The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 23, 1927, Page 1

——— VOL. XXX., NO. 4487. JUNEAU ALASKA, MONDAY MAY 23, ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THF NEWS ALL THF TIME” 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS A ———————re 'PRICE TEN CENTS LINDBERGH DEGORATED BY FRANGE Cameron BUYER OF PULP TIMBER IS DUE ¢ HERE JUNE TTH Bringing. R. A. Kinzie and| Others to Inspect Thane and Speel River. To look over the Thane erties, visit Speel River timber areas, George T. publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle and bidder for five bil- lion feet of pulp timber in the Ju- neau district, will arrive here June 7, on ‘the steamer Aleutiur Ad- vices to this effect were received Sunday by District Forester C. H Flory. Mr. Cameron will be accorapanied by Mrs. Cameron, Robert A. Kinzie, former superintendent at Trcadwell, Engineer Baum, and Asst. District Forester B. F. Heintzleman who :s now in San Francisco conferring with Mr. Cameron and th« Zeller- bach interests regarding their plans for development oulp timber and water powers Stay Four Drys In his telegram to Mr. Flory, Mr. Heintzleman said Mr. Cameron de- sired to personally look over the Thane plant and properties before purchasing them. He will be here and in the vicinity for f:our days, returning south on the Princess Louise, June 10. The Forest Service has made arrangements for a boat to transport the party to Speel River and to some of the timber areas included in the tract bid in by Mr. Cameron. Just ‘'when- the engineering sur- veys will be started by Mr. Cameron had not been decided last week, Mr. Heintzleman said. He was continu- ing his conferences with the San Francisco publisher this week on this matter and a final determina- tion may be reached before the party leaves the south. Will Select Timber Mr. Heintzleman had already been in conference with the Zellerbach interests relative to timber selec- tions and an arrangement had been reached Saturday for this work to begin early next month. It will be performed in co-operatin with the Forest Service. Plans for initiat- ing the Zellerbach engineering sur- veys in the Ketchikan district will be discussed this week, it was said. Two Juneau Students Honored at U. of W. | Wit UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, May 23.—Curtis Shattuck of Ju- neau was named a member of the alumni publicity cooperative com- mittee by the president of the As- sociated Students of the University of Washington last Friday. The purpose of this committee will be to further Washington student and alum inter-organization. It is to be permanent and will work on coopera- tive propositions all next year. Alease Graves of Juneau is to be on tha committee for Freshman Week at the beginning of school next year, according to an announcement made Monday by the president of the As sociated Btudents. She will assist with the open air bureau. Freshman Week, is held for the purpose of introducing the freshmen to the campus. Curtis Shattuck is the son of Allen Shattuck, the well known Juneau in- surance man and leading citizen, anc Mrs. Shattuck. Miss Graves is the daughter of H. S. Graves, one of Ju- neau's leading merchants and citiz- d Mrs. Graves. prop- some ALASKA PRESBYTERIANS ARE TO BE GIVEN HONORS 25 SAN Francisco, May 23.—About 225 Presbyterian missionaries who have served twenty-five years or more in mission work in this country are to be honored by the Presbyterian Boad of National Missions as a part of its celebration, during the Pres- byterian General Assembly in San Francisco, of 125 years of organized Presbyterian missions in America, of fifty years in Alaska and fifty years of the women's missionary organiza- tion. Service pins are to be given in recognition of the long fidelity and continying devotion to the task on the part of these men and women One of the foremost among these to be so honored will be the Rev. S. Hall Young of Seattle, Wash. Some of the other Presbyterian missionaries who have served for twenty-five years or more are Miis Donaldine Cameron, superintenden: Cameron, | e Deaths, Caused By Excessive Drinking, Growing WASHINGTON, May 23.—Dr. Matthias Nicoll, Jr., told the members attending the confer- | ence of State and Territorial Health Officers with the Public Health Service, that the number of excessive drinkers in the United States, is sufficiently high to be a “matter of greal public interest.”” He said that if deaths | from alcohol continue growing as now “in a very few years it will bring the mortality to a higher figure then has ever been rec- orded in this country.” RED CROSS IS TACKLING BIG RELIEF TASK WASHINGTON, May 23.—In Mississippi flood, the American Cross has confronted its task since the World War It is the worst disaster of the kind in the history of Red Cross re- lief work, covering more territory and involving more individuals than the San Francisco fire in 1905, the Ohio River flood in 1913, or the Flo-| rida hurricane last fall. With approximately 350,000 home- less and nearly 200,000 living in con- centration camps, more persons are in the society’s care than at any previous period in peacetime. In addition ¢~ the flood, it is also succoring th- “ictims of three tor- nadoes and ...~ mine explosion, mak- ing this peiivd dwarf that of Sep- tember-October, 1926, which Red Cross officials then described as the worst in their knowledge, including, as it did, the Florida hurricane, floods in Illinois, Kansas, lowa and Okla- homa, two fires im Alaska which de- stroyed whole villages, a tornado v Ohio, the Cuban hurricane, a flood in Mexico and hurricanes in the West Indies. Despite the number of disasters then, only 120,000 persone were under the society's care The Ohio River flood more nearly paralleled the Mississippi disaster than any other which has engaged the efforts of the Red Cross, which then was just beginning the organ- ization of its disaster relief machin- ery and was unable to cope with such a situation as it can at present. About 320,000 were made homeless in Dayton and the 142 other cities and towns inundated in 1913, and $2,472,287 was expended in feeding and clothing refugees, and helping the | Red greatest them to reconstruct their homes, as compared with the minimum of $10, 000,000 sought in the current emer- gency. MANY TRAPPED FLOOD WATERS NEW ORLEAN May 23.—Tor- rential rains whiech «dded to the hazard of the levee fight along the east bank of the Atchafalaya im- periled lives less than 100 miles away on the lower West Basin today. 2 The sudden rises of the Vermil- lion River and Bayou Tech= brought by five to eight inches of rain augumented the flood waters. Between 100 and 200 persons are believed trapped by the sudden rise. Boats have been dispatched to their rescue, S of the Chinese Mission Home in San Francisco, who has rescued fifteen hundred Chinese girls in towns along the Pacific Coast; the Rev. James A. McAllister, president of the Evan- gelical Seminary at Rio Piedras, Por- to Rico, an interdenominational en- terprise which trains the ministers for ninety-five per cent of the churches on the island as well as many in Venezuela, Santo Domingo, and Cuba; the Rev. H. L. McCrorey of Charlotte, N. C., president of Johnson C. Smith University, which is a thoroughly equipped and endow- ed college and theological school for Negroes; and Miss Jennie Ordway, superintendent of the Presbyterian Hospital at San Juan, Porto Rico. Al- askan missionaries on the anniversary honor roll include the Rev. James H. Condit, principal of Sheldon Jackson (Continued on. Page Eigit.) ’F]cw at Very Low Altitude " GAPT, LINDBERGH ' TELLS STORY OF ATLANTIC FLIGHT Over Ocean—Was Not Hungry Nor Sleepy. PARIS, May 23. — Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh told the story of his nonstop flight from New York to Paris to the Asso- ciated Press at the American Embassy where he is quartered during his stay here. “The first part of the flight was better and easier than any of us expected. All the way up the American coast to New- foundland we had uncommonly good weather,” said Capt. Lind- bergh. At this juncture, American Ambassador Herrick said: “When Capt. Lindbergh says ‘we’ he means the airplane and himself.” The aviator continued: “After we got away from land, we ran into a fog, then into rain. Sometimes we flew not more than 10 feet above the water. The highest was 10,000 feet. We went that high to try and get out above the storm. The average altitude on the flight, however, for the whole second 1,000 miles was less than 100 feet. If we had known the weather would have been so bad, we would not have started. But once we got into it, there was not anything to do but keep going. “In the afternoon we picked up Ireland and from what I had read at home, I knew Ireland was inclined to be mountainous so when I saw pretty high ridges off in front, I knew it was Ireland.” In response to questions, the flier said he did not feel hungry nor sleepy. “I ate about a sandwich and a half and drank about half a glass of water. I kept the win- dows of the cabin open all of the way,” said Capt. Lindbergh. e, Robert Small, of A. P. Services, Passes Away WASHINGTON, May 23.—Robert Small, Superintendent of the South- ern Division of the Associated Press, widely known newspaperman, died in a hotel here late yestorday. He re cently worked for the Consolidated Press. Sheriff Is Killed; Seven Persons Are Under Arrest VANCOUVER, Wash.,, May 23.— With the arrest of seven persons, Deputy Sheriffs believe they have the slayer of Sheriff Lester M. Woord who was shot to death from ambush yesterday. Sheriff Wood has been called to assist in capturing a band of moonshiners. As Wood walked up a trail with two other officers, a shot rang out from the bush and the sheriff fell dead. Negro Is Strung Up For Criminal Assault BRAGGADOCIO, Mo., May 23. Will Sherod, a negro, was lynched last, night after a criminal assault on a widow, with two children. He was strung up by his hands to a temporary scaffold on the town | square and the body pierced with| a dozen bullets. Twenty-five Are Injured In Collision of Tnilu FLAGSTAFF, Ariz, May 23. Twenty-five persons wree injured, 12 seriously, when two sections of} the criack Santa Fe—California limit- ed, east bound, collided this after- noon. President Is to Review American Fleet on June 4 WASHINGTON, May 23.—President Coolidge will review the United States fleet from the, yacht May- flower, at Hampton Roads, on’ June 4, Coming North t Fi '[S FROM NEW YORK TO PARIS Here is the Ryan single-seated moonplane in which Charles A. flight from New York to Paris. “FLYING FOOL" | MAKES RECORD BY !IS FLYING Hop Across Atlantic Ocean on Nonstop Flight Not Only Feat Lindbergh Has Made NEW YORK, May ords made by Capt. bergh, incidental flight from Ne tered attention man. His flying time from San Diego,| Calif., to Roosevelt Field, Long Is land, was approximately 21 hours, | 20 minutes, the quickest ever made from coast to coast. And he'was the first pilot to make such a long hop as that from San Diego to St. Louis, about 1,600 miles, alone. His total | distance from coast to coast was about 2,550 miles, Flying Six Years Lindbergh, 25, lean, muscular six footer, has been flying for six years, He ywas born in Detroit, where his widowed mother now lives. He began his aerial career at 19, leaving his home in Little Falls, Minn., where his father was a lawyer and mem- ber of congress, and going to Lin- coln, Neb, for his first lessons. Later, he bought his own plane and when he appointed a flying cadet in the army flew it to Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas. he learned the rudiments of m y flying and after ten months, emerged, a finished aviator, from the pursuit school at Brooks Field, San Antonio. In Flying Circuses After leaving the army, Lindbergh flew for a yoar in* various indeper- dent enterprises, including several flying circuses. Finally, he was ap- pointed chief pilot’ on the St. Louis Chicago air mail route, from whicl: he was given an indefinite leave of absence to prepare for his trane Atlantic hop. He is a captain aml| flight commander in the 110th Ob- servation Squadron, Missouri National Guard air mnit in St. Louis. Lindbergh i a “four star” member of the Caterpillar club, the mythical fraternity of fliers who have used; their parachutes in emergency jumps. As a cadet in the army, Lindbergh and another pilot leaped to safety when their pursuit planes collided =t 5,000 feet. Again, Lindbergh jumped from a spinning test plane at St Louis when it was only 250 feet up and barely made a safe landing. Lact winter he made his third and fourth jumps when he was caught in fogs at night on the Mail route and coull tind no landing place. uSpirit of St. Louis” “The Spirit of St. Louis,” Capt. Lindbergh's plane built especially for his New York to Paris mon-stop (Cun!mu:(r:x;—raxe Eight.) 2 AIRMEN ARE FORCED DOWN; PLANE WRECKED SIMLA, British India, May 23 Lieut. C. R. Carr and L. M. 8. Gil- man, of the Royal Air Service, who 23.—Two rec Charles A. Lind- to his nuuonnlu” drk to Paris, cen-| this \ounx | on l) ird- was i started Friday from England on a!proximately $16,000 in a South Amer-! nonstop flight to India, were rescued yesterday in the Persian Gulf. The plane was forced down and is a total wreck. The twb airmen flew 3,634 or 200 miles less than Capt. Lindbergh on his nonstop flight from New York to Parly, {3t World, | | One Death Qver Nationality of Capt. Lindbergh NEW YORK, May Argu- ment over the nationality of Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh resulted in death of Joseph Hand and the | | arrest of Sidney Levene, charged | | with homicide. Lovene is accused of the stabbing which resulted in Hand's death. iw 1 I 23 BROMAYRLY | are ACROSS ARCTIC Has Two Alternatives for Air Trips if He Does Not | Hop Allanhc. NEW YORK, newspaper. Commander Ric 1 F. sidering a flight over the or Paclfic as alternatives New York to Paris nonstoo dight.| Commander Byrd said that if he! makes the Atlantic flight it will be a scientific exneriment to determine | the feasibility of a {(rans-Atlantic| mail and passenger service If he finds that Lindbergh's flight accom- plished this object, he is considering flying from Etah, on the northern- most tip of Greenland, to Point Bar-| row which is an extension of the work of the MacMillina expeditions two years ago, of which Byrd was a member, Another 23, today tha Nyrd is con- A'lantie| to ihe! May said flight under considera tion is from San Francisco to the Hawaiian Islands which the late Commander John Rodgers and crew of four fell short. e QUITS SOCIETY T0 GET MONEY LOST, BAD DEAL Margaret Wllson to Go to Work to Make $10,000 | Lost on Oil Scheme. [ | NEW YORK, May 23.—Miss Mar garet Wilson, daughter of Woodrow Wilson, has taken a position selling bonds to pay off a $10,000 debt in-| curred through an unprofitable in- vestment in oil stocks, Miss Wilson's deefsion to withdraw | | trom social and civic activities anl| g0 to work foilows litigation that| would bring her into the ecourt for financial examination in an effort |to collect a $10,000 judgment obtain- nd against her in the Supreme Court last Fobruary. The judgment constitutes the bulk! of a sum borrowed by her from the American Union Bank on per- sonal notes, guaranteed by Glemby, hair goods dealer. | died, Harry | mercial l‘indhrlgh made his non-stop “TGLUES AS TO FATE FRENCH AIRMEN GIVEN | Capt. | What May Have Happened to Nungesser and Coli. NEW YORK, Ps to the happened to May 23— Strong probably fdte of the Nungesser and Coli, it contained in Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh's story of his flight ever the Atlantic. “Three hundred things could have | happened to Uungesser and Coli, it lhs) had bad weather this side of | Newfoundland,” said Capt. Lindbergh “One of the things which seems not improbable, is they got into a sleet storm, that they might not havs been able to get out of or climh above. A sleet storm wiy bring you down in five minutes becMge the ice built up in front of the Wings and will change the entire cou, ‘e. There are icefields off Newfoundland, where if you had come down, there would not be one chance in 1,000 you would be found.” Novelist Cline Is Clmrged with Murder WILLIAMANTIC, Conn,, A warrant charging him murder of Wilfred Irwin served on Leonard Cline, noveli:t and playwright. Irwin was visiting Cline and was mysteriously shot an® following blood transfusion in which Cline gave a pint of his blood. Cline was served with the warrant in the hospital here. e —— Womar Bank Messenger Robbed of Large Sum 23.—~Three in an auto May 23. with the has been 11AMMOND, masked armed bandits, mobile, forced the machine of a woman messenger for the 2 Trust and Savings Bank, to the curh, grabbed a satchel containing $25,000 in currency and $100 in silver nml escaped. Army A;fnp Wrecked Ind., May Leaving Texas l'lmgar}n SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 23.— The army nonrigid airship TC-1240 was wrecked this afternoon as leav. ing its hangar. Lindbergh Tells of! * IAMERICAN FLIER 1S GIVEN CROSS, . LEGION OF HONOR Capt. Lmdbergh Is Received i Elysee Palace by French President. PARIS, May 23. — Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh was re- ceived in the Palace of Eylsee by President Gaston Doumergue today and decorated in the name of the Republic with the Cross of the Legion of Honor. The American aviator was still dressed in ill-fitting bor- rowed clothes but the Presideft pinned the Cross on his breast as though he was arrayed in splendor and then swept him into his arms and kissed him on both cheeks in traditional accolade. TO FLY TO BRUSSELS PARIS, May 23 Capt. Lind- bergh plans to fly to Brussels Sat- urday and then to London on next Monday. He said he was consider- ing going to Sweden, his father’s birthplace but had no intention of making more long distance flights for many months. Good Money in | Sight for Capt. Lindbergh NEW YORK, May 23.-Estimates of Capt. Charlés A. Lindbergh’'s pos- sible earnings for the netx year, based on contracts iTered are: Movie contracts, $600,000. Vaudeville tour, §400,000. Radio, $50,000. His story in book form, $50,000. Magazine and newspaper articles, $50,000, Advertising concessions, $75,000. Close friends of the aviator feel that his modesty wiil cause him to waive theatrical and movie con- tracts. DE PINEDO IS OFF TO AZORES TREPASSY, Newfoundland, May 23.—Col. Fancesco de Pinedo today hopped across the Atlantic for the Azores, the road from Rome and re- tun, which carried him across the broad South Atlantie, over the im- penetruble jungles of Brazil, over stretches of the Caribbean Sea into Arizona. The present leg brings him to one of the most impilous portions of the long adventure since it means that the treacherous of the fog on the Grand Banks must be successfully negotiated and more than 1,600 miles of open water must be conquered before victory Is grasped . He left at 1:58 o'clock, eastern standard time and predicted he would make the trip in 12 hours. * Sighted at Sea NEW YORK, May —Steame= London Importer raioed that de Pine- do was sighted 360 miles northwest of the Azores this afternoom. e ENA AT SKAGWAY The C. P. R. freighter Ena arrived at Skagway at 9 o'clock last night loaded with freight for Yukon river points. 'Landings on Ice Floes Show Arctic Aviation Practicable NEW YORK, May 23— Some of the secrets of the Frozen North, dis- covered by the Wilkins expedition sponsored revealed today by the ex. plorers, Richard E. Byrd and Vil hjalmur Stefansson. They announced that landing by aviators on Arctic ocean ice has proven feasible and that the far north s practicable for both com and military aviation. The probability of unknmown land existing | Through Glemby's efforts she will {jn the Arctic seas has been reduced be spared the ordeal of heing ques-| tioned in the court to her ll-‘ nancial condition. She risked ap-! ican oil promotion scheme presented her by a “Mr. Davis" who was in- troduced to her at a social affair. She has refused aid from friends of her father and declared: soundings. the two ex- by Captain Wilkins' In a joint statement plorers said: “We want to call attention to one of the most heroic and dramatic ad- ventures of polar history in thef Arctic north of Alaska, where Cap- tain George H. Wilkins, Lieutenant Ben Eielson and their assoclates hav “If I made a mistake, I will pay ‘(nr it already made striking contributions to science and the progress of north- ern aviation. Height of Range “The Wilkins expedition last year crossed five times a range of Aretic mountains so little known that it had been given on maps as 5000 or 6,000 feet high, while it proved to ba around 10,000. One flight was from F:'rhanks 550 miles north to Barrow and thence 150 miles omt over the ocean and then bu:ko&l Barrow, a flight on which 10, square miles of previously unknown territory were seen. Thus Wilking proved that flying is distinctly fea- sible in the most northerly possession of the United States, setting at rest la controversy of importance bota {in civil and military aviation as to whether Alaska can be used as a flying base for «ommercial or mill- (Continued on Page Two.)