The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 13, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” OL. XXXL, NO. 4711. JUNEAU ALASKA MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1928. MBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Pmcxm«cx-:m [OOVER CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT en Million Dollar Paper Plant for Juneau, Is Report LONE EAGLE” MISSING ON | HOME FI.IGHT% ol. Lmdbergh Hops Ofl\ from Havana — Not Reported Nor Seen BULLETIN — ST. LOVIS, Feb. 13. — Col. Charles A. Lindbergh arrived here this afternoon at 5:01 o'clock frem Havana, Cuba. HAVAN Cuba, Feb. 13— 1. Che A. Lindbergh took in his Spirit of St. Louis on ie long leg of his good-will tour | the Southern Republics but is not been reported nor seen ! uring more than time enough h pass well beyond the half-way yint, eight hours after his take-{ ji. e should have been over \ckson, Mississippi All coastal towns hd low visibility. in this the reason | ndbergh’s progress mnot be-| iz visible from the ground. 1 The Weather Bureau has ord-| ped storm warnings displayed on e Gulf ('wm i report fog see LL BOSH, IS CLAIM ABOUT ennessee ~ Representative Says Expenditures | Not Decreased | WASHINGTON, Feb. lfi.AThei eclaration of President Coolidge| b his recent address at the semi- | unual business meeting of the| ecadg.of the various departments hat his Administration: had ef- ected ‘“‘constructive economy” in| overnmental exepnditures, was| isputed today in epresentative Joseph W. Jemocrat of Tennessee. lepresentative Byrns said: “It s about time the people are be- oming aroused to the fact that pite persistent misleading pro- aganda of past years, there has| heen no reduction in govern-| nental expenditures. On the con-; been a heavy In-‘, be justified | constructive Byrns, e which cannot bn the plea it is bconomy. —— e — IND REACHES 104 MILES AN | HOUR;DAMAGE any Lives Lost in Storm in Western Europe and on North Atlantic LLONDON, Feb., 13.— Crippled vessels of the shipping fleet imped into port today and as the oll of the gale which swept Western KEurope and the North tlantic over the week-end was Lounted, it is feared the death jst will mount to at least 50. rhe property damage will he; igh. . Twenty-five lives are known ta' have been lost in the Seandi-| pavias and nine in Great Bri- ain. Houses were blown down, roofs rarried away and torrential rains aused floods. The wind reached velocity of 104 miles an hour. One Hundred Alberta | Sheep to Be Shipped To Aleutum Islands! CALGARY, Feb. ll—A shipment f 98 sheep and two rams: leave ler next Thursday for Seat- lle, thence to the Aleutian Islands r J. Nolte, farmer of that dis- The shipment is belleved| the House by |t ! banking, {Professlonal W omen Gaining Confidence, S. ll of Miami, Fla., who believes wmen in confidence. . more Feb. 13—Men in: but women A, herited cocksurenes: have yet to acquire it, thinks Miss Lelia Russell, who within four years after graduation in law has advanced ta United States ass ant district attorney and presiden: of the Florida Leaxuc of Women Voters. Women, however, rapidlv are ¢ quiring confidence in public life and, Miss Russell believes, just as capable of holding govern- ment positions as men. “They have not had such oppor nities as men to prove what théy can do,” she explains. “But now that they have the chance t demonstrate their ability, women are making good records and are becoming more confident.” "| She ara | Starting Place Of Arctic Flight STOLP, Germany, Gen. Umberto Nobil Italian divigible expert, has arrived to inspect the proposed start- | ing place at Seddin, for the | | projected Polar flight next | | April. ! The Seddin near here and airship center World war. Gen. Nobile has chasing scientific in Berlin. He recently con- sulted with the officials at | the Potsdam Observatory on meteorological aspects of the flight. } Gen. Nobile is to use airship Italia on his flight ASKS BORAH TO DEMAND MORE | - DRY ANSWERS Candidates to Be Question- ed on $200,000,000 Prohibition Fund WASHINGTON | quisitiveness of Se E. Borth concerning the Prohibis |tion views of Presidential candi- — {dates has brought him the sug- ‘gestion to ask them whether they favor a $200,000,000 appro- priation for ‘“‘vigorous and faith- ful enforcement.” The suggestion came from Rep-| resentative Florelle H. LaGuardia, Republican of New York, who advised Senator Borah to demand positive and full answers Irnm; candidates and asked if it will; inot be well to “ascertain by real| jenforcement and total cutting off of the liquor supply whether or not the people really want Pro- hibition.” Representative LaGuardia Attorney Says Feb. 13 airdrome is | was a naval during the bezn pur instruments the “" four yem‘; sinee Miss Russell was graduated from ! the Stetson university law schooi, she has become one of the most, prominent women in the South.' wears distinetly modish gowns and hats in court. Her | bionde hair is bobbed. She is very feminine to the eoye, but demon- | strates capability and confidenca }in court. Law is nothing new to he-. 1 Most of the men in her fam |have been lawyers and her father is United States commissioner at! Fort Pierce, Florida. An athlete the reason *Prohibition is so| in college, Miss Russell now keeps popular in many dry States is physically fit for her work through because we have less than one- a steady program of exercige anl half to one per cent enforce- diet. ment."” | Picking said out Senator Borah's New Consolidations Loom as Mergers Gain | In Favor of Industry H[mflflo MINE NEW YORK, Feb. 13- to merge has affected anew, Mergers were (nn\p]eled in the cable manufacturing typewriter and office equipment and theatrieal fields as 1927 clos ed. Consolidaiions involving as- sets of nearly $1,600,000,000 are under neggtiation in steel, drug, public utilities, bituminous coal, furniture, building materials, met. als, industrial alcohol and other industries as 1928 progresses. “Stabilization of the industry” usually is given as The urge industry modern mergers as a change in ‘public opinion rz- garding proposals for consolida- tions that once would have arous- ed fear of monopolies and insti- gated investigations. The change in_ public opinion, in turn, ascribed to the enormous increase in the number of stockholders. Railroad 'mergers have = been| contemplated for years, but lackj of estahlished policies, which it is believed . legislaglon alone can supply, 'has prevented proposcd cons “among the carriers trom “a g the approval of the i tate commerce commis- sion, In_other fields, howevar, the' biigaboo of opposition appar- onuy- has been overcome. rs successfully com- Dlmd as 1927 closed seem to have been the starting signal for consolidations in general. Already the Texas and the California Pe- ‘trolenam rations have merger mk:gmdur way. Plans - consolidation. of ‘Youngstown!Sheet and Tube with m‘_u Steel and of Republic. !vn inspiration for is the reason, | but trade observers see the real home State, LaGuardia said he has been informed that liquor| can be bought in every county in Idaho. ——,eo—— P " 1S SCENE OF " ANEXPLOSION Thirteen Members of Par-| Mentions Baker As Candidate For President WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. —Newton D. Baker, Secre- | | tary of War under President | | Wilson, is boomed by Edwin | | T. Meredith, of lowa, as one | ! | of the leadiug choices of the | | “Dry Progressive Democrats” 1 for the Presidential nomina- | tion. in an 1922 De- ty of 21 Are Killed in England WHITHAM, England, Feb. 13, ,~—The Haig Mine pit is the scene of another disastrous explosion { and 13 members of a party of 21 ——33 have been killed. o o <5 el i The party. was exploring the | . mine for the first time since an Naval-Tug- Piles on ‘exploslon of last December. 3 g 3 Several officials 'of the mine Rocks;Three Men of 1., 10" those” e, wight C"w BG’M Dead vartiy-gassed workmen escaped. jThe gas has forced rescuers to BOSTON, Feb. 13 ~—Hope for give up and the mine has again three members of the crew of the been sealed. wreeked ‘naval tug Mojave, who, Thirty-nine were killed fled from the craft in a punt explosion in the mine in aftér the tug piled. up on the and four were kiled last Harding ' Ledge’ and was dimin- cember. llhcd to.a m¥ltu. ‘beep give The party yesterday was en‘up. 4 4 |searching the mine for an un- The punt was found washed | recovered body of the last explo- | ashore off ' Black Rock, m-.nrlylllon and also making an inves- three m| from the scene of the {tigation as to work to be done wreek. The punt was right Jxle'fflf resumption of mining. up but filled with water. The! NOTI 1,5 5 T ren\ll‘l‘nder of the erew were CAPT. EDWARDS BACK rescued. y x e Capt. and Mrs. C. 0. Edwards MIZE HAS OFIIATION who have been attending a Van 4 couver conference of .the Alaskan R. C. Mize, M Meteorologist |and Western Canada divisions ot of the Juneau U. 8. Wepther|the Salvation Army, returncd g ent g mn.Insre on the Princess Mary. While por operation the St. Ann's!south they also visited in Corval- m m"‘, and ‘s reported|{lis, Oregon, where Mr. Edwards' PROGRAM 1S Tl] Nabite tapecting i 822,000,000 PULP | BE UNDERTAKEN ‘AR\I) HAS “PERFECT « BUT M4 Seattle Char:b—er of Com- F merce Says Arrange- ments Made The Seattie Chamber of Cemmerce has announced that the $22,000,000 pulp and paper development pro- gram of the Zellerbach and Cameron interests in Alaska has_been arranged and will start 'this Spring, said an Assgciated Press dispatch re- ceived by The Empire today. No. details were given be- yond the fact that R. A, Kin- sey of San Francisco, former Treadwell Superintendent and now consulting engineer for Mr. Cameron, will be supervising engineer for the hydroclectric projects of both companies. Theé Chamber's announcement indicated the construction of a $10,000,000 manufacturing plant near here by the Cameron inter- csts, @nd a $12,000,000 plant in the vicinity of Ketchikan by the Zellerbach Company. Meldrum Heads Survey The Associated Press dispatch raid: “Don Meldrum, connected with pulp and developments in Anacortes Bverett and before that for years with the Crown Willamette paper (o gl o ik econduct its timber and power survey work prepara- tory to establishing a $12,000,- 000 plant near;Ketchikan. “The $10,000,000 development of the Cameron-Chandler ests will be located in the vicin- ity of Junesu. Meldrum will go north April 1, with a crew of men. He will build a big scow which will ‘serve as a moving camp throughout the summer. “Water power resources avail- able for the projected pulp and paper plants will be investigated. The site of the Zellerbach mill probably will be determined. “Mr. Kinsey will go north about the same time. Permits obtained by the Zellerbach inter- ests and the Cameron-Chandler forces from the Government each 1 for 835,000,000 cubic timber or 8,350,000 cords. The term of the contract is 50 years in each case and that length of time will be given for the re- moval of the timber."” Mr. Melarum, instead of com- ing north about April 1, is al- ready here making initial ar- ngements for his summer’s WO He has about completed these and expects to return to the States in a short time. He will come back north about March 10 and take the field with his erews as early after that as possible. Neither Mr. Meldrum nor offi- als of the United States Forest Serviee here had any detailed in- formation regarding the facts dis- closed today by the announce- ent of the Seattle Chamber of ommerce. It is probable that additional light will be given on the devel- opment: plans of both companies when Assistant District Forester B. F. Heintzleman arrives here tomorrow from Seattle. He has been in San Francisco for the past month or more conferring with representatives of both groups of capital regarding this season’s ‘'work, He left Seattle Saturday for Juneau. It is-known he had several conferences with Mr. Kinsey regarding timber sur- veys and waterpower examina- tions and other ‘matters Heintzleman has been in ¢ of the Forest Service's negotia- tions with the two groups of apital which he originally in- terested in Alaskan forest re- SOUTCes, Insane Murderer Leads Pflunen in Bu Revolt HR[DGWA’I‘ER‘ Mass., Feb. 13.—Led by anh insane murderer, Iiberated inmates of the State Farm overpowered and killed two guards early today and were only subdued r 60 guards, State Police city police invaded the institution. investigation and | 20 o inter-} feet of ! recently | * | | & mighty husky gent, tool WASHINGTON, Feb. 13—One | way to prevent a town from be- ting flooded, is to move it away from the water and this method has been recommended to Con- gress by Major General Jadwin, of the Army Enginecers, who waats to solve the vexing problem faced by Afognak, Alaska. | Maj. Gon. Jadwin advised the House Committee that Afognak did not have commerce enough o justify expenditures necessary for a_seawall but that the entirs community could be moved for $50,000. ! The village is only five feet above sea level at extreme high water and is frequently inundated by storms. Hope Abandoned for . ) . Life, Missing Miners TIMMONS, Ontario, Feb. 13. —Wortk of bringing the bodies from the hurning Hollinger Mine continues with hope abandoned that any of the missing men will be found alive. Twenty-five bodics brought to the surface and others have been located, Twelve imprisoned miners have been rescued. have been 14 ——eee ——- LIQUOR CHARGES Alice Everett was arrested Sat- urday by dgputy U. S. marshals charged with possession of in- toxicating liguor in violation of the Alaska Bone Dry Law. She entered a plea of guilty to the charge befere Judge Frank A. Boyle in the 'U. S. Commissioner's ourt. Judge Boyle is continuing the' case for impositions of sea- tence. Richard Tombo and Alice Hedges were also arrested Sat- urday by officers from the U. B. marshal’s office. Tombp, who is charged with possession of in- toxicating: liquor, was released from ‘custody on $100 cash bond. Alice "Hedges is being held in the baving bBeen filed ugainst her as MAN” {RINE LAD HAS “IT” Py of between the lnrlnel and their traditional rivals, the Navy. This time it's over the question as to which arm of the service ! /has more of that quality denominated by Mme. Blinor Glyn as “It.” Anyway, the Army claims it has “the perfect man” in the person of | Sergeant Herbert E. Smith, aged 27, of Newark, N. J. with the Army recruiting publicity bureau, passed a tough test covering moral, mental and physical accomplishments with a mark ot 100 per cent. Smith's wife adds that she dogsn't think he's exactly “perfect,”s but ha | comes near the 100 per cent. mark as a husband, The Marines offer for your inspection Corporal George W. Brandt of Chadron, Nebraska, who s in charge of the Marine guard at the S-4 Naval Court of Inquiry at Boston Navy Yard, Brandt has had proposals of marriage from all over the country from &irls who have seen him in the newsreels. He's not only handsome, but‘ Smith, who's RECOMMENDS THAT ALASKA TOWN BE M()VED T() PREVENT FURTHER FLOODING| REGISTRATION OF LflBBYISTS IS DEMANDED Senator Walsh Wants New Rule for “Invisible Government” WASHINGTON, Feb. istration of lobbyists ington with the Secretary of the Senate will be required under an amendment to the Senate rules proposed by Senator Thomas J. Walsh, Democrat of Montana. Under the new rule it will re- quire all lobbyists to give the names and legislation they op- pose or advocate, and the names of the individuals, corporations or other organizations by whom they are employed Senator Walsh said: want is some means of finding out who forms this invisible gov- ernment surrounding us.” 13.—Reg- | - Jack Chamberlin, traveling man, ! sailed for the round trip and south to Petérsburg on the Admiral Roxeru in Wash-| “What we | ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE TODAY OF H. C. HOOVER Gives Ohio Supporters Per- mission to Enter His Name in Primary | WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Her- bert C. Hoover has given formal permission to his Ohio State sup- porters o enter his name in the Ohio primary, thus becoming an avowed Presidential candidate. | The pérmission to enter his name |is given by Thad Brown, Chair- man of the Ohio Hooverites. | The Secretary of Commerce de- jclared himself bound “to carry |forward the principles of the Re- publican Party and the great ob- 1 |jectives of Coolidge’s policies.” It is indicated that Secretary | Hoover intends to refrain from T8onal preconvention campaign- g and Intends to retain the b*runent of Commerce post. fthe. HMufi convention nomi aot. A. E. Bmith dnd Ohlo d i’ the Heover primary fight termin Willis will not be the Republi- i('ml nominee.” ——————— HICKMAN WILL TURN AGAINST HIS COMPANION iTo Give S-!-a-t—;s ‘Evidence i Against Welby Hunt, Murder Charge LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 13. William E. Hickman, who has een convicted of being sane and (of the kidnapping and murder of {Marian Parker, for which he will ‘In' sentenced tomorrow, definitely announced today his intention of turning State’s evidence against Welby Hunt when the pair ap- {pear on Wednesday before Super- lior Court Judge Hardy to answer to the charge of murdering Jay ;Thomas, in a‘'drug store hold-up jon Christmas, 1926. Hickman said Hunt *had lots lof fun testifying against me and watch him when I take the stand against him.” | Hunt testified in the sanity \trial of Hickman, that Hickman ‘W&S sane, { Hickman has no hope of escap- |ing the gallows: He said: “You |see how cool amnd collected I can remain under stress and I am go- ling to snow you a man who can |mount the steps of the gallows with the same calm demeanor.” | —————— FIRST TOURIST LEAVES A. Frank Anderson, Juneau's first 1928 stopover tourist, who has been visiting here with- his | brother-inlaw, and sister, Mr. and |Mrs. M. 8. Whittier, sailed for Sitka and return on the Admiral Rogers. He will continue t6 Se- attle on the stéamer on his way ‘to hln home in Port Townsend. Sctentsz Expedztwn To Explore Aleutians ) This Year;Crafton Way NEW YORK, Feb. 13—The schooner Effie M. Morrissey hu1 sailed for the Aleutian Islands seeking traces of men believed to have crossed Bering Strait to be-, come the first North America. is a veteran of many scientific inhabitants = of craft is headed for Seattle gon the first leg of the eulu uliah is MM"II Jail, no com,hm'laxpednmn- to the Far North. The The little vessel |for the American Museum of Na- tural History. Only the ecrew i aboard for the trip to Seattle, the I scientists to beard the. vessel Prince Rupert. They leave here in Aprik . The discovery of .nmfl[ mumimies on the Aleutian gave a mew impetus to search traces of men believed to | rossed m Ty