The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 25, 1928, Page 1

recgrd of seven-and. It years s 2380 THE DAIILY A VOL. XXXIL, NO. 4902. MOBILIZE LARG JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” GOV, SMITH HITS 6. 0. P, RECORD IN HELENA SPEECH Declares Republicans Can- not Escape Record of “Crime,” “‘Intrigue” SAYS HOOVER KNEW BUT WAS SILENT Governor Asserts that Hoover Was Speechless During Corruption Reign HELENA, Mont.,, Sept. 257| With such blunt terms as “trea-, gon official corruption and crime—and intrigue,” Gov. Alfred | . Smith, Democratic nominee for | President, assailed the Republi- can Administration since 1920, and declared that the Republican Party cannot dodge the responsi- bility for oil lease frauds and other acts of wrong doing. The nominee again sailed into r, the Republican nominee, ng that his opponent, dur- the last seven-and-a-half , was in the Cabinet. Smith asserted that none in the United States knows bet- ter than he the ‘‘real” record of that period. “You can search the record from one end to the other,” Gov. Smith told the crowd and a Na- tion of radio listeners, “you can examine it in minutest detail and you will fail to findwesst o"” word of condemnation on his part. On the contrary in his speech of acceptance he said ‘the titites a peridd o “eours age and leadership and construc- tive action.” “Does he want the American people to believe ' that record means moral courage or construc- | ti leadership? ] don’t think 0. After reviewing the oil lease disclosures, the Governor brought up the liguidation of the Repub- lican National Committee cam- paign debt through the use of Liberty Bonds which he called “the proceeds of the oil deal.” MONTANA INDIANS SPEAK FOR THEIR BROTHERS IN ALASKA Mont., " Sept. 25.— jov. Alfred E. Smith faced a score of Indians at the fair to- day. One Sioux, from Fort Beck, stepped forward and addressed the Governor. “We have been told that Her- bert C. Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce, is personally respon- sible for the reprehensible condi- tions of the fishing industry in Alaska, over repeated protests of HELENA, the Alaska Indians that their very existence has been threat- ened. He has coldly turned these Indians down and granted the fishing monopoly to non-resident canners of Seattle, Portland and San Francisco. Can we expect different treatment? In the Unit- ed States you are the Sachem of a great organization and named after the noble aborigine Chiet Tammany. He good to our peo- ple. You are good to yours.” After the speech, Gov. Smith was presented with an Indian bonnet, pouch and pipe and| daubed his cheeks with an orange colored powder. . CONFESSES T0 SLAYING TWO SEATTLE, Sept. 25.—Breaking down under questioiring-of the au- thorities, Arthur Schafer last night confessed to. the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kirk at their farm home near Shelton gn Sep- tember 16. Schafer said he confessed to clear his conscience and had bit one request, that he be electrocut. ed. He said he killed the couple because he had a grudge against them. They accused him of steal. ing a gun. —— g Mr..and Mrs. V. A. Paine arrived home yesterday from Kake where they have been visiting their fox farm in’ that vicinity. E. H. Skuse of Seattle ace ‘them, Georgia Democrats Are l Confident; Florida Now | Inspires Rivals’ Hope o | g (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the twenty.first of a series of Call Off that | Woman Is | il || stories on the political situa- Advice Given 25.—The | | By OLIVER 8. MORTON (A. P. Staff Writer) | ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 25 ———an'l.‘ | ing short of a miracle can keep | Georgia's electoral vote out of the Democratic column in November but political observers, at th's stage of the campaign, are look ing somewhat dubiously toward Florida. | Never since recomstruction days have voters in the two states been so disturbed by “the questions con- fronting them and mnot for many yvears have the Democrats be compelled to set up such extensiv. campaign organizations. Four lIssues Prohibition, religion, Tammany Hall and the negro question are chief among the many issu that have troubled the minds of voters in both states since the Georgia and Florida delegations at Houston lost ‘their- bitter struggle against the nomination of Gov. Alfred E. Smith Immediately accepting the chal- lenge, party leaders in Georgia succeeded in clarifying the situa- tion, but in their opinion to such| an extent within a few weeks that| their campaign became centered not merely to assure that tho state would remain in the Solid South rank but to keep it there by the greatest majority ever. Florida Situation tion in the various states.) Chicago Tribune in the CHICAGO, Sept morning edition today prints a letter from Benjamin Fuellman, member of the Republican Wisconsin Com- mittee, addressed to James Good, Western Manager for | | Herbert C. Hoover, which says: “Unless Mrs. Mabel | | Willebrant, Assis Attorney General, muzled, Hoover is sure go down to defeat.” to .- HOOVER PLANS THO ADDRESSES IN SINGLE DAY Strenuous Campaign Scheduled for Nominee Early Next Month WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 rather strenugus schedule has been arranged for Herbert C. | Hoover for his one day excursion campaign was into the South early next month ~.or getting under way | quring which time he will visit vt with intensive organization go-|{two cities and Pass through a ing forward in every county, Dem-'dozen others. in' Tennessee and ieratic_leaders serted. con-|the Virgt owfitains, by train fidence tiat the siate Will be held |and aut le- and™ Wiake two to its traditional course, = With ' speeches, the large number of Republican The principal address will be settlers from' other states and!made at Elizabethton, Tennessee, many prominent defections from in mid-afternoon on October 6 the Democratic ranks, however,|and the other in Johnson City, the situation was deemed a seri-|Tennessee, late on the same day, ous one. Republicans constantly |just before he boards his private have asserted that Florida will go train for an overnight return to for Herhert Hoover and they hope Washington. to elect William J. Howey as gov.| Should Hoover run into bad ernor. “wflalher. speaking will be in al Some Florida business men, who huge pavillion which has a seat- have been accustomed to voting|ing capacity of 7,000. If the e Democratic, have said they will|ercises are out of doors, a crowd support Hoover because if Florida [many times that size is expected can become a doubtful state fed.|to be in range of his voice as eral appropriations will be more|Preparations are being made to easily obtained, The majority TUR excursion traing from four dissent from Gov. Smith's an. States, North Carolina, Alabama, nounced views on the liquor ques.|Tennessee and Kentucky. The tion, and Florida Demoeratic lead- will be chrried over ors, as have those in Georgia,|laT8€ part of the South by radio blame p:ejudice against Smith's DUt there will be mno national religion for many defections, hook-up because of the hour of | Much Propaganda delivery. | The intensive campaign in both states” has been directed against LuHEn WEST 1 i ’ propaganda that has invoked the religious Issue and toward convinc. ing the voters that the President| Boston Woman Found Mur- dered in Spokane— Promise of Marriage B a cannot change the prohibition laws as long as Congress is dry. The negro question, involving racs equality, the franchise and patron- age, has been pressed as one of} the ‘major reasons for Democrats to weld themselves against any families with long Democratic his- tories have been urged to stand threat of a two-party south and by the party of their (forebears. Anti-Smith organizations have Sprung up in many counties in both states and it is thrpugh these clubs that the Republicans hope to add enough ballots to their normal vote to assure victory. Re- publicans say they have # “fight- ing chance” to carry Georgia, vt they are more c;’;fldem! about {head hacked by a hatchet. Florida where during the past two| The woman is believed to have presidential elections they have bad $1,400 with her but no money | SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. [Mrs. Catherine Clark was enticed to Spokane through promises of | marriage and slanghtered for her dowry brought with her, the Police believe The woman .aged 36 years, came from Boston where she has a rug repairing business. The body was found with the polled a “normal vote” of half as Was found. many baHots as the Democrats, ¢ The officers quizzed Archie “Get.Out-the.Vote" Mook, a mill worker, who implied In Georgia Harding polled 4n' D€ arranged for her to come here 1920 a total of 43,720 votes com.|and marry a man whose identity pared with 107,162 for Cox and % kept a secret. Republican leaders say they be- lieve an intensive get-out»lhe.vo!e'KETcHleN m HEI_D campaign will reveal a greater normal vote to be bolstered by FOR Klu‘ING OF m bolting Democrats. All of Georgia's state candidates,| Charged with shooting a dog, her Senators and Congressmen|Nels Olsen was yesterday bound have endorsed the Democratic Na.|OVer to the Federal grand jury tional ticket, although differing!following a hearing in the U. S, with Gov. Smith’s prohibition| Commissioner's Court at Ketch!. views. All but two_of Florida’s kan before Judge J. W. Kehoe, ac- Democratic State Candidates have|¢Ording to word received today by declared for the National ticket,!U. S. Marshal Albert White. There is no Republican state ticket| Olsen’s bond was fixed at $1,000 Georgia, but in Florida a full! Which was immediately posted, and ticket has been put in the field,jhe Was released from custody. Republicans have freely injected R 5 (LS the Tammany Hall issue into the Mr. and Mrs. John R. Maurstead campaign but have been met with ATe in Juneau for a short visit. Mr. o — . Maurstead cperal y & u’mm ntl - (Coatinued on Page Three) Hidden Falls, 4o 5 928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS E FORCE TO FIGHT FIRE SAYS ISSUES ALL BENEATH THE SURFACE Strange Campaign —Quiet on Surface but Religion Tearing Underneath . | NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—A plea | “to let us vote as our com-| sciences dictate” was made by Bl- | lery Sedgwick, editor of the At- lantic Monthly, in a radio talk here last night. - Sedgewick smid: “A strange campaign it is. On the surface the issues are almost casual and | not exciting, but below the sur- face the are two constrast- ing personalities, each strong enough to sail the ship on bold new courses, and, beneath the champions themselves, far below their political convictions, plumb-| ing depths which ne American election has ever stirred, there is/| joined one issue that lies at the very of the Republic and society ieself. Only fanatics and bigots can bring it to debate, for it is deep b nd reason and fits elements a primal ' hou shalt have no other Gods but' spake Jehovah, but the people parodied his command- ment: ‘Thou shalt have no other God but mine’ has become the outcry of the ages. To change the course of that red record America was peopled and the ex- periment of the United States was dedicated to the proposition that man’s religion must not be held against him vain and futile hope! in the human heart prejudice is deeper than reasom,” > - issues M S R A SENATOR NORRIS,, = T0 TAKE STUMP the scientific section. \ | PACIFIC OCEAN A year’s voyage in search of specimens for the Field Muscum in Chicago will be begun by the Crane (lower left) will head the expedition, which Schmidt, assistant curator in charge of reptiles at the Ficld Museam of Natural History will lead ered. . Corneli Above is a_maj 8 ’ via.” Karl thesroute is yacht, 1 use h !l.k:‘ Will Aid Group of ‘Progres-J sives—Praises Address- es of Gov. Smith | WASHIN G TON, Sept. 25.—| Keeping clear of the Presidential | campalgn, Senator George W Norris, of Nebraska, Progressive 0 Republican, announced he is|drinks with Herbert C. Hoover b planning to leave Washington at Sald he had said something to at the end of this week and make SUPporter of Hoover before speeches in behalf of seyeral|WAr “that might lead members of the Progressive group |eAce I had a drink with him.” in the Senate. | Darrow’s comment was In a statement, -|ply to a statement by Senator W ris characterized {liam Cabell Bruce, Democrat Darrow Denies Telling Any He Drank with Hoover CHICAGO, Sept 25 Senator Nor iov. Alfred Smith’s speech in Omaha on farm |Maryland, to the effect that Dar- Young Person in Ohio Is Revealed relief as “fine” and the Denver row had several drinks with Ho water power speech ‘‘great” and|ver. Bruce s he will acce predicting “there will be more! Darrow’s denial. scratching of tickets this Presi-| . dential election than ever hefore| and it will be a good thing for the country.” i —lplp | SEN. ROBINSON CTED F HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Sept. 25 —With only six weeks remaining before election, Senator Joseph T Robinson, Democratic Vice-Presi- dential nominee, today entered upon what will probably be the last day of his vacation until the campaign s over. He will deliver the first speech on his o Western campatgn tour onThurs- - day night. . Berry, aged 18 ‘Goldle Wheeler, years, aged by today when the Jury returned an againgt John Egerhardt him with a riotous conspiracy. Is Sentenced to Hang For Killing W aitress Sweetheart, Nineteen _|{sweetheart, escaped from the mc and ran home ‘Berry, Mrs. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept Russel Beitzer was today sentenced to hang for murdering his waitress sweetheart, Barbara Mauger, aged | 19 yeafs, whose body was found in a canyon near Hollywood weeks ago. No definite the execution was fixed. Wreck Reported on Copper River Roa them the he leader the two, ordered cut. The reascn for d hanging is unknown, ——ar e the the CORDOVA, Alaska, Sept | THOMPSON.ANDERSON An engine and three ore ca ur' the Copper River and Northwest-f. — ern Rallroad plunged off the track| Walter Thompson, hookkeeper at Mile 96 Sunday when the train [the Snow White Laundry, and Mi hit a gravel slide. sary to build a track around the No one was!Q: A. Stillman. brought to Cordova. were' Mr. and Mrs. J .B. Smith. hurt in the wreck. Clarenc Darrow today denied that he ever Itold anyone he had had numerous the to an infe LEADING M0B Attempt to Lynch Two ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio, Sept 25.—An attempt to lynch Lester Mr: band of night riders a week ago last Sunday night, was revealed | bile, Belmont Grand indictment charging Miss Hannah Gallagher, Berry Wheeler and Miss Gallagher were going for a huzxy‘ ride when a band of masked men and prepared tu} recognized ropes planned WEDDING LAST NIGHT It was neces- [Clara Anderson, were married yes- terday evening at 8 o'clock at the wreck before passengers could be|Presbyterian Manse by the Rev. The witnesses |Juneau mine stoek is quoted today|the triangle trip on the Admiral CHICAGO, Sept. 25.—Strange S marine inhabitants of the south | Pacific ocean will be sought by a! | Deplores Lack Fiell Museum expedition which | Of Prospectors will leave Boston in October for| | a 30,000 mile cruise arcund the| | In Alaska Fields © | largest bodies of water. | CORDOVA, Declarin w Alaska Alaska, that he 3 with 80 few prospectors in the fleld as | now, Fred Mofritt, field man of the United States Geologi- | | eal Survey, has arrived here Cornelius Crane, of Chicago :m‘f‘ [Toswich, Mass, Is sponsor of the | a [undertaking. He will head the| group of 16 scientists and seamen. | Of special inte among the rare fishes, mammals and reptiles which the party will try to capture 1 for the Chicago museum, are “Sea| | After a summer spent in | serpents,” found only in the East|| Making mineral maps of the oy ; it e | | Nigina country i [Indian coral reets. They are poi-| BITLs donioved the el ds sonous. { o- | | | men of the type who built nt e, IERE e departure CRik the Pacific Coast to the pres- ent place of commerce, Sept \ever ut r- . il- of October 15, | ton, the After sclentists leaving Bos- will stop at| i - i s. a '8 ob | at Bermuda, then , Port-au-Prince, RER at the Galapagos, Marquesas, Cook, The “lllyria,” & brigantine-rig- through the Malay archipelago, up RDE cific to Alaska, down the coast of | ‘uuml. finally reaching Boston United States sistant curator of reptiles at the v to, Calit.; Dr. W..L. Moss, of Har- ' mally charged with murder, in his Ala.; Sidney N. Shurtleff, ernment upon instructions from the Capt. Seldon B. Boutilier, Mel-'pending extradition for complicity Findings of this expedition willlthat the youth is wanted for mur- In which the Field Museum has a' MNCRIMINATING EVIDENCE desert expedition on a search for |chjcken feed has been found in the Trans-Jordan, has made many in-|boys. This gave a new and start. seum accompanied the Rawson-| The formula listed so many bearing . a large variety of new|gredfent for “little hoys two and ' J. QUOTAT |1a pointed to only one concimsion Haiti, pass through the Panama — e canal, across the Pacific stopping | 'reaching New Guinea 1 and lve, will thread its way the coast’ of India, China, around| |Japan and aeross the north Pa-| North America, putting in at San RS 7 ancisco, through the Panama|Warrant Issued by Domin- Besides Crane, the expedition on Government to will include Kar) P. Schmidt, as- museum; Dr. Albert W. Herre, Le-| VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept land Stanford university, Palo Al-IGordon Northcott was today for- |vard medical gehool, physician foricell in Oakalla Prison. in a war- | the party; Charles R. Peavy, Mo- rant issued by the Dominion Gov- Boston, and Sidney Heap, Church-| United States authorities at Wash- stoke, England. lington agking that he be held rose Highlands, Mass,, will be mas-in the Riverside'Farm murders in ter of the yacht, California. The warrant cited probably be hard put to outshine der, but the victims z those of two other recent partic i part. Under the leadership of| LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. Henry Field of Chicago, the Syrian |—A formula for the mixture of primitive remains of human ilfe |Northeott home, where Gordon in the deserts of Mesopotamia and [ Northeftt is accused of ‘murdéring teresting dnd valuable discoveries./ Also, six sclentists of the mu-!the bodies of the supposed vietims. MacMillan-Field expedition to'parts of bran. wheat, bone, mash, Labrador which recently returned and water adding a gruesome in- scientifie knowledge and exhibits.)one half par The offfcers in ————— - | dicated belief that the feed formu. 10N NEW YORK, Sept — eee - Mrs. A, Van Mavern is making Alaska ‘al 4%, er;mer-, THREE | Highway as a | ldead in 25—} e not named. | ling theory as to the disposal of! ASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS HUNDRED MEN GALLED T0 FIGHT CAL. FIRE High Wi n-ds Overwhelm 1,500 Workers on Ridge Route Highway FLAMES SPREADING OVER 20-MILE FRONT Timber Blaze Threatens to Leap Highway Into Big Playground LOS ANGELES, Cal.,, Sept. 25, Three hundred men were mob- ilized this afternoon hy police and county authorities and rush- ed to the Government Forest Land, near the Ridge Route timber and brush |fire spread over a 20-mile front (in the National Forest area and threatened to jump the highway |and start a firé in Oak Flat, Los | Angeles County playground Reports said high winds were {overwhelming the fire fighters |along the highway in an effort {to keep the flames away from the playground area A call was issued for addi- tional men and the authorities tquickly secured 300 volunteers. Over 1,600 mn have been on the fire fromt for the past 24 hours. TWO THOUSAND AND OVER DEAD Red Cross>Tak‘ing Census —Make Plans for Rehabilitation WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, Sept. 25.—One of the first per- manent moves toward the rehabili- tation of the storm swept area in Florida amounts virtually to a cen- (sus conducted by the Red Cross jofficials who have fixed the known the recent hurricane at |approximately 2,300. The exaqt total will never be learned. & | 1t is understood that the Red |Cross plans to furnish farmers vith necessities then when cengus {s completed to Itheir homes, turnish them and Sup= ply them with farm implements & | 'sufficient to meet their needs. | After more than a week after |the hurricane, reports of chaod jcontinue to come in but funds for relief continue to mount and each iinrmnlug train brings supplies. GRAND JURY ~ INDICTS JAP :;Kidnapper and Siayer of Honolulu Bay Charged with Murder HONOLULU, Sept. 25.—A grand jury has returned a first degree murder indictment against Myles Yukaka Fukunaga, Japanese school (boy, who was formally charged . with Kkidnapping and murdering 10-year-old Gill Jamieson, son of a { Honolulu_banker. | The Oriental nature came to the |forefront when Fukunaga was ar- |raigned before Judge Steadman for his plea. He quietly said: “I am guilty, sfr.” The Judge advised him that um- the law the Court could not laccept pleas of guilty of first des \der Ithe statutes required making a de- = ifense and he appointed an attor- |ney for the youth | T e TWO ARRESTED AND MUCH LIQUOR FOUND, KETCHIKAN H. Nixon and his son Al were arrested last night by U. S. Dep- uty Marshals at Ketchikan and & large quantity of Canadian lquor and beer was seized at their room in a hotel there, according to ad- U were bound over to the Grand Jury following a hearing before ' 'Judge J. W. Kehoe. ¥ the ™. ¥ rebuild gree murder and told the student vices received this afternoom by | S. Marshal Albert White. They