The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 18, 1928, Page 1

\ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXL. NO. 4689. “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU ALASKA WEDNESDAY, }ANUARY 18, 1928. ALL THE TIME” MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FIGHT RENEWED UPON SMITH Rebel Quiposts in Nzcamgua‘ Bombed by U. S. Marines APPROPRIATION BUILDING FUND Gov. Parks Optin.listic for Bill Including Item for Alaska Capitol \« The Public Buildings appropria- tion bill, including the §200,000 expenditure for initiating work on the Territorial Capitol building in Juneau, is fully expected to be assed by Congress in February, according to Gov. George A. Parks, who returned to Juneau last night on the steamer Alaska after an absence of several weeks during which he made his annual trip to Washington, D. C. Plans and specif ions of the Capitol building are now being perfected in the Treasury Depart- ment in anticipation of the pass- age of the bill, and they are in such 'shape that advertising for ntracts can be made this year. Approve Recommendations A number of recommendations have been approved and adopted in regard to the co-ordination of U. 8. Bureaus functioning in Al aska, as set forth by the Inter- departmental Commission, Gov Parks said. Chief among thesc so far is the procedure of pr curing survey patents. The co. trol of surveys in, Alaska for the |- issuance of patents to applica- tions for mineral and public do- main surveys, has been expedited | and now awaits final approval which is expected to be ll‘ll\twlé from within the next three to six C. H. Flory, chlel nt the v, s Forest Service in Alaska, who is' now in Washington, is giving much time to Bureau co-ordina- tion and most of his plans for fa- cilitating road building have beca approved, Governor Parks said. Bunnell Successful President C. E. Bunnell, of the Alaska Agricultural College n'u School of Mines has been success- ful in his efforts so far for ths 326.30 A MONTH (OLUMBUS’ WAFES FOR TASK OF DISCOVERING AMI"RI(‘A College. (Continued on’ Page Eight.) R PAN-AMERICAN | CONFERENCE IN- FIRST SESSION Thorny Problem Brought Up and Is Safely Disposed of HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 18.—Ar- gentine and American delegates took the lead yesterday in dis- posing in the first formal meet- ing of the delegates before the first plenary session opens of the Pan-American Congress one of the admittedly thorniest prob- lems confronting the conference. It was proposed by the Argen- tine delegates and seconded by Charles E. Hughes, Tor the Unit- ed States, and later approved, to make ‘“‘open covenants openly” Ahe keynote of the Sixth Pan- “American Congress by establish- ing a rule of public ecommittee meetings at the plenary sessions. EXPEGT PASSAGEI W skensin Women Engage in Contest ForG 0. P. Seat A fcminine contcst for one of Wisconsin’s seats in the Repub- PLANE RAIDS EFFECTIVE 0N REBELS IN NIC. Bombing S&:xa(rron Returns from Warfare — Rein- forcements Arriving MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. 18.—Harrassed by three days of rersistent heavy bombing from the United States Marine Corps |airplanes, rebel outposts have fled from the San Albino region, it wag announced today by Marine headquarters upon return of the airplane patrols from the region where the Marines have been massing for a drive against Gen. Sandino. It is believed Sandino’s forces retired to Elchihote. With United States ships daily disembarking Marines and sup- plies, including airpl s and ammunition, at Corinto, Nicara- gua is assuming the military ap- pearance it had last February when more than 4,000 bluejackets and Marines occupied all import- | |lican Natichal Convention is being waged by Mrs. Adalin Wright MacCanley (left), a “regular,” and Zona Gale (right), “independ- ant cities in Nicaragua. Albert H. Vestal, Repub- | ent.” | MILWAUKEE, Wis.. | Zona Gale, Jan. 18 famous novelist, anl Mrs. Adalin - Wright MacCauley. who led the American Legion |auxiliary on its invasion of Paris with the second A. E. F., will stage @ feminine race for a seal in the national con- vention fre n e doemiss G er, and Mrs. MacCauley, who be- longs to the regular wing of ths ’RPnuhlicnn party in the Badgoer | state, are running for delegate-at- Mrge. i Miss Gale’s name will appear jon the same ticket with those of | Senators Robert M. LaFolletie ,and John J. Blaine, who were en- Mrs, MacCauley led the American Legicn Auxiliary accom-|: panying the mmad AEF to an. Alaska-Seattle Cable Service Is 1 ntprrupted dorsed by an independent Repub- lican conference held in M- waukee. K Mrs, MacCauley received her endorsement, along with other “regulars” at a party caucus. The author of Lulu Bett, who:c home is in Portage, Wig, is no i peliflcns SN S Do active for several years in the independent Republican counciis and is a member of the board of iregents of the University of Wis- consin. Mrs. MacCauley, wife of a law- yer of Menomonie, Wis., is mak. ing her debut in Wisconsin poii- tics The United States Military Cable - between Ketchikan and Seattle is broken, near Ketchikan, and the cableship Dellwood leaving tfif{"“l’fim n'.fq}'(h’ifw to make repairs. The cable | | broke yesterday afternoon at | 5:50 o'clock. The wireless was pressed in to service and | commercial and press busi- ness is moving forward with little if any delay. The | Dellwood is expected to | reach Ketchikan Friday | l CHICAGO, Jan. 18—Christopher | Columbus received an annual sal- |ary of §320 while he worked at i the job of discovering America. | .Hls trusted aides, Captains Mar- jtin, Juan, and Anton Perez, were {on the payroll for $192 each year. Prof. Ruge, German investiga-| tor, has figured out the actual| cost of the- Columbus expedition in terms of today’s money, it has been learned at Northwesterr University. The moueciary unlt then was the maravedi, a term of Moorish ori zin, and all historic documents give the ccst of the first personai- ly-condueted tcur to Amerlca's shores at 1,140,000 maravedi. The good Queen Isabella, after she had gathered up all the loose maravedi she could lay her hands on and had augmented the pile hy taking the family jewel to a Spanish “uncle,” had the ‘roual sum, of $7,296 -to give the ambi- tious voyager. The city of Palos scraped together a few maravedi and came across with $7,500 more. In the court of the™centuriss the value of the maravedi de- creased until it was hardly worth a quarter of a cefit. Ruge came to the conclusion, after an examination of various CHINESE PREPARE TO GREET NEW YEAR SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 18— Chinese New Year’s day falls on January 23 and Chinatown Is making the traditional prepara- tions to celebrate with a week of fireworks and feasting. The Chinese = year, -hegins on varying dates, gauged by the Juli- an calendar on which Americans calculate time. In 1927, the Ch!- nese year. began om February 2, in 1926 on February 13, and in 1925 -on January 24. are 12, which, correspond to lunar menths. Twice-in each tive yea® period there are leap years whea|: mmxtmpfll instead of 12| and ‘8 h‘hl The feast days that inaugurat: the new year differ from rmany Chinese holidays in that there i¢ more feasting and rejoicing than of prayer and reflection. Custom decrees that every Chinese, ex- cept those in desperate financial circumstances, shall begin the year free of debt, all persona] ob- figations having been met before the beginning of the week of cele. brating. In a business way the past yea: has not been one of unusual pros- perity in Chinatown. The wanz iy Mly of Jong cut into the catering to Cauca- and in silk and other hsn eumw J et SBT3 HDES RANK HIGH COLLEGE (AMBR[[)(}E M.xm Jan, 18 The dean’s office at Radcliffe Col- lege prefers blondes——but the praf- erence is purely academic. Amon: the honor students there are more blondes than brunettes. A }Je(reen of Ferdinand, that wne {maravedi was worth less than | three‘quarters of a cent in modern money at the time Columbus fared forth. | His pilots received $128 to $153 | annually, and”the union scale foi | the sailors on the vessels was | $2.45 a month. The fleet physi- ‘(-lann salary was all of §38.50 a | year. TWG CITIES ARE ROCKED ~ BY A BLAST Flight to Havana SAULT MARIE, Mich., San. lK——An xplosion of a blast DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 18. turnace in thz Dnl:n‘: ,,'; the Al lAustin F. Dement, Detroit adver- goma Steel Corporation in Cana-|ti5ing man, and Leonard 8. Flo, dian Sault Ste. Marie, last night[¢hiel pilot of the Detroit Flying caused injury to 12 workmen and |Club, took off this afternoon on shook both “Marie” cities which|® proposed nonostop flight to Ha- are three miles apart. Hundreds |Vana. Dement announced he was of windows were broken in both |MaKIng the trip “for a few days’ cltios. vucutlon The damage caused by the ex- plosion is mnot ‘estimated due t» cllllfl:ll 0rnnut Ulflfl' the force of the blast which flat-- Arrest in uu"[" Case tened several neafdy frame struc- tures and causing minor damage CHICAGO, 1I1., Jan. 18.—Doris Kirks" fingerprints upon which over a large area. Officials of the plant have not y .| the police sought to connect her ::::.Ied ST oL (o P with the Betty Chambers’ ‘murder = case, have disappeared, if they ever existed, when a former church organist was arrested by the police. They sald her finger- prints” correspond with those found on. adhesive tape, about the mouth 'and mnose pt the slain woman. every seven students attaining the highest rank have had light hair and blue eyes, while on the sec ond honor list there were five blandes for every four brunettes. Off on Nonstop —l Six Persons May Be Invalids For Life SANTA ROSA, Cal., Jan. 18. —=8ix persons face a possibility of being invalids for life .as the result of arsemic poisoning suf- fered two months ago. This was revealed today by Dr. James An- derson, who attended the afflicted six. What at first appeared to Representative Candidate l:.”covmor WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—Repre. i sentative James T. Begg, of Ohio, be ptomgine poisoning developed today annousiced he will be 2 into paralysis, Dr. Anderson said.| candidate for the Republican The form -of paralysis may, leave: gubernatorlal nomination in thai the six persons porlnlnn!ly alp- state. 3 ; plld —— Dr. Axd-mn« believes uey' F. D, Caraway of the Copper were poisoned from arsenic which' River: and Northwestern Railway, was used on the field to dldmy’mod through = Juneau on the :;u and AB‘I'HIG‘ into the houses| 18 accompanied by suryey has shown that four out of | CENTRAL AMERICA GIVES LI Belizg, British Honduras. Cente o the “Lone Eagle” at Guatemala City. The American Minister, dy’s deft. Lower photo: His Excellency Sir'John Boardon, Ve showh with the air ace at the Newtown Polo and Gold Club at |I“‘(l in the intrepid !Ile hulmx' BYRD LEAVES - I-SEPTFOR- SOUTH POLE - Commander of Antarctic| Expedition Gives Out ‘More Information President Lazora Chacon of ( Senator W heeler | Gets Something | Off His Chest NEW \'ORK. Jan. lX.»—: Sengtor B. K, Wheeler, of | | Montana, addressing the CHICAGO, I1l., Jan. 18.—After dodging newspapermen and others for three months ~ Commander Richard E. Byrd broke his si-| % % o lence today regarding plans for| | Lconomic Club said the moral chaos im the State || |his South Pole expedition. Com, Byrd sald he plans toi | DePartment ands moral|con- leave New York in September,| | fuslon in the White House s was responsible for the Unit- I have been too busy on the de- ed States acts ¥t Nicaragu talls of .the trip to give many ». s BEN interviews. In June, 1930, I ex- ipect to return with information about the field of ice around the PRESIDENT Is South Pole, as large as Mexico and the United States combined.” Com, Byrd said the southern b Jacksonville Citizens Greet Executive on His Home Bound Trip region is in the throes of an ice age and with data obtained there (he expeets to shed light on the fce age and obliterated life of the rth American continent 1,000 years ago, According to Byrd, between 55 jand 60 men will be taken on the {expedition but only four will make the final 1,000-mile trip by {plane over the Pole. Dewm on ch"m.n JACKSONVILE, Fla., Jan. 18 Are leell Kanm CIty Fresh from his triumph in Ha- vana, President Coolidge received! 18--The|a welcome in his own country today where he made only a for- mal stop on his return trip to Washington, D. €. Leaving the train with Mrs, Coolidge, Seere KANSAS LITY. Jan. (taking of depositions from Kansas City citizens for use in the Wil liam E. Hickman trial has been completed by Attorney Jerome Walsh, ‘Hickman's attorney, ani|tary of State Kellogg and Secre- he leaves tomight for Los Angeles | tary of Navy Wiibur, the Presi where Hickman's trial is set for|dent made an hour's tour of the next Wednesday. city along streets lined with Walsh said he did not plan toerowds cheering and waving request a continuance. He ‘told | Amerlcan flags in gr:-nlmg the newspapermen that the ds e e o oy ol Pabglv gh:v” K';';';;w ’ by Hickman last Spring which FLINT, Mich., Jan. 18. — A prompted Col. Edwards, to whom Hickman had been paroled, to ra- in Lusfchange of venue cannot be grant- od to Adolph Hotelling, confessed quest the Juvenile Court Angeles, to haye him examined. o kidnapper and slayer of five-year- old Dorothy Schnelder, it he in- th W Elevm ends plea uilty, udge Are lhnged in Search :lr::mnnm de:llara‘:l Kllw:,ln):. i 'll"fie Judge . said it was up to the SAL'!‘ LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan.|county to protect the prisoner 18—Reports from two neighboring | who ‘in his belief must make his Idaho towns that residents Satur-{plea here. day sighted two planes, one be- lieved to be*that piloted by Fred Ocean Flight Hoyt, missing aviator, prompted a search An that section not yet ‘ests to Be Abandoned covered By a squadron of 11 planes emgaged in the hunt. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—The Residents reported one plane | Advisory Board ot the National was tralling the other until the|Aeromautical Association has de- rear one veered to the morth oft{¢ided to abandon the proposed the - r from Boise and was|Trans-Atlantic flight tests look-; soon ‘lost’ Ing to an ocean airplane service. Upper photo shows Colonel Lindbergh bringing his plane down on a I' southara | | representation ’I)Y BIG OV. Hl() SENATORS N WARM DEBATE OVER SMITH \Great Bilterne;s Enters Into Closing Doors on [ll. Senator-Elect WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Set- | volces wer P " resolution narrow polo field at temala (right) confers a medal Arthur H. Geissler, i on Lin- rnor of British Honduras, is Belize, where u reception was Umted Stales Semls ADDIS ABABA, Abyssinia, Jaa. 18—This African empire, where American bed sheetings are nsed | | matic representative from | United States The appointment of Addison as minister resident the United States in ", of | Abyssinia s | ! wmlu-n to mark the begiuning of a' | definite and probably permaneat’ of the United | States in this picturesque corner | of the world. The new appointec' | was consul general at Singapore. | America’s first diplomatic con tact with Abyszinia was in 1908 when Robert P. Skinner, | gotiated a treaty with the famous Emperor Menelik. During Theodore presidency the United States had a minister here for a short time, and at other times the Unitel consul general, The chief commercial interests tof the United States here conslal of the sale of cotton sheetings, which the Abyssinians use almosi | entirely for the manufacture of, 'lht-h costumes. For a number of| | years very little real money has} been in actual circulation ).rr'-, ‘and the retail “bugines the ,country has been based ter, the value of a horse or an ox being expressed in terms American sheetings. Mr. Skinner, who finaugurated Abyssinian - American relations, told The Associated Press that the Abyasinians believe (hem- jselves to be the ponnewaura of the (Continued on PIR! F‘Ive ) " contributed er as a medium of (rade in place of money, again is to have a diplo-! the | now | | American Minister to Greece, ne: Roosevelt's' States has been represented by a! on barj ting itself to the last finally bar~ ring of its doors against Senator- Blect Frank L. Smith, of Illinois, the Senate yesterday cngaged in hours of dehate during which raised in defense of the South against the frequent charge of disfranchisement of the' negro. A brief report from the Slush und Committee embodying a denouncing Smith's credentials as tainted with “fraud and corruption” and deeclaring his seat vacant, furnished the timber for verbal sparks that flew thick and fast and so long that final vote on the resolution went over, While a few new thoughs were to the dsicussion; there is at present even a great- degree of bitterness than has marked eonsideratioln of the case ' !since the Genate committee un- | covered contributions to Smith's nrimzry tnmnd(n. Quarterly Dividend, Also Insurance Fund Divi-- dend to Be Paid SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 18 {-—President William Timson, of the Alaska Packers' Assoclation. ,made public today the annual re- port of the organization, on behalf ,of the directors. In connection with the report, it is announced that the regulas . quarterly dividend of $2 a share ,will be paid on February 10 un | the outstanding stock as shown at the: close of business on Janu. ary 31, i Also the insurance fund interes:. {income dividend of $2 a share will be paid at that time. The insurance fund at the eni of 1926 had a credit ot $4,833,45) and at the close of 1927 had a s credit of $4,756,712, The Association operated 13 canneries in Alaska and one on { Puget Sound. | The total pack was 534,981 cases of which 379,422 were red salmon. Last December, the book values of the plants, terminals and floei was plnved at $7,275,911. Frencl: Fliers Are in Venezuela, N. Y. Bound MARACRAY, ' Venezuela, Jan. f —French fliers Costes and Le Brix arrived here last night at & rndod( from Colon. They mads {the 1,000. mile hop in a little less P'h.m 12 hours. The two fliers ars oun their way to New York from SPark B i [ .CONTINUE, SAN I’RAN(‘IE(‘O Jan, 18—Tae ar between anti-evolutionist and leacher of evolution, according to an Informal report of the Science League of America, is likely to continue in 1928. The substance of a survey, made pnblic by Maynard Shipley, president of the league, sets forth that advocates of anti-evolution bills, defeated in various legigla: tures in 1927, plan to revive the issue this year. The league also declares that there fs an organized and well| financed effort to “purge” the public libraries of the country of books and lnuulnn regarded as “too modern.* The crusade agatust| EVOLUTION WAR TO ISREPORT ' . OF SCIENCE LEAGUE. lcml\mon the Sclence League's report asserts, did not die &t Dayton, Temn, scene of m' Scopes trial, but got renewed - spiration there. The Science League of m ¢ is an organization of selentis % eonsisting largely of uni professors and research wo George E. Coleman, research s teriologlst of the Hooper '*‘ : | tton. University of Califorula, secretary-treasurer and Br, Starr Jordan, chancellor ex ! of Stanford University, heads. national ldthury board. . In ynm for and against va