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The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-05
SUM ALLOTED IMPROVEMENTS
 JUNEAU AREA
One Hundred and Twenty Five Thousand for
 Wrangell Narrows

WASHINGTON. Dec. 5-Army Engineers placed Q limit of $55,- SS6,310 on the amount which may be profitably expended on ordin- ary development and maintenance of the Nations waterways during the year beginning next July, ex- elusive of any special appropria- tions which may be made for flood control.
 At the same time, Major Gen eral Edgar Jadwin. Chief of Fcn gineers. disclosed that beginning last July there was an unexpend- ed balance on hand of $66, ,949 which had been made available for improvements and mainten- ance of rivers and harbors.
 Detailed allotments include the following in the Juneau (Alaska) District:
 Nome Harbor. $25 1000. wrangell Narrows, $125,0OO. and Tolovana River, $29,00O.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-05
BIG PROBLEMS FACE CONGRESS
 OPENING TODAY
Issues Before Session Most Important Since
 World War
PROHIBITION ISSUE
 WILL START FIGHTS
Measures to Be Introduced from Both Wet and
 Dry Forces

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. - The Seventieth Congress assembled to- day and the members of the Sen ate and House of Representatives are facing a host of problems of the most importance since the war.
 The annual ruction in Congress over Prohibition will get an early start in the House and Senate revolving around a series of bills which are already prepared.
 Measures will come from both those who would modify the Vol stead Act and to test out senti- ment of the country on the Eigh- teenth Amendment. and those who would tighten up the dry en- fOrcement measure.
 The Drys will probably center their efforts on the Administra- tion bill which failed last session which provides for legal raids on dwellings used as commercial dis tilling places.
 The Vets will asail both the dry amendment and enabling act from number of directions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-05
REPUBL ICANS
 OF ANCHORAGE HOLD MEETING
Slate Is Endorsed for Com mitteeman, Delegates
 Democrats Meet

ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Dec. 5 --The Republican Club has en- dorsed the candidacy of Major George w. Albreeht. of Fair banks, for Republican National Committeeman; James Wicker sham, of Juneau, and w. H. Chase, of Cordova, for delegates 10 the National Convention. J. B Gottstein, of Anchorage. has been suggested as alternate.
 At recent meeting the fol- lowing were named to the Demo- cratic Divisional Convention at Valdez: J. S. Fruit, Harry F. Morton. H. II. McCutcheon and A. A. Shonbeck. The later, who is Divisional Committeeman, has been metioned as candidate for Delegate to Congress.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-05

WASHINGTON. Dec. 5-When the seventieth congress met to- day, 73 seats in the senate and house were filled by members other than those who held the seats in the last session.
 The incoming members are not all beginning their national legis- lative careers. however.
 One of the senators. Smith w. Brookhart. Republican, Iowa, re- turns to the body in which he for. merly sat. Six of the new sena- tors previously served in the house. They are Carl Hayden, Arizona; Alben w. Barkley. Ken lucky: Willard F. Tydings, Mary land. and Elmer Thomas. Okla- homa. all Democrats: and William 8. Ware, Pennsylvania and Frank L. Smith. Illinois. Republicans.
 Senators who are new to the capitol halls are Charles w. Wa terman, Colorado; Frederick Stei- wer. Oregon: Arthur R. Gould, Maine. and John J. Blaine, Wis consin, all Republicans: and Hugo Black. Alabama; Sam G. Bratton, New Mexico. and Robert F. Wag. ner, New York, Democrats.
 Ware and Smith were on hand for the opening, but the question of their right to senate member. ship mnst be threshed out before they will be seated.
 Of the 59 incoming representa-. lives nine have been members o! the house before. They are | Earl Major, Illinois: James F Fulbright, Missouri: Everette B Howard. Oklahoma; John J. Ca sey and Everett Kent. both from Pennsylvania, all Democrats: and U. s. Guyer. Kansas: Robert H Clancy, Michigan: John D. Clark New York. and James A. Hughes, West Virginia. Republicans.
 James NJ Beck. former solici tor general, returned to Washing. ton to fill the Republican sea, left vacant in the Pennsylvania delegation by Vare's election to the senate. James M. Haxlett had been elected. but he resigned in October without having taken the seat
 Five members of the house in the last session have died. and, with one exception. all seats have been filled by Representatives ci the same political allegiance. g, Harrison White. Democrat. Colo. rado, succeeds the late william IN. vaile. Republican. who had represented the Denver diatrict. (Continued on Pare Th1ee.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-05
HUSBAND IS
 VICTIM OF
 LOVE AFFAIR
Wife and Her Paramour
 Slay Him While He Is Asleep Confession

HAYNESvILLE, La. Dec. b. Mrs. Fife lower, aged 43, mother of four children. and J. E. Swift aged 45 years. soft drink sales man, alleged paramour of Mrs lower. are charged with the slay ing of J. K. lower, store keeper and ex-minister.
 Mrs. lower. who confessed, saif she held a lamp while Swift, us ing a sledge hammer, struck ana killed her sleeping husband, st the illicit love affair might D. continued.
 Swift took the body in an auto mobile 25 miles away where il was weighted with 100 pounds ol scrap iron and placed in a lake
 Mrs. lower reported to tn; police her husband disappeared Following the murder. Sheriff Coleman called on Mrs. lower 't extend sympathy and he fount her vanishing the floors of tn. house. He noticed several darl stains on the wood work.
 Two days later. while Mrs lower was out of town. Sheriff Coleman obtained shavings from the floor Under chemical tests bloodstains were revealed.
 Jower's body was later reveal ed by Swift's 1l-year-old son who said he was forced, under threal of flogging, to aid his father ir disposipg of the corpse.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-05
Police Reveef Work of
 Chicago { Crime Trust

CHiCAGO. Dec. 6--Loot valued at $2,7O0.O00 stolen last year by q highly orgahtred "crime trust was the object Of an intensive search by the Police of Midwest cities as the Fesult of the kid mapping and 4)ibsequent release of Morris Roiaa6s This led to the revelationn the activities Of the Acfit1<
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-05
Chicago Night Club
 Raided :; Many Wounded

CHICAGO. III, Dec. 5-O1e dead and seven wounded. two perhaps fatally. was the toll of a raid by six. robbers on night club last night. Two hundred were in the cafe at the time. Two of the women wounded are near death. One of the robbers. the masked bandit leader of five, was wounded, it Ia believed The rob bers escaped but without loot.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-05
WAR SECRETARY ASKS FOR BIG
 AMOUNT, FLOOD
Seven Million Dollars fol Emergency Expendi-
 tures-Army. Needs

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. An immediate urgent deficiency ap- propriation of S7,0O0,000 to cov- CT flood emergency expenditures in the Mississippi Valley was urged today by Secretary Davis of tho War Department in his annual report to President Cool idge.
 That sum, the Secretary said, was Deeded to replace $2.O0O. .0O0 borrowed from the unallotted portion Of the general river and harbor' appropriation to complete closing crevasses in the levees and also to restore $5,000.0O0 in the Mississippi special fund laid out in unexpected ways in the fight with the floods.
 The $7.000,00C deficiency mnas- ure would leave the War De- partment with this $5.O0O. 900 available for continuing essential construction work along the riv- CT. the report said, until new policy may have been considered and adopted" with relation to flood control.
 Disclosure that the s2.O00, ,000 in unallotted river and harbor funds was diverted to levee re- pair work recalls that the War Department was informed by the Controller General at the time siis was proposed that there was no legal authority for such a transfer. Secretary Davis said that it was decided to make the allotment for use Ion navigation features" of the Mississippi River Commissions work, such as dredg- ing and bank revetment, but he makes no mention of the corres- pondence with the Controller General.
 Inland Waterways
 The War Secretary discusses the flood situation along the Missis- sippi at considerable length, hut since his report was prepared be- fore the administration project for control of flood waters was matured, it shed no new light on that problem. Considerable space also was devoted to the Inland Waterways Corporation, the Phil ippine Islands and other civil as- poets of the War Department; but the military side of it's work was mentioned only briefly, be- ing left to the report of Major General Summerall, Chief of Stan.
 For the army itself, Secretary Davis said the major need was "a continued stabilixation of pol icy as to strength, organization and location"
 "The insuffiency of our pro- visin for the building up and maintenance of the authorized war reserve of material for two field armies or l,OOO,OOO men is a matter of deep concern to this departments, he said, "Stagna- ton in promotion and inadeQuacy of housing also remain as i'm portant question for solution.
 -Stabilization Policy
 However, to my opinion, the all important present need of the War Department SO far as it's military activities are concerned. is continued stabilization of policy. The effectiveness of the army, the morale Of the person. mel and the proficiency of it's units for many yeara after the World War suffered from uncer- tainties as to streneth, organi- nation and location. Under such conditions progfe61 could not be otherwise than s1ow ma some what unsatisfac14NS z
 icosii1ss7 's5s:5
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-05

WASHINGTON, Dec. While realizing that many trials anfl tribulations will beset them in the seyentieth congress, Republi can leaders anticipate little if any difficulty in organizing the house and the senate.
 In the house the Republicans have comfortable majority, with no indication that the independ ents or insurgents in their ranks are at all inclined to upset the orderly program as they were able to do four years ago.
 The Republicans in the senate have a paper majority of only one, with a we'll organized inde pendent group within their fold but there is no disposition on the part of the Democrats to under take a seizure of the reins in this pre-presidential campaign session
 Lonoworth Speaker
 Nicholas Longworth of Ohio again will be elected speaker ai the house and will carry into of flee with him those who directed the destinies of the party in thai body during the last session.
 George Moses of New Hamp shire is expected to succeed him self as president pro tempore oI the senate, with all other Re publican officers likewise re elected. through the aid, if neces sary, of vote by Vice President Dawes, the constitutional presid ing officer.
 Once the .formalifies of organi zation are out of the way, the senate Republican unity will come to an end. There will be wide gulfs on practically all of the ma jor issues which will come before the two houses and on which . part of the record for the 1928 presidential contest will be writ
 
 ten.
 While the Republican majority in the house is sufficient to in sure speedy and favorable action on administration measures there 1t is so slim in the senate tha. extremely rough sledding will be provided for practically every pro p0sal bearing the administration imprint.
 Western Bloc
 The newly organized group oI western Republican independent1 holds, the balance of power In tho l. senate by virtue of the almost even division between the two ma for pasties, and t is prepared to wield that balance in its effosl -s7
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-05
TWO REINDEER HERDS LOST IN
 ARCTIC STORM

NOME, Alaska, Dec. 5.-A let- ter to the Nome Nugget from Wainwright relates the loss of two reindeer herds in severe storm on October 15. Although the entire village turned out to make search, no trace of the reindeer have been found up to November {.
 The animals are supposed to have been frozen to death and covered with snow.
 An abundance of polar bear are reported at Point Barrow and at Wainwright. five bears be- ing killed in one day. Many were seen passing on icebergs.
 Advices from Point Barrow. to the Nugget, indicates a prosper- ous winter and TO illness
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-05
ALASKA POLICY IS MAPPED OUT
 BY SEC. WORK
Would Have Alaskans inl Charge of Activities
 in Territory
SINGLE ENFORCEMENT AGENCY IS PROPOSED
Annual Report Embodies Recommendations of
 Alaska Governor


 WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-sec-
 retary of Interior Work. in his annual report made public today.
 stresses value of unification of
 Alaska activities Secretary Work
 says in part:
 tThe Department favors oper-
 ating Alaska activities by Alas
 kans with only such supervision
 and assistance from central auth
 ority insWashington as is essen
 tial under the method of govern
 ment necessity for cooperation
 between the bureaus and depart ments operating in the Territory.
 Tt has been studied and be- lieved that simplified methods of handling Government affairs in
 Alaska. with great local author
 ity, would bring more efficient government at less cost, and pos
 abilities of cooperation between
 the Departments of the Interior, E Agriculture and Commerce, be ex- tended under the new plan of ad-
 ministration with assured econ-
 omy and efficiency in handling of
 the work
 Single Law Enforcement A study is under way for the
 purpose of proposing to the next Congress a single law enforce ment agency in the Territory, comparable to the State Police forces maintained so successfully in a number of States" Recommendations The Governor of Alaska, George A. Parks, makes the following commentators
 1. Additional appropriations for the Bureau of Education to enable building and equipping one or more isolation wards for tubercular patients. 2. Enlargement of the station at Tanana by providing home for defective children, and an iso- lation ward for contagious dis eases, also an industrial school. 3. Detention home for incor- rigible natives.
 4. Repeal of the tax pro- visions of the Alaska Game Laws insofar as they effect residents.
 5. Appropriation for a Capitol Building.
 Aviation Secretary Work calls attention to the development of aviation, A landing fields and three trans portation companies operating eight planes.
 The Secretary reports S1,217,- 166.S9 were spent by the Alaska Road Commission in the fiscal year ending June 30, making to- tai expenditures since its organi- zation of $12,O2S,339.42. The Pribilof seal herd is in creasing and the revenue from selling the skins was $745.40O. Active investment in fisheries in 1926 is estimated at $74,557,- 900 and the value of the fisheries products the same year is given at $54,669, 900.
 Mineral Production The mineral production was $17.657, 900. decline of $6O0,- 900, chiefly because of lower
 copper production and curtailed coppef prices. The Signal Corps traffic was $492,O0O. an increase of $22,000.
 The Game Commission collected | $36,0
 Furs exported were valued at $2.z39 ,O00.
 The treasurer's report shows excellent financial conditions with balance of s1,194,600. l
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-05
CONGRESS CONFINES IN WASHINGTON
Unifcation of Alaska Activities Is Urged By Work
Petersburg in Darkness aS
 Result Storm

PETERSBURG, Alaska, Dec. 3. This town is in darkness after two-day snow storm which broke the electric light and power lines in several places. Heavy snow storms reported in the hills have driven the deer to the beaches. Sportsmen fear the deer will starve to death unless they are fed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-05
Four Women Killed
 h Fire in St. Leuis

ST. LOUIS. Mo, Dec. 5-Fou- women are known to have been killed and seven dangerously in tured In q fire which destroyed the rear section of the Buckfn&. ham Hotel Annex early today, with | losa of $l70,ooO. The pos' lIee fer afher bodiss ares S
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-05
Says White Slave
 Inquiry Superficial

GENEVA, Dec. Maintaining that the White Slave inquiry Of tho League of Nations in Latin Am6rican countries was superfi- ciof and insufficient. pr. Pauliua Ln)sa. Of Uruguay. announced she .>1iM only subscribe to the report o( HE White G1ave Committee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-05
KINKS IN LAW
 ARE REVEALED
 BY ATTY. GEN
Mum CT ous Recommends tions Made Liquor
 Situation Summarized

WASHINGTON, Dec 5-Some queer kinks in the laws were re- vealed today in the annual report of Attorney General Sargent who submitted numerous recommen- dations for speeding up justice md relieving the clogged calen- dars in federal courts.
 The Attorney General pointed but that while it was federal )ffense to assault, beat or wound l United States officer. it was not federal offense to kill him, and the Department of Justice wants this situation corrected.
 Among recommendation con tained in the report was one that the law be amended to permit speedy removal from one district to another of persons indicted for federal crime. Another would authorize the presence of sten- ,grapher before grand juries and still another would increase the number of federal judges.
 In her report on prohibition en- forcement. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. assistant attorney general, said that approximatev six million dollars in federal judg- ments, fines and penalties were imposed during the year and there was "a definite increase 'l lhe percentage of fines collectsd..- sz Civil Court Business 5 The records showed very sub. stantial increase in civil court business and noticeable de- crease in criminal business under the national prohibition act, she said. The aggregate amount of judgments in favor of the United States was s352.O97 or $34,612 more than the year before, while criminal prosecutions showed pen alties of $5.646,709 or about $1,- S47,S4S less than the previous year
 Trials by jury as well as pleas of guilty fell off during the year while the number of prosecutions instituted and later dismissed re. mained about the same.
 Rum runners. the assistant at torney general said, had changed their chief base from Canada be- cause of the new Canadian regu- lations and on the east coast were conducting extensive operations from the French Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon and on the west coast they are experimenting with the Society Islands as base.
 SmuQQled Liquor
 The main source of smuggled liquor, she added, was by means of small, speedy American craft that operated from foreign ships and oceanic bases and were able to elude government craft by their speed. During the year 320 american rum running vessels were seized compared with 330. for last year.
 Police Section
 ]. Edgar Hoover, director of the Bureau of Investigation, the police section of the department, report ed that his bureau had procured during the year ten life sentences, other sentences aggregating 7.O9O years, fines totaling $1,149.045 and recovered property valued at $6- 014.4S3. His bureau operated on an expense of $2,012,S60. the smallest since 1923.
 Attorney General Sargent in speaking of the cumbersome ma chinery which is set up to obtain the presence of an indicted per- son before the court of jurisdfc- ton. recommended that Legislation
 >COntfnued m Page Seveul
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-05

Among the IA Senators and 59 Representatives the Seenteth Congress several figures already widely Among them gre Senator Smith Brokhart pper ef of Iowa
 former Senator Robert Wagner upper gh) York who from the Supreme bench of his State John Blaine Qower lef lately Governor of Wisconsin and Representative James Beck Qower m of Pennsylvania Solicitor General.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-05
HAS MINOR opraA7loN

Mrs. c. F. Kellersoa {. n the ! st. Ann's hospital recovorlne finl 2 minor operation. .
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-05
Police Section

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The Washington times., 1927-02-21
PREPARATIONS COMPLETE
FOR MT. VERNON FETE

One Of the white House buffers Is
to appear in a new role factotum
for George Westinghouse the
Birthday Party at Mt. Vernon,
which 10 to be put on tomorrow eve.
ming in the gymnasium Of George
Washington University az a benefit
for the G. w. u. Hospital. He has
been borrowed for the occasion, and,
with the brass buttons Of his livery
carefully wrapped in silver foil and
other additions to bring It into the
proper period, will be an important
element in the picture.
The Secretary to the President and
Mrs. Everett Sanders win be the
honor guests at dinner Wednesday
evening Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Mon.
dell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mondell are enter.
tanning a small company at dinner
this evening in their home in six.
tenth Street. T. i
Miss. Juliet Thompson win be the
speaker at the weekly luncheon to.
morrow OF the Women's National
Press Club. Her topic viii be mo.
toring in Syria"
Miss Josephine Pomeroy, who IL
spending the winter in New York,
was in Washington for a week end
visit to her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Pomeroy.
The Washington times., 1927-02-21
ORIENTAL MASQUERADE
OF ART PROMOTERS

The Art Promoters Club an.
nounces on Oriental masquerade
party to be held at the Blackstone
on Washington's Birthday, between
the hours OF / and a. M, coincid-
ing with Oriental daytime. The
committee in charge are Kermit
Girdner. ROWAN Lyon, Miss Natalee
Lake, Miss Katherine SUNNY, Miss
Mary Virginia Leckie, Miss Marga-
ret Boswell, Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander
WoOdburn. and Vlktbr F'lambeau.
Col and Mrs. Arthur O'Brien will
sail on Wednesday for a Mediter-
ranean cruise and will be away three
months.
The Club Of Colonial Danes will
entertain at tea this evening at 4
o'clock in their clubhouse, 1927 X
st. Charles Moore. chairman OF the
commission Of fine arts: Mrs. CLYDE
B. Aitchisofl, mezzo soprano. and
Mrs. Paul Bleyden, pianist, win be
the guests Of honor.
N&A
Mrs. Eugene LIE Merle and Miss
Eugene LIE Merle have gone to New
York to attend the wedding OF Mrs.
LIE Merle's niece, Miss Gertrude Nor
ris. daughter Of the late Alexander
J. Norris, Of Virginia and Peru.
The Washington times., 1927-02-21
EXHIBIT ION
In TEREST
SOCIETY
Austrian Painters Pri-
vate View at Legation;
Landscapes Shown

The Minister OF Austria and Nine.
Prochnik have asked members Of
the Diplomatic Corps and many
others from society to the Legation
this afternoon for private view
Of portraits by Dario Rappaport.
Viennese painter. whose work VIII
later be in public view at the May.
flower.
M. Rappaport is to paint Presi.
dent Coolidge. aittings probably
being begun this week He Is
chiefly known to fame as 1.-THE
Tigers" painter. Clemeneeau hay.
ing consented to sit for him after
refusing for 80 years to have his
portrait painted. The wartime pre-.
mier cf France was influenced
largely by the fact that the Wen
nese requires very few sittingB. Al
portrait OF Nine. Prochnik. com.
pleted after three sittinEs. IL In
his present collection. as are por-
traits OF Mussolini. Pope Plus XII
and the Tiger.
The Minister and Nine. Procknik
were among the 20 guests enter
tanned by M. Rappaport at tea yes.
terday at the Mayflower.
Another foreign artist. whose