The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 24, 1927, Page 1

“ALL THE NEW.‘ ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXX NO. 4488, jUNLAU, ALASKA..TUl'SDAY, MAY 24, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE “TEN CENTS U.\. NAVY BOAT OFFERED LINDBERGH Great Britain to Break Trade Relations With Soviets 'THE FLYING FOOL PREMIER SAYS BREAK OCCURS + NEXT THURSDAY Soviet Secrefigen!s Accus- ed of Stealing Confi- dential Documents. LONDON, May 24. Baldwin today told the House Commons that Great Britain would terminate her trade agreement with Russia on Thursday and this re- quires withdrawal of the Trade Delegation of the Soviet Mission from London, unless the House of Commons express disapproval of this course. ¢ Premier Baldwin said if the House approved, Great Britain will also recall the British Mission rrun” Moscow. The British Premier said he V\lll' make a full statement regarding the| Soviet raid. He said that for many months the police and military| authorities investigated the activi- ties of a group of secret agents en-; gaged in an attempt to obtain high- ly confidential documents relating,; to the armed forces of Great Premier of | o Pl 5 I Britain. The Premier said suspicions were} confirmed this year when a Briti sh i subject, employed by the British| Air Force, was convicted of stealing| two such documents. During tl\(-\ recent raid on the Soviet Trade! Delgation’s headquarters in the As-| tor House, the Premier declared that a locked room was found to contain a man hastily burning| papers. After a struggle ,one of thm papers was secured and found to contain a list of addresses including| some in the United States. Premier Baldwin asserted the %I viet Government could not escape| responsibility for the tactics of the Trade Delegation and for abuse of) facilities afforded the Delegation. *The matter will not rest there. It will be difficuit in any case to believe that while one organ of| the Soviet is thus breaking its solemn undertakings, that the other organ in this country, namely the Soviet Mission, and the Government| itself were mnot parties to the pro-| ceedings,” said the Premier. ; | C.P.RMEN MAY STRIKE semi-blond of New York City, was yesterday chosen international bathing girl captured the title beauties from 28 $3.,000. Ameriean is five feet, 26 inch wi has long h five » a 7% inch NEW YORK GIRL WINS BEAUTY HONGR known Beauty Queen revue. over representatives of eight foreign “Miss United cit’es. In_the picture above, Miss Britton s right and Miss Lesley Storey, who was “Miss Brooklyn” and one-half inches tall; ankle and trim boyish figure Dorothy Br as ‘“Miss Ne of 'h(’ Univer: at The w York girl won countries, after having States” in ecompetition with As the winner she received the is left. 125 Miss Britton pounds, has a She PRICE OF SEAL SKINS DECLINE New York Buyers Predict an Increasing Popularity for Garments. ST. LOUIS, May hundred seal skir 24 Fifteen were sold at aue- WINNIPEG, w™may 24.—Twenty- five hundred clerks, freight handlers | and express station employees of| the Western Division of the Can- adian Pacific favor a strike for wage increases. The ballots counted show-| ed 95 per cent of the workers favor a walk-out. | Fate of Movie Actor i Now Rests with Jury| tion for the United States Govern- ment at the Internatio Fur BEx- change here yesterd The prices averaged 25 per cent than those prevailing during the last semi- annual auction sale The total, $500,000 decre; is attributed to the general decline in fur prices and prompted New York buyers to predict an increasing povularity for seal skin garments because the prices are coming down, Fifteen hundred skins, logwood brown, sold for cent higher than at the classed as 15 per previous LOS ANGELE&, (al May 24.— The case of Paul Kelly, on trial! for the murder of Ray Raymond,| went to the jury at 10:17 o'clock, this morning. The court instructed’ the jurors to return a verdict of! murder or manslaughter if Kelly's| attack contributed to Raymond's| death. Kelly, movie actor, glowered at the Judge during the 45 minute| charge. Raymond was a musical comedy actor. Typhoid Fever Is Still | Prevli_fi_ng in Montreal MONTREAL. May 24.-—Although/ the City Health officials declared the typhoid epidemic here was) under control late in April, in the! past two weeks there have been nearly 1,400 new cases, more than half the number reported between March 4, when the epideraic first became acute, and last of April. There have been 289 deaths since March 4. The officials believed they found the source in the milk supply of two dairies whose business they suspended. . sale because of the rarity of this type. The average price of black skins was $31.73. Price for brown |was $49.17 with top for both. Italian Fishing Fleet Hid by Sudden Storm ANCONE, May 24. A storm of hurricane proportions swept suddenly out of a clear sky late yesterday taking a heavy toll of life in the fishing fleet owtside the harbor. I'ive boats are known to have been wrecked with a loss of scores of lives. —————— NOAH BERRYS SEPARATE LOS ANGELES, May 24.—Attor- neys for Noah Berry and his wife today disclosed that the screen vil- liagn and his wife have parted. The actor is residing at his ranch near Lankershlm, while Mrs. Beery is living at the Hollywood home. No divorce action is expected immed- iately. Ttaly, DREAD OF DISEASE IS CALLED DISEASE PARIS, May 24.—Fear of disease, microbes, and all the ills and buga- boos that science has classified, is described by Dr. De Fenis man's worst malady. He names it “Hyper- hygienitis.” Dr. Be Fenis is a physician whose practice has been largely in tho colonies. He is now in Indo China, where he finds the Annamites are in a state of terror, worrying over gilments that didn’t seem dangerouy until science taught them how ter- rible they are. “They deprive themselves of all the joys of life for the sake of the joy of living,” says one commenta- tor, discussing the doctor’s observa- tions. - The Annamites have taken hy- giene tragically, he says, many of them refusing to eat strawberries, fish, oysters and other foods or to drink wine, because they have been warned of possible contagion. price of $65 For President S e oe——— E\mns ‘Woollen (ubove)' Indian- | apolis banker, is suggested Democutm carididate for Presi. ,dent by Tom Taggart, yeteran y t Yete m_n.tl leader. Ny lnxumu Film Cowboy Murder Case Goes to Jury: LLOS ANGELES, May 24 -—The murder case in which Mrs. Sarah Kerrick and four others are charg- ed with the death of Tom Kerrick, film cowboy, went to the jury this afiernoon, which was instructed to return a manslaughter verdict if it was found the members of the party had unlawfully gathered at the fatal drinking bout. {Male Beauty | Contest Limited To Blonds | PARIS, May 24.—France is |"rl'ltyl well fed up with ordinary beauty contests, says the editor of a phys- ical culture magazine who is or- ganizing a contest for the hand- somest Frenchman. The idea has been approved suf- ficiently by the press to insure its success, provided enough men throw ‘thelr modesty to the winds and en- ter. The brunette Frenchman, however, won't have a chance. The contest, it is announced, will be only for men of the Gallic type—blond, tall and as near as possible in appear- ance to Vercingetorix, that almost {Important {already proved ! which the Federal Radio Commission Italian Flier Forced to Descend on Ocean BUENOS AIRES, May Wireless advice received from Lisbon by the Ladacion said De Pinedo, who hopped off from | Newfoundalnd 'yesterday ing, landed 150 miles Azores because machine is Horta by a tug 24. and towed of fog being LISBON, May 24.—A radio directly from De Pinedo stated | 18 being towed, to the and needed no further The Commander &ufl(‘xwl no injury in the descent, of his plane to sea. SEADROMES ARE T0 SPAN OCEAN; | T0 MAKE TESTS inouncement Is; Made in Rurtherance of Ocean Air Travel. | PHILADBLPHIA, Philadephia Public Ledger says an nouncement is made by Bdward R.| Armstrong, of Wilmington, Dela- ware, that work will be started| within 60 days on a test of a sea- drome or landing field to bhe an- chored in the ,gtlamtic Ocean station for- trans-Atlantic Mr. Armstrong is an the Du Pont Powder Company inventor of the device and is quoted as having said small models workable and ler way for the forms wns-Atlantic flying o tion. He intimated the organization might be headed by Capt. Charles A Lindbergh. The Ledger May 24 The and | have plans| are the T says the test sea-| drome is about 150 feet square and will have a draft of 52 feet. The| upper deck will be 68 feet above sea level. It will be anchored in the| deepest water hole along the North | Atlantic ship lane. It is said the| water at the spot is three mi deep. The spot was chosen to giv the seadrome the hardest test possible. 1 After have been tainced and corrected, eight ful seadromes, 1200 feet long will be buiit at cost of $1,500,000 and an- chored at 400-mile intervals across the Atlantic Mr. Armstrong is quoted as say- ing airplanes will leave every half hour for Europe within five years. BROADCASTERS ARE GIVEN NEW WAVE LENGTHS May 24.—Recast broadcasting web defects WASHINGTON, ing of the radio into effect on June 1, is announced today with reassignments of wave lengths and power. The recasting affects 600 transmitting sta- tions which are requested to go on new wave lengths at 3 p'clock tomorrow morning. The list of new assignments ir-| clude KFOA, ., 447 5-1 meter: KFR, Seattle KGBU, Ke: chikan, 228 9-10 meters; KFIU, Ju neau, 225 4-10 meters and KFOD, Anchorage, 316 6-10 meters, will put E. GUTHRIGE GOING WEST Walter Guthrige, operator in charge of the cable office at Coi- dova, Is a passenger for his station after being outside on a three months’ furlough Forest Money to Aid Districts, W here Collected WASHINGTON, May 24— | Counties in which the National Forests are located will receive more money for road building | and school development this | year from the Government which returns annually 20 per cent of the collections in lieu legendary Gaul who struck terror to the legions of Julius Caesar. Contestants must have blond mus- ucllel, of taxes. The Alaska District collected $69,288. all ———— Cay daring Paris, Note t R e e ] Charl aviator taken alone his boy i 'l as A his in Lindbergh nonstop His one-seater xl]?[)l‘fl“l“((‘ is rated as flight from alrplane, one of the most New York to will indicate. ‘Ihe had recently operated upon In Henry railroad of his famous uncle, who was among the first of railroad tington, the country’s a pioneer tinental marked men was while his nephew, in the railroad business, of the country’s most directors Huntington reached success of him private car across the American con tinent from the cific over Henry Edwards Huntington it might have been said made the same journey over railroads of which he was a director, railroad roader, Philanthropist, Dies Far from Home. Huntingt been many Edwa wor in rail was th primar in that on respects rds ld N road contrast Collis at ily PHILADELPHIA, railrog Jand philanthropist of California, yesterday in a hospital here since May May thel . E. HUNTINGTON PASSES AWAY IN PHIL. HOSPITAL {Wellknown Ca]lforrlla|1. Rail- | 24.—Henry Executive c Huntingten was big the a sim idea traffic hetwee P railre ilar of He ol in to Collis P mer transcor The n the died in w i was of the that Hur r nd mos? two Huntington vad bu ilder whom he started hecame one When railroading his Atlantic own that could it ride Has Fine Library Having acquired fortune and about the fame that was possible out to the railroads. (Continued on Page Two.) successful of Collis the peak of his was said his Pa of he could have of railroads, Henry Edwards Hunting- | of | ever M'CREA LEVEE BREAKS TODAY Last Dry Spot ok “Sugar Bowl” Is Threatmned with Inundation. NEW ORLEANS, May 24 The dry spot in the famous Louisiana Sugar Bowl”\is threatened with in undation today through a break io the levee at McCrea on the west bank of the Atchafalya. Two thousand men augumented by an additional thousand this morn ing saw their work go out for naught when the waters rushed through parts of the levee, Fifteen hundred persons evacuated the parishes Officials estimated that (he Crea levee break will effect poople and flooding 1,142,000 rich cane lands vl sotie Suicide of have Me- 80,000 acr IStudents Blamed | On Exams 24.--A wage of stu dent suicides during the apring high school and university examinations has precipitated a controversy be tween parents and educators in re- gard to abolition of written semes ter tests More than 20 students, principally hoys, are known to have killed them- gelves in Berlin alone in the las: month. The Ministry of Education blames lnnl-nh for a majority of the deaths use it believes children are too severely disciplined at home fo failure to make the grade. Parents and some educators contend, how- that examinations are the root of the evil - e KILLED IN CRASH CRLIN, May SANTA M(l\ll \ Cal,, May 24 Two men are reported to have been killed this afternoon in an airplane crash at Clover Field, CONGRESSIONAL 'MEDAL MAY BE: FOR LINDBERGH [Minnesota Senator Wants Congressional Honor for Ocean Conqueror. WASHINGTON, May 24—A naval destroyer has been placed at the command - Capt. Lind- bergh for his return to the United States. Makes Speech PARIS, May 24.—Capt. Lindbergh made his second Paris speech at the American Club luncheon in his hon- or today and it was even a greater success than the first although h> stuck to the same simple style. Af- ter holding his listeners spell-bound with his story for ten minutes, he said “I' hope long,” and applause. I have not kept you too sat down amid terrific Bryd's Tests Delayed NEW YORK, May 24.—A wet fog- y flying field prevented resumption of load tests with Bryd’'s monoplane. The craft was not removed from shelter because of continued ad- verse weather conditions. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 24— A bil will be introduced at the next session of Congress by Senator Thomas D. Schall to award Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh with a Con- pr?-nlonnl Medal of Honor, it is said today. Wants to See Mother PARIS, May 24.--Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh is not sighing for more oceans to conquer. When asked if it was true he intended to try and hop the Pacific, he said there was no foundation for the rumor. He said it would be several months be- fore he thinks of anything like that Cupt. Lindbergh said he wants to see his mother first, when he re- turus to America with the Spirit of St. Louis. PASTOR SUED FOR $30,000 Minister of Church Where President and Wife Are Altendnnts. Sued. | WASHINGTON, - Rev. Dr. Jason Noble Plerce, wide- Iy known as pastor of the First Congregational Church, which is at- tended by President and Mrs. Cool- idge, has become the defendant in a $50,000 libel suit growing out of letters ritten to, the Shipping Board about Howard T. Cole, an engineer of the Board. Mr. Cole's attorneys have filed a complaint with the District of Co- lumbia Supreme Court, attaching to it copies of two letters they said Dr. Pierce had sent to Brig. Gen. A. C. Dalton, in charge of the Board’'s ship operations, demanding that Mr. Cole be dismissed and containing charges reflecting on, Mr. Cole’s pri- vate life. One of the letters spoke of inves- tigations by deacons of the First Congregational Church, but a later one charged that portions of the charges be striken out as ‘“circum- stantial and not clearly proven.” Mr. Cole’'s complaint sald he had always been a “law-ablding upright and moral man,” and that the sole purpose of the pastor was to bring him into “scandal and disgrace, to humiliate, mortity and embarrass him, and to drive him from the city of Washington and to cause him to lose his position."” May 24 The FRENCH HOUSEKEEPERS SEEK EIGHT HOUR DAY PARIS, May 24.—The eight hour day for the French housewife and & model home in which to work are on the program of a new, moderr group in France The first Congress of Hygiene and Home Comfort, held recently, studied the many improvements already fa- miliar to American women. As there has been only a small start in electrifying and systema- tizing the French home, the prob- lem was tackled from the begin- ning. Architects, abreast of the times, discussed the arrangoment of rooms, provision for electric power plugs, the advantages and economv of gas heating installations and good kitchens and plumbing. Contests in washing, ironing and other housekeeping tasks wera con- ducted for young French girls. At the same time trips were made to a_ household show mearby, where ap- pliances from several countries werns demonstrated,