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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXIL, NO. 4870. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRISS PRICE TEN CENTS —_—--——_& JUNEAU PULP AND PAPER IS CERTAIN HASSELL AND CRAMER ARE IN COCHRANE Aviators, Bound for Stock-! holm, Complete First Leg of Flight COCHRANE, Ont., Aug. 17.— The monoplane Greater Rockford, with Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer, co-pilot and navigator aboard, finished the first leg of the journey from Rockford, IIL, to Stockholm, arriving here at 2:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon, time aviators made the mile flight in seven hours. A cheering crowd greeted the aviators when they landed. 800- | RAIN HDLDS UP FLIGHT COCHRANE, Ont., Aug. 17.— Rain interferred with the plans of Hassell and Cramer to leave| on the se nd leg of their lligll'; and the take-off for Greenland was postponed on account of | heavy rain which fell during the| night and by unfavorable condi- tions this ternoon FARM BUREAU MEMBERS T0 “ASK QUESTIONS Candidates Er_Congress to} Be Quizzed on Farm Rehrf Issue VIARVVH,LF Mo, Aug. 17— Concentration of candidates for Congress in an effort to obtain farm relief legislation has been decided upon by 200 delegates of twelve states at a convention of | | the Midwest Farm Bureau Federa- tion, | A questionnaire is being sent to] candidate | The de tance address Smith will be interest. J. F. Reed, President Minnesota Federation declared Herbert C. Hoover “said nothing very startling,” in connection with farm relief. Reed further said the campaign is not far enough advanced to as- certain the attitude of the farm. toward Presidential candi- s but declared the “Demo- cratic platform gives a specific promise of a Federal Farm Board which will have as much power over agriculture as the Federal Reserve Board over the banking system.” BELIEVES CAPT. AMUNDSEN AND PARTY ALIVE ST. AVENGER, Norway, Aug. 17.—Commissar Oras, of the So- viet ice-breaker Krassin, believes Capt. Roald Amundsen and his four companions are still alive. The Krassin is undergoing re- pairs in preparation of continuing search for Amundsen and his party and the six missing men of the crew of the dirigible Italia. Commissar Orsa believes the plane may have flown to the bal- loon of the Italia and the party forced to land because of lack of fuel. BASEBALL HEADS TO MEET THIS EVENING The Board of Control of the City League and ball team man- agers will meet at 7 o'clock this evening in the American Legion Dugout, it was announced today by E. M. Goddard, President of the local circuit. Arrangements will be made for the Little World Series and for the completion of the second half of the City League schedule, which has been broken up by the|in the Nenana district, where six windrawa] of the Alaska Juneau | cows ‘from the farms at Mata. team and the inclement wenther,,nuskn and Fairbanks have been BT Y. PPN Y released on the open range. Arrivals on the Admiral Rog-! W. T. White, of the Animal ers included A. J. Ficken of the|Husbandry Department, said he Sanitary Meat Market, who made | expected the cattle to graze all the Triangle Tour. winter without feeding. tut the first card ace of spades, which, “a dark man” said Lia Guinan, bail for alleged to turn if you Kellogg Goes to Paris on | Important Mission WASHING T(L\ Aug. 17, Secretary of State Frank B Kellog accompanied by Mrs. Kellogg, will sail from New York shortly after mid- night tonight on the French liner Ile de France, for Paris where he will sit with rep- resentatives of 14 other nations and on August 27 sign the treaty renouncing war. HOOVER BEGINS CAMPAIGN TOUR, ates of aw said v, aited the accep- Alfred E.| with keen| | of the Stops Today at Cities in Southern Part of His Home State ABOARD HOOVER = TRAIN, Aug. 17.—Herbert C. Hoover, ac- companied by his wife and son Allan, political leaders and news- papermen, tarried for a while in * the southern part of his home State today before head- ing eastward for his supreme battle in his career. With little more than time to say ‘“hail, and farewell” to .citi- zens at each stop; Hoover ar- ranged to visit six California cities this forenoon and late this evening, with one prepared address in Los Angeles. He is stopping today at Santa Barbara, Pasadena, San Bernardino, Long Beach nd Glendale. Cattle Raising Experiment Now Started Interior the release of eight cattle on the tempting to promote cattle raising and dairying in interior Alaska. Two purebred Black Galloway bulls from the Experimental farm at Kodiak have been sent'to Lignite, in remember is lurking just around & few, minutes later she was held in $1,000 viul‘lthm of the prnhiln(,(m law ENROUTE EAST SEDARD, Alaska, Aug. 17.—With open range, the government is at-j Tex Deals herself a Hand her game of solitaire was the your omens, means that the cornegr. Not so good, RELIGION, AS ISSUE,CAUSES |Heated l)ebale Results at Meeting of Pub- lic Persons CHARLOTTESVILLE, 17.~A distinguished audience of ientists, editors and public offi- Is at the University of Virgin ia’s Institute of Public Affairs, booed, catcalled and shouted dur- ing a heated debate on the religi- ous issue in politics. The turmoil started when the {Rev. Albert Diffenbach, of Bos- ton, Editor of the Christian Regi ter, declared a Roman Catholic should mnot be elected President and the voters should face the is- sue squarely instead of hiding b hind the Prohibition comtroversy John Stewart Bryan, publisher of the Richmond News-Leader, jump- ed to his feet and declared he {would vote for Gov. Alfred E. Smith “to show that the country is big enough not to be dictated to |by bigotry.” He was followed by half a dozen {others who clamored for recogni- tion and the chairman was finally forced to close the debate. Lumber Industry Rises Quickly in Philippines WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—The lumber industry is developing rapidly in the Philippine Island, thirty species of Philippine woods now appearing on the export market, the Department of Com- merce says. The value of the 1927 exports was $2,793,800, in 1922 it amounted to $833,570 and in 1903 was only $33,900. More than half the exports come to the United States. China, Japan and Australia also are large im- porters ———————— HEINTZLEMAN RETURNS B. F. Va., Aug. Heintzleman, Assistant | District Forester, U. 8. Forest Service, returned to his Juneau headquarters last night on the vessel Highway. Hr. Heinztle- man went to Ketchikan last week where he met R. A. Kinzie, en- gineer in charge for the Cameron and Zellerbach ~paper interests and accompanied the latter on a survey of the present work be- ing done by engineers of both concerns at Revilla Island mear Ketchikan and at Speel River. BIG TURMOIL BODY IS FOUND, BADLY BURNED; NOT IDENTIFIED Chicago Police Baffled by Circumstances—One Rumor Run Down CHICAGO, Aun 17.—Conflict- lnz evidence confronted authori- ties today in attempts to identify a woman slain yesterday near Crown Point, Indiana, amid baf- fling circumstan The body was so badly burned, practically beyond reccgnition, that at first it was almost impossible to get any clue, At first the body to be the young Angelo Francisco, who was shot to death, following a hold-up of a bank last Men- day. The girl's mother and sis- ter partly identified some of the remnants of clothing but a-phy= sician reported the in woman was not a mother, while «the missing girl had two children, The theory is that the aides c¢f Francisco might have taken the girl for a ride to thwart any attempt she might make toward implicating them in the robhery. The woman had been . #hot through the head, then the body was burned. \ DANIELS FOR - ENFORCEMENT OF DRY LAWS was believed sweetheart of bank robber, Says Eirer; Federal Bmfgnmu it Capitol pafk fers to wit- ployee Should Be Made |cnict to Enforce Laws NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—Enlist- ment of every Federal employe as an aid to Prohibition enforce- ment officers in detecting - vio- lators, is advocated by Josephus Daniels, former Secretary of the Navy. “It the President wants to en- force the law, every man ap- points to office cught to be told ‘you must enforce the laws of this country and not wink at violaticns,” ” said Daniels. Danjels said Prohibition forcement has never had a trial under the Republican Ad- ministration. Daniels made his views known at the Democratic headquarters where he stopped off today on his way home from Albany following a conference with Gov. Alfred E. Smith. e GALE RAGING POINT BARROW Schoonefif S. Holmes Lashed to Iceberg to Prevent Disaster POINT BARROW, Alaska, 17.—Lashed to a stranded ice- berg, the sailing schooner C. S. Holmes, commanded by John Backland, Jr., of Seattle, is hold- ing her own against a raging gale which threatened to blow the ship ashore. Small boats belonging to Tony Edwardson, Jack Smith and Hen- ry Chamberlain, Arctic traders, have been pinched and raised by the ice pack. » - e — W. L. Castleton, President of the company now operating the Chichagof mine, is bound for the States aboard the Admiral Rog- ers. He has been at Chichagof for the past two weeks. en- fair Aug. t Flu Taking Large Toll from Indians Near Edmonton EDMONTUN Alberta, | Aug. 17.—An influenza epi- demic has taken toll of 275 of the Indian population within a couple of weeks. Only one white man died, according to reports. The full " toll will not be kmown ‘untii patrols return from the surrounding district. Tepées ‘have been found with all oc- cupants dead. g——————————————————41 'him, this erstwhile newsboy, this but they were not hurt. SMITH’S ¢ e S——ere—————————— i The State Capitol at Albany (above), which has been Alfred E. Smith’s place of business {or, "the better part of 25 years,” will be the scene of the official notification cf his President by the Democratic Party. fication address. ALBANY, féw days Aug. 100,000, 17 Prsons Within wil a ness the transformation of a state's executive into choice for president. a party's When Gov. steps from the. entranc capitol August 22 to deliver his speech of acceptance in ponse to Sen. Key Pittman’s official no- tification of his nomination as the democratic presidential candidate, a subtle change will have taken place, perhaps not more in his own personality than in ihe atti tude of the public towards him, Smith to the he man wuno his place beneath the batieri of flood lights, facing the microphones which will pick up the sound of his voice and carry it to millions of unseen listeners, will be no longer Al Smith of Oliver street, Tam- many Hall, and the executive of- fice in the capitol. He will be Alfred Emmanuel Smith, four times governor of the Empire state and first-ballot choice of the democrat.- ic party as its presidential candi- date. He no longer belongs pe- culiarly to New York—national in- terests and activities have claimed him. Selection of the steps of the capitol as the scene for the noti- fication ceremony was in Kkeeping with the career of the nominee, Replete with national as well as state tradition, the massive stone uKes by the events which have oceurred within' its walls or beneath shadow, but never before has become the scene of an event such political significance as it of the didate. For the better part of 25 years it has been the place of business of the democratic nomi- nee. It was in 1904 that A)fred E. Smith, who previous to that time had been merely a clerk in the of- fice of the commissioner of jur- ors in New York City, first came to the capitol as an It has been reported that after the first term he was inclined to to him afid not altogether ple ant. But he came back again man, then as floor leader of the and again, first as an embly . democratic forces; later as speak- er of the assembly and finally to occupy the executive office, ‘with jonly onme interruption, for four terms, Since its completion, ago, the walls of the executive building have nessed many his- toric events. They have said “Hail,” and “Farewell” fo half a score of chief executives, one of whom later occupied the White House. Whatever else it may be; what- ever the acceptance speech may mean to the thousands of listen. ers ofyvarying political faiths—to York state it will be a speech of farewsll. They have acclaime the people of Albany and of Ne:l;nue building has been signally honored | its | | notification of a presidential can- semblyman. | quit—the game of politics was new.| 30 years| SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE ISFAREWELL TO PEOPLE OF ALBANY | nomination as Senator Key Pittman cf Nevada (right) will make the noti- f Arlban; é;!gim W SENATBR UURNS’ Dressing Up For Big Event TOBENOTIFIED ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 17 ny is beginning to ip for the big doings next Wednesday night when Gov. Alfred E. Smith is to be notified. State Street, the thoroughfare leading the t steps of the Capitol, where the ceremony will b held, evolving into a young Broadways. Hotels are filling up. The Governor many things to busy and he ha for recreation Thomas J. Walsh Gov. Smith today a conference with | Walter George, gla. Formal Ceremony Takes Place Tomorrow— Start Long Tour to is TOPEKA, il as, United State Senator Charlos Curtis will be tormally notified tomorrow of his Vice-Presidential nomination, Aug. 17.— is finding Keep him little time Senator | visited | following Senator | of Geo Sunday Senator Curtis will set {ferth on his campaign ard the [first trip will carry the veteran half across the continent. He will be riding the rails much of |the time from then to election ! . “|day on the trail that will lead him first the East, thence South and ally back into his homeland. Rhode Island gets the first eall on the speaking tour. He will ladar a meeting of Republican leaders at Rocky Point August and from there go to Syra- , speaking at the New York ate Fair on August 28, Maine and Massachusetts will be the next to be visited by the Vice- Presidential nominee of the Re- ‘Wet Takes Lead publicans. In Ohic Contest s A | ik ARRESTED FOR ROBBERY COLUMBUS, 0. [ham Hunt, wet is again in the ator Cyrus Locher, dry of {land, in the race for the Demo- jeratic short-term nomination for Senator to succeed Senator Loch- jer due to the rectification of two | mistakes made by County Elec- tion Boards. The la count stands: Hunt 93,469 and Locher 143,024, giving Hunt a lead of 445, It is expected that the official | {count will be mecessary to de- \termine the winner 1 -eo to fighting politician, as their own fip but he is going from them. He has said that his work in Albany is finished and that he will not return The end of the (him either in the once more simply Alfred I of New York City, > battle will see White House or|2 Smith, | 3 nug. 37 Gra- Cincinnati, over Sen- Cleve- Sadie (‘m!sl(-r of Sitka was tak- en from the steamer Dorothy Alexander at Ketchikan and plac- ed under arrest, charged with robbery, according to advices re- ceived today by U. 8. Marshal Albert White. She will be taken to Sitka for a hearing before U. 8. Commissioner DeArmond. lead |Fisheries Patrol Seaplane Strikes Mountain, W recked (EDITOR’'S NOT! This the third of a series of stories on the political situations in the various states). PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., Aug. 17.—The wrecked and disabled | seaplane of the Fisheries Patrol, | which crashed on mountain on Porsher Island r Welcome Pass Wednesday, h. been towed {here. _Pilot W. N. Cummings is irecovering in the hospital. He| has several cuts on the head. The plane was enroute from Prince Rupert to Queen Char- Sound amd attempted to imb above a fog bank. Two|Wwet. heries officers were pussvnxern* The Buckeye state has consist- ently defeated all proposals smack. By H. H. DAUGHERTY (A. P. Correspondent) COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. When Ohio goes democratic presidential year there gunerally is some unusual reason and it Gov. Alfred E. Smith licks Herbert Hoo- ver In the state in November it will be largely because Ohio has turned a somersault and: gone 3% ne OF NOMINATION noaj KiNZIE TELLS CHAMBER THAT LL1S SETTLED" [‘a!a Gathered Is All Sat isfactory and Cameron Interests Ready XACT LOCATION MILLS ONLY DOUBT Povier Wil Be Developed at Speel River but Mills Be in Juneau Vicinity The estahii ! pape menc of piant in the vi neau i3 a ceriainty {exact location of the has not yet been 1 cording to R. A. Kenzi», engineer in charge of the Caweron and | Zellerbach in “rests in Alaska. Mr. and M'.. Kenzie and B. F. | Heintzleman, assistant distriet | forester with the U. S. Forest | Service, arrived Jnneau last night on the sel Tighway, from Speel River They came north from Ketchikan afer Mr. Kenzie completed a =urvey of the power sites under pormi' to the Zeller- bach interests, which are now be- !ing surveyed by an engineering party in charge of Wendall Daw- son, one of the compuny engineers. All Data Favorabie Preliminary data was favorably eceived by Mr George T. Cam- eron and Mr, Harry Chaadlar at a recent conference in San Fran- cisco, Mr. Kinzie told the Cham: ber of Commeice today. They informed Mr. Kenzie tho data com- pulp and y of Ju- alti:ough 'the paper plant erminad, ae- in i the project would be pushed as fast ag the’ data gar mits, Wator flow in A day, Mr. Kenkle continded, {for it varies markedly (rom year to year, althongh figures ot Long and Crater Lukes ] rient average. The most serious obstacle in the way at the present time 's the |crossing of Taku Inlet with power cables, he said. Geodetic Sur. vey investigations show the favor. able slopcs and bottom, he de- clared, and Mr. Kenzie cxpressed | contidence in the feasibility of the i crossing, | The exact sile of ‘e pulp plant has not becn determined, he add- ed, but it will be i1 the vicinity of Juncau. He praised the fine co- operation of all goverament offi- PRBRESPGN L . ¢ Parish Priest, Clothes Afire, Grants Absolution NORTH BAY, Ontario, Aug. 17.~—How a parish pricst, blind- ed by fire, stood on a burning launch, which his clothes ablaze and erucifix in hand, and grant- ed absplution to flve others of his faith before they plunged into the water, has heen told by the sole survivor of the tragedy. The pricst, Father J. B. Bubue, although a powerful swimmer was drowned atteinpting to save the lives of the others of his party, a group on a picnie. A backfire from the engine of the Jaunch ignited the gasoline tank and an explosion enveloped the boat n flames. Dubuc celmly recited the ritual of hig church, then all junm into the water. Only one reached safety to IM lsl‘n 1 300 yards away. \Wet Ma ]cmty Seen as Smith Hope in Buckeye , State During Campaign | liuK of alcoho! and elected candidates to state and federal fices excep! a few congressmen consistently wet districts. In instances dry majoritise have increased. Thus far there been noted little or no change the tastes of rural*Ohio, so will be by the vote of the cities. Realizing this, democratic ers expect to evert (neir chiefly in the urban centers, they hope to roll up large ’ ties. These majorities will M to aggregate, it generslly cuded, around 100,000 to (Continued on Page piled so far was satisfactory, and cannot be measured b