The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 26, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” r—— VOL. XXX, NO. 4490. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 26, Seatlle $25000 PURSE . NON-STOP TRIP / SEATTLE-TOKYO Pledges Are Already Secured —Planes May Take ¥ Fuel While in Air. 26. The Scattle Committee National Aern- SEATTLE, May Chamber of Comme and members of the nautic Association are discussing rules governing the proposed non- stop flight from Seattle to Tokyo. Pledges have already been made towards a $25,000 purs The committee is considering the| proposal to permit the planes to add| fuel in the air within 45 miles of thc| take-off. This is thought necessar: because of the difficulty of the plane | taking off with sufficient gasoline for the 4,100 mile flight. ! LINER RAMMED . MAIDEN VOYAGE New $7,000,000 Steamship in Sinking Condition with Many Aboard. l NEW YORK, May 26.—A message | from the Matson liner Malolo to/| Gibbs its designers, this | afternoon, ed that the new $7,000,000 vessel which a freighter rammed last night, is still afloat with a large crew and 145 passengers aboard. Clearing weather enabled an attempt to get a line from the liner to the steamer Gulfland. The at.| tempt failed when the Malolo's wire | hawser parted. Tugs and steamers are standing| by the craft which was rammed on| on tho trial voyage. Motor Boat Taxis ' | | | | | | i | R aising Purse, Find of Stolen Loot Starts Gold Rush CHICAGO, May in progress in the village shaumburg mear a spot where a arm boy found sheets of gold iden-| tified part of the $50,000 loot| taken by robbers several weeks ago| from e giinols Watch case com- Hollywood Millionaire Offers A large number $30,000 for Flight to Tokyo, Japan. " OFFERED TOFLY ACROSS PACIFIC 26 A gold rush is of | | population and uriosity | from other places turned help the insurance comuany sentatives prospect the creek Roy Nebel yesterday first saw gleam of the metal seekers | out tol repre-! where HOLLYWOOD, Cal, May 26—/ the Sir Grauman, millionaire Hollywood theatre owner, announced he has arranged to post a $30,000 pr {for a successful airplane flight from | Los Angeles to Toyko. | Although the money will be post- ed immediately with the Los An- geles Chamber of Commerce, Grau- [ will not be opened for six weeks| PASSES AWAYJ.;[ order that Lindbergh might have| | time to enter the 5,000 mile contest, R { r. Francis E. Clark Dies in Massachusetts Town— Ill Three Weeks. LINDBERGH'S PLANS PARIS, May The Paris edi- tion of the Chicago Tribune Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh has vir- tually decided to make an air tour| of Europe. He stated he will visit| Copenhagen, Berlin, Vienua, Rome| and possibly Madrid in addition to| Brussels and London LINDBERGH ON PARADE PARIS, May 26.—Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh was paraded before the eyes of the populace of Paris| i 3 today and cheered as no man has been cheered in this city since Woodrow Wilson made his !riumphul‘ entry in 1919 | It was the first opportunity the! citizens had to see the aviator who made the nonstop flight from New | York to Paris alone. In Honor Guest PARIS, May 26.—Capt. Lindbergh wag the honored guest tonight of Marshals Foch and Joffre. Foch said. “Your effort was a great one be- cause it shows what a young man' can do when well prepared for the| yattempt and has the courage to see it | through." | —aee—— NEW FORD CAR On German Waters! { BERLIN, May 26.—River and lake! taxis are the latest innovation to be! introduced on the extensive water-! ways surrounding Berlin | With the approval of the author- ities and pending the official safety, test requisite for procuring a state license, a firm’ of motor boat bufld-| ers is constructing a large number of motor boat cabs for pleasure seek ing Berliners. The aquatic taxis will guished from other motor the same black and white ¢ borders marking the taxi of Be iin and many other German cities, and by the conspicuous taximeter at| the driver's right hand. They willl seat from three to four persons com | fortably, though larger boats accom-| modating six and seven persons are| also to be given a trial. 1 be distin-| craft by ! eckered | i London’s Soot 'Gives Black Eye to Statue’ LONDON, May 26.—London’s smok ! and_dust sometimes have a comic| offect upon its statues. Over the entrance of Old Bailey,| the central criminal police-court, are| three beautiful female figures. One, whose position exposes hor to thai washing of the rain, is normal: aj second, whose face is protected from ! that cleansing, has the appearance or, a negro with Grecian features, whil: the third has a black eye. A fine classic head which adorns! the great entrance archway to Wa-| terloo railway station, gathers—in be-! tween perlodical brushings—dust ou! head, lip and cheek in such a way ! as to transform it into a fierce look- ! ing mustached motorist, with cap and goggles complete. JUDGE WOULD STOP HASTY MARRIAGES LONDON, May 26.—The jazz age has jazzed up hasty marriages t> an alarming degree, in the eyes of Judge C. A. Cairns, a Thames po- lice court magistrate, who is eager to establish in England an advisory bureau for engaged couples. Pre-marriage bureaus where sug- gestions and advice are handed out have bern operated with success in Germany, and Judge Cairns has something of that kind in mind for this country. In response to an application for # separation order from her hus- for you in a few moments,” NOW PLANNED But Details Withheld for Several Weeks. DRETROT, Mich.,, May 26.-—The When Rev. Dr. Francis E. Clark | Ford Motor Company announces the was a young minister in charge of |early production of a new Ford, but the Williston Congregational Church [ withheld details of the new model| at Portland, Me., he called a meet-funtil a iater date. Assembly of the ing of the young people of his con-|present T model will be discon- gregation to organize them into aftinued but production of parts will| society which would provide “the|continue. A complete description of | opportunity for self-expression by |the new model will be made within means of words and service forithe next few weeks. Christ and church.” A statement by Henry and Edsel The meeting held February 2./ Ford said: “With the new Ford, we 1881, was attended by 40 young mon|propose to continua in the light car and women. After they had signed field which we created, on the same the pledge presented to them, Dr.!basis of quality and production we Clark called the new organization ihe have always worked, giving high Christian Endeavor Society, thereby|quality, low price and constant inaugurating what h proved oneservice. of the most successful religious!| movements among young people in| church history. Scheme Immediate Success It was an immediate succe The plan. and name of the socie were | accepted by other churches so rapid-' ly that in three years it had spread over the United States and Canada; and had reached China. Meanwhile, | Dr. Clark had been called to South- Boston as pastor of the Phillips Con- gregational Church, but the demands for his presence at Christian Endea- vor conventions and conferences be-( J. A. Davis, who is employed by came so0 numerous that he was ob|the Juneau Lumber Mill, reported liged to resign his pastorate. From|that the saw mill and adjacent prop- then on he devoted virtually his en-{erty is being cleaned up by em- tire life to the Christian Endeavor [ployees of the mill, not only ‘as part Society, serving it without salary.'of the city ICIean-unh Campaign, but St intae P “Two) |as a protection to the property. All fasiiae o iPage TR0 fire hazards in the neighborhood wil be removed, and the section thorough- {1y cleaned up. The work would have been ‘begun earlier if the necessary men had been available. el — NEW TRIAL FOR GAINES IGCATED PRETS (mbe woes) F.E CLARK. WTON 5., May 26, Dr, Francis BE. Clark, founder and Presi- dent of the World Christian Endeavor Society, died here v. He had been ill during t t three weeks and of coma yes terday from which he did not rally. Local Advices | H. I Lucas, of the Juneau Motors | Company, received a night letter this morning from Edsel Ford an-| nouncing the new Ford but giving| no further particulars than con- tained in the above Associated Press dispatch received by The Empire. — e, SAW MILL EMPLOYEES START CLEANING UP! OLYMPIA, Wash., May 26.—De- band the Judge growled: “I wish|fenge attorneys todiy opened argu- you women would come to me be-'ments before the Supreme Court for fore you get married instead of af-|a now trial for Wallace C. (Bob) terwards.” Galnes,, convicted several months ago To another woman, barely 20, wholin Seattle of the murder of his complained that her husband would daughter Sylvia Gaines. In ! Guglielmi Marconi, who was started on his career as a mas- ter inventer by a love affair, has a new one, reports from Rome say. He’s reported about to wed Countess Maria Christina' Bezzi Scali (left), now that he’s obtained the Rota’s annulment to his marriage to the Hon. Beatrice O'Brien (right). By NICHOLAS GOLPIN. .. International Illustrated News Staff Corres; R OME (I-I-N)—The expected marriage of Guglielmo Mar- coni, inventor of wireless telegraphy, and the beautiful) Countess Maria Christina Bezzi Scali recalls to mind R stories of how passion has always stirred the already warm blood of the son of an Irish mother and an Italian father. For it was the call of love that started Marconi on a course through uncharted science and led to his great discoveries. ‘When only 19, says one story which Marconi has never de-, nied, he fell desperately in love. The girl’s parents refused to permit him to see her. He attempted to smuggle notes to her and, this failing, tried to communi- cate to ker by wigwagging with a handkerchief. Increased vigilance on the part of the girl's parents and stormy days interrupted the plan of communica- tion. Marconi burned with a desire tu talk o the girl “There must be some method of communication fot dependent on ‘weather, sun, f0g," he declared, and turned to look for one. He may have forgotten the girl as he became engrossed in the game of defying elements and parents. It was not until elght years later-in 1901—that he startled the world *vith the announcement that he had re- celved wircless signais across ‘he Atlantic, from Poldbhu, England, to BSt. John's, Newfoundland. Since that day his invention .as speeded commerce many iold, it has saved hundreds of lives, and it has ranked its creator as one of the greatest in history. His research work has never ceased, and he I still working on his projected “beam system of wireless, by means of which messiges may be sent in a straight line instead of being broad- cast as at present. ‘ Nor has his heart grown cold. In 1906 he married the Honorable Beatrice O'Brien. They were happy for a while, but in 1924 his wife di- vorced him and married Marquis Liborio Marignolo. Marcon! waited two years, and then asked the Rota Tribunal in Rome to free him from the church bonds that prevented his marrying again. He offered evi. dence that his wife and he had signed an agreement to permit .. .h other to sue for divorce in case of a disagreement and the court decided that this, being contrary to the church law, nullified the marriags in the eyes of the church. Marcon! is much older than the . woman gossip says he will marry. He was born in 1874, while she is still in her twenties. The Bezzi Scali family belongs to that section of Roman soclety known as the “Black Aristocracy,” which still gives allegiance to the Pope. The romance is said to have begunm last Swmmer at Viareggia { | Lady Astor’s Opponent Is Trade Union Clerk PLYMOUTH, Eng Astor, the Americal an member of the Commons, will be opposed by a cierk at the next General Election, Henry Samways, a Torquay trade unionist, has been adopted prospective Liberal candidate for the Sutton Di-| vision of Plymouth, which Lady As-| tor now represents. May 26.—Lady born first wom English House of not work and that she -was living, ———eo against her will, with her parents-| CAMP FIRE GIRLS in-law, Judge Cairns remarked: WORK ON GARDEN PLOT “You women—you young wom particularly—go and make a mess| Work on the lot on Third Street, of your marriage by picking ths|which was entered in the Clean-up wrong man at a dance or some' oth-|contest by the Camp Fire Girls, was er place, and then you come here(begun last night. The girls made and expect me to clear it all up several garden plots in which they will plant colorful flowers, Listen! War in China Is Aflm Resuming PEKING, May 26.—Yang Yu Ting, Chiet of Staff for Marshal Chang Tso Lin, Manchurian War Lord, an- nounced a strong drive is being launched against Hankow along the Peking and Hankpw railway. Silk Hats Always Stop London Traffic LONDON, M the best insuran over by a traffic jam. Bus and taxi drivers generally re- gard the stovepipe hat as the signia of a noble lord, and no self- re: ing driver could dream of running down such a superior per- son As a matter of fact high hats aie now worn more by bank clerks ar messengers than by members of the nobility. But the tradition still per- sists that the morning coat and plu hat are the uniform of quality. In the swirl at Piceadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square traffic cops always halt traffic for members of the high hat brigade, and in less congested centers, where there is no official control, the drivers them- selves halt for the silk hat, 26.—Silk hats are ¢ against being ruu motorcar in the London Elight Across ] ANUT“ER PR'ZE Romance, Infention Entwine Harconi’s Rise to Fame {Laborites Against Severance MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Acting Sl'('r('mr)' Of Commerce Suddenly Res WASHINGTON Stephen B. Davi tary of Commerce of Secretary of er, who is the sentative of the the Mississippi Flood area, has resigned, effective June 1. Prosi dent Coolidge has accepted Davis' resignation gns May 26 Acting Secre in the absence Commerce Hooy personal repro- government in | I | | | 1 LABOR PARTY IS RESENTING | SOVIET ISSUE of Relations Without Proper Trial. | | \ | | | government | members of LONDON, May Austen Chamberlain, British eign Minis- ter, told the House of Commons that tho government is not prepared to accept the motion of J. R. Clyne, Laborite, that inquiry be held into the government's charges of Soviet MEAGRE ADVICES "RECEIVED ABOUT ITALAN FLIER {One | ReporlA Is that He Is | Missing—Others that He | Is on Two Steamers. LONDON, ing made mander Only ceived ported —Search is be- for Com- Italian fifer. reports are re- The Italian flier was re- to have reached Fayal or Flores hut meagre dispatches indi- cated nothing definitely is known n the Azores about his whereabouts other than the report a schooner was sighted towing a plane gener- ally sumed to be that of De Pinedo. r the A De Pinedo, circumstantial IS ABOARD WARSHIP LISBON, May 26. A wireless sage from an Italian steamship afternoon said the Portuguese warship Enfante de Sacres is taking De Pinedo and his damaged plane to Horta IS ABOARD STEAMER ROME, May 26.—A dispatch from Horta this afternoon said De Pin- edo is aboard the steamer Superga. m this propaganda in Great Britain which resulted in the decision to sever diplom: and trade relations with the Soviet Government of Russia. Clyne's resolution said that the Soviet government “must not be con- ! demned without trial.” Clyne faced a packed floor and galleries when he arose amid Labor cheers to e the motion. Ha said |the governthent had reversed its for- mer position that British trade and future peace in Burope would be in- jurod by severance of Russian rela- tions. He stated that he understood the government's position is that Russia is “in the dock and ,we ac cept that position but we demand that in this matter she not be con- demned without trial. We gefuse to admit either her guilt or in@wcence.” SOVIET ACTIVITIES LONDON, May The British today made good the promise to publish some of the doc ments uncovered in the recent raid on the Soviet Trade delegation’s head quarters, The government has issued a “White Paper” containing documents, and illustrated under the captions of “Hostile activities of the Soviet Government and Third Internationale against Great Britain.” he most interesting of the con tents is the list of addresscs found in possession of Anton Miller, Soviet cipher clerk. The list is assumed to be the same which Premier Baldwin described as a “list of secret cover addresses or illegal addresses for communication with Communist par ties in the United States, South Am erica, Canada, land and South - 175 St. Louis Citizens Are Comipg to Alaska LOUIS, M 8T tions 26.—Accommoda have been arranged for 175 the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, who will leave here July 28 for a three weeks' tour of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska It will be the first time a similar delegation has visited the far north- ern territory of the United States The Alaskan tour, according to F. W. A. Vesper, chairman of a speciai committes in charge of arrangements, will cover 7,315 miles. The itinerary includes St Paul, the Canadian Rockies, Banff and Lake Loui > JOE BAXTER IN HOSPITAL Joe Baxter is in the St. Ann's Hospital with an attack of acute in fluenza. Baxter was suddenly taken ill this morning at his residence at Salmon Creek and taken to the hos- pital. He is expected to be out with- in a few days. ) SEATTLE FUR AUCTION SALE HAS STARTED Second Sale Being Held To- day — Mink and Cross Fox Show Decline. ATTLE, May 26—Mink and cross fox showed a decline while other pelts were in demand at the opening of the BSeattle Fne Bx- change monthly auction Prices announced are as follows: Red fox averaged $2¢.75, the best lots going for $46. White fov averaged the top price was $61. Muskrats sold rapidly and aged $2.10 Cross fox showed a 5 per cent decline. The average was $25.70. Mink averaged $14.21, the best lot of interior Alaskans bringing $25.00. Silver fox went rapidly at $104.75 on an average, the best skin bring- ing $120 Lynx was in deniand. Beaver, blue fox, crmine, sable, marten, otter and wolf with other miscellaneous items will be offered at the auction today. Is Left $30,000 Legacy; Remains In Workhouse CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 26.— George Schmidt, aged 60, voluntary prisoner at the Warrensville Work- house near here, said he would re- ject a legacy of $30,000 because it would force him to leave his happy home at the workhouse. Schmidt completed a sentence for vagrancy last September but was permitted to remain at the work- house at his own request. Italy’s Soldiers Relieved Of Heavy Aruly Packs Now ROME, May Out-of-breath sol- diers will be unknown in the Italian Army henceforth. Announcement is made that the (talian Ministry of War has decided to abolish the pack carried by in- fantrymen, the change being made in the interests of mobility. The Ita- lian soldier of the future will carry only a rifle, sidearms, and the n:c- essary equipment. The change does not apply to ar- tillerymen and Alpine troops. $38.25 and aver- FRENCH WILL RAISE REINDEER FOR FOOD PARIS, May 26.—France is about to take a leaf from Alaska's book an.l‘ raise reindeer for food. | The first herd has already been shipped to Monnetier-Saleve, in the‘ Department of Savoie, and others will be experimented with in neighboring Alpine districts. The steadily rising cost of beef and mutton, caused by the domestic shortage and the increasing necessity of importing from abroad, induced the experiment. It is pointed out that reindeer can be grow on land that is otherwise more or less unproduc- tive and that the cost of raising is no more than for ordinary live stock. Hotel propriators in the Alps plan to use the growing reindeer to amuse their guests in sleighriding and “ski- joring,” a form of winter sport that has grown greatly in favor receatly.