The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 5, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” v&. xxxi., NO. 4652. JUNEAU 'ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CONGRESS CONVENES lN WASHINGTON | Unification of Alaska Activities "IKINKS IN LAW " ARE REVEALED BY ATTY, GEN, ALASKA POLICY 1S MAPPED OUT | BY SEC. WORK Seventieth ( Con,gress ‘BIG PROBLEMS Has 73 New Me ' i In I(;(tusMeP('::f)(?;‘enate| Fg;:EEN[ia:ql!‘oEnsAsY Republu'ans Expect | Bt Darkness as To Organize Congress Result Storm {1 Wlthout OPPOSLtlon PMP!&E{R(. Alaska, | . — This town is in | gy — : ‘||:\lkm s after a two-day | Would ' Hive. Alaskans’ i Charge of Activities in Territory SINGLE ENFORCEMENT AGENCY IS PROPOSED| ‘ Annual Report Embodies| Recommendations of Alaska Governor WASHINGTOD Dee. 65.—Sec- retary of Interior Work, in his annual report made public today, str s lue of unification of Alasg vities. Secretary Work, says in part: “The Department favors oper- ating Aleska activities by Alas- kans with only such supervision and assistance from central auth-! ority_ineWashington as is essen- tial under the method of goverp- ment necessity for cooperation between the bureaus and depart- ments operating in the Territory. It has been studied and be- lieved that simplified methods of | handling Government RKffairs in Alaska, with great local author- ity, would bring a more efficient goyernment at less cost, and pos- sibilities of cooperation between he Departments of the Interior, “AbricuMure und Commerce, he ex- tended under the new plan of ad- ‘minfstration with assured econ- omy and efficiency in handling of the work. Single Law Enforcement “A study is under way- for the purpose of propesing to the next Congress a single law enforce- ment agency in the Territory, comparable to the State Police forces maintained so successfully! in a number of States.” Recommendations The Governor of Alaska, George! A. Parks, makes the following| recommendations: 1, Additional appropriations for the Bureau of Education to enable building and equipping one or more isolation watrds for tubercular patients. 2. Enlargement of the station at Tanana by providing: a home for defective children, and an iso- lation ward for contagious dis- eases, also an industrial school. 3. Detention home for incor- rigible natives. 4. Repeal of the tax pro- visions of the Alaska Game Laws insofar as they effect residents. 5. Appropriation for a Capitol Bullding. Aviation Secretary Work calls attention to the development of aviation, 44 landing flelds and three trans- portation = companies ~ operating eight planes, The Secretary reports " 217,- 166.89 were spent by the Alaska Road Commission in the fiscal year ending June 30, making to- tal expenditures since its organi- zation of $12,028,339.42. The Pribilof seal herd fs in- creasing -and the revenue from selling the skins was $745,400. Active investment in fisheries in 1926 is estimated at $74,657;- and the value of the fisheries Jucts the same year is given 54,669,000, The mineral production was $17,657,000, a decline of $600,- 000, chiefly because of lower feopper production and curtailed e¥ prices. he Signal Corps tullc was 482,000, an inerease of $22,000. The Game (‘nmmlll!nn collected $36,000. Furs exported were nhled at 239,000, 'he treasurer’s report shows| nt - financial conditions “a balance of $1,194,600. | | . Republicans foresee no difficuity in organizing the Seventuth Congress. In the Senate they will have. if needed, the vote of Vlce-“,a,.tmem with this $5,000,000 George H. Moscs (lower available for continuing essential right, President pro tem. The Republican Progressives, headed by| construction work along the riv- W. E. Borah (lower left), have indicated no intent, however, tojer. the report said, “‘until a new Nicholas LollgWOl"I (upper right) is|policy may have been considered balk Republican control. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—While realizing that many trials and tribulations will beset them in the seventieth congress, Republi can leaders anticipate little if any difficulty in organizing the house and the'senate. In the house the Republicans have a comfortable majority, with no indication that the independ- ents or insurgents in their ranks jare at all inclined to upset the | orderly program as they were able to do four years ago. The Republicans in the "senate have a paper majority of only one, with a well organized inde- perident group within their fold, but there is no disposition on the part of the Democrats to under- pre-presidential campaien session, Longworth Speaker again will- be elected speaker o the house-and will carry into of- fice with him those who directed the destinies of the party in that body during the last session. shire is expected to succeed him- selt as president pro tempore of sary, of a vote by Vice President Dawes, thé constitutional presid- ing officer. Once the formalities of organi- zation are out of the way, the senate Repyblican unity will come to an end. There will be wids gulfs on praectically all of the ma- jor issues which will come before the two houses and on which a|Jower was out of town. part of the record for the 1923 Coleman obtained si presidential contest will be writ-jthe floor. Under chemical tests, bloodstains were rev body was later reveal- Ml by Swift's 11.year-old sen who said he was forced, under threat of a flogging, to ald his father in| ten. ' While the Republican majority in. the house is sufficient to in- sure speedy and favorable action on administration measures there, it is so slim jn the senate that extremely rough sledding will be . provided for practically every pro. mal bearing the i lninuu.un President Dawes (upper left) in naming destined to heccme Speaker of the Houle agnm. HUSBAND IS VICTIM OF LOVE AFFAIR iWife and Her Paramour Slay Him While He Is Asleep—Confession HAYNESVILLE, La., Mrs. Effie Jower, aged 43, mother of four children, and J. E. Swift, take a seiure of the reins in thia‘lwd 45 years, soft drink sales- Jower, are charged with the slay- E ing of J. B. Jower, store keeper Nicholas Longworth of Ohu; i ARy Mrs. Jower, wno confessed, said she held a lamp while Swift, us- ing a sledge hammer, struek ani killed her sleeping husband, George Moses of New Hamp.|the illicit love affair might be Swift took the body in an auto- the senate, with all other Re.|mobile 25 miles away where i publican officers likewise re-| was weighted with 100 pounds of elected, through the aid, it neces.|scrap fron and placed in a lake. Jower reported to tha police her husband Following the murder, Coleman called on Mrs. extend sympathy and he found her varnishjng the floors of the He noticed several dark stains on the wood work. saow storm which broke the electric light and power lines in several places. Heavy | | snow storms reported in the | hills have driven the deer to the beaches. Sportsmen fear the deer will starve to death unless they are fed. \WARSECRETARY ASKS FOR BIG AMOUNT, FLOOD Seven Milll:o_n— _Dollars for Emergency Expendi- tures—Army Needs WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. — An {immediate urgent deficiency ap- | propriation of $7,000,000 to cov- er flood emergency expenditures in the Mississippi Valley was iurged today by Secretary Davis tof the War Department in his |annual report to President Cool- | idge. | That' sum, the Secretary said, was ‘peeded to replace $2,000.000 i borrowed from the unallotted portiow of the general river and havbor appropriation to compiete lgsiBg ' crevasses in the levees and alse 1o restore $5,000,000 in the Mississippi special fund laid out in unexpected ways in the lnxm with the floods. The $7,000,00¢ defiziency mounc- jure would leave the War De- {and adopted” with relation to . flood control. Disclosure that the 2,000,000 {in unallotted river and harbor funds was diverted to levee rve- pair work recalls that the War Department. was informed by the Controller General at the time {this was proposed that there was no legal authority for such a transfer. Secretarw Davis said that it was decided to make the allotment for use ‘on navigation features” of the Mississippi River Commission’s work, such as dredg- (ing and bank revetment, but he makes no mention of the corres- pondence with the Controller General. Inland Waterways The War Secretary discusses the flood situation along the Missis- sippl at considerable length, hut since his report was prepared he- fore tht administration project for control of flood waters was matured, it shed no new light on that problem. Considerable space also was devoted to the Inland Waterways Corporation, the Phil- ippine Islands and other civil as- pects of the War Department; but the military side of its work was mentioned only briefly, be- ing left to the report of Major General Summerall, Chief of Stafr. For the army itselt, Secretary Davis said the major need was “‘a continued stabilization of pol- lry as to ntronlth organization and location.” “The insuffiency of our pro- visin for the bullding up and maintenance of the authorized war reserve of materfal for two fleld armies or 1,000,000 men is a matter of deép concern to this department,” he said., *“Stagna- tion in promotlm{ and inadequacy of housing also® rematn as im- portant question, for' solution. Stabilization “However, to my 0 n, the all important_present need of the ‘War Department far as its |military activities cerned, “|is a continued & don of policy. The eftect t the army, the mnmh person- ‘Inel and the prof of its units for many yesss the 1 | World War I ‘mncer- Mnllu as organi- such mot be Numerous Recommenda- tions Made — Liquar Situation Summarized WASHINGTON, Dec. \.') Some (ueer kinks in the laws were re- vealed today in the annual réport of Attorney General Sargent who submiitted - numerous recomim dations for speeding up justice ind relieving the clogged calen- dars in federal courts. ‘The Attorney General pointa] ut that while it was a federal fense to assault, beat or wouund 1 United States officer, it was not a federal offense to kill him, and the Department of Justice wants this situation corrected. Among recommendations con- tained in the report was one that the law be amended to permit speedy removal from one district to another of persons indicted for lederal = crime. Another would authorize the presence of a sten- )grapher before grand jurie 3till' another would increase aumber of federal judges. In_her report on prohibition en- forcement, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant attorney genaral, said that approximate.v six million dollars in federal judg- ments, fines and penalties were imposed during the year <and therel Was a definite, increase ' the ipercentage of fines Colleetsd™ Civil Court Busine: The records showed a very sub. stantial ‘increase in ecivil court business ‘and a noticeable do crease in criminal business under the national prohibition act, she said. The aggregate amount of judgments in favor of the United States was $352,097 or $34;612 more than the year before, while criminal prosecutions showed pen- alties of $5,646,709 or about $1.- 847,848 less than the previous year. Trials by jury as well as pleas of guilty fell off during the year while the number of prosecutions instituted and later dismissed re- mained about the same. Rum runners, the assistant at torney gemeral said, had changed their chief base from Canada be- cause of the new Canadian regu- lations and on the east coast were conducting extensive operations from the French Islands of St Pierre and Miquelon and on th2 west coast they are experimenting with the Society Islands as a base. Smuggled Liquor The main source of smuggled liquor, she added, was by means of small, speedy American craft that operated from foreign ships and oceanie hases and were able to elude government craft by their speed. During the year 320 American rum running vessels were seized compared with 330, for last year. Police Section J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Bureau of Investigation, the police section of the department, repori- ed that his bureau “had procured during the year ten life sentences, other sentences aggregating 7,090 years, fines totaling $1,149,046 and recovered property valued at $6- 014,483. | His bureau operated on an expense of $2,012,860, the smallest since 1923. Attorney General Sargent in speaking of the cumbersome ma- chinery which is set up to oblnln the presence of an iIndicted son hefore the court of ‘Ilfll("u Among the 14 new Scrmors and 59 new Eepmsenunvu in the Seventieth Congress are scveral figures already widely known, Amcng them are Ecnator Smith W. Brookhart (upper left) of Iowa, a former Senator; Senator Robert F. Wagner (upper right) of New York, who comes from the Supreme bench of his State; Senator John J. Blaine (lower left), lately Governor of Wisconsin and Representative James M. Beck (lower left) of Pennsylvania, former Solicitor Geneml REPUBLICANS OF ANCHORAGE HOLD ‘ MEETING Slate Is Endorsed for Com- mitteeman, Delegates —Democrats Meet ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec —The Republican Club ha dorsed the candidacy of George W. Albrecht, of banks. for Republican National Committeeman; James Wicker- sham, of Juneau, and W. H Chase, of Cordova, for delegates fo the National Convention. J. B Gottstein, of Anchorage, has bheen suggested as alternate. At a recent meeting the fol- lowing were named to the Demo- cratic Divisional Convention Valdez: J. 8, Truitt, Hq Morton, H. H. McCutcheon and A. A. Shonbeck, The later, who is Divisional Committee! has been metioned as candidate * for Delegate to Congre CHICAGO, :fi Dec. 5—-One dead and. seven' wounded, two perhaps fatally, was the toll of a raid by six. robbers on a night club lai ght,, Two hundrad were in the cafe at the time. Two of the women wounded are mear death. One masked bandit r of five, was wounded, ;&J”fipvm The rob- bers esca Jwithout loot. '—Imnl valued D last year by “crime trus™ an intensive of Midwest of the kid- uent release g ' This led to he nclivmfl WASHINGTON, Dec. 65—~When the seventieth congress met to- day, 73 seats in the senate and house were filled members other than those . who held the seats in the last session. The incoming members are not all beginning their national legis- lative careers, however. One of the senators, Smith W. Brookhart, ' Republican, lowa, re- turns to the body in which he for merly sat, Six of the new sena- tors previously served in the house. They are Carl Hayden, Arizon Alben W. Barkley, Ken- tucky; Millard E. Tydings, Mary- land, and Elmer Thomas, Okh- homa, all Demoerats; and William 8. Vi , Pennsylvania and Frank L. Smith, Illinois, Republicans. Senators who are new to the capitol halls are Charles W. Wa- terman, Colorado; Frederick Stel- wer, Oregon; Arthur R. Gould, Maine, and John J. Blaine, Wis- consin, all Republicans; 'and Hugo Black, Alabama; Sam G. Bratton, New Mexico, and Robert F. Wag- ner, New York, Democrats. . Vare and Smith were on hahd ior the opening, but the question of their right to senate member- ship must be threshed out befora they will be seated. Of the 59 incoming representa- tives nine have been members ot the house before. They are J. Earl Major, Illinois; James F. Fulbright, Missouri; Everette R. Howard, Oklahoma;. John J. Ca- sey and Everett Kent, both from Pennsylva all Democrats; ani U. 8. Guyer, Kansas; Robert H. Clancy, Michigan; John D. Clark, New York, and James A. Hughes; West Virginia, Republicans. James M. Beck, former solfei- tor general, returned to Washing- ton to fill the Republican seat ft vacant in the Pennsylvan'a [ delegation: by Vare's election to the senate. James M. Hazlett had been elécted, but he resigned in October without having taken the seat. Five members of the house in the last session have 'died; and, with one ‘exception, all seats been filled -by répreseutatives of the same political alleglance, Tssues Before Session Most Important Since World War PROHIBITION ISSUE WILL START FIGHTS Measures t;B: Introduced from Bothr Wet and Dry Forces WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. — The Seventieth Congress assembled to- day and the members of the Sen- ate and House of Representatives are facing a host of problems of the most importance since the war. The annual ruction in Congress over Prohibition will get an early start in the House and Senate revolving around a series of bills which are already prepared. Measures will come from hoth those who would modify the Vol- stead Act and to test out senti- ment of the country on the Eigh- teenth ‘Amendment, and those who would tighten up the dry en- forcement measure. The Drys will probably center their efforts on the Administra- ton' bill which failed last session ' which provides for legal raids on dwellings used as commercial dlqn tilling places. The Wets will mll both the dry amendmeént and enabling act from a number of directions. ————— =SUM ALLOTED IMPROVEMENTS JUNEAU AREA Cne Hundred and Twenty- Five Thousand for Wrangell Narrows WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—Army Engineers placed a Hmit of $55,. 886,310 on the amount which may be profitably expended on ordin- ary development and maintenance of the Nation's waterways during the year beginning next July, ex clusive of any special appropris- tlons which may be made for flood control. At the same time, Major Gen- eral -Edgar Jadwin, Chief of En gineers, disclosed that beginning last July there was an unexpend- ed balance on hand of $66,875,949 which had . been made available for improvements and mainten- ance of rivers and harbors. Detailed allotments include tha following in the Juneau (Alaska) Distriet: Nome Harbor, $25,000; Wrangell Narrows, $125,000, and Tolovana River, $29,000. e — TWO REINDEER HERDS LOSTIN ARCTIC smu' NOME, Alasks, Dec. 5.—A let- ter to the Nome Nugget from Wainwright ‘relates the loss of two reindeer herds in a severe storm on October 15. ' Although the entire village turned out to make a search, mo trace of the reindeer have w found up to November 4. The animals are supposed have been frosen to death and covered with snow. An abundance of polar bear are reported at Point = Barrow and at Wainwright, five hears | ing killed in one day. were seen passing on fcebergs. . - Advices from Pcut Ilfl"'* the Nugget, indicates’ ous winter and n