The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 22, 1927, Page 1

TH VOL. XXX., NO. 4513. 35 DESPERATE MEN ARE AT LARGE _ AGREE T0 DISAGREE ENGINEER FOR CAMERON GOES TOSNETTISHAM Kinzie Begins Preliminary W’()]'[l on Plll[), Pil[)f‘l‘ Development Plan. dsparture today for * of Robert A, Kinzie epresentative of Geo. San Fr and steps | meron cisco ociate preliminary ry to development of the 00,000 1d paper devel distriet were in Kinzie, arrived here as parat 10,0 pulp opment thi ed in Mr accompanie yes- | accompanied to Speel by B. F. Heintzleman District Engineer, { 8 and E. CGaston resident for the | 1stinean Mining Company an it vice manager Alaska ( r ¢ e holdings tor power properties Mr. Kin principals are negotiating Kinz the trip Absent Few Days who was Treadwell made Mr. K nzie of n with superin mines | the or eight fa the the present ron ling years, power He to lool for the proposed from the Inlet through and a low divide side of the range | he will inspect the landing withdrawals on both shores Taku Inlet, and ably will stop off a short time Annex (Creek The party is expected to return heve in two or three days, it was announced at local Forest Servic: headquarters., The Forest S has put the Ranger VII., disposal of Mr. Kinzie to work in this vicinity Cameron Here Soon Mr. Kinzie expected actively engaged in local invest gations for the next week, gather for Mr. Cameron who, D. €. Jackling, will av next Tuesday for 2 brief stay. He was reticent re. arding work and plans, de clining to make any statement for publi Mr. will water River trip miliar re making over the transmi north end of Mallard Cove into the Taku Returning cable proh at rvice at the acilitats to be is ing 1 with Col rive here his ion. | Cameron and Col. Jackling in Seattle late this | and sall for Juneau on the steamer Aleu wre expected to rem or three day south on the Princess | 1. They will also | Annex Creek and involved in the ject. arrive week urday They but to two planning return July visit Speel Ri local properties development pra Challambra May Be Refloated High Tide Louise PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., June It is hoped that the motor- ship Challambra, ashore at White Cliff Island, will be refloated dur-| ing high tides at the end of this week. A derrick is lightering! her cargo. | — | OPERATION PERFORMED : Mrs. M. Starkenburg, whose hu band has a fox farm on the Fiva Finger Islands, near Cape Fan shaw, iinderwent an appendector this morning at St. Ann's Hospital following an acute attack of ap-| pendis last night. Mrs. Starken- burg ‘came to Juneau several days | ago with her father, Fred Tatter, | N Marilyn Miller and Jack Pickford have agreed to divorce, reports from Hollywood state. “ALL THE NEW DAILY ALASIE ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1927. JACK DEMPSEY "NOW CAUSING A COMMOTION ;Fonner Champion Arouses | Great Interest in His [ Comeback. By ALLAN J. GOULD Associated Press Sports Editor NEW YORK, June 22. — |since the “White Hope' {1910 when Jim |out of retirement Johnson, has any Not days of Jefferies came to battle Jack come-back of est as the bid of Jack Dempsey to regain his crown Not even in the days when he | was champion, did Dempsey eyer create a commotion as he seems |to ha stirred up by his return | to New York today to talk busi- | ness with Tex Rickard | There will be more pomp and | ceremony, more fuss and feathers over his signing for the elimina- | tion bout with Jack Sharkey then | there has ever in Rickard’s | elaborate championship soiree It seems like ‘the Sharkey- | Dempsey fight will be the first { million. dollar scrap in which no | title is involved. been REACHES AGREEMENT NEW YORK, June 22.—Demp has reached an agreement with Rickard for his first come- | back fight, be s the Yankee Stadium, Jack Sharkey on July 21 Dempsey also accepted the promote | terms cover eventuality of return fight with Gene Tunney if 'Jack is victorious in the Sharkey to to ! (match, in September 1928, a Parig (I-L-N Exclusive.) _ ( Submarine Is | Derelict on Pacific Coast June | | nn, S. FRANCISCO, %Wpt. 3. T. B freighter Elkridg on from Hongkon re- derelict submarine wallowing about midway be- tween the Hawaiian slands and Japan. | No American submarine maneuvering in that vicin- ity, according to naval auth- orities here and they said they entertained the theory that the craft might belong to an Oriental power. 2 of { the his way ported a w b4 e Says Cancer Causes E One Out of 10 Deaths NORFOLK, Va., June 22.—One| out of ten deaths among grown persons in the United States is sed by cancer, Dr. George A. oper, Managing Director of the, merican Society for Control of| of the State Cancer Hospital, here, | ee | e I = | mining man at | sed through Ju-| L. Port H. Ca Wells, LINDBERGH IS IN AIR AGAIN LOUIS, June A. Lindbergh hop 29 ST, Charles Capt. -off to- ment officials on aviation mat- ters. He will be the overnight guest of Orville Wright, at Day- ton, Ohio. ->r— Found Guilty Of Siskiyou Tunnel Hold-U, JACKSONVILLE, Ore, June 22. Hugh De Autremont has been convicted of the murder of Charles 0. Johnson during the skiyou tunnel hold-up. The penalty is life imprisonment. WILL APPEAL MEDFORD, Ore., June 22,—An appeal to the Supreme Court of Oregon from the conviction and | Cancer, declared at the opening|life sentence of Hugh De Autre- mont will be taken by Fred L. Smith, attorney, who said the sen- tence will be imposed Friday. Paul De Autremont, father of Hugh, has not yet given up fox farmer from Gambier Bay, to mneau on tlie steamer Alaska bound | fighting. receive medical attention. J tor Valdez. Republican Leaders Near President During Present ) TOPEKA, Kansas, June Senator Charles Curtis, leader of the United 'States Senate and close personal advisor to Presi dent Coolidge, will be within easy reach of the president while he is summering in the Black Hille of South Dakota. It is expected that Senator Curtis will make frequent trips to the president’s summer home during his stay in the middle west, 22 Senator Curtis returned from ‘Washington to his home here a month ago. On his return he Summer in South Dakota { found a comfortable suite of rooms ready for him in a downtown | building across the street from | Topeka’s newest and largest hotel. As one ascends the stairway to the second floor of the new build-; ing where the senator leader has | his office he observes at the end of a long hall this announcement: “Senator Charles Curtis.” Senator Curtis is a lawyer, but he is not engaging in law business. His com- fortable quarfers have been pro- vided so that he will have a { Dunn, (Cnntlnu;d/an Page Seven.) Roy De Autremont is in a cheerful mood and Ray is morose. Hugh has mnot yet seen his brothers. John Dunn Coming To Juneau, Vacation SEATTLE, June 22. John Associated Press writer, left here last night aboard the steamer Alameda to spend his two weeks’ vacation in Juneau, Alaska. He is a son of Clerk of the District Court Dunn. Hunge; Cure Treatment For Striking Prisoners LANSING, Mich., June 22— The State Penitentiary authori- ties have ordered the hunger cure treatment for 328 convicts who yesterday bnrr%@d themselves| o'clock this morning for Alaskalin the water for several weeks. in the prison | mine as a|ports with 180 passengers aboard It is believed the plece of sack protest against refusal of issuing|including W. W. Hudson, J. M./was a remnant of a welghted lot cigarettes. LEVINE AND ' CHAMBERLIN American Fliers Presented with Gifts—Laudatory Speeches Made. BUDAPEST, Hungary, | —American Atlantic fliers C ence D. Chamberlin and Charle: | day for Dayton on the first leg A. Levine, arrived here today by {of a flight to Washington where 2ir from Vienna, {he will confer with high Govern- Ma landing at the s Aviation Field. Chamberlin was presented with a silver loving, cup and Levint with a silver laurel wreath by |the Hungarian Aero Club. Laudatory speeches were made by American Minister J. Butler Wright, Burgomaster of Budapest and Hungarian Minister of Com merce. Deficiency Bill First Considered In Next Session WASHINGTON, June 22,—Sen ator Reed Smoot of Utah, Chair- man of the Finance Committee and one of the Administration leaders of the Senate, who recent ly predicted that there would b- a special session of Congress to begin not later than the middle of October, said that the first measure that will be taken up will be the Deficiency Appropria tion Bill that was defeated through the filibuster of Senator David A Reed of Pennsylvania in the clos ing hours of the last session. “The defeat of that bill was : great mistake,” said Mr. Smoot “Its failure to pass has interferod with the Government and the wrong done should be righted. “The Board of Engineers is working on the flood relief report gress meets, committees can con sider ways and means for con trol.” Senator will pass a farm relief measurc but not the old McNary-Haugen bill. He said also that he hoped to see bill reducing taxes not less before the first of the year. i WATSON NORTHBOUND SEATTLE, June 22.—Steamer Admiral Watson sailed at 10 Sharples and wife for Juneau. {the ring aroused so much inter-| If that is ready by the time Con-| Smoot said Congress than $300,000,000 a year passed | i Lindbergh's triumphal entry Photo shows his car proceeding u ONE OF ! MORE FLARES ARE REPORTED W00DS,CANADA Red Light Is Sighted by| Watchers — Circulars to Be Distributed. | CHICOUTINI, Quebec, June 22.! —Mysterious flares seen nightly in this region and thought l"." have been made by the missing| French aviators, Nungesser and Coli, have been sighted by watch- ers in the observation tower of Price Brothers Company. A red light was sighted 30 miles away., | Ten thousand handbills ad- {dressed to the French fliers will| |be distributed by airplane today |over the entire district northeast {of the Saguenay River where the| mysterious flares have been re- | ported. | The circulars will tell the best method of the men to find their way to the nearest settlement. | EMPLOY INDIANS 1 NEW YORK, June 22, — The |Nungesser-Coli Search Expedition |plane is being overhauled while |Major Cotton, Commander, has apranged for employment of In- dian® guides in continuation of | the hunt for the missing filers, eee Body of Man Found | Floating in Sound | MT. VERNON, Wash,, June 22, —The boy of a man with heuvyl |bailing wire twisted around the| neck and a portion of a sack lled‘r laround the waist, was yesterday found floating in Puget Sound| | near here. The body had been sack which held the body down. BLOODHOUND IN MOVIE PROLUCTION ARS FROM DE (shoved MEMBER LINDY BROADWAY'S BIGGEST SHOW ___ b from el.) into New Y the Gay White (International was the Wiy News P the ggest OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ] show Broadway had. Battery. ever AVES. THEN 1S KILLED in SAL € a bloodhound, to chase Eliza across A version of Uncle| Tom'’s , reversed action and died saving Bliza’s life Outside of the picture, Jeff registered under the name of, Lidburn Barrier. He became a| great friend of Eliza, played by Marguerita Fischer. As Eliza, Miss PFischer stood on the edge of the fce-flaked river under a property tree. The tree toppled. ~ Jeft scented danger to his friend and rushing to her,| her out of the path of| peril. The tree caught the blood- hound and crushed him to denth. | — - >-o—— FOUR DEATHS BOSTON FIRE BOSTON, June 22, deaths resulted from today which destroyed the four- story brick and stone residence of William Shearer, jr., President of the Paine Furniture Company. Two girls and a man were burned to death and a woman was killed when she jumped from a fourth story window to the| pavement The fire started in ment from an electric on a shelf, cast the role sereen | is Four fire early base- left the iron B Suspect Identified as Philadelphia Strangler PHILADELPHIA, June 22— The police said the photograph of Virgil Wilson, sent from Win- nipeg, has been identified by three woren as the man believed to have choked to death, Mrs. Marie MecConnell, of West Phila- delphia on April 27, Three women neighbors of Mrs. McCon- nell identified the picture as the man seen mnear the woman's home, Wilgon is being held in Canada in connection with the ntranzllnxl ol a woman and a girl, | Wilkins Plans to BYRD'S FLIGHT AGAIN HELD-UP | | ROOSEVELT FIELD, N Y,l‘ June 22 Commander Richard Byrd will deviate from the Great Circle course to France| in order to get atmospheric ad-| vantages to be had to the south of the northern route so part of his trip will be over the steamer lanes on the Atlantic. Contrary pranks and fickle weather off and about Nova Scotia indicated the Byrd trans- Atlantic expedition members can only talk about flying Paris, | probably tomorrow. - to Fly to Grant’s Land 0 % SEATTLE, June Capt. George H. Wilkins announced he plans a flight from Point Bar- row, Alaska, to Grants Land, thence to Greenland. He said he is disposing of all excépt needed airplane equipment used in the Arctic flights. He will make the next Arctic flight alone. Land- ings will be made to take sound- {naval MPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS LONG TERMERS BREAK PRISON CAMP IN TEXAS White Convicts Escape from Prison Farm—B.- lieved Surrounded. HOUSTON, Texas., June 22 Thirty-five long term white cop- victs who escaped from the Wer- | guson State Prison at midnig'it last night are believed to be sup- rounded in the densely wooded Trinity River Valley near thaly camp The guards from camp have been volunteers from Madison County uthorities hunt. Most of the prisoners in the break are serving long terms angl are described as desperate char- acters. All efforts to communicate with the Prison Farm by telephone failed, indicating the conviets chit all wires ar as learned, no one was inju in the break. The convicts sawed through the bunkhouse, ran to the high- way towards the ferry. The guards took up position: near the fugitives who turngd south before they could eross thc river, HAS PRIVATE CONVERSATION NAVAL ISSUES {American Naval Represen- tative Discusses Prob- lems with Japanese GENEVA, June Gibson, Chief of the American delegation fo the three powir limitation conterence, held |@ private conversation with Ad- miral Viscount Saito and Vs {count Ishii, of the Japanese dele- | gation, on problems raised Ly tha | big divergences between Ameri- can, British and Japanese limita- tion projects. The British dele- gates were umable to attend the conference. the prison reinforced hy all sections of called by the to assist in the man 8o 22 Huogh e Guardsmen Near Death in Airplane Accident SACRAMENTO, Cal., June 28, —Following an aceident in Los Angeles in which two Nationsl Guardsmen of California nar- rowly escaped death, Adjutant General R. E. Mittelstedt has issued an order virtually con- |demning all airplanes in the |Guard Service for training pur- He has telegraphed the poses. | War Department asking It to ex- pedite nine battle planes. delivery of Steamer Victoria Arrives at Nome SEATTLE, June 22.—Steamér Victoria arrived at Nome, Alaska Monday at midnight. Accord'ng to advices “‘everything is fine." * Rumanian Cabinet Of Stirbey Quits ings and gather meteorological data, He sald he may winter in Grants Land and proceed to the Danish settlements in Greenland in the Spring. 3 U. S. GAINS BIG TRADE | | BUCHAREST, Rumania, June | 22.—The Stirbey Cabinet has re- signed. Toan Bratino, leader of the Liberal Party, will form a new government. BALANCE WITH EUROPE WASHINGTON, June Eu- rope must charge up $348,174,863 on the debit side of the ledger in its trade account with the United States for the first four months of 1927, That sum represents the difference between what America sold to Burope and what she pur- chased in return from January 1 to April 30, according to export and import figures compiled from customs records by the Depart- ment of Commerce. Compared with the correspond- ing period of 1926, Europe suffer- ed a loss in its trade balance of $73,468,610, American exports ‘o KEurope having increased $48.400. 000 and imports from Europe d.- creased $25,068,608. Total exports to Europe in the four months of 1927 were $760 431,543 as against $712,031,541 in 1926. Imports from Europe which for the first four months of 192§ amounted to $437,326,088 di in 1927 to $412,267,480. i Billion Dollar Balance s It the same rate maintains g e e (Continued on Page Three.)