The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 4, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE [VOL. XXXI., NO. 4704. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CEN[S MAYOR’S HOME, OHIO TOWN, BOMBED Scheme Outlined to Orgamze Fascism in All Nations WORLD WIDE FASCIST PLAN i | | | IS ANNOUNCED New Constitution Is Out-i lined by Premier Mus- NF WEST PHOTOS OF MISSING GIRL solini of Ilaly A world wide m is out tution f has been organization of in new co sts abroad which issued by Mussolini. By the constitution, siding in other countries, m: swear allegiance to the Fascist regime and receive membership cards in the organization and re-| ceive instructions from Consuls abroad, °t representatives of the F vernment. The new co itution consists | of twelve articles, the first of| which calls upon all Italians| aboard to respect the laws of the| countries in which they are liv- ing; enjoins them to probity in public and private lives, be char- itable to' compatriots in want and, he disciplined with the same dis- cipline imposed in their home land. A, PLENARY SESSION HELD inal Reports on Many Recommendations. Are Given Approval Ttaliams re- | HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 4—The Pan-American Conferenge, in Plenary session, voted a blanket approval of the final report of the Commitlee on social problems; | approved in part recommendations of Committees on intellectual, co- loperation and gconomic problems; re-adoption of the Pan-American sanitary code; recommendations for co-operation of American | states in extending the principles of. eugenics and recommendation that American governments be urged to continue to co-operate in the establishment and develop- | ment of the Red Cross through-|¥ out the American continent, with- jout dissension. Charles E. Hughes, speaking for co-operation of governments with the Red Cross gave eloquent pression of his admiration for the humanitarian work of the Red] Cross. | BIG FIRE AT PREMIER MINE STEWART, B. C., Feb. 4—Fire complete destroyed the cook house of the Premier Gold Mining [Company, community” hall, com- jmissary stores and bunk house. he damage will run into the thousands of dollars, it is said, ccording to early estimates. The| pperations of the mine will notl he interferred with. — e [/ nsuccessful Attempt Madé to Break from Prison; Dep,uty Dend TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 4.— Toseph H. Tinney, deputy keeper at the State Prison, is dead; Har- vy Baster, long term convict is dying, and F‘runk Wunkomkl, another convict “fs in solitary confinement as the result of an unsuccessful attempt of the two fprisoners to shoot their way to liberty. ‘The break was made hile the prisoners were being - % | Here are three new pictures of Frances St. John Smith, missing New York heiress and Smith College student, for whoso discovery rewards | now totaling $12,000 are offered. The photos with the glasses make quite a change in her appearance, and she may be passing unrecognized somes where by wearing them, (International Newsreel) ’NEWGOBHIF | Chairman of S. 0. Board is Arrested WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 Roberf W. Stewart, Chal man of the Board of the Standard Oil Company i Indiana, arrested by . the | | United States Senate, has | been released on a writ of habeas corpus granted by Justice Dailey of the Su- | preme Court, The hearing is set for Tuesday. Bond was | fixed at $1,000. i f | INTERNATIONAL LAW PROPOSED Resolution Is Prepared for Presentation to Congress WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. A Parliament of Peace which would # draw up an international code of laws s contemplated in a reso- lution which Representative Lor- ing. M. Black, Jr., Democrat of New York, has prepared for in- troduction. Representative “The international code should be prepared by a convention drawn from the national legisla- tive hodies of all nations. Leg- islators are respomsible to the people and would reflect the peo- ple’s desire for peace.” - TROUBLE IN OHIO CAMP Burton Co—_m—es Out for Hoover — Willis Is “Ready to Fight” WASHINGTON, Feb. 4-The declaration . of Representative Theodore: E; Burton, of Ohio, that hé was for Herbert C. Hoover, for the . Republican Presidential nomination, has been accepted by ! Senator mk B. Willis, as a challenge' to his candidacy and he announced he s “ready to fight. Bert McGee, Freighter Of lfi Passes Away —J—-- RUBY.‘ Alaska, Feb. 4'-Bert McGee, who has. been freighting of | TAKES ISSUE WITH W'ADOO Kremer Believes Smith Be| Nominee—Prohibi- tion Not Issue Black said: NEW YORK: Feb. 4—J. Bruca| Krenier, National Committeeman from Montana and floor leader of | the ‘McAdoo forces at the 1921| Demogratic National Convention, has taken issue with his former chief as to the necessity of ap- plying the “acid test” on Pronis bition as an essential to the qual- ification of “candidates for th¢ Presidency. Kremer -expressed the conviction that. Gov. A, E. Smith will Dbe the Democratic nominee and that Prohibition will not be a big issue |n the ecam. paign. Gastineau Channel Hearing 1s Held by Various Alaska Heads| WASHINGTON, Feb, 4.—Dele-| gate Sutherland dnd representa- tives of the Forest Serviee and | Bureau of Fisheries, in Alaska, held a conference yesterday with the Board of Rivers and Harbors regarding the project’ for the at | Smith | —The | spread search for the daughter of MAKES APPEAL THAT MISSING | - GIRL REPORT [Gov. Smllh Asks Miss Smlth, if Alive, to Write wReward Grows S. Willing to Sign Treaty Banning Subs | WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.— Secretary of State Kellogg has advised the House For- eign Affairs Committee that the American Government will fbe willing to sign a | treaty with all the powers | of the world prohibiting the | use of submarines entirely. BlINNELL HAS DEVELOPMENT PLAN, ALASKA NEW \’()RI\, Feb. has issued through the press an peal to M Francis St. John Smith, missing Smitk college student, to return to he: parents or to communicate per- sonally with him, so that he can assure her that everything is all right. The girl disappeared on January 13. The governor is not related to the missing student. ANOTHER HOPE GONE NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Kebh. 4 hope that flared momon- when reports placing Miss Frances St. John Smith, missin Smith college freshman, in Paris, reached here late last night had flickered out today as news ci that the girl in question had pro en to be a New York City young woman who had no connection with the case. Investigators who for more than weeks have condugted a wide {—Governo Work — Is Against Foreign Residents SEATTLE, Feb. President Charles’ 1. Bunnell, President the Aldska gricultural College and Sghool of Mines, at College, | Alagka, in a speech b-fore the Seattle Chambe a- voeated the pol | velopment by Al President Bunnell. opposed the plan to: bring thousands of resi- dents of North European coun- tries Lo Alas on the theory they could only conguer the Ter- ritory. It is the people of the North that develop eur North, not only those@ho have’ gone there but those who are born there,” said President Bunnell. FUR INDUSTRY ADOPTS SCHEME MARKING SKINS ICorrect Names to Be Stamped onh Pelts—Up to Trade Commission 1 the wealthy St. John Smith, N¢ York broker, were admittedly loss for new clues. $10,000 Reward The $10,000 reward offered hy the distracted ents secmod only “to have resulted in an in- creage of “crank” letters. Count- less reports from all over the vastern part ‘of the comtry have failed to produce a single authen- tic fact and as far as cantbe d termined Miss Smith has ne been seen since she left her room four weeks ago ) rday. Mr. and Mrs. Smigh, who hav: been in constant ¢ouch with the situation here, have issued through the newspapers a secon.l appeal to the girl to return. Mrs. | Smith made a pathetic request; that Frances communicate with{ some member of the family, if| still alive. | w al ALL BIBLES IN GERMANBANNED NEW YORK, Feb. 4—Repre: !tatives of the fur industry ha 1.mue|| to adopt a system of nam- |ing and marking furs under which the correct mame of the animal from which the pelt is obtainad and this will be stamped plainly on the skin, This move was made at ing of the fur industry tatives and Trade Practice Con ference Department of the Fel- eral Trade Commission. The plan will be forwarded to Decree Issued by Premier Mussolini Covering One Section INSSBRUCK, Tyrol, Feb. 4 Under an official Italian decrce issued, all Bibles and prayerbooks | in German language are strictly forbidden in homes, schools and churches in Southern Tyrol, over which Italy has control. Domi-|ihe Commission at Washington ciliary visits will be made and all | and provided that it meets with violations of the new ordinance|approval will be adopted as a severely punished, | dard by the fur industry and In explanation, Premier Musso-|enforced by the Comimission. lini says that this. restriction Coined* trade 'names, such as the natural corcollary of a previ-| Hudson seal, which is the skin ous decree directing that Austrian |of the muskrat dyed to the color and German children must be in-iof the seal, and names designed structed both in the school and|(o cover up the fact, are practices at home entirely in Italian, which |against which complaints have the presence of German books|heen made to the Federal Trade would rendér nugatory. Commission. The decree has caused much i bitter feeling and a local Pau- German paper remarks: “A ehiil |} e’ll AUl Say She Can; imbibing its = Germam mother’s Man Also Admits She Can; Unanimous Now a meet- milk ought not to be forced to pray at its mother's knee in the Italian language.” — . ——— Col. Lindbérgh Hops Off for Samto Domingo SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Feb. | with her brothers. 4. — Col. Charles A. Lindbergh| Ay intruder in her apartment hopped off for Santo Domingo|pere was so bunged up from two this forenoon. The distance is|cizarette hoxes, weighing twn NEW YORK, Feb. 4—The moi- ern woman hits when she throws. Mrs. Alice Billings Houseal in her childhood at Macon, Ga., of- ten hurled stones when playing Says . Let Mlaskane Do thé represen- | | | | i | | | | | PERRY, Chio, Feb., 4-—Velma West, 21, and a bride of a yea liked the city. She enjoyed pl ing bridge, but her husband, wio{ worked with nursery plants, pre-| ferred the solitude of this village | of 250 people, 25 miles from Cleveland. The invited to Cleveland She went, wife bridge party in night of Dec. 6 while she played bridge ‘back the West bungalow in Perry a crumpled figure sprawled on the living room floor T. Edward West had been beaten to deatn with a claw hamuier. Arrested on a shopping tour in Cleveland the next day, Mrs. West admitted the muider, but said she! struck in self defense. She said the death scuffle culminated an argument over her going to ”“.1 bridge party. Now the young wife trial, probably this month, on a| charge of murder in the first de- | gree, and the prosecution has indi-| cated that the death penalty be asked for. West, 26, was a nurseryman, and he brought his bride from her home in Cleveland to live here. The , principal evidence to used against the widow will the alleged confession to police, | parts of which have never ?u,-cn1 | { was aj the but i | he he made public. - e Chamberlin Fails Third Attempt to Make F. li,'zht Record ! EICHMOND \'.n‘ Feb. 4.-—The! third attempt of Clarenc Cham- berlin and Roger Williams to| set, a new record for continuous flight, failed this forenoon when the . plane fell 40 feet immed- 1 | will ta Imarched into—the, dinfng room | Gastineau Channel Juneau, ! for breakfast this llorhh‘ Alaska. {in the Rul camp since the first;only 250 miles. Thursday of drop- pounds each, a Chinese brass or-|lately after taking off. Neither nament and a bronze matchholder|of the fliers ‘were hurt but the 5 Nurseyman’s Widow Faces Murder Trial ‘ In Hammer Slaying Mrs. Velma West (left) faces trial soon on charges of mur- dering her husbend, T. Edward West (right), nurzeryman, in their Perry, Ohio, home, shcwn below, him tc death during an argument over her attendance at a bridge game to which she went after the killing. The State charges she beat " MURDERS WIFE THEN SUICIDES SEATTLE, Feb, 4—After shoot ing and kil his young wife, John Hill, Jr., President of the John B. Hill Insurance Company, ended his own life with the sam> revolver. When found beside the body of his wife, by his father, young Hill was still alive hut died later. No motive for the double shoot ing has been found other than statement by the elder Hill that his son and daughter-inlaw had been ‘having spats” recently. e, — taces carly |Alaska Judge Calls . On the President WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—Judge i+, J. Liomen, of Alaska, who Is visiting here on business, paid his respects to President Coolidge |at the White House yesterday. BOMB THREAT IS MADE AND CARRIED OUT Residence of Mayor of Campbell, Chio, Dam- aged—No Lives Lost 2 SUSPECTS QUICKLY PLACED UNDER ARREST Qutrage Is Considered Qut- come of Recent Heat- ed Campaign CAMPBELL, Ohio, Feb. 4.— An hour and a half after a bomh had damaged the home of Mayor T, Roy Cordin. two suspects had been arrested and ‘one inerimin- ated the other, Anthony Paris said that he t Samuel Graudule this morn- ing when Graudule took a pack- age to the Mayor's house. Grau- dule denied he had any package. No one was injured by the bombing althongh Mayor Gordon, his wife and three children, were in the house at the time. The damage, to the house is usumlttd at 31,000, The' Maror melivinie: st phona call a few minutes before the explosion warning him the house was about to be blown up. The Mayor's house was called up five times after the blast, uclw time a man's voice asked: “Well, what do you think it unw"" On “one’ call the volce: “Is any damage done? Well next time you go to the grave- yard sure.” Mayor Gorden was elected last Fall atter a bitter campaign {marked by charges of fraud wiich led to a State investiga- tion. He recently led a campaign in which a numbery of alleged gamblers and bootleggers were rounded up. He has received sev- erul thrcatening letters. COL. ROBERT LOGHRY, VETERAN OF ALASKA, DIES IN WASHINGTON Col, Rebert woghry, veéteran soldier and one of the two men who rose from the ranks to the rank of Colonel in the American rees in France during the World War, died recently in Washington, D. C., following an attack of pneumonia. He was stationed at Fairbanks at the out~ hreak of the war and was com- missioned as Captain and was one of the first American officers to cross the Atlantie. He was attached to the French army as observer and liason of- ficer for sometime. Following the war, Col. Loghry returned to the States and retained his rank. On retirement he became general manager of an electric ‘supply house in San Francisco. He spent more than 20 years in active service in the army, serving in the Orient, the Philippines and Alaska as well as in States’ gar- on me (iLlSH GENER AL ADVISES ROYAL MILITARY CADETS TO SHUN EARLY MARRIAGE;WIFE HAMPERS FREEDOM CAMBERLEY, Eng., Feb. 4 | The lure of the uniform appareni- ‘pnr(le- al Iy sgmot so alluring as many wrlwrs have thought. Figures show that the great soldiers f England of today were married | late. Gen. Sir Webb Gilliman drawn attention to this by ad ing cadets at the Royal Mili College to avoid matrimony unti | they are at least 20 years old, on. has leaders of the three great married fairly early, ! Stanley Baldwin, prime minister, it 25; Llovd-George at 25 and Itamsay MacDonald at 30. iamous men in Britain's legal world married even younger. Tha | Lord Chiet Justice, Lord Hewar, | married.at 22; the Lord Chaneel- lor, Lord Cave, at 20, and Lord Merrivale at 21. Writers and artists inelino to that he told the police he was|plane was badly damaged. The ¢he ground that a wife hnmm--:'umrry on the younger side of 30, ——————— Cross-Examine Witness slad to be arrested. runway was too short for theithe freedom of movements of a|though there are ome or two not: He held up his hands when Mrs, henvy‘ plane. { military man. | able exceptions, such as Bernard o ¥ . In Hickman Sanity Case Houseal had ‘a Persian vase (" Inquiry has shown that of Bri-| Shaw, who was wed at 42. Rud- LOS ANGM Cal., Feb. 4.—| yweighing tem pounds ready (0 um_ Tmer Hop. | tain’s “famous men the marrying |vard Kipling and G. K. Chester- The defense’s cross examination |peave. lage of other professions is lower | ton marrled at 27, Gerald dn of Dr. Cecll Reynolds, prosecu-| A man n_entered Mrs. Sarah Ros- Off for Nlcll‘lflll than that of the army and n.nly ! Maurier at 30, Jacob Epstein at 1uon allenist witness, was resum- enberg's “grocery and ordered two! | Farl Halk was married at "’b. Sir John Lavery at 34 ud ed this morning fn the William | cans of peas. As she was getting MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 4.-—In l:"ul-(hfll Sir William Robertson ar1s:r William Orpen at 23. B Hickman sanity zrm them he pointed a pistol and d:-|tri-motored Fokker monoplane, 34 Gen. Sir George Milne at 3%, | Men of scienco appear to marry and I.eBrlx} manded all the cash. destined for service ‘ ~for New Or-} W. E. Novnu, Juneau agent for| Mrs. rg gave him the{United States Marines in Nicar-| with the gjr fan’ Hamiltou at 34, Barl Beat. Jater than the others on th ty at 30, Barl Jellicoe @t 43, Alr|whole, except military men, Wk filght to New|the Alasxa p company, is | peas right fir the face and yelled.|agua, Lieut. Towner and tvolvxm- Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker | Arthur Keith marrying at u m\ - Paris, which | returning ér Alaska| When the police appeared he was|fellow fliers hopped off fromiat 30 und Alr Vice-Marshal Sir|Oliver Lodge at 26, Senator ' the southern|after a t bnlnn trip | still trying vain to dodge gro-|Managua this morning on the Geoffrc; Salmond at 32, coni at 31, and axr Ernest | i 5 1,-000 ,l Politics tells a Mt mry ford at 39, 8y, aftér ‘illness of three months. *, His funer;l will be held '}Q!lhnn‘ow( ANNOUNCES le METHOD FOR REJUVENATING, cozvsmvcnozv " OF HUMAN BEINGS; TRIED so,ozv ‘3—-—-—-——-—-—- Y., . ler, assistant w Dr, Hans bloodless surgeom, - § .5