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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ——— VOL. XXX., NO. 4499. AMERICAN FLIERS “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 192 ALL THE TIME” MEMBER OF gttt S— PRICE TEN CENTS ASSOCIATED PRESS REACH GERMANY AFTER NON-STOP FLIGHT FROM N. Y. SENATOR JONES SAYS COOLIDGE BE RENUMINATED; Declares that it Will Be with “Practical Unanimity™ Third Term Talk. WASHINGTON Stated Senator L. Jones, Republican of Washington, predicted that President Coolidge will be re nominated next year with “practical unanimity.” Senator Jones sald to suggest that a third term would “lead to monarchy and despotism is a baseless reflec tion upon the intelligence of the people,” declaring that the issue over the third term has never been clearly drawn and he added that the nearest the people ever came to passing upon the question was in regard to Roosevelt and they “pretty nearly indicated then they attached no importance to it.” PEACE PROPOSAL SOUGHT, CHINA l||lu- 6. United INTERNATIONAL PEACE IS PLEA OF ROTARIANS AT WORLD CONVENTION ! )STEND, Belgium, June 6 | national peace must 1 the de , the goal of Rotarians where during the coming year and in the futur Harry H. Rogers, of San Antonio, Teyas, President of the Rotary Internatfbnal, said today in his address before the eighteenth annual convention of Rotary Inter national, in session here. This objective, he said, attained best through the mainten of high standards of business ywhere, one of the principles to h Rotary is dedicated There is certainly universal in terest in high standards of business,” Rogers said. “Obviously Rotarians I pelieve that business can be per manently successful only when con ducted along right lines. If 8o, it must be conceded that a study the best standards in the business and professions of the world | profit all Inter- chief wvery could Seek Highest Standards “Let us see in what countries .and what lines of business the high est standards obtain, and set these asg the goal for Rotarians of every country engaged im every known business and profession, 1 sure that the standards in all coun in be | of | \\IH; feel quite | | | | | | » | f | MOTHER 'REFUSES CREDIT FOR LINDBERGH’S HOP . B ——— Mrs. ,E\'nn"vlmo L |ndhnr"l| steadfastly n.tuseq any pnrt ul thc credlt for the flight of he# CHAMBERLIN AND LEVINE LAND IN GERMANDISTRICT ‘chvd Descent is" Made on Account of Motor Troubles and Gasoline Shortage. |PLANE DROPS ON SWAMP [GROUND; IS DAMAGED \‘Aviators Lose Their Way to Berlin — New Record s, However, Established. KOTTBUS, Germany, June 6. —Motor trouble and a short- age of gasoline caused the de- scent of Clarence D. Chamber- lin and Charles A. Levine, in the Bellanca monoplane Colum- bia, at Klinge, where the air- plane is imbeded in mud where the fliers landed. They mot- ored here. Chamberlin said: “We were forced to come o R L \ i son, Charleg; from New York to Paris, yet honors are heaped upon her, Pictures show, top Part of the'growd gathering at her ])unult home; left, the house, and right, Mrs, Lmdbergh with flowd ‘{mcsynml her by the 3,500 pupils in the ln;,h school in which she teaches. With Mrs. Lindb 5 tries and in all lines of business are much higher than we have been led !to believe. Our task is, first to | ascertain the best, and secondly, to down because of a shortage in fuel, also motor trouble. While PEKING, June 6.—The Atkuochun the spot we picked out looked or Northern Alliance announced sweeping peace proposals seeking a combination of Marshal Chang Tso Lin, Northern Generalissimo: Gen Chicang Kai Shek, Generalissimo of the Nankin Nationalist, - and Gen Yen His Shan, Governor of Shensi Province, against the Radical Na- tionalist regime at Hankow. S i ] SPORT GRAFT NOW REVEALED CHICAGO, June etral, professional wrestler for 20 years, testified he was forced to put up a $5,000 bond and give a quit claim deed to his Chicago home as a guarantee he would not throw E “Strangler” Lewis in their two matches decided at Cleveland within the last year. Demetral's revelation was ade at the resumption of the Legislative in- quiry into the Illinois State Athletic Commission’s bhoxing situation in Chi- cago Demetral said he was a member of a ring in control of wrestling and that he was engaged in fake matches but finally broke with the ring after the second match with Lewis. Two El;;opean Nah;ls Break Off Relations BELGRADE, June 6 Slavia has broken diplomatic refa- tions with Albania, reported due to the failure of the Albanian Gov- ernment to release an attache of the Jugo-Slavia Legation recently arrested by Albanians Tirana 6.—William Dem Jugo- .- BRANT TO LEAVE The Fisheries boat tomorrow morning at for Seattle. will sail o'clock Brant 9:30 “Journey of Death” Passes: Y H Progress Detours Old Trail LAS CRUCES, N. M, June 6. America’s oldest trail—the Jornado del Muerto (Journey of Death), the highway of aboriginal man centur- ies before Europeans dreamed there was an American continent—soon is to pass into disuse. Within a few months, when the new highway up the Rio Grande val- ley from Las* Cruces to northern New Mexico is completed the Jor- nado del Muerto will be virtually abandoned as a road, for the first time on record. The trail, beginning near Old Fort Selden, stretches far to the “north as part of a great natural highway through this state. Cabesa de Vaca, a member of a Spanish expedition which was ship- wreeked on the coast of Texas about 1528 gnd who, in company with three others passed Trom tribe to tribe until they finally reached theif try to bring our membership as near ly as possible in its everyday livin to this best in business life | rthur 4 Sapp, of Ind., the United didate for Presidency of the ternational Rotary Huntington, States can- jue “Likewise, we feel there is an pver-growing interest in the relation ship of employer and employee. Any plan’ to improve and strengthen this and the imagination of our membership When business is on prosper and competitors | friendly.” Rogers pointed out particularly fitting that tion should be held in city reason entir right both be the can will that the the it Conven Parliament Is Dissolved, Cen- Belgian sorship Abolished, Elec- tions Ordered. Kumania, Urge World Peace “For some years,” he id have been stressing the xth Ob Ject of Rc y with its ultimate goal | international peace—what country has stood out more prominently than this, as an advocate of peace? What people are more devoted to its pur suits than this people?” Rogers cited the growth of the Rotary International, remarking that at Edinburgh, where the Convention was held six years ago, there we but seven countries representod, wi a total of 975 clubs. At that time there were but 35 clubs in the British Isles, and but two on the Continent of rope. Madrid, Spain, had membors, Paris, sixteen. Today, he said, there are 251 clubs in the Brit ish Isles, and clubs on the Con- tinent of Kurope, with 2500 Rotar- { iang ) i BUCHARES'1 Dissolution of Parliament, removal of censorship - and the holding of free elections are promised by Balu | Stirbey, who has completed an or- ganization of the Cabinet to succeed | the Averescu government which re-| signed yesterday Stirbey announced the new govern-| ment will be conducted along strick- ly legal lines, full liberty of the press to be established and free elec- | tions ordered for July 7, in which balloting will be unhampered — e Los Angeles Aqueduct { Is Agmn Dynamlted June 6 WATER COLOR BRUSH BISHOP, Cal, June 6 Inyo| County’s water war, an argument| between the Owens Valley ranchers and Los Angeles City over water rights, broke out afresh with an- other dynamiting of the Los An- geles aqueduct, the third within two weeks and the fifth in the 20| years' history of the bitter struggle. The side walls of the large open concrete conduit, 12 miles south of Long Pine, was shattered by the blast. SAN FRANCISCO, June 6.—Alois Frey uses a tiny camel's hair brush, intended for water color artists, (o paint new, permanent, and hereditary colors into flowers Frey is a plant lover and hybrid- izer. His 25 acre bed of Freesias here is one of the finest in the world. For 20 years he has been patiently transferring infinitesimal gralns of fertiiizing pollen from on: flower to another with, his little brush. The years of labor by this “floral” artist have produced a score of dis- tinct hues of the flowers which were obtaidable in only one or two colors when “introduced from South Africa many years ago. Besides the 20-odd distinct shades he now has hundreds of mixed colors. He has classified 1200 separate creations The fragrance of his immense Freesia bed, containing ten million plants, is noticeable several miles away. In his glass-enclosed workshop where thousands 6f bulbous plants are springing up from selected seeds, Frey studies the colors, plant size and foliage. Choosing a rugged speci- men he deftly transfers to its stigma perilous Death,” passage the “Journey in view of the dearth of water, the sand storms of summer and the ice storms of winter. The first expedition of note known to have come over this route was in 1582 when Antonio de Espejo travers- ed the trail, followed in the century and half afterwards by a long line of Franciscan friars. With the priests came soldiers, adventures and ex- plorers until in 1680 the united ef- forts of the Indian tribes turned the northward tide by administering a bloody defeat. A few years later another’ army under Don Diego de Vargas passed {northward to the re-conquest of the |lost provinces and when Mexico |threw off the Spanish yoke and New Mexico became a part of the South- ern republic, most of the commerce between northern New Mexico and the United States came this way. Over thig route the members of of wishes to blend. From a second plant, with' stems longer and stronger, he other touch from a third, with flow ers extra large. There is a year's wait before the developed seed put relationship must appeal to both the | was agal 12! MAKES NEW FLOWERS pollen from another whose color he | may take more pollen or perhaps an | i ing an zornis,” accomp! issimov Score; by vea froam 1l Russia vice in every part of vietims governn been in run aw provide in the organiz acknow’ The atarted drove the gortzev sons t and ev Uhis lessons, crowd begged This the pr tion ities o granted lars. The fessor ber to consist Chopin tunnel is bein mining | Mr. Galvin from The tu the allow tons of urday Officer $60 an Alaska States mornin MOSCOW educational Voronc} 2 Belogortzev, | hand youngsters chestra, Kuban is how t chestra from outside Only ing his orchest ranging from 6 of 60 y JERRY GALVIN LONG TUNNEL, WRANGELL J. G. property a working tunnel and for the ore completion Joe Wilson, 100 RUSSIAN W AIFS RES LUED BY ML = June cultural and hievement—the rescu discipling of 100 “Bezpri or homeless waifs—has been lished by Professor Jacob An itch Belogortzev, a native of southeast Russia d s of wnvse children set :Alllif1| rs of civil war and famine he street of nearly every city They are addicted to | and ‘crime. The greater | them are drunkards, drug- | or pickpockets. Efforts of th ment to reclaim them have vain, They have persistently ay from refu and homes for them, preferring life streets however, has taken fr hundred of tha wretched taught them music and out of them string or whose ability winnine ledgement formation in 1920 away the region was thers A ed a is of the orchestra when Red troops White Guards from Professor Belo- giving music les. o cossacks. He was popular ery day as he went to give he was besieged by a ged, filthy children w teach them music ground for the or d. For four years deprived of any helf carried on his instruc 1924, after demonstrat- before the author an ‘district, was he of a thousand dol of rag him to was | ofessor in f the K 1 a subsid orchestra consists of children to 14 years. The pro hopes fo increase the num 150 and to form a brass band oung musicians, His repertoirs s chiefly of Russian songs but he is also teaching them Rubenstein, Tchaikovski > > DRIVING and having a 4,000-foot his Lake Virginia vrangell. The work by K. Carmichael who accompanied New York recently be used for both tramming property. He says the tunnel will out of 7,000,000 Galvin driven or near g laid ou engine annel will from the ! the blocking f ore —_— - FINED $60 vho was arrested Sat- prohihition Enforcement Harding, was fined for violation of the Law, in the United court this by Warrer d costs Bone Dry Commissioner's 8. h is"shown Aecting Mayor John C. Lodge, grand-uncle of her son, IC INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO. 0BEYS DECREE |Supreme Court Makes De- cision Regarding Competi- tive Markeling. WASHINGTON, June 6.—The preme Court has held that the ln— ternational Harvester Company com- plied with Hn consent decree ranged to store competitive ket .n)ulxl‘.un\ in its field The question whether national Harvester monopolizing the ery business had contention between and the company, years § In 1912 the Federal nesota to which was purchase of ery concerns. After protracted cluding several oral the Supreme Court, the company in 1918 consented to a decree. which required it to restore competitive conditions Within ,eighteen months after the end of the World The Government had contended a dissolution of the company three independent corporations, wholly separate owners, ers and managers. In July g the Government| again went mln the Federal District| Court for Minnesota, erting that the company had failed to comply! with the decree. The company in sisted that it had complied, and| the court decided against the ernment, preme Court. It was argued that while the com pany had disposed of some of properties it had retained the two larger concerns which originally had been competitors, and was ahle to dictate prices. The company, how- ever, declared that the order of the court which restricted it to agent in a town had completely opened the field to competitors whe now had competent avenues for reaching the trades. mar the Inter Company wa harvesting machin- been a bone of the Government off and om, for the Govermment asked| District Court for Min- dissolve the company, organized through the| five harvesting machin litigation, arguments in for into with | stoekhold- The International Harvester Com-| pany was organized under the lead- ership of J. P. Morgan & Company, through the merging of five harvest- ing machinery companies. The con trovers, presented as one of its phases whether bigne stituted illegal restraint. The com- pany asserted its size raised jection under the law, and not comstitutionally be made could \ur‘ . CLUBBED, DEATH War. | which appealed to the Su»‘.'. one | ot itself con-) no ob-| an | good fiom the air, we soon dis- covered we had dropped on dangerously swamp ground.” Levine intends to fly to the Tempelhofer airdrome, near Berlin, this afternoon in a Lufthansa plane, The fiers went to the hotel Ansorge where they ordered a good meal and were in a hap- py frame of mind. They gave no indication of weariness, but they freely admitted disappoint- ment oyer failure to reach the Tewmpelhofer airdrome at Ber- lin, bd Klinge is 70 miles from Ber- lin and Kotbus is ® miles from Klinge. In alighing, the Columbia’s pro- peller struck the ground putting the pluu out of commission The town officlals offered to send the Americans te Berlin by automo- bile but they are determined to make the last lap by air First Descent The flight was previusly broken at Fisleben, Saxony, 110 miles sonthwest of Berlin when the Co- lumbla, after 42 hours of continu- ous progress from New York, was forced to descend on account of & shortage of fuel, then resuming the the fiight. Chamberlin passed over Magde- burg in the direction of Berlin but apparently miscalculated the diree- tion and swung slightly southeast instead of northeast Sets New Record While coming short of its goal, the Columbia, in reaching Eisleben, set a new record for long distance, covering 3,800 miles, as compared with Lindbergh's 3,600 miles The Columbia was first sighted the | when Chamberlin flew over Dort- identified. She p,nq sailing close to the ground years of age.|ang asking directions by shouting were killed sev-| .ty Berlin, to Berlin,” NEW LONG DISTANCE RECORD NEW YORK, June 6. A new long distance record of 3,790 miles was hung up by Chamberlin com- pared to Capt. Lindbergh’'s 3,610 miles, FLIERS’ WIVES IN MONEY NEW YORK, June 6.—The Brook- lyn Chamber of Commerce will give Mrs. Chamberlin $5,000 in recogni- | tion of her husband’s trans-Atlantic flight. A gift of some sort will be given Mrs. Levine. The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce sponsored the cancelled New York to Paris flight |of the Columbia CONGRATULATIONS WASHINGTON, June 6.—Presi- dent Coolidge sent a congratulatory telegram to Chamberlin, reading: “Congratulations upon your wonder- ful feat. Our country rejolces with me in your safely making the first ! sustained flight from Amerjca to Germany with our greeting to its | people. Capt. Lindbergh Spends Quiet Day Aboard Memphis 8. MEMPHIS, wire- | Associaetd Pre June Charles Lindbergh quietest day yesterday he left home on his flight from New York He did as he desired, newspapers and letters and kept a watchout Zor the plane Columbia but did mot sce it, although it passed $u the || vicinity of the cruiser Mems | HUNUR IS GIVEN ~ CAPT. LINDBERGH WASHINGTON, Charles A. Lindbergh has mitted to rare company with Samuel Pierpont founding aviation. The Institute has awarded the Air Hero the coveted Langley Medal which in 19 years, since establishment, has |been given to only four others. - eee WOMEN FOUND U. 8 to Capt the by less 6 had since epoc to Paris. reading A | e June 6 Capt. | been ad- | assoclation Langley in Smithsonian DETROIT, women were 1 apartment annie May, aged 50 | other has not been 1“‘.* a woman about The two women | eral days ago e apartment Mieh., clubbed house June to 6 Two death in| One was Mrs. | ears, and the house manager, | ealled the police and said Mrs. May, | occupant of the apartment, had not | been seen for several da The po- | lice broke down the door, which had Ibeen barricaded inside. The place, |had been ransacked and hore evi-| dence of struggle. The intruder apparently left through a window he death instrument was not| found | ADMIRAL ROGERS | ARRIVES IN PORT ! WITH 63 TOURISTS The steamer Admiral Rogers, Allen, arrived in Juneau at noon to. day from Seattle, with 43 tons of |, |general freight and a big cargo for the Alaska Juneau Wharf, and the following passengers: R. Andrus, Miss Dodie Brown, Hugh Hedlund, Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Henderson, Joyce | Henderson, Mrs. Mary Inland, H |Johnson, Ethel Lang, Mrs. E. Lang, JH. E. Plank, Mr. and Mrs. Jack ! Roberts, Marie J. Saucr. Odelle g Stien, Mrs. Young, Master Billy | RUSH NEW PROPELLER Young, O. Whally, and Miss Jer-| KOTTBUS, June 6.—A new pro- Capt. H rine Whally. is rushed to replace forth their new creations and many then, he discards. Formerly superintendent of green- houses at Lincoln Park, Chicago, Frey began his Freesia development | Two hundred and eight thousand at Crown Park, Ind., and when h=|pounds of halibut were sold here came to California elxht years ago |today. American halibut sold for 6 brought more than 100,000 bulbs|and 1430 cents and Canadian from he had grown under glass in Indana, {7 (o 12.8 cents, The steamer will call "lelelx being HALIBUT PRICES offense, countrymen in Mexico, probably was the first white man to see the Jor- nado del Meurto. It is believed that he and his companions first looked upon it from the summit of San Augustine pass and traversed its southern end. There is little wonder that the the ill-starred Texas-Santa Fe ex- pedition were driven in 1842 to Mexican prisons and it was over this ftrail that Alexander Doniphan travel- led with his memorable little army of Missourians to defeat a superior Mexican army at Brazito without ths conquistador dubbed thisloss of a man. at Douglas with small cargo of [the one broken on the plane Co- Itreight and two pa: ors, Miss Elva |[lumbie. Chamberlin hopes to fly to Kirkham and Miss Murland. [Beriin tomorrow. The steamer has tourists whe “WONDERFUL” are making the round trip to Skag NEW YORK, June 6.—Capt. Rob- way and Sitka. The steamer is sched- |ert A. Bartlett, uled to sail from the Alaska Juneau Bl Lo s LB e ‘V\'kmrl at § o'clock tonight. (Continued on Page Eigut. e e i ST. CLOUD, France, June Jean Borotra and Mme, Bordes won the mixed dcoubles of the International Hard Court Championship defeating Tilden and Senorita Ella De Alvarez 64, 26 and 62, PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., June 6.—

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