The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 2, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXIIL., NO. 4935. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BURNED TO DEATH IN JUNEAU FIRE FIGHT CLOSING [* MIDST TURMOIL [T AND CONFUSION o Many C10§§ Currents: that None Will Know What Brought Result NONE KNOWS WHAT | VOTERS WILL SAY All Parties at Sea as In- creased Army of Elect- ors March to Polls By BYRON PRICE (Asscciated Press Staff Writer) The Presidential campaign ending, as it began, with mighty currents of emotion at war be- neath the troubled surface ! To many millions of Ameri- cans, day's election will be- come an a choice; of men Throu new and the m MITH HOME FROM WESTERN TOUR S, Gov. Alfred E. Smith carried a campaign rooster, gift of an admirer, when he returned to Albany from his campaign trip in the south and middle west. He is preparing to wind up his campaign in a tour of the east. Mrs. Smith is shown holding the governor's grand- son. “Diamond Tooth Lil” Famous Alaska Girl, Once More in Money vastly more and parties. out the whole country, urprising forces toward the ballot box. Turmoil Exists stormy spirit of in the religious are on V the times stir- BATTLE, Nov. 2.—"Diamond | Tooth struck it rich ain The The has foung expr ring of’ racial groups, confusion of cla im- pulses angd turmoil in party or ganizations and the return of the a old time fervor of the political from Seattle to Nome, learned t crusader. {day that she has inherited $150 Tossed on these closing days|000 from her mother, Mrs of the campaign, weeks of debate|Crinstein, who died recently have produced no agreement as|Los Angeles. to paramount considerations that| Sedately are to be solved by the voters. Miss Lillian Each side denies that the other house owner has defined its positions clearly; |known along each denies the existence of iers for the sues thrust forward by the other.|in a front Jumble of Issues windle Farm relief, Prohibition and all, by. other re JubibTed” together Onee she in a tangle of argument |might have ransomed a King One thing is fully apparent— show business paid in this has been a campaign of self-|fabulous days of the Klondike examination Some of her diamonds were some stolen, but neve |parted from the solitaire w mll‘ still flashes from her mouth She intends to spend her moth ler's fortune on hut {plans for o stock show are | contemplated and she will resume | ‘h\-r Alaska troupi DIGEST POLL GIVES HOOVER | " GIVEN SCORING VERY BIG LEAD bl 52 BY BROOKHART G 0. . Gt PLANS LARGER | Nearly Two_to One Ma- | ZEPPE“N Nuw jority in Straw Vote FRIBDRICHSHAFEN, Nov. Dr. Hugo Eckener is planning a|night in his speech here, attacked mightier and faster dirigible than|George Peek, Chairman of the Graf Zeppélin for the commer-|Smith Independent Committee clal se He hopes to organ-| Senator James A. Reed. He de- ize a transportation 1pany scribed Peek as a purveyor of conjunction with American inter-|falsehoods 1z him for Reed's thelests, to build a larger - and charges that Herbert Hoover | stronger airship, capable of with-|ing the nd after held standing the heaviest stroms. prices down, declaring that Dr. Eckener believes stronger|(“only prices Hoover ever tried |ships must be built to make the!hold down were the prices of | trans-Atlantic service a reality. [ulators and and every New York | - farmer and man in the 218,820, Smith 185,659. | ADMIRAL ROGERS COMING |country endories position as totals include New York, Steamer Admiral Rogers, making |doeg every Smith 147,070, Hoover!the first trip to the westward for!he gets his Philadelphia, Hoover 69,-|the winter season, left OwrdovalSenator Re Smith 48,429. Chicago, Hoo-|last night at 11 o'clock and is to|the price 16, Smith 71, 810. Washing-|call at Yakutat and Sitka enroute | That Hoover 24,191, Smith,|to Juneau, The steamer is expect-{speech led to reach nere Mnmuv _Morning I’eek told ALFRED E. SMITH BORN ON \LW sion and w. || German Girls famous | cnce sparkling girl of musical comedy, (A Too Plump to i Suit Terhune i RIFDRICHSCHAFEN, Nov German girls are Seattle as{ | Plump to suit Clarence Ter- apartment| | hune, who captured the fa the woman is of many frauleins by \lw\‘ln the Alaskan away on the f Zeppelin flashing diamond I hune sai The German tocth, saw h are nice enough, good away the years looking, but too big for me.” Tevhune left today for Stutt- gart where He hopes-io- obtain | a tomporary American p port which will enable him to proceed Paris and cateh t steame America a bit too ttled in Miller who front- set | riches | went | girls issues owned fewels w the to (Continuez on >-e> .o PEEK AND REED diamonds here ‘ormer Is Purveyor of alsehoods, Latter Is Misinformed SPRINGF Senator n LD, Smith W I, Nov. Brookhart last 2 NEW YORK, tabulation with 2,76 Hoover The final ary Dig cast, gives and Smith 2 votes per cent and ice has received 1 Smith has” received Minor candidates nainder of the vote Hoover leads in Smith leads in Georgia, Carolina, Mississippi, bama and Arkansas n Hoover is leading in cc in cas 42 state wa South to spec- gampl o laboring stalte, this The City—for 105,864, 704, ver ton 9,821, sensible man information fr 1 kno wheat during the from knows m Peek, evident All he him."” % | BORN OV TR, | NEW YORKS BAST sm, ’Mnso €. SMITH SOLD L S TO HELP HIS 60 MOTHER, HIS PERSONALITY THEN WON HIM A POLITICAL PLACE FROM LEADER TOM FOLEY mw ™ 4 LATER HE WORKED AT HIS NOW FAMOVS m.m ‘lfi" wwcum ASSEMBLYMAN ALBANY ~ the | I1 dur- | farm | thej | Chile Unless | ws nothing about | war. | 461, reading his | ‘HUUVER SEES - BIG INTEREST | IN ELECTION ll)al'a“('fled Is Expressive of Serious- ness, Candidate Says MEANS TRIUMPH, —Procceds Louis Louisville to Bk LOUISVILLE Herbert C. Hoover, this forenoon, unparalleled election the Nov. in a speech pointed to the registration for Tuesday erionsnes rnestn with which our p ing them “This evidence Ky 2 a here of issues convietions are meet- of eople of unprecedent- nterest in the future of the must be gratifying® to at heart It han a umph for one party over It means more than one individual a other “It means in the f that everlasting elf-government |erica holds | worla.” | M means |} more tri- victory f ainst an- end, triumph principle of which n-. of the: leadership and address will Hoover |tollowing the | Louis where he address tonight his party for make left Sty an | ADDRESS IN CUMBERLAND ON HOOVER TRAIN, Cumber- land, Md., Noy. 2.—The_basis of progress fn fhis tount {ts continual prosperity, Hoover told enthu audience last night which gr him here enroute tu his fornia home Speaking in the public square r the station, Mr. Hoover said erity, at the rests on ‘\‘:Ml' being a job for every {that there shall be stable employ |ment and advancing standards living. It rests equally upon stable agriculture and industry ‘You will recollect that when Republican Administration ime into power seven and half years ago, many millions {unemployed, alked the street |Our people were discouraged apprehensive of the future A se of constructive [not only restored employment but has built standards of living and |added to the security of an base the one ies acts every home. | ““he Republican Party g in administration which h tected and upheld these am cenfident ‘the American people wish it continued.” e STOCK QUOTATIONS YORK, Nov. mive stock at 7%, Brown Copper, 58%, Chrysler Cudahy 671, Missouri 68, Stewar Warner 1053, U. S, Steel 161 Stocks Yesterday Alaska Juneau mine stock ed yesterday at 71, Brown Chrysler 2161, Cudahy Missouri ‘69%, Pittsburgh ves | pr results. | [ NEW Juneau da Alaska quoted Shoes 47} que She what | 4714, Stewart-Warner 104 1.5, 1 I Steel 1621 YORK EAS T SIDE—-—781 AND SET OUT FOR o R Registration SELF-GOVERNMENT Nominee Makes Addrasa i the | welfare another. | bt | cure | duced - | political g |'dent man, |, {and 1 city. WASH!NGTON STUDENTS SEI\'D HOOVER BIG POST CARD — WOMAN MEETS DEATH IN FIRE HERE THIS NOON Mrs. John J. Conn, Burned to Crisp — Cleaning Dress with Gasoline FLAMES SHUT OFF ESCAPE AND RESCUE Explosion Starts Flames, Quickly Enveloping Family Residence Mrs. Harriett Conn, aged 24 EXTRAORDINARY ERA, . AMERICAN | i By BYRON PRICE ! (A. P. Staff Writer) When the {decision yelection [ment on jordinary litical histor I Whether the verdiet is for Hoo, {ver o Smith, the year 1928 is like to be memorable for r sons quits aside from the pers | alitles the candidates and issues for which they have stood. { It has seen hoth of the major part- des letting go the traditions of geo- graphical and indusirial sectional- ism, and groping for a more footing; third partyism ri to its lowest in this neration, many of year voters translate their ) ballots at Tuesday's will be passing juds- the really extra- of American po chapter y m- of s ebb and ordinary customs of the gated altogether, It may be that the the futura the abrc political stu will call 1928 ie year of the militant minorities verywhere over the country has been imparted t yund te and local t 1 in past ye awed by the hostile ties about them, and have up the struggle befor it This time there has been org Democratie activity in nearl the heavily Republican an organiz aign in ne tronghold, of heen ove ma glven Forecasters Disagrec Of course the party f disagree as to the precis the final outcome they concede generally normal Republican normal Democratic states will return majorities at all compared to those of past years. They fur ther agree that or - whe wins each party will have s disposal, for future truly national organization either has had for many years The reconstitution of the R publican Party on this new basis may be said to date from the June when the supporters of Her. Hoover took poss of party machinery at The tendencies of that neither the states no no matt a more than use, b e the Kansa the times ml:llued on Page 'I"n‘ RVED AS ASSEMBLYMAN—— AFTER YEARS OF PUBLTC SERVICE HE WAS ELECTED GOVERNCOR ot Signatures of approximately 2,000 students of the University of Washington at Seattle were signed to a post eard, addressed to Herbert Hoover at Washington, D. C. The card, made of Douglas fir is three and a half by six feet in 'dimensions. p HISTORY the | well known « woman, wife of burned to death this fire which practically of Frank with all stinean John J year wannel Conn, was in a destroye buildi lin_and content n at the corner Fourth Streets SELF-TORTURED ::;:x: ™ R Ak ) BIRL IS DEAD; o AR BN WIERD STORY siiz'et building, to the caught on fire and within a short space of time the entire buildin owing Miss Effrieda Knaak Dies Results of Ter- l'il’)lc Bul’n.q Iress, There and suddenly which she was first floor of the ning 1s0line time. explosion rear, Quake Does No Damage ; Boiler Explosion Does to light construction and paper- ing, was a mass of flame: | An alarm was turned in_from 'Box 18 and the Fire Department, ltwo blocks away, was on the ;:muml in quick time. The fire had gained such headway it was impossible to go to the woman’s |rescue, even with gas masks on wa# some time before her Burned to a crisp, was out and taken across to the C. W. Carter LOS ANGELES, Cal A heavy earthquak ompoe, Cal, this m and what persons first beliey to be a second temblor p: to be a high school boilor plosion. No damage was _reported from (ke earthquake hut the | explidian ce-the hodor o] | | & loss of $10,000 the story of | actunily happencd _during } hefore dawn L Mis Knaak r N Nov. 2 aged (30 almost |and 1t the time she|body, arms, feet andl Drought il the furn- ‘\‘l‘“ [H“‘“*l i % o Mortitary. A, Husband Rushes to Aid n the carpenter AUSY 1o Lhe resis m Knauk, , three days year to from submitted her head to seifstorture in the basement ation it h, th (Continued on Page e e when BY ROBINSON HHI)L man's story that sh alone flicted the burn Adol Muller, of Kaltag, to prove her tait Brings Clean, Honest Gov- ernment to Attention it love™| ( \es Il] OW“ would undoubtedly “rashes S t of Indianians S eee sitting n “spir prove ssecution sald of w vital the dying believeable ppened her hours that | s | wom- | story a bar ' to uccessful Plune Near Doctor wa s day matter Officers it 2 they have from wore an’s lips.a mere to what h ight in the furnace Blu Police Knaak said Zl('()l‘lil death a 18 Nov TAC Three njured 'OMA, Wash men and one man when a Stinson Detrolier wned by Ad iler piloted Elliott Mer rashed Lake into a hillside at Miss during a forced land truth, terday afternoon and If she had 3 g after hitting A #tump been completed amputation of M who.' Hve toot, other foot| Alaska, accepted delive and both hands which were prae-| plane Wednesday int .itically burned to the bone | in Alaska to assi > i'll aring that the Muller wa eut and Merrilt wak (815 Heuts Two Craft of Byrd’s oftXie Ak vty Expedltlon Reporlcd courage in leaders) L. Steinhauser, of Sea about the head and tive action,’ hushand was bruised, Referring Muller und Mrs ‘m.p ce last seven and were taken to the Pierce Hospital titutes a period of leadership action, Senator Robinson Engine trouble forced ing. The machine was demol ed: “Haye the Republican lead- lers of Indiana audacity to point Its value was $8.000. Mull co-breaker|with pride to the records of for. W | Monday{ FORT WAYNI rcom of the|genator Joseph T. Robin Tast tat |night employed the names of she |Thomas R. Marshall and Samucl IM. Ralston to direct ntion of | Indiana clean and hone de hose Indiana administra- governor of this state, and suspicion, ey hell 2 ind., Nov plane and m told ba Tacoma the lat rturned s irvived, plans had citize OF government <altag,| One toes of the of the o two sons « leader while -14 fr from gral reat whose tions, years th ) and construc. Herb speech to St PAGO ate PAGO, by 2.-~The o 2l ome-half years Byrd's | con e to Dun.| supplies le the and New Z quipmen to her shi NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT going Tacoma from on business when the ¢ east of|mer Governcrs MoCray and Jaek- curred, ok is island 300 mvh —FOUR TIMES GOVERNOR OF HIS STATE — TR 410(\”‘0 .l A L7 AND TH= BIG THRILL CAME RECEIVED THE BUT SMITH WON. THE GOVERNORSHIP DF NEW YORK FOR FOURTH TiME IN 1924 McA| BLOCKED 5,.‘,,?,95" DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION