The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 23, 1928, Page 1

'OL. XXXI., NO. 4693. Y ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 1928 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS TO RENEW FIGHT ON ADMINISTRATION PRICE TEN CENTS laska Democrats Endorse Gov. Smith for President GRIGSBY NAMED T0 MAKE RACE FOR DELEGATE Seward Convention Pledges Alaska Delegates to Smith for President WRITES PLATFORM TO PLACE BEFORE VOTERS Anchorage Man for Attor- ney General—Connors for Committeeman SEWARD, ailaska, Jan. The ‘Democratic Territorial Con- vention, which completed its work here yesterday, officially launched the Presidential cam-| paign for the nomination of Gov. | Alfred E. Smith of New York,| Enamed six candidates and six alternates for delegates to the Democratic National Convention, | candidates for .the nominations for Delegate tp Congress and Ter- ritorial Atgerney General, Na- tional Committeeman, and recon- stituted the p.urty organization 23— LE ge B. (.rlguby, Ketchikan, er Delegate and Attorney eral, was endorsed for nom- {or Delegate to Congress. James Truitt, Anchor- g€, was cm}'xsml for' nomination ' bfor Attorne; érdl, . Both en- lorsements re made by a un- ntmm fot the convention, | e tion - p ‘Mn‘* Young Airmen C hosen For Japan s Attempt To F lv ()ver Pumfu Me: | was announced they will take the | Pan-American States COMMERCE WAR Jution ‘endorsing Gov. Smith for right nbove) Uichi Suwa, Yukichi Goto Nobnhko ;medn nnd the Democratic Presidential nom-: ination amnd, in addition, instruct- ed the Alaska delegation to the Democratic National Couvention | My uih. Thia B VRE Art.omiel ) B Soowed 40 _Pa“"‘ endorsement of Gov. Smith’s mn-! TOKYO, Jan, Four '“‘"“y to be given by any State . Japanese airmen have been chos Territorial unit ag a whole.. lon to make the first attempt to " Daloyates onfigieed tar the e | saas Ube s T o et 1 tional convention were: SImon flight to the United States. Hellcathal and John W. Tro Construetion of two planes al- Juneau: A. A. Shonbeck, Anchor-|ready is under way and July 1 age; Willlam H. Whittlesey, pas heen wet as the date for tha Seward ;Thomas Devane, Ruby; ' take.off. Kasumigaura, near Tok- Thomas Gaffney, Nome. Candi-iyo has been chosen for the start- dates endorsed for Positions asiing point. It all goes well, the alternates to the convention were. yapanese aviators expect to bring James McCloskey, Juneau; Mrs.iy plane to earth on the aviation A. J. Dimond, Valdez; Harty F..jielq in Senttle, nearest American, Morton, J. R. Campbell, Anchor-'port to Japan, in 48 hours. age; John B. Powers, Bagle, and! The Japanese Imperial Aero- T. H. Deal, Fairbanks. | nautical Association = has under. Name l’sul:¥1 Committee [ written a fund of $350,000 which Turning to the rehabilitation iy considered necessary to finance of its organization muchlnery, the lllzhl.. The two planes to b3 the convention endorsed J. young | Teuro Fujimoto. The latter pmt will try first and if they fail the other two will attempt the trip in another plane. The route, shown on the map below, is about 2,000 miles longer than the one Lind- | Borth, used in the attempt will c $190,000. The consiruction of au appropriate runway is expécted to cost $50,000. Two practice planes costing $25,000 also will be usel. Two aviators ranked as ths foremost civilian flyers in the em- pire, Teruo Fujimoto, 25, and No- butake Kaieda, 24, have been chosen to fly the first plane. Fu- Jimoto is flight commander. 7 mishap befalls the first plane, tha second expected to start im mediately, in charge of Uichi Su- wa, 26, and Yukichi Goto, 28. The Japanese flyers plan to fol- low the great circle route, parai- lel to the Seattle-Yokohama ship- lCnnumml on l’uge 'rhree) Connors, former Mayor of..luneuu and a member of the old Terri-: torial committee, for Democratic| National Committeeman, the posi- tion which has been held for sev- eral yvears by T. J. Donohoe, of Cordova. It then picked a new central “Perritorial Committee with members from each Divi- gion. = On' this body were named: | T. J. Donohoe, Chairman, Simon Hellenthal, Juneau, James Ver- din, Ketchikan, First Division; Thomas Gaftney and Hugh O’'Neill, Second Division; A. A. Shonbeck ‘and P. C. McMullen, Third Division; A. J. Nordale and Luther C. Hess, both former Ter- ritorial Legislators,. Fourth Divi- sion memhem Platform The convention organized quickly’ and without dissension, W. B. Kirk, of Juneau, was made temporary chairman. A. J. Nor- dale, Fairbanks, and F. J, Hayes, Cordova, were elected permanent | chairman and secrelary respec. Circuit Court Afiin{u $1.560 Judgment for Death, Ketchikan Man SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 23 ~Judgment for $1,560 in favor of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bishop, against the Ketchikan Lumber Company, for the death of their som, has been affirmed by the United States Circuit court. ————————— ELKS' DEPUTY LEAVES J. J. Delaney, District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler of the Klks, who has been visiting in Juneau for several days, left for his home in Anchorage on the Admirsl Watson. He was accompanied by his wife, I e i ———————— (Continued on Page Eight.) Proposed Women’s Party Is Regarded as Warning S - o1, e © BERLIN, Jan. 23—A movementand social significance they form a women’s political par‘s{ entitled, their leaders are sufft- the country’s total 35 electoral] ciently clever “to realize that the districts with Frau Dr. Marie .on. the present Demoeratic dep-] party would y in the Reichstag, as the ? of ensur :ys candidate for the mt s- | ine rep: by the | tag. that elections, is rel ::-mm papers. le afi tm inclined tn ! h Commenting on this news, Mu‘ atischier Zoltungsapmasv| o PONteS ».wmi "vnm. it 18 ot at all|other’ po Iy be the mean: imposing femin- n in the Reichs- en’s party rather o]pz 'n?:lu to the | ‘parties in future formation of a distinct women’s day mmt m rumor of the. project-1 ., BUILDER OF PANAMA CANAL PASSES AW AY | 3 day in +4nomination for Senator, {ceed Forrest J. Hunt, whose term i | EALS NEW mK, Jm 23—Major General W. Goethais, buiider of the Panama Canal, died in his apartment here last Satur- MAJ. The nllno of fi.jor George Washington’ Goethals will be Te- corded in' m as the man who accomp! “one of the greatest]| ts of “and comstrue-: tion since the Eg tting of While "IN BiG_ UNION - START THINGS {¢hant of Wrangell. ifrom Ketchikan indfcated Sena- {tor Hunt would be a candidate >r | renomination. PAINE REPORTS 3 COUNTRIES Dissatisfaction in Latin- American Countries Comes to Head HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. —Dis. ! satisfaction in various Latin- American countries with the op- eration of the Pan-American Un- ion crystalized in sweeping reform proposals. Three delegations have prepar- ed proposals for presentation 'to the committee on Pan-American Union aNairs. Following a con-| ference of the delegations of | x Peru and Argentine, it 23 has the matter which will for accusations lead in ments ground with amend- | remove the | that the Union established | in Washington is too directly under the influence of the United RUMORS START BORAH TALKING Idaho Senator States that Predictions Are *“Sheer Madness” o 3o BR0- posals . before Congress for a greater Navy and the recent pre. dictions &f a war over commerce constitute “sheer madness” in the opinion of Senator William E.| Republican, of Idaho, and| a duplicate of the “insane pol- icy” that marked the Anglo-Ger- man relations prior to the World War. Attacking as ‘“‘mischievious to the last degree” the recent rec- ommendation of Admiral Charles Hughes for virtually a billion dollar Navy and the statement | attributed to Rear Admiral Charles Plunkett that war with Great Britain over commerce is inevitable, Senator Borah said: “This is part of a well organized plan to prepare the public mind for naval race of a Umited namber of cruisers to help police our commerce. This can be jus-i tified, but this program, together with the wild exeited statements about war, is sheer mmlness & 'TWO FILINGS MADE FOR G. O. P. PRIMARY| Two new filings for legislative nominations ‘were made here to. the office of Clerk ot (‘ours it was announced by Wal | {ter B. King, Chief Deputy Clerk. | Both. were lur the Republlmn | primary. | Charles Benjnnfln, menlber of the 1927 House of Representa- | tives, has filed for Republic to suc expires with the coming elections. r. Benjamin is a prominent mer- It is expected that he will have some opposition for the nomination as repo-ts The second filing was made by Mrs. Ella Dyer Smith, of this city | She u the wife of Harold Smitn, Ranger' for this distri )frl‘ Smtth Mfl( ‘resided Sitka. BAYS FULL ICE More ice taah has been seen in years fills the bays and inlets of the shoreline between Juneau an/ Kake, according to Judge V. A. Paine, who raqn'nd 0 Juneau this morning on the 1° Ameri- |ca 1 Capt, Tom Smith. The ice, Ilavevcr. fl fit‘ in the waterway and there- menace. hu been absent from the e Wednesday ity of Hawuon, Democrats_ as the scene of gHem 1928 nominating convention, has no misgivings about its capacit- for entertaindng a throng of 30,000 persong next June, although it is one of the smallest cities chosen in recent years to play host to guch a gathering. Four other cities that have en tertained national political co ventions since 1880 were small than Houston, which today claim 300,000 ‘inhabitants. Kansas City had only 164,000 population when it was host ti the Demeocratg in 1900, Minneapo:- is entertained the Republicang i 1892 when it was a c¢ity of 170.000 Denver was the Democratic meet ing place in 1908 when it had only hosgn the U. S, SAILOR KILLS THREE NICARAGUANS {Shots Two Attackers, Slays Third with Machette —Fierce Fight MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. Three Nicaraguans were ‘(lllt'll in a fierce fight near Gran- ada with an American sailor and United States Marine, who at- tempted to go to the rescue of ‘a: fourth Nicaraguan being hacked to death with machettes. Newton, United States killed three Nicaraguans fter his companion, Harold L Crowell, of the Marines, had on the hands by his assailants. The two men were horseback when they came upon three Nicaraguans at- tacking a fourth. They dismount- ed with the intent of disarming the attackers and the three Ni- caraguans who. by this time had killed the fourth, turned on them, Crowell whipped out his pistol but the ' eartridge failed to ex- plode. The Nicaraguans attacked him, cutting him. Meanwhile Newton killed two men who were attempting to de- capitate him. Crowell and New- ton atteémpted to shoot the third man but the shot failed to ex- plode and Newton saized & m: ette and killed him. 1ast, having left that day on the Monroe, Capt. M. D, Dall, for from where he went to his fox farm on the Keku Islands to Wlhfl of his ‘~d—-..-.—— Among flfim arriving in Jnnuu on lmlfll Watson were . n ¢ H. E. Rupert and W-, Nc%mnlg uhmu. X '1"' L HOUSTON, 1928 DFM()CRATIC HOST, FACES HEA VY TASK C()NFIDENTLY ENDS ATTACK y (left), ,85 year-old SENATE TRUGE. NOW BE MADE NlLalaguan Pollcy Is Com- | ing Up for Another On- | | i | i | | Nicaraguan policy, | which the slaught by Senators FIRST BATTLE DUE ABOUT WEDNESDAY Cron of Resolutions to Be Examined by Senate Committee WASHINGTON, Senate leaders of I declared an have again on the Jan. 23--The both partles “open season” Administration’s with the 1e- turn of President Coolidge®from Havana. Nothing has been said or done during the President's absence, a fruce having been declared under Senate refrained from any action which might embarrass the Executive. This truce ended today, when Senatorial comment ! was made that the policy question {may come up early { Above is the imposing) voles in Governor of Texas, and Clem L. | is” went s cmufi'nufi ni] und Galveston Is only 65 1880 they 255,000. ‘Demiocratic delegates and vis! tors to Houston during the weck of June 26, will share such hos- pitality as few gatherings of the sort have experienced, for they will literally be taken into the homes of Houston people if hotcl facilities are strained. Houston has a municipal audi- torium seating 5,000 persons and capable of holding another thous- and, on such an oeccasion as this, in a junior auditorium. If thi: seems insufficient the city is will- ing to build a new meeting place to house the thousand full-fledged delegates, their alternates and the attendant throng. That its hotels can care for 15, met of but in a city | Cosgrave to Have Audience With Coolidge WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. ~—~Willlam Cosgrave, Presi- dent of the Exectuive Coun- cil of the Irish Free State, arrived here today from Chi- | cago for a four day visit. The Cosgrave program in- cludes an audience with | President Coolidge. DUNN JOINS TIMES STAFF SEATTLE, Jan. 23 Resignation | of John M. Dunn, night city edi-| | | nate Associated © Presk, o hr‘«'mru night. Dunn {s a son of John H. Duny Clerk of the United States Dis- trict Court at Juneaw. He was born iIn Nome, attended higa| schools at Anchorage and Juneau, and the University of Washingten | School of Journalism. He is ro- garded as one of the hest young newspapermen In Beattle. He has! been with the Associated Press in Seattle for over two yurl. ——————a— BUYER ALLEN RETURNS T. L. ‘Allen, wuyer for Gold- stein’s !-porlum. returmted herve “the ' Admiral [Watson after a awav with ftg additional faeilfth linked to Houston by fast cleetyi and steam lines Houston s a bit proud of ils own record. It has grown to its' present size from a city of 45,000 in 1900, due in large measure t its ship canal completed in. 1920. With half a hundred steamships | making it a port of call, and with ' an export tonnage ranking nintl in the country, it has become n bustling modern city with litile o the repose of the old gouth. Representatives of the Telaw city feel that by winning for the'r metropolig the first national mn- vention of a major party to he held in Texas, Houston has thrust ! {another feather into its cap and! { brought further rceognition of fts! 210,000 |nhammn(~, and Mu-n the? 000 visitors Houston has rhnwn”le(m « of ‘expansion. Yukon Forced Down| SKAGWAY, Alaska, Jan, 23— | The aeroplane Queen of the Yi- kon went into the air today for 30 minutes and was forced down at Mayo. This is the TIirst at ) | temipted flight since the first of | last December. | HOSPITAL ASKS DONATIONS ‘. { business houses would care to dd to the St. Ann's hospital! ! would be appreciated, aceordfhz' | to hanpnul attendants. | STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan. 2% ~The Atlantic coast from Maing been attacked and severely cutitor of the Beattle Bureau of the to Florida is not the only abodz of rum-runners. The Baltic seul] riding | Northwest editor ' of the Seattls | has become a hive of swift small suddenly | Times, wag announced Hntnnhy‘honu carrying liguor from B# | thonia to Finland. Machine guns |bark and there have becn piich |ed battles between rival rum-rum- ners and hi-jackors. In Esthonia liguor ig distilled in Jarge factorieg and sold on the lapnn market. In Finland there is prohibition. The shortest dis | tance between them that have and | themt that haven't, according t. the ram-runner, is a straight line across the water. The Finnish government hay spent large sums to enforce pro- | hibition, but its long coastline asd much opposition trom ‘the populad| tion make enforcement a gigantic | thoir home stations. {to the Staté of Nueva Segovia to {take the field against the Sand w‘ | WASHINGTON, Any old linen which homes or | this week. The first definite step is expect- ed to he taken on Wednesday when the Forelgn Relations Com- miitee will examine a ecrop of resolutions before it touching ova !.cunon and all of Texas conhunt without qualms the tisk cf playing hoct next June to the the Nicaraguan situaiion. first Demecratic National Convention ever to meet in the Lone Star State. skyline of the city of 300,000 perzons, and bclow arc two men who will play important prep@rations for the gathering: Dan L. M Shmr, Cmumn of the Democratic Naticnal Committeh Republican Independents afa urging a full Investigation of the Nicoragun episode with a view of {returning American Marines Adm BLe it is. TAKING FIELD % MANAGUA, Jan. 23—Unitod (States Marine reinforcen ‘mimbering 1,000 men are | the situation al 7 4 rebels. STAR R MEN IN 0IL SCANDAL CALLED UPON _ Government Calls Two Wit- nesses in Jury Tamper- ing Case to | Help Out Jan, 28— Starting the windup on its at- tempt to prove Harry F. Sinelair, Willlam Burng and associates are guilty of contempt for having the Teapot Dome oil conspiraey jury shadowed, the Government {has called on Don King, news- \pn]u" reporter, and Willlam Me- Mullin, Burns detective, two of its most important witnesses, to assist the prosecution, King charged Juror Kidwell with having talked about the cnse, McMullin - expesed jury \hulfl\‘l’lflf IDRY FINLAND DRAWS RUM ROW TO BALTIC T #ea, they slip into a small harber under cover of darkness, and lanl their cargoes. Strong competition has grown up between the sellers and el frequently occur. One dramatic fight is gtill reverberating through the north. A Finn and an Esthonian were anchored some 15 miles southwest ‘| ot Hangoe wselllng their liquo:. The Finn was asking more than the Esthonfan, and the latter sol1 out, while the Finn still had 100- 000 gallons of liquor. When I was dark the Finn set !sdil and with all lights out he sicered for his competitor. Ha ran him down and ¥ailed on with: out waiting to pick up the nd' The FEsthonlans managed to get inlo a liteboat and’ were sul quently rescued ‘by am Al steamer which mok them- to. weeks' mp to Seattle, Beli|task. Both Finnish and Esthoniany singfors. Ingham and Portland. Miss Hal- hoats can be seen anchored 15 Police boats patrol vorsen, another ‘buyer, who left miles out at sea walting flew cys-{side of the Baltic, rt of December, | itornta, tomers. If they hav lpmu-d of theip wnm uu hiza | cato n&wlln guny u‘