The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 11, 1928, Page 1

b i ‘Never over-estimated eith- / capacity ot Dimeelf or of ...(.._..._.-"___.*fl——_ @ TN e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — VOL. XXXI, NO. 4683. : 2 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY; JANUARY 11, 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS §332,000 SET UP| Woman Helped Give FOR 8. E. ALASKA ROAD PROJECTS Forest Service Projects Approved—$75,000 for Glacier Highway Spur ‘Work entailing the expenditure of § ,000 during the coming sea- son has been approved by the Deo- partment of Agriculture for the Southeastern . Alaska roads sys- tem, according to a telegram re-. ceived today at District Forest Service headquarters here from District Forester C. H. Flory, who is mow in Washington. Four pro- jects, continuation of trail loca- tion surveys and maintenance are approved pro- embraced in the gram. One of the projects is of pai- ticular locai interest, providing for the construction of a spur to Glacier Highway, from Auk Bay cannery to Fritz Cove, a distanca of two and three-quarter miles. The sum of $75,000 is authorized to be expended on this work. Other Projects The other projects covered are in the vicinity of Ketchikan and | Petersburg, and provide for the extension or completion of work begun in former years. All of! the funds allotied are from tha| 1928 fiscal year allotment. i The projects approved by the| secretary and the sums set aside, for. the work follow: | ‘Glacier Highway, Auk Bay 17 Fritz Cove, 276 milés, $75,000. | (Continued on Page Two.) | 4 | DROP BOMBS UPON REBELS Concentration Camp 4n Ni-| [ Nf:g'ua Attacked by | rine Corps Plane | MANAGUA, Nic, Jan, 11— Rebels attempting concentration' four milgs north of Quilali, in' the Province of Nueva Segovia,| were yesterday attacked by a’ Marine Corps airplane command- ed by Major Ross E. Rowell. Nine, rebels were killed and! three wounded by bombs dropped.! The U. 8. Marines occupy Quil-| ali. A careful watch is kept for the attempt of Gen. Sandino’s, forces to make a sudden raid led| to the discovery of the rebel con-| tingents assembling from various quarters for " possible assault ofi the town. H Flying, over the group, Major Rowell dropped bombs and dis-| persed them; He said he might! have done more damage had he! £0 desired, v Col. ‘Mahon Gulick, command-, ing the Marines, said planes will! be sent out regularly to bomb! the rebels whenever they appear. | INVESTIGATION DELAYED WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—The| Senate Forelgn Relations Com-' mittee has agreed to delay ac-' tion' on the resolution providing for an investigation of the Ad-' ministration’s policy in Nicara-| sua until after the Pan-Ameri-| can’ conference in ifavana. BENES, PEASANT’S SON, . BECOMES WORLD FIGURE By JOSEPH E. SHARKEY (A. P. Staff Correspondent) PRAGUR, Czechoslovakia, Jan. 11-—The son .of a peasant, Dr.| Edouard Benes, foreign 'ministcr! of Czechoslovakia, has become an ement figure not only in his!. own country but throughout Eu. rope. It is, as he says himsell, because he never bites off. more he can chew, and because {be two unofficial state hostesses (8ystem of probation. jers act came into operation, at a IS5 SUBMITTED BY SEC. WILBUR G. O, P. Convention | Pair of Hostesses, i The vote'of Miss Dorothy Cunningham (left), Indiana mem- ber of the Republican National Committee, was crédited with hav- ing led to t: selection of Kansas City, as the national econvemtion city. Mrs. R. hostess for Kansas, while Mrs. Grace Semple Burlingham will rep- resent Missouri. 1‘ leading the defection of coast city is- | votes. ] Since Kansas City is located on | the border between Missouri antl Kansas, each state will be person- ified as a hbstess by its national committee woman. Mrs. Grace Semple Burlingham of St. Louis will take this role for Missouri and Mrs. R. R. Bittman of Inde- pendence will represent Kansas. Convention Hall, where the Re. publicans will select their nomi- nees for president and vice-presi-| dent, is on Missouri soil. Miss Cunningham was named to the Republican national commat- tee after the death of Joseph B. Kealing. The latter's successor will be formally chosen on ths eve of the convention. Miss Cun- ningham has been an associa‘e member of the committee since;| 1923 and active in Indiana politi- cal affairs since 1919, . KANSAS CITY, Jan. souri and Kansas are hands to make the Republic: tional convention here next J a pleasant oecasion for they visi tors, Due partly, at least, to the voie | of a Hoosier woman, there wili at the convention. .The vote of Miss Dorothy Cun- ningham, member of the Repubii- can national committee from In- diana and the first Indiana woman to hold such a post, was credited with having started the victoriovs swing of sentiment to Kansas Qity. She had been pledged to suw- port San Francisco and had cast two ballots for that city, but as the deadlock between Kamsas City and San Francisco grew tighter, she swung over to the former, BRITISH COMMEND PROBATION SYSTEM| LONDON, Jan. /11—British law yers, judges and persons interesi- ch K M AN Is ed in pena} reform are celebratihy the twentieth ‘anniversary of Tu MAINTA'N time wlen sentences were unusu. n“AL NAT“RE ally severe and defendants were sometimes sentenced to 30 years |Rafuses to Permit Alienists! | England’s introduction of the for stealing a loaf of bread. Since then the whole method of of State to Exam- ine Him punishing criminals has undei- gone a change, and British law- (Continued .on Page Tw.) LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 11-- Willian: B, Hickman demonstrited that he intends to maintain a dual character so. far as alienists arc concerned, - Hickman today ig- nored three of the prosecution alienists who sought to. question him. He told the jailers he would not permit himself to he examined by the state’s specialists unless his attorney and his own psychi- atrists were present. Hickman “had been reading a letter purporting to come from Andrew Cramer who assum i the missive, entire blame for - in} Marian Parker. Hiekman said: “That guy is crazier than I am.” ' 3 | In 1907 the Probation of Offemd- first train for other Ruropean capitals to conduct on the spot. important political negotiations, ‘with . other foreign ministers. Benes' life story is an amazing narrative, of pluck and persever- ance. Only 43 years of age, he has become a political power in Burope and a great authority. on the problem of disarmament. He is chairman’of the international | which recently met ‘at R. Bittman (upper right) ‘will'be unofficial State| {Bronson Cutting Appoint- | Appointment Gives Republicans DEMOCRATIC | OPINIONS ARE | INTERCHANGED National Committeemen Are Gathering for Dinner, Meeting WASHINGTON, first nationwide Democratic opinions since 192¢ has gathered headway with the arrival of many members of th: National Committee for the Jack son Day dinner Thursday *night and sessions of the Committee ter in the week. Committee men streamed through party headquarters all day yesterday, each to participatc in the brief conference with Clen Shaver, National Chairman. These visits were followed by small groups in conferences he hind closed doors in hotel rooms at which views on the parly out look were exchanged. The predominate topic of inter est apparently was the availabili ty of Gov. A. E. Smith, of New York, as the party nominee. Sev. eral committee members commit. ted themselves for his candidacy. l — -, REPUBLICAN NAMED SEN. FROM-N.MEX. Jan. 11-—-Th: interchange of ia ed to Fill Unexpired Term of Jones | | | IN KIP CAS SEPARATION ACTION | | NEW NAVY BUILDING PROGRAM SANTA FE, N. ‘M. Jan. 11- | g . J Bronson Cutting, Republican, pub KIP RHINELANDR AND WIFE lisher of the New Mexican, has| beén appointed by Gov. Dillon (o WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Jan. 1L-—Papers in separation action fill the unexpired fterm of the|by Alice Jones Rhinelander, against Leonard Kip Rhinelander, late United States Senator A. i member of one of New York's oldest families, have been delivered Jones, Democrat, who died recent-!at the office of Sheriff Underhill for service against Rhinelander. ly in Washington. Cruelty, inhuman treatment and abandonment are alleged in Regarded as an Independent Re-|tne suit. publican, Mr, Cutting has not, In case Sheriff Underhill should be unable to make personal however,, been strictly & Darty! . yice on Rhinelander, who is understood to be somewhere in man. He was Treasurer for the 1 Louisiana, Judge Samuel F. Swinburne, counsel for Mrs. Rhine- Progressive Party State Central Committee from 1912 to 1914. Born in Oakdale, Long Island, | Y., June 23, 1888, he has been | lander, said he would apply for service by publication. Rhjinelander, heir to a fortune estimated at $100,000,000 was married October 14, 1924, to Alice Jones, a nurse maid and daugh- a resident of New Mexico since |ter of a taxi driver. - 1910. He is a graduate of Har-| vard University. During the World War Mr. (Zu:»’m, marriage on the grounds that Mrs. Rhinelander filed suit for annulment of the Rhinelander had deceived him The suit was won by Mrs. Rhinelander Soon afterward, to her race and color. ting was commissioned a Captain |pgcemper 4, 1925, and the verdict upheld in the higher courts, and made Assistant Military At- the American Embassy |, He was awarded the British Military = Cross for hl«‘ servioes. On his return to this| State he became active in the or-| | ganization of the American "“:'1 gion, { tache at in London. Majority of One in Senate| | WASHINGTON, Jan. 11—With| the appointment of Mr. the Republicans will have a nom- inal majority of one in the Senats, | as soon as Mr. Cutting qualifies. The line-up then will stand forty- \‘ seven Republicans, forty-six Dem-| ocrats and one Farmer Labor, with two geats temporarily va-| cant, those claimed by Frank L.| Smith of Illinois “nd William 3. Vare of - Pennsylvania, Republl-! cans. After Smith and Vare were | denied the oath of office, the| Democrats had a majority of onc! over the Republicans. { NOME, Alaska, Jan. 11—Aleck| The new colors are of inde- —————.————— .. Holmsen, aged 57, a miner and|Pendence blue, light navy blue, H— ' prospector, and ome time dog| Water blue, blue with a greenish | . % | team racer with the noted Scotty|{Inge, natural biege, grayish tone Prices Take i'Allan n the al-Aluska Sweep. | Dlege. s takes, dr ead yesterda; ehing models disclo aven Anotlier Break | 1:rnm a hde:rl:m::mcdk at Bluff. ¥ | greator skirt length than ahe Stock Exchange | | "several hours before his death,|Eowns for informal wear, having | | Ho NEW YORK, Jan. Stock Market experienced an- | | other money scare yesterday | i | der an avalanche of selling orders and In speculative is- sues extreme declines ran from $2 to $10 a share;, but | ‘ most of these were moderate- | For the third time’ this year | and the time In the to | left Fairbanks for Nome, will | | Cutting| | ¢arTy six passengers on | weturn. | to marry George Metcalf at | A HOLMSEN 11—The | | Marshal - Jones “(nlmun over-exerted himself and and prices broke sharply un- | {dlad suddenly. f! éGeom Hassell to Tmitewwne o | BUT KNEES ARE Fly to Her Future Mate T0 SHOW WHEN THEY SIT DOWN Skirts Are to Be Longer— New Modes and New - Colors Shown NOME, Alaska, Jan. 11— Noel . Wein, aviator who has | his | Among them will be | Miss Jane McNichol who is | Fairbanks, o2 NEW YORK, Jan. 11—Womoan of fashion will wear longer skirts| next Spring, fully’ one inch below the knee if modes displayed at the semi-annual style review of the Garment Retailers of America are followed. DROPS DEAD longer lengths in front and back, almost touching the floor. — olmsen had driven United States from Nome to uff over the Topkok mountains. ” g .| SEATTLE, Jan. 11—Establish- E Dl‘, Electric Chlr ment of an air mail service be-| 3 tween Seattle and Alaska FARWELL, Texas, is| sought by the Beattle Chapter ?ti death in the electric chair, the|tion as part of the gigantic pro- 0 (o tuke place on Feb:|gram proposed for the year. The: ‘the murder of his|Seattle Chepter pledged itself to more - than - enef the development at a meeting Jan. 11— last| ernment for the marriage to take ' o'cloek. . ¢ \place, DECLARES NAVY NOT ADEQUATE NOW FOR DEFENSE OF NATION V\ASH]NGTON, Jan. 11.—Stressing the belief that “America needs a first class Navy,” Seeretary of the Navy ‘(:urtis. D. Wilbur today placed before the House Naval |Committee, his personal reasons and also those of the Navy General Board, in a program asking Congress to authorize $725,000,000 for new warship construction. Secretary Wilbur said: “In preparation of the pro- gram, the Navy General Board primarily considered the need of this Government for naval defense. ! Considers Other Navies “It is true, that in determining this need, the Board has taken into consideration the condition of other navies, their construction and replacement program. “Great Britain announced at the Geneva Conference she needed about 600,000 tons of vessels of the cruiser class. Our original proposal at Geneva for cruiser tonnage was of 500.000 tons. The tonnage was less than we felt necessary for our fleet. We are willing to accept hazard in building less tonnage than needed if others accept sim- ilar hazard.” Building Program . Secretary Wilbur said the program proposing construec- tion of 15 cruisers, 5 aircraft carriers, 9 destroyer leaders and 32 submarines was “in no sense competitive, but is based on the needs of our Navy as determined by the See- retary of the Navy upon the technical advice o tbs. Navy General Board.” e Advice of Board. Secretary Wilbur said: “The President is opposed to competitive building and Congress also manifests an um- willingness to eng in competitive building. “The Navy General Board has advised me as follows “The program-as proposed, if carried out, a properly constituted fleet and will furnish su strength to insure protection of legal rights of our 2ens “l’}‘r;'der intematio'l;‘ll law, e program will fispvide k PA. QISP 4 nmef:e?nq g‘ rade protect commerce and defense. provide adequate nationa Not Much of a Fleet : “We do not have much of a fleet at the present time. “Each postponement of undertaking of essential new construction increases our already pronounced inadequate defense still farther into the future. “Delay in building up our fleet to standard deprives the country of adequate national defense for a period of ture years.” 'LINDBERGH IS AIR CHAUFFEUR FOR OFFICIALS President and Vice-Presi- dent of Panama Tak- en on Flight PANAMA, Jan. 11—The ’ Presi dent and Vice-President of Pama- ma were passengers in a De Haviland biplane, flown by Col. | Charles A. Lindbergh yesterday afternoon and this provided tha high spot in the full day of fes- tivities in honor of the neted Ruth Snyder And Judd Gray Must Die NEW_ YORK, Jan, 11—Goy. A. E. Smith has denied the pleas of Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray for execu- | tive clemency. Both are | scheduled to die in the elec- | tric chair Thursday night for | the murder of the woman's husband. | | | ORDER BREAKFAST | OSSINING, N. Y, Jan. 11— Breakfasts were ordered to- | day by Mrs. Snyder and Gray, | the next to the last breakfast | they will ever eat unless the | Courts stay execution. The two prisoners face | 2 death differently. Gray s | | fler's visit. 2 | calm and resigned to his | [ After a short test flight, Col. | fate. He ate toast, a large | | Lindbergh took President Chiarl | bowl of cereal ‘and drank his | [for @ 16 minutes trip, the first | cottee, ride the' executive has had in Mrs. Snyder merely sipped | |his life. Thomas Doque, Vice-President of the Republic, owner of the Star and Herald, and member of the Associated Press, stepped imto the plane and went with Lind bergh on a short air trip. orange juice and refused all solid food. Neither prisoner learned of the Governor's decision today. | [ H | at a luncheon, receptions and ® 5 | sightseeing trips. Everywhere ha was acclaimed with the utmost QUIT RUSSIA, . coxmzr sz | hergh today became the 27,000 Americans in the LONDON, Jan. 11—Unconfirm-!Zone, visiting the ecity ed reports reached London today|stay in Panama, where he that Leon Trotzky, one time pow-! last Monday. er in the councils of Soviet Rul-\ ————— iBill Aiding Seward % to sia, has refused to leave Moscow despite orders for his banishmen’. Couple Await to | WASHINGTON, Jan. w’d; Wdl’ Let ’Em | reauest for $100,000 to | | government property ad | Lowell Creek in the town COLOMBO, Ceylon, Jan. 11-—|ard, Alaska, was t Former Maharajah Indore and day to Congress by Miss Nancy Miller, of Seattle and | Coolidge. 3 4 Alaska, his intended bride, nrnl - now at Nuwara Eliya, in the in- LOWELLS terior of Ceylon. The pair awaits| An ing permission by the Indian Gov-|at the St. Am oy Mrs. will create years and will entail extraordinary finaneial burden in fu-- Col. Lindbergh was ont.rublu‘d» Canal i