The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 24, 1928, Page 1

e THE DAILY ALASKA E VOL. XXXIL, NO. 4901 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1928. PIR MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Fk\ICi ID‘J (" NTS ARREST KIDNAPPER, SLAYER; CONFESSES SMITH PLEASED * WITH CAMPAIGN WESTERN REGION Traveling Today Across| Open Spaces of Montana Enroute to Helena ABOARD GOV. SMITH'S TRAIN VROUTE TO HELENA, Sept. Well satisfied with his first week’s work as a Presidential campaigner, Gov. Alfred E. Smith today came to Montana to take another shot at his Republican opposition on the subject of party responsibility on the oil scandals and leaving behind speeches on farm relief, religious intolerance, whispering campaign and water power. The Democratic nominee, after a day and night ride through Colorado and Wyoming, headed across the open spaces in Mon- where tonight, in Helex he will open his second week's stumping tour in the Far West He will arrive in Helena late today. On the platform, at the meeting tonight, will be United States Senator Thomas J. Wals who will introduce the nominee Senator Burton K. Wheeler will also be present. TRAINS GUNS ON H. C. HOOVER, WATER POWER DENVER, Col., Sept. 24.—Train- ing his guns on Herbert,.C. Hoover as he discussed water power in his campaign speech here Satur- day night, Gov. Alfred E. Smith declared the benefit of develop- ment of water power sites should accrue fo, the people themselves and “we should not permit them to f: into private mdk}nr pric vau%evdlapnfflt“ means private gain at the expense of all users of the energy.” The Democratic nominee insisted the Republican platform’s declaration on water power was not satisfactory and asserted that in his acceptance speech, his opponent did not con- tain a “single word on the ques- tion of water power development,” and that Hoover also failed in his recent Los Angeles address to make his stand clear. Coolidge Assailed Gov. Smith also assailed Presi- dent Coolidge for vetoing the Muscle Shoals bill without expla- nation for rejection and for mak- ing the declaration in his message to Congress that the Muscle Shoals question seemed to have “assumed a place out of all proportion with its real importance.” Gov. Smith said: “Inaction on the part of the Federal Govern- ment is strange and the silence on the part of the candidate and meaningless of the plank in the Republican platform indicates to say that the least, is sympathy with widespread propaganda against public ownership which has spread through the country by an organization known as the Joint Committee of National Elec- tric Association.” ——— PROHIBITION © HERE TO STAY SAYS CURTIS CHEYENNE, Wyo., Sept. 24— Prohibition is here to stay, Sena- tor Charles Curtis declared in his address here. opposition to the repeal: of the Bighteenth Amefidment and the Volstead Act and declared against modification of the act to permit states to determine aleoholic con- tent of beverages. Without mentioning Gov. Alfred E. Smith or the proposal for State liquor control, the Republican Vice- Presidential nominee stated oppo- sition to the “Federal Government or any state going into the lmnor business.” —————— STOCK QUOTATIONS 24 Presidential NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—Alaska Juneau mine stockis quoted to- day at 4%, Chrysler 113}, Cudahy 72%, Endicott Johnson 79, Glid. den 26%, Missouri 73%, Montgom- ery Ward 248%, Stewart Warner 103%, U. S. Steel 160%, Bethle- hem Steel 65%, Chile Copper, 54% Sun Oil 57% and Texas Corpora-, tion 695. He rejterated his| i p i | o i o : i 1 | | 3 # : | | | Miss Sonia Nordlie (above) anc Miss Lois Griffin whose pursuitt | of film fame in,Hollywood were | financed by Clinton S. Carnes Mission Baptist Home funds was dieclosed. Missing Treasurer i Clinton S. Carnes, of Atlanta, Ga., missing treasurer of lhe Baptist Home Mission Board, the accounts of whom are re- ported to be short upwards of a million dollars | Approximately | evening | more than 350, ! | prevented | some missing treasurer of the Southerr board | After Carnes disappeared a short | age of a million dollars in missior | Financed by R PR()H IBITION SPLITS ENGLISH LABORITES | OVER HUNDRED ARE KILLED IN THEATRE FIRE Scores Are Crushed When| 4,000 Make Wid | Rush for Exlls MADRID, sp.nn Sept. 24.—| 120 persons are officially estimated to have been trapped and perished in the No- vedades Theatre when it caught fire during a crowded Sunday performance. injured are estimated at The exact figures been establishd because | The have not of the dense smoke coming from| the smouldering ruins and which the authorities from how many bodies are be extracted Most of the victims who were not burned to death, were either suffocated or crushed during the tampede for the exits. Jodies are being taken of the sections of the ruins this morning and soldiers with fixed baycnets kept back a large crowd of anguished persons who clamored for news of their rela- tives. The blaze started during a storm scene on the stage of the theatre which is one of the larg- est in Madrid. The theatre has a seating capacity of 4,000 and was crowded to the limit. Sparks ignited ropes and part of the scenery and the flames spread rap 1@, other parts o! e stage setting. As the front curtain caught fire and burst into flames there was a mad rush for the exits. Men, women and children were learning yet to from |trampled in the stampede. The theatre was equipped with modern precautions against fire but notwithstanding it burned rapidly. People les, way to building massed frantically in the narrow fought their exits and front of the and soon these were choked with a struggling mass that blocked e ping from gallerie ., WOULD MAKE POLITICAL CHURCHES PAY TAXES NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—A move- ment has been started in New| York to join others who are advo- cating it in the South to compel those churches which enter poli- tics to pay taxes on their prop- erty. The movement is being stimulated by the fact that 8. sistant Attorney General Mabel Walker Willebrandt recently made a speech to Ohio Methodists and urged the church to go into politics for the purpose of defeating Gov. Smith and retaining the Volstead Act in the statutes of the Nation. By E. L. POWELL (A. P. Correspondent) MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Sept. 24 ~—Supervision of the presidential election in Nicaragua next Novem.- ber by the United States will cost the Nicaraguan government $190,- 000. This amount has been appropri- ated by the Nicaraguan govern- ment, and Brigadier General Frank R. McCoy, who is here as Presi- dent Coolidge's personal agent to ‘Buyervlue the voting, says that expenditures ought not to exceed that limit. The cost to the United States government will be small, as the army, navy and marine corps of- ficers ‘simply receive the pay of) their rank. The transportation Nl this staff from American ports to Nicaragua, has been on govern- NICARAGUA MUST PAY COST OF AMERICAN MARINE SUPERVISION allowance of seven dollars each, which is paid by the Nicaraguan government. T General McCoy has assembled a staff of 66 Americans, including army, navy, marine corps officers and civilians, to assist him in the registration of woters in Septem- ber and the election on November 4. In addition there will be de- tailed some 400 non-commissioned officers of the marine cerps, now in Nicaragua, to act as chairmen of the local boards where the bal- lots are cast on election day. All of the chairmen of the de- partmental boards have been in- stalled at the capitals of each of the departments or provinces and have assembled their assistants, in. cluding army and marine corps officers, and 29 ensigns just grad. uated from the Naval Academy at Anapolis. ment ships in nearly every case. In addition to their regular pay in the government service, 9 -msmhe_rl of General McCoy's staff in Managua, the capital, and the the 13 chairmen of the election boards in the 13 departments of| [the country receive a per diem In every instance, including the national, departmental and local election boards, the chairman is an American with two Nicaraguan as- soclates ,one from the liberal and one from the conservative, the two leading political parties of the country. ! port OF TERRITORY the ! Democratic nominee for {Republicans have no platform, and BIRMINGHAM, England, Sept.| 24.—The prohibition problem is| growing acute within the ranks| of the British labor party. Political observers are already predicting a big “wet” and “dry”’ fight at the annual conferenge | soon to be held here. The climax will come when the national executive of the party of- fers a draft election program whieh contains the following “plank” n respect to a liquor policy: “Appoint a royal commission inquire into the developments changes which havé taken | both at home and abroad recent years, and to re. upon what ‘moditications in the law and what changes in the method of control should be made with a view to the necessary legis. lative action.” The “drys” claim this pronounce. | ment is too vague and are pressing for a definite declaration that the party will stand for a “dry" policy.' They want the party to commit itself to local option. The “wets” indicate that will fight such a policy to last st w. Everything considered, the forth. coming meet promises to be of much interest to political students the world over. S RN IR CONNORSCHEERS UP DEMOCRATS to and place during they the Natlonal Comm |tteeman‘ —-Ahsf(ans %el in Line James J. Comnors, Democratic National Committeeman, has sent out over the Territory an open letter to the Democrats of Alas- ka in which he predicts the elec- tion of Gov. Alfred E. Smith' to the Presidency and urges that Alaska elect Democratic Terri- torial and Divisional officers so that she may be in line to reap full benefits from the new Ad. ministration, He also impresses upon Republicans who live in the Territory that, should Mr. Hoover be elected, George B. Grigsby, the Dele “with a strong Terri- Na- to Congress, torial Platform and a friendly tional organization can accom- plish a great deal more for Alas- ka than a man without a platform and a bitter ememy of the Re- publican standard bearer. | Mr. Connors’ letter, which is ad. | dressed to the Democrats of the Territory of Alaska, in full, fol- lows: “As the campaign progresses it is becoming more and more evi-| dent each day that Gov. Alfred E. sSmith will be elected President of the United States at the Novem- ber election, Chairman John J Raskob was not talking idly when he said that Gov. Smith's elec is already assured—that there are enough certain states to guarantee that. He says’ that Gov. Smith will carry the South and in the Hast, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island; Delaware and Mary- land are certain and Connecticut and Pennsylvania will go for Smitn if the vote is got out. In the West Wisconsin, he says, is the ‘safest of them all' and Ohio and Indiana have ceased to be doubt-| ful. He is hopeful of Illinois and the Corn Belt States. “If Alaska s to reap full bene-| fit from the certain election of Gov. Smith, she ought to elect the Territorial and Divisional Demo- cratic Tickets. The best creden- tials this Territory could take to the National Capital when the new Administration shall have been installed would be the fact THOUSANDS HOMELESS IN PORTO RICO HURRICANE General view of the waterfront at 8an Juan, Porto Rico, which was swept by a disastrou cane. Tens of thousands of persons on the island were estimated to be homeless, to the island to avert the ravages of famine and disease. Ald is being 3 hurri- rushz:d \JHERE WORKERS DIED IN ROCKFORD TORNADO Several persons were killed or injured and a number were missing following the violent tern that twisted through the industrial section nf Rockford, 1ll., wrecking more than 200 homes and f tories. Picture shows the wreckage of plant B of the /Rockford Cabinet company's chair factery where the largest death toll was taken. (Assoclated Press Telephoto fram Chicaac.) INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT AT ROCKFORD HARD HIT Property loss In the Rockford, Ill, industrial section runs into millions of dollars after the tornado there Fricay. This picture shows the rear of the Elco Tool Company’s plant, the roof of which was crashed le TS (pneumenia s g and the machinery badly damaged. An mumow. caught by the twister lppur. in the left corne Hoover Contributes To Democratic Fund WASHINGTON, —Herbert Hoover to the Democrati He will, of cours if not unwillingly. In order to carry on direction of his campaign, Mr. Hoover leased D, C,, Sept. 24 will contribute campaign funds , do so indirectly that the Demoerats made a cleanthe palatial bome of Mrs, Francois sweep at the election which gave Gov. Smith the Presidency. There are other reasons why the Democratic Party should carry Alaska. Its platform stands for self-government for the Territory —the Government of Alaska by! Alaskans in Alaska—including con- trol of the fisheries and game. The Mr. Sutherland is opposed to Alas- kaas having the right to govern themselves. “The Democratic National Plat. form declared for self-government for Alaska and pledged that the (Continued on Page Five.) and comes from a line of Colonial ancesto, old; arrived Berger Moran on Sheridan Circle Mrs. Moran happens to be a very ardent supporter of Gov. Smith and has promised to turn over the rent money to aid his campaign. Mrs. Moran is eighty-three years cld distinguished and votes ticket in the straight Democratic Virginia. e Miss Betty Harris, eight years in Juneau early ye: on the Admiral to visit here Charles Tuc- terday morning Watson. She is with her aunt, Mrs kett, wife of the resident manager of the Coliseum Theatre, LEAGUE STUDIES PRESS AND NEW GENEVA, Sept. 24 -Emph on the Inereasingly important of the press in modern life i feature of a report lssued the International lLabor Bur which has been making a study of of new problems the conditions of work papermen and o' toe the newspaper profe The progigious development journalism, says the report tified to by the great the number of newspaper periodicals, both weeklies monthlies, published in vax countries. - Remarking that dustrial methods have trated all agpects of journal the report gays that tho ad tising side of the profession sh amazing results. this the faet is brought out inerease now As evidence sis|In 1925 the role s 2|70 million dollars by “AN ditticulties Journalism, the “|first because of Ol methods of control and cause of the caused by the au workers and in the tellectual w duced serious this report the of tes- | » in nd and fous! in-| ed an exhaustive problems and thinks ne- agreement. ism, ver.| ows | L, of iman, that jWatson for Seldovia. M. Carrigan, newspapers United States had a receipt of over in advertising economic war which affected case of in- kers oftentimes pro- consequences. The labor bureau has inaugurat of these sume |may be solved by an international study PAPER STA TUS of Newspapermen have encountered % % ev olution underlies, change cond, that left Juneau yesterday on the the be- upheaval JAPANESE 13 UNDER ARREST BOY'S MURDER Confesses to Honolulu Crune—Wishes to Die —Crowds Dispersed HONOLULU, Sept. young Japanese taka Fukunaga, wha kidnapping n:d slaying old mieson and wi die for h |quietly in jail here awi proc by which b leath. wio is 24.—Stud- Myles Yus confessed 10:year- avowedly crime, sits ting legal he expects to red 3 t to vaga, 19 years of gradusted from the high the head of his class, after officers had trae- led him by means of identified $5 bills paid to the kidnapper by |Frederick Jamieson, Honolulu |banker, tather of the dead boy. | Altuough fteeling ran high |amor, the populace when it was learned. the slayer had been ap- |prehended, prospect of vigilante |action has seemingly waned. T |Crowds gathored albout the jail Sunday after details of the com- fession hal been published and firemen were called upon to play 1 { i age and school at confessed, [ str ms ol ecold water on the | members of the crowds ufter pleas lof peace them. FLU_EPIDEMIC 1S INCREASING ollicers failed to quiet ri'lfkeen Thousand Cases Reported—Pneumonia May Develop SAN JUA> .—7 : 24~ -With by hoalth Porto Rico, Sept. 15.00v cases reported authorities, . the epi- demic of 1nfluenza ias caused grave concern in Pobfo Rico. Five fthousand cases of malaria, mea- (sles sud otherd eiseases, besides influcnza have followed the hur- ricane and physicians said frank- ly they arc alarmed at the situa- tion | The Red Cross announces that no town is without' an increased number of influenza cases and ining. It is poss Isible’ if the infleunza continued develop into pneumonia that an outside call for nurses will be sent | Health jto conditions are aggra- vated by numerous rainstorms with only temporary shelter. |Many people ;';u-e 'nlsm'y CHICAGO RAIDS BRING RESLUTS Over One Hundred Crimes Are Reported Solved Following Arrests CHICAGO, Sept. of week-eid raids snared 25 men and iwo women and is being pointed to as one of the greatest blows at Chicago crime in recent months. More than 100 crimes have becn solved as the resilt of the arrest Deputy Commissioner Stagg said. These ruids were made among the eriminals which the Commis- sioner said had resulted in con- fessions of the slaying of a pri- vate watchman, wounding of two policomes, sla of John Pe- cora, payroll robbery of the Her- ald-Kxaminer and attempted pay- roll of the Chicago Tribune. >ee -A series 24.- a, of Four Canadian Fliers in Are Found, Alive, Well BDMOXNTO Sept. 24.—Major Godfrey and three companions, all members of the Royal Canadian Air Force missing since a week ago last Sunday, have been found was forced down and wrecked, Major Godfrey was bruised but the others were not injured. The (fliers were attempting 'a round. traveling sales.'trip flight from Vancouver to Ot. tawa and return, whem lln crash took place, at Carjagou whera their seaplane IN PORTO RICO_ Missing for Over Week i £