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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-06-09
.HIRST CHICHACOF
COMPAN MAKING.
GREAT PROGRESS,
D. ]. Williams Announces
Purchase and Proposed De-
velopment Of Bahrt Claims

Announcement Is made by d. j.
Williams. general manager of the
-Chichagof Mining Company
that it had completed negotiations
for the Bahrt property. consisting of
three claims. adjoining the property
of the Hirst-C -Chichagof property on
the southeast The announcement al,
so contained the information that
the plans are to develop the Bahrt
property from the main level of the
Hirst-C -Chichagof company which will
intersect the Bahrt vein at a vertical
depth of 500 feet
During the month of April the
Hirst-Chiehagof Mining Company COM
pleted all the payments that were
due Mr.. Bernard Hirst for his three
claims which formed the basis of
the organization of the company.
Practically all of the payments that
have been made to Mr. Hirst have
been from the earnings of gold mined
and milled from the original Hirst
holdings
In addition to these payments to
Mr.. Hirst from the earnings of gold
won in mining his claims, the Hirst-
Chiehagof company. Mr.. Williams
says, has paid for a large amount
of the underground development
through which three major ore
chutes, but only one of which, due to
limited power, is being mined at
present.
Stockholders of the Hirst- -Chicha-
gof Mining Company now own out
right and have title to their prop
erty, which consists of the three
claims originally purchased from
Bernard Hirst 13 claims afterward
acquired and three claims now pur-
chased from Henry Bahrt, making
10 claims in all, and the company
is In first-rate financial condition.
"The mill continues to operate
on Neutrality-suspicious. basis with
results" says Mr. VIII
lams. I'm the mine we are cutting
a station and skip pocket for our
new No. 2 shaft. which will soon
be sunk to the 500 foot level. We
are also completely overhauling all
trackaga on the main level for the
purpose of installing a storage bat
terry electric locomotive by August
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action which the Constitution re-
serves exclusively for action by
States?
"The Federal Government, in en-
forcing the Prohibition Amendment
by Federal action, is not assuming
powers which under the constitu-
tion belongs to the States. 1t is
exercising power which the States
have imposed upon it through the
Constitution itself. The Constitution
expressly avoids attempting to es-
tablish divided authority and divided
jurisdiction. 1t contemplates a COM
plete cooperation by the Federal Gov
ernment and stands over the whole
of this fiel dof regulation"
McAdoo said that IL any state felt
the Federal activity would be objec-
tionable "all the states have to do
is to effectively enforce the Amend.
ments themselves"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-06-09
ALASKA MURDER
To Be PROBED
Department of Justice Agents
Start on Mystery of Fox
Farmer Staying.

SEATTLE. June 9.-With only the
skull and few whitened bones, also
knit yarn cap, as clues. Depart
ment of Justice agents have begun
unravelling the mystery shrouding
the death of Phillip Munro, of So
attic, fox farmer on the lonely Kan.
aga Island, Alaska. last August.
Circumstances Indicate Munro was
murdered for his small savings.
The body was buried in small
grave. His only head covering a
knit yarn cap. was found in the cabin
a short distance from the grave
His watch and money are missing
The police of Fresno, Cal, reported
that Munro's sole companion, Louis
Betteridge, had a police record be-
fore going north Betteridge arrived
in Seattle last September saying
that Munro had left the island August
81 in a small boat and never re.
turned
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are pictured ahays.
BY NICHOLAS GoLPlN,
international illustrated News Staff
Correspondent
Copyright, 1927, U-l-N).

MOSCOW, Q-I-N SpeciaD. The
the command of Soviet Russia.
It's far flung. well equipped army
of greater comparative power than
the German Imperial Army before
the war
Exact figures are unobtainable.
The war office has denied the as
sertion of the British War Secretary
that there are ten million reserves,
but a conservative estimate places
the number of men under arms and
available for immediate mobilization
at two and half million. Voroshi-
lof. Minister of War and in high COM
mand of the Soviet forces, in a pub
lie speech, boasted of 100000 men
under arms, 100000 of which are
non-commissioned officers. 1t is safe
to say that there are at least three
reservists for every active soldier.
The army is divided into three
corps; the regulars, territorials. and
reserves. AS high as 100000 men a
year can be put through the reserves.
The better reservists are sent to
cadet schools and later military
academies for commissioning as re-
serve officers.
Russian strength does not lie in
men alone, although those under
arms are well trained. Vast munt-
ton factories, for which many of
the technical experts have been
drawn from Germany, are ready to
start war production. 1t is estimated
that a million rifles. five hundred
million cartridges, and five thousano
machine guns could be added to tn
Russian stores in years time. An
actual declaration Of war would prob
ably Increase the theoretical produc
/ ton.
Powerful Air Fleet
Russia has a powerful air fleet
| too. There are close to 1000 flying
machines available, and twenty fac
tories. now operating, could easily
be converted into war purposes.
The Soviet is conducting expert
ments in poison gas. and her factor
les and laboratories are now said
to be in a high state of efficiency.
I'VE have invented an anti-gas
and a new mask that will resist al
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known poisons," boasted Voroshiloff
in a recent address.
Tanks. too, are being made, and
practically every other known weap-
on used in the great war or in
vented since. The navy. too. has been
rehabilitated, and is greater force
than any of those of neighboring
countries.
Russia has publicly adopted an un.
provocative attitude toward foreign
nations. Causes for war, as witness
the latest exchange with the Pc
kinese Government, are studiously
avoided Yet the armament program
goes on unabated
Rumbings on Fronts
Yet on every front there are rum.
blings. In China, Soviet aid has been
given to the Cantonese forces. Rela-
tions with the Pekinese forces are
still current that Russian strength
will be thrown with the Cantonese
against the Northerners.
Russian influence is being felt in
India. Alleged Soviet agitators have
time and again threatened British
dominance there and In Persia. There
are boundary disputes in the Caucas.
us.
Rumania and Poland look with the
same suspicion on Russia that the
Soviet looks upon these countries
Both countries carry heavy arma-
ments The danger of war from
these quarters is mentioned by Rus
SLAMS in official speeches. North of
Poland are three little States, Lith-
uania. Esthonia and Latvia, each a
potential spark of an International
blaze
War is almost certain TO break
out in some quarter. though at the
moment of writing, all disputes are
dormant.
Perhaps Russia believes that a
strong army and navy will force
her neighbors TO hold peace at all
cost. Perhaps she knows that war
is inevitable, and is determined to
come out victor, no matter from
which point of the compass it comes.
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STUEBENVILLE. o., June ..
Ray and Roy De Autremont, wanted
in Oregon for the killing Of a postal
clerk and three trainmen, have been
arrested here. They have been work
ing in a steel mill since January.
Both admitted their identity.
Ray De Autremont is married and
living with his wife They have one
child. She was unaware of De Autre.
monts identity.
The two brothers dyed their hair.
When confronted by a group of
officers who arrested them, Ray
recognized Edward Pomeroy. Fed
eral agent, and told him he would
have killed Pomeroy II he had a
chance because he knew what was
ahead of him.
Ray said: 'If you had come in
side of the house | would have kill
ed you and then shot myself My
life is worth nothing to me for 1
know what | am up against"
Roy said when arrested: We'll
ii looks like some of you guys are
in for reward"
The third brother. Hugh De Autre-
mont, was captured In the Philip
pines, brought back to the United
States and his trial started In Ore
gon when a juror died and new
trial has been ordered for sometime
within the next few months.
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18TH AMENDMENT is
DISCUSSED BY M'ADOO

MACON, Ga, June 9.-Addressing
the graduating class of Mercer Uni
versity, William G. McAdoo said the
Eighteenth Amendment gives to the
National Government as we'll as the
States mandate to enforce the
Prohibition law by appropriate. legis-.
1ation. In other words, with respect
to Prohibition Enforcement. the. Con
stitution establishes no division or
distribution of powers between the
Federal Government and State Gov
ernments but gives to both, cock
tensive grant of power"
How can the doctrine of States
rights be applicable in such a situa-
tion where the Constitution draws
no line between State and Federal
Power and where consequently there
can be no question of the Federal
Government invading the sphere OF
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-06-09
DEMOCRATIC
LEADERS PICKS AL SMITH

NEW YORK, June 9.-Governor AL
fred T.. Smith of New York is far
in the lead for the Democratic nomi-
nation for president In the 1928 con-
vention, Tsidor B. Dockweiler. Demo-
cratic Rational committeeman from
California, asserted here.
Senator James A. Reed of Mis-
souri, is. in the opinion of Mr. Dock
weller, next in popular choice to
Governor Smith. William G. McAdoo.
he said, is much weaker than he
was in 1924 and he doubts whether
the former secretary of the treas
ury will make a formidable showing
at the next convention.
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PUT BLAME ON
ENGLAND FOR
ASSASSINATION
Indignation Over Murder of
Soviet Minister Is Increas-
ing In Russia.

MOSCOW, June 9.-Soviet indigna.
ton at the assassination of Soviet
Minister to Poland NJ Wojokoff, at
Warsaw on Tuesday. by Russian
student, has turned against England
almost to the exclusion of Poland.
The Soviet Government has issued
a communique alleging British com.
plicity.
Terrorist plots and outrages in
Russia and Russia's counter re-
volutionary difficulties of last the
past years, are ascribed to English
leadership and the entire Soviet press
has directed verbal batteries against
England.
The communique makes reference
to a spy declared to have con-
fessed having been sent on Ter.
rorist mission to Russia.
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MIAMI Fla June 9.-More than
100 boats, illuminated airplanes and
thousands of decorated automobiles,
with the bayfront park of palms,
shrubs and acres of flowers as the
setting will form part of the fiesta
marking the International convention
of the Lions clubs here. June 14-1S
Batteries of searchlights from near
by skyscrapers will play vari-colored
beams over the crowds as they dance
in the 220-foot wide boulevard along
the park. and numerous musical and
vaudeville features are to add to the
entertainment. The climax will be tn !,
international parade.
Arrangements are being made for
$4,000 guests during the convention
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-06-09
JUSTICE TAFT
GIVES WARNING
Chief Justice Of Supreme
Court Says Delays Not
to Be Tolerated.

WASHINGTON. June 0. Chief
Justice Taft left Washington late
yesterday for his summer home and
served notice on State Prosecuting
officers that the Supreme Court will
not tolerate any delay from them In
disposition of criminal appeals.
I'VE have bent every effort In the
Court to prevent 1t being made a
refuge of delay from defendants con-
victed in criminal cases Many in
sist that in some way or other the
Federal Constitution has been violat-
ed in their Indictment, trial and con-
viction."
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Heads of Alaska Gastineau
and Pulp and Paper Project
to Investigate on Ground.
INDICATES CHANGE OF
PLAN FOR Mr.. CAMERON
E. Gastonguay Asked to
Make Arrangements View
! ing Thane, Speel River.

A telegram received by Emil
Gastonguay this morning frSm
Col. D. C. Jaekling, conveyed
the information that Col. Jack
ling and George 7. Cameron,
publisher of the San Francisco
Chronicle, would arrive in Iu-
neau on the Aleutian June %,
and asking that Mr.. Gastonguay
make all necessary arrange
ments for them to see all the
Alaska Gastineau property as
quickly and effectively as pos
sible and for a visit to Speel
River.
Col. Jackling has been the dom
mating official eff the Alaska Gas
tineau Gold Mining Company from
the beginning. Mr.. Cameron was
tho successful bidder for the Juneau
unit of pulp timber of the Tongass
National Forest that was offered to
the public in April. He has also
been allotted most of the Speel Riv-
er water power, amounting to So
900 horse power. Mr.. Cameron acted
for himself, Harry Chandler. pub
Usher of the Los Angeles Times,
and the publisher of the Oregonian
The publishers had associated them
selves for the purpose of erecting
large pulp and paper mills
Mrs. Jackling and Mrs. Cameron
will accompany their husbands, ac-
cording to the telegram from Col.
Jackling to Mr. Gastonguay, which
asked that accommodations be re-
served for the party.
1t was announced last week that
Mr. Cameron had postponed his pro-
posed Alaska trip indefinitely and
that he and his associates had about
concluded an arrangement with Isa
dore and ]. ID. Zellerbach whereby
the same engineers would report on
both. the project that had been al
1otted to Mr.. Cameron and asso-
ciates and that, near Ketchikan,
which had been allotted to the Eel
1erbachs.
1t is apparent now that Mr.. Cam
eron has changed his mind to the
extent. at least. that he will visit
Juneau, Thane and the water power
site that he and associates have al
lotted to them.
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Poincare Is Working for
New U. S. Debt Settlement

PARIS, June 9.-Premier Poincare
told the Chamber of Deputies today
that he hoped to get a better debt
settlement from the United States.
He intends to try particularly on new
methods as he realizes the French
Parliament will not ratify accords
with American and Great Britain in
the present form.
Premier Poincare said he hoped
to secure better terms as the rise
of the franc has permitted the Treas
ury and Bank of France not only
to reestablish the Morgan Fund but
also to procure stock of dollars
and pounds.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-06-09
HUNTED TRAIN ROBBERS CAUGHT
Tribute to
Beans as Real
Somdough Meal

SEATTLE. June "a Sourdough
Luncheon has been staged by the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce. Ed
ward Benson, Alaskan sourdough of
the days of '97. b. G. Raymond and
Paul Kimball arranged the menu as
tribute to beans as the backbone
of mining progress at the typical
sourdough meal
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-06-09

BAKERSFIELD, Cal. June o. -
With the District Attorney who pro-
secuted him for manslaughter acting
as best man and the Judge who sen,
fenced him from one to ten years,
performing the ceremony Charles
Woodward was yesterday married to
Mrs. Mary Ann Roberts.
The woman was the chief witness
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-06-09
PECULIAR DUST
STILL UNSOLvED
Yellowish Substance in Ju-
neau and Other Points
Remains Unexplained.

SEATTLE, June 9.-The origin
of the volcanic ash, first reported
from Juneau, Alaska, remained un-
explained today. Reports indicate
1t Is spreading over most of South
eastern Alaska but points between
Juneau and active Aleutian vol
canoes have no trace of ashes
Petersburg reported an ash one
eighth of an inch thick in some
places. Wrangell has "a thin de-
post. Cordova, Seward, Ketchlkan
and Anchorage have no trace of the
ash.
The sulphur colored dust was first
reported in Juneau by e. o. Schom-
bel last Sunday.
Trevor Davis also observed the
yellow dust on Sunday morning. II
was plainly visible, he said. when
he moved a pike pole on his boat
the Cordelia ID, and a rim of 1t re-
NAMED where ii had sifted against
the pole. He also noticed the dust
on the Admiral Line dock, where
the rain had apparently washed II
into the cracks between the planks
and again the dust was discernablt
on leaves on Main Street.
A number of young men living al
the Bergman Hotel said they hat
observed a yellow-looking cloud ovel
Douglas Island last Saturday after
noon. They had thought nothing
about il other than that the sur
rejecting on the snow probably
gave the cloud the peculiar hue.
Yellow streaks have also beer
seen along Gatsineau Channel ant
the dust has also been seen along
the Glacier Highway.
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WEDS WITNESS WHO SENDS HIM TO PRISON;
SENTENCING JUDGE PERFORMS CEREMONY;
DISTRICT ATTORNEY APPEARS As BEST NAN

against Woodward who will be sent
to San Quentin today convicted yes
terday of having smotbered the 49,
month old baby of Mrs. Roberts.
The state asserted Woodward was
annoyed by the baby's crying. After
killing it, he threw II under a cul-
vert then Woodward and the woman
fled,
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Condition Of King
Ferdinand Very Low

LONDON, June 9. A Reuters
dispatch from the correspondent at
Bucharest says that the condition
of King Ferdinand OF Rumania is
so critical that fatal termina-
ton of his illness appears only a
question OF days"
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Former Chief OF Police
Is Indicted for Murder

CANTON, o.. June 9.-The County
Grand Jury has returned an indict-
ment charging S. A. Lengel, former
Canton Chief of Police, with murder
last June of Don II. Mellett. Canton
editor. Four others arrested were
found guilty and are serving sen
tences in the Penitentiary, several
for life.
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Prominent Doctor Is
Convicted of Peonage

ATHENS. Ga, June 9.-Dr w. r.
King. prominent physician and farm
er of Oglethorpe County, has been
convicted OF peonage,
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HAlIaur PRICES

PRINCE RUPERT. B. c., June 3.
Halibut sales totaled Ill 900 pounds
today. American halibut sold for 6
and - cents and Canadian at and
13 cents.
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RAY AND ROY
De AUTREMONT
UNDER ARREST
Oregon Train Robbers Are
Caught in Ohio-Trio
Now Behind Bars.

3 U L LETIN STUEBEN-
VILE, June S.-Extradition to
Oregon has been waived by the
De Autremont twin brothers and
they will probably be taken to
Columbus for safe keeping pend
ing arrival of Oregon officers.
Evening star., 1927-12-04

to put 1t; or, in modern phraseology,
the individual is the victim of ances-
tral causes out of his control. Indeed
the tragedy is that man. so great.
should seem so helpless: it would be
a lesser evil if man himself were not
so like god Hence the terrible
lines at the end of Qdipus Rex-that
no man should be counted happy until
he is dead Sophocles hopes these ills
will be remedied, and counsels resig-
nation, like that German Sophocles,
Goethe to Heine. In each nation the
tibule to the rehellious radicalism of
Eurpides-as Job led Ecclesiastes, and
Goethe to Heini. In each nation the
road seems to go from belief to unbe-
lief, from hope to wondering doubt
religion as some one has. said. is at
the cradle of every civilization, and
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philosophy is at its grave. Let us
trust that man will some day make IL
religion, as some one has said, Is at
as children, and a philosophy that
will. be as true for laughing children
as for tired men.
X X u
1t seems ridiculous TO conclude this
story of Sophocles by telling how. in
his old age, he became infatuated
with the hetaira Theoris, and had a
son by her. His legitimate son Iophon,
fearing according to an uncertain
tale) that the poet would bequeath
his wealth to Theoris' offspring.
brought his father to court on a
charge of financial Incompetence.
Sophocles offered no other defense
than to read chorus from play
which he was writing; whereupon the
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begins to doubt the justice of 1t. and
at times he speaks with pessimism
as dark as Euripides:
Only to gods in heaven
Comes no old age, nor death of
anything;
All else Is turmoiled by our master,
Time.
The earth's strength fades and
manhoods glory fades;
Faith dies. and unfaith blossoms
like a flower.
And who shall find in the open
seats of men
Or secret places of his own hearts
love
One wind blow true forever?
(Edipus at Colonus II. 6O7fo
Man. in this dark philosophy, is
plaything Of the gods, as Lear was
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judges not only acquitted him, but
escorted him home.
Born many years before Euripides
he outlived him by several months.
and put on mourning for him; then.
in the same year. 406 Be, he, too,
died. 1t was his good fortune to pass
from the scene before the defeat of
Athens in the Pelponnesian War and
at the end of the heroic age. Pericles
was dead. Herodotus and .Eschylus;
now Sophocles and Euripides. and in
few years Socrates.
Legend tells how Dionysus appeared
to Lysander as the Spartans besiegcd
Athens and demanded a safe.con-
duct for the poets friends who wish.
ed TO bury him in the sepulcher Of his
fathers at Decelea. The Greeks rem
dered him divine honors: for in their
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noble conception all great men webe
gods. The poet Simmias wrote his
npitaph:
Creep gently, ivy, ever gently
creep,
Where Sophocles sleeps on I'm
calm repose:
Thy pale green tresses DER the
marble sweep.
While all around shall bloom the
purple rose
There let the vine with rich. full
clusters hang,
Its fair young tendrils flung
around the stone.
Dne need for that sweet wisdom
which he sang
BY MUSES. and by Graces called
their own
Copyright. 1927. by VIII Duran'N
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SOpll0c.es.

1.-THE natural gifts of Sophocles."
said Bulwer Lytton. were the rarest
that nature bestows on man-genius
and beauty" Consider the good for
tune of a man SO physically splendid
an animal as to be famed in his youth
for come1iness and strength and win
ner of the double prize SO praised by
Plato, for wrestling and music; and
yet mentally so gifted as to become
the most popular dramatist of his
time, to triumph again and again over
-A1schylus and Euripides, to write
great and successful play at the age
of 81, and to die universally honored
at the age of SO. Look at the remains
which time has left us of the busts
and statues made of Sophocles, and
see, even in age, the fine vigorous
body, the strong face bespeaking the
calm. clear mind. Here is Greek in
teiligence. and Greek art. and perhaps
Greek wisdom, too, at their summit.
He was born in 495 B. c., at a pretty
hamlet near Athens called Colonus;
he never tired describing the beauty
OF. his native place; amid it's groves,
sacred to the Eumenides. he pictured
with sad pleasure the wanderings Of
the blind and fallen Qdipus.
He grew up with Athens, shared
in her many-sided life. made friends
of Pericles and Herodotus. and played
for a time an active part in public
affairs. In the year 440 he was made
one of the ten Athenian generals
chosen to lead an expedition against
Samos; 1t is true that Pericles gently
suggested to him. later, that he was
a better poet than general; but it
is remarkable enough that poet was
thought of at all in such connection.
and indicates that Athenian writer's
differed from modern intellectuals.
Like Socrates, Sophocles sided with
the aristocracy in its effort to over
throw the democracy which Plato has
% mercilessly described; and when