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

THE DAILY ALASKA KMPI VOL. XXXL, NO. 4758. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 7. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS P——T RE PRICE TEN CENTS CLUE FOUND, KIDNAPPED BOY CANE ed ship of the American merchant Mackenzie River white fox, $53,1py laborers womsthan . OMAHA ISOLATED FROM OUTSIDE WORLD BY WIRE Storm Breaks Telephone, Telegraph Lines—Trans- | portation Is Crippled CHICAGO, April 7—Omaha is without telegraph and telephone | service as the lines have been broken by severe snow storms and communication with the outside world yesterd and last night . was largely by wireless and radio. Transportation systems reach- ing the city are crippled and there is much apprehension regarding a milk shortage. Omaha was the center unusual disturbance from Des Moines, north to the of the extendi Lincoln Canadian border. | Snow fell in Minnesota, North and South Daketa with tempera ture dropping last night | Zero weather is predicted for| Omaha. and BOON TO CROPS OMAHA, April 7.—By Radio) The April snow storm will communication companies thou- sands of dollars but brought a' boon of moisture to the thirsting wheat fields. The snow storm wrote new records into the Weather Burcau books. Wreckin are busy in Eastern Ne a and hundreds of workers spent last night in an effort to normaliz telephone and tele-! graph ser and clear arterics| of travel Business is at a stanstill in Omaha and Councill Bluffs, lowa, across the river. | | IRISH FLIER T0 ACCOMPANY | GERMAN PLANE cost ice jas thou ithe surrounding Col. Fitzmaurice to Be Sec- ' ond Pilot on Trans- | Atlantic Flight BALDO. lin,. April EL AIRDROME, Dub- The projected tran;- Atlantic flight of the German Junker plane Bremen, which has been straining at the leash for the past two weeks awaiting fav orable weather, has become kl jerman-Irish venture, Col. James Fitzmaurice, Chief of the Irish Free State Air l"l)r(ev. will be second pilot in the Blemon, accompanying Capt. Hermann Koehl and Baron von Hufinefelil.} The Colonel will take the place| of Arthur Spindler who returned| to Berlin several days ago t\fi(‘l‘ what is reported to have been a' “row with the Baron. | | i Compromise Shipping ‘ Bill Given Approval | WASHINGTON, April —The House Merchant Marine Commit- tee has approved the compmmnu_‘ Jones-White shipping bill design- to stimulate private owner: marine. BOOTLEGGH SCHOOL CHILDRE! | Mrs | cales CHIEF YOUTH ROMPS THROUGH U. S. CAPITOL BLDG. Gray Structure Is Filled with Riot of Color— Congress Recesses WASHINGTON, April er invasion took of the great Capitol Building to- day, filling the gray stucture with youth and a riot of color ands of young folk from country trooped endle: through the long cor- ridorsand clattered up and down the deep worn stairw Congress took a d the children failed to motion y off see and it in Tomorrow eggs will be rolled the Presidential lawn, minus Coolidge, who is visiling mother, Mrs. Goodhue, who at \'lll'lhumplun Mass. on her is ill, FUR AUCTION SALE, TACOMA TACOMA, Wash., | More than« 200,000 |been auctioned at the by .the West Coast Incorporated. ~ Offerings consist- ed of Alaskan furs, Prices were as follows: mink, top, $31, orrdinary, $16 to $23; lynx averaged $36; -muskrat $1.59; wolf $13.5 cross fox, dark skins §57; red fox $35; ot- ter $35; silver fox, top, $200; beaver, $35; blue fox, best lots, $56; white fox, Alaskan, §$44; April furs hme Mackenzie River martens, $50. i RAMINGHAM KEEPS TOWN MEETING ; REMAINS BIGGEST PURE DEMOCRACY FRAMINGHAM, Mass., April 7 ~—The town of Framingham is go-| ing to rfémain the largest pure wdemocracy in the United States .IE'M least another year. Once more this community of 23,000 souls, asgembled in town meeting, has rejected a proposal that it petition the state legisla- ture for a city charter. The body of voters who as- semble in Memorial Hall to decide Framingham's = policies is larger than any state legislature, larger congress, larger than any \uparliament of any nation, great or small, in the world. The town meeting, the old-fashioned New ‘England form of government, i not only “of the people, for the ‘people and by the people”—it i the people. For six nights this year 1500 to 2,800 voters assembled to lis. ‘ten to plans for conducting th ‘government for another year, to suggestions themselves, to . and llnully m n'mcr their | vote. Three seleetmen, one chosen each year for a three-year term, are delegated by the voters to carry out their wishes. A slate of lesser officials and a finance :board also is chosen yearly, Some citizens argue that the old democracy is antiquated, that it i8 too cumbersome for so large a town. They fecl that there is not the cowordination and co-oper- ation there should be betwaen the various town departments. While there is ample provigion for all voters to register their votes at the polls, the 7,600 voters of the town cannot all crowd int the higgest Jall in town at “one time. /Before town meeting it was felt that sentiment was “pretty ‘strong” ltor the ‘proposal to petis tion for a city ¢harter. Then, on the last night, a proml~ nent ¢itizen arose and stoutly de- fended the ancient democratic sys- tem and warned_against choos another. And his fellow cnh;zx voted down the proposal - for change of ymment nhelmk‘ SOCIAL PROBLEM KNOW MUCH ABOUT | SPOKANE, W | Sehool children ‘apparently know | me bout bootleggmg than any | other social problem of today, | Prof. W. H. Burton. of the De- parment of Education of the Uni- [ versity of Chicago, said in an ad- "dress hefore the Inland Empire yeiation convention here to- April 7 i | | divorec Juvenile in come Next order alimony, sheriffs courts and jur Prof. Burton said he made a test of knowedge of 9,000 school children of the Siwth Grades and found “ninety pér cent kneaw all about bootlegging and forty per | cent never had heard of Prohibi- tion. We found the Russian and Jew children in the poor districts! knew all about savings banks but never heard of the charge| account or installment plan but | children of the middle clas homes knew nothing about sav- ings banks but were well in-| formed on charge accounts and installments.” Y. M. C. A. Builds on Site Of Royal Hawaiian Hotel HONOLULU, site of the historic an hotel, where and queens once the palms for social gaicly, a new $800,000 Army and Navy Y. M. C.| A, building has been opened. The hotel was a rendezvous of society for almost half a century prior to 1917, when the building was bought by the M. C A The new structure is of concrete,| five stories high, and designed to| meet the needs of United States soldiers and sailors garrisoned inj: Honolulu. It will handle an in-| flux of sailors when acific | battle fleet arrives port for| maneuvers in April. Spurs 300 Years Old Found in New Mexico On the Hawali-| kings | under April T Royal Hawaii's gathered the off ANTHONY, N. M., Two silver spur ornmamcnts, leveling land near| [here. are believed to have been [worn by some Spanish grandee who explored this country three centuries ago. The ornaments are oval and are about four inches long. The de-| sign shows a crowned lion with a| human face, couciant. The holes throughi which the straps are fast- ened are surrounded by scroll work, of floral effect. There is a record of a party of Spanish conquistadors spending ! the winter of 1680 in this vicinity. The spur ornaments were found near the line of ‘march of that party. April - 7—] found | ———————— THEN AND NOW | NEW YORK, April Charles D. White, first president of a mi- nor league in the International Ledgue territory, date 1885, is still alive lnd/ feeling well and will accept’ ln’invlmlon to be on hand| when . Montr I celebrates Lits ‘l!‘_ Iuguu May 2. Vl. PLATo % 'l'hfit- (af 47 —Abel Hermant, qemlmr of the v who Is lla,n a sail recently. ¢ in heing ‘firl 1 than 0. th i ,g {cated FLO0D GUNTROL POLICY COMES IN FOR ATTACK Senator Reed Swings at Administration’s “False Economy" MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 7-Rap-| ping what he termed the “falso| economy” of pthe Administration toward flood control, States Senator James A.' Recd in an address here last night advo- issuance of one billion bonds and urged the improvement of the Mississippi River and trib- utarie to begin at once. “The plan which in itgelf was inadequate,” id the 'Senator.| alled for $750,000,000 but that has heen cut in half and rumor has it that the Administration de sires ‘economize’ by further ducing the plan. It is false ecoi omy. It is economy of waste.” s to BYRD'S PLANE ON TEST TRIP WINNIPEG, the 350-mile journey The in three mander Richard E. Byrd's motored monoplane, which he will use on his flight to the South Pole. arrived here. The plane car) a crew of five and nine pas rs, including several min- ing men from the North coun- try, and was in command of Floyd Bennett who is ac ied by Bernt Balchen, co-pilot. The test flight was made to the far north at Reindeer Lake. Bennett said he expected to reach St. Paul tomorrow enroute to Detroit, April 7. Making from the| Pas hours, Com- ed n iLord Asquith’s Son \ Thi[tietll Boy Peer! LONDON, April 7—With the entry of little Julian Asquith into the ranks of the British peera, as Earl of Oxford and Asquith, in succession to his late grandfathoer. there are now 30 boy peers, all of | '’ whom tary bers under the British heredi principle will become mem of the house of lords when | they come of age. of these 30 peers vary widely. One of the oldest is the Duke of Norfolk who is 20, while some of them arc mere Jinfants, The new Barl of Oxford is in his twelfth year. Earl Haig’s schoolboy ‘Son_was the last before young Asquith’ to succeed his father in the peerage. The ages ———————— WOULD UNIFY STATISTICS GENEVA, April 7=Unification of economic, commerc¢ial and in- dustrial statistics “the object of an international conferen which the League of Nations has convoked for Nowember. The United States probably will be in vited to participate in the meet ing, at which effort will be made to _embody reulnuon. adopted at the lntaruqon.l economic confer- mi. last sum United! ini tri-| ympan- | voung | ADEQUATE NAVY IS PLEA MADE BY SEC. WILBUR Protection of Nahon an(I Commerce on Seas Must Be Assured 1 i i | | { | | JOMAHA, April 7-—Taking his plea for an adequate but “peace- | iful and neutr navy, into the heart of America, Secretary of | | Navy Custis D. Wilbur declared | here ' that uninterrupted overseas | | commierce was vital to prosperity j (Mot only to seacoast states but to | jevery citizen of the country | Segretary Wilbur said an or | ganized system of propaganda \d’!.'l"lbu national defense, particu- HmQ against the first line of de fense of the navy, prompted the Président in his last message to i Comgress to say: “We would pro vide for our ne r rile propagandists for or | adequate na | The Secretary 1 ’%Ish-nl determined and uno: | tatious construction of a flect { which will not only protect this {nation but comfort all weak na { tions seeking peace Secretary Wilbur .h.rml Herbert ¢ he. arrived to adgr iber of Commerce and ! “This is the fir time 1 | giwbn an endorsement. but I i going 1o say more later.” - calm, per en he when Cham added have am said Hoovoer the No Word from Wilkins About Proposed Flight | | SEWARD, ~Capt. Gearge H. Wilkins wa silent this. morning, There is 1deal weather here indicating that it might be the same at Point Barrow for the flight to Spitzbergen Alaska, April 7. D NEW.MONOPLANE 1S BEING BUILT { | 1) I | NEW ltype of claimed capacity, YORK, Aznxl A nev monoplane for which is has remarkable lifting | is' nearing completion ‘harles Levine's Long Island Air | plane factory The plane is all metal, jduralumin, It has a fof tull cantilever The wing spread is it lifting power. | built ~ low, the | stre built single construction. | 50 feet, giving | The plane is| SBHFe Loasidne ] of tance. new monoplane 5.000 miles and it will have maximum speed of 160 miles an| | hour. | Is estimated at| Toll B;i-dges Increase, 1 i CHICAGO, Amll bridge, commonly | relic of earlier days, lu- | ated into the field of big business ' in these days of many automo-| | biles, | The Chicago Motor |clares that highways are being commerecialized by an . ever-in- creasing number of privately own- ed toll bridges, | Many of the declared, earn their owne {much as 300 percent a | the original investment ings of 40 to 150 percent are be comparatively common. Toll bridges in operation in the country at the beginning of the year numbered of which 19) | were privately owned. The club’s research showed such strue- |tures are under construction and | 163 more proposed AMERICAN LEGION PROPERTY FILLED In preparation for the grooming of the lot on which the American Legiom ™ Dug Out stands, earth from the Masonic Temple proper- ty has been hanled to the loca- tion of the Legion home during the past few days and the front vard of the Dug Out has been well fifled in_on Second Avenue. When the weather perm'ts the vard will he leveled and a lawn planted under the direction of Le- glon Jofficials. Dirt used to fill in was top earth from the corner of Fo #nd Seward Streeis and should prave extremely fertile, Legl T—The regarded has as club de it is as | ) on | and earn- sald structures, { e | is is | Medill | ing 4nu - Lowden Thruat By Thompson Enlivens Campaign in Illmms Candidecy of Mrs, Medill McCormick (above) for Republicam inomiaaticn as Reprgsgptative at large, ! 1L Smith (ilghty | spenscred ” by Mayor Thcmprrn of Gov. Len €moll, feature {would prevent instructicn c { Frenk 0. Lc wdrn only Prc-idential candi CHICAGO, {show the country what the vgters President think of not choose In the April 10, andidate ank 0. tate's own am Hale his 1i in on Mr. C a delegatio A. Unite L. Smith, before Another terest is Mc Mark Hanv ination Motor Club Declares| ~No pemoc qualified toll | campaigns of v a!have voters write didates their dates. Mayor from lunch favo had serted draft the Lowden usual that April 7 o to run” preferent only one will be v Re| son. But Thompson oolidge n. 1 State duly elected but 1 mlined to cut down wind re-|Office because of the source and The flying radius of the|$ize of his campaign contributions Republican a|asking re-nomination the of campa feature the Cormicl 1a, for Rep congressn atic n arious rite presid Thompson, Washin with Mr. the v president picturesque | has sponsored a method to deter- 'mine what the (hermomete and WINE | yoters to refrain from instructing n the on ination, Mlinois may oolidge’s “do statement ial presidential oted upon publican, the Mayor Wil- of Chicago manner reads sks the nator, Frank fused voters national in jgn of Mrs daughter of ublican nom man-atlarge presidential can (d there sizes onf are to names of ential candi- after return- where he Coolidge, as- iters shoulgd The Cook County convention placed itself on record Thompso | been politi Thompson ment that tional con each coun den, Those w. dent have been delegates and ing the direct move, The mean at delegation. Thus, w. on the ballot, in agreem Coolidge i, n and o1 has he ha ivention ty, mad, a ho believe a asked refrain ballot sucCe; an it least ith but Lowden nies for delegates favorable which means unfavorable Thompson to vote for these | have rears, state- of na- e the slate to him, about Presi- does from mark for Lowden ssful, would | unin“tructed one candidate there i a fight J r the state’s 58 delegates to the Re- publican are entitle convention, d to the s of delegates. Frank L. Smith Democrats ame number Dwight banker. | elected United States senator and | though the wooden then denied admission’ to the sen ate, is opposed for the Republican has all Lut disappeared, one lone, of the family of Ross. Jae nomination by Otis F. Glenn, Mur-| physboro, member of the Ilinois legislature, York's midtown shopping distric MeCormick, who has Mrs, ducted a attorney vigorous and former con- carapaign, > Winols },nnm'ies Ap Bept primary ! to Low-| 4um£ CHUM TELLS POLICE ONE INCIDENT Suspected Former Convict Sought as Result of bmgle Clue Cal., April 7. y the small {chum of nine-year-old ~ Walter of a short, dirty, be- red man who inquired the v to the Collins’s home, is re- upon the police as the (rongest clue of the supposed Lidnapping of the boy Tlie man resembled one of two suspected former convicts of Fol- som Penitentiary who the police are seeking the man hunt in ith the case. te the Collins the day before the lad a man driving a stopped and inquired to the Collins’s home. ldress was nd the chum volunteercd to carry a mes- but the man 1 “No, I want to e the mes- sage to him myself. [ am after 'Lis hid The police are searching for { the ex-conviets on the theory that a possible fued engendered with- |in the prison wails may have r lsultéd in abduction of the Col . lins hoy with revenge upon the [ | father of the lad as the motive. The father of the boy has been a trusty at Folsom and officers be- lieve that his duties, reporting infeaciions of rules by fellow convicts, may have led some of the prisoners in an attempt to take vengeance when released. e ARE PLAN BY ROSSMAN xpects to Circle and Fly Over McKinley— Pilot Secured L.os The ANGELES, told by | | | in | connection The play: hoy said disappeared, [-Hll‘l‘t ear, | ki f i below’ with, 1 10. Thompson 2ates for former Gyv. e in the plmnrv 30, shown ! Henry Yates. Of next Importance to the bal- \loting on national issues is tie!f. candidacy of Governor Len Small| ™ yfor a third term. Small and { Thompson aligned forces, thus ce- menting the striet cloavage in Ilinois Republican ranks, with one faction under the co-leader- ship of Small and Thompson and lthe other ed by Uni States Senator Charles S. Dencen. Louis L. Emerson, Ilinms sec- retary of state, opposes Small for the gubernatorial nomination and the campaign has been bitterly fought With colorful personalities add- R. Rathbone or Richara ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 7 Matt Neiminen, veteran army flier who eame to Alaska recently from Mexico to join the flying staff of Anchorage, will pilot the plane of ¥arl Rossman in a flight over Mount MeKinley. minen did much fiying seven years ago. Rossman’s intention is to m-kb ing interest to the election, an ad-{iwo. flights over the mountals. ditional pieturesque ‘touch has|The [irst will been afforded in Chlearn and ex-land other peaks in the region of tended to the state d of | Mount McKiunley at an altitude of prayer on which men and women|about 17,000 feet approaching the gather in the churches to ask di-{mountain as closely as possible. vine guldance help voters se-| The second flight will be over lect up. it officials at the pe the top at an aliitude of more —— - —— than 20,000 feet. If a landing is IS REVEALED; ARREST THREE| Rosgman is hopeful of finding a w gpecies of fauna and floral things. Radio communication will be maintained with Anchorage aml the plane wlll carry special equip- ment for aerial photography. OUKA, Ark., April 7 with haying placed community, well illness of mnearly J. R. Goldman of a Mrs, Nancy Lyan, have been arrested the lar-| *'s brother, Rober: Morrl, They|"°3T Canton state that the inhabi |are held on charges of assauit|'20t8 have been massasied B with” intent to kill sfter the au.|R°48 Who are in contrgl. " Three thorities reported the well wate ‘”?lhm" Extremists ‘oIS I gave Indlcations that arscafc had | !He% set them afire, uil ‘miles Deen ‘pineat it lover 40 years of age were slain, L The cnmp has about 20 families. | "OMmen dcfamed aud infauts burns ! Mrs. Lynn's children told the ! 10”1 rs she was suffering from hailneinations and believed (1 sale of timber she thought hers would be prevented if lumbering camp was removed. B mountain & on Wassacre Reported From District Near Canton;Reds Active --f'hurur-dl poison in a which resulted in all inhabitants, | awmill camp, | aged T0 year } with CANTON, China, April 7—Ad vices from the Yeunckowg districs Tlu- Canton government u‘oo‘n. which are suspecited of Communist sympathizers, )moM orders to reinforce the troopi al- | ready there, ‘Country_ Home Burned; ° 9 | Eight Dead; Is Mystery Apr — Al i s Indian, once| CISCO, Texas, April tobaceonist, {adults aud six children, LAST OF THE MOHICANS YORK, NEW 7. the memn| sign of the te of the in the member | his own tribe still holds heart of New farmer, were either burned death or glain before the ‘home was destroyed by fire Just off Fifth avenne stands this omrning. Sheri Hart i redskin, hatchet ralsed, which the conditions of the bodies of stumping . the <até from.end tojowners claim Is the only ‘one mv‘x"hlldnn caused him to end, seeks cumbent A {the sy congre of either in- men-at-large —- jon public Istand, display on Manhattan they had been slain mor-' fire, be over Foraker | s y