The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 25, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ——— VOL. XXX., NO. 4489. $35, OOO OFFERED EORPAGlFlu MORE HONOR T0 BE GIVEN CAPT. CHAS. LINDBERGH Medal of Valor of New York State to Be Awarded to Ocean F lier. NEW YORK, M E. Smith has ul\lwtl Guard Headquarters authorized the award for Valor of New Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh. In the history of the state, decoration has been bestowed but times, heretofore Gov. Smith has gratulations to the Gov. the that Alfr Nation: he has of the Medal York State to 1 this 11 cabled flier. his \ MONEY FOR LINDBERGH NEW YORK, May Prospects are that Capt. Lindbergh will make a million dollars or more if he con fines his future activ to aviation is the opinion of Hen Woodhouse, President of the Aerial League of America, Woodhouse said his belief is shar ed by a number of other men prom inent in aviation and who have fol- lowed the career of famous aviators of the past. Ovatlon tor Lindbergh PARIS, May 25.—Capt. Charles Lindbergh was introduced to Chamber of Deputies today and ceived a tremendous ovation. Capt. Lindbergh, in a speech saic “When Benjamin Franklin came I years ago, somebody asked what good is a trial balloon? reply was, what good is a new baby? “When Bleriot crossed the Channel in 1909, people asked what good did it do to cross the channel? “In the same way people are asking what good has it to cross the Atlantic? “I hope it will produce the great est good, not only for the great spirit of friendship between the two countries but also for future actual regular communications across the Atlantic by air.” 3. S. ALEUTIAN BE READY FOR ALASKA JUNE 4 SEATTLE, May —Alterations to the passenger liner Aleutian which the Alaska Steamship Com- pany recently purchased from the Panama Railroad Company, is rap- idly nearing completion and the; Ve 1 will enter the Alaskan serv- ice leaving here for the north]| June 4. The Aleutian is being virtually rebuilt while lying at her berth will be almost in every detail a ter ship to the Yukon The Aleutian will replace Northwestern on the Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska route, which goes on the Southeastern Al-| aska run. The Aleutian will oper- ate to Southwestern Alaska in con- junction with the Alaska Yukon, The Northwestern and will operate on the Southeastern Alaska run. The Lakina will be -opcrated on the Southeastern Alaska route calling at cannery points. A the re today done ———o——— NORTHWESTERN DUE Steamer Northwestern, ‘westward, noon at 4 o'clock. from ths con- him | His | born ! nd | the and Alameda ! is due in port this after-| “AL JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDPNESDAY, MAY 25, 1927. Facing charges in connection with the same alleged erime hers: actress, told her version on the death of her husband, Ray Raym trial of Paul Kelly. Pictures show her on the smml in a Los (International Newsreel) PAUL KELLY IS CONVICTED ON MURDER CHARGE l || Salvation Army Thermometer Rvyismr' $4 50 The mercury in the Salva- tion Army thermometer is still rising. Today it registers §750 which is o the amount required. The prospects and every indic | | objective will be %0 B3 » favorable, tion that the reached. FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER OF SCREEN COWBOY | H LOS 25 [ Mrs ANG Cal, May | Sarah Kerrick and four other {have been found guilty of man-| Islaughters for the killing of Tom Ker {rick, film cowboy, at a drinking| |party in Hollywood last April Those convicted, besides the widow | the slain actor, are Anita Davis,| Burns, Henry Isabell and Joe| !Hunt, a small part of the moyia | |players who werc members of thel mumml.w- party which the police]| | characterized one of the wildes| tever come to their atiention | The penalty under the law is from one to 10 years imprisonment ‘ — {Indian Still Fishes But Squaw Casts Nets APOLIS, industry of the still constitutes mea of livelihood for |aborigines of Minnesota. Almost every month in the year| finds them along the ecreeks, em-| |ploying members of their families, headed by the indispensable squaw to raise and lower ne and to seine under state supervision for rough fish. | { lot [ Tris Paul Kelly, 7~ | ! LOS ANGELES, Ma Paul | | Kelly has been convicted of man islaughter for killing Ray Raymond, | husband of Dorothy MacKave, Kel {1y’s reputed paramour { Fiching,| * The conviction carries American | of from one to 10 years principal Counsel announced the 12,000 will be asked Kelly took tie little moved but face. | | The jury was out almost 24 hours| before reaching a verdict which w veturned this forenoon. [ e \ FOLTA AND DALY | BAG FIVE BEARS‘ Albert \‘.ln'P. lnl(ul States M.Ill shal, returned yesterday afternoon the gasboat Helmar, from Skagw: \ MIN | primiti Indian, May 25 a penalty a a new trial| outwardl blanch verdiet with 1 One of the biggest fishing projects| |in the state is a packing plant sup- |plied entirely by the red man. It iz on Red Lake, in northern Minnesofa, | and it packs annually thousangds of | choice fish caught by the Indians and shipped to all parts of the country Home Brewing Is No Crime; U. S. Cour KANSAS CITY, May 25.—Manu- facture of liquor strictly for home consumption does not constitute a felony and cannot be used as grounds for disbarment of an attorney, the Enited States Circuit Court of Ap- peals has ruled in effect in a decision here. In vacating a temporary disbar- ment order against Frank W. Bartos. a Nebraska attorney, the court point- ed out that the national prohibition law recognizes some moral distinction between the possession of for use in the home and the manv- facture of alcoholic beverages for sale, Mr. Bartos appealed from a three- year disharment - order returned in the Nebraska Federal District Court, after he admitted making 700 quarts of home brew for personal use. Ho appealed from the Nebraska decisioa holding his act constituted moral turpitude and was a violation of his oath. He did not appeal from the convietion. Judge Bobert Lewis of Denve: wrote the gurred in by Judges « liquor ecision which was con- William 8. where he went to inspect the Federa: building, which is in need of v | pair, Skagway people expect a laree: crowd on the excursion (rip next| t Cl 4 {Friday and are prepared to accom-| modate many people, according o ears Attorney uy, i The was held up for ' 24| hours in Lynn Canal because of bad weather, on,the return trip, which caused the delay in reaching Junean With five bears to show for the two and a half days hunting, Justin| W. Harding, United States District Atorney; George A. Folta, United States Court Stenographer; and Mil ton H. Daly, part owner of the Ket chikan Sporuce Mills, who "had been| let off at William Henry Bay, Sat- urday afternoon, were picked up on the return trip yesterday morning Mr. Daly, got three of the bears, and Mr. Folta two, all of which were medium sized black bears with good hides. Good weather was experienced by the hunters, said Mr. Folta. Mr. Harding was the official photo-| grapher of the trip and secured some exceptionally good pictures, it is said. | 1Kenyon ol Towa and Jacob Trieber of Kansas. f was polnted out by’ court ab taches that the Circuit Court deci- sion merely set aside the Nebraska disbarment decree, and did not ac- tually pass on the manufacture and possession of liquor by Mr. Bartos. WASHINGTON, May| 25.—Prohibi- tion ofticials showed [ittle concern over the decision in the case of Frank W. Bartos, the Treasury as- serting it had been a settled policy to interfere as little as possible with activifies of persons in their own homes. | Assistant Secretary ‘Andrews has issued instructions to prohibition acd- ministrators to be on their guard against over zealousness in this res- pect. Offenses such as that charged against Mr. Bartos have mnot been looked upon as involving moral turpi- tude. The policy of Mr. Andrews has been one of concentrating on the large sources of liquor supply rather than upon persons who might manu facture home brew for their own use. Mstef e il JONLY SLIGHT DECLINE IN FRENCH BIRTHRATE PARIS, May 25.-—The legend of| France's declining birth rate is be-| lied by the preliminary vital sta- tistics for 1926, now available. The number of births in 1926 was 766,266, or 18.8 per 1,000, against 790.- 3566 or 19.1 per 1,000 in 1913, {following | B L. THE NEWS ALL THE elf, Dorothy Mackaye, film nond, actor, at the murder Angeles court. The State charges that Kelly, enamored of Miss Mackaye, beat her husband to death. Crop Planting Is Started in Miss. Valley: WASHIN( l‘l)\l‘, May The Department $#tAgriculture reports crop planting is in progress in the most of the once flooded area of the Mis- sissippi Valley with the excep- tion of Louisiana R — INEW HOPE FOR TWO MISSING FRENCH FLIERS ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, May 25.—The Danish schooner Albert arriving at Belleogram reports an airplane was sighted 80 miles off Cape Pine on May 9, the day the French fliers Nungesser and Coli were ve- ported sighted near Harbor Grace. The Government is in- vestigating the report. ot BN il TWO STEAMERS ON WAY SBATTLE, M Alameda sailed night for Sou with 143 pa for Bamford, 3 Falconson, J Rowe, W Mrs. J. Sanderson and daughter Bud Weslik and one steerage Steamer Admiral Evans sailed at 10 o’'clock this morning for Alaskan {ports with 59 passengers, the fol- lowing for Juneau: H. L cDonald, H. G. Walmsley, Charles Costa, Mrs. Hladys Smith, Frank Winsor | wife, Mrs. P. Brown and Mrs. Morrison o s |Ballaine Is Still NORTH Steamer o'clock ‘last | Alaska ports including the . 8. Smyth . B M. Edd at tern E Harpmg_ on Railroad | 25.—The Alaska Railroad can be placed on a profitable and highly useful basis whenever responsible officials choosc to initiate policies that will ma'e it 80,” John E. Ballaine, founder of Seward and now of Seattle, declared. Ballaine is here enroute to Fairbanks with I. Bridgewater, wealth lumber- man. Ballaine of the Matanuska is important if prosper. asserted the development naval coal reserve the railroad is to e it Prospector Liv 51 Days on Snakes, Lizards SANTA BARBARA, Cal, May 25— A strange tale of suffering and hardship was told by J. W. Safe- right, oil prospector who for 51 days said he lived on snakes and lizards. He was found last Friday by cowboys when he had given up|tracking through the woods hope of surviving. Saferight found within 300 yards of the paved highway and an automobile station, He has been taken to the hospital. Doctors said he wiil recover, “land ud | TIME” ‘Board of Church Directors Ask Change Made in Present Prohibition Laws in the U. S The Eight-| It wide appeal the true in behalf Directors | moderate Society | place the im chureh. {laws now in fore The Board is ms up of and rectors of churches in New York City NEW YORK, May 25 was | eenth amendment has blemished the Constitution and the Velstead A- ‘u « resulted in an increase in drunke ness This | sotution | meeting announced campaign ha to the Episcopal tempe rand .n' ux makers nments | adoption of measures to 1 and harmful is the declaration in unanimously passed of the Board of {of the Church Temperance lof the Protestant Episcopal | The resolution classed temperance las educational rather than a legisla itive problem a ‘re at the 4 10 vicars | and near OPERA STARDOM FOR U.S. GIRLS 1 for stellar roles at next season, They 1 Mildeed liree more Americin sin the Metropolitan (v,..n. Ilnw-» oov (left tori M Parisette, Phi CAPT. WILKINS BRITISH TAKING IS FORCED BACK DRASTIC ACTON BARROW FLIGHT TO SOVIET GOVT. Plane Unable to Reach Alti- tude Sufficient to Cross Brooks Mountains oy girl; Relations Are to Be Sev- ered by British. LONDON, May 25 The note [ containing the British Government's {final words to Russia is in course land, returned after the plane failod|{of drafting by the Cabinet and will to attain an titude of more than be handed to the Soviet 500 feet to cross Brooks Range. The|tative as soon as possible I plane would » had to reached an|House of Commons laltitude ot feet 1o the | Government's | mountains. | both diplomatic Capt. Wilkins with Moscow Nulato weather reportg, indicat ing he plans to fly to Nome or| A grace of 10 days will be al- Kotzebue, thence to Point Barrow |lowed in which the members of the b e Bt B ttanint: Soviet Trade Delegation and other 2 | Missions must pack their buggage FAIRBANKS, Capt. George Wilkins and 1\|)l'l\ ham, pilot, who hopped off for | Point Barrow enroute to Etah, Gre Alaska, May | after the approves the decision to sever and trade relations 500 cross is receiving Ruby | sASKATOON [Roald Amundsen Ifor the safety of |he attempts to fly row to Greenland be in great danger they leave without an ample supply of provisions,” said Amundsen. “Thers | Hy very little, almost no animal life | in the counfry to which they are going.” Sl e i TUG, WITH CREW OF FIVE, BELIEVED LOST; 25.—Hope for of five men ot/ which has bee -n‘ o'clock yesterday May feels Capt Capt “apprehension Wilkins 1f from Point Bar-| “The fliers will! of starvation if! Soviet Viewpoint M 5.~ M. Mikolar, Commissar of Trade, declared his De- partment would stop all trade opera- tions in Great Britain and “Premfer Baldwin will find himself mistaken if he thinks the functions of the Soviet Trade organizations will pass to British firms.” The MOSCOW, in the neai activities 1a reduced to said trade be Commissar future all Soviet ireat Britain will iquidating business. SEATTLE, Mz |safety of the crew the tug Warren, missing sine 2 morning, when sighted in the Straii of Juan de Fuca, was given up to.| day by the Independent Gravel Com-! pany, which chartered the craft. The | sco which the rug had in tow, has been picked up, adrift. It is be. lieved the Warren was run down and sunk during the night. dinarily a month of HERBERT KNUDSEN fow other claborate entertainment KILLS BROWN BEAR he m"h- n appropriated by the great nist jmpresario, Dame Nature, Herbert Knudsen,” 24, killed ala demonstration of her virtuosity. seven foot brown bear this morning| Her repertoire, as made public at 4 o'clock near the Alaska Dairy|through the American Nature As at Mendenhall. Mr. Knudsen wound-| sociation, includes, for that month, ed the bear, whose welght is esti-|the following spectacles: mated at 500 pounds, last night at 11 o'elock, but it got away and he| June 15—Total eclipse of the moon killed it after many hours of patient|visible in North and South America This! June 22— The sun will reaeh its Knudsen has| greatest distance north of the Equa killed, the other two being black)tor, thus inaugurating Summer with | and brown respectively., He works|the longest day of the year in the for the Alaska Dairy and has lived| Northern Hemisphere. in the neighborhood of Mendenhall| June 26— The small Pons-Winnecke River most of his life. WASHINGTON, May 25.—June, or- weddings by i | ! is the third bear Mr. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Both Diplomatic and Trade| represen | for | Comet will approach within 3,500,000 ' * PRICE TEN CENTS FLIGHT 2 LARGE PURSES ARE OFFERED TO PACIFIC FLIERS nstop Flight from Pacific Coast to Hawaii Looms for Aviators. LU, May The Star wspaper, in a copyright nnounces that James D ident of the Hawalian Company, has offered # 1,000 to the first aviator §10,000 to the second flier ta make nonstop flights from the Pa- cific Coast to Hawail during the 13 months stariing August 15 President Dole is quoted as being anxious to have Capt. Charles A. 'Lindbergh compete but if Lind- bergh does not desire to enter, tha offer may be made effective sooner, COLUMBIA MAY ENTER NEW YORK, May It is an nounced that the Bellanca mono plane Columbia in which Clarenc Chamberlin had hoped to be th first to reach France, may be en tered in the Pacific ta Honolulu flight NEW PLANE FOR LINDBERGH ST. LOUIS, May 25.—Major Al- bert Lambe one of the sponsors of the Lindbergh New York to Paris flight, announced that if Lindbergh (decides to enter the Honolulu flight, he will fly another plane identical to the Spirit of St. Louis and will be supported by the same backers of the famous trans-Atlantic flight. The plane Spirit of St. Louis will be kept in St. Louis for Lindbergh’s personal use 1d exhibition pur- poses. . | | ¥ ‘NO re- | HONOL | Bulletin, led Dole, | | Pineapp | purse ¢ |and BYRD MAY COMPETE NEW YORK, May 25.—Command- er Richard Byrd in the Fokker monoplane America, wiil likely be one of the entrants in the Honolulu race but the sponsors aré not sure whether the plane will compléte the New York to Paris flight first. PLANS INDEFINITE WASHINGTON, May 25.—Capt. Lindbergh's plans to return to the United States are ‘‘very indefinite” he informed President Dalton of the Merchant Fleet Corporation in a cablegram replying to an invita- tion (o return on the Leviathan: RLERIOT TO FLY PAR!S, May 26.—Louis Bleriot, who i the first birdman to cross sea-wter. greeted Capt. Lindbergh today with “Bravo, monsieur Lind- bergh, You've left little to be done but there is the Pacific to cross and I'm going to do it.” DE PINEDO IS SAFE IN FAYAL NEW YORK, May 25.—Uninjured despite his forced landing on mid- Atlantic during his 1,600-mile flight from Newfoundland to the Azores, Commander de Pinedo is safe with his ‘plane at Fayal, Azores, having heen owed in by a tug. Another Rumor HIORA, Island of Fayal, Arozes, May 25.--A rough sea has created unfavorable conditions for towing de Pinedo's seaplane which was last re liably reported 240 miles west of the island in tow of a schooner. Last ro- ports said the Portuguese gunboat Beira was still searching for thes schooner and tow. e PRINCE HALIBUT PRICES PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. May 2j. Halibut sale today totaled 395,000 pounds. American halibut sold for 6 and 14 cents and Canadian at 6 and 13 cents. ECLIPSE OF SUN BY MOON IS NATURFE’S BIG EVENT VARIED JUNE PROGRAM | miles of the earth, which is closer | than most comets ever come. June 29--Total eclipse of the sun, visible in England, Scandinavia, and, partially, in other sections of Europs, | Northern Africa and Alaska. | The grand climax of the program will give England its first view of ’4. total eclipse of the sun since 1724 and the performance will not be re- | peated there until 1999, Even so, the audience will have to be in its places. early, for the show will begin about 5:25 A. M., and will last less than a minute The professional reviewers, who are | commonly <called astronomers, plan | to take up their position in Norway | o 4B . (Continued on Page Three.)