The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 1, 1928, Page 1

";awh as to make it necessary for ~of his judicial duties. THE DAILY VOL. XXXIL, NO. 4778. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 1, / /’]\5/\ “ALL THE NEWS ALASKA ALL THE TIME” 1928. P 7 EMPIRE MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GERMANY FAVORS OUTLAWING WAR FEDERAL JUDGE REED EXPIRES, HEART ATTACK End Comes Suddenly to| Jurist — Washingtor, | Alaska Pioneer |’ R | Judge Thomas ) al resident of Alaska | judge of the U. 8. Distriet ('Ulll'[‘ /in this Division for almost seven! years, died in St. Ann's huspll'\\: ) o'clock last night as the of an acute heart attack the end came, his \\'|]’|-,I Mrs. Venetia Reed, and Dr. W. J.| result When | nership of Pigg, were with him. “Although ill for several month; and in the hospital almost con tinuously since April 17, the end came unexpectedly. For a few minutes prior to death he wa walking about his room. As he walked, he suddenly id, “I think 1 am going to faint” He wa helped to a lounge and expired almost immediately. Drive in Afternoon sarlier yesterday afternoon Reed had expressed a de-| gire to take a ride out Glacier| Highway, and was driven out by Mrs. Reed and her daughter, Miss Venetia Pugh. After going but short distance lie said he thought | he had better return to the hos.| pital as he felt faint, and he wa as | taken there immediately. He was xurl‘nrnu: from a severe attack of| ritis which brought en thel heuu'(, attack from which death| resaulted. Besides his wife,” Judge Reed i~ survived by a sister, Mrs. Georg Ingham of Olympia, Wash., a hrn ther, Mark K. Reed, of Shelton, Wash., and a prominent Kepubli can leader of thot State, and two children, Mrs, Constapce Reed Haller of Seattle, and w son, Irv- ing McK. Reed of Fairbanks, a mining engineer and member of the Alaska Game Commission for the Fourth Division. Both Mrs. Haller and Mr, Reed visited (lu‘i:'i father here during the past win ter. ! Plans for the funeral and buriai are being held in abeyance pend-| ing advices from his relatives who! have been advised of his death. Worked Under Fire During his tenure of office on, the Federal bench here, Judge ‘Reed has worked almost continu ously. 11l much of the time in re cent months, he conducted the business of the court despite the advice of friends and medical ad- visers who urged on him the ne- cessity for taking a long rest. He was appointed by the late President Harding in 1921. Given a reappointment by Presiden: Coolidge at the expiration of his four year term, political opbon- ents launched a savage attack on him which caused the w(flulruwali of his name, but the President | failed to name any successor and he has continued in office, all the time under the fira of his oppon- ents. The object of aftacks agains'| his professional reputation, called | to Washington to defend some of his actions as a Judge, he never Aailed to conduct himself with due rd for the dignity of his posi- um\ on the Federal bhench. Nor " did h# ever recognize the w-umull.:sA his character to the extent plying to them in public. Hospital to Court Tven after his condition became a Ju al him to go to the hospital, he taxed his already weakened constitution by continuing the more pressing His friends | A 7 (Continued on Page Right.) | and {he could not jam “We” Partnership Now Dissolved; Famous Plane And Flier Part Forever| 25 AND EGYPT GET heights and the last| =+ TOGETHER AGAIN passed into histo tanned | | A part | distances w Lindberg brought the Spirit of Louis erday afternoon at airport “We participated in long hop,” the boyish ans-Atlantic flier said The 1725 mile flight Louis spanned in and minutes The plane and flier came fo be separated accordance with | promise and Col. Lindbergh forth with turned the silvered partner ovor to the Smithsonian Institute. | It will take its place there along| with exhibits of outstanding American accomplishments which influenced thoughts and actions of the past Col. Lindbergh taxied to kangar deor and sat quietly moment before stepping out walked around the plane showed expressions W peyond: “Yes, ed St from St.| tour hours ‘Tension Between Two Les-| sens—Egypt Withdraws | Action on Bill | May 1-Tension Britain and Egypt with the deci Parliament of Bgypt further discussion of mblies bill ships are racing (o ward Eg ian waters and an ulti matum had been demanding the Egyptian Government with draw the bill before 7 o'clock to- 1[morrow evening Postponement of the measure until November |lieved to have been taken dietation of the Egyptain ment. The in LONDON, tween Great was lessened foday of the to postpone the Public British be sion the for a| He sent slowly by say ) ion of! is be. at the gover it discuss orr He sald more than arry one BREAKSSILENCE; SINCLAIR TALKS the plane had flown 10,000 miles and could that )"u- u;: din, n bill has already heen pass gled by the Chamber and was come before the Senate when the 'nnmn acted. 3 | The British objection is based on that section of the hill which it is claimed endangered the lives | of foreigners and provided that | the police could not end public | ;meetings unléss there w actual to ol th River I:' ;rry Capsizes; Eight Persons Drown F emale Chickens, with’ Mutations, By Late Experiment - NEW YORK, May 1—Treatment fertilized hens eggs by x-ray so chickens will be mmad is one of a series of re- markable experiments described . the Associated Press for the time. Dr. William Dieffenbach, of er Hospital, in experiments ng over {hree years, said has brought to light chickens 3 from eggs which have xposed to x-Tays. ~show certain marked - . Exposures up to me s pmllcu chickens with ‘the New York Homeopathic Medi- Realized it | disorder or unless those holding | the meelings requested interven Continental Trad- | F. Sinclair today told the Senate| Teapot Dome Committee that he mons Continental Trading Com- pany deal but his part in the Cpaft Wl" Be Shlpped his company. North—Work Around Breaking the silence he main- said he turned over to the Sim-| . .. o T olair Crude Ol Purchasing Com-| SPATTLE, -May 1-—Schools 3 st apter his ac- €8 Of the U. S-Alaska Packing ’“‘”‘l: :']"0 'I"':_”“',l s A | Company from sea_ sleds cruising | quitta st i i the Miles and positions will be sent T e him the v radio to the waiting. fishing| Springs. has been unloaded from the West Cape, steamer of the McCormick | trial trips on Elliott Bay, will be | shipped north on the steamer Ad- | May 17. ers at Tacoma—Stole Dope Is Charge Hildebrand, Tacoma KFederal Nar : i cotic officer, has surrendered him-| UNIONTOWN, Penn. May 1 ¢hen a small hoat overturned learning that there was a day when a small lvlvl.:)r"r.m: out fi;r his arrest. After|in the river. A floating log crash- States Commissioner he was re.|The boat was uscd to ferry pas- leased under $2,000 bond to an.|S€NEErs across the river. $10,000 worth of narcotics from the freighter West Ison, at Olym To Judge School Bonds ———.——— { e LONDON—The Library assocta-! JOLIET, Tl May 1-—Forty to the mational high school band the returning of borrowed books | and suggests cards’of reminder be | tournament in Joliet May 24 | John Philip Sousa and Edwin Franko Goldman have agreed to The high school bands will come to the national competition Joliet high school band has won the national event for the last ITells of Deal Made withtion. WASHINGTON, May 1.—Harry SPOT HERRING received $757,000 after the fa- deal was to protect the rizhts of tained through his triuls, Sinclair Baranoff Island | pany §750,000 in securities andUerring will be spotted by employ i Blackmer, one of organizers | Waters of Baranoff Island for 40 |fleets at Port Hebert and Warm ered with a horsepower motor, Narcotlc Ofllcer Sul’rend-'miral Rogers sailing from here TACOMA, Wash., May 1—Har=y | self to the United States Marshal | Bight persons were drowned to his appearance hefore a United |€d into the boat and capsized it. swer to the charge of embezzling Goldman and Sousa pia on March 30. tion proposes an annual day for|States will send young musicians | sent. 26. The famous bandmasters act as - judges. as victors in state contests. The two years. inan Captured by Southern China Army; No Cause for Concern! —r cal College and Flower Hospital,| SHANGHAI May 1—The Ameri regard the experiments as of ex-|can Presbyterian Mission at Tsin- traordinary importance in the sci-|an has wired: “Southern Army entitic world involving factors of |has occupied Tsinan. ‘There is no great interest to the general pub.|trouble. The nltu;tkm gheu lml lic as well as to scientists. Dr.|cause for concern.” Dieffenhach believes his discov-| The Southern forces have heen eries hold out a definite prospect gradually closing” in in Tsinan reachiig an yltimate goal for[whose fall was prematurely an bblqlul science and control nounced last week, In the mean: i understanding of life time American, and I ‘mh farces w.fl there d bun these mutations are for the bet- ter and tend to create a new and improved species of chickens. > The doctor and his associates in \ | row Wilson, {the first time since Harding's ]walchld tmt, The ' detachment has bee An ultra sensitive daylight Koller, an American, will be o measure light when he s his dirigible. The “Italia” (r nany, May 1. provided Commander asgist Nobile. The of the ’IIIUIII’“»(I’\ DENVER, Thompson, the federal May 1 chairman Colo., Huston | former of | trade commission, is being urged for the Democra ‘ presidential nomination by al group of Colorado party leaders. | who suggest that he could unite all factions of the party | Thompson was a pupil of Woad. | both at Princeton and in the public service. It was the| war who appointed him to trade commission. | On the death of Senator Samucl| D. Nicholson in 1923 Mr. Wilson | urged the Colorado to] appoint Thompson to fill the va cancy i Otto Bock, chairman of the Col \ orado public utilities commission, is president of the Thompson-for- President club. He says the for-| mer chairman of the federal trade | commission may be nominated in the event of a deadlock. ] Thompson is 52 years old. He| native of Pennsylvania, but| he has lived many years in this| state. Since 1913, however, much | of his time has ‘been spent in| Washington | An attempt will be made at the president the federal is is a ~|||.||]\ \lnp and ulv on natives there to recorder used by (€ thre veloped neral U Hars h the ight), now en route Conunander Nobile & whresrglc v of the North Pole l pull flll' WILSON PUPIL, Ul\(.l<l) S DEMOCRATIC H. H\’il()\) (HII'\“ICI'J HUSTON THOMPSON convention May 19 to for Democratic state Colorado Springs (ain endorsement candidacy. oh- Cycler Seeks Adversary For 12,000-Mile Race Me., May 1-With| ir-propelled miles put be-| in the last 33 years, Mellen C. Plummer, 70, and his bicycle, the “we” of the road, are {eager (0 take off again in a 12,000 mile pedal race to the country's four corner: Jut a challenge fo race any man of 40 from Portland, Me., to Miami, Fla., thence to San Diego, up to Seattle and. back to Port land, has brought no takers. Plummer has heen all over the| nation. He has been four times) lo California, nine to Denver, 12! to St. Louis, 15 to Chicago and| twice to New Orleans and Klorida Despite his age, his daily voad diet is approximately 200 miles o i Guard at Tomb of Harding Taken Off ; 5 Year Vigil Ends| MARION, Ohio, May 1.—The nearly five years vigil at the tomb of former President and Mrs. Habding is at an end for| the guard detachment of the Tenth United tes Infantry. For PORTLAND, 331,700 s¢ hind him death, the tomb was left un- 'Casino War at Nicé |it need do {10 his new resort which takes the | form of a prohibitive | Fosters Beauty Show NICE, May 1-—An international beauty contest with §$50,000 in prizes is the bait offered by Frank J. Gould, owner and pr the Mediterranean Casino, municipal council, ing his new gambling hounse. & withdraw opposition to heavy tax The Gould intere have plac- arded Nice with that the comtest will take place if the mayor and council can he | \Free State Extends shown the error of {heir way. The casino could pay the §50,000 prize | money and still be winner by §30,. 000, since. the mayor has demand- el a yearly tax of $%0,000, M. Baudoin, casino manager, an- nouncos that American beauty will _be represented in the test, which is also to have an in- | ternational set of judges. —— e — BOX CAR LIBRARY COLMOK, . Colmor i3 (o have a public rary in a box car, bought and cquipped by the Sorosis Literary club. ——— e — TOKYO—Three Japanese stu- dent parties will visit the United States ‘this summer on 45 to 70 Al 3 I into Thompson's | bear but r or of | the | which 15 oppos- | Ali § announcements | con-! R. hopping off place, is shown as it appeared when nearing com-« sherto Nobile q letion at Ciampino, Italy. Polar regions in [light device, top center, y. u{ the crew of t Beichgwehy fd he would ratliey vk the hangar than Picked Up in Lisianski Strai CORDOVA, Alaska, The halibut schoones of Ketchikan, picked Matson in Lisiansk after he had been s alone in a small hoat years relatives ™ in landed by the Soapstone Point badly exhausted. | sent to the hospita | neau of Sit is 73 De rad FOR BEAR, SEATTLE ady to hag rm sport today on party of eas for. Alaska Westward owned Iy urch, Pacific North talist and bhunter. e expedition is he | M. Topham, of Boat hopes to bring back eral bears. The men of the par red with harpoonin hoot wayward whales Accompanying Tophu: Vane . F Conn., and W. I, bury, Connecticut. I Pape lose John Matson Is He COMING NORTH TAKE WHALES May 1! Lamb, of N¢ ( Low he di sblers iving at good ts May 1 Defense, up John i its u days Matson and ha He was fense at tation will be 1 at Ju MAY | whales, for a nen the Campbell L capi- led by and of R. hel sey e pre ung to wre John Britain, | Water- of gible sailed | | make seneral Nobile, at upper left; the er left shows one of the powerful Italia to be ready to start for haxe begn. griered to. he ready. tos K Bay before the arrival \\'!“Ilhl‘l' TAX REDUCTION MEASURE LAID BEFORE SENAT 'N(‘W Program of $203, 000 000 Cut Ex- | plained by Smoot [ | WASHINGTON, May 1 1$212,000,000 surplus in for next year represents the I maximum reduction possible in| taxes this session, Chairman ! !Smoot reported in laying befor {the Senate the Finance Commit- tee's $202,000,000 measure, -inl | behalt of the Republican mem | ber the Senate Finance Com The sight of {mittes Chairman “oven this duced by {called fox 1929 hy A Smoot said must additional expenditures | during the fiscal i ne legislation fi in prospect | with prepared to | ask for a tax reduction of $325,- | 100,000 | {a that | amount be re-| iy | | [of w sharp the Demorats to D TYPOGRAPHICAL WEDDING ST. PAUL, Bjornson, misslonegs mance of ago. He paper, and ing In St referred to as ** enlled to npologi the mistake SRR et HARTFORD—Connecticat plans (o plant a million trees a year on state park land, | Gunnar Tax Com revealed ro- ‘ bis whddin 5 years| was editing daily a Canadian girl areiv Paul was incorrectly Mrs" The editor and stayed 'm( . | May 1 Minnesota has a ()n‘\ . year | T0 PROPOSAL OF THE U. S, German Government Re- sponds Quickly to Peace Treaty All Powers WASHING "ON declaration 4 rantee for peace must give a real the efforts of carr; disarmament,” igreed to the for a treaty renouncing promptne German to [ which w we er’s draft well Frank fieials Declaring comes m of negot an intery ry war”, country’s, L Locarno trea May that “th maintenance ~With new of impulse ng out Germany American” pro- among World war with Lo general ‘has posal P The the which Government replied American suggestion, ent forward only twe and the form- complete acceptance of the of the treaty came along, pleased Secretary of State B! Kell and other of- ks ago, before that Germany “ mly the opening tions for conclusion of ional pact for outlaw- the note said the 1gue Nations and ies must remain in- violate and nothing is seen im the pledges “which could in any way conflict with obligations pro- vided in the draft of the treaty of the United States. Germany has no higher interest than to see the possibility of armed com- flicts eliminated and development assured in, life of nations which will guarantee a peaceful settle- ment of all international dis- putes. WAI.SH USES U. STFRANK IN IS CAMPAIGN Smith Managers Charge enator of Sponging from Government in California NEW YORK, May 1. Jfie w York Democratic State Gen- tral Committee in a ~tnlt‘menl is- sued from Gov. Alfred E. Smith's wel- of |campaign headquarters notefl the use of Senator Thomas J. Walsh’s (Congressional franking privil (in circulating campaign mater! ll in the California primary cam- paign. It charged Senator Walsh of franking copies of a letter by William G. McAdoo to evey reg- istered Democratic voter in Call- ifornia The information practice was sent’ to the headquarters by Isadore | Dockweller of Los Angeles, prom- [inent lawyer and California mem-= ber of the Democrtic National Committee, who said that Waish's upporters had heen circularizing the with anti-Tammany AI![’lHll which he described ag “malicious in character and |lt- terly cantemptible in content.” Mr. Dockweiler said, also, lhn! letter from former Gov. Gardi- ner of Missouri in support of the Presidential candidacy of Senator James A. Reed of Mis- souri is heing t to California voters under the frank of Con- gressman C. C. Dickingon. s RSAW, Poland, May' 1--May gan with the killing of three persons and the wounding of 12 others when Communists tried to join the Socialist Purly y parade. Shots were exchanged when the Socialists refused ‘to permit the Communists to march with them. concerning this Smith w Day | Credits to DUBLIN, May 111 Free State a publie been formed under o ac | state to | farmers. extend long The capital s $2500 this the various Irish | | subsceibed two-fifths | ernment appoints sev( | directors. Subscribers |anteed by the state a ldend of five percent. pany has authority to to $37,000,000, the mo advanced to farmers nent improvements in stock and mchinory. ment and with the sup. Farmers | the Irish has parlia- it of the credits to 000 and of s have | BOv- the guar fixed divi The com- borrow up ney to be The al of MEMPHIS, Tenn., life responsiblo the delinguency boys, Rev. May 1—Alley for much of BMONE ;' NeEYO Thomas A. Fuller, pr ident of Howe Collegs Memxxhi»! d in an address today before the aunual meeting of the Na- tional Probation iation. Howe | college is for megrovs | is “Alley life i8 not omly insani ‘ tary, but its comtacts are dang ous to morals and good citizen- ghip,” Rev. Mr. Fuller ' gsserted. for perma- buildings, “Many good people live in alleys for economic reasons, Jbut while ‘they save a few dollqt i rent, NEGRO DELINQ L. IID TO ALLEY LIFE UENCY they lose thousands of dollars h q the corruption of child life.” Boy: who are crowded im alley and congested tenement find other places more attractive home, and become “the gang of young criminals who fill the ots of the juvenile court.” the gpeaker i % “The negro boy tndlr"i. tinded, “needs the hflqu { good school system. '!'!o negro boy is a burden to aud to the community, o him proper school mw‘:gvm (Contlnvfl ¥ . .i*n ny: