The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 21, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EI’»@PIRE ———r— VOL. XXIX., NO. 4433, NEWS ALL THE TIME” MONDAY, MARCH “ALL THE JUNEAU, ALASKA, 21 11927 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTS CANTONESE ENTER NATIVE SHANGHAL 1,000 AMERICAN MARINES LANDED BALKAN STRIFE IS THREATENED; REVOLT, ALBANIA Jugoslavia R:ported Stirring | Up Trouble—TItaly Makes Warlike Move. VIENNA, Mach 21.—Uncon- fimed reports continue to arrive from Tirana alleging Jugoslavia is inciting irresponsible ele- ments in Albania to revolt. Albanian armies, lining up against the northern frontier, meet with possible military ae- gression. Italy is preparing to aid Albania. The new overnight disturbance in the turhulent Balkans threatens to imbroil all Europe. ITALY LANDS MUNITIONS BELGRADE, March 21 Jugosluvia newspaper Korrost e at Tirana, Albania, as saying four v warships have anzo, Albania, and unloaded muni- tions. The newspaper Ttalian staff officers are preparing v mili- tary oper Jugoslavia The pub- is report- additiona! Ttal- arvived at Dur- Iis! ed says rations against PARIS, March 21 and French are exchanging hurr notes concerning the Balkan situa- tio. When the decision is reached Germany is expected to join them in preventing further eruptions along the Mediterranean. The Ledgue of Natins will prob- ably not be asked to intervene, ALASKA FLIER YOUNG IS SAFE Found in Indian Village Where He Stumbled in Storm—Repairs Plane The British McGRATH, Ed Young, aviator, alive and well at ment on the Kus Engine down in within tion. March 21 — has been found an Indian settle- okwim, trouble forced his plane and he 76 miles of his destina- eking shelter in th sparse timber, he succeded fin starting a fire, despite the 6G0-mile an how gale prevailing. Realizing that 40 degrees below zero weather would kill him i he did not obtain food, Young stumbled through the snow- storm and found the Government mail trail near an Indian village and later reached the village. In- dians sheltered, fed him and also gave him medical attention Young returned to his plane and repaired it. He expects to resume his journey to Bethel soon. Young left McGrath a week ago vesterday for Bethel in his plane which had crossed the Alaska Range from Anchorage. When he did not arrive at his destination s2arching parties were sent out. His plane was found, but abandoned. —— e — JUDGE HILL ON YOKON Judge E. Coke Hill, who ceeds Judge E. E. Ritchie, of the Third Division, is due to arrive in Jyneaw tomorrow on the Yukon en- route to Valdez, where he will as- sume his office. Young landed suc- ... Italian Flier Thougl:t Lost in Jungles, Reports MANAOS, Brazil, Commander de Pinedo, Tral- ian flier, who was thought lost in the tropical jungles of West- ern Brazil, landed late Satur- day afternoon at Guajara Mirvim, about 630 miles north- west of the place from which he started last Thursday and about the same distance south- west of Manaos. Only the bare announcement his arrival was received stated he hopes to continae aos on Sunday of and the advices to e MURDERS MAN IN ORDER TO MARRY WIDOW Eternal Triangle Revealed in Slaying—Wife Finally Indicates Cause. BULLETIN — NEW YORK, March 21. — Mrs. Snyder told the police that Henry Judd Gray, who has been jailed at Svracuse, murdered her hus- band so she might marry Gray. Mrs. Snyder said Gray was hidden .in the home when the Snyders returned. Gray beat Snyder tc death them wrapped a wire around his neck and later tied Mrs. Snyder to make the crime look like one of rob- bery. STRANGLED TO DEATH W YORK, March 21 Albhert Snyder, aged 45 years, art editor of Motor Boating, was found sty to death with a picture wir home in Queens Village and wife, Ruth, found 4 not hurt The nine-year-old raine, hearing her thumping on the door bearoom, was Lor- ntly girl's daughter. mother fa of the discovered the crime. There were no marks on any doors or windows to indicate en- trance to the house had been forced The house had been ransacked from roof to cellar Mrs. Snyder told clothing and jewel and the missing art hidden in a bedroom. A bottle of liquor, one drink had heen found on the dining Near it was a $1 bill Mrs. Snyder told neither liquor nor money when the couple retired. Mrs. Snyder told the and her a party ea As she was retiring, man seized her and she fainted, When e recovered consciousness she was gagged and bound. the police that ¢ had been taken les were found from poured, room w table. as the police were there police she vesterday morning. a big powerful Former Alaskan Steamer Man Drops Dead, Seattle ATTLE, March 21.—Capt. Frank N. Price, aged 65 years, former Al- askan and Yukon river pilot, dropped on the dock shortly after he dead safely moored his ferryboat at Leschi: this forenoon REAPPORTIONMENT OF HOUSE DEEP PROBLEM WASHINGTON, March 21 throbs of Congress periodi ache over reapportionment are be- ing felt by the House (‘enmm Com- mittee. The problem, presented by the Constitution, is to divide the Hous2 membership of 435 so that all con- stituencies in the country will be as nearly ailke numerically as possible. It looks like a simple matter ol arithmetic, but Representatives and Census Bureau officials know that it makes a Chinese puzzle seem down- right elementary and that Jefferson . and Waebster weren't just idling away their time when they debated the subject many years ago. What ails the problems from the mathematician’s point of view are the political questions involved in reshaping Congressional districts, the spectre of ‘“taxation without repre- sentation,” and the ghost of the “Alabama paradox.” Two methods of reapportionment have been de- vised—the major fractions system now in use, and the equal propor- tions rule—but no guarantee has been found that either won't turn up a catch question somewhere, e (Continued on Page Five,) which! which husband arrived home from | Hvatum, WILL THEY HOLD NOW THAT SHANGHAI HAS FALLEN BEFORE THE C A singl dred foreign ucts of line of barbed wire entanglements separate the for be all that the lives and the gr. Chinese fallen before n concession from the rest of Shinghai Tha rioting, pillage and soldiers will nd « that DEPLETION OF HALIBUT MOST THREATENING Regulations to Preserve In- dustry Being Planned by s : ‘ International Com. 4 | may protect property the of onward toreigners from ther war, now caport ha sweep of Cantonese soldiers H. R, SHEPARD " CHOSEN GRAND | PRES. PIONEERS {Grand lgloo Concludes Fourb Day Session Here—Reso- lutions Passed. Browning Wins His Case; Separated from “Peaches” Juneau Man Is Chosen Grand President of Pioneer Igloo VICTORIA, B. C John . Babeock, Cl International Fisheri announced that while sion has not yet detern method sources of ska, it question halibut. “The pres being main March i man the v i Commission, the | ned the conserving halibut re British Columbia and Al-| establishied heyend all| alarming of| of R £ rday neers of dez The was last Grant | io-| Love af Shepard Juncan i 3 noon elected of the Grand Alaska, and George J was elected Grand Grand Igloo yesterday concluded @ four Juncau, selecting mecting place many resolutions service for Comn lgloo H R SHFPARD heen Igloo of head ary ternoon in the the el ensuing honored Aluska for the day's by Ketehikan vear hold de. has a an depletion sion Grand and as nest ected a and year the [ adopting memorial ploncers ent supply of ha'ibut is| iined by resorting o the new far distant fishing banks, by more intensive fishing n(‘ the depleted banks, and the use of smaller hooks, which are outstand-i ing features,” aid Mr. Babcock “The Commission’s work, which been halted by the wreck of the schooner Scandia, has established] | the fact that depletion is threat ening. The Commission is now lay ing plans to proceed with work be based ulations industry.’ | Ross. b i | Capt. Hva‘tum, of Wrecked Scandia, Buys New Craft > > and chosen Saturday so-President — Percy Grand | SUIGIDE PACT; Other were G officers Grand Charles; Second has i |Grand Chaplain Gertrode Langhlin rand Historian- Rev. A, I Kashe- | Grand Sergeant at-Arms Jensen; Grand Trus Cal M. Brosius, Forest J. Hunt varoft; | Thomas IErik | Rydeen CHICAGO, surrounding of hoy on | pyre near the Forest Park afte by |boy’s mother lin a Chicago fulfilling the M the ch 21.—The finding of mystery the hody o5 Almer B B a to an Do wirs th and fo apartment saicide pact i hi improvised Plaines cleared disc "y ter father apparently In a lett v Arthur Ma Cora sayving: | tirad days may and in the River up of preserve ; Pension for Pioneers resolutions which by the committee on resolu tions and unanimously adopted cover- ed a variety of subjects. The first il " containad vecommendations 1o the| 10 el Legislature concerning the modifica. | wen tion of the existing old age pension | ‘Helen B4 [laws. The Grand Igloo snggests that [living {all pensioners must he wonld {more and have had continuous |dence in the Territory for 20 y el t. Also, that the maximum Ed-lgjon be increased to $ month | e New'and that the Territorial Pension |Earl Carroll Must separa- | goard he impowered appoint 1o Brown :cal boards wherever seems prac | supreme | ticahle noon The tsented were pre a fo wrol told and end it I hoy I SEATTLI, March master and Scandia which the outer rocks on Kodiak has purchased the former trading schooner Chukotsk Olaf Swenson rated for years between attle and chatka The with a Unga 21 O of lost Harboy Siberian whicn several Capt owner sister she was some of these she all, fo. herself. Bob believed the paronis and to burn e ill-fated was 65 years old or| i jand me” ars Killed thy pen- | the hody. v is "FRANCES BROWNING CARMEL, N. Y., March 21 West Browning, wealthy tor. today won his gainst “Peaches” in a decizion made by Justice A, H. Seeger was - granted abandonment first d Secger intended oy St Kam- | a April 1| york Sandpoint, yjon Chukotsk sails about general cargo for and \'lm.x\\ Harbor, —ete 1 Court American Good-Will | Fliers Aw;nt de Pinedo re to fing - WASHINGTON theatrical and on Barl must the e out-| liquor bath- Court to- the case. March 21 manager di | Care of Insane el The second resolution urged | establishment of a government i cruelty jed and controlled institution in the { Territory of Alaska for the care of evidence insane to he ready for occupancy ion of the present con tract, It arnestly endorsed the | {commendable offorts of the Governo bring ahout a betterment of the Earthquake Recorded [ existing evils and 1|.|...|T.‘r«v him th 'n wnhmgton, D c utmost support of the Pioneers, Yukon Fishing | the third resolution “isolved that the Igloo recommend! the Burean of Fisheries that| fishing on the Yukon and Kuskokwin | vivers and their tributavies be per.| Imitted to bona fide residents of said | TONOPAH Military Rule Continues |streams for commercial and domestic ;"“" FAISTES (Or. Hib i NAtiOn e ‘poses, provided that the cateh be|here, attracted by Weepah's gold. Kansas Town, Rucisl agge| 5 no0ce. vrovided It Lhe sal e | limited so as not to exceed 60 bar-i The men are from Nome, Alaska | Separation on the Carroll Owll- | SETVe one year in grounds of a case o penitentiary growth of tub party day for perjury his famous The Lo review | was dism Brazil, el 90| rustice ~~The American Army ood-Will aviators, arriving northbound, ed the Portuguese aviator Bieres southbound. The Ame fliers expect to wait here and greet Italian aviator de Pinedo who is fly- | ing from Manaos to Para. | e —— Anti-Trust Case dury - Ducharged No Verdlct""mp tr e terda CHICAGO, March 2L—The trial of | the 129 furniture dealers and firms accused of violating the anti-trust laws ended this afternoon when Fed- eral Judge Carpenter discharged the Jury after it failed to reach a verdict The case went to the jury Thursday ;,,,,,,,, request of eivil authorities fol-| ——— flowing renewed agitation against French forestry regulations impose ' negrocs a< the result of last Friday's penaltics for destruction of trees racial outhreak. High school calculated according to the diameter dents o planning to bar of the trunks, from clusses, FORT NATAL said no Peaches” charges against had been submitted and Supreme fo sustain Jrowning | Br at the exp refused 10 it was | WASHINGTON, varthquake, m here, fterncon, e, March 21 centering was recorded -A {vere” 500 ves- | to Nevada, land Miami, Florida ,r(l\ ‘ Th Als he Alaskan confessed he has h:-- n in a dozen boomrs without sav. g one dollar The Florida money in the the put info a unloaded during COFFEYV Iy.H'L l\unmn(, March 21 i | Pioneers' Home rule continued here unla,, last | — Milita The fourth slution endorsed that l"' Igloo No Valdez, in which they | {approved the laws passed by the 5| Territorial Legislature for the es-| - tablishment and maintenance of the negroes g man said Arizona boom Florida the price which ranch and peak. nnera funeral | this | the | dead | of | Go to Penitentiary - | gars he made | NATIVE CITY OF SHANGHAI TAKEN: NO SHOTS FIRED Cantonese Enter This Morn- iny — “hantungese Flee Before l'nemlea. 'AKMED FOREIGN FORCES f LANED FOR DEFENSE ‘/\men an Marines Guard | Trouble Center—12 Cas- : ualties Are Reported. SHANGHAT, March 21 I'he na- tive city of Shanghai was taken this morning by the Cantone: without | fightin as the Shantungese fled pwhen the forces ente The vicipal Couneil de emergency forces, formes i lared a and armed for- nelnding 1,000 United 1 Marines, have been la 'ed to nd foreign settlements. The possibility of serious disord- is intensified by the calling of @ general strike to celebrute the city's 1. Ame n Marines are .llln- Northern and Western itricts of the for | where trouble is threak oot | The native o jand Chapei saw Tmaenine e % fboom ot artille ! All barriers r jand for Vheavily One | killed ond two men firing Fsettlements Troahios in t blamed larg tonese cle the i | | patrolling dritish from plain tacked the polic W bur Chaos reigns tive city Rioters quarters, several o tonig ran the native A band of Chinese North- bro the foreign looting. Four armored car, went to the police, wounded in machine gun fire ch rained contiranlly on the car. Armed men forced the woigers to Yleave the Hritish-owned cigaretth factory across the river trom the in- fternational settlement Up to midnight tonight eign defending the melits had suffered inc ng two killed by snipers Oceasional shells exploded in the international and French qnarters. e Capt \.ochnn Commands Bering Sea Patrol Force ern Lroops into began in an rsettlement British and soldiers which assist were wh tne for- forces foreign | set | SEATTUE, Cochran, March 21— Capt. N. 8 rmerly commanding officor of Cutter Bear, has been ap- 1,».; 4 Commander of the Bering eca Patrol with headquarters at | Unalaski succeeding Capt. F. 8. avboskerck, who has been tran- rred to Norfold, Va. Capt. Cochran arrives in Seattle { tront San Franlsce early in April |Hll(] sails on the faida for Unalaska April 15. The Cutter Northland which | neanily completed at Newport Va., is expected to sail from | Seat ) the Actric in June. The Worhland rv-pl.uvi the Bear. |~ W Nome, Florida Stampeders Meet at Tonopah; Join Rush To Secure Gold at Weepah of men who spent their last to get here and found nothing cold weather and high winds | cent | but k prevailing. A surveyor and his assistant were | unable | wind. { The local stores have sold out the supply of blankets, comforters and | pillows. | Special | to to stretech their tape in the stage lines are scheduled run even from Seattle to this 1 (Connnued ‘on Puo Two.) 1 Tonopah is filling up with beg-| place.