The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 31, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXI., NO. 4700. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 1928. ' MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS * PRICE TEN CENTS NAVY BUILDING PROGRAM OUTLINED CURTIS OPENS HEADQUARTERS | NEW YORK CITY ampaign Is Started for Senator’s Nomination for Presidency [ OV. PAULEN MAKES | OPENING STATEMENT Says All But Eleven States | Are for Curtis—Low- den Quarters Closed . NE | | | YORK, Jjan. 31. — The| of the only avowéd for the Republican nomination, Unitad Charles Curtis, is underway in New York the headquarters of Midwesterner, former 0. Lowden, of Illi- have been closed. enator Curt campaign has been launched by Gov. Ben Paul- 'm, of Kansas, in an address be- fore a dinner of the Kansas So- iety of New York. Ordered Closed The Lowden headquarters, op- rned several months ago at the Idorf, have heen closed on ‘orders of the gentlemen who prdered it opened,” said Mrs William Crawford, who directed ts dismantling. Her husband has een in charge. Gov. Paulen hailed Senator urtis, who rose from a ‘“race rack jockey to leadership of his rty in the Senate, as a man of he people. « &n wdidate PPresidential States Senator ally while fellow Frank his jov jnoi Benator Curtis, if nominated, ould carry all*but eleven States hnd will have a fighting chance n three of these. Gov. Paulen- said he would toncede but eleven States to Gov. . E. Smitls in the event he will pe the Democraic nominee. These ere named as New Jersey, Vir- inia, South Carolina, Delaware, aryland, Georgia, Alabama, ississippi, Louisiana, Texas and rkans: Gov. Paulen said Vir- inia, Alabama and Texas are loubtful Smith States. He said pmith would run better against loover than Curtis. ISSING SUB IS REPORTED WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Fears hat another disaster like that o the submarine $-4 had over- aken the Navy were dispelled ith news that the S-3 is safe In Florida waters and steaming oward Cuba. The submarine has heen mis- ing since Saturday. It was found nte last night. Her position was iven in a message to the Navy pepartment. No details other han she was proceeding under er own power to Cuba were iven. It is Dbelieved her radio ad been damaged. ————————— CHARLES KALBERG DIES SEATTLE, Jan. 31.—Funeral ervices for Charles M. Kalberg, ved 69 years, who sought gold t Nome and in the Yukon Ter- itory, were held today. He died st halurdny. ]—E\PPY DESPITE COLD SHOULDER Edythe Baker, popular American planist and revue star, becomes the bride or Gerard D'Erlanger, 21-year-old son of Baron D'Erlanger, at the London Register office. The honeymooners seem to be happy despite the face that the blue-blood family of the bridegroom has frowned Upon the union. (International Tl ROOSEVELT IS NOW WORKING . \ AGAINST SMITH Campaign Trlp Being Made in° Midwest—Charges Are Being Made Vi e g e S TOPEKA, |, Kans., Carrying into ‘the Midwest the fight against Gov. A. E. Smith, who he declared the Democratic Party was preparing to run for President, Col. Theodore Roose- velt charged that Tammany Hall is seeking control of the White| House and the Nation ! the New York Executive. Roose-| velt simultaneously ddvocated | that the Republican Party adopt a plank opposing religious intol- | erance. Col. Roosevelt addressed 1,500 Republican at the Kansas City, annual banquet. He declared| that Gov. Smith was a product ind leader of Tammany which w virtually unchanged since| i the days of Boss Tweed. { Lund Says Washington | Has Hoover Sentiment Jan: 31— | — { WASHIN G TON, Jan. 31.— Charles P. Lund, of Spokane, who has frequently participated in Republican Party organiza-| tion, called on Secretary of Com- merce Hoover today and told the Secretary that sentiment in! Washington State was developing' strongly in. his direction for| President. Confesses to Stealing ; Alaska Furs; Senten;edl SEATTLE, Jan. 31.—William | Bennett has been sentenced to; sfx months when he pleaded guilty to having in his possession valuable furs stolen from the United States mails while en-! route to the States from Alaska. Bennett was caught seeking to sell the furs. He said he was iwcting as a go-between and that| 1 friend of his had Hl(l]tn lhem [OWN MARKS FAILURE OF COMMUNAL IDEA NEW HARMONY, Ind., Jan. 31 -Age-blackened buildin stand- g up sturdily under the weight t decades, cluster in New Har- hony, visual reminders of one of he greatest failures in commun- y living. New Harmony was the home of he original Rappites. It was ‘n 14 that George Rapp and 100 of s followers penetrated the vir- lin forests and established a town e. They desired a settlement It their own where they could undisturbed and according o belief that Christ soon would e to earth again, within a decade the Rapp- - disposed of their holdings, obert ovw, Scoteh |- ref { fi‘ . alth [ y acres and the town in 1825. ‘Owen’s plan also failed, but’ the ~ little settlement became’ known for the men it gave to the world. Thomas Say was one. He came; here to help establish a school of natural science. Two of his celebrated works, his “Entomolo- gy,” and his “Conchology,” were completed here. The old Rappite “fort, comstruct- ed in 1818, iy still standing. 1t later was used by David Dulo Owen as the first United States | a; geological surfey headquarters. . ‘Owen was the fifst government | geologist and Say the first fed- eral utonmd-t New Harmony through |+ its promise. !the context was used ustrated News) Lindbergh Is | Preparing for | 1,000 Mile I'Ilght CARAC, A., Jan, 31.-—The | flag of another country | graces the sides of the Spirit of St. Lounis at Col. Charles | | A. Lindbergh made prepara- | | tions in the midst of almost | delirious festivities for the | | 1,000-mile hop to the Vir{ | | gin_lslands. While, he wu[ - receiving. e Cof-tie 1 | eity that closed virtually all | business houses in his honor, | the Venezuelan flag was painted on the fuselage of his plane by the side of other flags. of countries he | has visited. —evo—— BUNNELL NOW IN SEATTLE ON HIS WAY NORTH President ot Alaska Col- lege Brings Back En- couraging News SEATTLE, Jan. Charles B. Bunnell, | Agricultural College and of Mines, at Fairbanks, declared on his arrival here from ia' two -months’ visit in Wash- ington, D. C., that he was con- 31.—President of the Alaska School | vinced Congress will appropriate funds for the establishment of an Agricultural Experimental Sta- tion at Fairbanks. He will re- sume his journey to Fairbanks next Saturday, the steamer Alaska. President Bunnell, while. in Washington, said he learned that the widow of the late Alfred Brooks, Alaskan geologist, attach- ed to the Interior Department, had decided to turn over to th Alaska college, her husband’s extensive library on Alaskan geo- logy amnd general development. The library contains more than 2,000 bound volumes. President Bunnell sharply crit- icised the article in the Atlantic Monthly, by Col. Wilds P. Rich- ardson, on AlasKa, its cost and The article attack- ed the Government construction of the Alaska Railroad as a waste of Government funds and criticised other governmental pol- icies in Alaska. Bunnell said the article as a whole was not gross- ly unfair but parts lifted from by un- friendly Eastern newspapers and Congressmen - to block develop- ment of the Territory. leaving on - FOR COLLEGE WASHIN G TON, Jan. 31. ,Granting of 100,000 acres of non- mlner-l public lands for use of fln A Agricultural College of Mines, at Fair- lukl. is proposed in a Jx;, Delegate “Sutherland. 4 —”‘———» of the Fairbanks | WASHIN Alaska, | Buckwheat Cakes And Sausages Served by Coolidge WASHINGTON, | —White House breakfasts were resumed today when President Coolidge invited a | group of Democratic and Republican Senators for buckwheat cakes and sau- sage. Among those invited included Senators Bingham, Brookhart, Couzens and Cut- ting, all Republicans; Sen- | ators Barkley, Blasck, Brat- ton, Brousard, Caraway, Copeland, Dill and Edwards, Democrats. Jan. 31. | | 9 ANNUAL ARMY MONEY BILL GIVEN HOUSE Appropnallons Committee | Reports Bill for Total of $399,000,000 ON, Jan. 31.—Car- total of §399,000,000, $50,4 ,000 for non- activities, the annual rying a including military day reported to the House by the Appropriations Committee. The amount represents an increase of $3,654,000 over current funds but a decrease of $194,000 under the Budget estimates. The Appropriations Committee said .the members found that a deficit existed ime the nation’s | an alarming amount. Tt asked that $7,000,000 be used for pro- curement of ammunition for next year and said the War Depart- ment plans the present program for 1930 looking to gradual elim- ination of the existing deficit. Of the total nonmilitary al- lotment, $50,000,000 is made available in a lump sum for carrying out'existing rivers and harbors project and continuance during the next fiscal year of an Army of 118,750 men, including 1,048 men to be absorbed into the Air Corps, under the five- year aviation program. It also provides for an appropriation for an Air Zorps amounting to $24,- 850,000, plus the contract auth- orization of $5,000,000. The committee said the total number of planes under the five- year program will be more than imet at the end of the year when there will be 1,098 planes on hand against the program figures of 1,353 planes. The bill proposes to appro- priate nearly $5,000,000 towards new construction at - militz posts. An appropriation of $33, 981,000 for sea coast defense is also provided. Alaska Activities Funds for Army activities in Alaska were comstruction and {maintenance of roads, bridges and trails amounting to $590,000; Lowell Creek (Seward), $100,- 900; wagon roads, bridges and trails, $126,000; funds comtribut- ed to improvement of roads, bridges and trails, $100,000. Want Pond to Be Drained Now for Missing Student NORTHAMPTON, Mass,, Jan. 31.—Demand that the pond on Smith College campus be drained thoroughly and the “bottom ex- plored faced investigators' who for more than two weeks have fruitlessly sought the where- abouts of Miss Francig Ste John Smith, who disappeared Januafy 13. The pond was drained the day after Miss Smith disappeared but the ice was never removed leaving many patches covered which might conceal tHe body. Several of those familiar with the case contend that the girl probably took her own life in a fit of depression caused by schol- astic difficulties. ———————— — APPROVES ALASKA BILL WASHINGTON, Jan, 31.—The House Publie Lands Committee has_reported favorably- on, Dele- gate Sutherland’s bill authoriz- ing the sale of land near Seward, to the Woman's Home for use in Jense e, or- Army appropriations bill was to- *lis not yet counted. GIVING FLORY NEW AUTHORITY Department of Agriculture, Outlines Policy of Cor- relation of Work WASHINGTO. Jan. 31. relation of bureau work in Al- aska by the Department of Ag-i riculture will aid in the solution of the Territory’s problem of lack of wealth and population, Secre- tary of Agriculture William M. Jardine said on commenting upon the new order outlining the du- ties of Charles H. Flory, of Ju- ,ll(‘.’lll. Alaska, Agricultural Com- missioner, “Alaska must be bullt upon| permanent lines through crzation | {and enlargement of industries that will stay,” Sceretary Jardine |said. .~ He declared it needed co- | ‘uper-:lmu of the Forest S(‘rvi-e‘i { Biologieal Survey, Weather Bu- rean, - Pullic Roads, mission and Experi tions to promote ment of Alaskan resources. Cor- Started Last Year f The Department of Agricuiture geveral months ago announced the | designation of District Forester Flory as ox-officio Alaska Com- misgioner for the Department placing its bureaus under his; general direction. During latter part of 1927, Mr. imade a survey of the activities of these bureaus and drew up a program for submission to the department, He was summoned to Wash- to rvu(er tary %né “wind bu- reau ‘chiefs regarding his recom-{ mendations. . Most of them, it is| understood here, were approved | jame Com- | mienial 8 full devlop- the | | Flory { Near East Decorated for Work) hd with its dis - Mrs: Dorothy per nght) Mi the Caucausus mountains. by the Secretary and embodied Iln a departmental order which | designates Mr. Flory's duties as; Commissioner. The text of the | torder was not received here. Others Are Affected Other departments concerned | in a similar re-organization of Alaskan bureaus are the l)t‘[)fll'l': ment of Interior and .Department | of Commerce. Gov. George A Parks represents the former and Dennis Winn the latter, both hav-| ing been ex-officio Commission- ers for their respective depart- ments. The Governor said today | that the Interior Department is| preparing an order exu-hl.shiux‘ a policy of correlation within its; lown organization and peunnnuu Jin Alaska and co-ordination with | |the other two departments nam-| led. The purport of the policy is to have everything required to be done by Federal agencies for Al-| aska to be performed within the | Territory and as far as possible by residents of the Territory. — | COLD WAVE IN FLORIDA DOES GREAT DAMAGE 31.—The NEW week-end YORK, Jan. gale that lashed the Bastern States from the Great Lakes to the BEverglades and piled deep snow over wide ar nas spent its fury but the cost General severe wealher remain- od but the temperdture is rising. The mereury, well below freezing in Florida, caused heavy produce {damage and two-thirds of all tender truck crops in Southern Florida is reported to have been killed when the temperature was at the lowest. General replant- ing is declared by the growers to be the only recourse. Be'rut Balcen Plans Around World Flight With John H. Mears CLEVBLAND, Ohio, Jan. 31..— Bernt Balchen, pilot for Com- mander Richard E. Byrd on the trans-Atlantic flight, announced today he will attempt an around the world flight next summer with John Henry#*Mears, as com- panion. The present plans call for- a fight in June over the route whieh ‘will require one month. went around the world 14, |things of ‘the past for !cans who have returned to their| | the |ices, |Greece, | orphans C | NEW YORK, Jan. 31 ships tie disease-infested, revolution-torn Near East are all 14 Ameri- homes for leaves of absence from ranks of the Near East Re-| lief. In of their serv- Turk and were given the Medal of the annual recognition in Russia, these 14 Distinguished Service the organization at meeting here. Seven of the workers are wom whose official report in the East Reliel office reads like war record. Famines, massa- cres, earthquakes, disease, all were experiences from which they say they have come back home ‘‘for a rest.’ Miss Dorothy Stratten of Nor walk, Conn., lived through 72 days of earthquakes last year in Armenia and had thousands of under her care in the two institutions in the affected area. After this disuster she was transferred to Leninakan in aucansus mountains, where the Near East Relief operates haps the largest orphanage the world. Miss Agnes Evon of Pittsfield, Mass., was cited for her herol m in the Smyrna disaster in 19 where she was responsible for giving aid to thousands of women and children. Her life saved by a United States Marine who carried her scene of action Last was in Beirut where charge of all the relief Syria and was the founder maternity hospital Mluu Jennie Ryan, of Malone, . Y., was in Adia Minor during en I\ just in own year she she a of a devastating typhus epidemic. {by his wife, are westward bound: Coast. She assisted in the rvemoval of 22,000 people from the central| part of the country to the coast| during the periods of deportation, W.C.T.U. Planning Fight Against the Election of a Wet| CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—Danger of electing a wet to the Presidency of the United States is stressed | by Natfonal and Midwestern lead- ers of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. called togeth- er to unite women in the cause of prohibition enforcement at elections, Mrs. Margaret C. Munns, Na- tional Treasurer of the W. C. T.! U. 'told the women that nulifiea- tion of the liquor jaws might readily follow the election to the Presidency of a man in sympathy 'MI llur‘” the | bodily from the had | work in’ "'ORDER ISSUED \Women Who Brsivod Hardships Among fourteen American workers uwu'ded by the Near East Our service medal arc seven wmn. - Misy Teanne bl Elsic lmball ‘(lower left) and Miss Agnes Evon' ., (lower right) witnessed dicturbing conditions in Asia Minor and|requirements alone and carries |and massacre of the Turkish orities. Miss Elsle Kimball, \\'wvmn, N. Y., spent five in the midst of starvation | epldemie | Wi at Kars at the time of massucres there in 1922, Others who were given nition their work in recog of thes desolated 1egions during the last Am- Car-| York; London, Wilfred Rose Frank Mrs, ew five or sly years erica, Buffalo, N lotta Wells Bri Gertrude Colt, Conn.; Captain H. Day, Pelham, Ewad, Yonkers, Wilcox, Yomkers, 3 Eastman, Cleveland; Fowle, Providence, R. L: Charles Morris, New York. ———n FAMOUS ARTIST are: w d Mrs Y. eorge M ; Harry A | per- ACC ., Jan. ' Edmund Os th.mu aged 70, ternationally known famous tist, was found dead in at the Mariana Hunting Osthaus presumably died the night, a victim of tack. He mal wild 1i and noteds larly for several hunting vasses. —_——— Willlam D. ar a Copperaaill, Dis | Attorney of the Third Divisio and W. H. Hodge, assistant diz triet attorney, who resides Cordova, ‘the latter accompanisd passengers on the Alunu-du E yes at Jan. and | NEW YORK,, {traplines in forest where the trapper last in costly coats. Linking dealer, is the fur 500.000 animal s0ld this January in New York at the collector to auction. Close to 1. ! | auctions. < They will bring De- their raw state. | pppears “ipetitive nin- nations.” of \lnunt years and in Southern Russin and, "' EXTEND SCOPE Charles | and IS FOUND DEAD in- bed Lodge. during heart at- painter of ani-| particu- can- at gathers s pelts, it is a long journey to the were assembled the skins of sil- | 'boulemrnlu where furs appear at,ver foxes, with a wholesale value the! manufacturer and retafler | yhich sgmple’ were th l"‘( pelts are being the greatest of the three annual . price’ he tween $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 In‘ ,"‘, buyers. m.. in A week Dbefore the ulq heging the fur merchant or lis huyer PLAN FOR WAR VESSELS TOLD BY PRESIDENT Coolidge Discusses for First Time Adminis- tration’s Policy BUllD AS MANY SHIPS TREASURY WARRANTS Rephes to. Critics’ in il dress at Meeting of Government Depts. WASHINCGTON, Jan. 31.—Dis- cussing for the first time the Administration’s warship eomn- !etraetion program, President Conlidge declared it was the in- tention to build ships as fast as | the econdition of the Treasury | warrants. This was stated in an | nddress last night at the semi- {annual business meeting of the !Government departments in which he stressed economy anll asserted it would be better to have no tax reduction than too much, The President, by inference, | replied to Congressional critics of the Administration’s naval i plans on the ground they do not knpull’_\' the date for beginning or Leompleting the construction of l!ll new ships, pointing out no aathorization has been made for navy building since the program of 1916. Fresident Coolidge said: “Reec- ommendations now before Con- . igress replace the obsoleté naval { ‘"ueln and moderately increase naval strength. It conte he construction prog AL ant. | It conslders Its own \no thought of entry into com- construction with other e P. A. UNION T0 ALL TREATIES Instead of Taking in U. S. and 20 Republics, World Considered HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 31— ‘'he scope of treéaties arrived at (the Pan-American Conference has ‘been widened to include the world instead of the United States and twenty Latin-Amer- fean republies. The treaties involved are those dealing with eommereial avia- tion. Felipe spil, of Argentina, said that if the article lmiting ad- herence to members of the Pan- American Union are not amond- ed, vther countries, notably Can- ada, will be forced: to conclude 21 separate conventions with |other nations of the American hemlisphere, Henry Fleteher, States, eaid his nation would have no objection to any amend- ment to give the widest possible seope. e Among the arrivals en the Ala. meda was Miss Christine Halvo:- sen, who has been on a several | weeks' buying trip on the Pacific She has been representing Goldstefn's Emporium: of thé United Buyers Bid wzth Theu,r Blg Fur Auctwn 31— l-‘uunlv«nreholue he eumlne- the furs swamp, (o be put on sale. In one square room this year of more than $1,400,000. Nearby, |in other rooms, were gathered $4;- 000,000 of other furs,. of { buyers p logk at. Fach '~ notes, . in U" caimlogues of the lots ‘for sale, lu falr for a ot The mext weok N | that interests 'l‘hel\,r‘. - @