The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 7, 1928, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS VOL. xx'x1.’,’ NO. 4731. Chtcago Pollce Laud MAN ARRESTED WHEN OBTAINS DECOY PACKAGE Light May Be Thrown on Disappearance of Miss Frances Smith Merchants E xcoriate ‘* New No-Parking Rule% TILSON AND | GARRETT AIR - THER VIEWS Political Talk Carried from Floor Out on Air by Radio ! WASHINGTON, NORTHAMPTO! | Mass., March | man | 7 With the arrest of a who removed from a post office box a degoy package mailed in response to a ransom demand for $50,000, postal inspectors and po- lice hoped they might be near-| ing a solution of the mystery of | the disappearance of Miss Fran-| ces St. John Smith who disap-| ! March 7. peared last January 13 from {After an argument on the House Smith College where she was a, floor, two party leaders, Repre-| student. sentative Tilson of Connecticut, Michael Bunickas, aged 32 and Representative Garrett, of years, a textile mill employee | Tennessee, took to the radio last to air their differences on and political questions. ed he rented the box under an agsumed name three days be- | | night blic fore Miss Smith disappeared. | Tilson, as Republican Field The Smith family, two weeks Marshal, predicted the Democrats ago. received a letter which di- are at a loss for an issue in the rected that $50,000 in bills, un-| lcoming Presidential campaign registered and' uninsured, be! and would revive the tariff ques- mailed to post office box 515. tion and “as usual the Republi- These bfare and after pictures Acting under directions, the jcans will win because they de- Smith family mailed a package demonstrate the cffectiveness of serve to win." which was stuffed with paper, Chicago’s new and much-debatel Garrett, who has charge of the and bore a New York cancella-|crdinance pmh)bxtmg parking in Democratic maneuvers in the tion. When the package arrived the business district. Commission- | House, came back with the asser- a string was attached to it which|er of Pclice Michael Hughes ran from the box to an electric| (right) says thc rule has speed- buzzer in the postmaster’s office. ed up traffic by 30 per cent, but Bunickas was nabbed when he mcrchants dispute its advantagss. opened the box. After long ques-| e tioning he broke down and con-. CHICAGO, March 7—Chicago is ‘fessed he rented. the box and in a turmoil over the. city's wrote the letter demanding the «no parking” ordinance, W ransom. He sald he must havekeeps all vehicles moving in the| ! heen drunk. He was unable t0downtown business district. While | ot explain how he acquired the box|expressions of favor have como| three days before Miss Smith dis- from motorists and pedestrians, | appeared although he had a regu-‘pundreds of merchants have ral lar box under his own name er”"d in an assault on the rule. {tion that®ongress is accomplish- ing next to nothing end the Re-! | publican majority is to blame. The two party chie ired half an hour on a program sent on the air through 22 radio sta- by the National Broadeast- ; ing Company. s “on shy 1t was one of the fortnightly debates arranged by the National League of Women Voters. GEN. MOTORS torists and if one stopped for long he was told to keep moving. i ¢ the past seven ye: Many of the merchants insi:t The rule permits private c R that business has been hampercd t0 stop three minutes and trucks | by the regulation. Hotal mea, half an hour. Parking is permit-| restaurant owners and store pro.,ted in the evenings and on Sun-| prietors have joined in the pro- days and holidays, as before. | { test Since the order was adopted | * While Chicago's streets are no' business men say that they have | suDDEN juMP traffic congestion has result:d tomers whisked by their doors by | lfrom the concentration of the!an order that doesn't permit them ) MARKED Nuw[b|]\llu~\ district within an area|to stop and trade. NEW YORK, March 7.—Rea- 1 of approximately 40 square blocks.| One merchant has pronounced|son for the violent uprush on | | surrounded Dy elevated railway :business the worst since the wa- jthe New York Exchange of the ,u-m-lu, From the latter feature!The secretary of the Chicago Ho-|common %Ilm"k of itll‘v "lh'l'"'l‘“l { i istrict takes its name “the| en’s Association says the or |Motors, which carried o a ] Federal Trade Comm‘SS’O“,:},‘:,._"‘“ G Sl ;:xei:;;:n‘-” % driving people y!new high of $150, adding §$184 {8 APPI‘OVCS of Fur The drastic order against pari-|from the hotels and shops. The {)wv'-.‘nnfr, to i. gt market vlll\u I d R l {ing, considered the most far| average shop, he adds, “has lost |in three ':|.‘ .wa‘s a m.\alf? ndustry Rules !reaching made by any American $200 daily since the ordinancc|today to financial commentators. LR ity of size to speed up its traf-| went into effect. Out of town Although a good part of yes- WASHINGTON, March 7.—The is praised by Commissioner of | visitors are staying away.” terday’s buying, which totaled Federal Trade Commission has!pojice Michael Hughes. | One restaurant proprietor fore-| 420,000 shares and raised the approved rules adopted by most| mrappic he says, is moving at |casts a general exodus of “loop” 5 market value $61,000,000, of the American fur dealers under| 10401 30 per cent faster and dan-|tenants to outlying disiricts .. |is said to represent urgent short \ which all furs will be correctly|gor of accident. has been mini-|May 1 unless the order is re covering. —Brokerage houses re- A described. If any dye or blend | yi0q He calls the experimen:!voked. ported public buying of stock in is used fo stimulate another fur|an ynqualified success. The merchants suggest that res-|large volumes. : JIf, this fact will also be recorded| 1y ine early days of the order | toration of the ordimance provid-| Rumors that the General Mot- on the articles. 600 policemen, mounted, afoot and | ing halthour parking is the rew-|ore plan to enter the airplane] The label, under the new rules, | o motorcycles, rode herd on mo- business and. that the plan is of all shaded, blended, tipped e Tatoot to make every owner of the dyed or pointed furs must so de- ¥ f AT B General Motors Corporation a | scribe and the name of the coun- SUBMAHINES | stockholder, lacked confirmation. try in which the furs were actual- €. 1y Drocuted ‘uiyist he-atated. Tride | Adverse Report | marks will be modified by de- | On Marines | scriptive matter to prevent mis- GAU’ ¥ | interpretation by the public. | In Nicaragua | { on the Heflin resolution pro- i { 3 3 S ek || Incident Resuhs in Invest can Marines from N .i| gation by League of Nations Rep. Frothingham WASHINGTON, March 7.—| wASHINGTON, March 7.—By! | John 1, Lewis, President of the|, ,a.gin of one vote the House | United States Mine Workers, {porejgn Affairs Committee refus-| Three Americans Safe in Before Committee made charges today before “"(ed to approve of the Frothing- Seaate committee, of conspiracy |pam resolution to place Congress among the railroads for misuse|. . racord as favoring abolition iterious St. Gotthard machine gun and produced a clash today be- tween representatives of Hungary and Rumania when discussion of the incident took place. The incident has held the close attention of Central European States but was ended, temporar- ily, when the Council appointed a to examine the voluminous docus ments on the subject and make a report. don, had a remarkable cscape yes- terday when the machine crashed nese Kent, says a dispatch to the Daily Mail from Folkestone. Eight | passengers were aboard. The Americans included Miss Dorothy Palmer, of Seattl ————— WAR HURTS BANANA SALES stances, were the sole defense for smaller nations against the larg- er ones. He added the proposal would be more than an . empty gesture because in asking small nations to abolish undersea craft| “we are strengthening our own defense by weakening theirs.” Queen Bess Has Only One Statue in London LONDON, March ' 7—Painters and writers have done a lot for Queen Elizabeth, but there is only one statue of the good Queen Bess in London, according to u recent inventory of the 120 sta- tues in England’s capital. . That statue is a small marble one, which was originally on Lud ! | zate, but since 1760 has stood in|Sir Reginald B. Stephens, director the courtyard of .a . parochial| g territorial army, ———e——— . MACHINES IN NEXT WAR LONDON, March T—Machines rather than men will play the big part in the next war, Lieut. Gen. 2 BLUEFIELDS, March 7—Revo- lutionary activities have reduced nearly a third the exports of ba- nanas from the Bluefields dis- trict of Nicaragua. Areas fres school in Fleet street. The sta-'told the London Light Brigade. Tn|from military operations have had; = SYDNEY, mmlh. March 7= a steadily Increasing business.|Goat races have been introduced mpm magses of men will tue_ s -!hllerq’:d l‘lk opinion T, About $1000000 worih is €XPOrL o amuse those tired of dog a» e NEW TASK FOR GOATS YUN[:AU ALASKA, WEDNESDAY MARCH 7, GENEVA, March 7.—The mys-l of judiclal function and exercise|,r. gupmarines by international "llle'lel m En!llnd incident involving the appearance of .sovereign powers of State by |,greement, % of 2,000 machine guns in Huu- | private police in the central bi-| “[.ading the fight against the; LONDON, March 7 — Threeigary in contravention of the | tuminous coal flelds. resolution, Chairman Porter de-|American passengers on an air-|peace treaty, came up in the/ J ! clared submarines, in most in-|plane flying-from Paris to Lon-|Council of the League of Nations committee of three countries) ALL THE TIME” Etélson und Wllkms to Attempt Arctic F light in A pnl Plane T ested Out ( { FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March y =With the aerial dash to Spit | bergen from Point Barrow tenta | tively set for the first week in April, Ben Eiels:on and Capt (,eargs H. Wilkins are marki time in readiness for the pralim | inary hop to the Arctic base. The Lockheed was put together [ thef firat test fiight in last, Monday. The test was suc cesgful and the plane is pronounc Vega monoplane in five days for {ed Peady for final loading of fuel | and supplies for the 500 mii Jjump to Point Barrow where ad | ditibnal stores, gasoline and si _lare available | I# choosing early April for the | (dash across the Arctic blind spot, ! Wilkins is playing the lengthen [ing of daylight against Spring The departure for Point Barroyv: is tentatively set for next weelk although weather conditions "affeet final decision wll Alask | 1928. | | | | | | The new Municipal airdr was a scene of unusunal activ on Monday, with Russell Merrill, of Anchorage, taking oil for a 'home flight after landing threc | ' pasgengers here from Bethell; A | | A. Bennett winging his way to| Fort Yukon: Ed Young landing from the Iditarod and arriving from Nome and testing the / ic plane. ~ee U. S. POLICY S DEFENDED; - STRONG TM.K Allegcd [mpena istic Trend % loIs Explained, Pur- 3 poses Stated Eielson Yoo Noel Wein| head of the Persian Gulf. n bombing machines, 10 ‘ar- MABEL BOLL and CHARLES LEVINE jmoeed cars and numerois {raii HAVANA, Cuba, March 7. The Bellanca monoplane Columbia by '"’";"’:.J'",,“f"‘"","’,";b“" |arrived here yesterday afternocon on a. nonstop flight from New H.““,‘,A“‘ A:}r“[ e,-‘::in,r:veg;,mnfun ork City with Charles Le and Miss Mabel Boll, witis Wilmer in Tgypt and Palestine are also | Stultz as pilot It was a speedy flight, the 1,400-mile hop being under i co | » ANTI SALO()V b[’PER'NrFI\DF[VT S Hb SMITH IS FROTH THAT DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL BLOW INTO NOTHINGNE. BOSTON, March 7.—Defense, of the American foreign policy ageinst criticisms of those who profess to see a warlike tendency in what they term the imperi istic trend of the United States was made today by W. R. Castle, Jr, Assistant Secretary of State, betore the Republican Club of Mussachusetts (astle declared the TUinited | |States wants no new territor and has no desire to include a single alien group under its con- trol, but on the contrary wants to ‘“‘assist other nations, no mat- ter how small and defendeless, to grow strong, wise and self-reliant so they can fearlessly be self (respeeted and respected by oth and take their full place in the. {family of nations.” Castle said Canada has |same ideals and aspirations. the | 'Bald Heads Are More Prevalent than Ever!| LONDON, England, March 7 Bzldness is more prevalent among imiddle aged men than ever, says | Madame Iona Periford whn spe lizes on adding to the scanty g LS ey | hair on men's heads. A ; 7 WASHING March 1. MABHINE GUNS The head should be treated us President Lewis House Committee Does Not| | —an adverse report has L A e et Makes His Charges Approve Resolution by || poen oraered ot mittoe [ford, “the hair being the foliags of the human body. | “The avérage middle-aged busi {ness man’s head shocks me. The | belief that a bald head in an of- Ifice 18 a* smyn of good business | brains ig an illusion. A bald head is merely the result of poor cir- (culation and nervous shock. Worry or illness may have stopped the circulation.” Madame Periford does not claim to be able to do anything with &} nead as bare as a billiard ba'l, but contends that by means of hand vibration and hot oils she can conquer bald heads which are nof altogether “too far gone.” Curtis Is Endorsed by Republicans of Kansas! WICHITA, Kan. March publicans in state convention nave enthusiastically endorsed the ! presidential candidacy of Senator Charles Curtis and instructed the delegation to vote for him. —- - — A J. NS NEW YORK: Mreh | —Alas- ki Juneay mine stock is quoted iday at 4 | | | | | | | | | | | 1500,000 -households |70000 bushets THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER BRITISH PREPARING FOR HOLY WAR ‘ Demand for Ransom Results in Arrest; Mystery Case "pLANE NEW YORK CITY ered in almost 14 tionally famed as “The Queen of collection of pre:-mun stones, WAKLES \l)\\l()[' FLIGHT FROM "TO HAVANA, GOOD TIME hours to the minute. The plane l.lt Mitehell FIPI(I. N. ¥. TEN CENTS OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE 1 'MRCRAFT BEING - MADEREADYTO - GOMBAT ENEMY Ibn Saud Declares Hostili- i ties Against Mandated J} Territory {BRITISH ASSEMBLING | WAR CRAFT, ACTION {Thirty Thousand Fighting | Fanatics May Be Plac- i ed in Field ! LONDON, .“-l]’i h of the British is r ibat in a Holy W i This arises from the possibil- | ity that Ibd Saud, King of Hed- tjaz, and’the 8nltan of Nedj would th of Trak and 7.-—Alreraft ady for a com- horders ordanta, mandated British tive . preparations for suech {an attack by air have heen start- ed by Great Britain. Advices [from Basra Irak said an airplane | base will be established at Yow- Ihn, it is reported from Jerus n, hus declared hostilities tnst the mandated distriet. It' is interna-!' costly sal Miss Boll " he Diamonds anse of her i Television Links Liner With Shore BERENGARIA, This liner has ABOARD March 7. the first time by television. Spectators aboard the Be: engaria in mid-Atiantic, la night saw persons appear be- fore a transmitting appar atus in a London studio. They saw the subjects move. In one case the image was recognized The television tests did not interfere with the operatian of the shi radio which continued work- ing as usual. been linked to the shore for ’ - ee - “LAME DUCK” LEGISLATION - IS TAKEN UP House Interests Itself in Talk on Norris-White | I Amendment { WABHINGTON, march 7.——The House yesterday took cofinsel with itself on the advisibility of accepting the Norris - White Amendment to the Constitution| proposing to abolish the “lame’ duck’ or short termn sessiomns of | Congress ahd change the Presi-, dential inaugural date from March | 4 to January 24 | The amendmen! also provides for succession to the Presidency | Iby the Viee-President-elect in| event of the death of the former and empower Congress to provide | by law for succession in case of | the death af both the President| and Vice-President ¢ For four successive years the Senate has passed a =imilar reso- lution but this is the first time . the question has been called up in the House. ———.e EVERY HOUSE HAS COCOONS, SEOUL, March 7 More than in Chesan, (Korea) raised spring silkworms [ it year and about 225.000 house- hold- raised summer and autumn | Bxpedition as Meteorologist, has riculture in Alaska which is now " accepted Commander Umberto No- Landled by each bureau, is to be I bile’s invitation to join him on mk ‘0 care of through the office his mext trip by air to the “Top of the Department of the Interior of the World” The expedition ar Seattle which attends to the is fo start next month from Len. purchasing of supplies - for The ingrad. Alaska Railroad and the Bureaa Land Office Registrars (allowed by law up to a maximum Senate. The Housze has yet to, Duties of Commissioner act on the measure. It is stipn The duties imposed on Commis: ‘lated in the measnre that the 4 | Reau silkworms. They produced about of cocoons, % ‘ another joh, uu estimated that hc will be {to pluce 30.000 Nghting fans lin the fleld. STEPS TAKEN i ST. PETERSBURG, . Maren T—Gov. Al Smith is )th that! Ilw Democ Party will blow | into nothing at Ho n it gathaers F. Scott Me-| DEPT. OF AGRI. Bride, General Superintendent of! the Anti-Saloon League, told the Southeastern States’ Prohibition ks Sink convention yesterday. s B “Dry ' Southern Demoerats, like Commissioner Flory An- yourselves, must decide whether Smith is right or wrong when nounces Change, Trans- fer Bureau Matters declared at a Vanderbilt Hot dinner in New York a few years | ago that the Democratic F The first steps of a definiia and the saloon were a par(. Joiuing of forces on the part of Bverybody knows it s and it the bureans in Alaska of the De- ought to come out and say so.’ bartment of Agriculture, have said McBride. “I do not belie been taken with the placing of that one of the states you repre |the purchase of supplies and sent will give its delegation to a “quipment, with the Department man who sent word to the wet Of Interior's purchastng office-in Governor of New Jersey that he Seattle, and with the gombining would hely him put over a bill Of the fiscal matters, to be dis- to get us where we can put our bensed with through ome offies, fool on the rail again and blow It Was announced today by off the froth. Smith is froth the Charles L Flory, Commissionor Democratic Party will blow mts for Alaska of the Department of ,,,,“,1,.,;“{,5,(_“ Agriculture. Commissioner Flory LA RSO SS returned to Juneau last night on the steamer Yukon after nearly four months absence. Most of the time he spent in Washington, D. C. in conference with Secre- tary Jardine concerning the new duties imposed on him in the of. Swedish Scientist to Accompany Nobile to “Top of World” March STOCKHOLM, 7—Dr tice of Commissioner. "Finn Malmgren, Swedish scicn The purchasing of all supplios | tist, who accompanied Capt. Roald and equipment for the various Amundsen” on his North Polar bureaus of the Department of Ak ‘ot Education in Alaska. The bureaus affected by this changy 'arc: Forest Service, Burean of Bill Paued by Senate Public Roads, Biological Survey, Woather Bureau, Agriculture. WASHNGTO\. \lunh T—Com- A definite program for thi pensation of Registrars of local (ransfor of fiscal matters from land offices is fixed at §1.000 a f 3 the bureaus to one office has noi. year with fees and commissions vet heen completed hut will be announced within a short um Commissioner Flory said. of $3.600 in a bill passed by the sioner Flory as set forth in the \ct authorizing the designation of his office are as follows: (1) To co-ordinate the activi. ties of the Department of Agri: colture in Alaska. 3 (2) To consolidate or oll wise as may be advantageous, rearrange the fiseal, purchase | property, personnel and zeneral procedures of the and affices of the (RM Alaska. To mhm; to u;, [ salary of the Registrar of the J District be $3.600 annuall, —— e COLLEGE GUARDS HEALTH HARTFO Coon,, March 7- Chemists at Trinity College make weekly examinations of omnlnylfl of a local power company to dv termine whether the men are af-| fecfed by the mercufy vapor us. h in the plant’s boilers. An m- gine room worker who shows the | sliglitest trace of polsoniv gets | (£