The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 23, 1928, Page 1

'HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXI., NO. 4771, JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ‘WILKINS PLANS SOUTH POLE FLIGHT N DELEGATES FOR CONCLAVES UP THIS WEEK Nine States and Two Terri- tories to Pick Convention Delegates — Standing WASHINGTON, D. —With millions of ey ard Ohio where skirmish in the pre-convention .l‘rv'«mln»uliul campaign will ln- fought in tomorrow’s primary, fi nal preparations are under way| for a week of unprecedented, choosing of delegates for the Kan-| sas City and Houston conclaves of the Republican and Democratic parties, Nine C., April 23] ves turned to-| the first real| States, where Hoover against the field 51 delegates to the Republican convention, and two Territories will hold primaries and conven tions during the week. When the shouting and counting is over there will be only 389 of the 1,080 Republican and 456 of the 1,110 Democratic delezates remaining t be selected. Beginning today, when the Rhode Island Democratic conven tion will select the ten delegates from that State, the voters wil! have entrusted National conyen tion creden fo 216 more Re publican and 202 additional Demo cratic delegates by the time Sat ur roils around. Added te those already selected the tofals will then read, Republican dele gates chosen, 700; Democrats 614, Besides Ohio, primaries will alsc be held tomorrow in Massachu setts, Pennsylvania and Alaska The rest of the week end Doemo cratic delegates will be choser in Kansas and Hawaii and the Re- publican delegations completed i Michigan;. -4 including Ohio, is contesting for the State's Standing to Date Hoover, with 233 delegates in structed, pledged or generally con ceded, leading the Republicar field. Lowden, who is second, has 175. Senators Norris, Curtis and Borih, favorite sons, have 6 among them, and there are 11t who have not publicly «expressec a choice. Both supporters JHoover and Lowden claim larger totals than here given, counting the additional delegates from the 112 unpledged. Gov. Smith, with 301 delegates is far in the lead among the Dem ocratic candidat Favorite 501 candidates, Senator Reed and Senator George and former Sena tor Hitchcock, have 80 sure dele gates in the Democratic conven tion, leaving 61 as a matter for argument. Gov. Smith has 6( votes already instructed or pledg ed more than he received on the first ballot of the Madison Square convention in 1924, The last eritical skirmish in the Democratic Party fight will oecur next week in the California pri mary where Gov. Smith and Sena is e e (Continued on Page Two.) ————— Relief Plane Reported Reached Greenly Island QUEBEC, April 23.—The Ford relief plane has arrived al Greenly Island. The plane was piloted by Col. James Fritzmaurice and Bernt Bal- chen. Floyd Bennett is still in the hospital at Lake St. Agnes. Has Gone Limit In Concessions Floor Measure WASHIN Summoned House for 'ON, April 23 to the White another confer- ence on the Mississippi Flood Controll measure, Chairman Martin B. Madden, of the House Appropriations Com- | mittee, declared upon leav- ing that President Coolidge has made all concessions he intends to the sup- to offer porters of the Jones' Senate bill. e 6.0.P. PRIMARY CONTESTS ARE ! DRAWING CARD Alaskans Vote Tomorrow for Party Officers and | Party Candidates 5 ! termination of the American Alaskans tomorrow the polls nominate for all Territorial and offices and to elect a ticket of party officers. With ml contest in the Demoeratic r.lulu‘ interest here and throughout the Territory centers in the Republi can primary. Locally there has been one stitution on the Democratic t A. A. Shonbeck, Anchorage ness man, will be voted for sticker for delegate to the tional convention in lieu of late J. F. McDonald. Republicans Are Active in this Division there is con- giderable activity in the Republi- an 5. A determined effort de by the regulars, or will go candidates Divisional | complete to| to na the| RO Paulist domination hat controlled the party in this ision for 5. Lead-| ors here bel was more likely than previous contest, Friction in the ranks of faction usually supporting the lian ticket has developed at Ket ‘hikan and elsewh This has | resulted in three candidates filing! ‘or the Senatorial nomination and | ning seeking the four nominations! for representatives. | Efforts are being /made to cen ter the conservative vote on one candidate for delegate to the na-| tional convention, C. T. Gardner for Senator, and five: candidates for the House designations have been endorsed. N ctive part is being taken in the fizht for the nomination for Delegate to Con gress nor Attorney General. How- ever, it is understood that the! conservative vote here will go to] Attorney General John Rustgard| for renomination. Endorse Party Candidates Locally, endorsement has been given to Capt. A. E. Lathrop for national committeeman, who has two opponents, Major G. W. Al brecht, Fairbanks, and former Sen- ator F. A. Aldrich, Juneau. Major Albrecht has received the endorse: ment of the Indian element in this Division. W. H. Caswell is the only candidate for delegate to the Republican national conven- tion who has been endorsed by the anti-Indian faction. He is re. garded as the Administration can- didate. Judge James Wickersham, Ju- neau, and Dr. W. H. Chase, Cor. dova, are on the ticket circulated by the Indian faction. Gus Gelles, Anchorage, who is running as a Hoover man, and Judge L. K success in any Hu- In-| (Continued on Page Two.) Co-Operation Is Of U. S. Chamber Meet Theme | by Madeline NEW LINE-UP IS TO FIGHT PROHIBITION Association A gainst Dry Amendmennt Has New Board of Dlredors w. -L\III\(.'IUI\. .A\[IIH 23—The Association Against the Prohibi- tion Amendment announced a new ind enlarged Board of Directors »f 70 industrialist and professional men and labor leaders. Th per- sonnel represents organizations smploying over 2,000,000 men with 1ssets of about $40,000,000. Major Henry H. Curran President of the enlarged organi ation and the executive commit tee is composed of Pierre DuPont, Benedict Crowell, Charles . Sa bin, 1. DuPont, Capt. William St on and Grason M. P. Murphy The statement said: “The per. sonnel of our B d of Directors speaks for itself. Behind the Board stand the members of our asgociation in every state of the Union, behind that increaging de- peo- | ple to cut out of our constitution | the cancer that lodged there when the Kighteenth Amendment W enacted.” ———,——— JUNEAU WINS CONTEST FOR DECLAMATION Hslen‘,Wo;_d Carries Off First Honors—Ketchi- n Boy Second [ ‘rflMirw PETERSBURG, Alaska, April 22 Helen Wood, of Juneau, reading van Dyk “Lost Word,” won first place in the declamation con- test of the Southeastern Alaska ‘hools here last Saturday night. Ned Shelton, of Ketchikan, read- ing “The Prisoner's Plea,” won second place. Petersburg o was represented by Helen Huntsbedth and the Doug las High School was represented Reidi. e SUBPOENA OUT FOR SINCLAIR TON, April 23.— Harry F. Sinclair, acquitted last Saturday by a jury on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Gov- ernment in ‘the lease of Teapot Dome, has been summoned to ap- pear before the Sen Teapot Dome Commitice for questioning about the Continental Trading Company Liberty honds and pro- fits. The subpoena Ww issued 40 hours after his acquittal. GREECE SHAKEN BY EARTHOUAKE ’\prll "3 At least 30 persons have been killed and heavy damage has resulted in a series of earthquakes which has shaken Greece for the past 24 hours. WASHI ATHENS, ———— Says Strike to Westward Does Not Warrant Stampede AKIAK, Alaska, April 23.— The Good News Bay gold and platinum strike does not warrant according to F. H. BOSTON, April 23—Voters in Massachusetts will have a chance at the presidential primaries to- morrow to say who they think |ought to be the next president An emergency measure passed | this spring enables the rank and! |file voters to write or paste in | the name of their favorite candi- | dates for president when they choose their delegates to the na | tional political conventions. But while the vote will indic pref erence, it will not legally bind delegates. i Among the | vention delegates dominates for Gov. Smith of New York Democrats, and for Commerce Herbert the Republicans. A Massachusetts law concerning the pledging of candidates hrought Governor Smith's first open dec laration of his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomina tion, and the Democratic state committee has announced a full list of candidates for delegate ge pledged to Smith. A com plete list of Smith candidates ap pears in all 16 districts of the state. i Since no other candidate in cither party authorized use of his name on the ballot, no other can didates are pledged, but Hoover supporters say their candidate likely to command 30 of the Republican delegates from Massa The delegates are likely to cast a vote first for Gov. Al van 'F. Fuller Among Republican for delegate-atfarge, Se erick H. Gillett favors Mrs. athaniel Thayer, rector of immigration and canization, and Willlam M. But ler are unpledged; and several who are unpledged are claimed for Dawes. There are Democratic in every district, but only five district candidates for delegate have remained unpledged to Smith. Leaders umunl; the l)uuo-l AMN candidates for sentiment Alfred among the cretary of © among con pre B S Hoov | chusetts, candidates tor Fred Hoover state di Ameri contests 14 VICTIM FOR UNION VETER. OWATONNA, Minn., April 23+ | For 63 years Leopold N art, 86, lived in the shadows of forgetful ness. He left the battle Pines in the Civil war knowledge of who he w Now he has been recognized | officially as living, after the long | span of years, and has received | his first pension payment from | the government. | Newsart’s odessey through the valley of amnesia was an Lnoch Arden tale of wandering. | Wounded in the battle of Seven Pines, he remembered nothing of | I his home in Dayton, Ohio. He| took the mame of “A. Louis,” fed eral pension records show. Two years ago he regained his memory, recalled his name and found relatives here. In the in tervening time he had married and had lived for 60 years in New Orleans, Texas and Oklahoma. | In 1926 a traveling esman with whom he was talking men tioned Dayton, and the ulterance of the word was the jolt that brought him back from his name less existence, He learned that his parents had ! died believing him dead. wife, “Mrs. A. Louis,” four years before. Inv of the federal pension department found he had been honorably dis-| charged from Civil war duty in| 1862, For the rest of his life New will receive $72 a month pension, and a bill will be presented (o congress to allow him back pen sion. He makes his home here now with a niece. | of Seven with no| Kansas City Adorns | Street for G. O. P.‘ KANSAS CITY, April 23—When Kansas City dresses up for tic national || es so often, that the loss ‘lMY STATE l'()’l'I‘IRS E/VfiBl,la'Ii ’l‘() NAME PRESIDENTIL CHOICE TOMORROW woto ey BACHRACH Thayer Walsh of Mrs. Nathaniel R. and Senator David I. Magsachusetts, cratic candidates for are United States David I. Walsh, Andrew J. and IAInt\ M. Curl delezat Senator Petera , both former 1’\ IHV ('4I\' MI‘ MORY | WILL ATTEMPT GCEAN FLIGHT: MIAMI BEACH, F Phil Wood and “'Du ler, who abandoned their ed trans-Atlantic flight Windsor, Canada, to England, last summer, will try westward flight from Ireland America next July. This is the announcement made today by Wood. April 2 Sehil a to - R |Anna Q. Nilsson’s Ex-Hubby to Wed LOS ANGE vorced three ago Nilsson, motion pieture John Marshall Gunne geles shoe dealer, will ola Vollmer, a graduate University of Southern Ca! it"was announced here. 23-—Di by Anna actress, son, L« An marry Vi of the ifornia, April years PUBLISHERS’ ANNOUNCEMENT Following the rule in force in all daily newspaper offices throughout the coun- try and the custom with most of the newspapers of Alaska, The Empire will re- quire, heginning May 1, that all subscriptions must be .paid in advance. The need for this rule is obvious. So many people, particulaly in Alaska, change their address- from the credit system is attempt- | from | Windsor, | Flier Plans World Flight This Year NBEW Ruix was YORK, April 23 de Alda, compilot Plus Ultra which 1926 the first plane to | | make a 10,000-mile - flight, | | from Sevillo to Buenos Aires, | | is in New York today to make preparations for a round. the world flight. He will estab. lish a base mnear Unalaska Alda plans to leave Seville cn August 1 for Seven Islands, Ju of | | | in lio (he - ;ENGINEER FOR ' POWER SURVEY ~ ARRIVES SOON L."Ela to Head Water ‘ Powe_r Survey of Speel River Units detailed terpower 1of the Speel River power held under preliminary | ment by George T. Cameron | associate: will bhe started mnext | week, it was made known today lecal district headquarters 8. Forest Service A J chief engineer the Citi Light and Power Company of Ketchikan, will have charge of the work which will be om ployed a crew of 16 men James . Cameron, who sents the interests headed brother, arrived he { A survey unit deve lop and for zens’ on repre by hi erday ARCTIC FLIGHT FULL OF PERIL SAYS DISPATCH i Tiied Three!Tiines Before Hopped Off from Bm row 'GRAY CLGUD BANKS ARE ENCOUNTERED " |Forced to [)f‘srend on Dead Island—Remain- Five Days YORK York Time article t H ending sreat Man S (‘(, NEW New | April 23 —The , in a copyright- 1y describes Capt Wilkins' Polar flight under conditions of peril. wke-off from Point spite the help of a | volunteer snow shoveler three times failed heavily-loaded plane the skiis breaking orge 3 B de e band of of skimos, before the could raise, cach time. Finally row, 5 ii Sunday, 15, the start was made good weather and with excellent visi- hility 500 miles which chang ed to cloud bank There was no sign of land and it too dangerous to land for sound- ings Nine hundred miles bergen, strong - wind imtered and the pla h y clonds over acean but kept in the The plane rocked perilously for and was finally forced to on April in was were ran into turbulent ir. and will leave Wed: v with five men to make for bases of operatio camps wiil be established. The survey to be made will cover all essentis for' use by hy dw(rm seugineers G ~desigii, power plans, dams and transmi gion lines, it was announced. will probably require all summe; to carry out the work. | The area of Long and Crat Lakes will be surveyed and sound |ings taken in both bodies of wa | ter. Topographic maps will be made of the land surrounding th akes and lying between them and the beach. -Tunnel lin will be | mapped out and routes for trans migsion lines studied. Dam sites will be investigated, borings made ete. The Speel River power grouj development is a part of the pro ram for the establishment of | pulp and paper manufacturing plant in this vicinity. A crew o | timber cruisers and mappers ur der Engineer Don Meldrum, i now making a thorough survey of the timber resources in this dis ‘ trict. > DR. GILBERT PASSES AWAY IN PALO ALTO Interna l-i on;"y Known Fisheries Authority Dies After Short Illness PALO ALTO, Cal, ‘Aprit Dr. Charles I1._ Gilbert, aged 6f years, Professor of Zoology of Stanford University since 1891, and an internationally known fish erles anthority, died Saturday night in a local hospital after a brief attack of bronchitis. /At the lime of his death, Dr Gilbert was studying Alaska sal mon packing for the Bureau of Fisheries. Dr. Gilhert the Fisheries was connected with Commission at va rious times during his life and once served with the British-Co re n an island when the gas W A BARR LGEN, April Capt H. Wilking started from Point Barrow on April 15 it 10 o’clock in the morning. The time and the starting place had 0 be altered as the runway prov- ed to be too thort for the heav- ily-loaded machine. A new runway, {Con‘inued on Page Sevem ) S e Bottle Makes Sea Trip Faster than Sail Boat SHINGTON, a day, or to the covered with w niles salling ported ffice. The bottle traveled 7, from the Gulf of Tehuantepec on he ern coast of Mex to New Guinea., It was thrown over- board by Second Officer J. M. Jo 23—8ix than old record re rographic April faster the hy is navy 300 miles ico hansen of the Norwegian steamer| and wa on Hellen July 12, od up Decembe North coast of inea Caught by the northeast trades the bottle drifted into the nort equatorial current setting west ward, its drift passing Clipper ton Island, hetween the Hawalian | Island and Palmyra Island through the islands of the Mar shall group, thence southward the Caroline Islands across equator to the Hermit I8 the north coast of New Guin 19 pick the . from Spitz- | en-! of the! SOUTH POLAR " REGION TRIP - IS NEXT MOVE to Sail Over Antarctic \DESIGNER OF PLANE | GIVES INFORMATIO ! Is in Los Angeles With- in Short Time LOS ANG FX The Loz Anpgeles copyrighted artic | Northrop, Capt. Pilot April miner, in of the H. Wilkins n #sed on Wilkins will designer George Ben I Polar trip, say |in Los A les within four five weeks ready to fly over unehartered Antarctic wastes. “Capt if there is ental chain He told me if there is the unbroken the South Pol an at he land in the that has so far defied all explo ers,” said Northrop A possible race between mander Richard B. Byrd Capt. Wilkins is seen, the Angeles Examiner says. AT ICE-LOCKED PORT GREEN HARBOR, ~ Spitzhe gen, April 23.—The arrival Capt. George H. lot Ben Eielson handful of men local population. ite their electrified th comprising s h looked of health. no possibility vlng here befol 1 Mey ] hn Flier Over Arctic Regions |Says Wilkins Will Be Back p T A a quoting J. K. plane and ir be or the Wilking wants to learn contin- e. was eager to find region r- Com- and Los r- of Wilkins and Pi- he the trying experi- s said they were it and of re Pgived as the part not an- ‘ans but residents I fly to Norway »amer from the) Te SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION NEW YORK, april 21 L test scientific of the Wilkins flight, infon of Dr. Isiah Bowman, rector of phic Society, land. — Thy JOB FOR EIELOSN NEW YORK, April (Continued on Page Seven.) Eagle Scout Record contributeion in the op- Di- the American Geogra- is that he found no 23.—When For chlnta Troop TOPEKA, Kas., bers of the Boy sored by the | chureh believe they world’s record for the ecagle seouts. Seventeen of the 65 members the troop have attained the hi; est*rank in the organization. T of the boys are life scouts, | star scouts, eight first have set number April 23-—-Mem- cout troop spon- Presbyterian a of of u class scouts, 13 second class scouts and three tenderfeet. Pr. Wiliam C. | scoutmaster and one of the orig: linal members of the i won 72 merit to his eagle emblem. troop, ! merit h'ulglw each, U.S. . NOW HEALTHIEST COUNTRY FOR BABIES 23 A infant WASHINGTON, April two-thirds reduction in the mortality rate of this country the chief accomplishment of pub lie child welf: work, which this the first public health service deal with child welfare, but it wi the seriously theory badges in addition Four of the off | other scouts have from 40 to 52 B AP S5 to - is) also the first one that considered of keeping well people well rather than wait- Mennupr,’..‘» 4 | | too large to be consistent | | with good business. The only way to meet the situation is to make the payment in ad- vance rule apply to every- body. So there will be no exceptions. The managcment has had this matter under considera- tion for a long time, and | decision is the result of ma- ture deliberation. Publishers ing until healthy people were sick. and then trying to make them well” Dr. Baker said. 4 “Now it Is quite a common practice for every public - heatth' gervice to expend its energy im educational practices to make the = public realize the need of keeping & healthy. e “The decrease in the infant mors tality rato shows the efficacy. of the world-wide movement. E a stampede Republican convention, | Kappler, mining engineer, who|red, white and blue bunting will! has investigated. Local enthus-|adorn about a hundred blocks of | iasts have stakel all ground for|the principal streets. 1 speculation. Many claim Kap-| The American eagle and the Re pler's adverse report is made to[publican elephant also will be keep outside capital out. Thelysed in the decorations. | general opinion is that the stam-| pamp posts along Eleventh| pede propaganda will be avoided | gireet will hold the seals of (hol | until prospects are definitely de-}states and territories. termined. While the colors and s Alalir Creek is claimed to be a|Qld Glory will brighten the lonial Fisheries Department, tiring in 1925. WASHINGTON, April 23—The par celebrates its twentieth an- sion the last day under the gen- niversary. eral topic, “What teamwork means to my business.” Silas M. Strawn, president of the American Bar Association; Benjamin Loring Young of Bos- ton; Alfred Reeves, general man- ager of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce; Dwight B. Heard, Phoenix, Ariz., represent- ing agriculture; Ernest T. Trigg, passing of “cut throat” competi- tion in business .will be exempli- fied in the five-day annual meet. ing of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States here May 711, Co-operation is the theme of the & Mmeeting and 3,000 representative business men will come from the fields of finance,’ agriculture, of the New service and Dr. Josephine Baker, York Public Health the Child Hygiene association, af- ter a conference with representa- tives of the children's bureau here, announced that while the maternal mortality rate had remained st during the years, the infant de rate had declined until the United ———-——————— HIGLEY VISITS HERE 3 Leo Higley, former resident of Gastineau Channel and holder of the heavyweight championship of this section of the territory, pass ed through here on the Admira Evans yesterday. He has been in Washington for the last several civie Y transportation and- communica- tion, natural resources production, manufacture, insurance, foreign commerce, domestic distribution ‘and civic development - to give their individual views on the problems within their fields. . Group meetings will thresh out . intricate questions and present 3 floir conclusions at a general ses- Philadeiphia, representing development; W. M. G. Howse, Wichita, domestic distribution; John @.. Lonsdale, St. Louis, fi- ; William Black, Louisville, Matthew S. Sloan, Néw York, natural resources pro- duction; and a dozen other men prominent in their field of en. deavor will be on the program. good dredging proposition with prospects that a dredge will be installed. — H. W. Wheeler, President of the. White Pass and Yukon Route, was a visitor in Juneau last eve- ning while the Princess Alice was in pors, : day and night, rain or shine, th flag itself will not be used, for etiquette forbids its flying afler Zunduvm and in inclement weath- T The decorations will he rnm-l pleted June 11, a day before the convention opens, They will cost more than $6,000, everywhere have found that | the only satisfactory manner \ of handling newspaper cir- | culation is to require pay- | ™o, begenning Hay 1, sub | ing y sub- seriptions to The Empire ; must be paid in advance. years, and is now enroute to the Evans Jones mine at Jonesville in the Matanuska area, where he will be employed in the future. e - — A. J. QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 23--Alaska Juneau mine stock Is quoted to- day at 3%. States has become the healthiest country in the world for babies and children, The New York association was the first public health serv or. ganized with preventive measures as its main function. It came into existence in 1908, “This association was not enly health center in the country no every baby and prenatal ¢ the children’'s bureauw, the state. partments of health and vari municipal organizations flooded with requests hy. from every part of the ‘o from every walk in life for tormation about child care.” are’ & (o . 2