The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 9, 1927, Page 1

HIE . NO. 4475. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTS INTERIOR ALASKAN IS MURDERED French Fliers 9 FLIERS HAVE HOPPED OCEAN ~ ONWAYTON.Y, Nungesser and Coli Reported to Have Crossed Over Atlantic Ocean. NEW YORK, May 9.-—The New York Times has received a report from a correspondent at Sydney, Nova Scotia, that the White Bird, the Uungesser plane, was sighted off Cape Race, Newfoundland, at 10 o'clock this morning. If this is true, Nungesser should arrive here at 8 o'clock tonight, eastern day- light time on his non-stop flight from France across the Atlanic to America. The French aviators, Nungesser and Coli, hopped off from Lebourget|: Flying Field, near Paris, at m night, Saturday, eastern standard time, on the mon-stop flight to New York. The New York Evening Post this| afternoon says Commander Richard 1. Byrd will take off in the Ame for Paris next Saturday if Nun- gesser and Coli are unsuccessful, He said" Bert Acosta will replace Floyd Bennett who is still suffer- ing from injuries when a plane fell .- — ARREST FIVE N NARCOTIC RAID Wonnan, Said to Be Brains .of{ Ring, Reported Caught in Seattle. SEATTLE, May 9.—In two raids, one in the palatial University resi- dence district, Federal agents ar- .rested three women and one man and seized narcotics valued $7,000. The two raids have broken up a narcotic to dealers. are believed The five prisoners are Mrs. Char: key ry Adams, aged 28, said to be the brains of the ring: C. M. Twohey aged 26; Mrs. Twohey, aged 26° Bernice Richards, aged 26, and Bert|that The Twoheys livered by Mrs. Snyder.” 27. who were arrested Johnson, aged and Richards, in a down town hotel, are declared’ completed to be out of town agents working!/liam under the direction of Mrs. Adams. Federal agents said it ‘i known that narcoiic peddlers from Oregon. Washington, Utah, Montana and Idaho, frequently visited the Adams home. Narcotics are alleged to have been distributed from the Adams tesidence and it is believed the narcotics reached here from the Orient on Japanese vessels. Says Seattle Is Wet And Always Will Be SEATTLE, May ~—In almost less than a week after Sheriff Ban- nick presented Mayor Bertha K. Landes with a list of 150 alleged law-breaking places in the city, the police made 44 arrests on of liguor law violations. Police Chief Searing denied he is gnluad in a clean-up campaign. Asked if the city is any wetter or l'AI’ charges | | | | i | to| ned ring supplying | night | | | Making Non- Accurate Charts | Alaska W aters, | Reduces Losses !’: | | i | SAN FRANCISCC, ! The Coast and Geodet | announces that as a tue publication of charts of Alaskan marine losses from 1921 | 1925 were held down to $481,- 000. Col. E. Lester Jones, Di- | rector of the Survey, estimated that if the losses had tontinued in the same proportion as dur- ing the nrevious five years, the total would reach §5,000,000 due to the increase in com- merce | GRAY. MARKED FOR DEATH IN SNYDER TRAGEDY {Counsel, in Final Pleading, Asserts Mrs. Snyder Plan- ned Double Crime. BULLETIN — NEW YORK, May 9.—The Snyder case went to the jury this afterncen at, 4:59 o’clock after Justice Scud- der delivered a charge of over an hour, during which dozens of women were overcome by the heat. NEW YORK, May 9.—Counsel for Henry Judd Gray, accused with Mrs, Ruth Snyder of the murder of at|the woman's husband, Albert Sny-!eral der, charged that Mrs to poison Gray on the same her husband was killed but steady drinking of whis- saved him. His attarney as rted Gray never struck Snyder with the sash weight but “he struck at him but missed and the blows stunncd der were all de- Snyder plan- only Both defense summati after four hours. Willard, addressing the for Gray, declared that Mrs. Sny- der, “like a poisonous serpent, drew Gray into her glistening coils and there was no escape.” Author White Going to were Wil- jury Cruise Along Alaska Coast! SEATTLE, May 9.-—Steward Ed- ward White, author, is here to in spect his motorcraft, being built fo him for anu Alaska cruise this sum: mer. The boat is a big cruiser and will be christened the “Simba,” the |name of the book White wrote in| 1918 afier his big game hunt near Simba, Africa, for lions. Hundred Narrowly Escape Death ; Building Collapses CHICAGO, May customers and 9.—Nearly 100 employees are be- dryer than before he took office,|lieved to have escaped without in- Chief Searing said: “I always con-!juries attle was wet and always' Store, tended will be.” when the Louis Department a four-story structure, col- lapsed in a mass of ruins, FARM AND CIVIC ILLS TOPIC OF CONFERENCE DES MOINES, lowa, May 9.—The city with its fleshpots and its flam- ing youth, and the rural community with its economic problem and its dearth of social lite, will be drawn up side by side for inspection at the National Conference of Social Work here May 11 to 18. Four thousand persons engaged or interested in social service are to have a part in the week's discussion of moral and social conditions in city and countryside, law enforce- ment, community welfare and prob- lems of the home. The unwholesome aspects of rural life go under the microscope May 12 with Henry A. Wallace, farm pub- lisher, and Grace Abbott, chief of the federal children's bureau, direct- ing the discussion. The school will have its day with addresses on its ‘betterment by Howard W. Nudd, di- rector of the Public Education Asso- ciation, New York, and Samuel T Orton of the University of lowa, “The Church and Social Justice” is the topic of an address by Rabbi A. H. Silver of Cleveland. Methods of criminal procedure are to be taken up by Alfred Betthman, of Cin- cinnati, and Edwin J. Cooley, chiet probation officer of the New York court of general sessions. Civillan rehabilitation as a social task will be considered by Charles A. Prosser of Minneapolis and R. M. Little of the New York State Da. partment of Education. Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago, will address the conference on the social conse- quences of immigration restriction. Twenty-eight affiliated groups will meet simultaneously with the con- ference, and 60 social service bodlqn will have exhibits. The confererice makes no recom- mendations, striving only to serve as a forum for social problems, | N y | principal 'President Howard Reviews Action of Legislature On Many Important Questions Asked, since the adjournment ol |the Legislature, for a statement re-| | garding certain important issues thai | | were considered during the recent! | session, particularly the Controller | | Bill, President Bavtley Howard of |the Territorial Senate, has autho:-| |ized the ance of the following statement : “The session of the Legislature just closed has been in many respects al very important one. Perhaps the most | | important measure considered by the | | Legislature, because it was the one | |that aroused the most bitter and | persistent contest, was ihe so called | Controller Bill, or Controller Bills “Upon my arrival at Juneau to at tend the session of the Legislature | I was informed that a Controller| | Bill would be introduced early in the | | session, and | immediately stated that 1 was in sympathy with the of self government, and| that principal as I understood it was | |the ome which would underlie the | ! Controller Bill. But when the bil| | was introduced 1 found that instead | Xul’ being a bill such as 1 had in mind, | to expend the powers of Alaskans | for self government so far as such | expansion could be under the pro- visions of the Organic Act, that the | bill was something of a political job . Governor on Board “In the first place, realizing necessity for the fullest cooperation with the Federal Government and/ its officials in order to promote the | best interesis of Alaska, | thought it highly advisable and, therefore | insisted that the Governor be made | a member of the Board ol Control. | thus establishing liaison with the ad- | ministration at Washington, but I wa: | erfectly content, and in fact strong ! y - insisted, that the two electivi members of the Board of Control, should actually control the loeal ad-| ministration in Alaska if they shouli| decide with the Governor upon any | matter. | “In the gecond place it seemed vital to me that the elective mem-| bers of the Board of Control should | not take office until the next gen- Territorial election. In thes: respects | differed widely from the proponents of the original Controll= Bill, but they apparently felt that| they could compel us to vote fo any kind of a bill which they saw | fit to introduce, and therefore resis! ed all attempts to amend. | attempte earnestly and sincerely to amend th bill in the Senate in conformity with the views just expressed, but the other gentlemen who had caused ti| bill to be introduced vigorously op-| posed amendment, and as a result |1 was obliged to vote against the bill, and it was killed. House Bill Next { “After Senate Bill No. 1, the Con ltroller Bill, had died, a similar bill introduced in the House was brought lout of committee. 1 then went to the iproponents of the measure, who wer Ithe sponsors of the bill in the Hou land told them that I would be glad | 1o support the bill if it was amended | to meet my views, and they rpelied | {that was what they wanted to do, that is, amend the bill to conform with my opinion on the subject, but | 1 further stated to them that in the | |event that they insisted upon having tha Controller appointed by the Legislature at the present session | in order to keep the matter out of partisan politics it would be neces-| sary to provide that the Controller be elected by a two-thirds' majority of both houses. “This was quite satisfactory to them at the time I talked with them. 1 further stated, of course, that | {thought it was better to have the first Comptroller elected at the gen eral Territorial election of 1928, but the gentlemen who controlled the House permitted no amendment to) be made of the House bill, except that the Governor was substituted as & member of the Board of Controi instead of the Attorney General. No effort was made to meet the views of the members of the Senate llk.r] myselt who were heartily in favor of a real democratic form of gov-| ernment, and therefore when thu bill came to the Senate it was in all substantial respects identically | the same bill that had been alread } passed upon and had been defeated, by the Senate, and therefore I was ! obliged to sustain the point of order made against it by Senator Pratt.| An appeal was taken to the floor| of the Senate, the point of *order was sustained, and the bill again| died. the f | i Third Bill Introduced “Later on Senator Steel introduced another Controller Bill containing the same provision as was containe!l in the first Controller Bill with regard to the election of the Cou- troller by the House and Senat: jointly, and for that reason when this bill came to a vote I voted (Centinued on Page Kight.) ! jdrawing Does Strange Hoodoo IHang .+ Flight? Disaster Hiis Four oiareer * < S A DS !Aviators, normally not a superstitious lot, view with mi | to Paris. four men have been killed, ings efforts to fly from New York Four accidents have overtaken planes planned to start within the last year, and Lieutentant Noel Davis and Lieutenant Stanton H. Wooster are sliown in a happy mood shortly before they were killed when their plane, ‘“ An:erican Legion’' erashed near Messick, Va. over into the mud. Below is shown the burning Sikorsky killed at the start of what was to have been a flight to Pa By ELMER C1 1 ational Mlustrated News Sta ntil Correspondent. , EW YORK (11-N).—Does strange hoodoo gu he al: N ways of the Atlantie, prevent ing the great flight between New York and Paris? Parls This year greater As more planes entered for the $25,000 Ray mon Orteig prize for the flight, it took on the nature of a race. hat ended hopes of reachin fter Winter, were some were The monoplane America, in ch of Commander Richard B. Byrd, seemed to have the opportunity for the first take Almost everything was in readiness. On a test hop at Teterbs 0. J., It nosed over after lana Byrd, his pilot, Floyd Ben nett, and the radio man and engineer, Lieutgnant George Noville were in- nd Anthony Fokker, the du o was at the wheel, nar- on ceptics scoff. Yet last mir 1ts have held up every made in the last year to span the 3,600 mile sireteln deatis of Lieutenant-Cora mander Noel Davis and Lieutenant Stanton H. Wooster in the the American Legion at Va., are but one of a serfes of trax edies and mishaps. The first w the wreck of the glant Sikorsky plane last September Everything had been tested. The plane had made its trial flights per- fectly. Paris seemed but a few houvs away. e engines were rted. The machine raced across the field. The moment it was expected to take the air it crumbled up in a ditch, caught fire, and In a few seconds only charred fragments remained Jacob Islamoft and Charles Clavier members of the erew, were killes Captain Nene Fonck an Lieutenat: Lawrence W, Curtin escaped. of The Bellanca plane Columbia, which now seems to be the most promising entrant, also had an accident. Clarence Chamberlin, one of the two men who may pilot it to France, and John Carusl, engineer, took off with two girl passengers, Eloyse Le- vine, nine, and Grace Jonas, fifteen, shortly after the craft was chris- t.ned at Mitchel Field, L. L Tn leaving the ground one wheel was crumpled. While the plane was aloft other aviators flew up and warned the men of their peril, Ca- rust attempted to make repairs in the er HELP DRAFT LEAGUE COMMERCIAL TREATY GENEVA of ridical exper ner, who ican Chamber has taken a up a auspices of of a draft commercial o The treaty commercial fore arbit ) by the partic ments and in the proper | are availabl person agail or charge | another count: in another o be executed | sity for a sec try. It was due cision of commere the attendan' expense tention of bhusiness men was fi Cann attracted to the nse of arbitration which in commercial matters, and it is be-jowner, May 9.-—An Benjamin Howe Con sident of the A of Commerce of P leading role in Geneva, ler League of tior onvention facilitat itration, lie would be the American adoption the treat i value in facilitatin commercail dispute A protoclo, touching thi ywas prepared in 1923, and ha ratithed by thirteen nations. However it deals only with the submission arbitration of d and not with arbitr senten awards. The draft convention elaborated cor rects this omission, and it is be- lleved it will have a beneficial effect upon trade relations throughout the world, including the United States In addition to Mr. Conne from France, Italy, Czeche ingland, Germany and Au parii cipated in the framing of the ar rangement, 1 - - CAPT. CANN LEAVES HOSPITAL; AT GASTINEAU . H to St 6 is 1 olution tioy been or provides that trials of may be held b in the couniry ehose vhere witnes mation necessar entation of the In cages wher whom the ser pronounced reside or has his propert intry, the sentence re without the nece md trial §if thag cou ses, Ao vakia, « who has been Hospital for with diphther esterday rean became ann Ann k Capt in the de-' (onfined wards and fo that the ¢ the hospital is at the Gast he recently Hotel, of part alr, but w lin manouyv —for hours, fully, the mac made. the proposed vailg here, too—except that of Lieu- tenant Charles Nungesser, famous { French ace. materials unstated. Captain ¥ fan 1 from Italy, in which he may cross the Atlantio, fwith an insane Picture at right shows how it tore the ground before nosing plane, in which two men were unsuccessful. Chamber- ed the plane In the alr it seemed to those on ground—until the field was ed and an ambulance arrived ou ne. ien carefully, very care- ine was brought down It swung the remaining wheel. around, but no one was Injured. The plane 1s damaged again In landing, the date of the start. are being made, and the | I Accepts Position With Fairbanks Mining Company Wash., ship may yet take off this Spring. Charles Lindbergh, St. Louis avia- tor, has also announced his intention making the flight. His plans have been kept secret—possibly to guard against the jinx, Lieutenant who plans to fly an Airco Amphibe ian, This plane is not yet completed, nor will be before the middle of June.! A later entrant is Winston W. Ehrgott, From Parls several efforts may be Little s known of any of flights—secrecy _pre- He'll pilot a monoplane, ncesco de Pinedo, Ttal- viator, may be added to the rac- 5. He 18 now awaiting a plane Yew Flood Area Is Threatened By Levee Breaks i W ORLBANS, May 9.—The Bowl of Central Louisiana, population of 250,000 per threatened with inunda the flood waters of Missiscippi River surging from wix creva North- eastern part of and piled up against the Bayou Des Glaises levee, Federal and State | | engineer fear the dyke will break | | inundating 4,000,000 acre N Sugar with a sons, i the | | tion as are in the the state FAIRBANKS INSANE MAN | IS ON HIS WAY SOUTH | Smith of Fairbanks | on the Yukon]| who will ba | arshal E. 1 r conduct to Portland. | Marshal coming Lynn to Junean prisone Denuty delivered to Sherman, of Haines Morninggide Sanitarium at Two ploneers enr to the Pio neers’ jrome at are accom- panying Marshal Lynn and will go from here to Sitka, | | capt | | States ight Over Atlantic HOWARD RIDING FOUND MURDERED; WORK OF FIEND IRoadhouse Keeper Beaten to I Death—Body Is Badly ! Mutiliated. FAIRBANKS With the discover | body of Howard Jand trail roadhc It Chena Rive of has {that a Alaska, May y of the mutiliated Riding, woodsman + keeper, on Lit- 14 miles north- here led to the helief fiend at large the woods in this distriet | A coroner's inquest disclosed | Riding was beaten to death {body k. ked and trampled |otherv se mutiliated, after {tih was unconscious he roadhouse hore L terrific struggle Riding’s right arm was torn from An aged body FIFTY KILLED 'IN STORMS IN SEVERALSTATES :Cyr‘oni« Winds with Heavy | Downpour of Rain Oc- cur-—Many Injured. NSASHOUEY,. Mo, May, 54 ast BUT Lereons were Killed Rad than 100 injured with @ pr loss of more than $2,000,0 tornadoes amnd cyclonic winds, ompanied by downpours which lashed the Middle West and South- | west, over the week-end. | Death lists are expected ik additional reports storm area. X W the hardest hit with deaths and 50 injured by tor- {nadoes at Garland and Neveda early {this mornin In Missouri the tornado toll is 14 desd and an undetermined num- b infured reports 10 dead (son was killed in Towa The test property damage is 'at Hutchinson, Kansas, where the Jtornado swept the industrial distriet rand poorer esidential section, caus- ing a million dollar damage but only one death s in that his and the vie- evidence of | neighbor discovered the | 1 o i B 1AL m et i b { to in- a come om the 25 One per- D LONGVIEW, | C. Coates, electrical with the Longview Public !Company for the past four lett for Fairbanks to ctri Engineer Smelting and May 9.— engineer ervice vears, hecome of the Refining | | Johin has Chief | American Company. | > Alaska Stations Given Broadcasting Permits HINGTON, May 9. — Radle sting stations granted tem- porary permits include KFIU at Juneau and KFYD at Anchorage. The maintained station at Juneau KFIU is by the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company. RBroad- casting will not be dowe, however, until next fall, according to presént plans — e CAPT. M. J. 0'CONNOR OFF TO SITKA ON TRIP 0O'Connor, in charge Juneau office of the United Bureau of Fisheries, leaves on the Admiral Rogers for where he will authenticate cal skins brought in. He will remain in Sitka until Fune 9, when the seal patrol will be practically M. J of the tonight | over. Miss Loff r Marie Dorovan, disbursing of the Alaska service of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, who arrives from the south tomor- row on the ka will have charge of the office until Capt. O'Connors's retura FOREST RANGER SMITH RETURNS FROM TRIP Harold K. Smith, forest ranger with headquarters at Juneau raturn- ed day night from a field trip to Sitka and way ports on the Rangor No. 7. Capt. Carl Collen of ths Runger No. 7 will be in Juneau for several days before going out on an- other trip, . -