The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 11, 1927, Page 1

“ALL THF NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY VOL. XXX., NO, 4477. e C— ————— MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PKICL TEN (‘FNTS NICARAGUA FOR MORE MARINES French Resent U. S. Aviators HORSEWHIPS MAN 'ARRESTED ATLANTIC HOP WARNING SENT T0 STATE DEPT. Ambassador Herrick Asks Flight Be Delayed Until Fate of Missing Learned Flymg Across Atlantic b EIGHT HUNDRED MARINES T0 B SENT T SOUTH Specxal Sallmg Orders Are Issued for Men to Rein- force U.S. Command DEMURRER FILED | BY RUSTGARD IN . RESTRAINT SUIT Opemng Guns in Legal Battle Over Appropriations Are Fired Today the READY TO FLY ALROSb ATLANTIC Entitled a return to order to show cause, Attorney General Johu Rustgard, representing Trcasurer W (. Smith, today filed a general de- murrer to the complaint in the in- junction suit started last week bv James Wickersham to prevent the Treasurer from disburs‘ng certain funds appropriated by (he recent legislature. The. complaint, the At- torney General alleges, does mnor state facts sufficient for a cause | of action. At 2 p. m. today, take up the hearing on the for Treagurer Smith to show cause why a permanent injunction shouli not be issued, it was expocted that the demurrer would be ‘taken un first and argued before Judge T. M. | Reed. Mi. Rustgard's Court’s order said rotice last Saturday Karl Theile, Bartley Howard, Presi- dent of the Senate, Sumner Smith, Speaker of the House, and Harry u?ewnsun. Secretary to Gov. (;enrt’{u L ’ ,A,,me:":‘:::h O:hel;,"’ m';:'l‘,‘,“"ifil;.‘v(:f,'; ".: | Miss Nell Kirby believed her former employer, 8. 0. Smith, was the action for protection of any righis | telling stories about her. So when she met lmn on the streets that might be involved. | of Rapid City, S. D., she horsewhipped him. She was arrested, Judse Wickgrsham's suit _involves Lut she sued him for $10,000, alleging slander. dmith denies both branches of the Legialature, the tvernors. office and the office of|__that he said anything to ducrednt her. Secretary Theile. It seek: to prevent the exponditure of funds appropriated 1o pay, President Joward, . Spsaker Smith, the Secretary and Clerk re spectively of the Senate and House and for overtime to stenographers, and typists; to stop payment of funds’ to clerks employed in the Governor's Office, and other monies made avallable for use m admini-| stration of that office; to puzwm‘ the exponditure of any of the mone appropriated for conduct of the umu- including Secretary | and salaries of clerks a WASHINGTON, May 11.— Sailing orders have been issued for 800 Marines rccently se- lected to reinforce Admiral Latimer’s command in Ni- caragua. While nothing is said offi- cially, it is understood that the Marines are being sent south to enforce the decision of Presi- dent Cooidge that the warring factions must disarm and sur- render all war material. Nothing official has been given out from the President’s perscnal representative, Henry L. Stimson. —— - —— DEATH LISTIN STORM AREA 1S BULLETIN — UNDATED — Neither the sea nor the land has given back any answer to . L incessant calls for word of the ' - | missing airmen, Captains Nun- o 2 { gesser and Coli. - The Radio Corporation, independent wire- less stations and the United States Navy have swept the Atlantic with radio queries and met a wall of silence. The White Bird is 50 anxious hours overdue this morning. Vessels are searching the seas off the European, American and Ivish coasts. set to order the time A 8 0 TS NI ool return to the he had served ! on Secretary 2-33 6ALs GRAVVYV Fee0 WING 6AS TANKS. 225 GALS. GAS TANK 100 GALS. GAS TANK Myron T | Herrick, American Ambassador ‘o | e, 4 {France, has cabled the State De | artment that any attempt by Amer = aviators to make a trans-Atlantic flight while the fate of Captains Nun- | gesser and ‘Coli is still in doub',| WASHINGTON, May 11 o8 ~The Bellunga plyne Columpbing is ready to fly York #6. Paris and will perhaps Wop off Saturday The picture above shows the plane as It appears in the alr, and Clarence Chambertin (left) and Lloyd Bertaud, who will fly it. The sketch shows the interior of the ship. Note the cot for the relief pilot. o from. Ne D..arfun Deferred mornin YORK, May 11.--The Bel | monoplane, which planned to off for Paris tomorrow morn will defer departure until Sat B l f | Collapse of Levees Expected to Flood “Sugar Bowl” of Louisiana. in the offic ———— NEW levees miles (ll(Ll‘A\\ at Bayou from New pected to collapse a rush of muddy wat ross the “Sugar Bowl" of Louisiana whers most of the domestic cane is grown Should the crevasse oceur, it s believed that much of the strain of the levees along the Mississippi will be relieved minimizing the danger ol additional breaks along that line The collapgse would however inundate thousands of acres of the inost fertile goil in the state and flooding many sugar houses and driving additional thousands from the hores ,\‘l.l\ 11. des Glaises, Orleans, are anytime allowing The 179 ex- Legal Achon Wlll Probably Be Taken for Unlawfully Holding Ship. VANCOUVER, B. C, May 11. LOUIS, May 11.--Babe Rutl With her million dollar liquor caree 'gnached out his eighth home run of untouched, the Federalship is due 10 lgeqson scoring Koenig in the first arrive here late_tonight or early 10-|jnning of the YankeeBrown’s game morrow. She will have her cargo|injg afternoon. Ernie Nevers was rechecked and restored shortly the pitching. ship's return. - e x | Legal action is expected to be| started by the ownors against the| BIG NIGHT FOR ELKS United States for damages resulting from the unlawful detention of the| The Rlks are having a basket so |cial and informal dance tonight in ship. |the Elks hall after their regular |lodge meeting. The social will begin jat 9:40 o'clock and the event of th: |evening will be the auction of the |baskets provided by th: women al- |tending the party. The music for {dancing will be furnished by the Betz Coliseum Melody Men. — IS, STOLEN ' courage, Even not care to —— e the matter now vine, IMMOHAL BonKs Bertaud Says “Let's Go" Lloyd Betraud, navigator of the Bellanca monoplane Columbia, said “We won’t go to Paris if they don't want us. We will fly over and around Pope Calls Upon Bishops Throughout World to Wage Crusade. ->oo——— Seattle Boys Drowned; Were Playing on Logs SEATTLE, May 11—Lewis Boer, aged 9,and Norman Benson, aged 10, were drowned in Lake Union yester- day afternoon. The boys were play- ing on a log boom when a log rol- ed, plunging them into the water. The bodies were recovered 20 minutes later. — e —— L. W. Turoff, who has been in Eiffel tower, touch our wheels at Lebourget Flying Field, then go ‘o London and land at Cooham Field Nungesser and Coli tried to get the jamp on us. We hoped for their success as much a8 anyone in France did. Now it is our chauce and let's go."” ROME, May 11.—Pope Pius has called upon all Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church to aid him in the fullest extent in a crusade against printing and reading of immoral books especially those which hide their lascivities under the cloak of false religious mysticism in His Name “The Supreme -Sacred Con- gregation of the Sacred Office.” The Pope has sent Bishops through- out the world a lengthy document imparting precise instructions for a Holy War against “novels, short sto- ries, dramas, comedies and pictures = favoring sensual passions and cer. tain type of lascivious mysticism which is increasing in an incredible fashion and which every day is gain- ing greater circulation.” ———————— JUNEAUITES 'ARE MARRIED R. D. Peterman and Mrs, Peter man who arrived on the Princess Alice from the south, were recently married in Spokane, Wash. Mrs, Pet- erman was formerly Mrs. lHattie Ickes Search for Two Others PERNAMBUCO, Brazil, May 11.—- Search for Capt. St. Roman and his co-pilot Mounteyres, French aviators missing five days from Africa to Brazil, has been extended from the Brazilian Coast to the waters off Africa, their starting point. PAYROLL ‘ 55 The fatalities that have come with the attempt to fly from New York to is apparently had no terrors for Capt. Charles Nungesser, who with Coll, at- tempted the flight and is miss- ing. He carried a death’'s head on the side of the plane as defiance to the jinx. The above picture shows Nungesser and ' the jinx flag. J. H. S. BASEBALL TEAM AND D. H. S. PLAY IN DOUGLAS The Juneau High School basebail team will play the Douglas High i8chool team this afternoon at Dou- glas in the first of a two game NEW YORK, May 11.—Seven gun men in two closed automobiles held- up the ASsistant Paymaster of the the local office of the Bureau of|Interborough Rapid Transi* Compary Public Roads for the past several|and two guards in an automobile, months, left on the steamer Yukon and robbed them of a $9,000 pay- for Ketchikan where he will be in|roll. The robbers escaped ui*er wreck- charge of the road comstruction on ing the pay car and onc of their Tongass Highway during the rom<|0wn. A score of shots were exchang- ing season. ed. PETTING PARTIES NOW BANNED FROM MOVIES LONDON, May 11.—Petting party participants at the London movie |might be misunderstood and misin | terpreted. Deeeptive weather repor.s from America are claimed in Paris the flight when conditions wore not i . propitious. - MILLION DOLLAR *+NEW DANGER L = ? v e & NEW F , ound in Debns. i M ltake 2 st g 4 «! TKANSAS CITY, May 11.—Prospects steadily increasing death list g e font of tho Middle West by a series The announcement followed a con '2'2(‘ ‘;" l"l“""w‘:fl ‘l"""‘l‘ iy “"h':" AR ference with (. M. Bellaaca, the dv 4 ¥ Iy eTsons DELpNG and moge UM {rehabilitation of the flooded section: ; . | P hile the casualty lists in Tex | i i ilots. They were called togetl )| ; ) ¢ 1 Texas, lof the Mississippi delta has been .}'ml:l»-: s A oo R RO ‘\ Kansas, and Louisiana show Ambassador Herrick advising that ¢ 4‘" Hlfn:;::n‘:a.md‘:brh of llhe-hu::d any attempt to make the flight might st RODTL WP RIS Yoslded tiore Nogien last night. Sev (:.m.-:;‘:. plant crops when the water til the fate of the missing French eral of those injured have died in % aviators is known . . MAY BE SUED N Levine sail the fate of the Nun | pyngn SRS s iFlier at St. Louls from San| Phyccinns report that more than el \D. g { i D N h H ja score ured in Missouri and ol ol ~ y | iego in Night Op—— |Kansns bave little chance for re- uld B abis ! Plans Paris thh( ‘...m) This coupled witn the failure Levine declared that finest tribute | i > . that could be paid the I'rench fliers jeral villages since the tornado struck ST. LOUIS, May 11. — From |Monday caused rellef agencies to es- Sif e o 0 ¥ ia. timate t(he number of dead at ap. “n(dl'lJn“l;(.mu ympelled ¢hem to lay the Pacific Ocean to the Mis vp“mmmly 250, *“We would not undertaie the flight : A ST. > and Coli hed been suce Charles Lindbergh hopped in a ‘ one-seater monoplane in which To R f we cou'd we would! he plans to fly’from New York en their glory. Ax to Paris, rea i stands the fiight 11 RpIE BC LAES At WII.I. BE HEAVY all fliers,” said Le- : and five minutes after he left San Diego. He completed the trip in three hours less than planned. Whne Pass Route Receiving take-off from New York within Inqumes from All 10 days. Lindbergh flew by compass A l‘l‘ it ikt g 3 SE LK, May 11.—With inquiries at an altitude of 5,000 or 8- |, Vacaived at (e Whits Pas i iand Yukon Route offices from Aus- Rockies and averaged over 100 miles an hour. iland and Europe besides heavy ad- 1y . | vance bookings from the United Capt, ledl_)erxh,_ decided, | States and Catada, the Alaskan after talking with his_backers, | cenic route expects to set & record opinion of W. (i, Blanchard, General | Passenger Agent Heretofore the ; business has been virtually restrictea | to tourists from the United States to have sent the avialors off on Now m“m |lanca urday morning, Charles A. Levins i it —— head of the Columbia ;\T aft Corpe | HAD JINX FLAG iflf u [ration, and owners of the plane, ar J MAKES GREAT in the hugo checker board scooped Chamberlin and Lloyd Sertaud % 'lrlnh ..r Reliet Workers. formed. The company will stabilize | UNITED STAT ihu\-im-x.i conditions in the distriet by | ffording credit to people to enabl be misunderstood by the French un 4 I hospitals. ! gesser plane will undoubtedly { to establish communications with sev- [ R i 4 3 sissippi River. over night, Capt. | | of regard for the'r, 8 o’clock this morning, 14 heurs Capt. Lindbergh plans to Paits of World. 000 feet except over the jtralia, New Zealand, Hawail, BEng- to hop-off for New York to- for heavy travel this season, in the and Canada. planned in his honor for to- morrow night has been can- morrow morning. A dinner celled F rench Government s Drwe Against Communists Starts Liner to Search France, May 11.—The lir- er France, sailing tonigkt for New York, has been ordered by the French line to follow the route Nun gesser and Coli are suppos«d to have taken in hope of finding and rescuing the aviators j { | | HAVRE, PARIS, May 11.—The French gov ernment’s drive against Communisi propaganda annoufced recently by Premier Poincare has got under way with the reconvening of the Cham- ber of Deputies. The Chamber decided to name a prisonment here, at the end of which |8he will be deported, having been found guilty of conspiring to obtain a British passport under false pre- lenses. Scotland Yard officials assert she was engaged in espionage against o [ Yl' agers considerable worry. Persons Some Romance ' extremely fond of music often stay Is Finally [ theatres have been trembling in thei seats because of an edict of the cinema managers that lingering at the pictures must cease. *The managers maintain they lose a lot of money in ticket sales be cause hand holding lovers stay hou~ after hour on one admission fee, especially during damp or rainy ‘weather. There are two other classes of to hear the orchestra or organ while people stand outside in queues. An- other ‘“nuisance,” in the managers eyes, consists of those who go to sleep. The managers aver that if the practice of these patrons, particularly the petting parties, does not desist, they will be compelled to devise a system of punching tickets after| PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, May 11 each reel or emptying the theatrej—Halibut sa'es today 147, 000 pounds, each time before beginning another fall American which sold at 7 and - | fiim, 13.50 cents, and was employed by Mis. Katherine Hooker before she left Juneau a vear ago. Mr. and Mrs. Peterman have taken the Bavard house amd will move soon from the Zynda Hotel where they are now staying. ———— HALIBUT PRICES I , | | Culminated ; ~oue | ! TACOMA, Wash, ‘May 11.— | A romance of several months | culminated here today when E. | W. Hauh, aged 80, married Mrs. | Adelaide Ducette, aged 81, who | has 109 living descendaats. Sev- | eral of the bride's 24 great grand- | children attended the ‘wedding. | series. The local boys will leave on |the 4:30 o'clock ferry and the game | will start immediately upon their ar- 1|nul in Douglas. | The Douglas boys will come to Ju- neau Friday afternoon to play the return game on the local diamend If both teams win a game a third game will be arranged foi. | The batteries for today's game iwill be: J. H. S.—D. Ramsay and |J. Ramsay; D. H. S.—Carlson anl Neime. committee to investigate activities of the Communists. The members are Jacques, Doriot, Vailland and Coun- turier. Doriot is in China for the purpose of investigating and to de- termine whether judicial action will be brought against men in connection with the Anti-National agitation and inenrring soldiers to disobedience. LONDON, March 11.-—Kate Guss feldt, alias Blaser, alias Ethel Chilos, began a two months’ term of im- a friendly foreign power, while The Daily Mail describes her as a “dan- gerous international spy” and saye that although she is of German ma- toinali*:, she has been active In Great britain as “one of Moscow's most active agents.” i Her baggage, according to the police, contained a supply of invisible ink. ) The pretty 28-yearold ‘“typist| seeris to have been closely \w ated with British Cowmunists,