The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 20, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ALL THE T”ll"“ . Sr— “ALL THE NEJ’S VOL. XXX., NO. 4485. ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICh TEN CENTS “FLYING FOOL” OFF TODAY FOR PARIS DRY CHIEF ANDREWS ANDREWS QUITS DEPARTMENT ON " AUGUST FIRST Seymer Lowman Is Named . Successor—Roy Haynes ?' Is Also to Go Out. WASHINGTON May 20— Lincoln Andrews, Assistant Sec- retary of Treasury, in charge of Prohibition Enforcement, has | resigned, effective August 1. | Seymer Lowman, former | Lieutenant Governor cf New York, will succeed Andrews, the Treacury Department an- | 1 nounced. | James Doran, Prohibition chemist, has been designated Prohibition Commissioner suc- | ceeding Roy Haynes. Secretary of Treasury Mellon expects Haynes to resign. ) The President has not made Lowman's appoinment but Low- | man will nccept the offer. HUGHES REFUSES T0 RUN; FAVORS " COOLIDGE AGAIN Former Secrelary of State Says He Is Too Old for I Presidency, Won't Run NEW YORK, Mny 20. — Charles ‘Evans Hughes, former Secretary of | State, former Justice of the Supremc Court and Republican nominee for President in 1916, in a formal state- aent, referring to published reports of his Presidential candidacy nexi year, said: “I am too old to run for President, @nd 1 neither seek nor would accept the nomingion. I am for President Coolidge,” and believe he will be| renominated and re-elected.” Hughes is 65 years of age and would be 67 upon assuming office i he should be elected President. Ills name has been frequently men-| toned as a propable candidate b tione who are opposed to the re- mym'nation of RBresident Coolidge and | thosa who believe the President wiil net by a candidate for renomination —_————— YOUNGMANIS | GAME AT DEATH Walks Flrmly to Scaffold and| Dies for Murder of Two Employers. i WOLF POINT, Mont.,, May 20.— Ferdinand Schlapps, aged 18, who murdered Antone and Ludmilla Gelsler on their farm two years ago, was hanged at 12:10 A. M. today before a large crowd. The boy walked firmly to -the scaffold, made a short farewell ad- dress in a calm voice in which he said he was sorry for what he had done and was. convinced (}od had | forgiven him. Schlapps was employed hy the Geislers as a farm hand. He con- fessed killing them, and an automobile. Seeks Removal from Office Of-Woodmen of World Men OMAHAY b., May 20. — Will Price, attorney of Lincoln, has filed a petition ulm‘ the removal from! ofiice of “(n Fraser, Sovereign Commander of the Woodmen of the ‘World; John T. Yates, Clerk, and B. E. Bradshaw, General Attorney, on the grounds the officers have ~iolated their trusts. Maloney Has W eight Adtantage QOver Sharkey NEW YORK, May 20.—Jimmy Malo- ney will have 103 pounds advantag over Jack Sharkey in the 15 round fight scheduled tonight. Malol taking money GREAT TRANS-ATLANTIC SW[:LPSTAKES RAC[ IS ON The first of several planes tock the air this morning in New York for the nonstop fNght to Paris. The plane is the monoplane Spirit of St. Lou with the flier, Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh, alone in the cockpit. ®Gemmander Richard E. Byrd, Clarence Cham- berlin, Bert Ac and others are ready to hop. Rene Fonck may also join in the air rac®sand it is probable tha neesco de Pinedo. of [taly, may decide to make the flight. Lieut. Leigh Wade may also be added to the starters. The prize is §25,000 offer- ed by R‘nmnml Orteig, \ew \olk hotel mal\ No(’l L. Davis, who ])ldnnorl to dl“’lfl]\' the flight, was klll('tl in a trial flight Tells on Al Under the direction of Mrs. Ella A. Boole, president, the W.C.T.U. is to advertise the wet stand of Governor Al Smith, of New York, during his fnendl’ campaign to make him _!&mdent of the United States. |Are to Raise $600,000 To Fight Wet Candidates WASHINGTON, of a special May 20.-—Raising campaign fund for $600,000 to strike at every wet can- 18 didate and every effort to repeal _he Prohibition law has been agreed | upon by the Anti-Saloon League Exe cutive Committee, {Claims New Dances Develop 0dd Gaits PARIS, May 20.—French devotess of the Charleston and tho Black Boi tom develop a peculiar manner . walking, according to a Paris critic. Charlestoners, he said, while the habitual Black Bottomers attain an unconscious double shuffle of the ball of the foot. The “Charleston” walk, says ure- of the promenade along great Parisian boulevards. ly enough, he adds, don't the Americans seem to have attained it. H» thinks that is because the prevalence of sport in America provides in it- self an easy, graceful carriage that defies the influence of exotic dance steps. e COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT The Juneau City Council will hold a regular meeting in the chambers in the City Hall tonight at 8 o'clock. The rock-fill on Front Street will be a toplc of much discussion. — e —— PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., May 26. —=8eventy-eight thousand pounds of ‘weighed in at 2023 pounds this af-|halibut were sold today, American ternoon. Fair weather séemed assured (gselling for 7 and 12.06 and Canadian for 7 and 13.07 cents. develop what he describes as “knock knees,” the critic, has become a recognized feat- the Strange- | FLOOD DAMAGE -18 TREMENDOUS | Secretary Hoover Says Louis- iana Loss Is Major Na- tional Disaster. NEW ORLEANS, May 20.—The flood damage in Louisiana alone has already reached proportions of major national disaster, Secretary |of ‘Commerce Hoover said just be- | fore he boarded a train last night for Alexander. The Secretary, who is the per sonLal 1epresentative of the President| {in the flod region, said he not | taking into consideration the dam- 'age in other States and added that thie end was not in sight. He said | approximately 250,000 persons have {been affected by the flood in| Louisiana. WOMAN TRIES - THREE TIMES Two Words to | Be Omitted {u l Marriage Vows PHILADELPHIA, May 20 Omission the words “si and “obe; from the marriage | service of the Reformed Episco- pal Church is proposed in the report submitted to the General Council of the CGhurch in session here. No opposition to the pro- | | posed change is expected and | the vows of men and women will be identical. The Church of Eng land s planning thé same | change. SLAYER DIES ON SCAFFOLD Last Words Are “Well Boys, Goodbye” —'Hearty Fare- well to Newspapermen. FLORENCE Ar May 20 Charles J Blackburn, convicted { 0 n LIFE slayer of Miguel Bernal, his busi- { ness partner, was hanged at the Arizgna State Prison this morning and®pronounced dead in 10 minutes | SEATTLE, May 20.—Mrs. Fran Blackburn's last words were: ces Ayers, aged 64, employee of|“Well hoys, goodbye.” the Seattle Post Office, soaked her Blackburn kissed his brother Wel- hair with gasoline and then set ll“ln;{lnn_ and his brother-in-law Joe afire she told the police. This is| Mairer goodbye Just before the \the third attempt of the woman|mask was put over his head he said within a week to take her life. Shejto Wellington Willie, here’s my in the hospital with an even|visor " chance for recove Just before the hanging, Black- Her daughter smelled smoke and|burn consented to see the news- rushed into an adojining room to)papermen in his cell and he smiled find her mother’s hair and clothes!as 18 e¢rawled into the small space 'a mass of flames. The daughter's|{and shook hand< with a grip which !screams brought her hushand who!was firm and apparently heartily beat out the flames. given. He did not wait for ques- Mrs. Ayres, who is supervisor of{tions and said: “I am glad you the women employees of the Post|gentlemen do not have to meet for Oftice gave her wrong age when she|this kind of an occurrence very entered the service years ago, her|often. If the law calls for it, as daughter said, and suffered a mer-|it apparently does, I am man { vous breakdown brought on partly|enough to g | by fear her true age would be dis- — ,————— {eovered. Twice before this week Mrs. Ayres tried to kill herse!f and| both attempts were frustrated by her daughter. by Former President Of Mexico Charged With Conspiracy LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 20.— Federal warrants for the arrest of Adolfe de la Huerta, former Pro- visional President of Mexico, on a charge of conspiracy to violate the neutrality laws of the United States have been received by Department of Justice Agents here. The former Mexican President agreed to surrender immediately for arraignment before United States Commissioner Read. The specific charge made is that de la Huerta conspired with four others, under arrest at Tucson, to ship rifies and ammunition to Tuec- son for transportation into Mexico in furtherance of an alleged revo- lutionary plot. Diamond Smuggler Is Caught Afier 3 Months ALBANS Vt.,, May 20.— Trailed for there months by Treas- ury Department agents, Mrs. John Kantor, giving her address as Paris ST. was taken last night from an in- ternational train at Detroit and is under arrest for attempting to smuggle diamonds valued at $200,- 000 into the United States from Canada. The stones were found on her per- son. The Customs Department here was advised of the arrest by the agent who made it. PHILLIP F, McQUELLAN PASSES IN SAN FRANCISCO Phillip F. McQuellan, formerly the operator in charge of the U. 8. Cabl: office at Sitka and holding that office for a number of years, died on April 21 at San Francisco. He leaves a wife and several children.— (Sitka Progress). SINCLAIR IS SENT T0-JAIL Millionaire Must Serve Three Months for Contempt of U. S. Senate. WASHINGTON, May 20.—A jail sentence of three months was this forenoon imposed upon Harry F. Sinclair, millionaire oil operator, for contempt of the United States Senate in re- fusing to answer questions put to him in the Senate investiga- tion of the Teapot Dome case. Justice Hitz also fixed a fine of $500. Both sentences are mandatery under the law. The oil magnate is now in line for the title of the “svorld's richest prisoner.” An appeal was noted to the District of Columbia Supreme Court and Sinclair was released on $5,000 bond. The three months’ sentence apparently was a surprise to Sinclair and his attorneys as they expected a minimum sen- tence of one month Fakir Says Houdini Was Genuine Mystic NICE, May 20.—Houdini was a true fakir and not a faker, as he professe:l to be, according to Den Ibrihim, one of the latest Eastern mystics to ar rive in Europe. Fakir circles recognized Houdini as a master, says the Egyptian-Hin- du, who claims to have known the American. He hailed Houdini as one of the world's greatest fakirs who, though he used legerdemain in his simplest tricks, relied on the fakir's mysticism for his major perform- ances. S RESIGNED l()ul«)mndmg "I lights in | dirplane History | 1919—U. S§. Naval seaplane NC-4 (Read), from Trespass: | British North America, via | Azores to Lisbon, Portugal. Dis- tance, 2,150 miles. Time, 24 hours | and 45 minutes. | 1919—British biplane (Alcock- | Brown), from St. John, Nova | Scotia, to Clifden, Ireland. Dis- | tance, 1,960 miles. Time, 16 hours | and 12 minutes, | 1923—Licutenant | MacReady, in Fokker T-2 mono- plane, from Roosevelt Field, L. | I, to San Diego, Cal., 2,520 miles, in 26 hours 50 minutes 38.4 sec- onds. 1924—Round-the-world U, S. Army Air Service. Dis- | tance, 26,103 miles. Approximate flying time, 351 hours. 1925—Sir Alan J. Cobham. Brit. ish, from London to Cape Town, Africa, and return. Distance, 16, 130 miles. Time, 170 flying hours, 1926—Commander Francgisco de Pinedo, Italian army aviator, from Rome to Australia and Japan and return, Distance, 34,500, Flying time not given, 1926—Commander Ramon Fran- Kelly and flight of co, Spanish army aviator, from Palos, Spain, to Buenos Aires | Brazil, via Cape Verde Islands. Distance 6,230 miles. Flying time not given. 1926—S8ir Alan J. Cobram, Brit- isher, from London to Melbourne, Australia and return Distance, 28,000 mi Time, 320 hours. 1926—Bernardo Duggan, of A gentine, from New York to Bu nos Aires, Brazil. Distance, 9,376 miles. 1926-—U. S, Army Pan-American geodwill flight. Hopped off at 8an Antonio, Texas, December 21, for clreumnavigation &rulse cover- ing 20,000 miles and visiting 25 Latin-American countries. They finished at Bolling Field, Wash- ington, D C. 1927—Commander Francisco de Pinedo, chief of staff Italian Air Forces, set out from Cagliari, Sardinia, February 13, on 30,000 mile flight, planning to touch four continents. Crossed Atlantic and reached South America. During flight over southwestern United States his plane burned at the Roosevelt Dam, Arizona. He is finishing his flight to Rome in new plane. Capt, Charles nungesser and Major Francisco Coli hopped off from Paris at midnight, May 7, in the plane White Bird and have not been heard from since. t. Charles Lindbergh took r at 7:52 o'clock this morn- ing from New York in the non- stop flight to Paris. —_—— e See Physically Fine Race “Jazz Age” WASHINGTON, May 20. -~ Testl mony is piling up that, wha'over else may be said about the ellects of the “jazz age" it is producing a tine lot of human beings, physically speaking One of the authorities who hav advanced this conclusion is Prof. Elliot Smith, distinguished anatomist ind anthropologist. His views are emphasized by Dr. James Frederick Rogers, chief of the Division of School Hygiene of the Federal Bu- ean of Education The studies of other anthropolig- ists, Dr. Rogers says, tend to con- firm the view that the average boy f today is not at all inferior to the average youth of classic Greece LONE AVIATOR . HOPS OFF FOR NONSTOP FEAT 'Cdp! Charles Lindbergh i Takes Air—Five Times f Close to Disaster, 7, —_— L4 BULLETIN — HALIFAX, Novu Scotia, May 20. — Capt. Lindbergh, flying on schedule time, left the easternmost tip of Nova Scotia at 4 o'clock this afternoon, Eastern daylight time, | ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y, i May 20. — Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh, the ‘‘Flying Fool,” hopped off alone at 7:52 o'cleck this morning in muggy air in his Ryan monoplane, the. Spirit of St. Louis, on the New York to Paris non-stop flight. Five times on his take-off, Capt. Lindbergh was close to disaster, twice by inches. Rising in the air, the plane, weighted by a load of 5,100 pounds, barely cleared a string of telegraph wires. A few seconds hefore it most hit a roadscaper. At pting to get off the ground, three times the plane struck soft spots apd bounded into the air but alwa; coming back to earth and final straightening out. Capt. Lindbergh has waited one week for the weather. He- left be- hind two other planes. Commander Richard BE. Byrd thinks that Lindbergh will be in Parlsy within the next 40 hours. Flier Is Cool y Lindbergh was very cool as he had to be to take-off with his heavy load . He ate little before the start because he said he was not hungry. He has had very little sleep for a (Coutinued on Page Eigut.) R = S SIMMONS SEES $300,000,000 SURPLUSONTAP North Carolina Senator Ac- cuses Administration of Manipulation, Politics. L WASHINGTON, May 20.-Senator F. M. Simmous of North Carolina, ranking Democratic member of the Senate Finance Committee, predicted that there will be a tax surplus of $500,000,000 In the Federal treasury by the time Congress meets 1n December. Senator Simmons charged the Ad- ministration with the collection of hundreds of millions of dollars from ‘lbv people last year and using it to pay off Liberty Bonds when the hol- ders of the bonds had not asked for payment. He said he presumed that the “Administration leaders allowed the isurplus to be returned to the people in order that the Administration would have campaign capital in the | Presidential election.” Communist Activity Grows in Northern Italy Despite Duce LONDON, May 20.—Communist ac- tivities are growing rapidly in north. errr Italy, according to private ad- vices received from Milan. During the last few months an ex tensive and clandestine press has sprung up, including “Unity,” the official organ of the Italian com- munist party: “The Red Rooster,” “Proletarian Child” and several other sheets printed secretly in Milan, Tu- rin and Trieste and circulated widely by hand and mail. Thousands of illustrated postcards, leaflets and manifestos all ridiculing Fascism and calling upon workers to revolt are also being distributed, while “Syn- dical Battles,” an officlal newspaper of General Confederation of Labor, formerly mnonpolitical, is now issued secretly, virtually as a communist sheet. - Underground - newspapers, each gathering a “revolutionary fund,” as- sert that socialists and syndicalists, formerly antagonistic, are now join- ing the red ranks in the belief that communists alone are able to form a ‘‘united front.” Auarchists, too, are throwing in their lot with the Trieste group and are sending to the local “Red relief fund” a quantity ot money assertedly gathered among the anarchists of the United States. While calling upon the red work- ers of Italy to aid the international cause of communism, “Unity” em- phasizes that the first duty is or- ganization for the overthrow of Fasc- ism. To this end it is asserted shop committees or “Red cell§ extensively organized in iarge tories in northern ltaly. Meetinga of delegates of these committees are being held periodically at Milan and Turin. The Milan police are fully cog- nizant of these activities, but find difficulty in coping ‘with them cause of the Iimpetus given to are being