The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 17, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME’ VOL. XXXIL, NO. 4843. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —_— PRESIDENT -ELECT OBREGON, OF MRS. MPHERSON| IS ISSUE AGAIN IN LOS ANGELES Real Parer;ta-gé Is Being Probed by Committee Of FO“OV\'CI’S L.OS ANGELES, Cai., July 17 far as Mrs. Aimee McPher- son concerned, her family life is as unmuddied as the s of Lake Tahoe, to the. shores of which she has gone to conduct an evangelistic campaign Before leaving she made known she had stopped investigation by a group of her followers concern- ing her real parenta She said there was no foundation for as- sertion that Mrs. Kennedy wa not her real mother. She‘said a committee had sent to Canada for all reco regarding her birth to determine whether she might not be the daughter of her fath- er by a previous marriage. “Of course I am .her daughter and any other idea is ridiculous,” | says Mrs. McPherson Mrs. McPherson denied her mother's statement th she is in po sion of large sums of money and that she distributed various sums in a mysterious manner and unable to adcount for, Mrs. McPherson | announeed plans for a three months' tour of Kurope beginning in Septem- ber. Upon leaving for Lake Tahoe, M McPherson said she was go- ing swimming and she would wear a ‘‘red bathing suit in the day time.” WANT PROBE OFN.Y. CITY lowing a lon ly four decade outstanding political figures in| Up the winding canyon of Broadway, between towering skyscrapers and cheering thousands rode pretty Amelia Earhart, Boston’s “Lad Lindy,” and her gallant masculine aides, Wil- mer Stultz (left) and Lou Gordon. Upon gooutn PASSES AWAY One of Italy’s Outstanding| Political Figures ‘ Is Dead CARAOUR, Ita For. . July 17 mer Premier Gilovanni Giolitti, »d 85 years, died last might fol- g illness. For near-| 1e was one of the| | taly | Durving his aciive years, Giolltti GBVERNMENT wielded powers little less than a Dictator. He served as Prem Investigation of Mayor Walker's Administra- tion Is Asked NEW YORK, July 17.—Investi gation of Mayor James J Walker's administration is asked in a peti tion to Gov. A. E. Smith by th ate Executive committee of the| alist party which charges “mu | misuse and political corrup- Eleven specific accusations are made including alleged graft in sewer construction, payroll padding in the St t Cleaning department, Airplane Passenger cisco will be put into effe: alleged monopolies in the sale of city supplies in which William|company. The company has been operating an eight-passenger plane tri-weekly. Keean friend of the Governor, i mentioned, expenditure of $200, 0G0 for reception of “so-called dis. tinguished guests.” Democratic Platiorm Is Given Endorsement DES MOINES, July 17.—The Corn Belt conference has endorsed the Democratic platform and stand on agriculture. FIFTY TAKEN SUDDENLY ILL Cannot Involve Smith five times and was involved in! numerous poli mental controversies, once tried on eh power but was cleared. Th was nrever any question as to his personal honesty 1 and govern| He was| s of abus —————— Service . Daily from Portland to South | | h PORTLAND, Ore, July 17—A| probably the biggest single thrill of the day for plucky Amelia Ear service| hart was the hearty handclasp of Commander who is pictured above extending h is congratulations upon the passy-Southhampton flight while Pilot Wilmer Stultz looks on daily airplane passenger between Portland and S n Fran- August —— e In One Political Fight! ALBANY, N. Y, July 17.—G Al Smith, commenting on the r port he favors Owen Young for| the New York Governorship, said it was too early to consider thel subject. \ i SHELL HIT HOOVER’S HOUSE IN CHINA WHEN HE W AS LIVING THERE, (Robert M. Collins was As- rociated Press correspondent in charge of the Chinese serv- ice during the Boxer Rebel- lion. He was Associated Press correcpondent in London thru- out the world war. In both places he was intimately ac- quainted with Mr. and Mrs. Hoover.) By ROBERT M. COLLINS LONDON, July 17.— Herbert Clark Hoover, republican candidate for the White House, was a “fel- Jlow named Hoover,” with a repu- tation for courage under fire and a capacity ‘for organization, 28 years ago today when the last Boxer shell exploded in the fore ign settlement ot Tientsin, Once during - that memorable month of bombardment a shell Hoover residence scattering a see-| tion of the wall. As the dust and| smoke cleared Mrs. Hoover spoke| first: “Is everyome all right?" On July 14, 1900, a farewell shot from the Chinese artillery smash-| ed the flagstaff of the French con- sulate, where the tricolor clew in defiant celebration of the national] | INMONTANA fe.nor and 11 othe e {olticial { | i [betwoen Senator Burton K | i i | reaching City Hall they were eulogized by Acting Mayor McKee and presented with scrolls commemorating their flight from Tre- passy, N. F., to Southampton, Eng. (International Newsreel) ; Polar _Hero Greets Girl-Flyer Richard E. Night Worker 1Offers to Rent {Half a Bed {bed to let by decent family. Tern Inspection invited Iress Madam Andr Sandor | advertisement ain whether ad-|Had the South known that Gov.|lies, the Kuominchun of Fe ECRU-| AL Smith and Chairman John Ras-| hsiang and Yen Hsi-shan of Shan-| kob would propose revision of the , recognize that tactily as the| | vertisement ine the correspondent went ~Jeral employer concerns in ad- | lunches supp! a lunch com-| | pany of t d work{ 11 woman opened the door. 2 all employees | their homes. Several women collapsed follow- neral confusion as others| hospitals and |until 8 a.m. the following morning. that some people cannot afford to hire a room or even a bed for per- When a tenant the daytime Health Depariment an. | investigation. one who works at night. CIIORE v il BECOME BROKERS Mrs. Guidita Gen- One Killed. Fi Injured by Bolts of Lightning, Wyoming holiday. When the first foreign navall craft succeeded in pushing its y up the Peiho river from|in the history Taku to Tientsin, a launch com- here last' night manded by Lientenant Irwin of thelklllml one man and injured five U. 8. 8. Monocacy landed three|other pe newspaper correspondents, Fred.' erick Palmer, Oscar King Davis and myself. “ e While we took our bearings in a maze of trenches and battered|wind crashed through a window of the barricades an unusual npec(sclql (Continued on Page Saven) electrical dtorm of this region :urm-k‘ Lightning bolts | ! change brokers much oppesiton hy male members of 5]1(- Vienna Bourse the women ship in the Stock Exchange have already been sucgessful i their stock market operations. e BRACING BOSTON AIR Add an item to Bos- ton’s boasted “atmosphere:” When weather are- right, air of the city is heavy with the aroma of coffee roasting in the plants of the big importers. 4 ————— . QUOTATIONS YORK, July 17.—Alaska-|here determined to Juneau mine stock is quoted to-| Party platform on the prohibition k. ‘ HELD TODAY - Party Candidates Being| | Selected—Wheeler | Is Qpposed NA, M July 17.-—Vot-| ers filed to the polls today to {dect candida for United States Senator, Cong man, Goy | tate officer ides distriet j ¢ and county re is considerable inte the Democratic, senatorial d by vernor incumbent, opr ewart, former ( In the Repablican senatorial race {are Joseph n, for Se r| mer gover > rl t ner John Mahan, former Nationalf | Gommander of the Disabled Ameri-| |can War Veterans, is a candidate] {for the Democratic nom'nation “of| | Gongrossman from the First 1is.| trist | Gov. J | Irickson’s eandidacy | ‘ir-r renor ion on tha Democ slate is contested by Roy Ayre Democrat, and Lee Denuis and W.| J. Paul, Republians, ONE DISEASE I : s AR ¥ i Fight on ]nfanlxle | By MORRIS J. HARRIS : Paralysis (A. P. Corresponcent) | NEW YORK, July 17—Relieving] SHANGHAL July 17—-National- on the with any degree of assura to the absence of outhreaks of in fantile lysis during this sum-{ mer and fall, doctors and research men throughout the country are or-| ! ganizing for a concentrated attack |1t 'Nanking the reconstriction on an epidemic that may ,],\.‘.|,,l,_gx-l|.u.~.» of the revolution is ‘f' hand avery possible precaution is be.|and they believe that their task ing taken to protect the public would be aided enormously if the . | United States established formal from ravages of the dise o Doctors believe advances which| diplomatic relatiune with thy new regime. medicine made in the knowledge | lof infantile paralysts in recent| Al phases of the Ameri lyears should diminish the anxiety|idential campaign, particy which its presence always occa-candidacy of = Secretary” Hoover are being watched with intere. sions. 8 5 The faet that the ater’ than Peking 8 than any of its military trinmpn American rec hition prize, gre: n pres an arbitrator belween British g this was the only possib PENDLETON, C., July 17 for the Nationalists and their al ¢ Yu. Prohibition t of authority several Souih-|se participate in the Houston Con-iFend Yuhsian® and Yen Hsishan venticn, United States Senator Col | remains to be revealed L. Blease said in a letter to Ras-(accept the Nanking dicta They may orship or Disagreeing with Raskob's state-|be removed to Peking. Thelr at- ment that social conditions had|titude on this question will be T ed a state of degadence that|indic: demands correction” Sen. Blease|(ude toward the Nanking said, "I think such statemenis willj ment, cost the Democratic party thou The Naniging gevernment is now ands of votes and probably bring|faced with the problem of estab- Gefeat in November.” lishing its asserted national au- Senator Blease said he -expected|thorlyy. If Nanking becomes the to support the Houston nominees|recognized mnational not National because he is a Democrat, but as|ist. govermment, hy th vinees, a Seaator, “I sha!l not vote to re-lnor foreign power ( a will in peal the Eighteenth Amendment|fact be united But if regional- nor to modify the present cnforce > | The issue will be taxat " Will Support Plank |king now collects tuxes trom Ch gt P kiang, Kiangsu, Kiang and Anh Democratic Platform|iFs Cime: T utes the largest <hio Shangh including its foreizners, paid fo the last half of the northern expe nd by thef gition, The peace budget wiil it INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. July 17 —The Democrats in convention plask, GENERAL ALVARO OBREGON nt-Elect of Mexico, victim ¢ “ TU BEMF““GHT cmaipiisntBlect of Mexa ' American Recognition Is Doctors; Mes of U, §:/Pan| First Goal of New China L NEW SEARCH 1S UNDER WAY Planes Suggested to Fly In the program of the leaders| breakers in Arctic MOSCOW, July arly the|goala the pounds Krassin slowly tepublican nomi |, nee knew China in the Boxer days| e st | has caused wide speculation con-| erning his present atitude toward|punting | H | China and the whole Pa que | Vise, while who heads the : | tion, 3 that in 1900 when Mr. Hoover was|zphle all are airplanes fly out | 5 B "d merely guess work and he sug i | Chinese mining groups, his decis-! | ion went to the British. There i anotber faction which claims that| : Soviet scientific decis | timiy 18 king found | eorologi al conditions and ice this | {than usual .. fon. Says Proposed Revision of| "y, apiure of Prohibition Laws China faced with the same problem |season P of uaification that has existed | 1ll-Advised | most trom time fmmemorial, At} — present the capital is at Nanking, | o s RAIL WORKER QUITS AT 99 |tatorship took the name of Coms FAUQUEMBERGUE, 1 women | Carranz of |[War. At the inauguration switch- |general rode bes the one|the pro 14 ern states would have refused to| Byt the permanent attitude of| ' U FRANCE FUMBLES LAW TO RECLAIM ive of their neral atti-| PARIS, July nship to the)in France. American sol4 A movement to win them ism continues there will be more| iers in the alThere were two reasons for technicality, pur-y forts to reclaim them: Firsty ment laws.” wars until China is centralized or|has - - the rights of the provinces to re-| Indmna D(,"“".r“,_‘- gional goveraments j ropnized je Freneh| and international law as well, an) var or after-| \ G Ing these b Amznn.‘“‘" to bring these unhaj ‘ mghai coutrib.| RN ’ an during the ward becane to show| Franco-Ameri- they e t0 cause " (Contlnued on Page Thres inan unions took | Continusi on Paze Two.) were numerous enou MEXICO, ASSASSINATED TODAY | 1S SHOT DOWN; FIVE BULLETS ' ENTER BODY. ‘ngedy Occurs at Ban- quet Near Mexico City This Afternoon ASSASSIN ARRESTED; IDENTITY UNKNOWN IWell Known Mexican Char- | acter Is Killed With- ‘ out Warning BULLETIN — MEXICO | CITY, July 17.—Gen. Alvaro | Obrevon, President-Elect of Mexico, was assassinated at | a banquet in a restaurunt in San Angel, 12 miles sapth | of Mexico City, shortly after | 2 o'clock this afternoon. The assassin, who has not- been immediatelv identified, has been arrested. 5 Gen. Obregon was shot five . | times through the body. g MEXICAN LEADER Gen. Alvaro Obregon, elected President of Mexico in Septem- ber, 1920, following the estab- lishment of a Provisional Govern- ment and the death of Carranza, and now President-Elect of Mex- having been chosen without p0sMion ;R IH “l!'?" o fl-}}f}“"’éfifi, tdfy Tar 1 he was 28 years old. He had | heen a student, machinist, farm- r and merchant in Nogales, Son- ira, the town of his birth, where family was well-known, and irst tcok the field at)the head )t 400 neighbors to protect their nroperty from the looting of or- ized bandits. He was medium ilzed, stockily built, a fine speci~ nen of his Irish-Indian blood. 't has been said of him that he was “the only Mexican revolu- ionary general who never lost & battl i The keynote to Obregon's chars icter he recently voiced in the fol= lowing words: “I would rather each the Mexican people the use of a toothbrush than to handle a- ifle I would rather see them in schools than upon battlefields. I prefer any day a good eclectris clan, machinist, carpenter, oFf tarmer to a soldier.” His attl= tude toward foreign investors was: shown at the same time by hi feclaration that “a country witl out capital is like a body without blood.” He opposed Carram foreign policy and his antagol ism toward the United States. o8 Quells Revolution Obregon in 1911, quelled |revoluticn of Rascual Orosco fi Chihuahua. Later, when Pre dent Madero had been slain Huerta assumed the Presiden Obregon, who had retired mim cHan circles are op-{4n arm to his farm, again B came a military leader. In 191 Ihe defeated Villa at Celaya an | Trintdad after 33 days of figh ing It was as parties to Plan of Guadeloupe, by whi |the rebels against Huerta's di stitutionalists, that Obregon first met. When € za became President he ted Obregoh his Minister de Carranza sion in Mexico City, s Minister of War (Continued on Page considerable patriotic resen o France was started years ag fcause of the large percentage. s where the marriages r {and sscond, the shortage of fa iilies due td” the war. by Parliament set about th of France back into tional fold. A law was proviaing -ihat girls marr