The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 18, 1927, Page 1

in VOL. XXX., NO. 4510. ORRUPTION IN PGLITICS U Senator Reed Says Funda- mentals ‘of Government Being Destroyed. {PATRIOTIC PEOPLE | cortupt u in URGED TO RISE UP Concentration of Federal Government Is Blamed for Present Evil, JOHN N CITY, Tenn., June Appealing for a return to oldtime fundamentals of gov- iment, United States A. Reed, Democrat of uri, told the Tennessee Bar the time has come when yatriotic people of the coun- rise up and drive out corruption” which hroughout the Na ne Ation of pread t Capital Reed declared that not the official corrup disclosed and unless the soul of to be destroyed, the money in elections on Senator tenth has be that m of tion erted n as- Ame of must be Senator stopped Reed laid of the concentration of authority the Federal Government It ready proceeded far there is cely activity lite from the ring of to the massing of armies which is not in some degree subject to survelliance of Government offi cers, spies and courts,” concluded the Senator. MOTORSHIP CHALLAMBA has 80 of e babies IS ASHORE LE, June 18.——The motor allamba, of the Pacific enroute from Alaska, Clift SE iip C eamship Company, wtle to Southeastern ent ashore on White land, south of ing the night. The samer Curacao and a tug from Prince Rupert are reported proceeding to the Challamba's as istance The motorship is 1 to be ir no danger but will probably need in refloating. e ARMY PLANE wssistance responsibil- | Prince Rupert dur-| THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIM 99 Y JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1927. | | | | | Senator | Mis- ! { Marie Prevost, famed movie cutie, and Ler matinee idol | husband, Kenneth Harlan, have separated, breaking up what AMER, LEGION - PARIS MEET iConvention Overseas One i of the Greatest of Peace | Time Movements. | INDIANAPOLIS, The American L vention today Ind., June 18. | m Paris con. | is the world's oat- | overseas peacetime movement. ' | This statement was made today | | by John J. Wicker, Jr, National | Travel Director, in 'a report to! | Howard P. Savage, National Com- | mander of the Legion | More than 10,000 net | tions for the Legion trans./ | journey have already been received | at National Headqus This is | more than double the reservations | for any similar pilgrimage. The | dy stream of checks covering reservations from in | the Union daily increasing in | volume. With three months to go every indication the full quota set two years for the Logion movement will be reached re itie | | | [ | | every state ago was regarded in Hollywood as an ‘‘ideal marriage.”” Friends | explain that incompatibility, not a third party, is responsible, ity for the conditions to the Almll"‘]’hgtog show Marie and Harlan-embracin { day, and Miss Prevost in closeup, g on their wedding * (11N Exclusive) § ~ Girl Friend ~ BIG AFFAIR] Miss Lanore Longley, of May- GERMANS T0 RYTOU S, DURING JULY |Flight PI’OpOSéd from Ber- lin to San Francisco Touching N. Y. BERLIN, June 18—The blatt published a report intended flight for Berlin Francisco by way between July Tag=- of an to San of New York 15 and July 26 hy pilot Otto Koennecke, who was said to have plamned to make flight over the southern route via the Azores. Koennecke i3 confident he can | attain a speed of 140 ‘miles an ihnur_ His plans call for a flight | in a triple motor, all-metal mone’ plane carrying himself, radio o rator and two passengers financing the. project. Koennecke intends tg drop mail at New York and continue to San are Aviator Koennecke believes he can reach the Pacific Coast in 60 hours after leaving Berlin He plans to hop-of July 25 and reach San Francisco July 28 and remain there four days before i.~l:||’lH|,.-: on his return flight. BAD WEATHER ~ DELAYS BYRD ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., | June 18 conditions necessitated ponement of the ‘lm[\—ufl' to Monday. a tentative Byrd | NEW YORK, J;|;|a 18.—Com- mander Richard E. Brrd said might take a fourth person in|most of the the monoplane America on denied a the woman persons will include “We are carrying 1,300 gallons they of gasoline, sufficient to take four to Paris and beyond,” said By R ¢ j('l)ln]mll,\'fllu Byrd might be Lieut. Berntbalchr, former Norwegian N his North Pole flight. U. S, MARINES STARTING T0 LEAVE. SOUTH Fir.st Contingent of Men in Nicaragua Homebound— Who | | | vepsity — Unfavorable w‘(‘allln'l"‘thllll post- | the | 1 Mindota, | Emden Is at | Dutch Harbor g i Enroute, Juneau DUTCH June 18 HARBOR, The new German | battleship den, which s | eruising around the world, ar | rived here from Japan on the way to the Pacific Coast ports of the United States Alaska | The Emden is the Gorman | craft expected to Juneau by 28 ! WASHINGTON U CREWS WINNER IN” WISCONSIN Varsity and Junior Varsity Defeats University of Wisconsin Crews. arrive in June MADISON, Wis, June 18 Lifting their shell into a in_ the last 500 ds the of Washington varsity créw defeated the University of Wisconsin by five lengths over the two mile course on Lake today This is a decisive victory to the fact that the race only over a two mile course while sprint ithe Poughkeepsie Regatta will be| four miles Last year Wisconsin when Washington regatta at in at came won Poughkeepsie. The Huskies’ junior varsity won from the Badger’s freshman crew by a length and a halt over is reported one of those ac-|p, l officer who aided Byrd on|q | be two mile course. The two Phowd were neck aud neck over course but a last his|minute sprint by the Westerners proposed trans-Atlantic flight but|showed the ir superiority. The Washington crews are on their wey to Poughkeepsie where will defend their Intercol legiate Championship of last y against the Navy, California, ennsylvania, Columbia, Cornell and Syracuse. The Huskies won first pla 3, 1924 and 1926 and second to the Navy in 192 to lose the in were only race by four seconds. - “Cupid at Your Elbow” Aids Dancers in Berlin BERLIN, June 18. Amorous night lifers are offored “Cupid at Your Elbow” by a fashionabie Hamburg dancing pavilion. The modern Cupid bearing tender mes- sages 15 a house telephone in stalled at each table. “Cupid at Your Elbow” works in this manner. The male guest of the establishment, seating him Uni- | (lu(-‘ was MEMBER | OF ASSOCIATED PRESS sters is making enough money of them, $ e / Promotes Lindy . | & Governor Sam ‘A, Baker ‘(above) i is promoting Charles A, Lind: bergh from the rank of captain Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., seventeen, and six feet tall, Is engaged to marry Helene Costello, nineteen Costello, earliest of the film stars. Lither one of vear-old daughter of Mauricq the young- s to support bothl o in the mo Louis Gives Welcome to Capt. Lindbergh ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 18.— | Scores of airplanes and diri- gibles soared overhead today as Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh marched through the streets in the city's second welcome to him. An official holiday | was declared and all business was suspended. Slim“ was | | | today made an Honorary Mem- | | | ber of the Boy Scouts, | | RECEPTION T0 LINDBERGH 1S FILM BREAKER Cost Fifty Million to Dupli- cate Display and Scenes for Motion Pictures. " NEW YORK, June 18. — The 1> EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS 3 POWERS TO GONFER ON ARMAMENTS JAPAN NOT TO RAISE ISSUE, NAVAL BASES Not Ask Reduction in De fenses in Hawan Nor at Singapore. NAVAL CONFERENCE WILL OPEN MONDAY United States Not to “Ex- plode Any Bombs™ — Delegation Chiefs Talk GENEVA, June 18.—Japan ha no intention of raising the ques tion of Internationalization of th Panama Canal or reduction in the strength of naval bases in Hawa'i and Singapore at the forth comine Naval Conference, Admiral Ko bayashi, one of Japan's chief N val delegates told the Associat Pr 3 Admiral Kobayashi said th: J panese representatives will con fine their efforts to obtaining on agreement on warships not cove ed by the Washington treaty. He declared the Japanese are great'y pleased with the decision of the United States not to strengthen American fortifications in the Far Bast and would not think of asl ing reductions near the shores uf the United States. He admittid the Japanese are worried at the power of the British at the Sin- gapore base. Hugh 8. Gibson, chief of the American delegation, declared thrt the Americans “will not explode any bombs” in the Conferenc: which opens Monday. It is soll in American cireles the United States has so many age-wo'' cruisers which are declared worth less in modern warfare that the existing ratio on modern cruisers is five for Britain against two and seven tenths for the United States. 12 PASSENGERS ABOARD ALASKA FOR THIS PORT SEATTLE, June 19.—Steamer Alaska sailed for Alaska port: at 9 o'clock this morning with passengers aboard, the followin% for Juneau: Mrs. M. Ferrill, En- gene Rubstald, wife and dare'- ter; Jay Kneeland, Elsie Lafon, George B. Rice, R. A. Kinzie anl wite, L. C. BEbert, J. R. Jaeger, Mrs. D. Karstens and son, Miss 3,000 to Be Moved. | to Colonel in the Missouri Na tional Guard because of hi New York-Paris flight, ening World today says two ‘active executives” of the motion | picture industry estimate it would cost $50,000,000 if the movies at- tempted a film duplication of New York's (remendous greeting to wood, Il is probably the near- est thing Captain Charles A. Lindbergh ever had to a sweet- heart, They became friends | while Lindy boarded at her | self at one of the tables grouped | about the dance floor, surveys the [hall with a view to espying some | girl among the dancers that es- pecially strikes his fancy. His choice falls say upon the pretty M. Johnson, B. R. Glass anil wife, J. 0. Johnson, H. L. Honda, S. B. Risre and wife, Mrs. H. 1L Wheeler, Mrs F. Ronanzani and two children, Francis Gibson, Mrs. B. Williams, Miss N. Beven, before the ships shove off early in September, | Examination of the hooking rec- ords show that New York is lead- ing all other in the total ALSO TO FLY T0 HAWAII WASHINGTON, June 18.—The first of more than 8,000 American Marines in Nicarague, has start:d states for home the Navy Department | of ations, Penn resor SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 18 Licutenants J, Maitland and Al- bert F. Hegenberger definitely an- nounced they will, attempt their three motored Fokker mono- plane from San Diego to Hawaii beforg, July 15. They are on a flight” to the Pacific Coast fror Dayton for the Army in prepa- ration for the Hawaii hop. S eee BASEBALL GAME CALLED OFF LAST NIGHT, The baseball game between the Mobse and the Alaska Juneau, scheduled for last night to decide championship of the first half of the series, was called off on account of rain by President J (', McBride and Umpire Bill Ki until a later date. The game wili be called on the first day when there is good weather, RAIN to fly | number vania is second, California third, Illinofs fourth and Ohio fifth. Re- servations have been received from Alaska, Hawail and China. Cali- fornia veterans, who must cross {the entire continent before em- barking for Paris, have ranked high in the total number of re- servations from the first. All space has been taken on a number of ships in the movement, including advance sailings of the 88. President Roosevelt and SS President Harding. Warning is is sued to Legionnaires to make re- servation at once. There is now choice of accommodations avail- able both in Paris housing and steamship. With the great num- ber of reservations received daily, the space is going fast. Legion. naires who postpone until late in the movement the making of re- (Continued on Page Eight.) Ho'tel< f;r Babies Only OPens in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 1%. —The latest form of home for dollar a day, American plan. But stead of the guwests paying, the parents’ home in Chicago while he was in the air mail service, but she says he was the ‘‘shyest mau in the world.”” i _ tInternational Newsreel) President Fishing For Mountain Trout RAPID CITY, 8. D, June 18— President Coolidge put on a 10 gallon hat, the size and shape that would make a movie actor or cowboy envious, slipped on e pair of rubber hip boats and went to Bquaw Creek today to angle for mountain trout. The President returned this af- ternoon from his fishing trip with four trout weighing one pound each, B e Plane to Investigate Flares QUEBEC, June 18—A hydro- plane has arrived at Chicoutmi to fly over the district following the most recent check up of flares seen in the neighborhood ~and thought to have been sent up by | missinf French aviators Nungesser youngsters is “The Babies Hotel.” | Native Daughters are the paying }ang Coli. It is the gift of Mrs. Allan Rat- terrée to the Los Angeles chapter of the Native Sons and Daugh- ters. Accommodations are offered for 30 guests at a uniform rate of a | hostesses for the guests and thus | the institution is supported. Checking out of the hotel means ! an entire new wardrobe for the guest furnished by the hotel, and P, 29 <y agpptd HALIBUT PRICES PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.,, June 18.—Halibut sales totaled 166,000 pounds today. American halibut announced, with the sailing of the tion and tug Partridge. one hospital corps, four vehicles and 20 tons of aviation equipment left Nicaragua. | the | Marines will military situation in has completely subsided. State Highway Fight o o N Dismissed High Court OLYMPIA, Wash., June 18..— The Supreme Court has dismissed the quo warranto proceedings brought By Auditor Clausen and George T. McCoy to determine who should hold the posts of Chairman and Secretary of the State Highway Commission, The Court held it had no juris | diction in the case and expressed the opinion that the majority of the committee is empowered eleet its officers. John Keliogg Guilty Dishon_onble Conduct CHICAGO, logg, former mour Grain June 18.—John Kel- President of the Ar- Company, has been found guilty by the Governors of the Chicago Board of Trade ou charges of dishonorable conduct in grain trading on the Exchange a permanent private home as aualsold for 6 and 1470 cents and|The verdict carries suspension adopted child. Canadian for 6 and 13.40 cents. from the Chicago Exchange, to | Conak, Cornito, supply ship Proc | isk of the Three officers, 66 enlisted men, | jisnt at Table 15 blinks discreetl brunette at able 15. He turns the telephone at his el to Number 15. A little re y how motor | yntil the girl takes off the re- iver. “Please may cel I have the next Secretary of Navy Wilbur said |qance with you?”" queries the mar | be withdrawn |t .the world In a voice audible as quickly as possible since the | 1o the lady of his choice onl Nicaragid a3 it is lost to others amid ¥ tha lin of jazz music. Receiving a favorable reply, he can come to down. Should the response be negative, he need feel no embar- rassment. There are plenty of other girls British Aviators Are Forced Down on Flight MARTLESHAM, Suffolk, Eng., June” 18.—British long distance |aviators Lieutenants Carr and Mac- Worth who hopped from Cranwell for a flight to India, were forced lown today for a short time at he airdome here because of a minor defect. Former Alaska Pioneer Found Dead in Office BURLINGAME, Cal., June 18.— Edwin H. Warner, aged 65, civil and electrical engineer who was an Alaska pioneer and did exten- sive work in Panama and Mexico, was found dead later yesterday in his office. Heart disease is be- lieved to be the cause, rable 15 without risking a turn- | AGNES AYRES ASKS DIVORCE LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 18. Agnes Ayres, motion picture act- ress, has filed in superior court | here a divorce complaint, charg ing cruelty, failure to provide and desertion to 8. Manuel Beachi, | her diplomat-husband, whom she married in 1924, The divorce bill was filled by | the screen star close on the heels of her separation from Reachi, who formerly was in the diplo- matic service of the Mexican gov- ernment, and until some months ago the commercial attache of Mexico here and in San Francisco. Rl Convicted of Slaying Woman; Is Given Life KLAMATH FALLS, Ore, June 18.—James H. Grayson, a ranch- er, has been convicted of second degree murder following trial ‘on charge of murdering his daugh- terin-law, Mrs. Myrtle Grayson. He was immediately sentencad to life imprisonment. e e S UM APARTMENTS FURNISHED PARIS Nearly every hign French government executive fs provided with an apartment in his headquarters bullding, | Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh last | Monday. “Here we have been putting on spectacles for years like the “Fall of Rome,” “Destruction of Baby- lon,” “Birth of a Nation” and other shows and we spent millions of dollars and we never have come within a touching distance of that New York put on for Lindberg! said one executive, e s i AIRPLANE DELIVERY PINE BLUFF, Ark.—The Pino Bluff Commercial Appeal refused to. let the Mississippi flood halt | its deliveries. It used an airplane to reach flooded towns. Fred Habernicht and wife, Mrs. M. Butcher and son, Mrs. J J. Bemis and daughter, Bill Serg. W. G. Bush, J. W. Cole, C. Wil- liams and 35 steerage. Rockefeller, jr., Off Vacation, Europe NEW YORK, June 18.—John . Rockefeller, Jr., sailed yesterda: on the Olympic with his wife and sons for a vacation in Europe. “I am just going abroad with my family for a recreational trip There is nothing important significant,” he said. LONDON, June 18.—The be- lief that the British armies would eventually have gained the victory n the World War even if the United States had not intervened is held by Field Marshal Earl Haig, commander in chief of the British Expeditionary Forces in France and Flanders from 1915 to 1919, Addressing the British Empire Service League, he protested against what he described as the national tendency to belittle the part Great Britain played in win- ning the war. He referred grate- l!uuy to the share of the Allies, HAIG GIVES GLORY TO BRITISH ARMY but contended that, althoneh without American intervention t's result might have been delayed, it would have been the same, He maintained that for the loct eighteen months of the war ihe armies of the British Empire ¢ - ried on their shoulders the ma'n burden of the struggle and carrigd it to victory. As for the mistakes of €nr. many, he said she made only t» serious errors—first, when she % gan the war under conditinta which brought in the British ™. pire, and, second, when she lost the war,