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mo MEDITATION

MANAGtA. Nicaragua, Jan. Is.
President Diaz has Informed the
Associated Press that his Near
aguan Cove rnment could not accept
the mediation offer made by Presi-
dent Jimincz. 70 Costa Rica.
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Offers $4,000 Reward
For Husband, Securities

SEATTLE. Jan. Is Mrs. Sarah
Scollard. "Hetty Green of La Salle
Street today through her attor-
neys. offered IA $10.000 reward for
the capture of her husband and
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SHOCKS FELT IN JAPAN

TOKYO. Jan. 1S--A Sharp earth
quake stoped clocks and tumbled
old walls north OF Hondo Island
The shock centered at sea.
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Many Rebels Are Killed

MEXICO CITY. Jan Is. Federal
soldiers have killed more than 100
rebels near Repatitan. State of Jilis-
co. These casualties are in addition
to 100 reported on Sunday.
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TART DENIAL
GIVEN CHARGE,
SEC. KELLOGG
Soviet Government Denies
Mexico Is Base of Com
munist Activities.

MOSCOW. Jan 1S.-The Soviet
government, through Foreign Mill
lister Livinoff has issued IA tart
dcnial TO Secretary of State Kelloge's
charges that Mexico is a base for
Communist activity against the Unit
ed States.
The statement says:
Statesmen and capitalists of coun-
tries have lately taken the habit of
covering Interference of internal af
fairs or aggressive aspirations in the
field of Foreign policy by playing
up the so-called Bolshevik intrieueS
and plots. II is simply an insult tn
Public Opinion were | to repudiate
such fantastic explanations
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SMITH is IN WASHINGTON

WA SHiNGTON, Jan 1S.--Frank
L. Smith. who has been named sue
cessor to Senator Mckinley, deceased
of Illinois. has arrived in Washing.
ton but postponed his appearance in
the Senate when it was learned the
Senators wished to complete consider
alton of the Lausanne treaty.
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11'e7e1@ II 1<1CF FI1SSOt'F' LAKE VIM
Static and fading caused by other worlds trying signal
Professor Michael Pupin of Columbia University and
internationally famous scientist declared Martha Atwood
Metropolitan Opera singer, injured in taxi accident in
New York Major General Mason NJ Patrick chief of the
air to be summoned to tel Congress the condition
of his forces. Professor Krsopp Lake Winn of Harvard
to make trip to Palestine to induce the Bishop of ST.
GATHERINGS Monastery to permit him to photograph rare
manuscripts there.
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Ridicuie 1s.H Scorn

MOSCOW. Jan. IS Ridicule and
scorn mark the editorial comments
Of Soviet newspapers regarding kel-
loeg's charges and Latin America Is
conceived as basis for Communist
activities against the United States
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LIBERALS RETURN TO ATTACK

MAN AUI 4, NlcaraKua, jan. IS.
General Iapata, Liberal Com
mander, with 200 soldiers. recently
driven across the Costa Rica from
tier, returned and has threatened
an attack on San Juan del Sue.
The Conservatives are rushing
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-01-18

Johann and Heinrich Meislahn.
S7-year-old twin brothers, are the
oldest twins in Germany.
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-04
CHARGES THAT FROM $4,000 TO
$4,000 WERE PAID TO JURORS
INCHICAGO CASE, MADE MONDAY


CHICAGO, Jan. 3.-(PJ-Charges that
from $4,000 to $4,000 and possibly a
much larger sum was paid to members
of the fededal jury that recently ac-
quilted former Sheriff Peter M. Hoff-
man and seven other officers on a
charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice
were made tonight by Hope Thompson,
first assistant United States district
attorney, after day spent in Dues
tioning three men who are under ar
rest, one of them a deputy United
States marshal
Those held are:
Leo Tashjian, deputy United States
marshal; Joseph Plunkett, son of a
former police captain, and L. c. Moran,
an attorney. They were taken into
custody after Thomas Smith, deputy
United States marshal in charge of the
venire from which the federal jury
was drawn told Thompson that Tash-
jian sought to induce him to see that
Zim Plunkett's name was drawn for
jury service.
He said that card bearing Plunketts
name was handed to him by Tashjian
and that on the back was a notation
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-04
USED
TO SEARCH FOR
mis- SING MAN
Texas Man Believed to Have
Been Attacked by Wolves
Near Falls City.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. lP.---
Posses and an airplane were called
out late this afternoon to search for
Cecil Garner, 20, thought to have
been attacked by a pack of wolves
in the sparseIy inhabited hills wesl
of Falls City, Texas, 20 miles from
here Garner, with his younger
brother, Munroe, were hunting SUM-
Gay morning when their pack Oh
eight dogs jumped wolf and gave
chase. Cecil Garner followed the
dogs but the younger brother was
unable to keep up with him ana
Jagged behind, finally losing the
chase and returning to his home.
Late Sunday the dogs returned
weary and showing evidences of {.
fight. Gamers brothers believe that
the hunter and dogs were attacked
by hungry wolves
1t was hoped to cover a large part
of the territory by sundown and re
sumo the search tomorrow IF neces-
sary,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-04
State OFFICE
HOLDERS SWORN
IN ON MONDAY
Mrs. Anna Froh1niller and
J. ]. Callaghan Are Two
Newly Elected Officials.

PHOENIX, Jan. 3 R.-Mrs. Ana
Frohmiller, state auditor, and j. J..
Callaghan, state treasurer, today
took their oaths of office together
with all reelected heads of depart
ments.
Mrs. Frohmiller announced the ap,
pointment of new office staff.
L. G. Stephenson, of Phoenix, was
named deputy state auditor. Other
appointments of Mrs. Frohimllei
were Harry Hegele, Phoenix, claim
accountant Mary Frances Jake,
Flagstaff, assistant warrant regis
trar; Deane Averell, Phoenix, assis-
tant bookkeeper and Estelle Bjerg,
of Flagstaff, stenographer.
Gallagher announced but one
change in the state treasurer's Of
flee personnel. Miss Pauline Bone
stenographer, formerly employed in
the office of F. r. Duffy, was named
stenographer. Howard j. Smith, dep
uty state treasurer, was reappointed
as We're Neri Osborn, Jr., Inheritance
tax collector, and Harry Moore,
bookkeeper.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-04

indicating that it would be worth "15
grand" which he took to mean $4,000,
to place Punkett on the jury. Smith,
however, said he made no attempt to
have the name drown for jury service.
but instead turned over his information
to Thompson.
Clarence L. Converse, a special fed
eral intelligence agent, said that Tash-
jian had made a clean breast of it,
while Moran, he said, had admitted he
attempted to have PlUnkett's name
placed on the jury, but said that only
$500 and not $4,000 had been offered.
Other federal officials said that dam
aging admissions amounting to a cam
fession had been obtained from at least
one of the three" while federal officers
charged that several thousand dollars
had found their way to the jury, They
found indication Of the source.
Thompson said he intended to pursue
his investigation all night and would
present the entire case to the new
federal grand jury to be impanelled
tomorrow.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-04
j. S. NAVY TOO
Weak, FEELING
OF LAWMAKERS
Barrage of Criticism Drawn
i'm Both Houses on Naval
Appropriation Bill.

WASHINGTON, Jan. tP;.-Draw-
ing a barrage of criticism of the
American navy from both sides OF
the capitol, the naval appropriate ON
bill was reported today to the house.
The verbal shells We're merely range
finders for concerted attacks to be
delivered when the measure, carrying
$314, ,552, $50 for activities during the
next fiscal year. runs the blockade
of big navy men in both houses.
While the bill still was in the safe
harbor of the appropriations CONS
1nittee before the house met, a plan
was brewing among naval committee
members to demand elevation of the
guns of American battleships tc
equal the firing range of British anc
Japanese Warcraft.
That certain members of the com
ml.ttee were preparing to ask con-
Continued on Page Three1
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-04

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 lP-Con-
tending that the Diaz government in
Nicaragua never should have been
recognized by the United States, Sen
ator Wheeler, democrat, Montana,
intrDduced a resolution today de-
mabding immediate withdrawal of
the american forces from that coun-
try The measure charged that the
American sailors and marines were
blocking the efforts of DR.. Juan
Sacasa to restore constitutional gov
ernment" The order of Rear Admiral
Latimer in declaring Pureto Cabezas
as a neutral zone, and the establish
ment of censorship there were
cited as F'hindrances" to the Sacasa
movements success.
The Diaz government, it was
charged in the resolution, was IL
legally elected and sit must have
been apparent to the state department
that Diaz could not maintain stable
government without the aid of Amer
lean gunboats and American marines.
Dr. v. T, Vaca, Washington repre-
sentative of Or. Sacasa, in state
ment asserted that mot a single
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-04
Attorney General and As
sistants Search For Pre-
cedents on the Matter.
SUFFER- OBJECTS
Recess Taken While Mat
ter is in Hands Of the At
torney Generals Staff.

PHOENIX, Jan. 4 (AP)
Late today state legisla-
tors and the governor Of
Arizona We're marking time
in the state capitol, while
John w. Murphy, attorney
general, and his assistants
were searching for preced-
ents to establish whether or
not the special session of
the eighth legislature con-
vened under the call of
Governor G. w. P. Hunt,
dated December "a, was
legal.
Operating under the call, the legis-
lators met THIS morning and COM
pleted organization, according to the
slate prepared by the democratic.
sutter, of Cochise county, in tho
upper and Representative M. J.
Murphy, in the lower house, raised
the question as to whether Governor
Hunt had legal right on December
"A to call a session of the legislature
to convene after the expiration OF
his current term of office.
Thereupon d recess was taken
while the matter was referred to tbs.
attorney Ageneral. Upon the attorney
generals informing the senate that
TO decision would be forthcoming
before tomorrow, the legislature took
an adjournment until Tuesday morn
ing.
Governor Hunt had already trans
mittEd his message on Colorado river
development and the Financing of the
highway department to the legis
lature prior to the raising of the
question of legality of the call Ac,
tion on receiving and reading of the
message was deferred until the de.
cision of the attorney general is re-
ceived. Neither Governor Hunt, the
president of the senate nor the
speaker of the house would make
any statement concerning the fate
of the special session, except that
the governor indicated that if his
former call was declared illegal he
would forthwith issue a new call
With Dan P. Jones, Maricope
Continued on Page Three).
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-04
Smith CHARGES
BRINGS SPLIT
IN U. 5. SENATE
Solons Pave Way to Bar
Smith by Turning. Nye's
Papers to Committee.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (P-A wide
open split over the question of tenn
porarily seating Frank l.. Smith as i
senator from Illinois, while his
credentials are being investigated, de-
vcloped today in the senate.
Republican leaders had hoped this
might be done, but democrats IN
conference found themselves in sub
stantial agreement that Governor
Smalrs appointee should be barred
from the senate until after the cleo
tions committee holds a hearing and
makes report.
Smith, appointed to fill the uneX-
pired term of the late Senator Nc
Kinley, whom he defeated in thf
illinois primary last spring, still KEPT
the senate guessing as to when, il
at all, he would present himself tc
take the oath.
Senator Deneen, republican, Illinois
who returned to Washington today
from his state after conferences witt
Smith and Small, gave little en-
Continued on Page Three)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-04
BOULDER, Colo,
DRY Lacquer Is
wet, Says WIFE
Says Mate, Heading Dry
Organization, Keeps Booze
For Own Use.

BOULDER, Colo, Jan. (P.--
Hypocrisy is one of the allegations
set forth in suit for divorce filed
in the Boulder district court today
by Mrs. e. A. DeLong against her
husband, Ira M. DeLong, for more
than 3years a member of the Uni,
versity of Colorado faculty. Mrs.
DeLong clafsns in her complaint that
while Professor DeLong was sup
posed to be a Christian gentleman
living at home in harmony with his
family he kept bottles of liquor hid
den behind a pillow in a closet OF
the house" DeLong is president OF
the Boulder dry league.
The plaintiff is 70 years of age anG
Mrs. DeLong is 70. They We're mar
ried in Monroe, Iowa, March %, 1879
Mrs DeLong claims that 33 of her 47
years of married life have been years
of suffering due to the alleged
cruelty of her husband.
DeLong holds many public offices
IN Boulder He was head of the
mathematical department of the Uni
versity of Colorado when he was re-
tired in 1925. In addition to his
office as president of the Boulder
Dry league, DeLong is president OF
the Mercantile Bank and Trust com
pany, president of the Boulder
Building and Loan association, presi
dent of the Boulder Lions club ant
la former president of the Colorado
Mathematical society.
NT,,,, mar a,aou :, 1lauae or,,o1t,r -,
Continued ON Page Six)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-04
Governor Ferguson Has
Granted Clemency To A
Total OF 1919 To Date

Austin, Texas, Jan. 3 (P).-Gov-
crnor Miriam A. Ferguson today
commuted to short terms the life
Imprisonment sentences of two
men, each convicted of murder iii
connecting with the staying of a
relative, granted ~ full pardOns
and one parole, increasing her
cIemency proclamations to 2,979
All Indications are that her elem,
ency procIamatiOns will pass the
5000 mark before she leaves of
flee at noon january is ut the
end of "a twO-year term. She has
granted 100 full pnrdons and s15
condition par;lOns.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-04
OBREGON BUSY
WARNING UPON
REBEL YAQUIS
RebelIious Indians Not YETI
Receiving Ammunition
From United States.

ABOARD TRAIN WITH GENERAL
OBREGON, VICAN, Sonora, Jan. z
delayed (R).-Turning the tables on
his foes at the very spot where Sep
tember ~ last he was captured by
the Indians, General Obregon had q
Yaqui prisoner at his mercy at high
noon today.
1--WE have lost all by our foolish
ness" the prisoner, Rtberto Cas.llas
told General ObregIon. Cassillas il.
co years old. A staff correspondent
of the Arizona Daily Star and the
Associated Press was present at the
interview.
The correspondent put severa.
questions to the prisoner who was
captured near Vicam by forces under
General Roman Rocupcio, with head
quarters at Htihaya, where Casillas
was taken aboard Obregons train
Casillas said he was a member of a
band of 300 YaGuis operating near
here.
"Matus is to blame for our trou-
ble," the prisoner said Asked by
the correspondent whether the
Yaquis We're obtaining munitions
from the United States, he replied
mot yet" The Yaquis are on the
warpath in real earnest About 1Oo
came down from the hills, yesterday
but were scattered by Rocupicio's S
troops. A federal airplane flew
over this train today,
AS part of the trip south from
Pitahaya and from Ortiz to Navojoa
Continued on Page Three)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-04
Merchants Hang Out "Do-
ing Business as Usual
Signs.
VOLCANO BUSY
Earthquake Rehabilitation
Committee Will Meet In
CalexicO Today.

CALEXICO, Calf, Jan.
I3Y (AP)-Four sharp earth
tremors since midnight last
night accompanied by sub
terranean growls, marked
what is believed to be a ser
les Of readjusting contor-
tions along the San Andreas
earth fault in Imperial val
ley where a series Of heavy
shocks beginning Saturday
morning did extensive dam
age here and in Mexicali
across the international line
in Lower California.
No new. damage was caused by the
most recent shocks and merchants
hung out doing business as usual
signs. A systematic cleanup of streets,
stores and other buildings was under
way before the usual start of the busi-
ness day, while wreckers began tear
ing down the remaining three walls of
the police and fire stations A side
wall collapsed during the first heavy
shocks and it was decided to raze the
weakened building.
Persons arriving here from Mexico
said that Black Butte volcanic noun
tain, 40 miles south of the border, had
been emitting smoke and vapors since
the start of the qualtes. Black Butte
is believed to be the southern terminal
of the San Andreas fault, which runs
generally southwark from point
north of the San Francisco bay region.
The earthquake relief committee ap-
pointed by Major I. ]. West will meet
tomorrow to formulate plans for fl
nancing rehabilitation work. The COM
mite sent an appeal to Los Angeles
banks Sunday for loans at low interest
rates Mayor West said the county
board of supervisors would be request
ed to reduce taxes as an aid to prop
erty owners who sustained building
losses.
Wrecking of buildings thought to
badly damaged to be repaired probably
will be held up except in the case of
fire and police station until COM
missioner arrives here from the state
housing department and insurance ad-
justers make inspections
Miss Naomi Stutzman, field repre-
sentative of the American Red Cross
headquarters, Pacific division, at San
Francisco, arrived here and made
preliminary survey She said she did
not believe any home rehabilitation
work would be necessary and that
emergency measures were needed. An
offer by the Salvation Army to send
(Continued on Page Three)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-04
QCAKES CONTINUE IN IMPERIAL VALLEY
Eighth Legislature Meets, But Marks Time
Judge Ross Becomes The
Arizona Chief JUS tice
For Third Time Monday

PHOENIX, Jan. 3 (P.-Justice
Henry ID. Ross for the third time
was elevated today to the posi-
tion of chief justice of the Arf-
zona supreme court, thereby es.
tabIishing "a new record for ten.
ure of the highest judicial posi-
tion iTa Arizona.
Chief Justice Ross has been Il
member of the supreme court OF
Arizona since statehood. The
state constitution provides that
justices shall become chief JUS.
ticcs during the last two years
of their respective terms. Chie1
Justice Ross, therefore, will serve
iii this position until January 4,
1929, ant which time justice AIfred
G. Lockwood will become chief
Justice.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-04
I:lLL WOULD HAVE SUMMER
WHITE HOVrSE IN COLORAT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 P).-The
desire of western members of con.
his summers in the west led Rep
rsentative Taylor to introduce biH
today calling for an appropriation
of $25O,OOO for summer White
House in Rocky Mountain national
rark, Colorado.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-04
Controversy Over Poison
Alcohol Deaths Becomes
Acrid During Debate.
HEATED ATTACK
CelIer Says Congressmen
and Senators "Drink, and
Drink to Excess.
WASHINGTON, Jan.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8
(AP) - The controversy
over deaths during the holi-
day season from the drink
ing of poisoned alcohol
reached both the senate and
house floors today as soon
as congress reconvened.
At both ends of the capitol the
personal conduct of members in the
observance of the dry law was ques-
toned, and before sundown the dis
cussion had, reached the treasury
where both Secretary Mellon and
Lincoln c. Andrews, the prohibition
enforcement chief, issued statements.
While Representative Celler, dem
ocrat, New York, was accusing his
colleagues in the house of drinking
to excess" Senator Edwards, demo-
crat, New Jersey, in lengthy speech
in the senate was condemning the
hypocrisy of some of the represen-
tatives of the people who vote dry
and drink wet"
Celler declared that members of
both house and senate, drink, and
drink to excess" and called upon
them to keep poison out of indus
trial alcohol to protect those who
ape their betters."
During the day both houses We're
also called upon in bills and resolu~
tions to take cognizance of the in
dustrial alcohol situation.
Continued on Page Three)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-04
YOUNG TO TAKE SEAT AS
CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR TODAY

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Jan. QP.-
The forty-seventh California legis-
lature convened today and soon or
ganized, with E. G. Levey, San Fran
CISCO speaker of the assembly. Gov.
ernor-elect C. G. Young will be in
augurated as governor tomorrow.
He, as lieutenant governor, presided
for the last time in the senate.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-04
OUTBREAK AT sUMAumA

PADANG, Sumatra, Jan. (P)-A
number of subversive outbreaks in
the Siioengkang on the west coast OF
Sumatra, brought death to 80 in
surrectionists, while many others
were arrested. The trouble started
Saturday night, when armed native
bands attacked government offices
and police barracks and cut telegraph
lines at several points.
Those involved in the insurrectior
are described as communists and the
movement is said to have been similar
to the abortive revolt in Java, an
Continued on Page Three
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-04
WHEELER CONTENDS u S. ERRED
IN RECOGNIZING DIAZ. REGIME
INNICARAGUA AGAINST SACASA

Mexican officer is to be found in
Sacasa's army but az the same time
declared the sailing of United Fruit
companys ship Abangaria with an
airplane and bombs for the Diaz
forces was ample Justification for
any assistance which might be given
to Sacasa by Mexico. The Abangaria
is said to have sailed from New
Orleans on December %, to the
Nicaraguan west coast.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-04

N. Y, Jan. S.-P)-Copper
quiet; electrolytic spot and
futures 1926 to 1897. Lead
dull; spot 7.S0. Bar silver
54.
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27 OSOB ZAHYNULO
MA MICHIGAN JAZERI

Vo stvrtok minuleho tyzdna "a
topil sa Michigan jazeri pri
Chicagu vyletny parnik Favorite,
ma ktorom bolo q vyletnikov.
Tito vsetci zahynuli. Pri vysetro-
vani vySlo ma javo, ze zachranne
pasy boly pohnite preto sa zia-
den vyletnik nemohol zachranit
TieE bolo zistene, re parnik boil
.dostatocnt len pre- 10 cestovate,
l'ov a 3 namorn7kov, kdezto mai
povolenie vozit' az 15S cestovatc.
low a 10 namornikov. Medzi "a.
hynutymi bolo I malNch dieveat.
9 chlapcov. 10 zien a jeden chlap.
Dl'a narodnosti medzi zahynltyy.
mi boli Cesi.
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VEL'KA SLAVNOST
IKSzJ. v CLEVELANDE

V Clevelande bola v nedel n
vel lka oslava 30. vyrocia zaloze-
MIA I. Katolfckej Slovenskej Zen
skej Jednoty. Boil vel ky pochod,
v ktorom ,bralo ucast' 10000 l'u-
di. V mestskom auditoriume osvp.
biskup Schrembs NAL pontifikal-
nn sv. omsu a Msgr. Blahunka
slavnostnn kazen. Vecer bod ham
ket Cleveland hoteli, ma ktorom
recnil biskup Schrembs po sloven-
sky, mayor Clevelandu, red jed
noty Hnsek, hi. preds. H. pi. ia
kabainova, hi. irctovnHka pi. Slif-
kova, Rev. j. M. Lisdinsky, byy.
duchoyny XII. a mnohi ini. 2 me-
sta Yolngston blizkeho okolia
ma slavnosti bolo vyse 200 osob.
Zakfadatel 'ka, pi. Hutrbanova bo-
la ,odmenena krasnym darom. I.
X. s. z. J. ma teraz 5000 Glen
stva polstvrta miliona majetkn.