The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 22, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXL, NO. 4744, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SECRETARY MELLON NOT TO RESIGN FALL TO BREAK SILENCE ON OIL LEASES,REPORT Testimony Will Be Given Only in Court—Turns Committee Down WASHINGTON, March mer Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall, who has maintained a sphinxdike silence for more than four years, was asked by the Sen- ate Teapot Dome Committee whether he is ready to ‘tell all in connection with mnaval oil lea: and the Continental Trad ing Company. Chairman Nye la ter received an answer from Fall the latter saying he would rather give his testimony in court rather than before the committee. it had been planned for the sub-committee to leave immediate ly for El Paso, Tex where Fall is too ill, his physicians say, come here for trial with Sinclair in April in the action brought for criminal conspiracy growing out of the Teapot Dome lease. The committee telegraphed Fall on the basis of newspaper reports quoting Fall as saying he wanted the publi to know the whole story because his physiciars told him he on had a few monthe more to live. FALL IS ILL WASHINGTON, March Reports from Government physi- cians, who examined Albert B, Fall, agree with reports made by his personal physician that the former Secretary of the Interior {s unable to come to Washington for trial with Sinclair on April 2, 22—For- 22 HARDING CLEARED MARION, Ohio, March 22— The executor of Warren G. Hard- ing's estate announced that an examination of the records hy a special investigator of the Semate Public Lands Committee definite- ly established that Harding pos- sessed none of the Continental Trading Company’s liberty bonds involved in the Teapot Dome oil scandal. ——— FURS DECLINE OPENING SALE SEATTLE, March 22 weakness with declines to 20 percent marked ing of the Seattle F Mink, best lot, sold for SA‘I5ID average §1 Red fox averaged $36.45, inter- fors $42 to §45 for ones and twos. Muskrat sold for $1.48, for best lots $1.75. . White fox averaged $46. WINNIPEG, March 22—A keen demand for otter marked the fur auction here and the top price was $41.50, average lots $25 to $30. Wolf, best lots, sold for $25 to $30. Silver fox averaged $100 to $125. Fisher, top, §135. i study *eraft T() Il ASKA D SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, ,’\I.nrch] A boat with wheels, d by some an automobile like a fish, will be utilize summer f to Ala dition will be composed of mef headed by | Dr. Thomas Waggar, volcanclogist of the United States Geological! Survey. The boat is to travel on] land and sea and will be used to| The peculiar | from San Fran- 1. as a pedition volcanos. will start cisco about May SCHERMEYER GIVEN YEAR AND ONE DAY| 5! Last Chapter Written in Iditarod Mail Rob- bery of 1922 March Iddit 1 ) FAIRBANK Alas “The closing chapte arod mail robbery folded when confessed led guilty to complicity sentenced to one year one day in McNeil Island tentiary, In passing recognized ance to the prosecution’ trial of the “Black quitted last MEXIGO CITY E XPERIENCES 'SEVERE QUAKE Shocks Last_ec; Two Min- utes — Causes Great Alarm—No Damage 22—A ka, in the case of William part x]-v!’ and | and | Peni-| Conrt as the in the known as | She was ac-| sentence, the Schermeyer’s government chief witn: ellie Bate Bear.” Mnm MEXICO CITY, March violent earthquake shook Mexico City at 10:20 o'clock last night. The shack lasted almost two min- utes and is considered the strong- est in a number of years. The shock caused great alarm through- out the Mexican capital. Only minor damage is believed to have been done. VERA CRUZ, Mexico, March 22 An earth shock was perceptible for one minute and a halfl last night starting at 10:20 o’clock. The shock caused a general alarm and residents ran from their homes. No material damage has been n-puned Spain ls to Retyrn To League of Nations GENEVA, March 22-—The offi- cial return of Spain to the League of Nations is announced by Don Pedro Sangro, Spanish represen- tative. ENGLAND, BACHI'LOR’S LAST HAVEN, CONSIDERS TAX sLONDON, has ceased to be a bachelor's paradise. land and the continental countries are seeing to it that the phrase March 22—Europe Governments of Eng- “single blessedness” becomes but a memory of the past. A move in Englhnd to tax bach- elors, which Winston Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer, is now considering, is the climax to a general offensive which Europe has been conducting against the pocketbooks of the girl-shy. Great Britain s exlwctlnfl( awaiting the presentation of the) chancellor’s next budget, which will probably contain the hachelor tax. There are some 2,650,746 bachelors of full age .in England. If England passes the bachelor tax many famous men will come under its provisions. The Arch- bishops of York, Lord Balfour, Justice McCardie, Sir Philip Sas. soon, under secretary of air; Lord Revelstoke, director of the Bank of England, and the Bishop of London are all bachelors. Some of the English bachelors have great wealth and beautiful homes and estates, which make them all the more eligible in the feminine eye. The young Duke of mfi! who owns 50,000 acres; bert Horne, who ounm a ON UNMARRIED MEN ireat Britain is thus far behind other nations of Kurope in entrap- ping the bachelor. In Germany Arnold Hirtsiefer, minister of pub- lic welfare, has advocated a bach- elor tax to make up a deficiéncy in the budget. Spain has made urrangcmentul for an immediate impositions of such a tax. British and other for- eign residents in Spain have made a protest, but the protest is not deemed likely to bear fruit. Italy belleves that a man of 65 is still an eligible baehelor. She began last year to tax bachelors between 25 and 65. Premier Mus- solini estimates that Italy will re- celve $2,500,000 a year from this tax. France has taxed = bachelors since 1920, Unmarried men of 30 years and more pay a super in- come tax of 25 per cent. This number of exira taxpayers reach- ed 260,000 last year. France, however, believes in buttering the bread on two sides, for she also taxes unmarried women of 30 and over, ‘and even married couples | who have been married more than | two .years and have no childréen are taxed 10 percent over the nor- mal rate. France, to repair the drain of flu World war on her manhood i and to recover from her nremu - tow. - birth, ik ’4( I(Ml()l}II E, Lll\fi H&H (()‘llll\(, lRl G NEXT SUMMER er-mum His " “Desire Run Again WASHINGTON, March | Once President Cool- | idge has reiterated his desire not to be a candidate for re election. He declined to cede to the request of Wyoming Republican Central Committee “waive personal preference and consent to continue for an additional four years that leadership which brought hon or and prosperity to this country.” the State | that he SLEMP HOPES HOOVER WILL BE NOMINEE Nmnna\ Commllleeman of V“L’lnla COmeS Out with Statement WASHINGTON, March 22 statement, €. Bascom Slemp, for- mer Secretary to President Cool- idge, and Republican National Committeeman from Virginia, de- clared he hoped Herbert C. Hoov- er would recelve the Republican presidential nomination. “Hoover, in my judgment, more of the national appeal and following than any man thlL considered for the Presidency said Slemp's statement. “Hoover is a man of extra-or- dinary ability, conversant with all phases of gevernmental activities, both foreign and domestic, and will make a great Presidenf. For this reason I hope he will receive the nomination,” concluded the statement. Slemp formerly has expressed the opinion should be dlu[lwl NEW PLANE FOR COL. LINDBERGH Will Have Nlckle Plated Motor, Self - Starter, Other Conveniences In a has repeatedly Coolidge NEW V()KK \Iullh — A luxurious new airplan with nickel plated mptor, self-starter and other conveniences lacking in the Spirit of St. Louis, will be ready for Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh about April 1, William Mankey, Chief Engine: of the Mahoney Aircraft Company, builders of the Spirit of St Louls, divulged today Details of the which was designed by Lind- bergh, shows the plane will have the same wing spread and some- thing of the same appearance as the Spirit of St. Louis. - It will have accommodations for three passengers and will have a speed of 126 miles an hour. The seats will be deep cushioned leather chairs, The instrument _ board will be mahogany and the nickel plated motor the most beautiful ever built. Mother of Mary ; Pickford Is Dead LOS ANGELES,” March 22. Mrs. Charlotte Pickford, mother of Mary Pickford Fairbanks, died at midnight last night after a lingering illness, as the result of a cancerous growth. Mys. Douglas was at the bedside of her mother at the end. > — Wilkins Is Having Trouble with Gas Engine at Barrow 99 new plane, SEWARD, Alaska, March 22— Capt. Robert B. Woolverton, of he radio station here, received one message from Capt. George H. Wilkins last might bt con- tinued to get interfererce from amateur stations. Wilkins: stated was having a little trouble his gas. en- glne used to drive his generator. §SUB VICTIMS TRIED HARD T0 GET OUT Evidence Revealed S-4 Of- ficers and Men Started to Chisel Way Out Mas BOSTON, - Mute evidence tI of the 40 entrapped officers and men aboard the submarine S-4 sought in vain chisel their; way out of the steel tomb has| been uncovered by the Navali Board. The oozy debris of the torpedo | compartment gave up an a ! ment of cold chisels, hand | wrenches and other patterning| tools, while the motor compart- ment was scarred and battered. | One spot showed ele an at-) tempt had n made chisel | through the steel hull | Another disclosure H the submarine’ salvage was in working order. it functioned perfectly air line been connected carly hours bef, scue turned to salvage air could have been pumped all parts the S-4 and tained life until monoxide od the fatal percentage. — e — HOWARD PLANS TWO SPEECHES, | i urql hoard will be composed of Edgard H. Bennett, Hubert Burn- hm‘l and John A. Holabird, of "Clittugo; - Arthur - Brown, . Jr.. San bett, Nak Francisco: Harvey W. San Francisco and York; Paul P. Cret Philadelphia; fRaymond M. Hood, New York and Chicago, and Ralph T. Walker, New York. “Other great fairs have suffered parttality shown to said Rufus C dent of the world's fair liberately decided to { that.” From ATTEMPT T0 MURDER MAN, COURT ROOM Police Chlef Acqumed of Slaying — Women At tempt Assassination March t at least some 29 to y bee. to was air In a tc Had t n the work , the into | main-| reach-| dha cego’s 1933 world fair, CHICAGO, Mar. have been selected to crealc physical structure of the 11988 world’s fair, Arclhitects the Candidate for Ddegate at Douglas Friday Night and Here Sunday Changing local campaign Bartley FHoward candidate for previously announced | plans, Senator of Anchorage, the Republican | nomination for Delegate to Con-| gress, today made public his plans for addressing two meei- ings on Gastineau Channel be fore he leaves. He will spe at Douglas Friday evening and|— come to Juneau Sunday evening to wind up his local drive De in getting away trip from here on a small Mr. Howard said, made it nec for him to make some tions in his plans for cov ing the entire First Division will be impossible for hm to visit | many of the smaller communities included in the original scheduie but he will get to all of the; ger towns, His Douglas address, which | will he made in the Liberty Theatre, will follow the comedy picture on the bill tomorrow night. His local talk will be| (OLUMBINE made at the Coliseum Theatre | H. F. Blake immediately following the first|(yjera, was fired show Sunday night. |stabbed by two Neither of these |Cireuit Court just lengthy, he said. “What I have |, quitted today of to say on politics will be short|yi.ir relative, Miss and as far as I can do it directly | .yharo, to the opint. In neither of the| Nips Mabel meetings will my remarks v of the girl, fired a pistol from ' quire longer than 15 or 20 min-|, digtance of only five feel as utes,” he declared. Blake was being congratulated Following the local meeting, |}y friends. The shot went wild. Senator Howard will leave herc|yjiss Cecil Tubbs, aunt of the Monday on the steamer Aumml[ irl, leaped at Biake, and draw Rogers, touching at Haines, Skas- |,z a knife, stabbed him in th way and Sitka and continue on |, ... Blake fell with the same vessel to Petersburg | treaming from the wound. From there he will go to Wran The court was in a turmoil gell by small boat and take the| State Attorney General MeCall, steamship Yukon out of therc|yio prosecuted Blake, fainted. about April 5 for Ketchikan. He| plake s in a critical condi- will remain in the southern end iy, of the Division until after the| The two mlnuny election, closing his cam- | paign at Ketchikan. WALTER CLEGHORN GIVEN DECISION SALEM, Oregon, March 22 Walter Cleghorn, Alaska welter- weight, last night got the decision over Wesley Hobbs, of Los An-| geles. He outpointed Hobbs in eight of the ten rounds. and expos because of local desig - Dawes, presi- “We de overcome tions of architects, list k | a long on boat, Ala Pol at and women in the after he was the murder of Louiée Mon- | March Chief of then | ma talks will be Monteaboro, moth- women were arrested officers. | Blake testified Miss Montea- Ihoro_killed herself on the high- | way after he had arrested her for speéding. Twe Mexican Trains Lynamited ;Passengers MEXICO CITY, March 22-Two traing were dynamited and then attacked ‘last Tuesday but (rain guards saved most of the passen- gerd < from harm according to. meager 'advices received by Universal. One of the passengers, a Mexiean, was killed. The epi-| eurred between Mexico Guadalajara. Whether | L were bandits or in-! ‘OI not been determined —— MRS. MORTON COMING Mrs. H. F. Morton, formerly of Junedu, {8 enroute here from An- chorage on the steamer Alaska, due here at: Uochek tomorrow afternoon, gount of the ill- er, Jack McDon , who has hospital for Architcets of four cities, from New York to San Fionci Chicago | blood ! “m'l fought hysterically with the, Are Saved from Harmi Chuauo Pu'l.s Eight W orld Fair Ar¢ compiled by an 10 wera chosen was narrowed down [ from these five w none of them OChicagon | five wers asked to add number any Chicago they considered worihy. the three, was impartial The list to ten group, then and reted, The o their architects The unanim- » 1033 exposition will be the fourth world’s fat® in which nett has had a hand of the architects of the Columbian exposition and 1ltant at the St. Louis and ancisco expositions, He has been a consultant ai many i the recent Paris expositions. Burnham is the son of David H ‘I(Innlmm hitect of the Colum- , bian exposition The vyounger { Burnham is said to have taken more nwtlu at the Beaux Arts world's “ con San also of will Three of them, shown abjve frem left to right, are hinagor Bllmhdm, John A. Holabird and Edward H. Bennett, (lewer left) of San Francisco and New York and Azthl'l Biown (lower right), San Fmvlcmo Bon-! He was ono | .ulw ts plan the structures for Chi- ube Among the cthers are Harvey Wiley Corvett in Paris than ayy other student, Brown signed American | is noted fo | the horticulture \at the San Francisco fair. Cor bett designed the Bush h-rmuml office building in New York, created the PanAférican lnlnu in Washington and the Clty Pub- ha de- dlding | The Tribufie "Power in Chicago was gned by Hood. © Walker, the you and consider: | modern of the group, won ihe gold dal in prchitecture from the | Architects’ of York for his design the York | Telephone building. The gronp will he | making the gr of New charged wilh wund plan of the ex- '|)nul‘ml site, determining the g2n- eral architectural character and ‘(qumm archit to design the arious huII(llm. ARCTIC EXPLORER ST II'ANSS()‘\’ IS I'lhl,l’\(. FINE ON Ills MEAT DIET | | NEW YORK, three weeks Vilhjalmur St plorer, decl, optimistic, getic than ascribes thig periment, Stefansson lstarted on the ex lackadaisical in | but now feels 1k« of bed and lmuk During seven jyears in the Arctic, [lived entirely on meat. {tends the Eskimos nevi tseurvy and are in perfect nother Arctic explorer, Anderson, 4 meat January gained during the lattcr part of |p(-rim], a pound more than {lost at first. i ———. e — - Gasoline Explosion ()u Destroyer Kalls Mvn. Others Hurt March Anur all-meat diet, fansson, Arctic ex- res he feels more ambitious and ener- ever before and to t dietary ex- 29 on he that when he periment, he felt the mornings"” “Jumping out getting right to said of the eleven r have health. Karl- diot bock | che | he w(vn gince on | | i 22 WASHING 1o, Miarch Ham Delevette and George ward Garrett, enlisted men, are !dead; five others are sulfering serious burns; four enlisted mon ‘and one chief warrant office have minor burns as the result of a sasoline explosion aboard the de. [xlluyur Whitney at Guantanamo Ifln). Cuba. Wil >oo —— tsnte Representative | | Proves to Be Real Hero| | ABERDERN, Wash.. ~~When the cibie of the Queets | River ferry snapped today, George Northrup, State Representative of | Jefferson County. leaped into the | water with a rope jashore. He secured the rope to a' | tree, bringing the ferry to the disaster. —————— Mrs, A. L. Readman, visiting in the states for several weeks, is a passenger for Juneau on tha Prhye!u Mary, | | Stefansson | He con-/ 2d- Mareh 22| and swam | NEW RECORDS ARE MADE ON N.Y.EXCHANGE Over 20 lese % ues Smash Pre-| vious Peak Prices— Sales Are Large NEW YORK, N ing tlie ninth consecutive (ull s sion of 3,000,000 shares or mor the New York Stock Exchange | continued to roll new high records junder a seemingly endless stres m | |of buying orders pouring in from | all sections of the world. More than 20 issues smashed previous peak prices yesterday | and an average of 20 leading in- |dustrials were lifted to anothor (new high record for all time as | ll | | reh 22--Racord The days’ sales were 3,90 shares within 10,000 of tha record turnover of March L D “Diamond Joe” Eposito, Clicaga Political Boss, Is Shot Down on Strect| i CHICAGO, March 22— Gang land’s three way combination of death, guns, guumen and mofor- |car, ended the crowded life of | “Diamond Joe” Eposito, whoss ‘melemh carger began as a day laborer. The life of the Chicago ended by shotgun slugs fired into his body as he was roturning from a meeting of a political: group with which he was affiliated (United States Senator Deneen or !anti-Thompson faction). | Three men also shot him from 1 bank and saving five persons from |behind as he lay dying in the | street One man pumped.an ox- tra charge from & double barreled gun into his back and them fled in an automobile. Yesterday Joe was warned “lget out of town or get killed," “to 1 most | - lty’s defieit, vpm»m rose from §! to $17 a share. |, ; 1% the Russian defeat overwh political boss, 50 years of age, was | TREASURY CHIEF IS NOT TO QUIT CABINET OFFIGE Depal tmemt Makes An- nouncement as Result Senate Resolution \BELIEVED MELLON TO IGNORE ATTACKS Trouble Arises from Cam- paign Contribution Of- fered by Sinclair WASHINGTON, March { was mwade clear at the T Department today that regardiess tof the result of the vote in the {Senate on the resolution request |ing retirement from the Cabinet, Socretary Andrew W. Mellon wiil sign. evident in Treasury cir- cles that Mellon will ignore the attaek upon him in Congress, un- less President Coolidze should de- mand his withdrawal and no such action 1is considered pos- sible | The resolution for Mellon's re- {tirement was offered by United {States Senator James' Couzens, * {Republican of Michigan, and arose partly from the Teapot Dome inguiry and Melon’s failure to disciose that WIill H. Hayes (offered him Sinclair liberty bonds yin exchavge' for campaign con- | tribntions, i [ Republican recently demanded, Senator Norris I Nebraska, (| apeech, that Secretary of Treas- jury Mellon resign for failing to muln public Will H. Hays' effort }lu have the Treasury Chief M‘ 350000 of )b‘u National (‘ummmoe for campaig funds. It was also said that "fl- fJon wonld he asked to testify be- |fore the Teapot Dome ON Com- {mittee, mevely elaborating on the rl«ll(‘!‘ which he sent Senator Wat- son several days ago. In his letter Mellon toid how {Will H, Hays had sent him $50,- 1000 of Sinclair's ofl-bond gift to ithe G. 0. P. with the subsequent Irequest that Mellon, act as a “dummy’ contributor to the par- Mellon turned down ays' proposeal, he safd, and ater made a personal contribus [tion of $50,000 out of his own | pocket to help alleviate the par- ty's then strained financial tom- dition, $ ——————— ARE AGAINST SOVIET PLAN DISARMAMENT Twenty-lwo Gounities Op- pose Project—Am- » ; ericalsin Lead GENEVA, March 22——1'%”!} Itwo of the 25 countries represent- led on the Preparatory Committee |for the Disarmament Conference of the League of Nations, have ‘nm ( up against the Soviet plan {for immediate and complete dis- | armament. : Hugh Gibson, \ States, | | | | | | | | of the, United and others, added critl- isms to those of Tuesday, | ingly. Notwithstanding this, . Maxim | Litvinotf, Russlan Vice-Commis.' sar of Forelgn Affairs and head (ol the Soviet Delegation; spoke {again in favor of the plan. Gibson surprised everybody. “, Tuesday by taking the floor, {had become generally underst; | that the Americans would not re- |ply to the bid contained in | vinoff's first apeech on Mend {for American support al the. Soviet project. | All attention was centerod {Gibson as he announced ca was unable to support l tic proposals which “he not believe ecalculated to achie their avowed purpose.” C. D. East, representative Liggett and Myers Tobacco pany, accompanied by his left on the Aleutian for on the start of a tour wesiward - and interior {They bave been i ! the last week, |