The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 25, 1927, Page 1

DAILY ALASKA ALL THE TIME” LMPIRE MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS “ALL THE NEWS THI VOL. XXX., NO. 4516, JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1927. PRICE TEN CENTS BYRD MAY TAKE AIR, MOMENTS NOTICE ¥ Loveless Wite 'HOP-OFF OF BYRD MAY BE SUDDEN ONE | Looks Nov; Like Monday but Flight May Start Tomght or Sunday EMDEY S 150 | In Druss’ Tuis KENZIE PARTY MILLS GISTANT F 1S BACK FROM / KT HOON HOUR SPEEL RIVER Cm‘mqn Battleshiy E)(p(‘(‘[— | Looks OV(I Power PIO-‘ ed n (:‘hann('l Tonight jects and Visits Glass Early Sunday. Peninsula Area. ’I W W’ ism Is Blamod by Father of De Autremont Boys for Their Crime 'Miss Broadway Ore WoENE, . June 25.—Tha| : dodirine of 1. W. W.ism and th teachings of W. D. Haywood, or itentiary for life after they con G: 0| Pl TIGKET fessed the Siskiyou mountain train hold-up. My gon Sl Paal r]l--‘Sonalor Charles L McNary‘ utremont, was forced into the he was working of Or_egon, N_°‘ Out for Vice-Presidency. | ganizer of the Industrial Worke | of the World, } De¢ Autremont |t - | activities | | | | | is blamed by Paul| for the criminal three sons whn yestorday. entered the State Pen three days spent Inlet and Soymour A. Kinzie, engineer T. Cameron, San returned here about terday. He was Edbutea on trip by E. Gaston-| guay, local managor for the Al aska Gastineau Gold Mining Co., | B. F. Heintzleman, Assistant Dis- | trict Forester, and Mrs. Kinzie. The pent two days in | the Speel River end of the Inlet | looking over the various power projects covered by Mr. Came ron’s preliminary power develop permits, the proposed {tion of the transmission line ! conditions generally, The permits held by Mr. Cameron call | {for the development of 100,000 horsepower at Speel River After Speel River, party went ot Seymour Canal. The engineers went ¢ and spent traits, it should | one day cruising a fine tract of . Channel by midnight | : > ; v 4 are | spruce timber on Glass Peninsula President H. I Lucas, of the Mrs. May Landgren, the ex- | " = 0 ity Hare. Without Chamber of Commerce, was mak-; wife of three millionaires and | . == ™ Creek plant ing arrangement water serv-| the daughter of a pmmmont ! iie: ‘ol withdrawals fce and float facilities tiis after L(y]“g\.]le Ky., family, is serv- | Taku Inlet Bpon, . It.was expected the | ing a five months’ sentence in | of his After | tisham | Robert | George in Snet- Canal, { for Fran mid om- NEW YORK, June 25.—Foliow [ing veports of the Weather Bu- . |1eau, Monday has been set for B4 | the first date when it seems .t i |be a likelihood of favorable erm- | ditions for a take off to Framco of the monoplane America with Commander Richard E. Byrd and his three companions. But thers remained a possibility of a Ligh: tonight or Sunday. The fog is clearing between here and Newfoundland but wo' . 3 conditions are on the way from the Great Lakes. .- ARMY FLIERS MAY BE FIRST OCEAN FLIGHT BULLETIN—SAN DIEGO, Cal,, June 25. Flying a trimotored Fokker monn- plane, Lieutenants Maitlan1 BULLETIN — The Emden will arrive in port sometime tomorrow afternoon accord- ing to advices received by the U. 8. Radio Station at 3:25 o'clock this afternoon. | The correct time of arrival | : will be announced tomorrow } { | cisco, 5 Ray,” night his W. W. while in the shipyards during the Wor!d MWar. These teachings were cramm- | - §od. down him. He believed them' MEDFORD, Ore., June to be right and taught them to | United States Senator Charles L. the other boys. But if they com-| McNary, of Oregon, emphatically mitted the me, let them pay ' declared himself not a candidata | penalty. for Vice-President on the Repub-| “T do not blame lican ticket. there' are so many Senator McNary said: rot understand more, 1. would not accept the | Vice-Presidential nomination if thing “It would make a man a mania offered to me. I like active too well to tie myself up in to follow through the skein of bloody evidence. When [ first Vice-Presidential office even Joard of the crimo, 1 was con.| With as good a man as Calvin vinced that some one had mur- | Coolidge. I think President Cool !idge is certain to He the Repub dored by boys and tried to hang the crimo on them. I swore then licdn Presidential nominee and |certain to be re-elected. In * would kill the man or men that mind there is nothing to it.” SHAKE-UP OF morning. The Emden distant today was reported from June and, while no me had been fixed for ival in port, it was expected ould reach here about midnig forts to establish ion with the German ves only partially successful The about off the cape: noon understood it 15 knots an hour this speed after entering be in Gas 150 | u at exact its ar the jury thingg I about the but can- | whol2 What is loca and | power ment communica el were was life a 30 miles 1t making about If it main crulser was at wa Years after she had married | him, the former Mary Theresa Cornwallis-West confessed to Prince Henry von Pless that she had been forced into the ceremony, though she was in love with Lord Kenyon, That is the story of the wealthy Ger- man peer in an application ta leaving tha taing the tin ore . my Annex was to kill those whom 1 ln-)lvvwl] landing had done away with my bo. “I was mistaken and fooled all along. T am not sore at anybody, on Ve sel would anchor out in the :m\ a New York workhouse. Drug | dock Ber . of the . Adwmiral fine habit dissipated her fortune and that landing parties would| R Py be permitted ashore after neces.| 80d resulted in her conviction sary formalities of entry have| Of obtaining narcoties by fraud. been completed. Mr. Lueas was endeavoring to secure the use of{ the Ferry float for the conven-! ience of landing parties PRNETE-G e -+ STRIKE OF 328 Legislators Pay Visit to | Pre. (!)ulu[;.m RAPID The entire Dakota, Gov. | States Senator Covey and Speaker Williamson came to White House today to pay a wel-] ne to President Coolidge, from | Pierre where a special session being held, reframing vetoed \ppropriation bill The members luuched at Camp 27 Con\'iéls i Ovel'[)()\’\'el Strike Leaders—All Brought to Surface (H\ S. D., June Legisiature of South Bulow, United Norbeck, Lt. Gov. of the House the summer June 25, A ttle within the 2§ mutinous con viets in the State Penitentiaiy mine resulted in victory the forces favorin surrender and ended the upris In the battle, about 27.convicts, driven by fear to hunger after . mile walk to the Lodge. The|77 hours of self-imposed incarce Legislators spied the President|ration 720 feet below the ground, hing along Squaw Creek and|allied themselves against the 50 heuted “hello” as they ,,w..,,_ strike leaders and srpowered —— - them. DENY DEMAND = FOR MORE PAY. group w uns and aundry, take clothes and then Several of the ied from the CHICAGO, June A wage in- se has boen denied to nearly )00 conductors and trainmen on railroads, The Board of Arbitration asked an average ad- vance of 31 a day. LANSING, short fierce ranks of the coal for a of the Galena before party ov to tha Kach squad with go to the th, change get supper. mutineers we mine ho men were 12 at met by ordered brought a time, as a to a cre FINDS FRAGMENTS OF NIBELUNGEN MS. G BERLIN, June 25 agments of a Nibelungen manuseript, believéd to be one of the old- in existence, were d vered Dr. Hermann Menhard, Di- of the Klagenfurt Library, nfurt, Austria, while 4e loguing the ancient hand- of the Carinthian arch- is by rector at Kla was ¢ writings ive The ays "Frisco Favored for | G. 0. P. Convention YORK, June 25.—Wil Crocker, Republican Committeeman from | California, announced he | convineed a majority of the Natiopal Committee now favor- ed San Francisco for the com- ing. National Convention, fragments are written in the Bavarian-Austrian language of the middle ages and are supposed to have belonged to a wandering minstrel of the 12th or 13th cen- tury. They are closely written in columns of 30 lines each on a page and are without the ornace initials at the beginning of chap- ters, customary in manuscripts of a later period. NEW | liamy H. Natjonal " CONVIGTS ENDS 13 PASSENGERS which | Mr. Kinzie was continuing his investigations in this vicinity to day. He wi expected to visit the Salmon Creek plant and reservoic with Mr. Gastonguay toda He will remain here until Mr. me- ron and Col. D. €. Jackling ar | rive next Tuesday and accompany them on their trip to Speel River, and following their the south, will go to Ketehi next Friday or Saturday with Hel mwu-mun M FOR JUNEAU ON S. S. ALEUTIAN Steamer 9 o'clock this Alaska ports with including the fol- J. Baum, ‘A Victor No- R. C. Mize, G. B. Quist,| DeLong, D mofing for 254 passengers, lowing for Juneau: B. Goetz and wife, de; John H. Dunn, Mrs. A. M. Kendall, Helen Sorri, Walter Jackling and wite, George T, meron and wite, Miss H. J. Yagri, Mrs. J. T. Robertson, Bd Levi, Mrs. E. L. Ellis and daughter, S. Smiley, Gertrude Nelson, Nelson, Mrs. E. E Rabuck, Anderson, John Pihnell, Mrs. P. Smith, Ann Emapelik and six steerage. BRI o el FAMOUS WINE CELLAR WILL DISPENSE BERLIN, June 25.—Auerbach’s Keller in Leipsic, the,mecca each year of thousands of tourists with a love of Goethe and a taste for wine, is about to undergo a fun damental change. Beginning July 1 the historic drinking emporium, built in 1530, will dispense beer in addition to wine, to cater to the taste of a large part of the traveling publie. Even then, Bavarian suds will not be tolerated in the so-called historical rooms, which will be reserved for wine drinkers as be fore. From these rooms, so ths legend rups, Faust departed seat- ed on a barrel of wine. He rode successfully up the steps and out into the world. BEER EMDEN'S ARRIVAL PROCEEDED 22 YEARS AGCO BY GERMAN CRUISER FALKE WHICH VISITED ALASKA ON WORLD WIDE TOUR same nature as the Emden. The cruiser was commanded by 9 officers and had a crew of 136 cadets on board. Her armament consisted of eight 4 inch guns, 5 Hotchkiss guns, 4 Maxim torpedo tubes and a small quantity of field rifles. The length of the ship was 260 feet, with 2800 horse power. The Falke took over two years to tour the American coast. Dur- ing the journey the waters of Alaska were mapped for the navi- gation library at t.he Gerlm ith the arrival of the German cruiser Emden, it will mark the nd time a German cruiser has ited Alaska. In August, 1905, the German cruiser Falke, Capt. Behnke, vis- ited for a few days in Juneau. The Falke startéd from Ger- many in 1902 bound for St. Johns, Newfoundland, and from there journeyed to pr’chcnlly all the ports in North® America, South America and Central America. The Falke was a cadet skip of the e - Forest Fire Under Control, California BAKERSFIELD, Cal., June 2 —Strategy of Fire Chiefs bat- departure for | | by tling the great blaze 40 miles south of here has proven success- ful and the flames are reported to have been brought under cen- trl. Over 40,000 acres have been burned over. -, — Chamberlin, Levine A Visiting in Pilsen PILSEN, June 25.—American Fliers Chamberlin and Levine ar- rived this afternoon from Prague and were welcomed by notables. the Rota tribunal for annuls ment of the m riage, - ARREST BY T Promine: Men Indici Jury LOS ANGELLS, 25, More than a score of prominent Los Angeles financiers, brokers and business men were “arrested telophone” late yesterday af ternoon and last night when in formed over the wires they were amohg 55 indicted by the Grand Jury for alleged connectipns with the Julian Petroleum stock ove issue imbroglio. They were order ed to surrender today H. C. Lewis, who succeeded C C. Julian, founder of the Juliar Petroleum Corporation, indicted the Grand Jury charging usury and violation of corpora tion securities, heads the list of 5 sald to be bankers and finan- ciers. Bail for Lewis was set at 25,000 on each count. Others indicted include T. P tary ,for violation securities act; E. H. Rosenberg official of the Stock Department for usury and violation of the securitie ct, and Louis Berman for conspiracy, Bail for all three was set at $10,000. \ngeles srand dal. Cal., June 2 by > - WESTM!NSTER ABBEY HAS NEW HONOR BOOK LONDON, June 25—A hand written and illuminated Gold Book contdining the names of members of the British Army Medical Corps who fell in battle has been placod in Westminster Abbey, It @ost $12,500. Three years were required for Grailey Hewitt, noted illumi- nator, to complete it. Hewitt had six assistants, five of them wom- en but did most of the writing himself. The book is written in fifteenth century Italian style, from which present day type was evolved, and 80 is easy to read. The closest examination fails to convince the observer that such perfectly form ed letters could be written by hand. Sto len—i,oot Makes Ball !For Children SEATTLE, June 25.—Playing kall with a parcel containing $60,000 in uncancelled checks was the erstwhile pastime of a group of Seattle youngsters yesterday A passerby, attracted by the sirange appearance of the ball, stopped and investigated. Checks comprised the greater part of th~ loot which was obtained by day- light bandits on June 15 from John Francisco, office manager of the Pacific Fruit and Produce Com- pany, wurid industries, the village black- | I am only sorry.” . VILLAGE BLACKSMITHS FLOURISH IN ENGLAND LONDON, June, 25.-—-Despite the closing Gown of & number of old WASHINGTON, June 25.- Commissloner of Prohibition Dor- lan today shnounced the transter 4 of Chester P. Mills, Néw York smtthh 1s SUrviving and Tlourtshmng | oo iniutratar. -and suspensioft of throughout the country R e e R IR | |August Heise, Assistant. Doran e g TS And i announced he was not satisfied Tesnknis Bill ‘in the Hous | with the enforcement methods in Commons, Sir William lmnmn‘.\m York Hicks, Home Secrotary, said ho | % had farmed in two countries and | discovered that the blacksmith’ business was one of the best m | the country districts—this is not | because of horses to be shod but | because farm machinery which has | PARIS, June taken thelr place has to be re. | Rovalist leader paired frequently j sonsd _June 1% ol | for 1ibel, was from prison a | lease on the Prison FREE CHRISTIAN o hoo fson Director SCIENCE LECTURE Associates Delest and Secref | General Semard, of the Commun TO BE c]VEN HERE Party, were also released The release was effe member of the Royalist organi- Science is announced by the Chri zation impersonafing Minister of Interior Barraut who telephoned tian nce Society of Junean s o The lecture will be givon in Elks |the Prison Director the Cabinet upon the release. Hall, on Sunday evening, July 3, decided ase at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be | by Mrs. Nelvia E. Ritchie, C. S. |Elopement with Film Actress Costs Title of Sewickley, Penn., member of the Board of Lectureship of the | TOKYO, June 2.—Eloping with maving picture beauties in -+ [Royalist Leader is Released; Hoax Played 25.—Leon who was to sorve a mysteriously re- result of impri term A free ]o(-lnru on Christian Mother Church, the First Church | Christ, Scientist, in Boston. | Massachusetts. i | Mrs. Ritchie will lecture Prince Rupert and Ketchikan fore coming to Juneau. ol e New Commander For Camp Lewis WASHINGTON, June 25.—The War Department announced Brig. Gen. Richmond P. Davis, com- manding the Ninth Artillery Corps District of San Francisco will take charge of the Third| Division at Camp Lewls, succeed- inz Major General Robert Alex- ander, in | | but be- | restraint his title. This ruling exercise to a4 peer must if he wishes hag been handed down by the imperial household department in connection with the case of Ryolchi akeuchi, son of Baron Takeuchi, who scandal- ized the natives by eloping witn ! Miss Yoshiko Okada, teinema star. The imperial household that young Takeuchi would not be permitted to inherit his fa ther's title and that the title must lapse unless the father disowns the son and adopts some other young man as hin heir. Lmdbergh Hu th National Air Service| NEW YORK June 25.—Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh returned here late yesterday with a plaa for a National Air Transport line He is the guest at the home of Assistant Secretary of War Davi. son, in charge of Aviation. - eee “CONTENTED BOA CALLS IN POLICE S e CHAMBERLAIN LIBRARY GOES TO BAYREUTH BERLIN, June 25. — The late Houston Stewart Chamberlain, son- inlaw of Frau Cosima Wagner, has bequeathed his entire library of more than 7,000 volumes, as well as a marble bust of him-. self, to the Bayreuth municipality. He stipulates that the books are to be incorporated in the city's library in which the bust is also to be placed. The town council has dccepted the bequest. i Latin-American Air System Is Outlined WASHINGTON, June 25— Assistant Secretary of Commerce McCracken disclosed three. tenta- tive air lines between the United States, Cuba, Panama, the Canal|shop window. Peace and order Zone and some Mexican city and|were restored when the police put also predicted the Latin-American|2 railing in front of the window air lines will precede those tojand placed a gendarme on duty Furopean countries, to keep the crowds moving. PARIS, June 25.— of handbags in a fashionable shopping streét who used th: !direct method of advertising hal to call in the police to handl> the crowds. He advertised “skina from conterided boa-constrictors” by showing a sleeping boa in hii A merchant DRY OFFICIALS l):HIfl»I_" Japan | may be all right for a commoner, | more ! retain | a comedy | ruled | i < ‘\ Brondway’s official hostess | iy Miss Evangeline Raleigh. | Am'll represent the Broadway Association at publie functions (International Nawsreel.) .o 'l On Honeymoon || Trip, Man | Loses His Life LAKE, VA, Jobschke, his honeymoon he drowmed in an unsucce attempt this afternoon to scue three girls, whom drowned, when their verturned June who | FOX Edwin spending was ful re also skiff - EXPEDITION TO ARCTIC READY MacMillan Fleet wilh] S . Scientists Aboard Pre- | pares to Weigh Anchor | | Maine, June 25 ran high among the | memt of the Rawson-MacMil lan Field Muscum Expedition the Arctic preparations | made to weigh anchors The little fleet will carry scien tists on a 15 months’ trip to the interior of Greenland and Labra dor for a complete series of | meteorological investigations and | study of Runic ruins to solve the gecret strange race reputed (o [ have settled among the Hskimos 1100 WISCASSET Optimism rs | 0| as were | y ago, i - HALIBUT PRICES PRINCE RUPERT, B. | 25— Halibut sales today 1150,000 pounds. American ., June totaled hali- and | land and Hegenberger took of from the Rockwell Flying Field today for San Fran- cisco from where they will attempt a nonstop Honoluln flight. SAN FRANCISCO, Jume 25~ Prospects the Army will be tha first to attempt to bridge th+ Pacific by air receivod impetos with word that Lieut. Lester [ Maitland and Albert F. Hegenbn:- ger, who have been authorized to make the flight, will hop-off f-om San Diego for here very shortly The flight will start from hnn across the Pacific to Hawali. Mo indication is given when the hop oft will be made however. SMITH GETS SAN FRANCISCO, June 2% The Municipal Air Port at OnY- is ready to rceeive Ernm-at Smith and his Army Fokk-r plane. Smith expects to fly short- ly on the Coast-to-Hawail flight. Walter Parkin is here on ordars of the Government' to Inspect Smith’s plane. e VS Film Actors Now Threaten Trouble HOLLYWOOD, (al June 25.- actors and actress ars L a week and threat'n m;.unlzu and fight the mn of the producers. It Is »d the stars are engaging nationally kmown lawyer to * the producers on grounds thore a trust. The actors refu . make a public statement but tal volubly privately “Duster Gang” Days Ars Recalled; 2 Men Killed NEW YORK, June 25 —Down- ing Street, the battleground of » decade ago of the Hudson “Dus'. * Gang,” was the scene of twh killings last night. The bodig of two men, with three bullet wounds, were found by a pa e by in a pool of blood. The polica believe the men were fired unon from a passing automobile. Tha to 1 e but sold for six and 11 cents [Canadian 6 and 12.4 cents. LONDON, June 25.—The Port- land Club, famed cradle of bridge playing, is trying to regain its lost prestige as a world authority on all questions pertaining to the |game by adopting some of the new American rules. A score of leading bridge play- ers selected from ten London clubs { are framing a new code of laws of the game under the auspices of the Portland Club. They ara guided in their work by written views from more than 450 noted clubs all over England. The existing Portland Code has ‘Brmsh Club Accepts American Bridge Laws police have found no eye wit. nesses. been displaced in nearly eveiy country of the world except Eng- land. Even in London many play- ers prefer to play under the Am- erican rules, which recognize ¢ majority calling, and indications are that the new Portland Cub code will contain this American rule: “A bid of a greater number of odd tricks ranks higher than a bid of a less number.” This will do away with the !t rule where, for instance, a two notrump bhid would beat a three chub bid,