The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 29, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXX., NO. 4519, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT5 TWO ARMY AVIATORS REACH HAWAII BYRD, LONG DELAYED, SUDDENLY HOPS OFF ON FL PLANE AMERICA | IS NOW FLYING - OVER ATLANTIC Commanc ]cr By rd, Three Companions Leave Field Early Hour. RCOSEVELT FIELD, N, Y. June 29.—Commander Rich- ard E. Byrd and his thres men crew took off on the fong delayed Scientific Air Expedition to krance in the mcnoplane America at 5:24 o'cleck this morning, East- |Mmonoplane, i ern daylight time. perast, SORUnGRG Storms that have blocked |!"5¢d to the flight during more than |3 'are a menth and a half seemed to be as great as ever last night but this morning Byrd announced he was going des- pite thec weather man’s re- nort, The were NEW YORK, June motors warmed hour, then s as though hot about of the field of th up rreat plane half an Ameriea from a catapult,| ort incline, ran £ of the length|™ and soared easily into| With the gray dawn and disappeared, ‘ gasoling The take-off dramatie start. Instead almost the wing spre Empty if w equipped 14,207 uddenly, lung the s two-third pound than 1,200 he L& on W and was in| of merely runnimg; Commander of Plane and Companion the down the incline, the plane was| tied down to the runway wi rope. When all was ready, plane ained with all of might against the restrai bond, thenRoss Gardine the mechanics Jashed the With “the sudden r plane was fairly hurled down tho| o was sald that by this mathod, much was gained on the 100:foot incline as could have been achieved traversing 1,000 fect on the field Accompaning re Bert George O Wl eng Halchen al the it incl Commander pilot; radio and Lieut Byrd Lieut,. | expert| Berndt| Acosta, Noville, r, RADIO FROM BYRD HALIFAX, June 29 The wing message signed by intercepted here: “We wire best wishes to Maitland d w. We are keeping sharp kout for Nungesser Coli wind does not the rface. It is good { @ nile. We think w getting yme gcientifie data.” | S_GNALS PICKED UP b ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., June 20.—The Captain of the lin- Mauretania, in a wireless m e * to the American T Oceanie Company, said radio sig- nals from Byrd’s America were| in strong at 2:19 o'clock | afternoon. The Muretania Newfoundland. fol Byrd a and 21p us at ans- coming in this is off | BYRD TRAVELS FAST | | | HALIFAX, June 29 covered the distance Scotia on his nonstop three hours and 30 minutes bet- | tering Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh's time by one hour and J..: minut I | to flight in BYRD CONGRATULATES ROOSEVELT FIELD, « 29.—Complying with a r dio request from Byrd, Grover| A. Whalen, one of the back of the flight, has sent a message congratulating the Army fli on their successful flight from San | Francisco to Honolulu. June FUTURE PLANNED NEW YORK, June 29.—Com- mander Richard E. Byrd, in an! article in the Popular Science Monthly, envisions trans-oceanic| airplanes of the future with| t multimotored ships with as| many as 10 engines and two tiers of cabins in the wings for regu- lar service across the Atlantic within a few years hence. Bert Acostay/ RSN SO James Klein and His Father Dead, Accidenti e ee - : 150 TEXAS TOURISTS | | COUNCIL GROVE, Kansas ARE TOURING EAST 29.—S8amuel Klein of Chicago was killed and his father, Morris Klein, was seriously injured, when the automobile in “‘which they were of 150 Texans are completing | attempting fo clip seven hours a “good will” tour of the eastern |from the frain time befween Chi- half of the United States. Their cagzo und Les Angeles crasied in- reception everywhere has been ful- to the side rail of a ¢oncrete cul- Iy up to the expectations of the |vert ten miles east of here on tha emissaries of the Lone Star State. Santa Fe Trail late last- night. AUSTIN, Texas, June 29.—Head- ed by Gov. Dan Moody, a party mm e | had trip to the | explorer enter | | Asiatic port to another he traveléd | IGHT TO P\RI.\' FROM that his planc 50 hours with than 4,000 miles. One huge tank, suspended froem | beam instead of being the fuselage, holds 800 | | estimated vould fly pc radius of mor th built wing in is placed In the with the each nose @ " other nspended on ide wing plane hed to of a of has valv the forced wvy cargo of gasoline mptied in a few minutes. Two rubber 1abric vied with compres ors, hand pumps, nd food in a compartn dump tanks landing an in and | the boats are car- air genera- | gignal d ut cos | in the! BYRD IS IN AIR FLYING OVER OCEAN | g ‘(nmnmndcr WIIO Mfld(’ lnp to North Pole Fl) ng | Again — Companions. V YORK, June ardly Commander Ric Iyn Byrd realized his life ambition, a orth Pole, before h ations for new ex- began pr [ ploits in the air While the cheers inspired by 1 flight over the Pole on M 1 still were ringing in his ears, the United States Navy aviator- took under consideration proposed trip by air to the south Pole. Then ho decided to the New York to Paris non- top contest which had attracted other birdmen of America and Byrd first he wanderlust when, 12, he obtained his mother to make a journe around the world by himself.' Starting from Richmond, Va. a city founded by his forefathers, Byrd went overland to San Fra cisco where he boarded a steamer for the Philippines. From one :ded tho spirit of at the age of permission from on coasting vessels then he cross: ed Europe and returned on a liner | to New York Arctic Excites Interest Tales of Arctic exploration nex: excited his interest and he de- termined when 15 years old to make an effort to discover the North Pol Admiral Robert E. Peary beat him there but Byrd shares with Peary the honor of having led an’ expeditfon over the top of the world, and more- over his is the added honor of having flown an airplane over the pole for the first time. | - “The sporting element nnpv-uln,“ strongly to me but I am also | deeply interested in proving thut the airplane can do the job,” Byrd wrote in a newspaper before hiz Polar flight. After going through the navy routine following graduation from ; the Naval Academy, Byrd's in- terest in aviation . caused him to transfer to the naval air serv- jce. With the purpose of connect. ing himself with an air expedi- tion in which he expected the navy to engage he began making 2 technical study of flights and instruments for air navigation. Is Inventor His inventions _revolutionizel the navigation of aircraft. One was the so-called “bubble sextant” which enables flyers to obtain | an_artifical horizon and to cal- e et e (Continued on Page Seven.) NEW Y ()RK P S—_———————— S —————————————— rear of the last part of the submerged in Fishing poles, also carried, It is estimated that the, rubber bhoats will remain afloat 80 days and in their water-tight wre enough foed to dast aides that The America will wdentifid in the air without difficulty. In addition to the distinguishing marl of the three motors, its name is painted in large red, white and blue letter and o gigantic star has a monogram, ATC, in the center, these injtials standing the owning company. the Ams Trans-Oceanic Company. T 0 Alrmen Wlth Byrd on Flight plane, this being the craft likely to! b case of disaster lines and bait aic pock Byrd and his two period e rica Lieut. Berndt Balchen |TWO STEAMERS ON WAY NORTH| SEATTLE, June 2).—Steamer Northwestern sailed last night at 9 o'clock for Southeastern Alask: with 108 passengers including the following for Juneau: Mrs, Roche and two sons, vienen, W. C. Manus and G. Gultig The Admiral Farragut sailed at 10 o'clock this morning for Al aska ports with 132 passengers including the following for Ju neau: S. A, Brannin, wife anl two children; and wife, Walter W. Maeser one fiteemge. and for | De | Alice Foi- | Walter C. Maester | ‘GAMERUN SAYS BEING CROWDED E.ngmeermg Work on Paper | Mills Being Pressed as Fast as Practicable. ALASKA’S FIELD | AHEAD OF CANADA’S| | | | | San Francisco Chronicle! Publisher Thinks Alaska | Paper Possibilities Great SGeorge Cameron, publishor of the San neisco Chronicle ®lo is in Juneau with Col. D, ¢ gickling, inspecting the Than propertics, is accompanied by Jal Bavm busincss manager and Frank Plaffinger, tre of the | Los Angeles Times, representin }l. rry Chaudler, publisher of thar paper, which is jointly inte | with the San F in the new paper mill proje @imeron stated that pro; | the construction of a plant was | making headway. That in connec [#on with the Zellerbach inte hich awarded timber and pHwer Ketchikan a joint in ves is under’ way under tho supervision of Robert A. Kin- #ie, for many years a resident ol @astineau Channel, and former Superintendent of the Alasha | Treadwell, Gold. Mining. company |es on Douglas Island. My Kinzie investigations cover all quae involving the water power and nydro-electric And K. O. Fosse, the Zeliethach Paper has charge of the inv of ¢hé pulpwood utmi Mr. @nmeron said that no question both as to the and quantity and sufficient timber | manufacture in hoth Juneau that the able w T'he at 500 as it surer, was at igation ons sites velopment de- | ot ations there qu availability for newsprint irge quantities ar and Ketehikan, but amount of power avail- | not definitely known possibilities of manufacturing these (wo iocations were frora 850 tons each, daily, and required in excess of 10,000 | horse power for each 100 of paper, daily manufacture was essential t both the ent and future installations of | power must be correctly worked out from the first installations (n\ the final ones. Not cnly was lhml the economical and proper way | to build this industry to its full development, but the Government | would insist that the power sub- ject be worked out correctly and in an orderly manner. The ernment has made readings fo: | many years on some but not ali )f these powers, and has in hand uceurate data respecting the power wuich can be developed at the more important and accessible | power sites. There, however, is little or no data available as to the costs of installing the necos- | sary dams and equipment together | with power lines to bring this clectrical energy to the mill sites, ;'I‘hc winter conditions on the | higher altitudes constitute a prob. | lem for the maintenance of power |lines as the sleet and ice gather lon these lines and break .them down. As paper mills are in c | stant operation 365 days in th | yoar, there must he no interrup- tion of power service, and to this lend power lines and plants must I'bay 8o routed and constructed as |to afford a minimum of power interruption. Mr. Kinzie has tak- en over the personnel at the various water power sites and should be able to report by next | spring what the minimum winter stream flows were during the coming winter. “The conditions in the paper | business at this time are unsatis- factofy from the manufacturers’ standpoint,” said Mr. Cameron | “The new construction which has been undertaken in Canada in the past few years has created a surplus of newsprint paper. These mills have been built by establish- :«d companies, who have had to remove their plants from United | States territory as the areas of forest have been largely cut on’ ity o s to tons it | pres | (Continued on Page Two.) MILL PLANS ARE Compan; | &5 ! plementing {tive Judge LINDBERGH T0 THEY FLY TO HAWAIIL United States Army Le J. Maitland who a flight from San Fr ever reached ranc accomplished WICK ATTACKS FOR GOVERNOR Attorney Again Moves to| Enjoin Payment of Costs for Governor’s Office. Judge James Wickersham, rep- resenting himself - and Eugene Wacker and D. W. Hiskins of Ketchikan this afternoon filed suit in the United States District Court against Walstein G. Smith, Territorial asurer, asking n injuncticn enjoining the urer from paying out any from the appropriations the last Territorial Leg- prov as for by An Secretary addit the of onal salary to the Governor, sup- the amount paid by Federal Government, amount- ing to $720 per annum or $1,440 for the biennium; compensation v janitor and messenger and other services for the Governor's house and offices, $600 per an- num or $1,200 for the biennium; lx aveling and contingent expenses the Governor, $2,000 for the biennium; entertainment at the | Executive Mansion of officers and representatives of the ates of the Union or foreign countries, $2,000 for the biennium; repairs and improvements at the Execu- Mansion, $1,250 The total iount the suit is $7,890. These items were included mg other items in a suit that wa brought by Judge Wicker- sham against the Territorial Treasurer May 6 and which was recently dismissed on motion of Wickersham involved in MAKE TOUR OF U. S. BY AIR NEW YORK, June 29. Col Charles A. Lindbergh, American transAtjgntic flyer, will soon stact on an air tour of the United States. Officials of the Daniel Guggen- heim Furid for the Promotion of Aeronautics, under whose auspices the tour will ge made, announced that Lindbergh will fly the “Spirit of St. Louis,” in which his alr journey from New York to Paris was accomplished. The air tour, which will start in about three weeks, will cover the entire country, although the definite schedule has not been completed. Two or three months will be spent on the tour, which will include most of the principal citles in the United States, in- cluding those of the Pacitic Coast, the announcement said. .- Richard Wakelin, Alaska sales- man, left on the steamer Aleu- tian for Valdez, Lieutens sco making ts the Albert Hawaliz after flight ands tran today long he oceanic WASHINGTON U, APPROPRIATIONS JUNIOR WINS AT POUGHKEEPSIE Previous Records Over Course Are Broken— Columbia Second. BULLETIN—POUGHKEEP- SIE, June 29. — Columbia, the dark horse in the annual four-mile Varsity rowing classic, whipped the Univer- sity of Washington this afternoon by one length. The time was 20 minutes and 57 seconds. Califo nia was third and the Navy o poor fourth. POUGHKEEPSIE, New June 29.—For the third year the Washington Junior Var- sity crew rowed to a victory over the three mile course to win from Columbia by a length and a half this afternoon. Columbia finished second, and California third The Washington and Columbin crews were rowing neck and neck until the last half mile when the Huskies started a terrific spurt to pull away from Columbia Pennsylvania finished fourth and Cornell fifth, four lengths bo hind Washington. J. V. Breaks Record Fine conditions prevailed during the entire race. The Washington boys broke the previous record of the course to finish in 15 min utes and 12 45 seconds. 5 Yorl straignt Navy's Plebe Wins POUGHKEEPSIE, New York, June The Navy's c k Plebe crew rowing in the freshman two mile race, the opening event of the Poughkeepsie Regatta today, won a decizive victory of one and a4 quarter lengths over Syracuse Columbia was third, two lengths bhehind Syracuse, California fresh man finished sixth, The winning time was nine minutes and eleyen and three auatrters seconds. Wash- ington did not enter a freshman crew. — e ——— Borden Expedition Stops, Dutch Harbor DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska, June 29.—The yacht Northern Light, carrying members of the Borden Field Musoum Expedition, stopped here yesterday for equipment with which to hunt whale in the Bering Sea. The Northern Light, which stopped at several points on the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands, before coming here, start ed from Oakland, Cal, two montl s ago. Among the members of the party, who will gather specimens for the Chicago Field Museum, are John Borden, Chicago millionaire, and his wife. - e —— Oscar Hart, representing Neu- stadter Brothers Company and Marjon, who has been in Juneau for a week left on the steamer Aleutian for Cordova. / L. B. Adsit, Juneau broker, left for Latouche on the Aleutian, QuIcK FLIGHT ACROSS OCEAN BY ARMY MEN ‘Llc‘ulenanls Maltland and | Hecenberger Reach Hawaii Today. WHEELER FIELD, Island of Oahu, Hawaii, June 29 First to make the 2,400-mile flight between San Francisco and Hocnlulu, United Statn Army fliers Lieutenants Len ter J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger, arrived at 6:22 o'clock this morning Throughout the long flight, the Army plane was sern only once—by the steamer Somona — when 750 miles from the California coast The Army fliers came n through a bright sunshine that cleared away the rain and gloom of the night that shrouded the landing place. Thousands who waited throvgh the long night had begun to dig- perse when the aviators came through the haze to a triumphant landing The plane made the flight hours and 43 minutes. Lieut. Maitland had figured the flight could be made in about 24 hours. The fastest steamers traverie the broad waters of the Pacific Ocean from five and one half to six days. By the flight, the two Armv aviators completed the longest trans-oceanic airplane flight ev.r accomplished. Landing was made on a ra'n- | soaked field. The huge plane taxied the ecn- tire length of the fleld, then cirling it came back to the front of the reviewing stand where the highest Army, Navy and civl authorities on the island wore waiting to extend congratulations to the fliers. The guns of the fortress thund- ered a salute as the plane passed overhead. | n 24 REFUSE $10,000 HONOLULU, June 29. The Army aviators have twice refused an offer of $10,000 for the ev- clusive rights of the story «f their flight tendered by a Homo- lulu attorney representing a S Francisco newspaper, When asked if they were hun- gry and tired, the fliers asked for cold chicken sandwiches. “We had coffee and wiches but could not find them although we looked all over tha plane while traveling,” sald Ma't- land. sand- NOT TO FLY BACK WASHINGTON, June £) Lieutenants Maitland and Heg- enberger will not fly back to tha United States. The plane wil he left in Hawail for Inter-Island flying the War Department du- cided. COOLIDGE CONGRATULATESD RAPID CITY, 8. D., June 2).— Congratulating the Pacific fi‘era, President Coolidge in a eable- gram told them they had added a new chapter to the bril'iant history of American aviation. EVANGELIST IS SUED FOR BIG DAMAGES CHICAGO, June 29. Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Ange':s evangelist and principal in tha Californiz “kidnapping” case lasi spring, was made defendant in a $100,000 damage suit tiled in cou t here by Bert Kelly, owner ¢l a North Side cabaret. The suit was based on an a* ticle by the evangelist in a Chi. cago newspaper. Kelly's attorn. v said that the article, written a* ter Mrs. McPherson had visiteld Kelly's establishment, referred W it as a “trap door to hell,”