The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 14, 1927, Page 1

TH ——— VOL. XXX,. NO. 4480, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIM JUNEAU, ALASKA PLOT TO KIDNA ONLY THEORIES - KEEP HOPES FOR - MISSING FLIERS Various Reports Received Concerning Aviators Nun- gesser and Coli. DIRIGIBLE LOS ANGELES MAY CONTINUE SEARCH Further Revelations Indicate Plane Was Heard Off Newfoundland. BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, May 14.—Late this afternoon, the proposal to send the Los Angeles to Labrador to search for the missing fliers was abandoned. The Navy and Coast Guard have also abandoned search, it is announced. r NEW YORK, May 14.—Theorie: and vague reports kept alive today the rapidly dwindling hopes for safe ty of the French aviators on the fifth day on which the airmen are| verdue from Paris. It saw Nliglll' strengthening of the belief the avia tors might be lost in the Newfounc land wilderness but only negative vreports developed from searching par ties and along the extreme north- eastern Atlantic Coast by vessels and | the dirigible Los Angeles Secretary of Navy Wilbur announc- ed he will confer with the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics. in regard to sending the Los Angeles to Labra- dor. The Los Angeles will be cap- able of remaining in the region four| weeks, Heard at Breton NEW YORK, May 14. — Another “=<thread” ‘has been added to the thin string upon which may continue to hang hope that Captains Nungesssr and Coli reached North America. Two residents of Harbor Breton have forwarded reports of the passage of an airplane last Monday morning at Harbor Breton, 100 miles souts of Harbor Grace where six witne noted. similar noises about the time the fliers may have arrived in the vicinity. | | Five More Report HARBOR GRACE, Newioundland. May 14.—Three women residents of Harbor Grace and two men in Bear Cove, near here, reported last Mon- day they saw a white airplane pass! overhead. Amundsen’s Opinion WINNIPEG, May ‘14.—Little cre-| dence is placed " by Capt. Roald Amundsen in reports that the Whitei Bird carrying the missing Grench aviators Nungesser and Coli was ever heard passing over Newfound- land. “There may s tions,” said Capt. expressed fear that airmen have been lost. no end to what hear under such condi- Aftundsen. He the interepid is men or Dirigible Makes Search LAKEHURST, N. J., May 14.—The | dirigible Los Angeles has returned to the air station from a 14 hour/ training cruise and search of the New England Coast for Captainy Nungesser* ‘ahd Coll. French Sailors Arrested Following Pitched Battle| WILMINGTON, Del, May 14. Eight sailors of the French tanker Hyracania were arrested last night after a pitched battle. One sailor was badly mauled. The sailors declared that unless they were given their pay and bet- ter food they would go ashore. This was the ultimatum just before the boat was ready to leave for Yoko- hama. Capt. Jules Momoble called the police who found the crew barricaded in the cabin armed with belaying pins, bottles and knives. The crew had placed over the door, the French flag for protection. Two | | Over $11,000.000 Is Raised for Flood Sufferers WASHINGTON, May 14 The American Red Cross relief fund for flood suffeerrs in the ippi River disaster has ched over $11,000,000. The Lincoln Nebraska Chapter has forwarded a contribution from a man in Guatemala who heard the appeal for funds broadcast by the Lincoln Radio Station | PARKS WITHOUT INFORMATION OF LOCAL DISTRESS Governor at Loss to Account for Charges in Mission Board's Report. Expressing astonishment that of food and ‘“economic distross” among the Indians should be laid at the door of the mon canning in dustry of Alaska, Gov. George A, Parks today declared he was at a lack |10ss to account for such a charge as that contained in the advance state-| ment of the annual report of the National Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church. He said he had no knowledge either officially or per- sonally of facts which would support such a contention. The advance Board’s report, published Friday in The Empire in Associated Press dispatches under a New York date line, said “organization mon fishing industry by large can- nery companies has deprived native Alaskans of food and caused serious economic distress along the’ Alaska coast. statement of White—Indian Conflict The dispatch added that the “Board will urged that the Presbyterian Church be allowed to act as media- tor in the conflict between the Na- tives and Whites that has from this combination and ing out so disastrously for tives.” The Governor expressed his 3 tonishment at the entire tenor of t report as revealed in the Associated Press dispatches. “This is the first intimation the Governor’s office has ever had that the salmon canning industry has kept Alaskan Indians from getting fish for food from local streams, or that any economic distress has resulted among that sec- tion of the Territory's population from fhe canning of salmon” he said. “f know of no conflict of any nature between the Whites and Indians which could be attributed to the the Na- and, naturally, am unable to und stand to what the report has re ference in that respect,” he added. No Limit on Food He pointed out that the regulations of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries permitted the taking of salmon by anyone for domestic food purposes at any place and at any period of the year. The regulations it has im- posed are placed upon commercial fishing only. “And 1 have not heard of a single instance where anyone, either Indian or White, were unable to obtain fish in ample quantities in coastal Alaska for food purposes,” he said. He pointed out that the cannery operations in Alaska furnished em- ployment in the fishing séason t5 a large number of the adult Indian population. Official records of the Bureau of Fisheries show approxi- mately 5,000 of them to have been working in the Alaska Fisheries in- dustry during the season of 1926. |This was slightly less than 20 per cent of all persons engaged in the industry which paid out in wages about $10,000,000. Employment Means Progress Progress in the Alaska canning in- dustry has been accompanied by pro- gress of its Indian population. It has furnished ~ emplovment and other- wise contributed to their ad- of the mates succeeded in removing the flag so the police could enter without violating provisions and a free for all fight followed. Anglo-Soviet Relations Reported Near Rupture LONDON, May 14.—Rupture of th: Anglo-Soviet relations was admitted by both British and Russian officlals as being nearer than at any other time since the two nations resumed relations on a basis of a trade agree- ment in 1921. The present tension has arisen from the raid on the Arcos House, headquarters of the Soviet Trade delegation. The raid. according to officials of Scotland Yards, was made to dis- vancement to the extent that they are rapidly making a place for them- selves in the Territory’s economic and industrial life. “The cessation of the canning in- dustry in the Territory would be one of the most serious setbacks that could be dealt to the Indians. It would deprive them of the one sure source of steady employment and income and, under existing con- ditions, there is nothing else that could replace it for them,” the Gov- ernor concluded. Burbank Will Filed for Probate; Estate Is Large SANTA ROSA, Cal, May 14.— cover whether a certain document of importance to the State, which has|when his will was admitted to pro-| Which lasts her about a week, but- Elizabeth Burbank 1is thejter, milk, baked apples, a few vege- been missing several months, would be found there, ued at $168,000 it was disclosed bate. fole hetr, ']u-‘ of the sal- ¥ operations of the salmon canneries, - | Luther Burbank left an estate val- . SATURDAY, MAY 14, 19 il /] ) 7. P BORDEN’S — s 200,000 ARE NOW HOMELESS IN LOUISIANA |Agricultural Loss in State [s? | Now Estimated at Ten Million Dollars. STATE LAND TODAY IS UNDER GIGANTIC LAKE One Crevasse in Mississippi River Dyke Has Wave 8 to 10 Feet Deep. | | NEW | | Intercept an Explosive Sent To Governor BOSTON, Mass, May 11 A package containing dynamite, ad dressed to Gov. Alvin T. Fuller has been intercepted by the Post al_authorities. The dynamite parcel companisl by a letter thr en ing violence if Nicols co and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are execut ed. The pa was taken from the mails by an alert employe ! The letter -was mailed to the Governor. said: “1 succeeded in getting fourth of a ton of this. If Sacco and Vanzotti are going to be murdered I am going to get more and use it. (Signed) Citizens of World.” was ac |l PLANE AFIRE IN MIDAR; 18 LANDED SAFELY Passenger Jumps in Para- chute but Pilot Finally Brings Plare to Earth JACKSON, Miss.. May 14 lexnment plane carrying ¢ from Washington to Kelly Field, | Texas, brought safely to ground | at Edwar Miss., late vestorday | afternoon, after it had burst into| flames in midair. Lieut. George S, Finch, the senger, jumped from the plane whei | it caught fire and made his way fo] land with a parachute. The pilot later landed the plane safely. The pilot was David M. Ram- sey, of Greenville, South Carolina. FIRST MURDER | IN GOLD CAMP May 14.—R. H.| of Mereed. Cal, tent at Weepah, ! ORLRBA La., 14 Waters from the Bayou des Glaises Jere hourly add to the total |square miles of submerged lands in | Louisiana engulfing the famous “Sugar Bowl” and Evangeline coun- try in the seaward flow. | Latest collapses of dykes increase| the agricultural loss of the State| by $10,000,000 and boosts the |State's homeless to 200,000. | When the waters reach more than 1,000,000 acre iana will be submerge | 225 miles long and ranging 150 _to 100 miles wide. ! The crevasse at Moreauville is| | reported to be 600 feet wide with| (a wave of water from eight to ten| | feet sweping through the gap - .- 3AMERICAN FLIERS READY TO HOP OCEAN | NEW ‘YORK, May 14.—A tri- |cornered air race to Parls loomed today as a greater possibility as ad- verse conditions caused further postponement in a take-off of con- tenders. The Weather Bureau said a squal- ly condition existed beyond mid- ocean and caused Clarence Cham- | berlin and Lloyd Bertaud to post- |pone the flight set for early today. Meanwhile Commander Richard Byrd rushed plans for a hop-off. Japtain Charles Lindbergh is rarin’ to go" but is waiting better weather. | s H PLANE DAMAGED NEW YORK, May 14 Lind- bergh's monoplane suffered a minor casualty in landing after a test flght this afternoon, in which the (tall skin was broken. The repair will, however, be only a matter of a few hours. Co-op Saves Oregon Aggie _S!l}denls Money 8- lake from | A gov-| atches | 1 TONOPAH, N McBurney, aged ( was murdered in his the new mining camp, the firsi tragedy of the kind to occur. McBurney had shown a roll of bills containing $700. Robbery is believed to have been the motive. His money and speciments of high grade ore gathered during his lifetime while prospecting are missing, —————— CHINESE USE RAZOR ONLY FOR HAIRCUTTING SHAN Al, May 14.—1If one in ten of China's 100,000,000 population spent ten minutes a day shaving, the aggregate time consumed would rep- resent in round numbers 760 years per shave. But the Chincse wastes no time in shaving his face. He is a beardless individual and the only use he has for a razor is in the process of hair| cutting. Shears or clippers will not| do, and one of the common sights in any Chinese city street is an itinerant barber with a razor, 1e- sembling a diminutive butcher's cleaver, engaged in reducing a coolie’s head to the semblance of a billiard ball. The rest of the paraphe- nalia consists of a pan or bucket of water, a wooden stool and a towel Soap or lather has no place in the operation, but the customer comes forth looking as though he had been sandpapered and polished Woman Arrested Or! Erder Charge ASHVILLE, N. C., May 14.—Mrs. Anna K. Montague, aged 42, has been ‘arrested on a warrant charg- ing her with the murder of Mrs. lery R. Cooper, aged 61, a widow, whose body was found in a vacant ' CORVALLIS, Ore., May 14.-—Co- {operative buying is practiced by 51 {fraternities and sororities on the Oregon Agricultural College campus with membership of 1,400 stu- | dents. | The Co-operative Manager’'s Asso- |ciation, the only organization of its |kind on the Pacific Coast and one jot the few in the United States, :handles the buying and selling of supplies and the members receive refunds of all profits made through; discounts and quantity purchases. It did a business of nearly $175,- 000 for the college year of 1925- 11926. As money accumulates in the treasury in the form of reserves, it i{is refunded to each member on thej basis of purchases made. Bare op- erating expenses are deducted. - — NORTHERN PACIFIC IS ADVERTISING ALASKA The Northern Pacific Railway iz carrying on a general newspaper and magazine advertisement of Alaska tours throughout the East and Middle West. An_ attractive advertisement |lot near the Cooper home on Tues- getting forth the beauties and af- day, with the throat slashed and tractions of an Alaska tour either|skull fractured. Mrs. Montague is through Southeastern Alaska, South-|d nurse, who lived - with . Mrs, eastern and Southwestern Alaska or|Cooper. an extension of the coastal trip to the Interfor is appearing in the metropolitan daily newspapers and in various magazines. It stresses the| CONSTANTINOPLE, May 18-days excursion from Chicago to|Moslem woman, Alie Zade Mihva lsh;way and return for $345.36 and [ Hanoum, has enrolled in the ranks| the 26-days excursion from Chicaseiof the militia in the district of | to Seward for $394.26. ! Keuktcnai ! R S 5 y Constantinople cannot yet boast of i Dogfggfg}?";’:l:n:e;:i“ a militiawoman but nevertheless has i Mrs. Lucy Hackforth, age 103, whose registered H.\)o_\«or'nen as chnufle'urn. rosy cheeks are almost wrinkleless,| Th¢ "“"I‘ “1. Ok W(;lmean;)anra attributes her splendid health to|Practising in Turkey has been in- plain food and quiet mode of living. FRERNO. (0. five The diet of the centenarian is simple. It consists chiefly of whole FIFTY ARE DROWNED wheat bread, a loaf and a half of MASRAS, India., May 14.—Fifty persons were drowned in the found- ering of a launch which was caught tables and occasionally a little hacon. ! in g terrific gale off Gytpla - e ‘.TURKISH WOMEN'S PROGRESS 14.—A & to Fall | New photo of even-tem ances of the E West in the K LOUISVILLE, May. 1 horses but a beaut day for Lay, the Fifty-Third renewal of Big Racé‘ f}én MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRI ors Likely to Easterners 1-tempered Osmond, one of the principal reli- ast in its effort to capture turf honors from the entucky Derby, great thoroughbred elassie, 1 wddy track the visitors marked Kentucky's turf classic for the Derby vflno Royalty < oe——— 4 Gloria Morgan . Vanderbilt, widow of the late Reginald Vanderbilt, has admitted her engagement to Prince Goqften Hohenlohe Langebourg, heir to a noble German family and rel- ative of Queen Marie of Ru- mania. Upon her marriage she will become ‘ Her Serene High- ness.'? npad (International Newsreel) > — UNFINISHED MUSIC TO PARIS, May 14.—The will of the late composer Claunde Debussy has brought to. light the manuscript of speare’s “Kink a mew translation in 1905, but gotten. Only two movements were com-| pleted, a Fanfare scored for three tumpets, four horns, two sharp, three kettle drums and one side- drum, and a piece called “King Lear Asleep,” written for strings, flute, horn and harp. The music, given its first performance by the Paddeloup Orchestra, has all the charm and poetry associated with | Debussy’s manner, Lear,” written forj of the tragedy laid aside and for- | the | band { Federal |ing “KING LEAR” IS FOU]“L] .._._,‘ — St. Patrick’s Day Is to Continue Dry, Free State s R 11 Sl 3 likely to continue to be bone dry in the Free State. Both Houses of Parliament have rejected the proposal to permit licensed public hounses to operate on | March 17 on the game scale | as Sundays although the scheme had the approval of the Liquor Commission, PROMINENT MEX. IS SHOT, KILLED |Qutlaw Bal;d kaids Ranch and Kills Owner—Feder- al Troops Ordered Out. MEXICO most M~xico, a Schondube, which CITY, Muy 11.—One of prominent residents of business man named was killed by an outlaw attacked his ranch in A ——— — CE TEN CENTS CHILDREN MILLIONAIRE, ™ JUNEAU BOUND, HAS TROUBLES Plot to Kidnap Two of His i Children Revealed in Press Dispatches. | s |2 CHILDREN OF JOHN BORDEN ARE GUARDED ‘Sen}‘)u‘s Information Awaits Millionaire Explorer Now in Alaskan Waters. CHICAGO, I, May 14— The 15-months’-old daughter and B-year-old stepson of John Borden, Chicago’s millionaire explorer, are under clcse guard of private detectives today be- cause of fear of kidnappers, says the Herald-Examiner Mr. and Mrs. Borden are with the Borden-Field Museum Arc- tic Expedition, last reported as nearing the western coast of Alaska where they will seek rare specimens of polar bear and walrus. During the absence of the Bordens, tiie children were left in care of their grandmother, Mrs. C, Lets, a nurse and Bor- den’s private secretary. Whether ransom demands had heen made on the Bordens was not revealed said the Herald-Examiner which stated, however, that detec- tives were engaged specifically to K;l:‘rd the children against kidnap- ping. & ATV Radio advices relayed here from the Borden-Iield Eexpedition yacht, said it was between Victoria and Cordova. The vessel is traveling by day only because it carries no piiot. Advices did not indicate the Bor dens had eived word of the re- ported placing of the guard over the children as a precaution against kidnappers. \ Enroute to Juneau Borden-Field Arctic tion is aboard the yacht Northern Light, which was launched about six w ago at San Francisco. The yacht ved at Ketchikan yester- day and left there during the night The expedition is bound for Ko- diak Island to hunt brown bear and from that locality will go into the Arctic regions for further hunt- ing of polar bear and walrus. The Northern Light is expected to be in Juneau, perhaps Monday, on the way westward. Midwesterners Most Ardent Movie Fans CULVER CITY, Cal, May 14. — The movie fans of the Middle West write more letters to their favorite film actors than those of any other section of the world, a tabulation of studio mail shows. The Bxpedi- the State of Pre Jalisco, dent Calles personally ordered Forces to do thair utmost to punish the outlaws who are doseribed as rebeles in advices from the ranch Schondube was over age, He was shot in and died quickly. Advices indicated the outlaws were subsequently routed by the ranch hands and fled 70 the years of abdomen |Convicted Murderer Draws Severe Lesson from Crime NEW YORK, May 14-—Henry Judd Gray, sentenced to die in the electric chair in Sing Sing Penitentiary due- the week of June 20 for the murder of Albert Snyder, is perusing his Bible in jail and sees himself as “one of the best examples of what whiskey, lust and sin ultimate- y lead one into.” Mrs. Snyder sees herself a victim of injustice and is prepared to fight against the death sentence. Gray said: “There may come a ter churches to hear God's Word as they did to enter this building to hear the sordid word of shame and sin.”’ Gray declared Mrs. Snyder does not “believe in God.” Chingse Continue to Fire on Eoreizn Ships SHANGHAI, May 14.—Firing on ships passing Nanking on the Yangtse River is becoming more frequent. An American destroyer was fired on twice yesterday by the Chinese. A British destroyer, British steamer anl several other ships also were targets. L quisitive Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Ra- mon Navarro, Lilllan Gish, Leon Chaney and a number. of other screen favorites permitted an in- reporter to peruse these letters, and this is what he found: Thirty per cent of the mail comes from the Midwest; 15 per cent each from Southern States and foreign countries, 12 per cent from the At- lantic Coast, 10 per cent from the Pacific Coast, 8 per cent from Can- adian border States’and 10 per cent from other States not classified. Al GOVERNOR SEEKS INFORMATION SEABORN WESLEY BARNHART Information is desired regarding Seaborn Wesley Barnhart, fifty years of age. The last heard from him was by letter from Bakersfield. California, advising his brother that he intended leaving there April 10, 1912, for Alaska where he had pur- chased an interest In a gold mine. Any information regarding Mr. Barnhart should be sent to the Gov- | some incidental music for Shake-lday when people will clamor to en- ernor's Office, Junean. e Accidents on Highways Take Big Death Toll WASHINGTON, May 14.—More than 100,000 persons, one-third of them school children, were killed and more than 3,000,000 persons were sent to hospitals by highway accidents during the last five years. This is according to a survey made and reported at the meeting of the amerlcnn Road Builders on,