The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 30, 1927, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXIX., NO. 4468. CAMERON PULP WOOD QOLIDGE ASKS MOREFUNDSFOR FLOOD RELIEF Five Million Dollars Insufli-! cient—Refugees Increas- ing in Numbers. WASHINGTON, April 30— President Coolidge today ap- pealed to the country for funds in excess of the $5.000.000 first asked for flood relief as that amount is decidedly insuf- ficient. REFUGEES INCREASE MEMPHIS, Tenn.. April 30 Two new levee breaks have added to the steadily crescending demands for relief. The Red Cr head-| quarters officials estimate over 200,000 refugees are registered’ which figure probably represents, only one half of those totally home- less. Evacuation every small town | in southeastern Arkansas is neces-| gary when hundreds of workers lost! @ 10-day battle and the Arkansas River levee broke at South Bend. The known death toll in Arkansas glone is 120 persons = | SAVING NEW ORLEANS 1 NEW ORLEANS, April 30.—Wid-| ening of the lake water spreading gradually over two deserted parish-| es thronsh three small crev s Dlasted |yesterday afternoon in attempt \to save New Orleans proving Nuccessful. During the night the flood waters cut a 60- foot gap through the banks which| are expected to widen rapidly. of an! , FLOOD DICTATOR | VICKSBURG, Mis April .'200—‘ v, wealthy lumberman, afnted dictater of all! Mississippi od activities, MORE OPENINGS MADE NEW OHLEANS, April 30.—Ad- diticnal charges of dynamite were| fired today widening the artificial! 3 south of New Orleans to save the city. Two more tons of] dynamite have been ordered for; further work. SMUGGLERS BY - AIR ARE CAUGHT Three Airpl‘:u;_e: Are Seized —One Aviator Is Shot and Killed. LOS ANGEL Federal agents captured three uliens are being.smuggled fornia from Mexico. One of the aviators was shot and killed in the fight which resulted iu| he seizure of the other two planes. | *"he other two aviators were captured | but 10 Chinese escaped | Federal Immigration inspectors and ! o cordon of police are being thrown around Los Angeles Chinatown prevent the escape of the Chinese believed to have sought safety therc l cal., ( reported airplanes April they 1 by whi into Cati fleet and places conducting the smn gling operations and officers w tipped off that the three planes w high altitude, they were easily spott- el and officers were waiting whe: | they landed. | Seized Rum Runner i To Soon Be Released: | schooner {forever in Pa now. SAN FRANCISCO, Apsil 30, eral Attorney George Hatfield clared in the Federal Court today | that the Attorney General, Depart-( ment of Justice and the Departmeni' of Treasury are aware that the meizure of the Canadian rum ] | Federalship was illegal and the c will be released next week. As the formal release must come from Wash ington, the ship will remain in cu tody for several days anyway. Hatfield wag granted a request th: action brought by the Federalship owners against him and the Collect) of Customs be postponed one week. > . Suspect Is Charged Witk Peculiar Crime Fed de- | aft | | TTLE, Aprii junftor, who iy R A Willisia H. ed of | wingoyers wes from arrested’ iails to plained todged on ‘he mail hem with no legal W mail order i charge of Poxtal 1 fraud oh wry Titus houses by pay gtamps Lo whick he vight and which we recovery by tighiful owpers Tosg 2 i y 10| Henry i he a Investigations revealed the airplane | plotted i Snyder, Gray arriving today. Although flying at a of the murder INickel Beer Gone; of is still the eve s bhecause most of the crop is exported. "\ Labor and other costs zlso have gone up. at 1tax on beer recently, but the brew lers say thas the price of wine went up. pretentious higher cents .The small glass, called a goes for si —Halibut pounds. bject tolthousand pounds of halibut were sold ihere today at 12 and 15 ceats, No Bills; Legislators Get )| Gold Medals from Admirers Time was when representatives went to the Legislature with the idea of winning fame for themselves by pushing through as large a mass of legislation bearing their names as possible, But Frank Hallgren, of Holdrege, and George M. Storye, of . Plainview, had a different idea. And the Lincoln Cosmopolitun Club prezented them with gold medals because tllz, didn’t ine troduce a single bill into the Nebraska Legislature, L Bills limiting movie kisses, rass’s” that obscure the horizon of bills prescribing how sundaes “‘;{"""“" ‘;;““m ’ 7 ; A epresentative Frank Hallgren, of may be mixcd, bills making it & yigigrege, and George M. Storey, of erime to cuss a traffic cop, bills Plajnview, have emerged from a ses: providing & new State anthem—all sion of the Nebraska Legislature of these and many more pop up in Without having introduced a single every Legislature in the countr: bill, It seems that as soon as the elec. To commemorate the event, the tion returns are in, and sometimes Lincoln Cosmopolitan Club struck even before, every representative §old medals. Vernon D. Andrews, siarts thinking of things to legislate past president, with public ceremony, About. One expert recently calcu- presented them to the legislators. lated that if & policeman started to Andrews has long agitated for study all the laws he is expected to fewer laws and greater observance intorce he could never overtake the of the few. 1 aking machinery within the “And if fewer bills were intro span of his life, duced,” he said, “legislators could A ray of sunshine is breaking give more careful consideration tq through the cloud of “do's,” “dont's, INCOLN, Neb. (I'I-N Special).— *verbotens” and “keep off the the business before them. _ MURDER LAID AMERICANS T0 ~ TOSERPENT MAKE BRITISH WOMAN” NOW, NEW YORK, April 30 vesterday alternoon, judd Gray. told the would prove Mrs. Snyder “serpent woman’ who not but actually killed her hushand, to get nd he would also show was not rational at the FILM PICTURES LONDON, will soon in which | Chaplin, D, and many brities will Griffith will G film “Peace of the World,” which will be made in London, Wells {will probably go to Hollywood ') {assist direction of kome of the scene Lloyd. who directed the Hawk” is also veported under engag ment to make British films It is reported that Chaplin coming to London in October o produce a film called “The Suicide Club.” Late for court wis only Albert insur that time April enter it w othe 30 Great upon a film drive reported Charlis Griffiths, Frank Llovd an film ce Britair connsel Wells part of ———————— 1 It’s 7SVix Cents Now PARIS, April 30 of “good” n, It — The beer is costs six nickel BOne cents Hired Dance Mates Expensive Luxuries Ordinary the beer, at the zinc small, sawdust-floored caf® obtainable at four cents for half-liter glas but there is al- the tip to be reckoned with, n at the counter. Hops, say the brewers, counte, LONDON, April 30.--The hiring of | professional partners by London so- ciety women is proving costly. A school of dancing that supplins reputable and skilled partners charg es a fee of from one to three guineas for a “tea dance” and two to five guineas and expenses for an eve ning dance When it is remembered that aisides the fee and “expenses”—whicit ten |cover taxi fares and tips—the ex -|pense of the dinner or supper and the guest fee, if the partner is taker to a club, are included, the hire of a dance partner is a very ex- pensive matte; — e SEATTLE HALIBUT PRICES are high The government lightened the that- didn’t grown in help much. Bee. favor in France as visitors who cafes, naturally range of prices, up plus tip for the large Foreign to morz face to g0 x cents and a cent tip. s A e i RUPERT HALIBUT PRICES PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., 'April 20 sale today totaled 85,000 American halibut sold for and 14.50 cents, and Canadian for and 13.50 cents. SEATTLE, April 30.—Halibut prices Arrival included the Repeat with 4,000 pounds, Agnew with 5500, Louise with 7,000, Mariner with 8,000, West- fjord with 12,000, Eleanora with 6,000 anf Roosevelt with 12,000 Seattle Prices SEATTLE, April 30.—Seventy-eight | JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 30 * fowned be- | averaged 12 and 18 cents yesterday.| “ ) 'SCOTTISH RITE [HOWARD OFFERS BODIES TOBUILD - APPROPRIATIONS MASONICTEMPLE MEASUSE TODAY Fifty Thousand. Dollar Home |Intgduces for Masonic Bodies to Go | Up at Fourth and Seward The Scottish Rite hodies of sonry to announced that § had purchased from Richard F. Lewiv | priations measure introduced i | »f San Francisco the lot at the|the Senate (oday President Bart rorthern corner of Seward and Fourth jley Howard. Objections w voleed Streets and will bagin the construe [by Sen Steel and Brdwn, bui | tion of a threestory concrete Mu |the were withdrawn when Join | sonic Temple on the property at | Rule was cited as Senator How fearly date, It is proposed to have jard’s authority for his action the construction completed durinz | Normally the neral appropris the summer and ready for occupancy [tions bill is brought into the Hous: by the fall. Present plans are for|of Representatives by the Committ: the building to house all of theien Ways and Means. The lyst clau o Masonic bodies, including the Bluelin Joint Rule 25 provides this meas Lodge and the Eagtern Star, though lure shuall be introduced not later | the Scottish Rite bodies are tho|than the fitty-fifth day of the session owners of the property. which was today ’ The building will cover the entire| In presenting his own measure, ‘ot, 50 fect by 100 feet in size. and | which follows very closely the budget | [it"is estimated that will cost!in most departments. Mr. Howard | $30.000 d inasmuch as the Houss had i | It is planmed now that Harlan journed today without such a measu Thomas of Seattle, who has beeu | being introduced, he felt it advisahl | emploved by (he Juneau School Board to get the bill in without delay to sbe the “archite@ for the new The main differeuces hetween | High School building will be employ. |measure and the ed to act in similar capacity for | the asurer of ihe Masonic Templa! | submitted 1o the It s :wnunnu*lflll:n {in the session will begin as =0 as the plans and |road and trail tspecifications can be preparved | port of schools. | The Scottish Rite bodies decided 'is provided for {upon making the new purchase and jof $200.000 o and $800,00 (the construction of their temple af-|for schools. There arve slight in (ter they had sold the two lots they cre < in other items as recommend- at the corner of Sixth and jed in the budget | Seward Streets to the Juneau Sch o s Board for the new High School site MAN Is SLAIN [ That sale was consummated yest L UN NEw sc"onl inoEth Coefessesi il: (?pen I Court-—Gang Leader Is BUILDING; JULY g Involved in Crime. e 1 rhomas 18-} fassoq new and his | General /\pprow priations Bill when House | Committee Doesn't. | ng approxi- | neral appre Mo With they | mately | | | | | | was hy | | it the Territory Islature in the jtems for nstruction, and svi A of $460,000 an inerease an | | 4 4 1 | construction | | t | —_——————— WORK TOBEGIN | | i i i | | ) | | i I | it 0L, April 30 aged 19 open court tod L9 brother Elmo, aged 000 DAVE vears, now dead, killed Mayor el [Adams of West City, December ot ant? will arojut the command harles Hirg f who paid $50 to each for getiing the first steamers Tt ar AR LD Al HeLabea by O [rid of his encmy o had harbored andwill dr I T the rival Shelton sang Work will he started on the new Dhuilding about July 1 and will be \omassen pleaded | finished before the beginning of the Murder. He will he fall term in September, WALTIOHG LARAJTaN. L ITRar- A general discussion on the streetihis gungsters who ar repair work Was bad last might. A|l8ve joined a plan to asaaes! {considerable amount of rock fill will Mams serving 10 CALIFORNIA U >oo—— Cal, April 30 'llvnl W. W. Campbell has ordered a |spiration. He growing weaker [Sweeping investigation at the Uni ter showing improvement since his|versity of California after the police !seizure of 93 quarts of Scotch whis previous sinking spell. Some time ago: 3 Booth su ned a dislocated verteh-|key in possession of a student. Th police arrested two students on li e in automobile accident and | as he was to undergo an operation, | quor charges. The raid followed com- plaints that a noi drinking par! his lungs suddenly collapsed. —— - — was in progress with women present > discn night the final by the City garding the school. been subseribed Tpeople it was | Thomas, Seattle rive on one of The plans Council huilding Oper §5 in bonds announced were last of vears, y that t 17 Joe| in « © \ [ ty to thej the State's star and some of alleged to assussinate I 1 | a | I plans | | Lungs Collapse, |Death Near for Farm Lad f t i 1 | ROANOKE, Va. April 30 hmun! again threatens Walter Hooth, 15/ year old farm lad who has been kel alive since April 21 by artificia Presi | | BERKELEY, ¥ T | | | | NAVY AIRMEN KILLED; PLANE HIT, LIGHTNING NORFOLK, Va., April 30 ur |navy airmen were killed when a bo:t lof lightning struck their seaplane | when it was 1,200 feet in the |sending it hurtling into Chesapeak: |Bay, off New Point Comport he dead are Lieut, Victor F | Marinelli, Lieut. George Lehman, Aviation Chief Machinists Mate L. k. Poyner and machinists Mate Geo. M. Michels. The plane was one of two enronfc from Philadelphia to Hampton Roads. | The other plane brought news of the tragedy which occurred during a evere electrical and rain storm. ROAD SIGNS FOR HIGHWAY ¥ t i The United States Forestry Depar® i ment has had forty informational road signs made for the Glacier Highway naming creek and trail intersections, land marks and other points of in terest. The signg are of white enam>l with green lettering and the in signia of the Forest Service in green They will be put up by the Unite! States Bureau of Public Roads with in the next month These informational signs have also heen prepared for the roads in the | vicinity of Ketchikan, Cordova, Sew-| and Moose Pass and will h-j’ erected at an early date sl St i . | it | | ( t i I h 1 ANCHORAGE MAN IS CONVICTED AS was convicted of viola- tion of the National Prohibition Aci and sentenced to three months im- prisonment and fined $300 by United | States Commissioner Thomas Price, ! at Anchorage. The arrvest was made April 25 by National Prohibitios | Agent Warren Harding, formerly of Juneau, and the cisoner pleaded guilty the same day —————— “WET"” Ed Miller, I ( . I « ( [i 1 t Canada to Honor American Heroes VANCOUVER, B.-C, April Announcement was made here that Canada, through the Dominion gos- ernment, will erect in Arlington Cemetery at Washington a memorial to the United States citizens who enlisted im the Canadian army and died overseas. 30.— U. OF W. ALUMNI AT CORDOVA ORGANIZE tion of the Uni Alumni A ‘branch organi veraity of Washington dova, It has 17 members, werd g1 some set in were Messrs. Speaker Mr. leaving Prof. Briffet Ill, In Big Job % 3 Dockets jammed by prohibition eases face Charles IL Tuttle (above). new Federal Distriet Attorney in Metropolitan New York. He succeeds limory Buckner, famed padlocker, - HOUSE DEFEATS SHIPPING GRANT neau-Prince Rupert Sub- wsiclived < Stoaishipys v Almest withont oday defentod tpert shippin vote of 10 10 6§ f the bilt o relieve 3t the debate the Cubsidy My the House Juneau-Prince measure by Worth, anthor argued it was desig fowns in the northern end Division from conditions which hampering the development of fresh fish industry Murray warned the passage the measurs inevitably 1o overtarnin every subsidy wlhich the Territory All of them, he declared, mconstitutional. The passage of hill, he predictod, would result in taxpayer hringing suit -t it aside and it would naturally ollow that every other subsidy of ike nature would fall Promise Improved Telegrams from the Alaska Steam hip Service and H. C. Strong, oi Ketchikan, were read by Mr. Lomen which assurances of adequate wrvice through a combination sehed e, rate adjustments il necessary ad cooperation o the end that shipments from of the Division expeditionsly via given Voting for the Ferguson Sundquist gainst it were ftney, Grio ay, Rydeen Smith Pass Orphanage Bill Mr. Murray's bill appropriating 90,000 for the establishiient of erritorial orphanage passed fouse today by a vote of nin aven. In second reading yes 3 Sheldon seenred an ndments it to the discretiou of the Joard of Trusteex in charge as he location of a site, and empower- ng it to lease or buy such site it believed most suitable This morning Mr. Sheldon ook to amend it to limit admissions o white children. Mr. Paul declared he Mr hat ead ither nts House of would are the Service resh fish his end handled towns might Ketehikan, be weasnre Johnston, Paul and ‘orth: and Messrs. Benjamin, Fisher, Lomen, Mur Scott, Sheldon, and were Ross, ¥ to under- (Centinued on Page Kight) g o el Leaves Alaska Job CHEHALIS, Wash.. April 20, ‘harles H. Briffett, former superin- endent of the State Training School at Chehalis, due to wreak in his health, has been obliged to resign his position in charge of the govern ment Indian Industrial - School at Jklutna, Alaska. Professor Briffet: had gone to Eklutna to establish and prganize this institution for the fed sral government. During the winter he was for a time critically ill. His rondition became such that it wus lecided that a change of clinate was mperative, and hix resignation fo owed. He is expectad to arrive from he North at an early date - e - FRUIT PICKER SUICIDES Idaho, April 26, fruit 30 Wallace picker, killeq BOISE, Maddox, aged As-pimselt last night after shooting and sociation has been formed at Cor-|geriously wounding Pearl Maddox, his lwite, aged 19, following a quarrel MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ) ACCEPTED FOREST SERVICE TODAY ACCEPTS CAMERON'S 81D Group Also Applies for Pow-- er Permit in Snettis- ham District. WASHINGTON. April 30.— The Forest Service has accept- ed the bid of George T. Cam- ercn, President. of the 8an Francisco Chionicle and asso- ciates for the purchase of 835,- 000,000 cuhic feet of plup tim- ber in the vicinity of Juneau, Alaska. Mr. Cameron submitted the only offer, agreeing to pay the minimum price set forth in the | | i I FORS.E ALASKA Votes 10 to 6 Against Ju- advertisements of 60 cents per hundred cubic feet for sprude and 30 cent for hemlock, This award and the award to the Zellerbachs of pulpwood near Ketchikan are the largest timber sales the Forest Service ever made. Today's contract requires construction of a 200 ton daily capacity paper mill and en- largement to 400 tons daily within 15 years. “ The Canieron group has ap- plied for a power permit cov- ering Long and Crater Lakes in the Port Sncttisham or Speel River distriot. PASSES SENATE Greets New Developménl with Promises of Encour- agement and Support. ixtension of encouragement and support to cvery legitimate industrial enterprise desiring to establish ftselt in the Territory is promised in Sen- ate Concurrent Resolution No. 5, which welcomes particularly the Zel- lerbach werests and George T, Cameron i theiv proposed pulp and paper dcvelopment projects in this and the Ketchikan tield The resolution was introduced in ‘he Senpto yesterday afternoon by Senato tiont, Ketchikan, raptdly ad e on the calendar and passed withou! any delay. It was transmitted to the House today where it was expected to pass at once Ingpires New Confidence text of the resolution follows: E IT RESOLVED, by the Senate Legislature of the Territory of Alaska, the House concurring, that the rccent purchasc, under contraci of fulfillment, from the U. 8. Forest- ry Bureau, of a4 large tract of tim her trom the National Forest Re- f the Ketchikan district, for urpose of erecting and operaf- g la pulp and paper mills, by [zadore and J. 1). Zellerbach, and the purchase of & large tract of timber Juneau district, under like a4 and for a like purposs, orge T. Cameron, of San Fran- sisco, Calitornia, mark a new epoch in the pe nnent industries of Al aska and inspire renewed confidencs in the future development and ad- vancement of this great Territory. “BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED that it iz the desire of this Loagis- lative Lody to extend encouragement ind everv legitimale support, con- sonani with public welfare, to the encourngcment and establishment of lejritimatc industrial enterpriséy througho 1t the len: h and breadth of the Territory of Alaska. “Bit 1T FURTHER RESOLVED, fhat the Legislature of the Terri- tory of Alaska, acting in behalf of tha people of Alaska, request the Governor to transmit to the above amed [zadore Zellerhach and J, D. Zellerbach, and to George T. Came- ron a copy of this resolution together with such comment as he deems titting.” Th Kodiak Bear Hunters Leaving for Alaska SEATTLE, April 30. Leaving tomorrow or Monday on a three months’ bear hunting expedition on the Alaska Peninsula, five sports- men from Chicago and Racina, 1L, are completing preparations and purchasing supplies. While the principal objective is the capture of specimens of Kodiak bear for the Field Museum of Chi- cago, the party will hunt and fish as it pryceeds to the coast,