The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 9, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXIL, NO. 4863. JUNEAU, ALASKA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1928. JUSTICE BLACK DEFENDS SMITH AGAINST ATTACK Backs New York Minister in Everything But His Opinion of Smith ATLANTA, tic William Chairman of tees of the Ga., Aug. 9.—Jus- Harland Black, | the Board of Tru Calvary Baptist] Church of New York City, visit-| ing here, said he was with his| pastor, Dr. John Roach Straton, “in everything but his present titude toward Gov. Alfred E.| Smith and’ he would not be so| profoundly interested in Smith's| success if he had not known him intimately for 35 years and if he did not know he was the cleanest | and most loyal man in politics today. He has easily the most| pregressive record before the ‘\mr“ erican’ electorate on every sub-| and far in advance of jeet his party The statement wsa made fol lowing the publication of the let-| ter demanding proof of the charge and the right to reply, made b Gov. Smith resenting and taking | to task the Rev. Straton for h pulpit declaration last Sunday that Gov. Smith, “ag u public man, was the deadl foe in| America of the force miial progress and true political wis-| dom.” A cautie letter from Gov. Smith requested the spirit of fair play and that he be invited to the, clerygman’s church and given an opportunity to be heard from his side. Gov. Smith, in his letter, promised to answer any gques- tion the Rev. Straton would put regarding his public career in New Yorkk. The lgv. ton’ “actepréa e challeng® or gof, "Al Smith and suggested a large auditorium be secured and he would debate with Gov. Smith in a series of speeches. i | PROHIBITION IS CHIEF ISSUE | SAYS SENATOR WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.- bition is singled out as the most issue of the campaign United States Senator Edward Edwards, Democrat of New Jer- sey, who said religion could not be made a real issue and the squabble on tariff is out of the question. He predicted the state overwhelming for Gov. Al Smith. Prohi- | fore- | by L | Turkish Women Ignore All Grders to Unveil CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 9.— Public antagonism has forced the Turkish Government to abandon strict enforcement of the prohibi- tion against veils for women and fezes for men. The older generation will be ! left to follow the old customs| and efforts henceforth will be| centered in persuading the young people of Turkey to obey thel regulations designed to western- ize the country. Stories are fgold of Turkish girls who leave their homes for school each morning demurely veiled. At a gafe distance from their parents they produce a tam- o’-shanter or other western hat, remove their veils and go on their way. Principals in “Big Top” Romance, | | | | $10,000 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS VOLCANO ERUPTS; NEARLY 1,000 KILLED DEMOCRATS GET |HO 'LARGE CHECKS FOR CAMPAIGN Many Contributors from, “Big Business” and Republicans OVER TO RECEIVE NOTIFICATION IN SETTING RICH WITH MEMORIES NEW YORK, Aug. 9-The two largest cash contributions received by the Democratic National Com- mittee in July were checks for h from John D. Ryan, President of the Anaconda Cop- { general | vania; Here’s the first photo of Lillian Leitzel—beg pardon, Mrs. Al- fredo Cordi—and her gymnast husband, following their wed- ding recently under the “big top” in Chicago. The queen of all aerialists and her acrobatic hubby plan to keep on amusing | the great American “peepul” despite their new domestic status. | The petite circus star and the boy of her heart have been sweethearts since childhood. (International Illustrated News) DU PONT GOMES 00T FOR"SWITH, | FOR PfiSIDENT;‘ Woman Candidate s in. Favor - . Of Modification WASHINGTON, The ssociation the Prohibition Amendment announces that Mrs. Ruth B. Pratt, widow of John T. Pratt, of the Standard Oil Company, and a candidate for the Republican nomina- tion for the House from the Seventeenth New York Dis. trict, announces herself fav- oring modification or repeal of the Eighteenth Amend- ment - i3 L) | | Aug. 9. Against Chairman of Board of Gen- eral Motors An- | nounces Stand PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 9 The Philadelphia Record publish- a dispatch from Wilmington, | Delaware, saying Pierre D. du Pont, Chairman of the Board of the General Motors, will tell his associates that he intends to give active support to Gov. Al Smith and will then offer to resign Chairman and, if necessary, quit the directorate should any ob- jection be made to his expre ing opinion on the Presidential campaign Friends of du Pont say he will not take any official po: in the Smith campaign but reserves the right to follow his own personal feelings. es WILL ATTEND FUNERAL OF . E,BRENNAN Gov. Smith Leaves Alban.yl Tonight for Chicago— Drops All Work N. Y. Aug. 9 decided- to go to| Chica and attend the funeral of George K. Brennan, Democratic National Committeeman and mas- ter mind of the Ilinois Democ- racy, who died yesterday morn- ing. It the intention of the Presidential nominee to leave to- night and arrive in Chicago to- morrow morning. He plans to return to Albany tomorrow night. Gov. Smith decided to drop work on his acceptance speech and be present at the funeral of | the Democratic Illinois leader who in recent years had been one of Smith's stauch supporters. France Has More Money For Buying Motor Cars PARIS, Aug. 9.—France has just passed the million mark in the number of licensed automo- biles. The spread of installment buying and the general increase in' prosperity have stimulated the purchase of motor cars. The installment plan is still less common in France. than in England and the United States. Half of the buyers of low-priced automobiles in France continue to pay cash and expensive cars are sold even less frequently on the installment plan. ) ALBANY Al Smith has Gov. | is NATION’S FOOT CLINICS "AID THOUSANDS YEARLY INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 9.—Po- diatry clinics for the poor, each averaging 10,000 to 20,000 patients @ year, now are operating in principal cities of the country, ac- cording to a report prepared for delivery by Dr. G. W. Scherer, jr, of Los Angeles before the National Association of Chiropo- dists-Podiatrists gathered in con- vention here. Dr. Scherer, who is chairman of the public foot clinics committee, reported that foot surveys under the direction of Dr. Joseph Lely- veld, executive director for the National Association for Foot Health, are held for members of police departments; public schools, 1S KEPT BUSY ALBANY, N o Aug. 9.— Fond as he is of swimming and golf, Gov. Smith fs finding it next to impossible to squeeze in time for either exercise into his increasingly crowded days as the Democrat Presidential nominee, gince his return Sunday night from a short vacation. The Governor has been tied down to his office by a combina- tion of State and campaign busi- ness which has kept him from the golf course and swimming pool. industrial plants and among mu- ie nicipal and public utility employes in many cities. Through cooperation with the Salvation Army new foot clinics were opened in several cities dur- ing the past year. It is felt, Dr. Scherer said, that the primary purpose of the cnnh:s[ is to relieve ‘suffering and cure disease, and all engaged in caring SUFFERS PARALYSIS for clinic patients are mindful off Edward Wolvick of Petersburg, this consideration. As a gecond!suffered a stroke of paralysis of feature all of the information gath-|the face this morning and was ered, with and by the consent of |taken to St. Ann’s Hospital where patients, is utilized for research'he is under treatment. purposes. Dr. Scherer recom- Mr. Wolvick has been here a —————— {about to join the Chinese National- per Company, and John T. Smith, counsel for the General Motors Corporation A check for| $5,000 was r ved from Hugh C. Wallace, Tacoma, Washington, for- merly United States Ambassador to ance. Other contributors include Spencer Penrose, Republican Colorado, brother of the late Sen- ator Boise Penrose, of Pennsyl. Col. Gr on Mallet-Pre- Republican of New' York, New York Transportation Company | Rubber Compan 1 of | Goodyear 2, the the program fo program to go over notification day next Satu Announec | BULLETIN—PARIS, Aug. ~—Maurice Droughin died te tcday as the result of njuries received in the crash ate yesterday aftcrnoon. He s one of France's foremost aters. | | | [ { i 1 TOKYO, the reports Aug. that 9.—Alarmed Manchuria at b ORLY, Franc 9 attempt to fly from Paris York ended late rda j afternoon when the glant trimotol Arc En 2 crashed landing killing Lennett, perhaps fatally in- Maurice Droughin, noted and seriously injur Gionolle and being Aug Another sons ist government at bell has warned the take the step. It also Nankin, province Japan not here ye ed the chanic uring French ing two other uel The plane through the final test — e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YDRK, Aug |lowing are today {certain stock ue , Endicott Asphalt pringfield 19%, 56%, Southern D U. 8. Steel 149%, Ore 205, Glidden Company 22%, « leum Nairn, 227%, Stewart Warner 91, Remington Rand 28 %, Yellow Truck and Coach 31% and Missouri Pacific 60% that suitable measures will be taken at Nan- king against the Nationalists un- less that government recedes in its attitude toward the special rights of Japanese citizens in is said me- way school was put 8 bay, Tampa the direc years P a The fol- quotations on Alaska Ju- Jofinson 77 %, 741, Kelly jethlehem Steel ries Great Northern Samuel du Pont, Delaware, Republican, and Chairman of the| General Motors Corporation; Wil- liam Hartman Woodin, New York, Republican, and President Ameri | can Locomotive Company, director | The Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto, Cal, (abovc) near ccenes of Herbert Hoover's early of General Motors Corporation and | life, will be the place of his cfficial notification as nomine the Republican Party August 11 {@a dozen other large corporations; | Miss Flcrence Mannon (left), bass sololist in the Stanfurd band, will play at the ceremony and William F. O'Neil, Akron, O., Pres-{genator George Moses cf New Hampshire (tight) will dcliver the notification address. ident General Rubber Company; 3 i Howard §. Cullman, New York, ! wealthy tobacco manufacturer, and | PALO ALTO, Aug. 9. Motoring M. F. Reddington, a large New ! down from his home on San Juan 4 York ontdoor advertising t-nmmm)’.:]‘m to the /Stanford stadium, Her- There was a balance of more|bert Hoover will stand in the than §$240,000 in the Democratic|millst of a great outpouring of his STATIGNS DIREOADCABT IN cRAsH IMAY treasury August 1 countrymen and be formally noti-| NEW YORK, Aug. 9 . ¥ —————— fied that he is the Republican can-|Mment of 11 additional radio sta- diffate for president August 11 tions has increased the number Where are seating accommoda- Which will participate . in the y johs In tho big howl for nearly| bioadeast of Herbert C. Hoover's| c i (] 90,000 persons and radio facili !'L{"“““"N“ ceremonies 97 sta- | ' 1 Lttes will carry the words of ghe ' Uons. i g & Is REPURTED [ sphakers G0 the miioks thraien. | —————— [Plane Crashes in Final Test out the United States. bl | salt In the background there are w-.-.‘CITR { for Flight Across | sonal associates and reminiscences ' | Atlantic holding additional interest for the! 2 | nominee here to define his accep-| ! oK ¢ lam'o'; party leadership in the| y Manchuria May join Chi-|ensuind campaien ‘ . 3 | Behind the Stanford stadium in nest Nationalists— | which the time-honorea ceremony | STURM HIT Japan Aroused | takes plm-.v‘v,m: the red tile ):nn[». ks of the university With the same| | vistas of arcades through which | (he and Mrs. Hoover hurried in ]l'ol)lcal Disturba ncej their undergraduate days and down A which his two have run to! Moves from East to J catch the same West Coast From the rim of the great am- - | phitheatre in which the notifica-! JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug, 9 tion events are to occur one can The vernment Wea thier many things that stand out as|pyreau announces that the tropi- { mile posts in the career of the | sturbance which struck the | man who was an orphaned student | bt TR Plottiacs fhasa | 5 4 § working his through through the citrus section to the China, Prime Minister Baron Tan-|slightly more than 30 years ago. |west coast and centered this ka told the Cabinet. Across the San Francisco | morning near the | Nationalist leaders are reportad|is visible. was there he open-lapout 50 miles north to have worked out the draft of|ed his office as a mining engin-|,;q meving slowly an agreement fo extend the Nan.|eer. Through the e has | coast in #orth westely king's government, full sway in|continued to maintain business (jon in gren iner Manchuria. headquarters in that city. | velocity Japan understands that an agree ; The ment grants complete autonomy| In the opposite direction fs the ' -0 to Manchuria in domestic affairs | Hoover War Library with its vast 00 0 suffered in the izolated. fruit and several t portion are OPPRESSIVE HEAT IN EAST erop has wi but gives the Nanking governmen | collection of documents constitut- til full control of foreign relations.|ing ome of his gifts to his alma | The latter agreement is what has mater. s oused Japan. Nearby is the Stanford art gal-| The Nanking lery containing a hronze ulzlm-‘: notified Japan of its abrogation | 0f Isis, “goddess of the Nile and| of commercial treaties granting|Fertility.” It was a gift made| extra-territorial rights to Japan.;in 1922 by the pennies of Belgian | government to New | at Man-! 36, PRICE TEN CEl ISLAND NEARLY. DESTROYED BY [Volcano Rokatinda Erupts | Following Sharp 5 Earthquake COAST LINE IS TODAY REPORTED SUBMERGED Hundreds Injured by Frag-" ments Thrown A% from Crater BATAVIA, Java, Aug. 9.—Aec~ cording to reports transmitted by a of Timcr, nearly the entire island of Paloeweh, in the Dutch East Indies, has been de= troyed by eruption of the Roka= tinda voleano which kept up pouring out of hot lava on Aug- ust 4 and 5 Six village fire The death toll is believed to be nearly 1,000 Six hundred are known to have been injured when hit by frag- ments thrcwn out of the crater. Further casualties were caused! by submersion of the wholé sea- board of the island through am earthquake and accompanying eruption. About 5,000 of the are stated to be safe. 9 Ample provisions are availablg,” it is sta It is that nine native boats enroute from Celebes Island [to Palceweh foundered with their crews of Dutch residents of Timor The scene of the disaster lies {about 5 miles off the north coast’ of Flores Island, one of the lar of the Malay Archipelago isi It is about four miles in dia and the voleano peak rises about 4,593 feet which is covered with to the summit. RS e . A HUGH WLOON 1S SHOT DOWN. |F ormer Mascot, Philadel- phia Athletics, Is Kill- ed by Gunmen resident have been destroy- led by islanders |trees %4 PHILADELPHIA, Penn., Aug. 9. Hugh MecLoon, aged years, former mascot of the Philadelphia Athletics, wds killed and twa | ether men were wounded when | three gunmen opened fire on them | from a closed automobile early this morning and then sped away, | McLoon, in company with Wil liam Melster and Joseph Fries, had walked a block from the sa. loon operated by McLoon in the downtown section, when attacked. McLoon’s ~hunchbacked figure is well known here because of his activity in boxi having offi, ciated in a minor capacity at nums. erous fights - i i FRANK' PIERCE ILL Frank Pierce entercd St. Anm's Hospital today for medical treat- ment. The Japanese government claims | children as a tribute to Hoover this abrogation is illegal and has | *elilef work in the war stricken e ignored the notification. area. | CHICAGO, 11, Aug 9 | Oppres- tning has during also df- ed 15 Japan fears its supplies of raw The stand upon which the cere-|sive heat and | industrial materials from Man.|mony will take place has bheen sct|claimed five wvictims churia will be cut off and property | in the stadium C. C. Young [a heat wave which ha and lives of its citizens there and, Will make an introductory talk and rectly or indirectly cau in China will be endangered. then Sen. George M of New |deaths in the Middle West ——ee—— Hampshire the notification ad Jdghtning, furing lectrical ARM PARALYZED dress. The nominee is expected to st , struck a o pile on Fred Manuel of Hoonah suffer-|€Xbress himself on major fssues|Sc Side beach killed ed a stroke of paralysis of the|bf the campaign his speech of man right arm a few days ago and |acceptance. The mercury was brought to Juneau from that - ing between 87 place. He is in St. Ann’s Hos- BE GIVEN FAREWELL Three deaths arc pital for treatment. § NIVF TY, Cal, heat directly. will give No relief s indicat Herbert C. Hoo-!casts and continued w farewell as it|is predicted for to next week in Middlest West gene: Moving| In St. Pauml there have been I southward from his home here!three deaths from heat, in Mil- next Tharsday, Hoover will be waukee five, Bent Harbor, given receptions in four cities, it/ Michigan, one deat! Indian he aceepts the invitations poured Harbor, one. in upon him. These cities are e Santa Barbara, Pasadena, Los An{ San ancilco SBC;iOI'I 1 each Lon geles and Long I “crestea| Is Shaken by Earthquake Beach the nominee will be greeted | SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9 by thousands of other native-born | lowans who will be gathered there for the amnual picnic, usually rrnmi tions of San Francisco and points resched . Alexandris: deland, 30,000 to 40,000 who atend lh""pnd of the San Francisc Bay St oxtreviity & Prans. | function lnnuall_\" in August, willl were shaken last = nicht by an Jsant "Tand. Dhe: Keateh | be present. It is expeeted !hzl';«-m'lhu!mk« It 18 said the center of for . e misaing 8o far Bas Hoover will make addresses at!the disturbance was four miles here Gov WASHINGTON, Aug One of nearly a score of Amgrican legal and financial experts called abroad since the war sist in the re. organization of I pe, Robert Olds, former under secretary of state, has sailed for Paris to fill important posts in the interest of commercial relations and inte national peace. Although serving unofficially these American advisers such Mr. Olds will become said to have been often mor tial than kings or parliaments, Dr Jeremiah W. Jenks, the first American to invited to assis in the financial administration of another land, was called in 1904 in connection with the currency of China The Persian govern- ment in 1911 similarly called W. Morgan Schuster, and Prof. Edwin W. Kemmerer, “doctor of sick currencies,” was appointed to make a study of the systems of curren- cy reform seven Latin-Ame: can countries n 9 m a in to a hover- degrees. nmted to d by fore- rm weather the its )y | L a tumultous sends him forth quest of the Pre 15 e influen- sucy | Search for | Amundsen Is Unsuccessful ind be MOSCOW, Aug. 9.—The icebreaker Sedov, recently ordered to explore the region | near Franz Josef Land, for | the Amundsen party and re- maining members of the Italia crew, reported today by wireless that f{t had | Sec. in mended that a podiatry-chiropody short time looking into the _pos- clinic be established in every cfly'slbfllflefi of constructing a grid- of 50,000 popuiation or greater, liron in Juneau, the iafluence of has be- A €. Sinee the war the American “advisers” come especially notable. been without succéss. i each place, south of the, city limits. No dam- | Hw had an engagement to-jage was done, according to all re. é_ day with Senator George H. Moses' ports. EUROPE AGAIN SEEKS ADVICE OF AMERICAN h wppointed admin- by the Nation- Persia, and few have wielded such abroad as commise the League of in 1922, { Millspau istrat al Assembly Americans unique pow sioner gzeneral fo Nations in Hungary was sr of finance in Other Americans serving in Eurs. ope have inciuded Charles Gl Dawes and Owen D, Young, assS thors of the plan for German re.: 3 kéndd parations payments; S, - Parkén Gilbert, agent general for Hhs {ransfer of reparations payments now in Berlin; Roland W. Boydel Thomas Nelson Perkins, Walty Cook and F. W. McCutcheon, In Paris, Mr. Olds will be 888 ciated with several outstas efforts to bring about elo ternational and commere! tions between the United and Europe, acting as member of the couneil of of the International Chs Commerce, trustee of gie Endowment for Peace and delegate to ternational Confel Cross. Sl B e T TR