The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 30, 1928, Page 1

e - [ "y 2 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXI.. NO. 4777. JUNEAU ALASKA MONDA\ APRIL 30, 1928, A9 N MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS GIRL IS SLAIN BY CHICAGO GUNMEN DEMUGRATS IN « FINISH FIGHT IN CALIFORNIA Smith, Reed and Walsh Contesting in Tomor- row’s Battle SAN FRANCISCO, April 30— Three Democratic candidates for President, Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri and Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana will contest for California’s block of 26 delegates to the Democratic Na- tional Convention tomorrow. Sec- retary Herbert Hoover will obtain the 29 Republican National dele- gates without a contest. The Rev. Daniel Polling, editor of the Chris. tian Herald, of New York, will get his organization’s delegation with- out a struggle in like manner. The Democratic race is so im- portant that the outcome may de- termine the party's nominee at the Houston convention in June. The mere obtaining of California’s delegation, political ~ observers agree, is far outshadowed by the psychological effect throughout the country. If Gov. Smith wins very probably his nomination at Houston will follow without seri- ous struggle. If Senator Reed or Senator Walsh obtain the dele- gates then it is likely that an op- position group of delegates may be organized to prevent Smith's nomination, and another, long deadlock might follow. If Gov. Smith should lose In California it is possible that Sen- ator Reed may prove the deciding factor at Houston. Politicians do not concede him much chance of victory, but they say he may get w _number, of votes to eat of “elther -Gov. Smith or Senator ‘Walsh. WEST VIRGINIA ALSO AMONG BATTLEFIELDS WASHINGTON, April 30—With West Virginia added to the list of " States where pitched battles are being waged for delegates to the National conventions, presidential candidate managers have eyes on the approaching primaries there as in California, Oregon and In- diana. Gov. Smith, Senator Reed and Senator Walsh are bidding for the California delegates to be chosen at the primaries Tuesday. The same situation obtains in Oregon where the primaries will be held May 18. In both States, Hoover is unopposed for the Republican delegates. In West Virginia there will be a tussle between Gov. Smith and Senator Reed. The primaries will be held there May 29, two weeks before the Kansas City conven- tion. Secretary Hoover has filed in, West Virginia to contest with Senator Guy D. Goff, favorite son, for the Republican delegates. Secretary Hoover will tangle in Indiana with Senator Watson, fav- orite son, for the Republican dele- gates. The Indiana primaries oc- cur May 8. Evans Woollen, In- dianapolis banker, is unopposed for the Democratic National dele- gates from Indiana. ——avo—— Salt Creek Oil Leases Are to i Be Investigated WASHINGTON, April 30.—The Senate has ordered an investiga- tion of the Salt Creek Oil Field leases. ~ Norris's . resolution di- recting the Senate and Commit- tee to make inquiry, was adopted without a roll call. DAWES PLAN SOUND, EXPORTERS ARE TOLD HOUSTON, Texas, April 30— The theory of a school of English etonomists that the Dawes plan cannot function after maximum payments begin this fall was char- acterized today by George P. Auld, former accountant general of the reparations commission, as body of doctrinaire possessing no solid foundation.” Auld, speaking before the Na- tional Foreign Trade Council in convention here, discounted the English belief that the Dawes plan will coliapse because of dif- ' ficultles in transferring payments across frontiers. He warned, how- ever, that such a b-lhl “would if given credence, to bring that very am jm ments ‘u international debts he| NEW yonx April 30.—Alas- Steel Clty s Protege Katherine Witwer, twenty four-year-old daughter of 1 mill mechanic. has beer “adopted” by the city of Gary In 1., which has undertaken the task of developing her voice Hailed by critics as possessec of unusual talent, the girl wil be sent abroad for study os funds raised biy;l the cut (x-umm.w ustrated EDITOR B0 BUWERS WILL MAKE THE KEYNOTE SPEECH NY: Wo*rldmorxsam ed for Democratic Temporary Chairman WASHINGTON, D. C, April 30 —Claude G. Bowers, .editorial writer on the New York Evening World, has been selected to de-! liver the keynote speech in the Democratic National Convention Bowers is a former Indianian, the author of “Jefferson and Hamil- ton,” -“Party Battles of the Jack- son Period,” “The Struggle for Democracy in America,” and other books. He also was editor at dif- ferent times of several Indiana newspapers and was twice a can- didate for Congress in the Terre Haute district. He made the prin- cipal speech at the Jackson Day Banquet in Washington at the time of the meeting of the Na- tional Committee. Mr. Bowers was selected for temporary chairman. of the Hous- ton convention by the Democratic National Committee. The office carrigs with it the responsibility of making the speech that will be regarded as the keynote of the campaign that will follow. 0SLO PREPARES . WELCOME FOR 2 POLAR AVIATORS OSLO, April 30—Great prepara- tions are in the making for Nor- way’s welcome .to Capt. George H. Wilkins and Pilot Ben Efelson. Numerous festivities are planned, including a’ banquet. It is not known what date the Norwegian ship, enroute to Spitzbergen, will reach Wilkins, who is still at Green Harbor. disastrous run on the deposits of a bank. ‘The Dawes plan, functioning as a part of the world credit system and depending for its operation upon the American investor, Is, he said, the dollar exchange be- ing made available to Germany through American loans which furnish the means of transferring the payments out of Germany. ' at the present stage of the reconstruction of Eu- rope,’ Auld added, “is a wholly natural and healthy ome for all concerned, and in normal condi- tions it seems due to go on for a long time.” The problem of transferring pay- Wm-ma |were thrown out in such a way| MAN HUNT IS ON FOR HALL, BERNERS BAY Soldiers, Deputies Sur- rounding Chilkoot Barracks Deserter A man hunt is in progress at Berners Bay with Edward Hall, U. 8. Signal Corps, who deserted from Chilkoot Barracks after looting the safe, stealing a serv- ice rifle, a quantlity of ammuni- tion, a boat, Evinrude engine and other supplies, as the fugitive, and Lieut. Jackson with ‘a de- tachment of six soldiers, armed with rifles, tear-bombs, etc., as- sisted by Deputy U. 8. Marshals, as the pursuing force. Lieut. Jackson and his soldiers have possession of a shack in which Hall has been camping for sometime, his boat, eats and other supplies while Hall is in the woods near the Jualin mine with a shotgun and twelve rounds of ammunition. This is word brought to Juneau via the U. S. Marshal's patrol boat in which came Deputy Marshals Frank Price, B. H. Sherman and James Gibson. jor rs lllmfled Wor'duumm the Marshal's office last week that Hall was camping in a shack at Berners Bay. Marshal Albert White im- mediately sent Deputy Marshals Price and Gibson in his patrol boat which was at Sitka to Chil- koot Barracks to notify Major Thorton Rogers. At 10 o'clock Friday evening, under orders from Major Rogers to capture the fugitive, Lieut. Jackson and six enlisted men left Chilkoot, Barracks on thel patrol boat. “Deputy Marshal, Sherman of Haines joitied Deputy | Marshals Price and Gibson. The| patrol boat reached Jualin Sat-| urday and occupied the shack| where Hall had been camping. Hall was not there. The soldiers | Rival candidates for the vice-predidential nomination among nine eastern Republicans base their calculations on the fact that a western man is to be nominated for President. Those who would be his running mate dre, upper left to right, Sey- | mour Lowman, Major Hamilton Fish, Col. Theodore Roose- tional Nine Big Questions Pending on Calendar Of M. E. Conference as to intercept Hall in case he! attempted to make an escape. Shots Are Fired It had been learned that Hall| had traded his service rifle and/ ammunition for a shotgun and| ammunition. It was Dbelieved that he has only a dozen rounds‘ of ammunition for the shotgun. 1 The deployed soldiers have con-| nected their varidus/stations wlth| A 2 3 telephones and they are in com- | Proposals of unusual importance will be considered by the munication with each other. | General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church when it Two shots were fired by Hall meets in Kansas City during May. Drt R. J. Wade (left), is Gen-| yesterday, the searchers report,|eral Secretary of the Conference, Bishop E. L. Waldorf (upper but it is not known whether he right) of Kansas City is the official host and Dr. J. D. Hingeley k"i]ei?l game to eat or committed | (Jower right), will present a new ministerial pension plan. suicide. Last night the Marshal’s patrol By BISHOP EDWIN H. HUGHES | boat left the scene dotthlm;)mu?- (Methodist Episcopal Church) eau, an e eputy | :/lua':'s'h?lrs J:r: ahere today. ;hey‘ CHICAGO, April 30—The Meth.|in8 &eneral conference will be an will return to Berners Bay to- odist Episcopal general conference “':“‘hf’l one for new legislation. morrow. If Hall's capture shall at Kansas City starting May 1| We shall see. not have been effected by that will be composed of more than! time the boat will proceed to 800 delegates, one-half preachers; Chilkoot Barracks for additional one-half laymen. supplies for the men who took a| week’s rations when they left the Barracks. Seen by Soldiers or will new bishops be elected? Many persons think this com- Wants Investigation Campaign Expenditures WASHINGTON, April 30—Tu- vestigation of expenditures of These delegates are elected by the ministerial annual <-nn'4~rvncenl and by the lay electoral confer- “Hall has been at Berners Bay | ®NCes. Il’resldemlal campaigns is propos- for sometime,” saild Deputy Mm--l The representation will come|ed in a resolution introduced by | shal E. H. Sherman, who is in!from all over the world—Europe, United States Senator Joseph T. Juneau. “There is no- question,”|China, India, Malaysia, Japan, 'ltoblnson of Arkansas, Democratic he said, “about his idemtification, Korea—making an assembly ol,leader, because he admitted it to John|picturesque costumes. 1 W. Dudley, caretaker for the| In addition there will be many | L B S A T 1 s b Jualin, mining property and 0. M. | visitors—estimated as high as 30, PUBLISHERS’ Moore, who is aiding Mr. Dudley, X and he was seen Saturday by| The conference always begins| | ANNOUNCEMENT two soldiers who challenged hlm,'n 10 a. m. on the first secular' and to whom he talked. The|day of May and usually lelinm-s\‘ Followmw the rule in force in all daily mewspaper offices throughout the coun- | try and the custom with | most of the nmplperl of | Alaska, The E mm'r: wli.llmn; quire, beginning May af | all subscriptions must be soldiers did not capture him lor}unul the 29th. It is presided over they refused to shoot him when by the bishops in the order in' he dropped some provisions he which they were elected. | had and ran for the brush. They | .The most interesting and im-| want to take him alive, and there | portant matters for the 1928 gath- is no chance for him to escape.” |ering are: ! Mr. Sherman says Hall gave| The question of admitting lay-| the rifle that he left Chilkoot|men to the annual conferences. | | }"mnfa 'd“'!“'b'!'he n°§g Barracks with to Mr. Moore, who| The possible reorganization of or rule is obvious, turned it over to Mr. Sherman|the benevolent organizations of| | ¥ i p::';l:éept‘hr:;mm, ‘.“ and it is now in Juneau. He|the church. took in exchange for it a .22| The consolidation of the church ‘r 80 ';ltem m:ptnt u;t: loss rifle and 100 cartridges. Later | papers—making a less number of| | Nfll e credit system is large to be consistent & ood business, The only meet the situation is nn.ke the payment in ad- vance rule apply to every- Imdy.tl So there will be no exceptions, The management has had this matter under considera- tion for a long time, and decision is the result of ma- ture dehblnfian. Publishers everywhere have found that the only satisfactory manner f newspaper cir- culation is to require pay- lnt in ldnnnc Advocates. The - question . of electing, or; nominating to the bishops for ap- pointment of district superintend- ents. The discussion of the problem of war and peace, Changing the temure of office of the bishops, who, under the pres- ent system, are elected for life. The question of continuing & contributing, or general editor for all the official Advoeates. The election of native bishops, ‘possibly. by the central confer-! ences, especially in China. The electing of new bishops by the general conference itself. Five bishops retire by the age limit win Wmu be decreased he left this rifle at the cabin of Mr. Dudley and took a shot- gun with a dozen cartridges. Mr. Dudley had been trying to persuade Hall - to return. to Chilkoot Barracks and surren- der, said Mr. Sherman, and he had promised that he would do .so. A warrant, issued at Haines on, a charge of grand larency, is in the hands of Deputy Mar- shal Sherman ‘for the arrest of Hall. ——e———— Al ououmm ka Juneau mine stock is quoted | MANY GOOD MEN AVAILABLE FOR CHOICE AS VICL PRES DENT velt, Jr., Ogden L. Mills, all from New York, and Governor Ralph O. Brewster of Maine; lower left to right, Col. William J. Donovan of New York, Gover chusetts, Senator George H. Me nor Alvin T. Fuller of Massa- ses of New llampshire, and Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, Newszeel) FOURTH HOUSE PLACE IS NOT SETTLED,NOME With Few Viotés Outstand-| ing Haley Leads Wars- ing by Eleven Votes NOME, All!kl, April 30—With but five small precincts to be heard from, there is only one place on the Republican ticket nomination for Representative for which James Haley is leading Frank Warsing by 11 votes. Richard N. Sundquist has been nominated for the long term in the Senate, Anderson for the short term, and Alfred Lomen, C. J. Woofter, sentatives. In outstanding there mately 50 votes. The following is the in the Republican primary: ard 100, Sutherland 414; Rustgard 361, Waller 74; Albrecht 125, Ald- rich 169, Lathrop 122; Caswell 81, Chase 210, Gelles 46, Pratt 61, Wickersham 359; Gottstein Grant 275, MRS S BORAH DROPS PROHIBITION - AS BIG ISSUE Clean Government Is Sub- ject of His Preconven- tion Speech are vote cast CHICAGO, Ill, April 30—Choos- ,ymhlbl(lon as a subject, United | States Senator William E. Borah began his preconvention speeches 'hare Saturday night and told the | Hamilton Club members that cor- ruption will be the outstanding issue in the coming presidential campaign. Senator Borah sald that party success was dependent upon the Republicans giving the people courageous leaders, clean candi- dates, decent organizations and | platform. Henry Burgh for Repre-| the five precincts| approxi- | How-| 229, — || Spirit of ‘ i| St. Louis on (| Last Flight i v | ST. LOUIS, April 30.—Col. l‘ | Charles A. Lindbergh today i | took the Spirit of St. Louls | | | on the last flight. He left | | | for Washington where the | plane will be placed in the | Smithsonian Institute for | | exhibit with other histury-| | | making airplanes. 14 | ——u e v e St i AREBOUNDLEOR. . POINT BARRO, * TAKE PICTURES Four Men Are Aboard i Aleutian Going to Sew- ard, then Interior SBATTLE, Aprii 30—Bound for Point Barrow to take moving pic- tures, Virgil Hart, Capt. Jack Rob- ertson, Charles Clark, Ewing Scott and Ray Wise sailed Saturday aboard the steamer Aleutian en- route to Seward. They will go to the interior by the Alaska Rail- road and expect to reach Nenana by May 7 and proceed to Point Barrow by way of Nome and Kotzebue. Capt. Jack Robertson took pic- tures for a newsreel organization on Seward Peninsula and North- ern Siberia four years ago. Labor Organizations To Support Hoover In Indiana Pirmary CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 30. twelve National labor organiza- tiens supporting the candidacy of Herbert C. Hoover for the Presi- dential nomination in tha In- diana primary on May was made public today by D. B Rob- ertson, President of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. s s o INDIAN FIGHTERS VANISHING ST. PAUL, April 30—Only 414 “Refuse these things soldiers remain on state pension headquarters at Nome, CASHIER SHOT DEAD;SCREAMS AT 2 ROBBERS Bullet Ends He Her Fright— Gunmen Hold Off Mob of Sixty CHICAGO, I, April 30.—The slaying of women has been added to the blood and terror repertoire of Chicago gunmen. They slew 17-year-old Pearl Eggerson as she cowered under guns in the cashier's cage at the Ritz Theatre last night, because she screamed at the sight of eyes that stared throngh masks Guns were poked at her from onttside by a man with a pisfol, and the man's companion, w!t sawed-off shoteun After the slaying, the two opened the door of the ti booth, stepped over the dead #irl’s hody and over the body of o3 another girl, Miss Gertrude Plante, who had fainted, and scoooped up $1,5600. With the loot in their hands, the robbers used their guns to hold back | persons in line, walked to the curb where a companion waited at- the wheel of an automobile, Each robber fired a shot in the direction of the crowd before they disappeared. b TRAGEDY, AGES OLD, REVEALED IN MEX. CAVERN m o e mummlfladl-g‘mz:~ of m thnn 100 men, women and children have been discovered in a moun- tain cave near San Juan, silent witness to a living burial. Men braving the foul air of the cavern reported that even the mummies of the women and chil dren showed hands bound to thumbs of men, and hideous ex pressions of sufferings were on the faces. The searc! herg, glimpsed a sec- ond cavern beyond and believe more bodies will be found there but were unable to explore on account of no oxygen. The discovery that the hands of the victims had been tled quashed the ‘Bflglnnl theory that . the band was doomed by a na- tural tragedy, that the blocking of the entrance of the cave migl have been the result of an earth- quake. Speculation as to who in Mexk co's troubled history inflicted t barbarous death is being made. Two young goat herders, hus ing for wild honey, found mummies ranged along the walls * of the cavern in distorted pos| tions. Knives, tomahawks and bundles were found. One body was perfectly preserved. Experts hope to plece together the story of perhaps a living tomb as early as the Spanish ing a clean government instead of —A letter signed by the heads of conquelt JUDGE LOMEN COMING HERE SEATTLE, April 30-—Word has been received here that Federal Judge G. J. Lomen, of the Second Judicial Division of Alaska, with has been jand I leave the future to tell its rolls from Minnesota's Indian up- instructed to proceed to Juneau to .own story and in such an event, |1 will not seek to penetrate the have fallen from $56,000 a year to District | veil,” concluded the Senator in “hls speech. w517, | Arizona Delegation | Not Instructed; Nine For Lowden Is Claim TUCSON, Ariz, April 30—The Republican State Convention de- cided Saturday to send an unin- structed delegation of nine to the National Convention. The mem- bers of the delegation are report-! ed to be favorable to Former Goy. ! Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois. Hiram Corbett was elected Na.' tional Committeetnan. — e ONE PRICE TO ALL ROME, April price idea 30—The fixed has just taken hold among small merchants of Rome. ed for a price, rising of 1862. Pension payments $17,000. preside over the First Division Court as Judge T. M. Reed is ill. PLAN TRAFFIC RULES | FOR PACIFIC OCEAN WASHINGTON, April 30—An American plan to lay off definite east and west traffic Janes in the vast Pacific will be presented at the International Conference for the Safety of Life at Sea in Lon- idon next year. Traffic regulation in the crowd- led Atlantic was organized at the |last London . conference in Octo- Iber, 1924. Since then, winter and ! summer, ships of all nations have followed across the mnorth At lantic the charted routes that were suggested then by the hydro- navy and adopted by 18 British, hy l, “ z h Allm .[ | Heretofore the customer bnnuz-j.rlphlc office of the United suml ¥ Duteh, French, German and Amer- ican steamship lines. 3 There are seven trans-Atlantic routes or “tracks,” the three more southern, lettered A to €, from American ports and the ¢ er four, D to G, from Can Definite seasons are allotted the use of each. A, for exi the extra southern track, i from March to July; B, the ern track, from March to ber, and C, the northern from September to 'cbm e sl * o é