The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 28, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY AI&%S;KK”"EMPIRE e s . PPN s koo St et e et e e - — —— e — ————— VOL. XXIX., NO. 4415 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1927, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS — PRICE TEN CENTS TWO GOOD-WILL AVIATORS KILLED FRAUD EXERCISED HN OIL LEASES MAYOR OF SITKA | [Beant-ssomn | OIL LEASES T0 | _TYPE OF GOODILL PLANES WRECKE - PAN-AMERICAN ANDGOUNCILMEN | “— g, = DOHENY, FRAUD, , ‘ B | PLANES CLASH; ~ ARE IN GUSTODY .Y | DECLARES COURT | - i, 9 | | 2 MEN KILLED Hanlon and Three Members : . Supwn.(‘ Court Makes Decis- e ; s 1. 3 1 ‘l)ims!m' ()\'(:1‘iavl(<es Good-Will Arrested—Warrant i . ion in Elks Hills, Pearl s 2 2 i ; ” Fliers in Brazil— t for Fifth Man. i ] Harbor Cases. Flight Continues. BUENOS Aiiii8, Brazil, Feb. 28. Two American Good-Will aviators arrested Saturday in Sitka charged [ % 4 down today, found evidence produced | \ 53 were hurled from their planes to with malfeasance in office, and a i 3 n the lower courts sufficient to war-| N E = 48 {death late Saturday afternoon when warrant is out for the arrest of af § by R ¢ rant findinz corruption and fraud y PR 4 |the planes Detroit and New York fourth councilman, Advices to this ¥ ¥ ainted the lesses granted F L. .5 i " S R ¥ 5 fcollided they were returning effect were received Saturday night| 3 ¢ 4 | Doheny's companies while Albert il | bt 3 k i yfrom an exhibition fight to the by U. S. Marshal Albert White v by : Fall was Secretary of Interior. and > : 3 | Palomat Field, a few miles from At the time the cablegram W e ¢ : cancelled both lease and contract,y - iE 5 L ihere sent from Sitka mone of the men ar-| i % 5y 0 the findings of the lower L 5 A 4 ? ¢ ek The rested had secured bond and were 7 i also disregarded the locai ? formation for landing., The Detroit confined in the Federal jail. Follow . A ury acquitial of Fall Doheny slipped down upon the New York's ing a hearing in the U. S. Com 5 2 on criminal conspiracy based on th Above s a, picture 1e plane simila J two plan wings and became entangled sioner’s Court, they were bound over $£100.000 transaction lision in mid-air at Buenos Aires 1 s was taken showing the men A4 planes starte fallle . 4 1 1 anes started falling to the next Federal grand jory 3 . The Supreme Court found that plane previoussto the start the t th uthern Pepublies. Major Capt. F. Woolsey, of Michigan which will probably sit here in April. | oL F | money spent by Doheny in an at who is commander of tl ght and one of the men who jumped lo safety, is showi mm; of the Ilvl:ml.iv.mul‘fmnl ih': HEmes:jofiiauiewted. 1/ . ; : tempt to carry out contracis wiil plane as it burst into fames but his The men in custody @ o not be returned Hanlon, Mayor, and Councilmen A o i ik e rRE AT o nator J(g"s()" ("i'(;s Italian Flier Is "':'I”‘f)‘l"“'["" ""]"'“‘“"“ open’ant iate e Murray, W. Larianof and John IHol- ’ : ; 5 fcovers both Elks Hill and Pearl Har ’ Flylng North P ) when he dropped Iywood. A warrent was issued for . duc to have left Sitka yesterday . L5 v poi Dome appeal Wiilot i Tesaod B(!f"r() N(’.\l I(""lh’”“l’(’ : : 4 Ew (Eilhe af ke e b S l-ufnlu!ug to .\.l»nv:lr it on him on a 3 GRdEI the 16 policy as Doheny's ‘ s A oy neighboring island. E ¢ 4 o | o | 4 o ’ f ) ed Reach Court on Appea 1 ¢ : | Major Herbert Dargue, Flight 'llw charge of malfeasauce in of- 5 3 | T i1 suits gr o s SEATTLE, Feb., 28.--Alask T 7 k | . The civil suits growing out of the | a Ter ; o » ol : ] Nisbdaoncan atlcrell HlCu S : ' £l | naval oil leases, made while Albert ritorizl Senator Thomas D. Jensen, ) |Commander, and Lieut. Whitehead, .mmlu.mnnn of city funds. It is| § x ! (AR e ol vatany ob (o Intarion df Sinia iy 6 eta iAo ; N, [ his velief pilot, jumped and landed red that on December 11, last, reached the Supreme Court through the steamer Vietoria for Juneau to {safely in parachutes, When they the Mayor and members of the| § @ et rare’ gile Sl lnttend. the coming * Ala L | i § | | dropped to carth, they rushed to the Ma) X $ A ; al allowed the Pan-American | g4 \ wris j : 1 1 s council named held a special session | : et and Transport Company I} U‘ 1 tur aild on act creating an Mo i " ¥ ; {iaming -Detroit. where, they. thoughi at which a motion was introduced the Pan-American Petrolewin vl oof Control to take over | Y ‘HN'H companions were trapped. i passed to pay Mayor le1)|[|~|; f o IRy TnviIVilie, s snse fobtal RS T e e e e e W ¥4 | l'l-nnnv.!:ulv,x Dargue ,.nmmf.....u 1;:- 70 as a commission on §11 100 | ; l'ad: by Baward L. Dohony ofi the | power ed in the (G ner.| 7 5 S G fMlight will be continued with the worth of school bonds issued by the : | o T R . two remaining planes, the St. Louis ks Hills, California, naval reserve | will e 18 (ho chiel | | >, W. R. Hanlon, mayor of Sitka, and VASIINGTON, P The Su thiree members of Council we x4 E e Court in jon handed planes were breaking close City of Sitka and which the Mayor| Yeve s TociRinbine and san Francisco QEbINoShave loans Instrunpuinl) : heny's eompanies for constructing Another issiue, Senstor Jensen | ; o % The fifth plane, the San Antonio, issaling, Jofle claimed the Mayouf #g ! torage tanks at the naval bave at [Crews Report Gale Worst inlsaid, that wit come berore me ! ¢ ; : has only reached Coquimbo, Chile could not legally receive such com-| ; ¢ S e s 1 : Phe bodies of the two aviators lawmakers, is a proposal to provide t i ) pensation and that the Council acted | [THE aeneiatution: Worlt Was: Aosbn ]|I(t|l LX]J(‘II(‘H( {5 hhlp.s o heavy license fee foi hon-vesi s will lie in state until the memorial illegally In glving it to him v done at cost, and be puld for by Near Destruction. dent fishermen ; : . g sunvice, fobe; el A cHe SSHEIEAY The acti started by @ num-| F ¢ i . » s, Cathedral. Then they will be sent A New York ¢ aw: the government out of royalty oil | > 3 A 'k court awarded 1 ; SAPAULO, Bazil, Feb to New York on the liner Vauban. which the warrants were issued wi Miss Catherine Maher $30,000 | which it recolved from leascs on the | ommande Fancesco de Pinedo - e e e for loss of her beauty, The |reserves. The contracts also mvolved | gpwapn, Alaska, Feb. 25 Sib }BRlTISH FAVUH CEiLiias: flor: hny e Loe Marshal W. H. Casw, ¢ | judgment was entered against | (e placiug by Doheny of a quantitygjqing s suddenly as it arose, the UNITED STATES | : and the contracts ned by Do ber of taxpayers. The complaint on | Caswell investigated day from Rio de Janerio en R e e owners. of a truck llmt ine |Of fuel il in the storage tanks in | rific storm which tireatened e W b b et ok -y jured her. jexchange for crude oil 1o be furnisi-|paiput fleet, lashed itsell out in PRUPOSAL MADE | Ubslon. Biw. ctoAuel e Bilanb cember 11 are said to substantiale (nternatinnal Nawereald pelle DYothe e $InalyniTSUIOL kY SOR RILLCH Sl | £ fea last K FLYING FURGE 4 - v | Contracts and les ade with | ‘ ; i to South America wer the allegation that the funds wore| I len m Wi fate of fishermen may not be know Doheny and with Harry . Sinctin oo voted to M Hanlon | / i 2 ;mm\ the halibuters arrive from the precipitated — tl Senate’s Teapol by, nks, probably not for a week, i Dismissal of [the adoption of a rvesolution under | ey gale dicd down v the harbor G : | which special coun was appointed fyope Saturday noon. Vessels which i 5 5 Charges Against | by the ”I “”"l”"ll” to test the legal-lyaq peen driven from the wharves Rt‘phm to Disarmament (,(m- THEN sulchEs Aivolan Rnd?l Reachas Gould Favored A R e L R ference Three Power | L ! SENATE ON B"..l. were entered. - (hat aguinst Doheny | ”;“ w0 Men o ]ml‘w o Agreement Probable \\ Corinto with Planes and o, WASHINGTON, Fob, 2 2 WAt Friad: -l Uiy [ROBRIL CUTRERIGEL oy o e e 8 s THREE |MPER“_ED Sixty Fliers. The Senate Elections Commit ) el biE s AL ke ) g | s - tee today recommended drop | against Sinclair in the federal court at 1lyr venne, Wyoming They declaved the storm was tie 1 WASHNGTON, Febh. 28 The | British note of tcceptance of Presi- | MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Feb. 28 |dent Coolidge's disarmament pro SEATTLE, Feb. 25 Endangering The arvival of the United States air- posul has been received and said tne the lives of his s, son amd ship tender Altair at Corinto with British delegates “would do their|daughter, who were asleep, John planes and equipment and approxi- best to further success of the pro-| Holmes, d 60 years, fired his mately three score of fliers brought | posed conversation” with the Jap-|home here this morning, then shot the landing force on the west coast anese treaty and killed himself. The house was of Nicaragua to 1,700 The reply is regarded as probably [destroyed but the survivorh escaped — There are six de Haviland planes ASHINGTON, re¢ 28 The Worst ever ping the charges against Sen | ator-Elect Gould, of Maine, con- Senate today invoked the .lunnw Among the vessels arriving here trial conrt in the Doheny case (yus the Republie, with hatches « the leases and contracts, | ymashed, part of the rail carried Ibut allowed Doheny compensation o1 [yway and much gear lost. {the construction work at Pearl Har-| capr, Marins Malvar, of the Ak cerning payment of $100,000 rule on the Administration’s Pro- {0 Canadian officials, and up- hibition and Customs reorganization holding his right to take hLis | Dill after refusing to limit debate| g i Jena on the §125,000,000¢ public building place in the Senate. i ! £ e Boll 2 govers 3 ek _Lipin | bor. Both the government and Do- | yan, related that his ship came per Iheny appealed, and the circuit court | gusly near destruction on the rocks | sustained the cancellation of the Te | susts b : t M eton I<land when the gale | it Middletor jopening the way for a three power|in the night clothes, and four two seaters, scouting planes i (Coatinucn on Page HIEht.) Kodlak reports that the bell bouy e W L e | aniad 00 mhan ARTa BITLER I at the entrance of the harbor wa i An unidentificd schooner nearly Chamberlain Stenos Ban men has been sent to Granada to s ! | capsized when caught in the gale| Foreien LY hay Al g H i . e | UP AT SHANGHAl near Kodiak but managed to limp|dnnounced that all of the govern-| Royge, Gum and el o .',d”i{f"‘.m?‘ ‘,I-'f:" o COLUMBIA, S. C.. Feb. 28.—South | a professor in Queens College, Char-| into a sheltered cove, badly damaged, |ments ‘of thé British* Empire ‘con Tardi 3 At ILGURL HChARR T b L Carolina has no woman in high of- lotie, N. €. Athle 1, they are| Bhe ! Permination of the storm strength-|€urred except the Irish Free State ardiness I'l[““f”‘“ LR o poghitile ficial position, bu nevertheless “the | cspecially fond of - swimming and i ened the hope that most of the boats ; disxal aiiacks oft Giadaus Jumale of the apscles’ outyoLes mAD| Ninting {Sun's Army and Chang-Tsun-!were anie 1o reach protected har —aae DENVER, ¥ov. 28 mem ten to one in the chief executive's| [n Laurens during the campaign ! y I bors and cape destruction y IT) {bers of a newly formed s ograph- Aid Is Asked family | Bettie, a social welfare worker in Chang F"'C95 Consoli- atlfiseds Bangor Mayors Coach {ers union here have made some' ypxico (‘|’|\, r.»i e:s Pedro ~Gov. John G. Richards, who hasia cotion mill, and Mrs. J. W. T date for Defense. VAN DYCK ORIGINAL City Clerk Fifty Years resolutions that may be hard 10 zepeda, Minister to Mexlco from the just taken office, is no prouder of| jr another daughter. did such Jis BOUGHT BY AMERICAN keep acasa Liberal government from Ni- his new honor—the realization of alent “lectioneering” their father SHANGHAL Feb. 28.—Confidence A BANGOR, Me., Feb Newly Neva Wakeman, recording secre agua, announces he has tele- life-long ambition—than he is of the|picd the county by a large majority, nine daughters, who with Mrs. Rich-i gqespite the fact it is the home of ards compose his family. | Carroll D. Nance, th rded as He has reason to be. Even though|one of the strongest (.,“u“m,& they may be old-fashioned in that| which has not made any reply has apparently been restored to| LONDON, Feb, 28.—Van Dyck's |elected Mayo { Bangor have at|tary of the organization, says gum graphed an appeal to John B. Payne, Sun’s shaken forces by the arrival]porirait of Queen Henrietta Maria,|hand a reac 4 coach” in rou-lchewing lipsticking, being late aud Chairman of the American Red of Sun and Chang-Tsun-Chang, Gov-, wife of Charles L, is said by The|tine and pre He is a City | talking to the b friend on th> (ross, and heads of organization ernor of Shantung, jointly command-' Daily F to have bheen pur-{Clerk with a It century of service | €Ompany’s time are tabooed throughout the world urging them W, ¥ = As there are no boys in the fam-|ing the forces which are lining up|chased by a St. Louis collector. behind him > b in the name of humanity to do some- ':-‘1‘{31 b((;l“)xe(:mllu:x‘l‘::-klu;;x‘;(l li‘\::inr.{dx‘\::;:l"'l .\.m}::.lm. vIu}”_\mn;L'iwv daughter, |at Sungkiang to make a definite| The portrait was sold in London| Col. Victor | who acquired| Seattle Crisis thing to relieve the plight of (he are very mu(lvrl; in other ds‘n('('l‘! | pamed for her father. She and [stand against the .\n}zimmllsts. from the Duke of Hamilton's collec- | his title in the State militia, stud E”'Iull’l I Acti ‘l,}-lnx.-h and their wounded. He de- For example, their work in behalf| Rckah now are & ing Mrs. Rich.) Land preparations for an attack lf:m in 1822 for v700.|;uuu> s (about | died law but became City Clerk in| ’ 'Y‘ ton clared they are dying without food St tHals Tlather.. abnossd by e,gm‘ s as South Carolina’s “First lady.” |are being made and as @ precaution |§3.400). The new owner is said {o|1875 and has held the job ever \Of City Treasurer inil /merlicall attentiny Wil tIE A other candidates, was one of the| Mildred and Jean will spend their|against an attack by the National-lhave paid a fivefigure price. since, except for two years when | L ierican forces prevet reaching them features of the primary. All of |h(..m-\m ations from college in the execu-|ists by water, Woosunk, entrance to = m—. gt the Democrats captureil the City SEATTLE, Feb. 28 Kd Terry, | of :.m.um of .nuu- Admiral Lati- either are college graduates or are in|tive mansion and the others are fre-/the Whangpoo River, the ouly ap-|Speqls to His Hall. Olty Transurer, inday risked being,mer’s blockade school. The governor never will need | quent visitors. proach to the city by water, has 1 o Priandi In addition to recording births, d in contempt of court when he B e engage an orchestra, for his daugh-| Besides Mrs. Todd, the other mar-|been ordered closed from sumset tol< '”"4 : i marriage intentions, marriages, and aphed $1,142 to New York M British T ters are accomplished musicians and!ried daughters are Mrs. Thomas B.|sunrice. . By Air, in Eskimo deaths in his best copper plate style, |for a railway payment on the muni- ¥iore DIIRIS| roops have one of their own which has|McRae, Denmark, S. C., and Mrs. M.| One thousand more British Mar- g Col. Brett has become an authority |cipal car system, ending the finan- Reach Hongkmg T.,d.y a state-wide reputation | L. Sauls, Wadeshoro, N. C. The gov-|ines have arrived. PITTSBURGH, Penn., Feb. 28. -—|on municipal affairs and precedents|cial crisis H et Mildred won first place in the last|ernor has seven grandchildren. His| The labor unions called a one gpegking in the Eskimo language, [by attending every meeting of citv] ‘The City Council has approved of) HONGKONG, Feb. 28.—The British music contest held under the .m-ltv\o sons died, one while a child and |hour strike protesting against thejBishop Alived Turquetil, talked last fofficials. Mayors have learned to}Terry’s action in defying the Super- iroopship Kildonan Castle arrived spices of the South Carolina Federa-|the other, Lieutenant Stephen M.|landing of the British forces but| saturday night to his arctic friends|look to him for much information jior Court order to fimpound the here today from England with the tion of Women's Clubs, Richards, -during the World war, this failed to materialize, from station KDKA, He is now 75 years old, efeity’s railway funds, first Battalion of Devonshire troops, is| | { \