The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 13, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXX., NO. 4505. “ALL THE NEWS/ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1927. COOLIDGE IS LEAVING FOR | WEST TONIGHT i Presidential Party Starts to] South Dakota Summer Home Tonight. | | | | | | | | [ | | | WASHINGTON, June 13 President Coolidge and Mrs. Cool idge leave Washington tonight for western South Dakota to gpend their summer vacation inj the State Game Lodge in the Black Jills, the first time the President has planned such an extended trip to so comparitively remote section of the country.| The Presidential train will] make the first scheduled stop at| Hammond, Indiana, where I i dent Coolidge will dedicat Wicker Memorial Park to World War Veterans tomorrow At Pierre, Gov. W. J. Bulow will welcome the President to the State of South Dakota D s SECRETS ARE SOUGHT; GANG IN ROBBERY Chicago Laboxatonec Are Entered—Secret For- mulas Wanted. | | | CHICAGO, June 17 — robbers armed with machine guns and pistols maintained an early morning ge of the Abbott| Chemical Laboratories in North Chicago, overpowering two night| watchmen The gang blew the strong) boxes and ransacked all of the| company's offices. The police are unable to find that any money or securities were taken and are working on the theory that valuable secret formulas were sought The robbers arrived in two automobiles and virtually storm ed the $3,000,000 concern. They| proceeded to' loot the buildin din all night at the tas after settting up a guard of three machine guns. B London Theatre Adds New Bar for Women | .lllm' 13.—The For- recently reopene! structural altera London theatre LONDON Theatre, interior is the only with a women’s bar. It is an attractive place on srall scale. The walls are .mm.].-a in mauve, thie carpet is of a deep tone, tending towards wine tune after tions, er nd there are chairs of covered mahogany, The bar” for women only is also of mahogany. - D U. S. Marines, Aviation Umt Arrive, Shanghai g June 13. The SH \\I-HAI United tes transport C mont arrived from Manila today with 1,500 Marines and an aviation ‘dun ] Iedal Tr(uls stho ) | F or. Nmeteen Months June 13—Dr. John L. bishop of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in charge of the central Buropean area, has had the honorary cross of the German Red Cross trailing behind him for 19 months without knowing it. BERLID Nuelson, Dr. Nuelsen was finally located at Zurich, Switzerland, and the German consul-general there was instructed by the CGovernment to pestow it upon him formally. Bishop Nuélsen has been an out- standing figure in relieviny dis- | | | a| | | | |home CHEERS FOR JOLIET, IiL, June 13.—In a| lgun fight with guards In the | County Jail yard, one of five {condemned convicts who escaped ; : . |trom their cells was killed, an- | American /\vnalors Are 1in other shot and two others re- tress in Central Europe and Rus- sin since the war. The German lEmbflems of Europe’s Highest Honors Return with Lindbergh __ LINDBERGH'S MEDALS Welcomed Lindy Cross of the Legion of Hon or—France. Medal and Pin nl Lafayette s P Air Great Britain The QOrder gium Aero Club of France Gold | | Medal. | Swedish Aero Club Gold Plaque. | | Distinguished Flying Cross | United States. Medal of Valor Stato, American Cross Bel Leopold New York clubs and so- | | cieties have proposed award- | | | | ing their badges of merit to Lindbergh, several of which expected to materiali | | during his American recep- tions, | A movement already has | | been started to give him the Congressional Medal of Honor when Congress convenes. Various other NEW June 13.—With | the world as his chess board Cha- even les A. Lindbergh surpassed | | Wonderland’s Al at the game | {by moving from pawn to King's ‘rn\\‘ in three jumps | | And, like the chess queens who ) | move any distance in any direc-! the aviator returns to his abeard a warship, unhampered even by the customs red tape that annoys ordinary | mortals,‘to be the guest of Pre: | dent Coolidge and the nation. The first ]ump.uf the obscure ing point Mayor nes J. Walker, New York, all dressed up in ]n- soup and fish togs acting as Chlef Welcomer in New York City at the célebration in honor of Capt Charles® A. Lindbergh and his coming He was among 5 BRISON BREAK the first to greet the flier Sentenced to Hang, Con- victs Try to Get Free »~One at Large. CHAMBERLIN captured, Charles Shador escaped. The five were sentenced to hang for the murder of Deputy | Warden Peter H. Klein during an Baden Baden — Will Tour Black Forest BADEN BADEN, Germany, gscape from the new State Prison June 13.—United States Aviators| . vear ago. Clarence D. Chamberlin and|" pyey appeared today in the Charles A. Levine were given an|g¢,ckade which surrounds the enthusiastic reception today by a crowd of 2,000 upon arrival from Berlin by train. {and an alarm was sounded. Chamberlin and Levine plan to| ne city police and deputies tour the Black Forest and leave:gurrounded the yard and a gun for Bremen the latter part of the: gunt ensued. One of those shot week to meet their wives on Fri-lmay gie. It is said the two were day who will arrive from New|recaptured were severely beaten, Y“;‘l('.huugh Chamberlin mlrl‘ Le- MAJ. ROGERS ARRIVES ON OFFICIAL VISIT vine are illegally in Germany because not having proper papers, according to law they will not| be allowed to travel from one country te another. BT Suabe akaree . Canis manding Officer of Chilkoot Bar- racks, arrived here early today from the Lynn Canal post and will remain until the Yukon sails west tomorrow, He is here repre- senting the Inspector General's Department, auditing the financial bestow | accounts of the Alaska Road Com | mission. Maj. Rogers will go from here to Seward to audit the accounts of the quartermaster stationed at that place, and will return to Juneau on the Yukon. He is a guest at the GastMeau Hotel while visiting here. - HAVE GIRL BABY Mr. and Mrs. F. A, Thompson newly-erected gallows on which the men were scheduled to hang decided to “honorary cross of the first ecla with ribbon.” It is the highest decoration in lllel German republic. | The diploma granting the dec-| oration was issued in November, 1925, Bishop Nuelsen was then in the United States. The Ger- man embassy at Washington tried | to locate him in New York and Cincinnati, but the bishop moved too fast and had always just left government upon him the air Die miles mostly over sea from New | York to Paris, he made in the amazing time of 33 hours and 2% minutes. He landed on top of | the world. A New York clipping bureau cut 800,000 news articles—nearly four times as many as for the ath of President Wilson=-n the | Paris with letters of introduction | of | New York from being as wet as | ineffectual child’s toy. when the decoration reached the | are receiving the congratulations German *consuls. of their friends on the birth of The honorary cross was return-|a daughter Saturday night, at St. ed to Berlin and eventually best-| Ann’s Hospital. Both mother and owed at Zurich, daughter are well, mail carrier was from San 0 to St. Louis. He made the 50 mile trip in the record timg of 14 hours and five minutes, and landed on the inside pages of newspapers whose attention was concentrated on the Mississippi flood and the more elaborate pri parations of other proposed New York to Paris expeditions, The second jump, from St. Louis York, also broke a speed record. He made this 950 mile tr;p n little more than seven howrs, and landed on the first pages of the newspapers. v Hardest Jump The last and hardest jump, 8,600 to New de feat of the youth who set out “Br unknown premieis thrusigs feit he would not be Kings, president and vied with uncontrollable their subjects and fellow to do him honor. His First Words When he landed at Le Bourget flying field, fearful that he wonld not be recognized, his first words were, “I am Charles Lindbergh.” Then he had to be rescued frim a mob of thousands that foull for a glimpse him, With his temporary the American embassy, wined and dined by S0 izens home at he was President ((ull(lnll(-'ll on Page Seven.) NEW YORK IS WETTER THAN FOR 7 YEARS NEW YORK, June 13.—There | are 100,000 speakeasies now in New York City, and it is only the Police Department that prevents As for the enforcement more than an Atlantic Ocean, Federal is no the elaborate machine, it William L. Taggart, Special Commissioner of the Internal Re- venue Bureau for eight years, s6 wrote in a letter to Commissioner Blair of the Bureau of Internal Revenue at Washington announc- ing his resignation from the Pro- hibition forces. Mr. Taggart had been assigned to the United States Attorney's office here and was in charge al'nummumle seizure, “New York City,” the letter said, “is wetter now than it has been for seven years. You can buy a drink any place but an under- taker's parlor or ladies’ millinery shop, and I have heard of drinks being sold even in such places. And 1 don't believe there is as much poison liquor in the market as people would have us belicve. Speakeasies as Side Lines “The local police make nine- tenths of the arrests for Prohibi- tion violations in this city and the Federal agents about one- tenth. If it were mnot for the activity of the Police Department | New York would be as wel as the Atlantic Ocean. “Running speakeasies has come a side line followed by many business men in otherwise legitimate trade that there are now, according to my belief, 100, 000 speakeasies operated in New York City alone.” He ended by say.eg that “what we need is more consgientious jovernment officlals who tahe their job for work and not play.” Prohibition Adminstrator Ches- ter P. Mills, against whom most of the remarks in the letter are directed and under whom Taggait served, refused to comment on the statement, beyond saying Tars: gart had been dropped from the Prohibition payroll March 25. he- 80 /\IR HERO SMILES AT HIS GREE’ Here is Capt. Charles A one that wins friénds Lindbergh’s best everywh ere. of the United States, having flown MEMBER picture. Note The aviation hero Washington to from the smile on his was today New \'ul'k City. OF ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK WELCOMES LINDBERGH; CHEERING THOUSANDS GREET HERO ING IN NEW YORK boyish the face, the welecomed to metropolis BEAR HUNTER IS DROWNED, ALASKA RIVER SEATTLE, Jure 13.—Clifford Brown, of Salem, Oregon, was drowned in Wolf River, Alaska, on June 3 while bear hunting. This was reported upon the re- turn of his yacht Westward Brown's motorboat struck a rock and vups Woman Makes StAat;m Of Absorbent Cotton June 13. which are called Several for lack of seulp- PARIS, pieces of art, another word tures, have been made out of absorbent cotton by Madame Blancfene, a French artist. Crit- jes have not received the new art form seriously, although the designer claims for her medium the living properties of eclay. - - Two Lieutenznts Killed in Crash NZEWPORT NEWS, June 13.— First Lieut. F. B. McConnell and Second Lieut. C. Anderson were killed this afternoon at Langley Field when their plane crashed near an incinerator and burst into flames as it hit the ground. i et W. D. Gross, owner of the Coli- seum Theatre, was a passenger Saturday to Skagway on the Ala- meda, o i, Byrd Plans Now to Fly Over Ocean NEW YORK, June | Commander Richard E. | told the Associated Press this | | afternoon that at the first | | break for good weather, “af- | | ter the Lindbergh reception,” | | he would set out for Paris in | the trimotored plane America. Byrd said nothing in the world could compare with the reception given today to Capt. | | Lindbergh. i frora box 45, Dixon Avenue, at 6:30 Saturday evening, the local fire department rushed to the scene response to an alarm and extinguished a small roof blaze in a short time. The causo of the blaze is unknown, Slight damage was done Y - eee HARDINGS ON TRIP Justin W, Harding, U. S. Dis trict Attorney, and his brothes, Major Edwin F. Harding, who is vistting here this week, are out for a short trip toduy, in the gas- hoat of fhe United States Mar- shal's office. --e YUKON DUE TOMORROW Steamer Yukon, Captain C. A Glasscock, is due from Seattle to morrow at mnoon, with a large number of passengers and 132 tons of freight, Byrd | | " NEW CHINESE - GENERAL NOW MARCHING ON | | i June LONDON, 13. — Gen. Chiang Kai Shek, leader of the Mode e Nationalists is reported ‘m have captured Haichow and |Skiyang in the northern part of | Kiangsu Province. He is said to ‘iln- advancing with the fall of im- |portant cities along the Grand Canal imminent. | - —ee | B H. Sherman, U. S. Deputy Marshal, at Haines, arrived in Ju neau on the Admiral Farragut yes terday morning from Seattle. He went south recently in custody of 1 prlvmwrs PRICE TEN CENIS HOME COMING OF AIR HERO - BIG WELCOME |Again Arrives in City He Hopped from on Non- stop Ocean Flight. TWO ACCIDENTS, AIR AND LAND, REPORTED Daring Aviator Flies from Washington — Has Large All’ Escort. NEW YOBK, June 13-— Cavot. Charles A. Lindber :h today came back to the city he left on his New Yo'k to Paris flight and found th» city taking a holiday in his honor. Capt. Lindbergh sten-»l from the tug Macom at 1:.0 o'clock this afternoon af‘ee being brought from the Quarantine Station where he " landed after his flight from Mitchell Field. _ As the tug Macom hove in sight, the crowds burst inty such a roar of welcome as the famous Welcominyg ?round: had never heard be- oe. _ Sirens on countless craft in the harbor joined in the noise. Capt. Lindbergh’s arriv 1 at tio. flier’s first air journey sinc: his return to ‘America rni the journey which mivh* have proved disastrons but | for his darine and skill atte: pakiné off from Washinit-n in a Curtis Pursuit Plane It was discovered that the - ’ line flow had stopped. Cant. Lindbergh turned on the auxiliary tank which eon- tained just enough gas t» carry him 300 n‘\lfiu and oo landed on Mitchell Field with his tank almost drv. Later Capt. Lindbergh narrow- ly escaped serious injury at the Battery when the unexpected celeration of an official auto™m bile threw him from his stafid ing position, his head and shoulds ers going over the back of A quick clutch of Gro car. Whalen at the flier's knees nrc- vented a fall. Great Welcome ¢ Capt. Lindbergh said New | York's reception was greater than those in Paris, Brussels, Londen and Washington “all put ko= gether.” A great roaring welcome sprnul through the city along the ln’ of march ovxer miles from financial, wholesale, shopping n residenal sections of the city. Hundreds of thousands cheering men and women W packed behind police lines ahd they cheered until hoarse and after that waved flags and blov horns. FLIES ALONE AGAIN ] WASHINGTON, June 15 Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh ho ped off from Bolling Fied New York in a Curtis PL suit plane after the Spirit of St | Louis, in which he made his] trang-Atlantic flight, developed motdr trouble. Capt. Lindbergh left Bolll Fleld at 8:54 o'clock this mu&« ing accompanied by an e:scort ¢ 31 Army and .\'avy planes, Cu ((‘untlnue(l on Page Seven) LONDON, June 13.—Lord Bal four, next to Lard Roscberry the oldest and certainly for his age the halest and heartiest of Brit- ain’s ex-premiers, may have an idea of what it is that has kept him so young for his years, but | he is evidently disinclined to tell. He was given a good oppor tunity to reveal the secret at a recent trade function when the lnmnter of ceremonies put the di- rect question to him, “We ahO\'lld 4 Lord Balfour Keeps Youth Formula Secr: ‘ike him to let us into the seeret )f perpetual youth,” said gpeaker, evidently recalling continuing activity on the t courts, the fact that he still dzi his own car in London teaff and numerous other evidences his physical and mental fitn: But when Lord Balfour got »q speak his mode of expression more than usually cautious, ties he launched into an altog ditferent subject,