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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-23
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WITNESS MAY
BE ARRESTED
Senate Warrant Sought for
Pennsylvania Man by
Reed Committee
MONEY SOURCE.
Cunningham Refused to Tell
Where $4,000 Cash
Came From
MONEY SOURCE.

WASHINGTON March % lR-For
"a second time at this session the
senate will be asked tomorrow to is
sue its warrant for the arrest Of a
witness, before one of its committees.
He is Thomas w. Cunningham OF
Philadelphia, treasurer OF the Penn
sylvania republican state committee,
who refused to answer certain queS-
tioils put to him by the Reed slush
fund committee in 1926.
In reporting Cunningham's refusal
to the senate today Senator King,
democrat, Utah, introduced a resolu-
ton for Cunningham arrest and
will ask tomorrow for its Immediate
consideration Adoption was regarded
as foregone conclusion in view OF
the speedy manner in which the
senate voted to arrest Robert w.
Stewart, chairman of the board of the
Standard Oil company of Indiana,
after he had refused to answer queS-
tions in the Teapot Dome inquiry in
January.
Cunnrgham, who is clerk of a
court in Philadelphia, and one OF
those prominent in supporting Will
liam S. Ware, republican, in his fight
for senate seat, refused twice to tell
the Reed committee the source Of
$4,000 in cash which ne contributed
to Wares primary campaign in 1926.
His salary as court clerk is $4,000
year and members of the commit
tee expressed curiosity as to how he
could have accumulated such sum
by savings and be able to give it to
a political campaign committee.
Beyond saying that he took the
money out OF his bank, Cunningham
refused to give any information about
it. He held that the source Of the
money was his own private business.
Should the senate order his arrest,
the Pennsylvania political leader would
be ordered before the bar OF the
senate and there given an oppor-
tunity to purge himself. Persistence
in his refusal would bring imprison-
ment. However, Cunningham has
open to him the same course pursued
by Stewart, the obtaining OF a writ
Of habeas corpus, which would throw
the case into the courts.
Accompanying the report on Cum
ningham was another from Senator
King, dealing with the cases of Sam
uel insult, Chicago utilities official
end his personal attorney, Daniel
Schuyler, who after withholding GER
tain information from the committee
changed their minds and later freely
answered all questions. The Utah
senator said it was not the purpose
to propose punishment Tor them, but
to leave the decision to the senate
itself
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-23
TWO TRAINS ARE
.DYNAMlTED BY
MEXICAN REBELS
Attacking Parties Beaten
Off BY Guards Accord
ing to Reports

MEXICO CITY, March % (R-Re-
ports to the war department today
confirmed previous information that
two attempts to dynamite trains were
made yesterday at widely separated
points in the insurgent territory on
the borders of the state of Jalisco
In one of the attacks, which involved
passenger train near Onilitia, six OF
the attacking party were killed by
federal soldiers and train guards who
Swarmed out of the coaches and re-
pulsed the efforts to loot the train.
The reports state that dynamite
bombs placed between the rails dam
aged several second class coaches, in
jured one passenger seriously and
several slightly. The number of at
tackers was not given in the report.
The other attack, reports on which
are somewhat contradictory, took place
near Monteleon on the border of the
states of JaliSco and Michoacan. Press
dispatches assert that the tracks were
dynamited under passenger train ano
that federal train guards repulsed the
insurgents. Nobody was robbed anC
nobody hurt, according to the news
papers advices.
Railroad headquarters here admit
that the tracks were dynamited but
maintained that the bombs exploded
under a freight train and that the
guards from a following passenger
train repulsed the attackers.
Federal reinforcements are being sem
into the region which has been the
scene of several sharp fights witt
anti nti-government bands this week.
Federal officials today continued
their efforts to suppress the running
Of arms and ammunition to the dis.
affected elements in Jalisco and ad'
joining states. They raided another
private residence in Mexico City anc
arrested the occupant, Alias Hern'
andez.
Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-23
Sinclair Must Face
Trial Without Fall
April 4, Court Rules

WASHINGTON March % R-
Without the support of his CO.
defendant, the aged and ailing Albert
3. Fail, Harry F. Sinclair must lace
trial alone here on April A on a
charge OF conspiracy to defraud the
government out OF the Teapot Dome
naval Oil reserve.
Justice Jennings Bailey SO decided
today in the District of Columbia
supreme court, indefinitely postpon-
ing the trial of the former interior
secretary; Severing the two cases and
granting the lessee of Teapot Dome
g two. days delay instead of the two
months he had sought.
Representing that Fall is ma
terial witness in his case, Sinclair
wanted postponement so that the
one time cabinet officer and senator,
who is i'll in Ell Paso, might with
safety be moved here Tor the trial
at a time when he would not be
subjected to the rigors of washington
winter weather.
/ Fall assured Sinclair at \ recent
conference they had in the southwest
that ne was ready to tell the whole
story Of the lease OF the Wyoming
naval reserve which was followed by
a payment OF $233 900 in liberty bonds
to MIN by the wealthy oil operator
The former interior secretary relterat-
ed that desire yesterday in news
paper interviews.
! However, he flatly declined to sub
ject himself to interrogation by the
senate Teapot Dome committee when
asked by that body yesterday if he
would do so, and the committee
abandoned, for the present, at least
its plans to send its chairman, Gerald
P. Nye, OF North Dakota, and, its
prosecutor, Thomas j. Walsh, o1
Montana, to El Paso to take his
testimony.
Explaining his position, Fall said
he was ready to nave his deposition
taken for use in a court OF law as
his testimony then would be held
within legal bounds, whereas if he
were questioned by a senace commit
tee there would be no limitation upor
the scope OF the questions
Owen j. Roberts, of special govern
ment cil counsel, and Senator Walsh
said the deposition of Fall could no
be used at the trial under constitll.
tionaI limitations unless the defense
asked that it be taken.
Special oil counsel probably woulC
not object to the deposition, but the!
made it plain that they are not seek
ing Falls testimony. They maintain
that the case was made complete
with the testimony OF his son-in-law
M. T. Everhart, OF Pueblo, Colo, tina
Sinclair paid over total Of 1898 00I
in liberty bonds, after the lease o
Teapot Dome, ostensibly for thirC
interest i'll the Fall ranch properties
but without receiving from any on
any evidence of such holdings in tn
property.
With Fall in extremely feehi
health many believed that he neve
will be brought to trial. He has faces
the courts twice as a result OF tn
naval oil leases; once with Edwar
i L. Doheny, lessee OF the Elk Hill
Il reserve in California, WIN wnom
was acquitted, and the other tim
Il with Sinclair A mistrial was tn
\ result in that case after it was dis
\ covered that Sinclair was having tn
i Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-23
BANKERS BODY
FOUND WHERE HE,
SHOT HIMSELF

MEDFORD, Ore, March % R,-
George w. Barker, missing president
and cashier of the Pine Belt bank,
of Butte Falls, who disappeared
Monday, was found dead today on
the bank of mill pond on the out
skirts of Butte Falls, self-inflicted
bullet through his head. The death
weapon was found by his side.
A farewell note to his wife and
family was found in coat pocket.
1t read as follows:
My wife, Hazel Barker, and daugh-
ter, Eleanor, who appear as directors
of the Pine Belt bank, have never
had anything to do whatever as di-
rectors. The bank was run entirely
by me at all times Gertrude Greden-
burg, assistant cashier, was clerk only
and had no voice in the banks man
agement.
IF there is any blame attached
to the management, it is all mine.
There has been no stealing at any
time, and there Is plenty of property
and other assets to pay all the de-
poSitors in full.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-23
.GANGLAND ADDS
MYSTERY DEATH
TO WINDY CITY

CHICAGO, March % tR-Gang-
lands mysterious circle OF obscurity,
rise to power, wealth and political
pull and finally violent death was
complete today for Diamond Joe"
Esposito and the police groped un-
successfully in the dark OF Little
Italy's usual reticence Tor one of a
dozen reasons they said enemies had
for the assassination.
A few doors from his home in the
old "blocdy 18th" ward, moi the 25th.
in which Diamond Joe" was cam
didate for ward committeeman for
the republican group headed by
United States Senator Charles S..
Deneen, Esposito was shot down last
night by three men who leaped from
an automobile and fired 58 slugs into
his body.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-23
GEN. ANARO IS
MENTIONED AS
NENOPPONENT
Anti-Re-eIection Party Is
sues Manifesto PrOmis-
ing Candidate
NAME ARMY MAN.
Commander of Campaign
Against JaliscO Rebels,
To Run Report
NAME ARMY MAN

NEW YORK, March % (AP)-
General AlvarO Obregon, candidate
for president Of Mexico, will find
a candidate as yet unnamed OPP
posing him in the July elections,
according to a manifesto published
by the anti-re-e election party of
Mexico and circulated among
Mexicans here today.
While the manifesto, signed by
Vito. RobIes, as president of the
party, speaks Of the candidate as
a prominent member of the
army the animation is that
General Joaquin Amaro, secretary
of war, who has been personally
directing the campaign against in
surgents in the state of JaliscO,
is the man intended.
General Amaro received 114O
votes at a convention of the party
last June, purpose of naming a
presidential candidate.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-23
Obregon WILDE Opposed in Presidential Race
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Mother And Aunt Take
L0w In Hands When
Jury Acquits Suspect

y COLUMBIANA, Ala, March %
y tP-Two middle aged women, the
y mother and aunt of Miss Mon
y teabaro, took the law into their
y own hands today in frenzied
* effort to kill the man they had
* accused of Staying the girl.
* III a dramatic climax to the
X trial of Police Chief H. F. Blake,
y: of Calera, Ala, for the murder
* of the girl, Mrs. Mabel Montea-
* baro, AS, her mother, and Miss
X Cecil TubbS, 43, an aunt, leaped
* simultaneously upon the officer
* with pistol and hunting knife Just
* as the foreman of the jury pro-
* nounced him not guilty of the
y crime.
* A wild shot fired by Mrs.
* Monteabaro buried itself in the
y. wall above the jury box. Miss
H Tubbs then plunged the knife in
y to Blake's neck and the officer
* fell, blood streaming from the
:* wound
*
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-23

Copper barely steady; elec-
trolytic, spot and futures,
14Q &c; lead spot, 6.00c.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-23

Mostly fair Friday and
Saturday; little change in
temperature.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-03
Attractions At Theatres
NORMA SHEARER IS
 FARCE AT PALACE

Norma onearers first fling at farce is a success, thus proving that this beautiful young screen player has about as wide range of acting ability as any woman on the screen.
 Miss Shearer's latest Metro Goldwyn- Mayer starring picture, "The Demi-Bride," in which she appears with Lew Cody, opened yesterday at the Palace Theatre, where the audience visibly regis tered it's appreciation of Miss Shearer's work in the role of an unsophisticated French school girl in love with man desired by her stepmother.
 Norma Shearer's ability to get away with farce comedy has never been questioned by the writer but the perfectly easy manner in which she plays the role came as a surprise.
 It is all the more effective against the background of sophis- tication in which she moves throughout the picture. Carmel Myers, as the Viennese stepmoth. CT with a light conscience, and Dorothy Sebastion as a sophis- ticated member of the Folies Der gere, give interpretation befittin2 their roles, at the same time per hitting Miss Shearer to benefit through contrast.
 Lew Cody, who has the heart oi each woman in the palm of his hand, gives his usual wonderful performance of a modern sophisti. cate and does 1t in a pleasing whimsical manner.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-03
AMERICAN DIVORCE COLONY SEES
 END OF EASY FRENCH SEPARATION

PARIS, Aug. 3.-Gloom and dis courasement have replaced the traditional hope in the future and optimism of the American div3rce colony in Paris.
 American husbands and wives seeking to take ffench leave of each other have found the doors of the famous Paris divorce mill closed and bolted
 When the rules and regulations were frightened last year word went around the colony that everything would blow over before long and the old system of quick. clean-cut separations, without unwelcome publicity. would be reestablished.
 It was the spectacular refusal of the Versailles court to grant a divorce t0 Bainbridge Colby. former Secretary of State of the United States, that brought to light just how the French government felt about making France an ir. ternational Reno.
 Premier Poincare. austere and dignified, values highly the tour ist trade which he has found brings billions of francs to France, but it has often been said that The loves France like a woman" He never fails to fight for his country's good name and he considered the foreign divorce mill a scandal.
 Minister of Justice Louis Baf- thou, probably at the premier's suggestion, went so far as to or. der the judges to observe strictly all the legal requirements which for many years had been all but dead letters. If the law were en- forced it would be difficult for any American to get divorce here and impossible for most of them.
 A legal residence in France is the first requirement. in a divorce suit and the days when one could give a letter box or a law % yer's address as a residence are zone. The squad known as the Judicial Police" investigates resi- dences now and Bainbridge Colby who spent eleven months in France, was told that he hadn't es- tablished residence here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-03
Traveller Finds Russia
 Is Not Red, But Pink

CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. B. Soviet Russia in 1928 is neither out-and-out Red as in 1917 nor pitch black as exiled Whites and many foreign visitors see it nor entirely rosyhued as some enthus- lasts declare it, according to a re- cent American observer and lee turer, Mrs. Jackson Fleming of New York City.
 "The red has been drained out of Russia since l visited it in 1917, leaving it half a hopeless black and half a hopeful pink, :" said Mrs. Fleming on her arrival here after an extensive study of Moscow, Leningrad and Baku.
 "The rosy side of Soviet Rus sia today" she went on, lis the development there of the most astounding educational system in the world. Nowhere else is the theory that children are the hope of the future being put into such definite and terrifically thorough practice. Collectivity, the dom mating principle of the Soviets today, is being impregnated into children barely cut of the cradle. Children are being used to edu- cate their parents-they are even used tc get their parents out to the polls on election days"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-03
Three Louis Bleriots
 All Aviation Leaders

PARIS. Aug. 3.-The "Three Louis" is the name Frenchmen give to the Bleriots. the worlds most distinguished aviation fam fly.
 Grandfather, father and son. all named Louis, have devoted their ives to the science of flying. Louis Bleroit, the father, was the first to cross the English Channel, ac- complaining the feat in 1909. His son, Louis IT., hopes to fly from the Azores to New York this sum- mer as the companion of .ucieE Boussotrot. They will fly in a Bleroit hydroplane. Grandfather Bleroit, although not pilot, is considered one of the pioneers Of the aviation industry.
 The second Bleroit, now 55. is the head of the company which bears his name. He became a celebrity when he flew across the English Channel July 25, 19ba. Great Britain gave him a prize of $5.000 in recognition of his feat, the most spectacular performance of an airplane up to that time.
 When Col. Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris, the first aviator he asked to see was Louis Bleriot.
 Monster Bleriot H., who saw the tremendous development of air craft during the war. believes tha;
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-03
LAWYERS AND WIVES MAKE ROUND TRIP ON
 DOROTHY ALEXANDER

! H. Voorhes, of Sioux Falls, g D., Treasurer C iae American Bar ssociatien. which recently met II Seattle and Mrs. Vcorhes are nom hefs of q party C. 15 Iawy ITS ana their wives who are making the round trip On the Dorothy Alexan- der. MT Noorhes is also Secretary Of the National Conference of Commissions on Uniform Staic Laws, which meets annually iuet before the meeting of the Bar Association. and ta which most cf the members of the party belong.
 Others in the rarty include. Ms. Olive c. Kicker of Chicago. III, Executive Secretary of tha American Bar Association and Frank Pace of Little Rock. Ark, member of the executive commit tee of the association. and Mrs. Face; D. c. Shull. member of the Board of Trustees of the Univer Isity of Chicago, and his son, H. C. Shull, who is member of the Board of Regents of the University of Iowa. with their wives, are in- terested members of the party. While in Seattle they spent con- siderable time at the University of Washington.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-03
RETURNS FROM
 INSPECTION OF
 ALASKA CATTLE

Dr. George D. Bishop, Acting Territorial Veterinarian, who is borrowed from the U. s. Bureau of Animal Industry to inspect the dairy herds throughout the Terri tory, as provided by Territorial Legislation, arrived in Juneau from the Westward on the Ad- miral Watson. He has completed the inspection of cattle through out the Interior ard Westward dis tricts of Alaska and reports that the condition of the herds is much improved since his annual trip last year.
 Mrs. Bishop will arrive on the Princess Alice tomorrow to Jois Dr. Bishop on his trip to Sitka and throughout the southeastern part of the Territory. which he will complete as rapidly as possible.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-03
---------------------------- "AUCTIONEER" SCORES
 BIG HIT, COLISEUM

Fox Films version of that fla nous and loveable Warfield- Be- lasco play, "The Auctioneer," rode into the Coliseum Theatre on the wings of triumph last night.
 "The Auctioneer" sets forth in a most human manner the story of little Irish orphan who is adopted by a Russian and his wife on their way to the land of promise. The Russian, upon his arrival in New York, borrows some of the money entrusted to him for the well-being of the lit- tie girl he has adopted. With this money he begins on a busi- ness career that in years to come carries him and his little family to the luxury of an abode on Riverside Drive.
 As played by George Sidney. noted star of the stage and the screen. the auctioneer is lovahls figure who strikes directly at the hearts of all who watch him as he rises from street peddler to luxury. If all of Sidrey's future performances on the silver sheet are as nearly perfect as his DOT trayal in "The Auct:oncer,' he will have a place of his own in screen circles for some time to come.
 Marion Nixon and Care h Hughes head supporting cast which fits into the story like clockwork. Miss Nixon is love- ly indeed as the little Irish girl in her teens.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-03
I'VE AMERICANS" AT
 PALACE ON SUNDAY

The lower East Side of New York, Americas greatest foreign settlement, is the locale of .most of the action of Universars spec ial, We Americans" This unus- lal production deals with the lives of these people and will be shown at the Palace Sunday, starting with the matinee.
 Many of the colorful scenes in We Americans" were filmed in New York. while many others were registered at Universal City where a complete Lower East Side street was constructed for use in
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-03
CUBA TAXES FOREIGN
 SHIPPING COMPANIES

HAVANA, Aug. 3.-For- eign steamship lines teuch- ing Cuba will henceforth be compelled to pay six per cent profit tax under a new ruling laid down by the Gu ban Department of State.
 1t was held that the com panies had no right to claim exemption on the ground that they were foreign own ed. A period of 30 days has been granted to the Ward Line, the United Fruit Company, Peninsular and 0ccirental, French Trans-At- lantic Company and several others in which to meet the tax.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-03
DIES MONIES JURlST ON
 DOROTHY ALExANDER

Judge Jesse Miller. of Des Moines, Iowa, and President of the Conference Commission on Uni- form State Laws, is making the round trip through Southeastern on the Dorothy Alexander. after having attended the meet ing of the American Bar Associa- tion in Seattle, Wash. Judge Miller spent part of the day fish ing in streams near Juneau,a his intention is to fish every place he passes through. Fellow tour ists said that he had very good sport landing 31a pound trout at Ketchikan yeste day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-03
TWO CANNERYMEN
 ARE BOTH DROWNED
 AT SANTA CRUZ BAY

c. M. Leines, Superintendent of the Water Fall cannery and Ras both drowned today at Santa Crrz Bay, Sumas Island, according to adyicss received this afternoon hy U. S. Marshal Albert White. The Lody of Leines was recovered and is being sent to Ketchikan. Every effort is being made to recover ;he body or Lawson If the body is not recovered today diver will be dispatched to the scene tomorrow. No further particulars were given.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-03
Church and Picture
 Show Are Combined

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. Aug. 3.ACon- way, la. has no Sunday movie" question.
 Church services are held every Sunday night in an open-air thea tre. The services end promptly at S:30 o'clock and the congrega- ton must then leave or pay an ad price to see six-recl film.
 Everybody seems to be satisfied and both the church and tae peo- rle and the motion picture theatre owners say their crowds have in creased.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-03

arnored air-cruisers are a certain ty of the future. They will be able to carry heavy artillery and crews of sufficient size to man the guns. he thinks. He is also hopeful of the future of trais- oceanic passenger air-service, and his company is experimenting with machines capable of making non stop flights from one hemisphera to the other with Q score of pas sengers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-03
DARBY FAMILY TO
 LEAVE FOR SOUTH

Thomas Darby. owner Of the U. and I. Cafe, is leaving this after noon, accompanied by his family. for Seattle. They expect to be absent for several months, and are not certain where they will spend their time, but expect to d) extensive travelling.
 In the absence of MT Darby lack Kinghorn, who has been with the U. and I. Cafe for some time will be in charge of the establish ment, and will handle all business in connection.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-03
p. R. BRADLEY HERE

P. R.. Bradley, consulting en- gineer for the Treadwell Yukon. and other Bradley properties Ill Alaska, returned to Juneau on the hdmical Rogers this morning from making his annual visit to the property of the company in the Mayo district on the Stewart river
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-03

the picture. Here are the batch- CT shop of Schmidt and the fruis store of Albertini where the dla- ma is enacted.
 The story deals with the modern generation of Americas foreign born who have become req! Amcri- cans to the amazement of their elders who belatedly try to over take their children by attending night school.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-03
KEEP LOYALTY ALIVE

GENOA, Italy, Aug. 3.-To en- able children of Italian eInisrants to know the mother country bet1 ter, vacation colonies have been established under Fascist aus pices along the Liguarian coast. Four hundred youngsters whose Italian fathers dwell in other European lands already have been brought here.