail when Mrs. Frank Remus met her son, George Remus, for first time since his arrest on charge of continuing depres. | Hoover’s statistics showed | slaying his'wife, Mrs. Remus pray: a\ny for her son's acquital. Compamonate Weddtng } : ()f (flrl Gets Approval | 9 KANSAS CITY, Dec. 2—Beliet that fear of economic responsi- bilities should not hamper mar. Iriage among yoéung people has caused K. Haldeman-Julius, Kan- sas publisher and author, to ap prove the wedding of his 18-year- 1 old daughter, Josephine, to u youth of 20 on a companionate basis, he explained in an an- nouncement printed by Kansas 1 City pdpers. The b68-year-old publisher de- |clared he believed his daughter would be better off married to the youth she loves than to await the time when they would be fi- nancially independent. Josephine, a junior in high school at Girard, Kan., where her father’s large publishing plant js, will finish schoel there and then enter college, Mr. Haldeman-Ju- lius sald. = The bridegroom, Au- brey C. Roselle, 18 a sophomore at the University of Kansas. is the son of H. A. Roselle, Girard creamery owner. While Mr. Haldeman-Julius did not give a speeific definition of his - conception o a “companion- ate union,™ h§ explained that neither n' the young people will assume financial responsibility. “They. will and come largely {as they pl jment said, * ” his announce- ting in either of their parental Bomes, attending their different, schools. If the union proves satisfacto continues, betwean them, an ordi- and love hary mar 1l result. Other-' wise a divol 1l sever the re- agement of ‘American railroads, as-|lationship. serling. that “the continued ad- vance in the efficiency of the rail- ways Which has been going on since the war” had “reacted favor- ably upon the entire economic structure.” The rapidity of freight tran 8 In the United States has inereased since 1919 by 30 or 40 per cent. | Material Prosperity In seeking out the causes of the material erity Mr. Hoover da' scribed, 1. ‘Dana Durand, of the depar s bureau of statistical research, ition that * lin the dustry . ‘increase; I “In’ case of @hildren, however, the union w “be a ‘tamily mar- riage’,” he He believed that would place egonomic responsi- bility on the ts. He added that he ) “the union would go f on a childless basis until proved perman: Bié notion miar- riage spells | Y hard Bcom ttle for young- sters. old enough to marry lau ofore they are old enough to "’% the world’s work, in man s,” he con- in ulius, h Kansas City| tional abllity, He! 1S SAVED FROM SHADOW, DEATH SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2— “Rev.” Philip Goodwin, who- has been awaiting execution at San Quentin Penitentiary for the mur- der of J. J. Patterson, in March of last year, has been granted n new trial by the State Supreme Court. Affidavits obtained too late to Present at the ‘original trial were placed before the Supreme Coirt with a plea they were of suffi- clent importance to warrant a ro- trial. ‘The high court agreed. Goodwin is declared to have been a former priest. —————————— 60 Women on Jury Panel in New Jersey BAYONNF. N. J, Dec. 2.—~The jury panel for the trial of civil cases here is composed entirely of women—=69, of them. Judge Dembe considers women, jurors fully as capable as men and thinks that men should not be ompelled to lose pay at their ular work to serve as jurers. SEATTLE, Dec. 2.—The u'lce have been asked to seurch for Ce- ol Petree, 14 years old, son of IMr. and Mrs. J. G. Petree, $037 36th Ave, S. W., who disappearec from his home November 19, Ce-}¢ cil is thought to be trying to work his way to Alnkn Indiana, was again chosen Vice- { Chairman and Assistant Floor {Leader and Senator Frederick |Hale, of Maine, was selected as | Conference Secretary to succeed James E. Wadsworth, who regired” from the Senate last March. | Senator Watson was again se- lécted Chairman of the Commit- tee on Committees, which Senator Curtis was authorized to appoint. The Independents were given place on this committee, Senat ;umnur m | ARE DIVIDED Split on Stepl to Be Taken, to Halt Extinction of Fish SEATTLE, Dec. 2—Division in the halibut industry on the ques- tion of steps to be taken to hait threatened extinction of halibut, was apparent at the final hearing |of the International Fisheries Commission, The Fishing Vessel Owners’ As- sociation “proposed the annual {three months closed season be retained; that fishing be pro- hibited on banks recognized as “nurseries” of young halibut, and as spawning grounds. Other proposals included the. | suggestion that marketing of hali- but under six pounds be prohibit: ed and gear likely to catch the amaller halibut be prohibited. Both of the latter propositions met with considerable opposition. In recommending that the length of the closed season be un- :.-Inm;od The Fishing Vessel Own- ers’ Asscolation revealed that fits memhan.by no means were unit ¢d on this stand. The vote on ' the proposal showed 19 for extens sion and 23 against §. C. Serwold, who represented the Fishing Vessel Owners’ -Associa- tion, proposed that every fifth vessel be deputized to enfores the law without cost to the oth- ers. Others suggested official government control'’ with héavy fines for poachers on first of- fense and confiscation of vessels and gear on second offense. . WASHINGTON, Dee, 2-Wik lam K. Humphrey, of Seattle, been elected Chairman of ):: Federal Trade Commissioners, to. succeed Charles Hunt. The Commissinoers occupy the manship of the Commission in ro- tation. MATHEMATIC SCALE FOR GRADING SUITORS — PARIS, Dec, 2—“Mathemgtical Love,” or a system of grading pre- tenders to her heart just as a schoolma’am marks papers, is ‘'a new vagary of tho French “modern” girl: She scales them from {to a mythical 100, a sf perfection yet unattaine marks seem to r‘n‘n and 40, 5 ‘Wealth, appearance, cleverness ship. soclal standing, charaeter, ability in sperts and aequain with notables are the main . fications. Some fllh d consider knowledge of and art, others | Iy and some fil mmt- to m ligion. : Jacques W, “love mart,” comments game the the reck 73 Ry iy