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The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-06
PASTOR STRUNG UP BY THUMBS BECAUSE HE REFUSES TO MARRY
 MIN AND GIRL, BOUND IN CHAIR

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6-D.s trict attorneys investigators are baffled here by the weird story of abduction and torture of Rev. F E Webb, former Portland, Ore minister.
 According to the Rev. Webb who was at one time associated with churches in Indianapolis and other eastern cities he was walking near his home when nil automobile containing six mon stopped and asked for his assist ance.
 He got into the machine and was driven to a large house. where three others were waiting He said he was led into room, where to his amazement he dis. covered young and beautifrl woman gagged and bound to q chair One of the men stepped forward and demanded that hs and the girl be united in marriage and when the minister refused he said he was seized by the men in the party and strung up b, his thumbs. This treatment was repeated until he fell unconscious Several hours later he came C on street corner and made his way home.
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GIVES. ADVICE l TO NEWSP AYERS
P resident in Dedication Speech Asks Coopera-
 ton with Government

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6-De,Il- eating the new National Press Club here Saturday night, Presl- dent Coolidge declared that the American newspapers should co- operate with their government in International Affairs and extend to foreign interests tolerant and sympathetic candor.
 The President laid down the principle that the Government r. self Is charged with the conduct Of International relations and sug- gested that when the press under takes to exert influence in behalf of foreign interests the "candor of the situation would be greatly increased if their foreign con neetions were publicly disclosed. 7
 Foreign Interests, the Frost dent said, have the privilege of heinz represented in the United States and their right to fair treatment is acknowledged. but when foreign governments are represented here. their. agents are required to come publicly ac- credited and should be publicly received"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-06
WARE ANSWERS
 GO M P LIANT IN
 ELECTION CASE
Declares Contest Is Cow. ardly Attack Without
 Any Justification

SHIN TON. Feb G. Charges of conspiracy made against him by William B. Will son, Democrat, in the contest over the Pennsylvania election of 1926, are declared by William S. Ware, Republican Senator-elect, to be wholly false, wilfully made and without the slightest fondation in trust or fact and is a cowardly attack without any justification.
 The above statement is in the answer filed with the Senate El- ections Committed Continuing Senator-elect Ware, says: "It is q wanton assault upon me made solely for the purpose of securing Il recount to which the com plaintant heretofore is not en- titled and the oath attached therto, averting the truth there of, is wilfully false. The declara- tlon is not based on any infor- nation as to my conduct"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-06
AUSTRALIA FORCES
 AHEAD INV AVIATION

MELBOURNE, Australia. Feb. 6 Australia New Zealand and Tasmania are taking seyen-leagIe steps in aviation.
 With the addition of s1 ,000.000 a year to her present annual air budget of s575,000, Australia is setting out to inaugurate new routes and add to old ones These will give her the leadership of the British donlinions in the air, the largest per capita expendMure on civil aviation in the world ara. Australians assert. the largest mileage of air rontes, not exclud- ing the United States and Ger many.
 The commonwealth government
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PTS tons net, and 150 feet long, $ the Samson. It Is especially built for combating floes of Ice and pushing it's stubborn nose through floating ice fields. It is three master, equipped with an auxiliary steam engine.
 Efforts are being made to ob- tain Captain o. Visiting, Roald Amundsen's mate on the North Pole expedition. If Captain Wis.- ing signs up" he will fit the Samson out and take her over to America.
 Commander Byrd's staff will be liberally recruited from Norwe- gians. Oskar Omdahl who was Amundsen's partner. was to have accompanied the American, but he went down with Mrs. Frances Grayson's ill-fated Dawn. Nils Nickelsen, chief of the govern ment telegraph service, and Her mod Peterson, inventor of the sys- tenn of wirelessing pictures, will be in the party.
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 OSLO, Norway. Feb. 3-The Norwegian Arctic vessel Samson will be called upon this winter to perform feats in the south polar seas which would crush an ordi- nary boat to atoms.
 The Samson has been purchas- ed for S40,000 by Commander Richard E. Byrd. the trans-At. lantic flyer and air explorer, .o transport his South Pole expedi- tion into the Antarctics. It IS being fitted out at Tromsoe, in northern Norway, and will be taken across the Atlantic to New York.
 The vessel will carry Byrd s airplane into the Antarctic 5000 miles south of New Zealand. From there Byrd will fly over the South Pole to explore the great unknown regions of ice bar riers, icy seas and ice-covered lands which lie between the Ant. arctic circle and the South Pole.
 A craft of 512 gross tonnage,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-06
GIRLS SLAYER
 SANE THEN AND IS NOW NORMAL
State Witness Gives Direct Testimony in Los
 Angeles Trial

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. B. nr Herman Schorr testified to- day in the William E. Hickman sanity trial that suspicion that the youth was employing false hood in the claim to Divine Guidance" in the killing of Mar ian Parker. was aroused soon after he began questioning the youth.
 Dr. Sehorr said his suspicion and then his conviction of the youths falsity was aroused by observing Hickman's facial ex- pressions.
 Dr. Victor Parkin. of the Los Angeles County Sanity Commis- sion, testified for the State that in my opinion. Hickman was sane at the time of the crime and is now"
 Dr. Parkin cited the instance of the police visiting Hickman's apartment while he was there
 in bed on the morning after the
 crime, as asserted proof that Hickman knew the deed was a crime. Dr. Parkin related that
 Hickman offered to help the offi-
 cers find the fiend who did 1t, - and that Hickman in describing
 his action referred to the mur-
 der as ''crime."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-06
WHEELER WILL
 ASK PROBE OF
 MINE STRIKE
lnv estigates Camps In Western Pennsylvania
 Conditions Bad
PITTSBURGH, Penn. Feb. 6

PITTSBURGH, Penn. Feb. 6. Senator B. K Wheeler, Demo- crat of Montana, announced he will demand an immediate action of Senator Hiram w. Johnson s resolution for an investigation into the Western Pennsylvania coal strike which is now before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee.
 The announcement by Senator Wheeler was made after an in- spectlon of the coal mining camps The Senator declared tha' he was amazed at the condition and the situation is a crying in- dictment of the authorities here and at Washington.
 Senator Wheeler said that it seems "inconceiyable that Secre- tary of Treasury Mellon, with all of his millions of dollars. should not already know of the hor- rible misery and suffering which is found so abundant right in his own back yard"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-06
SUB pR0p0SAt
 | CAUSE FRANCE
 | NO EXCITEMENT
Plan Advanced by Kellogg Is Received with Indif-
 ference-Once Settled

PARIS, Feb. 6.-The proposal advanced by Secretary of State Kellogg looking toward abolish knent of submarines has been re- teived in Paris with marked in- 
 The question, as far as the French opinion is concerned, was .ettled at the Washington Dis ornament Conference when the French delegation agreed to take b lower rank in capital ships on the understanding that defense fraft, such as submarines, would
 hot be limited.
 The general view is that France is obliged to rely on the defense of the craft and cannot
 give up submarines without a
 6ubstantial guarantee of sea se- kurity.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-06
HOOVER MAY ENTER OHIO
 PRIM A RIES
Formal Steps Are Taken Tn i His Behalf by Friends
 in Columbus, Ohio

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. G. |rhe first formal step in behalf |bf Herbert c. Hoover's candidacy For the Republican Presidential Domination has been made by
 phio supporters who at the same |time has drawn battle lines
 Hgainst efforts of Senator Frank |B. Willis to obtain Ohio's dele |gation to the National Conven- Eion.
 Thad Brown, former Secretary |bf State of Ohio. and Robert Taft, Former majority leader in the Ohio House of Representatives Brave called meeting of Hoover's Friends for the purpose of pre- an address urging him to Fnter the State primary as a can Eiidate for President.
 The meeting, besides marking the first formal step in behalf of |IIcover's candidacy, had added because Hoover has |not formally announced his in- Fention to seek the noinin ation. Hoover is reported at Wash Engtop to have assured his friends
 ha} wfll enter the Ohi0 lists at bnce if the address made for him Es backed by "considerable show Eng and if the 0hfoo delegates
 are pledged to vote for him in |the National Convention.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-06
MISS DOROTHY ROTH
 AND A. w. LOFTUS WED

Miss Dorothy Hastings Roth and Arthur w. Loftus were mar ried in Fairbanks recently, and will make their home in that city. The bride is daughter of R. F. Roth. former United States Attorney and pioneer lawyer Df Fairbanks, and has resided there most of her life.
 MT. Loftus Is on the staff of the United States Biological Snr- vey. He has resided in Fairbanks several years. attending the Alas ka College. He was a member of last years college basketball squad that made the Southeastern Alaska tour,
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AN4LYZES
 SHORT WAVE BANDS

WASHINGTON, Feb. ,6-At the
 |request of the Federal Radio Com. mission, John V. l.. Hogan. radio |engineer, of New York City, has prepared an analysis of the chan.
 hels available from 200 to 11 |meters.
 The commission will study M-. |Iogan's report for guidance in the task of allocating these short
 |wave channels to governmental, and amateur radio sta tions.
 From a practical engineering viewpoint. 72O independent and |non-ipterfering radio telegraph |chandeIs or 52O such radio teIe- |phope channels are available in |the entire band, MT. Hogan de 4'*@-t IF
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-06
STARLIGHT ARRIVES

The Starlight. Capt. Harry Clark, arrived in port early yes terflay afternoon from Tyee. She Is canncry tender which came ID from Seattle. leaving there January 12. Tomorrow she will leave here for Tyee, spend about TWO days there, and then return to the south. She has been lay ing traps for about two weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-06
MINE STRIKE RIOT

IITISBuRGH, Feb. 6.-Two coal and iron State policemen were shot and one woman injur- ed during mine strike riot at Phillipsburgh, Penn. The police said several hundred men and women, acting as union pickets, appearW at the mine this morn- ing ap2 stried te- persuadrs non union miners not to go to work. The coal and iron police attempt ed to disperse the pickets and during the brush with the off cers and members of the crowd, a shotgun was fired wounding the policemen.
 The State Troopers were sum moned and restored order quick ly One woman suffered q crush ed foot when troopers horse stepped on her.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-06
Blocks Attempt tc
 Force Report About
 Marines tn Nicaragua

WASHINGTON. Feb. 6. An attempt by Senator William E. Borah. of Idaho. to have the Sen ate ask Secretary of Navy Wilbur to report on the use of American forces ill Nicaragua, was blocked today by Senator Samuel M. Shortridge, Republican of Cali fOrnia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-06
CONVICTION OF
 MILLER UPHELD CIRCUIT COURT
Former Alien Property Custodian Remains
 Guilty of Fraud

NEW YORK, Feb. 6. The conviction of Thomas w. Miller, former Alien Property Custodian, for conspiring to defraud the Government. has been upheld by the United States Circuit Court of Appeal.
 Miller was tried jointly with former Attorney General Daugh- erty but the indictment against Daugherty was quashed after two juries disagreed as to his inno- cence or guilt.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-06
TwO Thousand Are Arrested, Canton;
 27O Are Executed

SHANGHAI, Feb. 6. Dis patches from Canton say 27O
 persons of 2,000 arrested during |he past few days have been ex-
 bcuted. Six hundred Reds were brrested in Canton from whom those executed were selected. The brrests were made in continuance bf the roundup of Communists
 by the government of Lii Chai Sun.
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proposes to subsidize by de grees 4570 miles of new aeri1l services or additions to the 3,507 miles Of air routes now being used. The new services will es- tablish an air circuit of Australia, except for q small section in the far north of Western Australia. and link the continent with her smaller sisters.
 These are expected to contri- bute greatly to the aerial defense Of Australia by doubling the mum Der of pilots and mechanics. The increase in air activity is also ex- pected to stimulate the produc- ton of aircraft in Australia. car
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-06
Bullets Fly as Result
 OfKidnapping Cusc or
 Just q LOUer's Quarrel

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. G. Uncertain whether it is a case of kidnapping or lovers quarrel Involving a bit of violence, or q stunt, the police are searching for young motorist who seized Miss Marie OBrien. aged 21 years and whisked her away in d car evading hail of bullets of officers in pursuit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-06
GEN. SANDING
 IS REPORTED
 ACTIVE AGAIN
Marines Massing Near Hon. duran Border Where
 Rebel Reported

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Feb. C.. -American Marines are massed in the mountainous region 40 miles south of the Honduran border. seeking Nicaraguan Rebel General Sandino. disbursements were speeded to Matagalpa by truck, as soon as the Marine Comniand heard Sandino was near there. It is reported San dino has force of mounted men, well armed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-06
Letters to Be Sent in Air Mail Race

SEATTLE. Feb. 6.-Two air mail letters will be dis patched on February 17 in opposite directions in an air mail race around the world. The Post-Intelligener news paper is sponsoring the race.
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co-EDs ON STRIKE ON
 "DUTcH-TREAT" ISSUE

NEW YORK, Feb. 6-Co-eds ut Columbia are rebelling against the fad of Dutch treats prevalent there. Nine of them have formed a club on the fundamental prin- ciple/ that a co'ed's purse shall remain closed when she is in a mans company.
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Charles Anderson Is Suicide at Seward

SEWARB. Alaska. Feb. 6--De- spondent over ill-health, Charles Anderson, aged s5 years. old timer of Dawson and the Yukon. shot and killed himself here. H. has been living in Seward for many years. Relatives live m Chicago,
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Col. Lindbergh Is
 In Haiti Alter Hop
 From Santo Domingo

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. 6.-Completing new lap in his Goodwill flight carrying him to the Pan-American Conference at Havana. Cuba, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh landed here today from Sant0 Domingo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-06

clares. Rapid intensity variations seem to make the short wave more effective for telegraph than for telephone communication and therefore the line of development probably will indicate heavier demand for telegraphic than for speech channels in the immediate future, MT. Hogan says.
 Tt seems to me that the com mission would be justified in as. suming that at least 800 indepen- dent communications can be car |ried on simultaneously over the same territory by the use of these waves" Mir. Hogan said.
 Requirements of double or v 4
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Added Impetus Givem to Cambaign toy H. c. Hoo
Treaty Signed BetUeen U. s. And France

WASHINGTON, Feb. G. The new arbitration treaty with France has been signed by Robert E. Olds, Under Secretary of State, for the United States, and by Am bassador Paul Claudel, for France.
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BANKS FAIL TO OPEN

MIAMI. Fla. Feb. 6.-Three Miami banks, the Southern Bank and Trust Company. Citizens Bank and Bank of Allapattah failed to open for business this
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-06
WILLIAMS TO keTcHIkAN

J. P. Williams. of the U. s. For estry Service. left here on tha Alameda for Ketchikan, where he will make arrangements for a timber cruise which is to begin fin a short time.
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pANNER HAS DEER

A young deer was brought In from H0onah on the Margnita yes terday morning and was taken over by George Danner. who plans to keep the animal on his ranch on the Glacier Highway as a per.
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5 WITNESSES EXAMINED IN
 OIL DEALINGS

WASHINGTON, Feb. S.--Three additional witnesses were exam ined today by the Senate Teapot Dome Committee in q futile ef- fort to get some light on the Continental oil deal which Sen ator Thomas J Walsh, oil prose cutor and chairman of the com mittee, described as fraught with suspicion at every turn.
 
 II. J. Raymond. merchant nt Warm Springs Bay, came to Jle neau on the Margnita yesterday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-06

Judge James Wickersham. local attorney. is a Seattle-bound pas senger on the Alameda.
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The Washington times., 1928-02-14
D | D DOMINION
Gets REGATTA

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Feb. A.
The Southern Regatta Association
has awarded Alexandra the annual
regatta set for July Fl. The shell
racing events will be held on the
one-mile racing course OF the Old
Dominion Boat Club with the five
clubs of the association competing.
Charles HusIup, Of the Arundel
Boat Club, is the 1923 president of
the association. aIIe succeeds e. e.
I4awler, jr., of the Old Dominion,
who last summer piIoted the asso-
odation to its most successful season.
Other officers chosen were Magnus
w. Bales, Old Dominion, vice presi-
dent; P. J. Bergh, Potomac Boat
Club, secretary, and Edwin e.
Carver, Old Dominion, treasurer.
A general regatta COMMITTEES, com
posed of a representative of each
club in the association, includes e.
E. Lawler, jr., chairman; Charles
Howard, Ariel: George F. Obrecht,
Arundel; William McKenney. Poto.
mac, and William Crawford, Vir-
einia
The Washington times., 1928-02-14
WOltZ Basketers Move
Into Second Place

The WoItz courtmen went into
second place in the Washington City
Basketball League by winning from
the WoodIothians. 1925, last night
at the Arcadia. The Southern Props
girls defeated the Woodlothian
lassies, 24-1S, in preliminary game.
Excellent work by Stewart and
Culp enabled the Wolff crew to fin
ish on top. The former registered
13 points and the latter amassed 10
points.
The Washington times., 1928-02-14
SOLDIERS HOSTS
To WONDERS

The Original Holman Wonders are
in top shape for their game tonight
with Fort Humphreys in the latter's
gym. The Wondets hope to return
with a victory.
Pete Nee, Earle Moser, Bill Banta,
Tommy Dalglish, Sally Hanback,,
Mickey Macdonald and Louie Mar.
stellar are asked to report tonight
at 6:46 o'clock at the Times Herald
Building.
The Wonders are scheduled for
two other games this week. They
will stack-up tomorrow night against
the strong Calvary M. Il. duint at
$3.50 o'clock in the Calvary gym,
1853 Columbia Rd N. w. The
crack Company F., Hyattsville
Guards, will be faced Saturday
night in the HyattsvilIe Armory.
The Washington times., 1928-02-14
Lloyd Hahn Comes Close
to Adding His Fifth
Record on Track

NEW YORK, Feb. 14.-Four-
fifths of a second was all that
stood today between Lloyd Hahn
and his fifth world record. At
the Elks interscholastic meet last
night, the great American middle
distance runner almost equalled
the mark of 2.46 35 made by
Jimmy Connolly five years ago
for two-thirds of a mile.
Norris Muslin, of Stuyvesant
High School, cleared 8 feet 2
inches in the high jump, a new
indoor record for American school.
bows.
The Washington times., 1928-02-14
WOltZ FlOOrmen Face
CIOyers on Thursday

Sam Stewards Woltz basketers
will tackle Joe Canavin's Glover
A. c.. Thursday night at 8 o'clock
in the Wilson Normal gym. This
will be Washington City League
game and both teams will be seek
ing a victory so as to improve their
position in the race for second place.
The knights OF Columbus and
Marines clash Saturday night at 8
o'clock in the Carroll Hall gym. Hy-
attsviIle Guards tangle with the
Y. M. G. A. Thursday night in the
"Y" gym.
The Washington times., 1928-02-14
Stopping Gates, Jack
Now Preps for Heeney

ROCHESTER,. N. Y, Feb. IA
The powerful fists of Jack Delaney
today are primed for a knockout
when he faces Tom Heeney in New
York on March / in the semi-finals
of Tex Richards heavyweight elm.
ination tourney. The Bridgeport,
Conn, Adonis, finished his ring
campaigning for that bout by knock
ing out Leo Gates, of North Adams
Mass, in the second round Of their
scheduled ten-round go here last
night. q
Gates was doomed from the start.
The burly Indian took four counts
of nine before a brushing right 70
the bread basket ended tho alleged
battle.
The Washington times., 1928-02-14
Del Ray Nine Looking
To Baseball Season

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Feb. IA
Joe Theimer, coach OF the Del Ray
nine is now busily engaged in
rounding up his talent. Theimer' $
lads will enter the Alexandria
Amateur Baseball Federation.
Larry Curtiss, Pete Parsons,
Nixon. ". Curtiss, Cardwell. Kremer;
Morgan, F'rinks, Elmore Muddiman.
Sheffield, Martin, Butler, Rhodes,
Mccullough, Withers. Trevette, But
Ter and any other candidates wish
ing trials with the Del Ray nine
are asked 10 communicate with
Theimer.
The first practice will be held
about March IS,
The Washington times., 1928-02-14
Arlington DiamOnders
Will Gather Tonight

Members of the Arlington A. C..
nine will gather tonight at o'clock
in the Methodist Sunday school hall.
Last years members and others
wanting trials are urged to be pres
ent. j. b. Lyle, last season with
Penrose, has promised to twirl for
Arlington. Charley Robinson, lead
ing hitter on the team last year,
has signified he will remain with
the nine.
The Washington times., 1928-02-14
Hyattsville Guardsmen
To Entertain Cresaps

will play hosts to the Cresaps Rifles.
of Frederick, Md, tomorrow night at
9 o'clock in the Hyattsville Armory.
The Reserves will face the Laurel
Guards at z o'clock and the Ladies
Auxiliary sextet will face the Capital
A. C. in a Recreational League
game at Z o'clock.
The Guards are looking for OPP
ponents. Manager McClay can be
reached by phoning Hyattsville 1888,
after 1880 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1928-02-14

daily with Armour and Tommy rarely
attempted to reach it with an iron.
He preferred b spoon or brassie with
which he did not need to extend him.
self.
OF course. Hagen can play aAhaIf.
shot. He simply does not like IT.
But no man can win many cham
pionehips without IL.
think that most people have
trouble with the less.than-fulI shots
because they restrict the baclxswing
too much. ''Half-shot" implies
"half-wing." 1T seems difficult to
avoid that idea. But q ha1f-sEot ID
really neither half d swing nor half
shot. The stroke is good deal
more than half normal and the bali
travels good deal farther than
half the maximum range.
The haIf-slnOt can more prop
erly be thought Of as something
less than fIll-slnOt, though Of
the same type. IA run-up shot,
of whatever length Il may be,
Is not . haIf.sIl0t.
AS said, the great trouble with
most OF 1ls ID that we employ a
half swing for the half-shot. We
remember the advice that we should
regulate the length Of the shot by
the length Of the stroke, but we
forget that the backsWing ID not the
stroke that III meant Neither IS the
first part OF the downward swing.
The length OF stroke which de-
termines the range IL fixed by the
point where the wrists begin to un.
wind and to put the last ounce Of
power behind the club.
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