The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 26, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XXXII., NO 4800. ]UNEAU ALASKA SATURDAY, MAY 26 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ITALIA MISSING IN ARCTIC REGIONS FARM RELIEF DISAPPROVAL IS SUSTAINED Measure Is Kll]ed by Close| Vote in United States Senale CGMPROMISE ON TAX | REDUCTION ACCEPTED Muscle Sho;;(;iven Final Approval—House Agrees to (onference Report WASHINGTO. \Lly 26.—The | Senate late yesterday sustained President Coolidge’s veto of the, Farm Relief Bill, killing the measure by a vote of 50 for pas- sage and 31 against, four less than the required two-thirds ma- jority. The bhill was passed by Con- BY and was sent to the Presi- dent who vetoed it last Wednes- day. President Coolidge vetoed the bill on the grounds of constitu- tionality because the *so-called equalization fee and other fea- tures of thesold measure are still preindicial my poinion to a slicy and to agri- or Measure ipublicans in the e, three lihed up Coolidge on the Jary-Haugen farm ainst him. rarles Curtis and ah voted to sus- hile Senator Guy for the veto. Sen- Watson, George sted to override. mocratic candidates, Alt F. George, of o to override the tor Jumes A. Reed was it sud not paired. Senator ymas J. Walsh sustained the veto, Change of Votes nge of votes by three and a lone Democrat prevenied Senate overriding the faroi bill veto. Senator Cur- tis wa¢ one of the four former uppo of the bill to go over the President’s side. He ex- palined that felt it his duty, as Repu :ader of the Sen- t to 1!l the Executive, as 1 svipathize with the The c Republ he h o other th-ee who formerly fo1 pageaze were Senators fe M. ackett, of Ken- Charles W, Waterman, of Republicans; and Sen- Fletcher, of Flor- ori doy ¢ Duncan U. ida, Democrat, TAX REDUCTION 0. K, . WASHINGTON, May 26 —The conference report on the com- promise tax reduction bill has been adopted by the Senate after the provision for public inspec- tion of income tax returns was eliminatéd. The House will con- sider it next. Late this afternoon the House approved the conference report on the tax bill which now goes to the President. MUSCLE SHOALS APPROVED WASHINGTON, May 26.—The The Muscle Shoals bill was given final Congressional approval late yesterday afternoon when the House agreed to the conference report after the Senate agreed to it following an all-night session. The measure provides for Gov- ernment operation of production of nitrate and power. Scme opponents predicted that President Coolidge will .veto the bill. ALASKA ITEMS WASHINGTON, May 26.—The Rivers and Harbors bill author- izing expenditures of -$48,500,- 000 has been approved by . the House Rivers and Harbors Com- mittee. The expenditures include $17,000 for Port Alexander, Al- aska; $85,000 for a harbor refuge at Seward, and $272,000 for im- provements of the harbor at Ket- chikan. AGREE ON Agmmnquh WASHINGTON, May 26. e AContinued on Page Two.) FISH BOOMED MILLIONAIRE TO WED BEAUTY Horace E Dorl"e, nnlllonmre boat builder and heir to the Dodge millions, and Miss Muri el Sisman, daughter of Detroit millionaire, are to be married in London shnrllv according to their intentions filed in the London registry office. (International | Newsreel) SAYS PRESBYTI TERIANS INTERESTED IN UNITY AS CANDIDATE SECONDPLACE New York Representative Has Support for Vice- Presidency WASHINGTON, May 26.—The claim that Representative Ham- ilton Fish, of New York, has received assurance of support from a number of Western States for the Republican Vice-Presi- dential nomination, is made by Representative Harold Knutson, Republican of Minnesota, after interviewing Republican leaders of Minnesota, Illinois, Nebraska, Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas and Nevada. Representative Knutson said he was convinced Fish’'s candidacy has “assurance of support” from all these States, and added that a poll of 40 per cent of the Re- publican vote in the Oregon pri- maries entered at the last mo- ment exhibited strength for him in the far West. “Jumping to Music” Forbidden in Canton CANT! May 26—Little Miss Violet Is not to be permitted to introduce the Charleston to Can- ton. This slender, slant-eyed maid, a former singsons girl, whose real name is Ng and who has acquired a few American dance steps, is one of the victims and the chief inspiration of Mayor Lum's decree ciosing all dancing places. Miss Violet, with the support of a few young Chincse returned from schools abroad, opened a| large, elaborately-decorated cab- aret with a Filipino jazz orches- tra. But Mayor Lum declared that this “foreign jumping to mu- sic” must stop, because it dis- tracted yourg people from the revolutionary fight on “imperial- ism” and the unequal treaties with foreign powers, { Expenditures in N. J. Primary to Be Investigated WASHINGTON, May 28.—Sen- ator William H. King, Democrat of Utah, and Senator Charles L. McNary, Republican of Oregon, have agreed to conduct the 1in- vestigation ordered by the Sen-; ate into the expenditures of the NEW 7ORK, Presbyterian church always has been deeply interested in larger Mmeasures” of ehureh unity, says Dr. Robert E. Speer, moderator. His comment was prompted by the endorsement of the proposed union of the Methodist Episcopal, Congregational and Presbyterian churche at the quadrennial Methodist conference in Kansas City. The Methodist conference voted to send a fraternal delegate to the Presbyterian general assembly {in Tulsa, May 24 to 30, to for- mally notify that gathering of the Methodi approval of church unification. “If any proposal from the Meth- odist Bpiscopal general confer- ence is sent to the Presbyterian general assembly,” Dr. Speer says, “the normal course would be to refer it to its committee of co- operation and union, although the general assembly could at its dis- cretion refer the matter to any other committee, such as jts com- mittee on bills and overtures. “Any action in the matter would, of course, have to be taken up by the general assembly it- self. I judge, however, that the terms of the proposal would call for no further action than for conferences during the coming year between suitable committees of the two ehurches.” The Presbyterian assembly has a permanent committee on church co-operation and union, to which, according to the ‘rules, “shall be committed, subject to the apptrov- al of the general assembly, the interests of the church as they relate to other ecclesiastical bodies and to organizations form- ed thereby for promoting co-oper- ation and general goodwill.” “The subject of unity,” says Dr. Speer, “is one in which the Presbyterian church has always been deeply interested and on which at the time of the war it made overtures itself to the oth- er denominations with a view to some larger measure of church unity. “No- actual unification, however, resulted from these negotiations. Historically the Presbyterian church has been very sympathetic toward the idea of the largest possible measure of unity among denominations standing solidly on the evangelical faith and able to harmonize and unite their views as to the policy of the church.” ———————— Dr. Staley Jones Is Elected Bishop; Three Day Deadlock KANSAS CITY, May 26.—End- ing a three day deadlock, which seemed incontrovertitfe, the Methodist Episcopal General Con- ference, elected Dr. Staley Jones, missionary Indian, to the post of Bishop. He recetved . slightly more than the necesary two- thirds vote and averted drastic May 26—The ts’ Entombed Miner Found Alive After 120 Huura MATHER, May 26. A negro miner has been found alive in the Mather | colleries after 120 hours en- tombment. He was unable | to talk but his condition is not seriouss He was found two miles back. Thirty men are still unaccounted for fol- | lowing the explosion which ceeurrcs a week ago today'| | resulting in the death of | over 175 men. UPRISING OF FARMERS 1S BEING URGED, Penn., | Veto of Farm Relief Meas-! ure Cause of Drastic Action, Claim CHICAGO, May 26. — In Ill- nois, Towa and Nebraska move- ments are afoot to organize farm- 'ers on ‘their attitude of farm re- lief measure for presentation at the Republican National Conven-| tion as the result of the farm| bill veto. 1 The lowa Farm Buredu Fed- eration, in a resolution asserting the farmer ‘“can no longer be quieted by bunk of empty prom-| ises,” is prepared to call protest| meetings. Gov. Adam McMullen, of Ne- braska, has urged recruiting of an army of 100,000 farmers to march to Kansas City and com- pel the nemination of a candidate |favorable to the farmers’ cause. He said camping grounds will be provided for a “caravan of farm- ers,” but they must provide their own equipment and food. Lester Lehmand, Pleasant Plains farmer, conceived the plan of modernizing Paul Revere by calling Illinois farmers to protest; meetings, over the telephone. Sev- eral gatherings in the State may result. Automobile caravans will carry protestants to the meet- ings. Gov. termed take.” Falls of Minnehaha Take Mew Beauty Len Small, of Illinois, the veto a ‘“great mis-| MINNEAPOLIS, May 26.—Min- nehaha Falls, immortalized in Longfellow's poem, ‘‘Hiawatha,” is giving local poets, real and pseudo, inspiration for new verses this year. More beautiful than at any time in ten years, the falls is carrying a capacity volume of water. So great has been the flow that the “laughing waters’” have lapped at the very feet of the statue of the Indian brave shown carrying Minnehaha, the Indian maiden, across the stream. In recent years the flow over the falls has been maintained through use of a pump connect- ing with the city mains bu. this gpring ample water was provided by the gradual melting of heavy snow and ice deposits in the headwaters of Minnehaha Creek. Woodcraft’ Bride Cuts Wedding Cake with Axe FORDINGBRIDGE, Eng., May 26.—Two members of the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry—Kenneth Charles Harrod and Ethel Violet Silley—were married with Wood- craft ritual at the local church here. In picturesque uniform, mem- bers of the craft danced the old| English country dance ‘“Haste ! the Wedding” as the pair lel| the church and greeted thwu‘ later with the wooderaft watch- | word “Blue Sky” repeated threc| times. | Wearing a picturesque wed- ding gown made by herself, tho| \TWO HUNDRED ' Parrish, (between Scott City and Oakley. MEN PURSUING FOUR BANDITS Bank Robl; Two Men| Slain—Two Others Kid- napped, then Killed DIGHTON, Kansa Fleeing before pe men and two airplanes dits who killed A. ] bank President and his son, John | in a Lamar hold-up Wednesday, yesterday killed Dr.| W. W. Winecinger, of Dighton,| whom they abducted Thursday night, and are also believed to have killed E. A. Kessinger, As-| sistant Cashier, whom they kid- napped. Kessinger's body was found on the roadside near Scott City | Wineinger’s body was found| machine to fight have prepared The bandits guns and are to the finish. Wineinger apparently was kill- ed after he was forced to dress one of the bandit’s wounds. DENVER, May 26-—Squads of Denver policcmen and detectives, searching the city park district where a Denver patrolman ex- changed shots with men in a mud spattered automobile, failed to find a clew as to the whereabouts of the machine, The police are inclined to dis- <tunt ‘the theery the car carried the Lamar murdering bandits and expressed the opinion that the car carried bootleggers. Hundreds of armed men searching for the Lamar robbers and murderers. .- —— BATTLES FIRE, SAVES VILLAGE School Teac—h;: All Alone, Fights Tundra Fire, Westward Alaska AKIAK, Alaska, May 26— Fighting a blaze with nothing but wet blankets, Ellis M. Deter, teacher in the Eskimo village of Quithluk, saved the village. Deter was alone at the time as the Eskimos had gone to trap beav- er. When the tundra fire threat- ened 22 native cabins, Deter be- gan his work with wet blankets beside the cabins. He kept the fire controlled until the nearly ex- hausted natives, arriving oppor- tunely, extinguished the blaze. Many acres of tundra were burn- ed cver but the natives saved 100 acres of reindeer grazing ground. NIEMIEN FLIES are bank SENATE SUSTAINS COOLIDGE VE SIGNu Wb Bubbles Steiffel will become moving picture star, in the fall, (International VVITH DENNY FOR LIFE the bride of Reginald Denny, the film favorite has announced. Newsreel) U. S. Flood Control Is Greater Task than the Building WASHINGTON, May 26—The | government has launched u;mn’ probably the greatest engineering | project in its history in the pro- ject to control the floods of the Mississippi river. Even the construction of the Panama canal is believed by en- gineering authorities to be trans- cended in the task of curbing the 60,000,000 horsepower torrent of flood waters in the Mississippi. The engineering task is a com plex one, and methods are not fully specified in the legislation authorizing the project, but the plan for controlling the floods, prepared by Maj. Gen. Edgar Jad- win, chief of army engineers, will form the basis of the work. It 1is designed protect the Mississippi Valley against future floods—even inundations 25 per- cent greater than the disastrous overflow of last year, which took 246 lives and caused a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars. to FURTHER NORTH FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 26. ——Matt Niemien, piloting the searching plane for the two planes with the Fox Film Ex- pedition, left Kotzebue for Point Barrow yesterday afternoon. He indicated he would land at Wainwright enroute for gas. It is expected that Richard Heyser, radio operator on the searching plane, will set up a radio as soon as possible after landing at Point Barrow. Trans-Pacific Flier Preparing for Trip OAKLAND, Cal, May 26.— Capt. Charles Kingsford Smith has arrived here in the mono- plane Southern Cross from Long | Beach to prepare for the trans- | Pacific flight. —pel Calles Cordially Says Farewell to U. S. Ambassador MEXICO CITY, May 26.—Pres- ident Calles said farewell cor- dially. to American Ambassador candidates in the recent New Jer-|measures wifich were under prep-|bride cut the wedding cake with| Morrow who left here today for sey Dflfllf’. a woodman's axe. | & "“fi to ‘the United, States. To supplement this plan is a pro- ject mapped out by the Missis- sippl river commission which is charged with the flood control work. The ‘two plans will be fused into a single project by a board created by the new law. The principal feature of the new method of curbing the floods will be abandonment of the policy of “levees only,” which has been the sole means of keeping the flood waters in the river channel. A new device will be used in building a number of diversion channels to carry off excess wa- ter direct from the main channel of the Mississippi and its prin- cipal tributaries into the Gulf of Mexico. Of the four diversion channels, two—the Boeuf Basin floodway from the Arkansas river through Arkansas and Louisiana into the Red river, and the Atchafalaya Basin floodway from the Red riv- er to the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana—will involve the build- ing of an artificial river 300 miles long, paralleling the Mississippi, The other diversion channels are the Birds Point-New Madrid, Mis- souri, riverbank floodway, where; the levees would be set back from their present location for an av- erage distance of five miles along a 72mile stretch, and the Bon- net Carre spillway north of New (Continued on Page Three.) lerican , Panama Canal JAPAN FAVGRS U.S. PROPOSAL ON WAR PACT Makes Reply that Nation Will Cordially Co- Operate WASHINGT an has expressed w with Secretary of State Kellogg's preposal for a tr ¢ renouncing war as an instrument of National policy and has notified the Am- Government she will be glad to cooperate cordially to- ward attainment of that end. While the State Department of- ficials make no comment on the Japanese policy, it is understood May 26.—Jap- rm sympathy they feel that nation is favorable! to the plan to bring into force a treaty between nations against warfare, Pets Dine in Style At Cannes Cabarets CANNES, May 26.—A cabaret isn’t really smart if there are no tame birds, cats and liz- ards among the guests, monkey i8 one of the regular visitors at the Kit Kat Klub, where he consumes three lemon- ades each night and throws paper balls with better aim than master. Riviera waiters are accomplish- ed guardians of all manner of strange pets. While women guests dance, waiters frequently stand by to see that Teddy, the five thousand franc chameleon, or Jerry, the temperamental mag- pie, does not fall off the table or annoy the guests near by. Except white rats and mice, no pet is b rred from the fash-| fonable dancing places. One of the smartest restaurants had a| thrill recently when an Enxllqh woman brought her pet snail to| dine with her. The snail had a lettuce leaf on a plate while the woman had the full dinner. A small| his | 1 016 DIRIGBLE NOTREPORTED; FERRS AREFELT Zxpedition Out from Kings Bay for Over Seventy- Elght Hours (BASE SHIP MAY BE SENT OUT ON SEARCH Failure to Communicate by Radio Is Causing Further Anxiety LONDON, May 26.—Com- mander Umberto Nobile had not heen heard from at 4 o'clock this morning. The dirieible Italia is believed fighting strong winds. FEARS FOR SAFETY KiNGS BAY, May 26.—Fearful for the safety of the diridigle Italia, out from here more than 78 hours, the crew of the base ship Citte de Milano bunkered coal all morning in preparation for sailing in search of the miss- ing airship. The ship can be ready to start by night and will probably proceed eastward around South Cant Spitzbergen. Wireless operators on the base ship continued ceaselessly in ef- ts to get in touch with the Italia but were unable to make any contact. The airship has a reserve radio with accumulator which can be used even though the motors are not operating. This fact cerved to make the airship’s long silence incomprehensible, Taking into consiieration the state of the wenther and com- tinuing strong winds strong be- lief is felt that the Italia has made for the Siberian coast find- ing further efforts to reach Spitz- bergen fruitless, The Tialla carricd a supply of gasoline to last until 4 a. m. todey but the airship may be able to keep in tha air for weeks. Shonld the dirigible be down on the Arct wastes, it carries lequipment to «nulle the ecrew of 16, including Commander Nobile, to fight their wuy toward safety. The equipment includes skiis, sledzes, Canadian snow shoes, an! sleeping sacks of reindeer skin, AMUNDSEN CONSULTED OSLO, May U6.—Capt. Roald Amundren, Arctic explorer, is re- ported to have bion called into a conference with the Norweglan Government authorities concern- ing possibility of sending a re- lef expedition to search for the Italia. Capt. Amundsen having expressed 80. MAY MAKE FOR ALASKA NEW YORK, May 26.—-There is slight possibility that the Italia may make for Alaska and all possible sources are requested |to wateh. Find Ancient Grave + Of Burgundian Chief ROENNE, Island of Bornholm, May 26.—The elaborately furn- ished grave of a Burgundian chieftain of the iron age was discovered on the island and lidentified by the National *Mu- seum of Copenhagen as a relic lof the third century. Inteired with the chieftain were his sword, shield and lance with a barbed point. The spurs were of bronze with iron spikes and were remarkably well pre- |served. The wooden shield was | covered with tanned leather fast- ened to the edges by a band of bronze whereas the shicld-buckle { |was of iron. The ractul:l.a |grave was carefully laid out stones, and less than two feet below the earth. . 7 -5 A BRITISH SAILORS FEWER LONDON — The British navy. has 93,799 men and 8,515 offi- cers today compared with 1. 607 men and 9,489 officers: |1913, the admiralty says. | . is reported willingness to