The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 2, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MPIRE VOL. XXXL, NO. 4727. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS GIRL FOKGER ARRESTED IN SEATTLE PRICE TEN ChNTS Forestry Experiment Station Advocated For COL. GREELEY SUPPORTING NEW SCHEME Supports McSweeney Mcas— 5 ure—Appears Before | House Committee W \\lll\(xT()\ March 2. Lack of facilities and funds are hampering work designed to de- velop timber lands in Alaska, | and the United States, \\'illium‘ B. Greeley, former chief of the; Forestry Service told the House Agriculture Committee during hearings on the McSweeney re-' forestration bi He urged the adoption of a bill which author- fzed a $3,000,000 reforestration timber conservation program in- cluding the establishment of three new forestry experiment stations in Utah, Alaska and American possessions in the West Indies without further delay be- cause of paper and pulp re-| sourees; Col. research s necessary to accom-| ° plish efficient production of hard | wood timber and paper pulu‘I wood. SINGLAR GAVE LARGE ‘SUM-T0 § 80P Will Hays Gives Testimony Before Senate Oil Committee | Cl ‘th th ch 2 er General, del WASHINGTON, Ma s, former Postmas yesterday testified Defore the ve Senate Oil Committee that Harry pa F. Sinclair handed him a total of $260,000 in Liberty bonds for by the Republican National Com-'pa mittee after the oil operator had:Un leased Teavot Dome. Of amount, $160,000 were actually used to extinguish the deficit| resulting from the 1920 Presiden-!to tial campaign which Hays direct-|tp ed as Chairman of the National| Committee. The remaining $100,-' na 000 were returned to the wealthy who has declared publican Frank B. Will Commerce use taken this |ident interior missioner IN OHIO BATTLE Greéley added that wider | Mawm Wb 7 CLEVELAND, Feb. 28—-Two R leaders of Ohio, eveland men, have aligned emselves in opposite camps e contest between Senator Willis and Secretary of Herbert Hoover for the Republican con- ntion which will' nominate a rty candidate for president. Carmi A. Thompson, who has of the Willis cam- been treasurer of the States, secretary to Pres- Taft, assistant secreta of and recently al com- of President Coolidge make a survey of conditions in e Philippines. Maurice Maschke, Republican tional committeeman from Ohio, support of legates to ign, nited both | in' 'Ftrmg Range of Two U. S. Battleships Will | Be Greatly Increased| | | | WASHINGTON, increase of 10,000 yards in the mn(., range of the big turret of the battleships Pennsyl- {vania and Arizona will be pro- w\ulwl unlhn lhu ill\nu.mm ex- i : | BOES TO JAL i | H | | | | ;.\u\-l] Committee for moderniza- REMAINSTHERE = | Representative the two v Britten, of I nois, renking CHICAGO, TIll., Marel Republican on th . i Commiitee, said this will preve. g M, - 38 um ships from being outrang o g ’ 2 alw approximately equaliz the | ja 180-day sentence for bootleg {ging falling on concurrent dat 'he immediately bethought him- March 2—An fi gu | “extreme range of all battleships | Jof_our fleet.” | i The anthorization includes in-| e of a good friend, Thomas| ' Novilla. ! On the date set for the wed-; stallation of additional protection ding and trial, Rinilli had ‘||I1 against submarine attack and »'r attack, deck protection, installas, idea which he confided to Novilla “You go to court and plead tion of airplane catapults ani mm‘\-y'n fire control, also reboiler- guilty you are me, then| ¥ in jail until I return from; ’ | ing of the vessels. | the honeymoon, at which time | £ wilh ake - your-eelNe.” " uslde st [ Rinill Being a ‘true friend, Novilla| uF ITALY ENDS ly going to return. He told the | sheriff, all about it. Now the Home in Rome ' | FIELD F | B = i A vosti N I'I'I STUDIES 11-MONTH SOFT (’()11!, STRIKE {plead guilty and was xununu-d , | That was two weeks a; sheriff is looking for Rimilli ')Ill| holding N i ror eurit. e s . “iMarshal DIdZ, of Italian Biggest Discovery Ever Made Says Minis- he is wondering if ".In"ll is IL'AI- Rlc“ DlAmn Army n War, Dies at ter of Mines | Ohio, ‘and northern West Virginia, CAPE TOWN, South Africa. lN cALIFuRNIA‘hHs‘ reached a stage of national -Another rich diamond ! prominence with the adoption .,[ been discovered to swell | | Senator Hiram Johnson’s resolu- the wealth of South Africa. This| A/78% 10| on calling for a senate investi- | revelation was made in the As . . gation. s 'sembly by the Minister of Mines ‘Signs Declaratlon of Candi-| The Johnson resolution gives | | Although this new field a few |til recently its richness w , firmed. | The diamond deposit some knowledge of | was made public ! months ago it was not un-| s con- lies north- s - ENTERS FIGHT dacy — Expected to Bring Showdown 08 ANGE! Cal., March | WASHI TON, March 2 | fight which may determine llu- | future . existence of the United | Mine Workers of America as a ‘Lulur of importance in the bitum- | inous coal fields of Pennsylvania, | senate committee power to in- into all phases of the coal |industry in these sections. The | hearings probably will require ' 5| several months, | The senate interstate commerce | oil operator. | Hoover for/the nomination, has}west of a part of Cape Colony. .“' 'll!ul"l States ‘\'"'I”,”"L] .lf‘lm A S meittan " of which Hsnator-Wat. When testifying Dbefore th2 peen a factor in Buckeye politics; “It is the biggest diamond field | | ['“_4 'I‘i'l‘ gned “““ [:j“ "x ""[’"; son, Republican, Indians, i8+chair- sume committee fn 1924, the forfor 20 years and was made com-|ever discovered anywhere, said | Toc gt oae catuasavaanY | | cand ey In the Presidentinl L S ducting the inquiry. | mer Cabinet officer placed Sin-|mitteeman in 1924. He is an at-|Sir Davis Harris, member of the | DO DIAZ. oy 1' s i o OTTER . Bon almask 'a - yeat: sonie 200.-| clair's contribution at $75,000.|orney. In addition to politics, he | Assembly from Kimberly. | L5 1‘1“ ay un«! Jmmuntml. e )‘{“ 008 iR i the biluminou«‘ Hays explained this was all helmakes i hobby of bridge. He was| The Minister of Mines announc TSRESE LR as he Gbered - dna il us AR & e ok dl s ‘asied subotil’ dt 7 that timela i ¥ | b ; : .| ROME, Ma M .. the race which is expected by S MeEE DA, out: QR CWITR, - 4l was asked .about a |a winner last year in the national {ed it was the intention of the ME, Ma; Z—Marshal Ar-// iyl b1 s lrectly affecting between 700,000 and did not volunteer information ' yrigge tournament. government to declare tile whole|mando Diaz, Commander of the "5 follewers to bring a show- and 800;000°perséns, ot g the about the other because the plan | i, e o area, which contains 30,000 claims, | Italian Armies in the World War, [10W1 among the forces in the Sne " B it ! had been to return all of it to| as “state diggings.” He said ii|died late yesterday. He was 5/2t€ of Smith followers and Me “"lm N)4\| (..(’xhun Iumllex. sl Sinclatr, . was unthinkable that the govern- ken with. influenza a few 4100 and Reed supporters FXOR AP N Douh ORI A ment would do otherwise since|days ago and this was compli. MC¢Adoo followers are under ‘“r':m(nl:xxmpmmxm': «[1:‘::: 35:1'( x B | \ 1 g 2l sabar. with. e stood to seek a dry candidate or e there ha n Women Facing | it means the forting of large quan- i cate pneumonia. st deegation Dsnd Auttasiognidori. thetr Tualoikt Jail If Radio Brings Static FAIRFIELD, lowa, March 2 Housewives of Fairfield who u electrical devices to aid their| daily activities must -have such work completed before noon each day. If washing machines and va- cuum cleaners are operated after that hour and interfere with ra-| dio reception the owners of the cause of the interference is liable to a fine of not more than $100 or thirty days in jail. An ordinance forbidding the use of electrical appliances that inter-| fere with radio between noon and tr er; fo most severe verdict was read. IS GUILTY OF MURDER, GIRL CHICAGO, March 2. — Judg- ment of 11 married men and a widower has started Dr. Amante Rongett on the way to the elec- ¢ chair “for -the murder of a 19-year-old girl by an illegal op- ation. The penalty is said to be the ever recommended r a criminal operation. Rongett was dazed when the He is charged midnight went into effect at noon{ vy purdering Miss Loretta today. Enders, who was brought to the As the only exception, Physi-iy . ii.i in a state approaching cians will be permitted to use X. motherhood. He contended the ray machines in cases of emergen-| . " came to him after she ey: o already had undergone an opera- — e Anaconda Mine Fire tion. Fighters Are Rusked iS40 of Montana To Blaze Ncar Butte BUTTE, Mont., March 2.— lndergmunfi fire fighters from various Anaconda workings have been sent here to fighta fire rag- ing in the -Badger State. Copper qu the second Copper | Montana ‘eost the |earthquake, Mine of the Anm- Company which lives of three men on(dwfiuu lrio Ion Jives ‘Mine, Mfl’ m yorkl;z in - Has Two Shakes . In Present Week BILLINGS, Mont.. March 2.— time this week, has experienced al Buildings were shak- in this ¢ity and felt far dis- _ block off the blaze by conerete|tapt last night. On Wednesday 2, —Mrs. Lemira (}oodhue moth- bulkheads and . brattices. = The|night, Bozeman and surrounding'er of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, the fignltm:y was visited by the shock mtlnl Quifl comfortable after n-&m has heen ; 4 ! market ~ When Field Marshal Earl Haig of Great Britain, died ) Marshal Diaz exclaimed: tities of diamonds on the which is most undesirable. recently, > came to a head ! | The controversy 1927, when a wage scale ! {in April, | agreement signed at Jacksonville, | 4 i i Webe s e gk 0, to FATHER K"_I_s Fla, in 1924 by the union and| TNk Do in “!u"r :mm s s il ’un:- tors terminated without no-| Field at Election | ons Ml Focn, o st Rnshb Y oo 4 . | 1o1 # g e mine owners declared they could In Poland March 4;:."&'3 Gt Jahn, Qv Bpoalng . ar HGME WREGKER not operate profitably under the LONDON, March “2—9emocrac: 3 - | terms (:{ the Jacksonville con- e R Vi “Pnil Sheridan” of War 3 i o ;;x:t The union charsed that| It is announced from Warsaw| Maly's famous commander, Gen-| CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Y\lflr‘ 1 “: ‘""‘:“‘ ors "“”“1‘ '; ""K“t Bll'w that Poland will open its “election eral Armando Diaz, the man who |2 Accused _nr causing two girls l"nug hecause rai H)'.nw n i year” with the parliament elec- retrieved his country’s military | (0 leave their home, Arthur Boyd, district had forced them to sell tions on Mareh 4 Horumm, after the costly anl (hirty, a farmer, was shot to death coal In competition with non- unhm; sontlicting . political views, the|amazing disaster of, Caporetto in|hy the girly father at "nll'-wuh.‘f““"l'“ in which lower wages were copfusion of political conditions which the AustrofGermans cap-| Tcun., near here. lnull: i ; i and the hairsplitting issues are('ured moré than 200,000 Italian| The father, Luther Bailey, for-i :l;:urs of n!n mine workers reflected in the thirty-four ll(-kptfii""]'“"r'“ and 700 guns, was the (vfive., prominent planter, shot |assa ing the owners bitterly for, lin. the’ tield g Phil Sheridan of the great war, |himself through the brain after|their stand, have declared mat) Pilsudski's_ efforts fo diminish| VWhen all the world was bewail- *l"ving Boyd and died four hours | appeals for assistance from state the large number of parties and (1D the debacle on the Isonzo|luler atva local hospital | authorities are of no avail. They | bring about consolidations have | front “late. in_ October, 1917, and You say I will never my | charge the *‘coal and iron" police, | ; proven futile. declaring that “Italy, like Russ d“vl':umhleru again. | may not, lupmuucml officers hired by the cua|l " %he Communists, Ukranians,|!® 10w out of the war,” a silen:, !'m BOINg to fix you so you can’t|{companies, have been used ftof Jeéws, Gérmans and other minor | tenacious and daring Italtan sol-|sce them either” Bailey shouted) discriminate against union labor-| ties charge that the urovlm-lal““"' with the spirit displayed by a! Boyd when they met. ‘m and that unjon men have been] authorities are trying to solys|the great American cavalry lead-| “He wrecked my home” Bailey | :*v sted from their homes in a} the matter by simply jailing lomel" at Winchester, Va., arose io|said over and over again h‘“,mi cruel and inbuman” manner, of their canMdates and party lead.| S0atch a marvelous victory from | dving. The operators =ay these homes ers until after election. ignominious: deteat. | The girls have not heen located | were company houses, tsed | elections| He drove the invader back and by police. {part of thelr plants, and that they | ‘Following the Polish will come. those In Germany the|®ded by the British and French. last week in March, with tha|®truck such hard blows, that beau- | French elections in Apr titul Venice was saved from the| despoiler and her plains swept of the barbarian hordes: Indeed. Coolidge’s Mother Is l‘m Easier T.d.’ { was Diag's’ smashing tactics that | brought about the eollapse of Alunrla ;-:d rced her capituly ! tion, to tollowed shortly after NO'I.‘I'IIAIIP’!‘ON Mass., Mareh, by the, downfall of the Hohen-| zollern dtnuty l.nd the surrender of Gcrmy 2 A striking instance of the canr —_— e | her | wit! night, . She: bas been il bl i [‘Quem NEW YORK, March |Charles A. Lindbergh has arrived airplane | scheduled to attend Foundation A ermwelr (C 'ol. Lindbergh Flies From Boston to N.Y. With 3 Passengers 2 2.—Col,} @ from Boston by s three passengers. He fs] the confer- e of the Daniel Guggenheim for Promotion of |evicted the striking miners in or-| |der to turn the houses over to! non-unjon miners who would get! out the coal. [llis Searles, edi- tor of The United Mine Workers', | Journal, declares union men vsrel levicted in many cases and the | homes boarded up and left vacant. ‘The union has erected tempor-| (ary quarters and provided as best it could for about 12,060 families which it says were evicted. Mine operators’ rfl)mmu!ivu ( 1 ui'un Page Five.) # left. ‘At the upper right are barracks of the "The relicf notice below appeared near an Ohio &;” Inw the bmunmous cuul flelds of Pennsylvun a, Ohio and northern West Vu’gmu the Senate @ Interstate Ccmmerce Committee, headed by Senator James E. Watwon (lower right), is going to in- gate the sitwation arising from the long' dispute between union workers and operators. typégal group of 160,000 idle miners. is . mxa I&fle sort into which many have moved their fa mine, SENATOR REED A ALASKAR.R. | HAS PROFIT | FOR 1 MONTH WASHINGTON, March 2.--In making $5,619 more than ex- penses last December, ‘the Alaska Railroa oduced a profit for the first tie in the history of the!: railroad, Noe! Smith, General | | Manager, reported to Secretary of Interior Work. Heavy shipments of dredge material are responsfble for the increased freight and not e natural growth of commerce, for The railroad’s deficit the first half of the current fiscal| year, Smith said, was approx mately $165,000 less than for the ne period last year. - e Alaska CHECK PASSER IS ARRESTED N HER HOME Husband Deserts Her When Informed of Four Years of Crime SEATTLE at her home ing spuriou netted nearly $4,000 in four years, Mrs. Dorothy H. Lawson, aged pleaded with officers: | “Please don't tell my hus- band.” | Mrs. Lawson and cashing many attributed to he e pecnliarity, which led to her arrest, brought her the so- briguet of the *“Nineteen Dollar Girl.” Mrs [ her March on a checks -Arrested charge of pass- aid to have admitted writing of .the checks each for $19. Lawsgon told the officers usband knew nothing of the operations and he supposed she was earning money by working as a clerk. The cash obtained from the checks she used to pay up old debts, ¢ When luformed his wife ad- ‘mitted the forgeries, Lawson is reported to have sald he was through, that he had done every- thing he could and would let (the law take its course. He is a trusted employee, earning a goot income, of one of Seattle's ading corporations. | Air Patrol Lost. !"In' Aretic Circle, Reported Safe WINNIPEG, Lost sinee February 17 in the snowy wastes of the Arctic Circle, A. A. Lewis and Sergeant Terry of the Northern Air Patrol, and a native, are reported safe at Fort Burwell, Hudson Straits. ‘ The three left on a patrol | | and observation trip. Several hours after their departure Lewis reported by wireless | that they were forced uxl | March 2.— land. | | SON NOT HIS; ASKS RECORDS BE EXPUNGED Woman, Fighting for Home and Love, Admits De- BODIES OF 2 | BOYSFOUND; 1S MYSTERY INDIAK 1:ARBOR, Ind., March| 2.—Bound tightly by hvuvv wire | and fishéd from the muddy In-|° diana Harbor Canal within eighl! duys of each other, the bodles of |, wo well-dressed boys lay un- laimed in the morgue as the po-| P |lice puzzle over the manner nrl ! their deaths. The police are convineed ti| boys were glain. They suggested | that the boys were atiacked Ly a| moron, bound and tossed into nu»’ water, or that parents or guard- ians, tiring of respc of parenthood or desiving to gain inheritance, tossed the boys intof the muddy waters. No reports of missing children have been made in sibilivieg {The two boys look alike and are - believed to be brether Daammnes o o el LACROSSE, Wis. Opening the La Follette ticket camaign in; Wiscons!n here, Representative | Joseph 1. Beck, candidate for| Governor on the Progressive Re- publican ticket, indorsed United | | States Senator George W. Norri of Nebraska, as the Progress!v: candidate for President, | e e MADRID—Ogden H. Hammond, | {American Ambassador to Spain. | pairhanks district the returned to his post yesterday | after a few weeks' vacation in he United States, ~ ! ehiid, | tancy, | perate to have a home. this vicinity. |, |neau on the steamer Admiral ceiving Husband DETROIT. Mich., lr claring that a “woman is en- titled to do anything necessary to h'no a home,” Mrs. Myron L. admitted she deceived her Iludmnd respecting the birth of a son and heir. The husband, son of Joseph Boyer, Chairman of the Board of tors of the Burroughs Add- ng Machine Company, filed a pe- tition in the Cirenit Court call- ing upon the State officials to .\punge from the State archives, reecord which states that a cer- tain boy i his son. The petition ehurges, and Mrs. Boyer admits, she adopted the now four years old, in in- and misled Boyer into be- lieving it was his own. Mrs, Boyer sald: March 2.— “I was des- I thought n heir and child’s love could hold him,” until six wecks ago when a nurse informed the hus- band, Mrs. child was the sole heir to 000,000 estate held in trusi |he became 20 years oid. * —————- GILLETTE ON WATSON $5,- untit is returning | son, due late tomorrow aft Major Gillette has been weeks, making a lma! | trails maintained by the B Boyer said, that the =