The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 15, 1927, Page 1

VOL. XXX., NO. 4507. | WORK ON PULP, PAPER SURVEY STARTS SOON II(I[HHIH\!\' S((‘[)S f[)l D(‘ V¢ Il)])lll( nt l IUEK‘(‘SSHXB \Vi’”,. ays HLlHlLlLIH(’lXI | | | | 1 of this month will be in the preliminary in arious pha e pr pulp and paper Jopment in the Juneau and \ikan districts, and by that George T. Cameron, accompanied Col. D. C. Jackling, will look Thane, Annex Imon Creek, other I and Speel River. made known today Forester B. F. returned home San Francisco called to confer and the Zeller regarding the sea Before the end engineers beginning three field { zations of v jected Ket time be to ove was sst. District who from was feintzleman he Mr int vhere with Ce ron on's activi their bids Alaska pulp timber lands Progress Is Satisfactory for Preliminary steps in the pulp and paper development program | are progressing satistactorily, Mr Heintzleman said “Actual work will be started this sum mer 3oth of the projects tha have beeg- launched are of such magnitude that necessarily their consummation will not be brought | about as quickly as deals of lesser & magnitude could be handled. The capital which must be invested in the development must be fuc- | nished with complete data on very essential factor connected | with the industry. This means, ol course, that detailed studies mus: | be made of local resources, in cluding timber. supplies, wate: power, plant sites and other | things “Both of the bidders for our timber offerings are completir their plans for having satisfactory (Continued on Page Eight.) - - DR. COOK TO STAY,PRISON; LOSES FIGHT Circuit Court of Appeals Reverses District Court —One Mo re Chanrf- NEW ORLEANS, June 15.—Dr. Frederick A. Cook is refused a, year parole when the United States Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the United States District Court of Northern Texxus. Dr. Cook's fight for freedom back over a period of three to the time shortly after be. found guilty in November of dealing in spurious oil ing higher Court refused his appeal in February, 1925, but a few months later, Dr. Cook ro quested Henry Wilson, Trial Judg in the District of Northern Tex to grant him a five year proba- tion. This ‘was granted. Henry Zaeifel, United States Attorney at Fort Worth declared Judge Wil- son had no such authority and the case went to the United Staten Court of Appeals here. An appeal to the Supreme Court of the Unifed States is the onl; recourse left for Dr. Cook. Constitutionality of Law FORTH WORTH, Texas, June The fortunes which raised Dr. Frederick A. Cook to the heights of international acclamation We- s of | de- | es in connection with | ‘ at Capitol. | PIERRE, 8. D., June 15 The N State officially welcomed Presi- |dent Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge {here today. The Presidential par ty toured the streets after a| rousing welcome at the depot The party was met by State lofticials at the Capitol. “| Custer Ready to Hop || Byrd’s Plane | Anytime | ROOS LT FIELD, Y., June 15.—Commander Richard | . Byrd’s plane America fis ready to take off on short no tice on a nonstop flight to | | Paris but indications are that it will be the end of the weck before the start is made. i The America led with | | fuel and supplies. The filling | | of the gas tanks is the only | | | | thing necessary before the || hop-off. I - | COOLIDGE IS WELCOMEDTO STATE OF S. D. \Presidential Party Is Greet- ed at Depot and Then | | | | NATURAL WONDERS , 8. D, June 15.—Pres- ident Coolidge on his vacation will | come not into a country bleak and barren, as the name of the adja cent Bad Lands may suggest, bui | |into a country rich in natursl| beauty. Rich it is, too, in tradi-| tion. For the guiet-mannered Vo.- monter wifl be hivaing the home- Wild Bill | Deadwood {land of General Custer, | Hickok, Calamity Jane, Dick and the Sioux Indians. West and south are the scenes of the massacre, and a more ter | rible and less known event, th | massacre of Wounded Knee. | About are the vestiges of the| | old frontier, where red man and | | white paid with their blood for | temporary occupancy of the cour (I\ i | The President will probably (meet face to face sons of the Sioux who participated in the Custer massacre, now friendly souls, with little thought of shoot | ting or tomahawking a white man | unless the latter sells him oil stock or runs him down with his | flivver. There is less chance of him_meeting descendants of the Wounded Knee massacre. Indians Disarmed | Shortly after the Custer mas | sacre it was decided to round up land disarm the Indians, Four| hundred men, women and children were gathered on the banks of the Wounded Knee Creek. During the proceeding one Indian fired his rifle. Soldiers, prompted either by fear or seeking revenge for the Custer affair, opened fire. Thousgands of rounds were poured into the Indian camp. A few at- tempted to escape. These—men, women and children—were rul down and slaughtered. Three days later, after a blizzard, the soldiers decided to bring in the wounded. | Bvery man, woman and chill { was dead. Four babies, protectcd I from the cold by the clothes and bodies of their dead mothers, Liv- ed. That was all. ! Coolidge may, it he wishes, see the grave of Calamity Jane, gun- woman and proprietor of a frontier dance hall, famed in fiction and in real life. There are relics of Wild Bill Hickok, gambler anx gunman, but not really bad if you got to know him, and Deadwood Dick, as wild and as shooting (l nntlnued on ]"lxe Seven. ) . (Continued on Page Two.) Wedding in Gretna Green Held Illegal LONDON, June 15.=The old village blacksmith of Gretna Green is still doing business now and then in joining romantic couples, but his wedding ceremony does not always count, it has been decided here in the divorce court. "Before Justice Hill, Mrs. May Celine Bach, of Cheltenham, peti. tioned for annulment of her mar- riage t6 William E. Bach, a com- mercial traveller of Birmingham, basing the action on the ground that the condition of 21 days’ residence, imposed by the mar riage of Scotland act of 1856, had not been complied with. Mrs. Bacn testified that she went through a form of marriage with Bach on April 3, 1924, at the old black- smith shop in Gretna Green, hav ing gone from Birmingham with Bach the day before. Justice Hill held that it was quite clear there had been no mar- riage, in view of the law, and he ‘r:ntod the decree of nullity. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1927. Here Is Whut Coolidge W il bvo on Ht.s Vm-ulwn in Soulh I)ulmm / — Here is the State Game Lodge of South Dakota. will occupy a suite on the second floor. thirty rooms, there isn't half enough for all of th party. A beautiful lake, not shown in the picture, the hotel grounds. Although the building has — MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS 2 MISSING FLIERS REPORTED FOUND TWO FRENCH " OCEAN FLIERS - ARE LOCATED Missing for Weeks, French | Aviators Reported " Found in Forest | | {REPORT HAS REACHFD QUEBEC FROM NORTII |Flares Are Reported Seen —Searching Parties Are Sent Into the Woods. BULLETIN — QUEBE”, June 15.—It is unofficially | reported here that French Aviators Nungesser and Coli | have been found alive. The President The President may meet many Indians on his vacation in the This information came mountains, and Mrs. Coolidge, who has a great fondnsss for ch'l- | from River Bend through e Presidential dren, may make the acquaintance of such a papoose as the one | man named Blair in the dis- is adjacent to shown on her mother's back above., At right is another scene in the ;{m RoPh of o Saguensy Black Hills country, typical of the rugged grandeur of the r-gion | River The information wad contained in a telephone II\I)IH RGH HAS ONE MILLION DOLLAR COMING BECAUSE OF FLIGHT HE MADE TO PAR "/fl HAVE I)HI‘I(( LTY COLLECTING | LEVINE AND CHAMBERLIN OMAHA, Neb., June Charles A. Lindbergh has §1, 000,000 coming to time and can collect it under certain conditions He won the million dollars by his flight to Paris, but Ed. Howe, founder of the Atchison, Kansas, Globe, in admitting the debt, finds | there may be difficulty in settling. | In addressing the National Ed:- | torial Association Howe said that 17 years ago ‘the possibility of | any one making a flight to Paris considered preposterous. 15.—Capt Arrive m F riedrichshafen’ Today and Are Given “At that time,” said Howe, I 3 wrote that whenever aiy ol made Splendid Welcome. the flight across the Atlantic he sould come to the Globe office | 35 K nd collect $1,000,000. Until re-| FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, June 15 cently 1 had forgotten the prom-|—Motoring from Baden Baden to ise, after 60 years In the printing | Karsruhe, aviators Chambelin am office. T am writing my autobio- | Levine then took a plane arriving graphy and if it makes me $1,000. | here this morning 000, I will pay Charlie The city is gaily decorated and —_ the two Americans were cheered STORY OF LIFE by the waiting thousands whicn NEW YORK, June 15—Capt.'Was a reception committeo. Dr Charles A. Lindbergh has signed Huge Fckener, Zeppelin builder, a contract calling for the publica Member of the committee, escort- tion of a 50000 word book on €d the fliers to the Dornier air-| his life and flight to Paris, re-|plane factory and later to the ception and views on future aviu- { Zeppelin wnrka tion. Most of the manuscript is | JONES DIES AT TAKES MORNING OFF NEW YORK, June 15.—Capt Lindbergh took the morning off, in bed, and slept soundly after a busy night of entertainment tha: included an official City ban- quet. Lindbergh returned home as dawn was breaking and his friends called him up at noon, just in time to prepare for the State Chamber of Commerce lunch- ficial, Lawyer and Poli- eon. A delegation from his home ict town of Little Falls, Minn., was tician Passes Away waiting to see the birdman when he awoke. SPOKANE, Wash., June 15. William Carey Jones, former Cou- gressman-at-large from the State of Washington and twice Attor the city $16,000 to clean-up 1,800 | ney-General of the State, died at tons of waste paper and confetti|his home yesterday, aged about thrown from the windows during |75 years. He located at Cheney the welcome to Lindbergh. | Spokane County, in 1883, and be- gan the practice of law. In 1886 English Clubs Hurt CLEAN-UP COSTLY NEW YORK, June 15.—It cost he was elected Prosecuting At torney of Spokane County and re elected in 1888. In 1889 he was Saloon Patronageciccted the first Attorney-Genersl of the State and re-elected in LONDON June 16:—The Ger-| 1892, man working-man likes to sit in a beer garden. A French working man takes his rest and refresh- ment in a cafe, but the Englist In 1896 he left the Republican Party and supported William J Bryan. He was nominated for Cou gress as a Silver Republican in workman has his club. 1896 and he and James Hamilton In pre-war days the Englishman | ewis, Democrat, were elected used to spend his evenings in a!congressmen-at-large on the Fu publichouse. Now the _public|gion Ticket that year. He was de- | houses are every year yleldinz|eateq for re-election in 1898. Sinco more and more to the popularity |tnat time he has been prominent of the club. The British Working (in the councils of the Democratic Men's Club and Institute Union Party of his State. He was re- claims there are 2,500 “poor men’s | garded as one of the ablest plat clubs” in England, in which 7. |form gpeakers in the State. In 500,000 pounds were spent In 1926. | 1396 he carried a chart showine » the similarity of the price eurves Brig. ‘Gen. Tripp Dies Following Opentwn NEW YORK, June 15.—Brig. Gen. G. E. Tripp, Chairman of the Board of the Westinghouse Elec- tric Manufacturing Company, died last night of complications follow- ing an operation. the nickname, “Wheat Chart” Jones, and that nafme followed | him for years partly to distinguish him from Senator W. L. Jones Republican, who defeated him for | Congress in 1898. He was a prom inent member of the Washington bar all his life and made a com petency through his law practice ARE GREETEll' RIPE OLD AGE Prominent Washington Of-| of wheat and silver and Pill‘l’l(-"|. | Here are some of the things President Coolidge will see on his vaeation into the Black Left is the Needles, an unusual natural rock strneture, which the Right, ahove, is one of the many beautiful uookl m the |7 | lonntry. The I.ndlnn is a bxoux, typxcll of muny ln the terntory, | Hills of South Dakota. ! President is expected to visit, |Alleged Slayer Pleads ‘ Not Guilty to Assault VANCOUVER, Wash., lnlw lfi @ Ellis Baker, joinly | with his brother Luther Ilakm and son, Lewis Baker, for l]n- murder of Sheriff Lester Wood, entered a plea of not guilty to| four charges of second assault| upon four Deputies. The State contends Ellis Baker Iforced the Deputies to retreat at the point of a rifle prior to the raid in which Wood was killed on May 22. Arraignment of the three Bak- lers on first degree murder charges is expected to be on Friday. Children’s Theatre Is London’s Latest LONDON, June 15.—A theatry for children is the latest develop- ment here of the little theatre | movement.- London has many lit tle theatres in out-of-the-way cor ners devoted to plays by com paratively unknown authors, or tc such works as have little chance of commercfal success, but this is the first proposal for a children’s theatre. Migs Joan Luxton,. vivacious bobbed and blue-eyed, has applied |10 the London County Council for a license for music, dancing and stage plays for her Children’s Theatee in a street at the back |of Covent Garden. | The little house will seat onls 1256 persons. Prices will be ex- | tremely low, from four cents up | wards. Performances will be in the afternoon. — BACCHANALIAN BIVALVES | BALTIMORE—Three Maryland oysters were apprehended recent ly in the act of lifting the cork from a whiskey bottle. W. Swep- | son Earle, state conservation com missioner, believes that in thres or four years they would hav2 succeeded, | | S DEMPSEY AND SHARKEY WILL MEET JULY 21 |Rickard Makes Announce- ment of Fight—in Yankee Stadium NEW YORK, June 15. — Tex Rickard announces positively that Jack Dempsey and Jack Sharkey will meet in the Yankee Stadium on July 21 for a chance at Gene Tunney, heavyweight champion. Dempsey's comeback trial brings him east at once. Upon arrival Dempsey will go into trainfng in his old quarters at Saratoga from weeks of sparring and roughing in the Ojai Hills of California. Dempsey is in good shape, Rickard said. LOS ANGELES, June 15.— Jack Dempsey confirmed Rick- ard’s announcement that he will meet Sharkey in July. BERLIN, June 15.-—At a con- ference between the legal repre- sentatives of Charles A. Levine and Dr. Puppe, German financial agent and promoter, a com- promise was made removing pos- sibility of attachment on the plane Columbla. Both parties will make apologies and Levine will pay an undisclosed sum to Puppe who clalms a commission due for promoting a loan with various steel mills in Germany two years ago. - e EXILED SECT RETURNS ODESSA, U. 8. 8. R. — After more than 200 years of exile in Turkey, descendants of a Cossack religious sect, the “Nekrasovtzi,” are to return to Russia. Their forebears were deported by Cathe- rine the Great towards the end of the eighteenth century, v message with Blair's mother T —vemR who lives here. FLARES ARE SEEN QUEBEC, June 15. — Desp'te the possibility of the distress sig- nals seen Sunday night in the timbered region of St. Germsin Township might have been lights of a surveying party rather than signals from the missing French Aviators Nungesser and Coli, pro- liminary arrangments have been made to send a hydro-airplane to the regilon. Searching parties {from St. Germain have already started into the region where the flares were seen in an effort to clear up the matter. FLIERS HAD FLARES PARIS, June 15.—Aviation of- ficials revealed that Nungesser and Coli had 10 flares and a pis- tol with which to discharge them, when they hopped off on their trans-Atlantic flight. Missing Seven Weeks Nungesser and Coll hopped off in the White Bird plane from LeBourget Flying Field, near Paris, at midnight, Saturday, May The two fliers have not been seen nor heard from since al- though the United States Army and Navy sent planes and Coast Guard boats to make a thorough search of the Atlantic Coast. Pas- senger steamers were also on the watch-out for the missing aviat- ors and many searching parties were sent out by the Canadian Government. Spanish Queen Adopts Modest Church Dress King Resume: Enrly Morning Park Rides LONDON, June 15.—The crown worn by King George upon oc- casions of State has two officially appointed guardians who are di rectly responsible for its safety. The first is the Lieutenant of the Tower of London. This post is always held by an army officer o A g O e "“|es which Worth, famous Pari The duty of the other oftictal | iresmaker, has designed for tha Queen of Spain and the ladies o1 her court, and which will be woin soon in Spain, fulfill all of the Pope’s demands for modesty. They reach to the ankles, have long sleeves and the collars & . not lower than the base of ths neck. Gray, beige and black are the colors usually chosen for them. The queen of Spain was th» first one to order a church dre s is to attend and guard the Crown whenever it is necessary to re- move it from the Tower. He is the holder of a post of long stand- ing, and is called the King's Bargemaster. The duties of this guardian date back to the days when the Crown was invariably carried by water along the River Thames from the Tower to West- """“er'h_ and other models have been mad.: il along the general lines of Iler GOING TO MINE Majesty's. — Worth has been couturier to the Mrs. D. J. Williams and Mrs. | Queen of Spain for many years W. H. Roessel arrived in Juneau | He was dressmaker to the Em- on the Yukon yesterday and are|press Eugenie, during her life- staying at the Gastineau Hotel, | time, and it is said that the Quaen for a few days before going to|of Spain accorded him hor pa- Hirst-Chichagof where Mr. Wil-| tronage by the request of the liams is superintendent. }mprenn Say. Kaiser Will Not Return to Repulbic BERLIN, June 15.—So long asjof state, he cannot and will not there is a republic in Germany | come back. Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm Il won't re- “The Kaiser takes the position turn to his native land, even |that he was dethrortted against hix though all legal ring him removed. This opinion was expressed by Lieut, General von Cramon in the course of the public discussion over extending the Defense of the Republic Act. “The whole discussion,” he says, “ag to whether the Kaiser may or will return to Germany is ab- solutely futile. So long as Ger- many holds to the republican form restrictions bar- | will and renounced the crown un der duress. Were he today to ro- quest the German government to vermit him to visit Germany, or striction be removed, to return t» his fatherland, this would be t-»- republican government as sv % and to his remouncing all hig rights volulwu:_ i < tamount to his recognizing the were he, in case the ominous *~ |