The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 16, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIL, NO. 4920. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS EFFORT MADE TO SAVE HICKMAN’S LIFE HOOVER BIVES HIS VIEWS ON THREE ISSUES, Carries Campaign Into Heart of Industrial New England | | THREE SUBJECTS ARE DISCUSSED Foreign Trade,Tariff Ques- | tion and Merchant Marine Outlined , Oct. 16.—Car- gn into the heart England, He last night laid BOSTON, Mas! rying his camp of industrial N bert C. Hoover before the people of Boston his attack upon the tariff principle 1a down in he Democratic plat- form Addressing the country ally over a nation-wide radio chain, the Republican Presiden- tial nominee coughed criticism in trong terms. He declared that revision of tariff dut to the Demceratic platform standard of | “effective competition” would mean such lowering of the walls that American wages farm prices would be depre Launching into his speech, the candidate first discussed foreign trade and its importance general- | ly to the country, then turned to the tariff question and finally the merchant marine. gener- A striking beauty from the ! South is Miss Saranell Wilson, daughter of Representative The three phases of his sub- | from Louisiana and Mrs. Riley, | ject apparently struck close m‘]. Wilson, who already has be- home to the New Englanders who ' come popular member of the applauded enthuslastically. | Washington younger set. She Tariff Tssue. _jhas just returned from three Taking up the tariff, Herbert| months’ tour of Europe. Hocver declared that application (Barria and Ewing) of the Democratic formula would mean “a flood of foreign goods, | foreign farm produce and a con- sequent reduction in wages and incomes, not only to workers and farmers but to those who labor, | whether in fleld, at desk or at| o ASKS VIRGINIA o o T0 AID HOOVER SENATOR BORAM reference to Gov. Smith but} stated his own views on the Tar- iff Commission which Smith dis- cussed at Louisville last Satur- de Invades . Democratic State for G.O.P. Ticket Support One Commission Mr. Hoover declared that the Tarifi Commission was a valuable arm of the Government and add- ed: “It can be strengthened and made more useful in several ways but the American people W never consent to delegating the!iregs Jast night, delivered a br authqrity of tariff to any €om-!gge in the Capital City of the ir mission, whether nonpartisan or|g:ionally Democratic State bipartisan. Our people have thelginia “in support of the right - to express themselves by! o porhert . Hoover, tr the ballot upon such a wital| o0 o came’ cootion of the S question as this, There is only fg o oooon oo e one commission to which is dele-ig o P ¥ gated that authority and that isi{™ o ' o 0o b T the great commission of their| i S ooninered the own choosing, the Congress of Solid. Bouthi debatabla Ak the United States and their Presi- |5 © 005 o “" A b 1o '”: dent. It is the only (:nmmisii(»n"wnxhul"_“;l lh'l’l l‘;“ ~{':‘ PT{-"('_:-“TTI which can be held responsible by | F8 BORCE CLEE Fh o for he the electorate.” ginia After his speech Hoover-Curtis ticket. wie artvah bo W Senator Borah entered a discus- vy sion of farm relief as the major which departed for where Hoover will work on hig|lssue of the campaign and he out- lined Hoover’s stand on the aues- speech for delivery in Madison Mot Square Garden a week hence. tion, eulogizing the record of Hoc- ver as one of efficiency and of achievement. 16.—8en- RICHMOND, Va., Oct ator William Borah, in velling week Gov. Mr. Hoover special train Washington IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Her- bert C. Hoover arrived from Bos- ton this forenoon and went dire: ly home to work on his addre be delivered in New York Ci Politics in hools; Howl Is Sent Up to Extra! .Extra! This Calf Is an Extra, No Mistake BROADBROOK, Conn., Oct. 16. John Tromley, farmer, has a calf, but what a calf. Outside of the regular calf equipment, this particular speci- men carries an extra eye, extra horn, extra tongue and extra set of teeth. The mamma cow, which is quite normal, seems as surprised at the number of spare parts on her new born as is Tromley. —_————,--— NEW YORKER HONORED PARIS—Cortlandt F. Bishop of New York has been given the French Legion of Honor award for services to Franco-American friendship, particularly to the de- veloping of American motor tour- ing in France, LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 16.— {The- Democrats of Los Angeles {don’t want Republican songs to be further taught in the city’s public | schools. Armed with .a photograph pur- porting to show two teachers teaching the campaign song, “Put Hoover Over,” to a group of school children, Democratic County leaders appeared before the Board of Education and demanded that the pictured teachers be discharg- ed and that reading, ’riting and 'rithmetic continue. The school officials declared they had received reports of poli- tical activity in the schools and had ordered the principals and teachers to see that it was stop- ped. ———.——.-——— Judge H. B. LeFevre, returned on the Queen after a visit along in an automobile, -lelected in lid = MISSOURI; WILL SPEAK TONIGHT Democratic Banner Unfurl- ed and New Fight Is Started INTENSIVE DRIVE FOR VOTES STARTE Nominee Pays Visit to St. Louis Where Given Big Welcome Oct was 16.—T unfur "DALIA, Democratic in the heart ouri, by Mo., banner of the Gov. Alfred E. here after dark m St. Leuis, where earl in he was accorded t most demonstrative reception sin beginning of his campaign The Govern arrival on M souri soil formally touched off t intensive drive to be made by t Democ the state's 18 el Smi 1 ats for vernor said tonight h he proposed esident Coolidge’s e cxplained he would n tou the plans “for of the Federal Governmoen ANIELS LAYS DOWN LAW IN specch to cuss P but upon reorganiz tion b CEORGIA TALK |Takes to Task Those Dem- | ocrals Who Are } Side-Stepping iia., Oct former Secrs 16 |Josephus Daniels, ,tary of the Navy, declared he; that ‘“no ’ respectable Souther Democrat would leave his | AvGusTa, i | | in government in his State, any Democrat who votes the tional Republican ticket votes fc |eorrupt and inefficient Federal o in his State dnd locality. 1e candidate of the 1 of the pocket borough and havi profited by tem, there i helll chan, syste this sy: it, for if Hoover November, there is 1 that Federal in the South will be parcelled ot s has been done during an since reconstruction.” > DENNIS WINN LEAVES TODAY FOR SEATTLE; |quesion but Winn, Commi the and Alaska Department Agent for the U of Fisheries, left fe morning, going v Ketchikan. He ha work there and wi leave from Ketchikan on \Brandt in about week Seattle J The field work of the of Fisheries for this almost concluded Dennis sioner Commerce S. Burem Seattle this Wrangell and geveral day for season Mr. Winn left here, will procee to Seattle for extensive repal and will be winter. The in Lake let, now be stationed sence of the Widgeon. —————— JUDGE RITCHIE OPENS ashington, on the west coast, wi Judge E. E. Ritchie, formerly o opened law offices in Seattle, a cording to word received here, Hi offices are connected with of Judge John Lyons. e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. Chile Copper 553, art-Warner 105%. borde# state | party | (to vote for the Republican Party Repub- n Party today is a beneficiary | no reason to believe offices | BOATS TO GO SOUTH cf the for Bureau The Widgeon, Capt. Carl Christianson, on which absent *most of the leave within a few days to winter The Auk- here during the ab- LAW OFFICES AT SEATTLE the Federal bench In the Third Division, and pioneer attorney of that section of the Territory, has those 16.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted to- day at 51, Bethlehem Steel 69%, Chrysler the Pacific Coast, making a tour|13515, Pittsburgh Coal 51, Stew- EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the thirtieth of a series of ar- ticles describing the political situation in the various states. By RUSSELL HATHAWAY (A. P. staff Writer) | ALBANY, Y., Oct. 16—New z\ rk, the home state of Gov. Al- p|fed E. Smith, Democratic, Presi- ntial nominee, constitutes one of disputed battle-groypds ational political campaigm the rich prize of 46 e electoral college, the ifered by any of the the New York contest is with keen interest from of the country. tuation in New York Is in many respects. In this normally classed as Repub- Gov. Smith has rolled up ndous pluralities in the past 0 years, winning four out of five for the governorship. most states he | Watched all parts Tt unique state. ed | th lican fights | | | | In | _La;*gest Bll;ck;f i;otes Is Prize in Gov. Smith’s Campaign in Home Staie Princess of Albany GRAF ZEPPELIN PUT IN HANGAR AT LAKEHURST Big Dirigible Is Brought Down at Naval Air Station | PASSENGERS ON LONG || AIRTRIP ARE LANDED is. {1920 he ran one million votes ahead ! I idential but ho|0f James W 1o |nominee of his p [ b for Governor plurality in Cor, the b, the aten less: than 100,000 landslide, | Election Returns W1 Analysis of election the past decade shows -| Smith strength is gre ities, with the count | almost solidly Republican Such | municipalities Rochester and| racuse, recog: 1 as Republican | citadels, have given Smith ma-| jorities in some of his gubernator- {ial campaigns. In addition, there | has always been the alignment be- | tween Democratic New York Cit, and Republican up-state counti In the present campaign New York City, with ne six million | population; is receiviyg umuq.‘ll‘ attention from Republican cam- paign managers. In the hope of | eutting down the customary Smith | majority in the Greater City, the Republicans have nominated for| Governor the only Republican who ! was elected on the state ticket Analysis returns for | X that the! disricts | as 1 in| 1926, Attorney Geweral Albert Ot.| tinger. Mr. Ottinger is a resident |New York City and has & record| of being an unusually successtul vote-getter in the metropolis. For| Lieutenant-Governor former State| Sen. Charles C. Lockwood, of| prookly@® was named. Personal Popularity The party managers are | upon the combination of Ottinger’s support in Manhatian | and Lockwood's great personal| popularity in Brooklyn to cut dowr the normal Demoeratic majority in those boroughs taking it for grant ed that the ticket will recel customary up-state major The Democrats have drafted Franklin D. Roosevelt, former As-| | sistant Secretary of thée Nav A8 their gubernatorial candidate Col. Herbert H. Lehman, f director of the Democratic tional Committee, for Lieutenant| Governor. Mr. Roosevelt placed | (Continued on Page Five.) WATER POWER DISCUSSED BY SEN. ROBINSON Says Democratic Success Means Protection for People e~ re rn ll“ - count- Mr an ing m | is no | it | nd | wit nanei 1 o ia a8 i is ed rs PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 16.— Using the words of Senator George W. Norris to drive home an argument, Senator Joseph T. Robinson declared in a campaign address here that “Republican victory will mean triumph ”‘i monopoly which has expended| millions in propaganda in an ef- fort to obtain control over water power sites in this country.” Senator Robinson eharged ier- bert C. Hoover with vacillation' in his declaration that the Gov- ernment view would be with r gard to development and opera- tion of these sites. Senator Robinson declared that “success of the Democratic ticket means protection of the people ragainst extortionist rates and un- fair distribution pertaining to el- ectrical energy. It means con- servation of the most valuable resources remaining of public] ownership.” on o= is test in the|lj SUPT. MINARD " iwith jmon were thrown overboard from was | i Harding | { t g | it { i i Above are Princess Ranieri di San Faustino, nee Katherine Sage, of Albany, N. Y., and her husband, scion of distin- guished, old Italian family, apon their arrival in New York rom the sun-drenched slopes f their estate in the Trentino, 7(ll.l.rlll|°lll| Newsroel) IS ARRESTED; JUNERU CASE. {Indicted by Grand Jury in|: Fish Case — Bail Bond Put Up SEATTLE, Oct. 16.—Charged| “wantonly destroying food fish,” Al Minard, Superintendent| of the Sunny Point cannery at| Kake, Alaska, was arrested here| vesterday upon cable information | from Juneau where he in- dicted by the Federal Grand Jury) there on October 10 | Minard posted a $500 bond| for appearance in Alask: an swer the charge. was to The charge leading to Supt.! Minard’s arrest was contained in| a secret Indictment returned by the local Federal Grand Jury on October 10, against the Sunny| Point Packing Company It is| alleged that 8,000 humpback sal- the gasboat Pickaninny on July | 28, last. | iParl of Fabric Is Torn- Repairs to Be Made—- Crew Is Honored NAVAL AIR STATION, LAKE JURST, N, J. Oct. 16.—C pleting a journey of 6,500 m which kept 50 - occupant 1loft above Zeppelin oil at dus For three een awaiting hip from cept 5,000 m over 111 hour ropped last night days, th Germany had en 1 1 of t but crow arriv ¢ all When the Graf ed, the roar cf five 550 horsepower seemed the air vibrate and the {ship became a at gray {shooting through the darknc Pulled to Ground iry to expectations, not moored to the mast, the land who dr and Zeppeiin arriv engines of to make sliding ATTOW, Cont the ship ropes being dropved tc ing crew of 500 sailors the ship to the ground disembarked Because of the 12-mile an hour wind blowing acr the hangar it was decided not to berth the ship during the night and the dirigible was taken to the stub mast near the mooring tower, When the airship dropped out of the skies, obsgrvers on the ground could see . damaged fin, which caused shiffe’ to stand by The fabric had been torn off the upper side of the fin exposing the framework and repairs were last night planned for today. Is in Hangar The Graf Zepp into the hangar at morning when the down Prepara k re the wind died made for torn fabric tions were rs to the SHIP REPORTED LEASED LAKEHURST, N. J, Oct Spanish interests have the Graf Zeppelin roa two years with an at the end of that period, Emilio Herrera, of the Royal sh Navigation Department, inounced last night He was a passenger aboard the Zeppelin the flight from Germany to United States. The Fox Brothers icnal corporation, issue ment that the Colon Company had bought the craft for $1,200,000, but officials of the Zeppelln Company at Fried- richshafen denfed thi 16 leased period of uy Col on the interna- a state- Transfer GUESTS OF NEW YORK LAKEHURST, N. J, Oct. 16 Officers and high officials among the passengers of the Graf sppelin slept soundly last for the ardous business New York welcome today special train is in readir lepurture this afterncon for y City where the party be transferred to the City Macom and taken to the for one of Manhattan's ovations. s for Jer will Tug lattery famou GIVEN DUCKING LAKEHURST, N. J., Oct. 16. {—No matter if a man is a Rear —_————. | Kidnapper and Slayer \ Is to Hang for Crime, HONOLULU, Oct. 16.—Myles v”.f taka Fukunaga will hang October! 23 for killing of Gill Jamieson, 10- year-old boy, whom he kidnapped.| Gov. Wallace R. Farrington has decreed the execution It will be just 36 days after Fukunaga kid- napped and murdered the boy and) collected $4,000 ransom from the father. R — 2 A CHINESE TRICK PEKING — The Chinese “fat- ten” watermelons before taking them to market to sell by the pound. A needle and thread af- fair, the needle piercing the {the thad Admiral in the United Navy, breaks will occur and of such offielals found thi 12 night when visiti sraf Zeppelin's groundin Navy Air Station here Rear Admiral Moffet, Chief of the Navy Bureau of Aecronautics being a Rear Admiral, could walk right up “to the Graf Zeppelin and under her while ordinary folks had to stand back about city block away. He was taking advantage of his perogative when Zeppelin’s erew dumped the water ballast out of her tail. It was a lot of water Rear Admiral Moffett got most it and only the fact that h an overcoat enabled him attend a dinner without chang- ing his clothes, ue out the of melen and the thread reaching| to a bucket, “siphons” the I / to the melon’s flesh. water HAS CRITICISM BERLIN, Oct. 16. Scathing Continued on Page B { an to| | United S Dr hawken, erican pa Zeppelin, BULL MARKETS AID TIPSTERS IN PROMOTION Unsound Securities Are I Thrown on Market NEW YORK ued bullish {to have become old-time the fertile “bucket stand steadily are first De ind ious SUpPpPress to worthles: Cigaret Consumption States the | | (Presid, { will breaking {tory of the cigaret industry. This| . ntaing from 60 to 85 per cemb { enormous average for |an rets 00,000 he asury, epresent factured passe Robert pasture “tipster sheet” pite State g business induce (Continued on P: By ERA KEHAYA ent, Standard Commercial | tobacco Tobbaco Company) | NEW YORK, smokers in the [the presents rate of consumption, | the blended send ! 105,000,000,000 i Sam’s demain. The cigarvet indusiry will pour live honded approximately coffers of DOOMED BOY'S MOTHERMAKES FINAL APPEAL ILast Effort Undertaken to Prevent Hanging of Murderer ' CLEMENCY IS ASKED |~ FROM GOV. OF CAL. Two Proposais Placed Be- fore Chief Executive of State , Cal, Oct. 16. rd Hickman, kid- - napper and slayer ofilittle Mar- Drummond, famous ' jzn Parker, by admission’ of his journalist, only wom- own counsel’ cannot. escape death from Germany the gallows next Friday in on Grat Zeppelin., San Quentin Prison but today a last effort is to be made to pro- |long life although without any hope of saving the murderer. Hickman's™ counsel ~admitted that the mother’s fervent appeal for clemency and two other pro- posals will be placed before Gov. C. C. Young Attorney letter with man The lows: “If you can understand - the feolings of a heart-broken moth- er, please have mercy on my poor son and do not let them Kill him. ‘ihis is breaking my heart to see my boy killed for he was not himself. Wont you open your heart to my plea? Give him life imprisonment.” . Two - propositions to be sub- mitted are for commutation of life imprisonment or that the Governo ppoint a board from LOS ANGEL it William Edw to on tate the Hick- fol- Walsh brought him from Mrs. letter reads as mental condition. Benjamin Strong Dies Suddenly in New York Hospital Reiner, of Wee-| one. of the Am.| NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—Benjamin board the Graf | Strons, aged 56 i Governor of the eral Reserve Bank of | New York, died in a hospital to- N sen | day. Mr. Strong health during the been in poor last few years underwent an operation for trouble recently from which he apparently was making steady recovery, but a relapse set in and he passed away. e — |Facing Death, Hickman Tells Of 2 Robberies DALLAS, Texas, Oct. 16 | ! laration from William Edward | Hickman that he participated in i : |two hold-ups, here in December, has {and | intestinal —A dec- fO r Ufl wary Oct. 16 marke DDEAT | 1496 and a request for forgiveness the graveyard of iy iontained in a letter received bucket shops” butiy. iho police from Hickman, now for the modern| wojiing execution in San Quens and promoter. The |y, “prison California could mot With-i =uy 0,0 $100 was taken from A prices, which| . Moares pharmagy and grocery in two hold- of Federal|uP% the latter said. Wnd e | Detectives recalled that the de- fons m’wnpnun of suspects at the time lusued (tallied with Hickman buying of purious or e A ook, and 1o halt thef. G¥ear. Hart and I T " well-known travelling rived on the Queen Contin- tock shop’ rising ald to the activitie vernment news publications F. Hebert, men, ar. In U. S. Expected to Be Broken This Year 000 duies on imported Oriental ‘ Approximately 300,000,000 pounds of leaf tobacco will be re- material. More per cent of the output 2 | ariety cf domestie abolliand so-called Turkish tobaceo, l;l */the balance being all Turkish or: |all domestic. The blended cigaret® Oct Unit 16 d as raw 90 smoke in the up in rets all rec in cons of every of inhabitant ption indicates than 800 cig- the of lul the domestic product and the' ¢I&-Thalance is imported tobacco, 80 120, that approximately 45,000,000 to Undle| 50 900,000 pounds of Oriental product will be withdrawn from warehouses for the: more $3 :l,w.u.uoo lnloi 1928 output United States ; s Blended Goods 2 of w s.l:.,nuwooo“ The widespread popularity of 4 the tax on the manu-|___ i Y e roduct and $16,000,- (Continued on Page Three) ‘»‘;‘