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The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-19
GOV. SMITH IS
 LEADING FIELD
 IN OREGON RACE
Delegation May Be Mixed But New Yorker Seems
 Certain of Instructions

PORTLAND, Gre, May 19.- Returns from about one-third of the precincts of Oregon indicated that there were about 10000 Democratic and about 90,000 Re- publican ballots cast Tn yestef- days primaries. In the returns so far received Gov. Alfred E. Smith has a decisive majority over Senator Thomas J. Walsh and Senator James A. Reed com bined for the Democratic Presi- dential preference. Secretary Herbert Hoover has no opposi- ton and got large vote for the Republican preference for Presi- dent.
 Gov. Smith took the lead in the Democratic primary returns from the beginning and he is continuing it as further returns come in. With 500 precincts out of total of 1,S42 tabulated, Gov. Smith had 6,045; Senator Walsh, 3,904; Senator Reed, D. 233. Walsh's name remained on the ballot after he had with drawn.
 With TIP precincts tabulated, Hoover, whose name stood alone in the Republican column, had 35,419 Seven voters wrote in the name of Gov. Frank o. Low den for President.
 Delegation May Be Mixed
 While the early returns indi- cate that there will be delegates both favcring and opposing Gov. Smith elected, the possibilities are that they will be bound to -- him under the Presidential pre- ference vote.
 Out of the thirteen candidates for the four delegates at large, Bert E. Haney, late Democratic nominee for Senator, and John Manning, Smith supporters are leading, with George Curry and H. c. Starkweather, the latter tHc w dlSh ltducl, IuHHiHS HSAl.
 In the First District, two Smith candidates and two Walsh can didates are running close.
 In the Second District, J. D. Burns, Smith candidate, led and M. N. Hill, Walsh man, was second.
 Close Race for Other Places
 A neck and neck race has de- veloped in the fight for the Republican nomination for Sec retary of State. With SO7 pre- cincts reported, Hal floss had 2O,S12; T. B. Handle, 2O,172, and H. H. Corey, 15,2S4.
 In heated fight over the Re- publican nomination for Supreme Court Justices, the two incum- bent candidates, Chief Justice John Rand and Justice Rossman led Judge l.. M. McMahan.
 Congressman w. c. Hawley had a substantial lead for the Repub- lican nomination for reelection in the First Congressional Dis trict over James Moot. In the Second District there is close race among five candidates for the Republican nomination for Congress. Former Gov. Walter Pierce was the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination. In the Third District Represen- tative Franklin Korell is unop- posed for the Republican nom ination for Congress and w. C.. Culbertson has no opposition for the Democratic nomination.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-19
CHANGE LEGISLATIVE POLICY

EVERETT, Mass, May 19-Re- turn to the policy of endorsement when desired of legislative bills has been authorized by the 1egis. lative department of the Massa- chusetts Federation of Women's Clubs. For the past year the policy has been to endorse prin- ciples only.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-19
Four Acquaintances Shoot and Kill Var
 Veteran in Seattle

SEATTLE, May 19.-Attacked by four acquaintances who were visiting in his home, Henry Wirtz, overseas veteran, was shot and killed last night.
 Mrs. Wirtz told the police she was returning with pail of beer, for which she had been sent by her husband. when she heard a shot. She entered the house to see her husband fall, a rifle in his hands. She seized the weapon and attempted to halt the slayers but they escaped.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-19
PEPPER POPCORN

MANHATTAN, Kas.-There is to be more pop in popcorn. Dr. A. M. Brunsen of Kansas State Agricultural college has develop ed a variety with a popping ex pansion of 30 volumes-almosi twice that of ordinary popcorn.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-19
COMSTOCK CASE GOES TO JURY
Judge, Giving Instructions, Says Both Sides Per-
 jured Themselves

SEATTLE, May 19.-Embody- ing in his instructions to the jury that both sides perjured themselves, Federal Judge Bour-
 quin sent the Comstock liquor conspiracy case to the jury.
 Judge Bourquin said: We are
 bound to say that in this case there has been an abundance of Justification, or perjury, on both sides"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-19
INCREASE IN I'VE INNS"

DELAWARE, Ohio = Twenty two girl students at Ohio Wesley. an university, asked at a voca tional conference what business interested them, answered: "Tea rooms"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-19
IVY IRks NEIGHHoR

TOLEDO, Ohio - Thomas M Swinton has sued his neighbor Olive Root, for $20,000 because she planted poison ivy. It has kept him i'll, he says, for three years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-19
OLD GUARD REMAINS

BERLIN - The Hohenzollerns have been out for ten years, but old regime officials still hold most of the offices. because they are trained civil service men.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-19
FIGHT POSTPONED

NEW YORK. May 19-The Mandell-McLarnin fight has been indefinitely postponed by Tex Rickard on account of rain
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-19

 Asturias is a gentleman farmerp much interested in raising crops and breeding hogs; but most of
 his prolonged sojourns upon his estates are passed in pallid re-
 taxation. Moreover, an inflam- nation of His Royal Highness' joints has set in of late.
 Second in line for the Spanish Throne is Don Jaime, 19, a thick
 set, powerfully athletic youth. but congenitally deaf and mute. He
 now "hears" by 'lip-reading," and has been taught to make intelligi-
 ble sounds; but Spaniards scarce ly deem him fit to be their King Remain the two child princess: Don Juan, IA, and Don Gonzalo, IS. The King has several times
 indicated that he considers Don Juan the most nearly fit among his sons to rules Frequently Don
 Juan betrays signs of hot, i'm | perious temper; but on such oe- casions His Majesty is more apt to exclaim, Isn't he cheeky!" and to smile contentedly. Last of the royal children are the Infantas Beatriz, IS, and Maria Cristina, 16. Both are young for their age," due to sheltered upbringing by British and French gov ernesses; but both are now ex- hibiting traces of self-emancipa- ton, such as restiveness upon
 being told how many pieces of candy they may eat.
 Among weIl-posted Spaniards there was emphasized, last week, the tentative character of the in- Guiries made at the Vatican as to whether any flaw exists in the marriage of His Most Catholic
 Majesty which could be construed as rendering it null. Should such a flaw be conveniently found it would be apparent that their Majesties have not been married all these years, and His Majesty would naturally be free to take another Consort and beget a per haps more healthy heir. So far as the attitude of the Vatican could be ascertained. last week, the Beatissimus Pater, Pope Plus XI, appeared to deplore the pos sibility that flaw could be found. His attitude resembled that of a secular judge reluctant to grant a divorce. In these cir cumstances, and because the Bri- tish Government would be sure to resent any brusque treatment of Queen Victoria Eugenie, it was intimated at Madrid that impetu- ous but shrewd King Alfonso XIII and wary Dictator Primo de Rivera are reconsidering any in tention which they may have had
 to ask the Vatican for an annul- ] ment.
 *An oIr moored alternative, viewed with repugnance by the King and Father, would be to transfer the succession to Prince
 Alfonso of Bourbon-Sicily, healthy
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-19

When eight boys were arrested for stealing at Caribou, Me, the court placed their parents on pro bation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-19

*An oIr moored alternative, viewed with repugnance by the King and Father, would be to transfer the succession to Prince Alfonso of Bourbon-Sicily, healthy and dashing son of His Majesty's elder sister. the late Infanta Ma. ria-de-las-Mercedes, Queen of Spain until King Alfonso's birth.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
With Other Editors
FROM CANADA TO PANAMA
(Chicago Tribune)

financial crisis be is rumored through the
Canadian National The purchase
suspicion United States
independence With
esi
will be linked north south efficient railroad
interruptions northern
however the full the
already achieved between the
the States between joining
oopera-
ton be anticipated matter
The canb
will
conditions the country would
that
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
Politics in Disaster

sinking the submarine s4 with the
particularly cataso-
n
particularly investga
been
determine if method cannot
President Coolidge Immediately authority
full impartial investigation and
might found to fit the
occasion ndiousy attack the
table the 40 should be
the display of
attempted political advantage
gradually
must be left
the equipment the modern
submarines.
the has
infoma
hitting the ndersea craft when to the surface directly in its
path
entitled unbiased disaster
political chickering's
responsibility for the awful placed at the door of
official should henceforh be
dispensed responsibility attempt
political thinking people
Secretary navy
demanding his
operation Of
the
undoubtedly
portfolio
the position which he
blame be for the tragedy,
confidence
not partisan probe conducted the senate the house
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
Lesson Of Loaf Of Bread

figures that
unsenfc of distribution
that pertains reference to the wheat consumption in this country
period public paid average
loaf passed LIS loaf to the farmer who raised the
miller railroads the
selling of the
the
his rghu share of the paid by the ultimate
S
bakery operation
producing bread his bakery
plants share the production
There to be something
which permits the
almost five times the extent that is the
figures given
tending that the poteeng
being deprived of
speak for themselves.
The unscnhfc distribution
if not world market
The farmer sells hide for 81
his beef at 10 cents
at 40 cents anywhere
pound.
Coolidge scientific marketing
farm relief that them
Neither high
tariff wheat it nothing
Canada quote
The entire trouble with marketing
BUTTON and subsidiary
the scientific organization of the selling producer
lasting relief This repeatedly by
aon and yet despite its self
tendency
an equalization fee that already has
While admitting legislation may passed for the benefit
OF the farmer the
lasting and logical solution and that through
alton of the farmers themselves
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
THE ARsENAL,s 1DLENEss
(The Davenport, Ia, Times)


Philip Kisey
the United States unpreparednes
Six eight months
after
soldiers the field
Failure
inferior equipment
the
We forced
of failure
The
philosophy policy
keeping machine
In directing attention to the inactivity
Chicago Tribune which widely
service to the nation
Public sentiment must first be the
value to- the nation The private munon
the people the country
J Will not be until an
arsenal that
We wasteful of public funds
polteer we with
ental at Washington to keep it bidding
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
BARBS

The hardest thing in the world
to hold, besides a royal flush, is
your own.
Biologists devote q great deal Of
their time to. cell life-criminal
courts too little
Be circumspect. One of the dis
advantages Of being a recognized
liar is you may want to tell the
truth sometimes.
Economist: A fellow who spends
all his money trying TO figure out
how to save, a little of it.
You can't always tell Just be-
cause a man is using floWery lam
guage is no sign he is handing out
bouquets
An official probe is something
that endeavors to find out after
the damage has been done what
everybody should have known be-
fore.
Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, 1nc)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12

WASHINGTON. - The game of jab
and counter-jab has been developed to
a science in congress. Frequently some
one puts over a fast one which is not
fully appreciated except by those ina-
mediately concerned.
Senator Dill of Washington, demo-
crat, introduced a joint resolution for
an amendment to the constitution
limiting all presidents to eight years
in the White House. There is still
some sentiment for drafting Coolidge
in a pinch and a vote on the resolu-
ton would be embarrassing to some
republican senators, for unless they
ducked to the cloakrooms their posi-
tions might later become difficult. In
any event, the resolution must be re-
garded as a slap at Mr. Coolidge.
No sooner was Dill's resolution read
than Senator Smoot, republican, arose
to his feet. He brandished a proposed
farm relief measure prepared-or spon-
Miles PoindeXter and asked that it be
printed as public document
Actually, Smoot was hurting har-
poon at Dill PoindeXter, who has
been lame duck republican ambassa-
dor to Peru for several years, recently
returned to the United States and an
nounced an attempt to regain his SEN
ate seat from Dill, who beat him by
less than 1000 votes in 1922 Hence,
Smoot was merely providing PoindeXter
with ammunition for the campaign for,
after the government prints it, Poin-
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12

deXter'S opening campaign shot may
be broadcast all over the state. Co
incidence can hardly explain the i'm
mediate proximity of Dill's resolution
and Shoots aid for Poindexter.
Some of the juiciest of recent gossip
has concerned Senator Dave Reeds
promotion of the investigation into
Hearst's Mexican slush fund charges
To attribute it to Dawes solicitude
over the good names of Borah, Norris,
LaFollette and Heflin is absurd.
Some of our best gossips point out
that Reed had just been licked in his
fight to seat Ware. AS soon as the
senate had voted to seat Ware, after
preliminaries in which Norris, LaFol-
lette and Heflin had all spoken bitterly
against him, Reed was UP with his
demand for investigation. Did he act
in revengeful mood? Even one or
two of the Vare-Smith supporters have
suggested as much.
Very likely someone put Dave up to
it, but who and why has not been ex-
planned His motive apparently wasn't
to Hearst. His political
strength lies in a city where Hearst
owns @ newspaper. He is attorney
and senatorial representative for Mel
Ion interests, which are large Mexican
oil well owners, and Hearst has been
soft-soaping Mellon for o long time.
All of which StirS up the gos-
sipers but leaves room for much more
lioht
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
LETTERS
lP&SEdi@
Sports Editor, Douglas Dispatch.

Sports Editor, Douglas Dispatch.
Dear Sir: 1 have just read an
article in Tucson paper which
says that a meeting OF representa-
tives OF several cities interested in
baseball viii be held in Tucson next
Thursday, January II. 1t seems that
Bisbee suggested this meeting and
invited Tucson, Nogales, Miami,
Phoenix, Globe, FIT Bayard and Chino
to send representatives to, Tucson.
The purpose OF the meeting, OF course,
is to organize a baseball league OF
class D caliber.
Douglas was not included in the
list OF invitations sent out by our
sister city. Are we going to stand
by and let Bisbee show us the way
to uninteresting Sandlot baseball?
Bisbee has snubbed us; probably she
said, "Those smoke hounds are too
tight, lets leave them OUT Anyway,
think Douglas should at least send
an observer" to this meeting, al
though / think it would De rather
rude since we are not invited
I don't want you to think that
I'm a nut" for writing this letter
I'm only asking you to do your best
to arouse the sporting blood OF this
city.
Perhaps you feel that the Copper
league teams that this city supported
couple OF years ago were flops
and that Douglas is not ready to
support q good baseball team. That's
mistake. The reason the teams
were flops was because their person.
mel consisted of bunch of ham and
eggers who weren't interested in
winning baseball games but easy
money.
/ You have heartily endorsed and
advocated tourist hotel and aviation
field. We have the hotel assured and
soon will have the best landing field
on the border All well and good
The city will prosper greatly from
these two institutions. But, will they
provide the entertainment which
Douglas sporting blood wants? No!
Are we going to pass this summer
again without baseball? Not if the
right men are put behind the base
ball movement. Men who are inter-
ested in clean baseball and not in the
advertising which a notorious ball
player brings to the city.
Mr.. Editor, those summer Sunday
afternoons are hot, wearisome and
sometimes lonesome. We can't all
go out to the various resorts near
us because we don't all have cars
Is Douglas going to let Bisbee snub
her? I'm not speaking for myself
but for several other sport lovers.
Yours for a good baseball team.
A Sport Lover.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
Reverse EvnIntinn

The motorist had had an accident
with his light car on the Brighton
road. He limped painfully to tele-
phone box and called up the nearest
garage.
Hello" he said, "I've turned turtle.
Can you do anything for me?"
I'm afraid not" came the sweet
feminine reply you've got the wrong
number. What you want is the ZOO"
Sporting and Dramatic Yarns
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
Wise Chink

Domestic problems said DR.. Stick
ney, noted settlement worked, "are by
no means confined to America. Even
staid, conservative China has them, as
attested by the following story:
"A Chinese husband, returning home
late from an exciting game of Lotto
found his wife waiting for him, with
the customary feminine fire in hel
eyes.
"'And where hast thou been all this
EVENING" she demanded.
GA clever wife temporized the hus-
band, never asks what her estimable
husband has been doing
"'And yet countered the wife, q
clever man may ask his wife
"'Nay!' interrupted the huS d
oh, my unobservant one, clever man
never has a Wife!'"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
Good-hv Fairies

''Young America is precocious,' an
nounced Mrs. Ellen Langley the
women's clubs lecturer. "Not SO very
long ago, a dear, old-fashioned lady
was trying to teach her little grand
child to put his toys away when he
was through playing with them.
Bobby, she said, let me tell you
a story Once upon time there was
little boy who never put his toys
away, so one day, etc., ETC.
"When she was finished; little Bobby
said: Now, grandma, I'll tell one.
Once upon a time there was cat
and it barked.'"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
Regular Duck

"The public would not kick so much
about the high price of labor, if that
labor were efficient" said Walter Mar
chant of the labor statistics bureau.
cit really does seem that the average
carpenter does not care what he does
to the paint, and the paperhanger can
wreck polished floor with little or no
trouble.
"Too many of our modern laborers
are like the plumber who had spent
nearly an hour at the kitchen sink.
The lady of the house, peeping in on
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
More Truth Than Poetry
BY JAMES J. MONTAGUE
ABREAST OF THE TIMES

Bill Smith was butcher for seventeen
years
And he drove such a prosperous
trade
Delivering sections of farm fatted
steers
That big pot of money he made.
His business still brings him in profits
galore
But his trade has become a career,
And William Jones Smith is butcher
no more
He now is Beef Engineer.
Tom Green was a tinker few years
His way through the streets he would
Wend,
And pause at the houses on Poverty
Row
To call for old kettles to mend. ea
But j. Thomas Green is the dignified
name
Which he uses to make it quite
clear
That at last he's abandoned the tin
kering game
And become a Repairs Engineer.
Jack Brown filled my car, just little
while back
Down the cid country turnpike a
piece,
He kept a garage in sooty old shack
And his clothing was rigid with
grease.
But now when I meet him politely ]
bow,
He is making ten thousand a year
For he is an Expert in Lubricants now
AS well as a Gas Engineer.
The trade that I follow wins little
respect
1t is looked on with scanty regard
BY the lofty elite and the naughty
elect
They have got little use for bard.
But although my income at present is
lean
L hope to enhance it next year
And I give notice now that hereafter
I mean
To be known as a Verse Engineer!
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
Knew the Make

Walter Anthony, the music critic,
had taken his car to the sanatorium
for an overhauling "And while you are
about it," said Walter, you might take
out all the promiscuous squeaks."
Listen, bo," was the reply "This
make of car don't have any promis-
cuous"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
ABE MARTIN

Th' Colonial Bridge club met
t'day t. knock Wesley MOOts' new
wife. Lots o. folks would like t.
know what "fascism" is, but they
don't know how t. pronounce what
it is they want t. ask about.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
Slight Resemblance

my boy" said the patronizing man
as he handed around the Flor de
Toofas, that's something like cigar
$50 II is," responded the victim after
he had taken a puff or two. What
is it?" Passing Show.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
Her Alone

Molly: Are you sure that Fred loves
you, and you alone?
Kathleen: Oh, yes; more then than
at any other time. Pathfinder.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
Dark Deeds

Pickpocket Gn fog): I've just landed
a gold ticker-softest guy I ever
handled
Confederate (wrathfully): It's mine,
you idiot And here's yours.
Passing Show.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
CTIcpEMGE

SUSPENSE
We've been waiting for quite while
for Will Rogers to say something
funny about Oklahoma.
Copyright, 1928, Bell Syndicate, Inc)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
THE GOOD

THE GOOD AND THE BAD OF 1T
We'd hate to see applesauce disap-
pear from the table, but we'd not be
sorry, to see it eliminated from the
popular vocabulary.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12

EXPLAINING A PUZZLE
Seats on the New York stock eX-
change cost $4,000 now. No wonder
the brokers never sit down.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO

Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Pirtle and
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Rice left yes
terday in Mr.. Pirtle's Cadillac for
Wilcox. En- route they expect to
stop at every duck pond in the
hope OF finding good shooting.
Mrs. Alfred Paul and small
daughter, Winifred, left yesterday
for Tombstone to visit for several
days.
Mrs. IT. P. Blevins and family
arrived in the city yesterday for
short stay. They were joined
here by Mr.. Blevins, who has been
at the Cabullona ranch.
Mrs. Tom Merritt left yesterday
for Ell Paso to join Mr.. Merritt,
who is employed as machinist by
the E. P. & S. w.
Mrs. Hattie Stout and daughter,
Azile, and Master Marvin Scott
left yesterday for San Diego. Mrs.
Stout and daughter have been Wis
iting Mr.. and Mrs. C. R. Scott for
some time.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
PZucked From the Plains

him, saw her kitchen floor flooded and
shuddered. Dear, dear! Look at all
that water she exclaimed.
"Oh, that's all right' replied the
plumber, I'm used 10 gettin me feet
wet"
Her Day Off
When Evelyn Edwards was a little
girl, her Aunt Florence sent her to the
store one Saturday afternoon, to buy
some lace. After wrapping it up, The
clerk said:
There is one and half yards Of
lace at 10 cents a yard; how much
does that come to?"
To which little Evelyn pertly replied
well, I'm not going to tell have
to study arithmetic all the rest of the
week, and I'm not going to bother my
head with it on Saturday"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
No improvement, Either
The oriental version
Of the old quip is,
"Who was them 10 ladies
1 seen you with" etc.
Arkansas Gazette.
Sized

Woman: want to buy some oysters.
Dealer: Large or small?
Woman: Well, they're for man
with a size 18 collar. Life