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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-04-27
FORMER SENATOR
BEvERIDCE DIES
VERY SUDDENLY
Passes Away This Morning
While at Work = Death
Causes Severe Shock.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, April ~
Former United States Senator Albert
jeremiah b veridge died suddenly
this morning of heart disease. He had
been working upon his latest book
the lie Of Abraham Lincoln, which
is only one half completed. His
health has been poor but death came
as shock to his friends
One of the pioneer exponcnts OF
the direct election of all public off
cials, Albert Jeremiah Beveridge coh.
sistantly was unsuccessful as can
didate under the system.
Twice he attained membe ship in
The United States Senate from In
diana through election by the state
legislature, and twice he was rejected
as an aspirant for the same plac..
by popular referendum.
When Theodore Roosevelt bolted
the republican party in 1912 Beve-
ridge went with him. At the Bull
Moose convention in Chicago. tho
Hoosier, as temporary chairman ~.
tered the principles upon which tn
progressives relied for success.
Through the irony of circumstances
the measures which the progressives
aspoused and helped TO enact war"
deterrants to the ambitions of Beve-
ridge.
Tries to Return
Since his retirement from til, Sen
ate in 1911 Beveridga twice sought
to return. In 1914. he was defeated
as progressive candidate and il
1929 he won the republican nomina-
tion over Harry A. New but lost
the election to Samuel NJ Ralston.
the democratic standard bearer. IL
1912, Beveridge was defeated as tho
progressive candidate for governor Of
Indiana. r q. s...,,.
Beveridge's prominence was a.
firmly fixed in his literary career
and in his ability as an orator, as
in his statemanship. His Life .:
John Marshall is regarded as the
most Illuminating exposition of the
first chief justice of the United
States Supreme Court.
After year in Europe as a waY
correspondent for IA national weekly
magazine. Beveridge returned in 1919
to publish. on the evening of Am, =
icas entrance, a volume What is
Back of the War" which brough,
pitiess castigation from those VINO
saw in il justification of the Ge"-
man action. 1t was barred from many
libraries and training camps.
Born on Farm
That he should have attained pro
ficiency in many andeavors is more
significant in th1 light of Beveridge'S 5
humble beginning. He was born Or
tober &, 1862 on an Ohio farm which
gave back little more than a scan,
existence. After the Civil War tn
family moved to Illinois.
Before he had quite his 'teene
Beveridee had worked as IA farm
chore boy, a section hand on a
railroad, a teamster and logger. He
found time however. to complete
grade school and enter De Pauw
University. Greeneastle. Ind. Work
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-04-27
Wheeler Coming North
For Opening Navigation

SEATTLE April 27.-H. Wheeler,
General Agent of the White Pass ana
Yukon Route, has left for Skagway
and Whitehorse via Vancouver in
connection with the opening of navi-
cation on the Yukon. He will re-
main in Skagway during the summer
months and until fall.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-04-27
Seattle Man Nominated
Governor of Rotarians

TACOMA, Wash, April 27.-Henry
Nanny, OF Seattle. was unanimously
nominated Governor for the First
District of the Rotary international
embracing 81 Northwest Rotary Clubs
in Oregon. Washington, British CO.
lumbia and Alaska. The nomination
Is equivalent to an election. Seattle
was chosen for next years conyen.
tion. A golf tournament for 200 dele.
gates is being held this afternoon.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-04-27
THREE MEN DROWNED

CALICO ROCK, Ark, April 81
Three men were drowned late yes
terday in the swollen White River
while attempting to stretch a ferry
cable.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-04-27
LENA JACK FOUND GUILTY

Lena Jack, who was arrested yes
terday and charged with violation
of the Alaska Bone Dry Law and
disturbing the peace, was found gui.
ty in the U. s. Commissioners Cour,
this morning and sentenced to three
months Imprisonment. This is her
third appearance in the U. S. Com.
missioner's Court in the last six
months.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-04-27
RED CROSS FUND

t WASHINGTON, April 81. - The
| Red Cross relief fund has reached
over half of the S5,0o0,000 sought.
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-09
Patagonia Lots Up
To Supreme Court;
Hark Back To 1875

PHOENIX, Jan. S. up A suit
which harIxs back to the congress
siOnaI act of March. 3, 1875, under
which land grants were made to
the railroads, was filed in the state
supreme court today as an appeal
by the Richardson Real Estate,
Mining and Commercial corporation
from Il decision of the Pima county
superior court.
The record in the case says that
the New Mexico and Arizona rail-
road company occupied certain
lands to construct a railroad line
from NOgales to Tombstone through
Patagonia. The congressional act
gave the roads ~ strip of the public
damOin, 100 feet wide on each side
of the center ine, ara the New Mex
leo and Arizona, since taken over
by the Southern Pacific, filed on
that amount of land i'm 1882.
In 1856, James r.. Ashburn, prede-
cessOr of the Richardson company,
filed ON the section occupied now
by the town of Patagonia as N
homestead entry and patent was
was laid out and strips of land so
feet from the center line of the
railroad were made into town lots,
some of which have been sold and
some leased.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-09

the thousands of replies the follow
ing conclusion is based on the ma
jority of answers:
"Installment buying is the back
bone of Americas prosperity, by
leVelling out the production curve,
it has almost banished unempIoy-
ment, creating more jobs through
the increased production made neces>
sary by the tremendous consumer
demand. 1t has reduced the average
cost of necessities and IuXuries
through quantity manufacture. 1t
has increased wages, encouraged
thrift and ambition, prevented spas
moo c business depressions and made
it possible for the wage Garner Of
America to find contentment in the
possession OF those things which
even the rich of other countries
seldom can afford"
Fhe minority opinion holds, the
newspaper states, that '%nstallment
buying and selling is u menace"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-09
hstalln,eg1t Buying is Sound,
Surrey of Country Discloses

PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. s tP).-A
survey of the United States on in
stallment buying made by the Port
land Oregonian to be published to-
morrow states, the newspaper says,
that the predominating conclusion
of the six months investigation IS
that installment buying is economi-
cally sound"
The OregOnian sent questionnaires
to bankers in every city of over
$4,000 in turn to be distributed to
diversified businesses, as we'll as
leaders of industry and eco,
nomics. The survey, the news
paper says, lis the most comprehen,
sive ever undertaken on the sub,
jcct
The Oregonian says that the sta
tistical department Of the Lumber
mans Trust coppany bank, of Port.
land, digested sand classified the
findings Of the survey and that from
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-09
WOMEN, BABES
DFROn
NOBS

SHANGHAI, Jan. 8 (AP)
Refugees began arriving
here today from Hankow,
585 miles up the Yangtse,
where infuriated Chinese
thousands a t t a c k ed the
British concession Monday
and Tuesday and since have
held possession.
without money and only the cloth
ing they were wearing, some 300
British women and children were
kow Thursday with but scant no.
tice, some of the children being
carried away wrapped in blankets.
Refugees made the long river trip
in two badly over-crowded boats, the
Poyang and the Loongwoo. One yes
sci equipped to accommodate only
20 foreign passengers, carried 1872
The other, with a capacity for 80
had 1870 aboard
When the rioting Chinese took over
the British concession at Hankow
Wednesday, the British women and
children of the district were hastily
taken aboard ships in the river in
Communicated launches. AT first it
was thought the vessels would af-
ford the evacuators only temporary
refuge, but at midnight when the
situation became worse, orders Were
given the vessels to depart. The
vessels We're not adequately provi-
stoned, but, by means of rationing
sufficient food was supplied to every
one until the vessels reach Nanlling
where they were reprovisioned.
Shanghai organizations made am
pie arrangements to take care of
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-09
HOUSE CLEARS
To ACT
ON FARM BILL

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8
(AP) Completing hearings
on a half dozen farm relief
proposals, the house agri-
culture committee cleared
its deck today for action
on the new M c N a r y
Haugen measures with in
dications that a sharp fight
will result when it is taken
up Tuesday over it's equal
iaztion fee on basic COM
modities to control crop
surpluses.
Relief advocates also Were ready to
open fire in the senate where Chair
man McNary has orGered hearings by
the agriculture committee on the farm
question early in the week.
With farm leaders agreed that the
principal fight in congress will be
over the proposed equalization fee,
there was considerable speculation as
to what bills eventually would emerge
from committees. AS far as the house
group is concerned, the sentiment
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-09
LIBERALs I'm RETREAT

MANAGUA, Jan. 8.--(R-The liberal
forces which occupied Nandaime on
the Pacific side yesterday were forced
to withdraw today by the conservative
threats to lombard tlle village. About
1000 liberals are reported to have left
Nandaime for Las Salinas, near San
Juan Del Sur, where Diaz's represen-
tatives declared three gasoline boats
delivered arms for the liberals two
days ago. President Diaz reiterated
today that he was willing to have the
liberals participate in the govern
ment and also to extend to them other
concessions and general amnesty.
HALIFAX, N s., Jan. 8-(P)-Friei.ds
of Captain Brown Willis of the Mica
raguan steamer-trawler Clara Matthew,
held in Boston on charges Of liquor
smuggling, said today that he claimed
formerly to have managed a baseball
team in California
After the seizure of the craft. Cap
tain Willis divulged that the vessel
formerly had been engaged in gun
running in Mexico and Nicaragua, but
denied that the voyage during which
the trawler was seized had anything
to do with contrabands in arms. Yes
terday he was held in $4,000 bond and
the Is men in his crew in lesser bail
pending further searching of further
charges against them.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-09
"a RANDITS SUAIN

MEXICO CITY, Jan. P).-Eighty-
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-09

T., Jan. 7.-P)-Copper
dier; electrolytic spot
futures 1912. Lead
!; spot 1855. Bar sill
81.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-09
Big COLOR ADO
FLOOD is seen
in LEGISLATURE

PHOENIX, Jan. 8 (AP)
The special session of the
legislature adjourned at
noon today, after consider
ing for five days the
recommendations Of Gov
ernor Hunt for Colorado
river and state highway de-
partrnent legislation, but
without a look to the
events of the coming week.
Monday at noon the regular 60 day
session starts and with a prospect OF
a deluge of bills relating to Colorado
river development and the protection
of Arizona's interests in the muddy
stream which holds vast potentialities
for reclamation of lands, development
of power and a supply of water for
domestic use
All bills introduced during the spe-
cial session, one of which were acted
on, died today; but, in the opinion OF
members of both houses, their rejuve-
mated better selves will blossom forth
during the regular session to present
formidable problems for the law max
ers to solve.s
Two matters loomed today above all
others that will come under considera-
ton next week and for eight weeks
thereafter. Brought to head by the
call for the special session issued by
Governor Hunt, the Colorado river
problem-involving the question of an
appropriation and the appointment Of
a body to treat with California and
Nevada epresentatives-bids fair to
occupy good share of the time on
the floors of both houses.
Governor Hunt in his message re-
commended an open appropriation to
be drawn upon at his discretion Tor
the employment of engineers, lawyers
ard other technical experts and for
defraying the expenses of the state S
representatives at any conferences
looking toward a tri-state agreement.
The legislature turned thumbs down
on the proposal The bill was not re-
ported out by the agriculture and irri-
CATION committee of the house.
The highway controversy, precipl-
tated by the governors statement IN
his message that the highway depart
ment was carrying deficit of several
hundred thousand dollars" was crys-
talized with the Introduction of house
Joint resolution by Representative
Brooke of Yavapai county, calling for
a thorough investigation of the depart
ment's finances.
Governor Hunt yesterday informed
the senate ard house that he had
signed the joint resolution. Both the
governor and the highway department
have indicated that the books of the
department and those of the state
treasurer and state auditor are open
for inspection.
simultaneously the department in
troduced through Normal Abel, repre-
sentative from Cochise county, its Dill
calling for financial relief through the
launching of a $1O,000,0O0 bond issue
and the turning over to it of all re-
ceipts from motor license fees, the
gasoline tax and other pertinent
sources. The bill was not reported out
by the committee on highways and
bridges.
milford Wtnsor of Yuma county,
president of the senate, today appoint
ed Senators Sutter of Cochise, Thorn
berg of Yavapai and Waters of Mo-
have to a joint committee of six mem
bers to conduct the probe of the de-
partmental finances. A. NJ Crawford,
speaker of the house, at the same time
appointed Representatives Abel of Co
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-09
You Can Talk
To London For
$125 to $50

N E w YORK, Jan. s
(AP) -Outbursts Of wonder
and cracklings Of static,
which yesterday ushered in
the new transatlantic tele-
phone from New York to
London today gave way to
regular business"
The average length of today's calls
according to the American Telephone
and Telegraph company, was between
five an six minutes, costing the con-
versers between 1925 and $3.50.
Promptly at 1 o'clock the service
was discontinued for the day, that
hour being the sunset hour in London
and transmission being accordingly
more difficult.
Because of the press of applicants
who desired to be among the first
day takers when the service was
inaugurated yesterday the usual
closing hour was extended four and
one half hours permitting 81 calls
to be put through.
Hereafter, it was announced,
o'clock will be closing time" as
originally planned.
Some difficulty was experienced to-
day, not with static which restricted
communication somewhat yesterday
but in locating some of the persons
in London who had announced them
selves desirous of talking "any time
they were called"
The London Saturday found many
had left for the weekend Some
had left word they would talk Mon
day, and sixteen calls have been
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-09
SECRET ORDER
TO STAND BY
FOR ANY DUTY

SAN DIEGO, Calf, Jan.
I8 (AP)-Orders to organize
a stand by" battalion to
proceed anywhere at, a
moments notice were re-
ceived today by Lieutenant
Colonel William H. Prit-
.chett, acting commandant
of the marine base here.
The orders for the forma-
tion of the ready duty bat
talon came from Brigadier
General S. d. Butler now in
charge Of the marine corps
western mail guard.
SEATTLE, Jan. S-0P)-Captain Murl
Corbett commanding the United States
marine corps contingent guarding
mail trains and trucks in the Seattle
dispatch one-fourth of his men to San
Diego Immediately, there to await
further orders.
1t was understood in military circles
here that the same instructions were
issued to all marine contingents on
the Pacific coast.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-09
u. S. BANKERS BLAMED

MEXICO CITY, Jan. S.--CR-Pedro
Zepeda, representative in Mexico City
of DR.. Sacasa's liberal Nicaraguan
governments, issued another statement
today, saying:
The Nicaraguan people are tired of
being subdued by American bankers
and men in their pay. Like Diaz and
Chamorro, Nicaraguans will perish de-
Tending their sovereignty, the same
as the people of the United States
would do if their sovereignty were
threatened, as ours is.
"The only way to keep Diaz in
power is to have the marine fight for
him. The liberals have not provoked
the war which Kellogg has declared
against the weak and defenseless peo-
pie of Nicaragua, but who are ready
to give up their lives in that war if
necessary.
"The department of state, with the
humanitarian intention of numbering
patriots who do not accept as president
q despicable man, unfit to rule a free
people, is sending Daz arms and sup
porting him with United States ma
rines.
THE world must know that the
presence of foreign troops in Nicara-
qua only serves to fan great hate We
place on Kelloggs shoulders the his
i torical responsibility for reprisals.
appea Ito honest statesmen and the
American people not to have upon
their conscience the blood of Nicara-
guam patriots, which would destroy
the honor of the United States, al
though it would as the same time
erase the name of Nicaragua from the
map as free and independent coun-
try"
Senior Zepeda has received dispatches
from Costa Rica announcing that Nj
caraguan liberals have defeated Diaz
forces at Las Griestas, capturing 800
rifles, six machine guns, 10000 cart
ridges and seven carloads of food
stuffs. The yalso took prisoner
stuffs. They also took prisoner a
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-09
The Day In Washington

Congress debated the admin
istration's Nicaraguan policy.
The Curtis-Crisp farm bill was
discussed by the house agricu1-
tural committee.
Senate committee continues IN
vestigation into the Gould
bribery charges and Wood's
nomination
A petition in behalf of William
w. Wilson, contesting the eIec-
ton of Senator-elect Ware, or
Pennsylvania, was presented TO
the senate.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-09
SMARINES MOBILIZE AT SAN DIEGO
Aimee Mcpherson
Places Phoenix On
Her Lecture Tour

PHOENIX, Jan. R).-Afmee
Semple MCPHERSON, evangelist, is
to include Phoenix in her lecture
itinerary, Frank e. Lowry, di-
rector of, the Echo Canyon Bowl
association, announced today. She,
is scheduled to speak in the Bowl,
a natural amphitheatre, between
February 21 and 25. Lowry said
he talked with Mrs. Mcpherson
by long distance telephone and
confirmed the agreement by tele-
graph today. The bowl will be
prepared to accommodate 10000
persons.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-09
wRANGLE IN CONGREss

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. - N9 - In
marked contrast with silence MAIN
tanned at the White House and state
department today, the administration
Nicaraguan and Mexican policy was
discussed in the senate and house with
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-09

Los ANGELES, Jan. S.-(R9-PO-
lice officers late today asked the
city chemist to examine box of
figs contained in small package
addressed to Aimee .SempIe Nc
PhersOn, Angelus Temple pastor.
which was taken from a messenger
in the belief that it contained ex-
plOsives. The package came under
suspicion when man apparently
in an excited condition called at
the messenger agency and asked
that delivery be made at once to
the Temple pastor. The box was
rushed to an outlying police station
where its contents were revealed.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-09
GALES WOULD
LET THE HAGUE
END oil issue

N41<AAOO OAA y d4l'
(AP) - Mexico would be
willing to submit its new
petroleum and alien land
law difference with the
United States to The Hague
tribunal, although t h a t
would endanger Mexican
sovereignty, if such admis-
sion to The Hague were the
only way of avoiding a still
greater menace to Mexico.
President Gales made this declara-
tion today to group of visitors
from the United States headed by
Hubert C. Herring. who are sutdy.
ing the relations between Mexico
and the United States
The Americans who came here to
get first hand information on Mexi-
can-American relations comprise
writers, ministers of various reli-
gions, professional and business men
and social workers.
The president asserted that with
drawal by the United States of rec
cgnition of his government would
certainly cause an immediate revolu,
tion in Mexico and would be inter
preted by the enemies of the Mexi.
can government as an encourage
ment of such revolution.
Revolutionary movements were
under way at present, he pointed
cut, but his governments was sup.
pressing such efforts and furnishing
those responsible and would con-,
t.nue this line of action in every
place throughout the republic.
He contended that the issue be-
tween the United States and Mexico
and rgarding the petroleum question
was a false and fictitious issue, be-
cause the oil interests were not de-
prived of any right, but, on the con
trary, their subsoil rights acquired
before 1917 could be extended for
SO years by reason of the new con.
cessions and the law provided that
at the end of so years they might
be extended for another 80 years.
Thus. all the rights of which the
oil men complained by which they
were deprived were, in fact, pre-"
served for so years.
rs not the period OF 80 years
enough time in which to get out all
the OIL" the president asked.
HAS anybody ever heard of an
oil we'll lasting 80 years?"
Declaring that Mexico was not
bolshevik, he expressed doubt that
the members of the government
could even define bolshevism, al
though they We're accused of being
bolshevists. The Mexican govern
ment's program could not be de-
scrbed as that of any political or
scientific school or theory. 1t was
simply Mexican. 1t was itself; it
was born of MeXicos own peculiar
problems and was not q program
borrowed from anywhere outside
With regard to Nicaragua, Senior
Gales reviewed the history of Its
politics and revolutions to sustain
his position that the pretensons of
Nicaragua's conservative president,
Adolfo Diaz, were tllegal and that
was the only constitutional presi-
dent.
1.-TWO Nicaraguan governments
were establish ed-one of violence
and illegality, the other of legality
The United States recognized the
one of violence. That is all there is
to it,
81 BANDITS SLAIN
MEXICO CITY, Jan. s (H9.-Eighty-
New Britain herald., 1927-12-28
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KEARNS BUYS BAKER
Dappcr EN-Manager of Jack Dcmp- SC, Takes Over MiiChcl Field WcItcrwciSht for S25. 900.

New York. Dec. aS fIIo-The cauiitlowcr market, which had bull session with the purchase ot Jack Delaney by Joe Jacobs for S50,000. recorded q further rise to- uay with the announcement that Jack kcarns, the dapper eN-mAnager of Jark Dempsey, had bought Ser gcani Sammy Baker of Mi;chei Field for S25,o00.
 The purchase of two promin"n, fighters. neither champion, for such unpreced ntcl sums within Il
 week. has given the boxing bust ness an unusual stimulus.
 Baker, a wel'erwelght ~ho stop ped Ace Hulkins of Nebraska, has for some time been regarded as Jo" pundon's most dangerous challenger for 'hc pound title. With Hud- kinS and Dundee prevented from meeting for the present by ban imposed hy the boxing authorities in California, it is believed that the tS- uIt" kearns hopes to force little 1 fight for his new purchase some 1 time this winter