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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02

the security committee after nom
ination by Lord Cushendon of Great
Britain. The Englishman also appeal
ed to the committee to get down
to clear cut propositions as soon as
possible. His appeal made a deep
impression on the delegates
Litvinoff, who is closely following
the negotiations, told the Associated
Press that the speech of the Brit
ish representative was very time
ly. There is 4 very much in it to
which I can heartily subscribe" he
said.
Although the American delegates
were not present at the meeting Of
the security committee today, the
American position is that the United
States will gladly give due considera-
tion to it's recommendations
A Chinese delegate remarked to-
night that it was a. hopeful sign that
both Russia and the United States
are at least showing an active inter-
est in the security negotiations.
The impression here tonight was
that the United States would not
send any official observer as it has
been urged, although it is recog-
nized that the, presence of a Russ
Jan observer at the committee meet
ings may affect the Washington at
Titude
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02
Western New York Threatened With Floods
y y x = y y $500 + 7
Jupiter And Moon
Present Spectacle
Worth Looking For

* Jupiter and the moon will be !
Y in conjunction tonight, and while !
y the approach will not be excep- y
y tionally close, the spectacle will i
+ be notable owing to the fact that :.
Y Jupiter is the most brilliant y
X planet except Venus, and is at i
y present at its brightest. y
y A good test of sight will be to y
X see how carly in the evening y
r Jupiter can be seen with the y
r naked eye. The moment of clos !.
+ est approach will be 6:12 p. m \
+ A keen eye should detect the y
+ planet a short distance north of y
r the moon as early as $40 or pos i
y sibly sooner. y
= A fair idea of the moons east i
y ward IL lion may be gained by y
r. noting its possible relation to x
# Jupiter at $50 p. m. and at moon Y
4 set which VIII be about mid 4
+ night. X
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Y X y X Il ~ y X y y 81 y :* n 4
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02
BIENNIAL
HUBBUB GREETSI
SENATE PLANS.
Organization Problems Con-
front G.. O. p. Due to
PrOgressives.

WASHINGTON Dec. l H)-While
rather late in developing, the usual
biennial hubbub about senate organ
ization is in full Swing with the Situa-
ton admittedly full Of possibilities.
Western republican independents
have the power to upset the carefully
laid organization plans of the repub-
lican old guard by virtue of the close
division between the major parties.
Whether they will use it depends large
ly upon developments tomorrow at the
party conference for the selection of
candidates for senate offices.
AS the situation was assessed to-
night, it appeared as though the re-
publican leaders were a bit appre-
hensive that their plans might go aWry
and that democratic leaders were
wondering whether they would be
forced to organize the senate against
their wishes in view of the slight re-
publican majority.
At a conference today, which SEN
ators Borah of Idaho, and Norris of
Nebraska did not attend, the republi-
can independents under the leadership
of Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin,
definitely approved program to be
presented to the party leaders
Committee assignments as well as
opposition to some of the candidates
for senate offices were included in this
program, which was presented to the
old guard leaders. There was a dis
cussion likewise about demanding a
date for a vote on farm relief legis-
lation, but there wa S no definite
agreement on this.
The independents are divided among
themselves on the proposition of op-
posing certain of the senate officers,
some holding that committee assign
ments were far more vital than the
selection of subordinate offices of the
seante, such as secretary and sergeant
at-arms, and that the main issues
should not be subordinated to such
contests.
Some of the Independents are per-
sonally opposed to all of the candi-
dates on the republican slate and
should even a few of them bolt the
party ticket the democrat candidates
would be elected Whether there is tC
be such bolt still remains to be de-
termined
Some of the senators oppose the re-
election Of Senator Moses, of New
! Hampshire, as president pro tempore
both because of his participation ir
the last session filibuster and what
they regard as lack Of judicial tenn
perament necessary in presiding Of
ficer
Still others are opposed to the selec-
ton again of Edwin P. Thayer of In
diana, as secretary of the senate. Sen
ator Brookhart of Iowa, is especially
opposed to Thayer, who had charge
of the counting of the ballots in tht
contest brought against him by Sen
ator Steck, democrat, Iowa, who fin
| ally was seated
David s. Barry of Pennsylvania, il
opposed as sergeant t-at-arms because
of his refusal to carry out direction
of the special campaign funds com
mittee concerning collecting OF ballot
Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02
League of Nations
Takes First Steps
For Disarmament

GENEVA, Dec l, R-Before an
audience of two mighty non-member
nations-the United States and Rus
sia-the League of Nations today be-
gan efforts to arrange international
affairs so that the war god will be
driven out of business for lack OF
customers.
The special security committee of
the preparatory disarmament COM
mission held its first session to-
day. 1t was promptly warned by
Joseph Paul-Boncour, chairman OF
the French parliamentary commits
sion on national d3fc12se and presi-
dent of the foreign relations COM
mittee' of the chamber of deputies
that regional agreements are be-
| coming a menace to world peace
because they tend to introduce the
pre-War system of alliances
The committee saw in this an
allusion to the recently concluded
j Italo-A Albanian pact of defensive
alliance which the French concede to
be in opposition to the Franco-Jugo-
1Slavian treaty of amity and arbi-
tration ratified shortly before
/ M. Paul-Boncour asserted that all
regional pacts must be coordinated
/ and brought within the scope of
/ the League of Nations and that Ell
/ forts must centralize in building up
a general agreement for security
which would prevent misunderstand-
ingS.
/ Russia, represented by an observer
and not participating in the security
committee meetings, nevertheless
contributed an admonition that the
! frenzied piling up of armaments
amply justifies the fear of another
/ gigantic war The admonition was
contained in a supplementary COM
munication which Maxim Litvinoff,
head of the soviet delegation, de-
posted with preparatory disarmament
commission.
! Litvinoff did not spare America
! in his general condemnation of what
! he termed a dangerous state of at
| fairs, especially mentioning the ad-
vocacy by some Americans of the
use of poison gas. Litvinoff SEEM
/ ingly thought great deal about the
United States when he penned his
communication, for he warned that
! the we'll known expert General
Fries was convinced that an aero
chemical bomb weighing 1000
pounds and charged with Lewisite
could render ten districts of New
York uninhabitable, while hundreds
of tons of Lewisite dropped from
fiftye planes would make all of New
York uninhabitable for at least one
week.
Emphasizing the peril to human
ity in mans experiments to make
poison gas more deadly, Litvinoft
/ declared that empty promises and
chimerical hopes have caused peo-
pie of the world to become alarmed
and that the only means of pre-
venting a new cataclysm is to de-
stroy all arms, close all material fac
tories, djsband all general staffs ano
scrap all warships.
Edouard Benes of Czecho-Slovakia
was unanimously elected president o1
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02
CANDIDACY Of
IS
GIVEN BOOST
Vice President Has Half
Hour Conference With
President.
DENIES RUMORS
Had No Disagreement at
White House Says Gener-
81 Dawes.

WASHINGTON, Dec. !, R)-vice
President Dawes paused long enough
today during a round of calls on
President Coolidge and other high
administration officials to reitcrate
that he is not candidate for presi-
dent and that he favors the nom
ination of Frank o. Lowden
The vice president, who returned
to Washington last night, spent half
an hour with the president and
later emphatically denied publish
ed reports that he and Mr.. Cool
idge had disagreement during his
visit
Il had most pleasant visit with
Mr.. Coolidge" General Dawes said.
THE occasion was one when call
ed to pay my respects on my arrival
at Washington 1t resulted in a
conversation of half an hour about
the way we had spent our vacations,
the health of our families and gem
eral business conditions without any
reference on the part of either OF us
to politics"
Besides calling on the president,
General Dawes visited Secretary
Mellon, General Persfing and others
before going to his office at the
capitol where he conferred with a
number of senators. These brought
to him some OF the problems of Or
ganization and procedure, including
that, in the case of the contested
seats of Senators-elect William S.
Ware of Pennsylvania and Frank l..
Smith of Illinois
Among the callers on the vice
president we're Senator Reed repub-
lican, Pennsylvania, who is conduct
ing the fight for the seating OF
Ware. Reed reiterated his view that
Ware should be seated.
Senators George, democrat, Geor-
gia and Sackett, republican, Ken
lucky, also visited the vice presi-
dent
Other congressional leaders will
call on General, Dawes tomorrow to
pay their respects and discuss pro-
cedure on the convening OF the
senate next Monday.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02
RIVERS, LAKES
OVERLOOKING
FARMS HOMES
Many Families Temporarily
Homeless and Facing
Prospective Cold.
EXCESSIVE RAIN
Hundreds Of Miles of High
ways Impassable; Trans
pOrtatiOn Hurt.

ALBANY, N r., Dec. P-The
western half Of New York state to-
night watched with apprehension the
gradual encroachment of flood waters
from scores of streams and lakes up
on the settled communities and farm
lands lining their banks.
With one death indirectly attributed
to the flood, many families tempor-
arily homeless and facing hardshipS
with the prospect OF colder weather,
TRANSPORTATION facilities badly Grip
pied, and the limit of the rise not yet
reached in some places, widely sep
arated communities we're bending
every effort to avert disastrous flood
such as a month ago occurred in the
neighboring states of Vermont, Mass
achuSetts and New Hampshire.
The cause in both instances was
the Same-exceSSiv rainfailS over o
period of several days From Syracuse
on the east to jamestown on the west
"a distance of approximately l75
mileS-came reports of flood condi-
tions of varying severity although the
greatest damage appeared to have been
done in four or five counties of south
central and southwestern New York.
Hundreds of miles Of highways were
impossible,
The single fatality was reported
from Olean, where last midnight
neighbors of Ephrairn Head were forc-
ed to stand helplessiy by and watch
the burning of his home, isolated by
the flooded Allegheny river Firemen
who reached the dwelling an hour
later in row boats found the mans
charred body in bed.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02
COAL
Mines REOPEN
UNDER GUARDS

DENVER, Dec. C4a-Under the
protection OF national guard troops,
six northern Colorado mines which
have been closed since the I. w. w.
strike was called on october 18, re-
sumed operations today Although
only a few miners reported for work,
operators were confident that it was
an entering wedge that soon would
bring about complete working forces
Strike leaders said that the strikers
were prepared to stay out of the
mines until their demands were
granted
Re-opening OF the mines was with.
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02
US. May HaOe To Build
PriUate Penitentiary
For Leper Murderer

4 WASHINGTON, Dec. Up -
X Where to .confine a leper mur-
y derer is problem that, is vex-
y ing Attorney General Sargent
II and Surgeon General CumminS
y and the government may find
X itself in the peculiar position of
* having to build private dwell
y ing for a prisoner. The situation
T. comes cut Of the conviction of
X Edward Payton, an inmate Of the
X federal leproSarium at Carville,
X La, to serve a 10-year sentence
y for the murder of Lloyd Richard
r son, another leper.
Y In passing sentence the judge
+ stipulated that he should serve
\. 40 years in an institution to be
y selected by the attorney general"
y but an investigation diScloses no
* quarters in any institution in the
y country suitable for leper muir
X derer.
*
X :; x y - * 81 ~ 81 T - * * *
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02
DOTY MIJsTERED OUT

PARIS, Dec. 1 tR--Bennett j, Doty,
American soldier, who went back to
Morocco recently to serve the unexpir-
ed term of his enlistment in the French
foreign legion, after having been re-
leased from prison, will be mustered
out tomorrow Doty's commanding Of
ficer sent message announcing this
to the Associated Press tonight from
Sid Bel Abbes, Algeria, where Doty is
stationed.
The legionnaire will be given his
liberty at Oran and win embark Sat-
urday for Marseilles. Orders for his
release from the foreign legion reach
ed Sidi Bel Abbes last night
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02
FIX POWER PRICE

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. Ro--Ari-
zona engineers and experts tonight
were preparing figures on the price to
be asked Los Angeles for power from
Boulder dam, on the Colorado river,
and expected to submit their findings
to Nevada experts tomorrow, with
probability that tomorrow's session
would complete the rate schedule for
submission to the California Colorado
river commission and the Los Angeles
power and light bureau
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02
TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES MEET

WASHINGTON, Dec P)-Repre-
sentatives of 81 temperance and re-
form organizations of the country met
here today in the annual conference of
the national temperance council to
formulate campaign plan for the
coming presidential election.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02
BERLIN CIGAR LOCKOUT

BERLIN, Dec. ga lockout of
10000 persons in the cigar industry.
which lasted for three weeks, ended
today. All agreement was reached
granting a IL per cent wage increase.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02

Copper firm; electrolytic,
spot and futures, 1870;
lead firm; spot, $50.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-02

Friday Md Saturday fair;
little change in temper
ature.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-11-17

is & large one covering all that re- zion lying between Petersburg and Sitka on the South and Yaku- tat and Skagway on the north. It should employ more than one Public Health Nurse. However, one is better than none, although she must cover a very large field. The Juneau Chapter has led the rest of Alaska in the work which has been accomplished largely because a Public Health Nursing program has been carried out. Couple this with assistance ren- dered during the past year at Douglas and Rake following the disastrous fires which visited these communities and the record is one of which all members may well be proud.
 Why join the Red Cross? Ask us another easy one such as why bother to eat something daily or why cannot one get along with out sleep.
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ter publicly denied any implica- tion that his father had taken any responsibility out of MT. Mel lens hands.
 Once Indicted
 MT. Mellen was indicted in con- nection with the third deal for his efforts in blocking the plan of the Grand Trunk to invade New England with a competing line to Providence, R. I. He was charg- ed with conspiracy in violation Of the Sherman antitrust act, but MT. Mellen said he voluntarily assumed the responsibility of the indictment to shield MT. Morgan, whose health had failed.
 To the end, MT. Mellen said he was proud to be called "Mor- gan's man." and agreed that the bankers word always was law in New Haven affairs. He fur ther insisted that but for the bankers death time would have Justified the New Haven's out. side investments in the benefit that would have accrued to New England through successful con- solidation. He asserted that Mir Morgan a few months before Ae
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-11-17
PUBLIC HEALTH , NURSING NEED
 IS SET FORTH
Reasons for Nursing Serv- ice of Red Cross Chap
 ter Are Enumerated
(Bv LESTER D. HENDERSON,

Why a Public Health Nurse in the Juneau Chapter, American Red Cross? This question has been asked by some. The fol- lowing answer may not be the best but it is the one which sug- gests itself at this time. Because mankind is physical as well as mental and spiritual; because physical ailments do exist; be- cause the intelligent way to deal with any difficulty or problem is to have some one at hand who is trained to solve it; because the results produced indicate that real benefits have been derived; !; and because present conditions indicate a real need for the con tinuance of Public Health Nurs- ing work in this field
 What Public Health Nurse can do has been demonstrated ably by Mrs. J. c. Thomas, nee Miss Marie Falldine. and her pre- decessors who have been in the employ of the Juneau Chapter during the past several years. Due to the extent of the field, their work has been confined largely to the schools, although some general community work has been done. Space does not permit recital of all the good accomplished. It may be sum marized under the following heads: physical inspection of school children with follow up work in the homes where the de- fects discovered were of suffi- cient importance; assistance to mothers in the care and feeding of infants; the holding of clinics with doctors in attendance in va- rious communities; assistance and advice in improving lighting. heat ing, ventilation, facilities for drinking water, and general sani- tation and cleanliness in and about school buildings and homes. and actual bedside nursing
 Of what value is it to society to have brought about condi- tion were those who were about < to become blind now see; those who were lame now walk with ease: those who were deaf now hear; and those who had no abil- ity to learn because of physical ailments now learn with ease and confront the world with all their senses alert. These are some of the things actually accomplished by the American Red Cross dollar in the hands of the Juneau Chap ter through the employment of z Public Health Nurse. Abundant compensation for the effort and money expended" you say. and VI nSEoe with you.
 zho Jnneau chaptsr. \. B. C..
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C. s. MELLEN
 DIES AT HIS
 HOME IN EAST

(Continued from Page one.)
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powerful to be aligned against i. with a rival, proceeded to bid him away from the Boston post and made him second vice-pres dent. In this, his first connec tion with the New Haven he was instrumental in forcing the New York Central to give a larger di vision on business exchanged. In fluential stockholders of the New York Central gained the ear of J. Pierpont Morgan and caused him to take dislike to the young official. Feeling that a man in a mere $12,00O job could not afford to incur the ill-will of power. full banker, MT. Mellen went to MT. Morgan personally and told his side, winning the banker over When the latter in 1897 sought a man who could build up the Nor. thern Pacific it was MT. Mellen he selected.
 MT. Mellen's six years in the west made his reputation in the railroad field secure and in 1903 MT. Morgan recalled him to head what was said to be the banker 5 "pet" railroad. Mir. Melien's '.s- starred decade with the New Hay en coincided with a period when Wall Street was thinking only in hundreds of millions. Some of this splurge seemed reflected in the three most unpopular deals | the New Haven attempted during that time.
 Just before the panic of 1907, MT. Mellen gained control of the Boston and Maine, a merger which was to make the New Haven dom inant in New England. He later said It's acquisition came at the wrong time. being forced upon him to prevent the road going elsewhere. Subsequent efforts to protect the purchase from hostili- ty of the Massachusetts legisla- ture cost additional millions be- fore the consolidation was final ly legalized in 1909.
 Dea, over Protest
 For the second deal. the pu-. chase of the New York. Vest chester & Boston, MT. Mellen dis claimed responsibility. He said it was made over his protest, and that property worth only $5,000,- 900 eventually cost the New Hay en close to $35,0O0.0O0.
 MT. Mellen related at an Inter- state Commerce Commission in quiry that upon asking MT. Nor gan where $11.0O0,000 had gone which MT. Morgan's purchasing committee had paid down in New Haven notes. MT. Morgan asked if he thought he knew more about such things than the committee lawyer. MT. Mellen allowed he didn't" and when his directors pressed him still to find out, he said he offered to delegate any one of them to try to get the in formation.
 But they all 'ducked'," he tes- tified.
 J. P. Morgan, the younger, la
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Lewis E. Pierson President of the Chamber of Com of the United States, Lend possible support to the Red Cross in it's annual membership cam pagn for months the country has been thrilled by the work of that organization in dealing with the Mis- sissippi Flood"
 Wm Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, saysx We know that in the past year the Red Cross has met it's greatest test in peace time relief work in the Mississippi Valley For months thrilled by the speed precision and competency with which it performed the tasks of and relief"
 Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce. says With it's operations in the Mississippi Valley Floods-durng the period of which provided relief in fourteen other disasters in eleven States-the Red Cross stepped into of service"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-11-17

Juneau Chapter, American Red Cross has it's Committee calling all citizens of this City to enable this Chapter to fill it's quota towards swelling the membership of th great humanitarian organization to Five Million Members for 1928.
 DO TT NOW' gives place to "JOIN NOW'
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Note.-Observatons Dutch Harbor Kodiak Juneau, Edmonton Seattle Portland and San Francisco at n. and m. Juneau time
 rising the Interior The low southward central British Columbia and the Aleuian has fallen the Prbiof in other portions of Alaska Light at districts of Alaska the ana Valley where it l7 7a-
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building up the western line in six years rom what he described as little better than two streaks of rust across the prairie" to a fIourishing fast-ffeight system.
 Provokcs Public Storm
 With the Morgan power behind him, Ar. Mollen launched sweep. ing plans for the New Haven. as- serting that monopoly was best for New England transportation. In the next ten years the New Haven absorbed outside land and water competition to the extent of more than $200,OO0,OO0. The methods of the management pro voked public storm. Courts, legislators and the Interstate Commerce Commission arose to challenge Mir. Mellen and his as. sociates in their course.
 The heavy financial drain mean while threatened to break the back of the once prosperous New Haven company. It's stock slump ed, hitting thousands of small il- vestors to whom New Haven SC. .curities for generations had been sase as government bonds. Mr. Morgan died at critical time and the program finally came {, naught, leaving the New Haven piled with debts. In 1913 Me Mellen was repudia,oc by his di- ectors and he passed into retire. ment at the instance of J. P. Nor. gan, the son.
 Work vs. College
 Born at Lowell. Mass, Aug. 1S, 1851, MT. Mellen at IS chose a e26 a month clerkship with the Nor thern New Hampshire Railroad in preference to college. He >climh- ed rapidly. In 1884 he became general superintendent of the Boston and Lowell Railroad. Four years later he joined the Union Pacific system and in . year ross from general purchasing agent to
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died was about to finance the New Haven's requirements with a stock issue to have been under written at $120 a share. 3at'sa
 Since his retirement from active business MT. Mellen made his home at Concord, N. H., and had country estate at Stockbridge, Mass.