The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 9, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” OL. XXX., NO. 4527. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 9, 927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SEVEN PERISH IN FIRE IN YANCOUVER yclone Hits Two Sections Near Alberta; Much Damage PEARL QUEEN OF PARIS TW0 TOWNS IN CANADA BADLY DAMAGED, WIND Houses Are Carried Away While Business Blocks | Are Unroofed. ‘ | CALGARY, July Cyclones, | torrential rains and hafl brought | unestimated destruction and prob- | uble death two widely separ-| ated districts last night . The most serious damage was wrought in the town of Rock| Mountain Housé, 100 miles north-| west a cyclone and| hour stornr carried away | 1d unroofed virtually all| buildings. Two hotels troyed and untold injury to crops | Vulcan, 70 miles southeast! ary wept poles CUPID’S TA [ { | 9 in of here where atw house At buildin telephone Only reports have been| both tions. yelone away and ! | meagre from BYRD LEAVES PARIS; OFF TO COAST TOWNS Commander and Threq . Compamions Leave Tues- day, Home Bound. PARIS, Rictard E. fons on received ¢ July 9. — Commander Byrd and his compan- Atlantic flight, said farewell to Paris today, leaving, oh ‘the train for Callals, There| were no formalities at the fare-| well but a crowd cheered the aviators From Callais, motor to Dunkerik will be made “free citizens” of| the city, then to Letouquet | where a banquet is planned {he four fliers plan to arrive| Cherbourg on Tuesday to! hoard the liner Leviathan. The res ion of EMDEN NOW sented y sted by President Coolidge. RESIGNATION OF SHEFFIELD N ACGEPTEI] Ambassador to Mexico Re- signs Post at Critical Time—No Successor. the the aviators will| where they| RAPID CITY, S. D, July James R 9 Shef. pro- has (Special SKAGWAY, to Bmpire) Alaska, July The Cerman cruj Emden an-| chored in the channel here at 3:30 lock yesterday :\H(-lnnnn;‘ after an eleven-day visit in Ju W and y of a day spent at| Taku Claci The offi and crew Pmden were welcomed by sentatives of the Skagway ber of Commerce, Dr. P. L Howard Ashley and W. C chard Mayor W. J. Mulvihill visited the cruiser at 7 o'clock last nx'ht with other ecity nmd.xl* I rlsh Terrier Ex perwncod his suecc . wrote appointment President field, of 9 Coolidge Shef in meeting the difficult at Mexico City contributed great ly to continuation of rel between the trie Sheffield thanked the President for his “unfailing kindness an-l | generous support” which made his service “in this important and difficult post, always a pleasure.” Sheffield has indefinite plans, e s (Ci unlm\ln-ll on I’ALU l-l\n' ions two coun- of the| repre- | Cham- Dahl, Blan- And a Delighted Yachtsman is more than a mere gsenger, and f a very r terest in the craft on which lives #0 much of the time. of his self appointed duties is a complete survey of the boat each | night when the family retires. Lua a3 m- Lud, short for Howard Luallyr, is one of the most important per- sonages in the White-Pinkerton- leck purty of writérs, that arrived in Junean Thursday evening. Con- gidoring the distinction of * the other members of the party, it will be understood that Lua is no ordinary trash, for he keeps up his end as a gentleman and a traveler as well as any of them, though only 2 years old. He 1s of a beautiful dark reddish brown color, and shows his aristocratic irish Terrier ancestry in_ev movement and each glance of his lovely brown eyes. He is on experienced cruiser, and loves the boat and water bet- ter than the shore, according to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pinkerton, to ‘'whom he belongs. During thd seventeen months which Lua has belonged to hi§ present owners he has cruised practically all of the time, and for one stretch of six months never glept ashore. time the problem of burying biscuits worried Lua. The Pinkertons realizing what was ‘troubling the dog, pondered ov a remedy which threatened happiness of their pet on ship- board. Mt was finally discovered that “a coil of rope answered the purpose and satisfied Lua and since then his biscuits have been regularly buried under the piles of rope. There is utter de\'nllon between Lua and eleven-year-old Barbara Pinkerton. .They have a dinghy which is for their own use exclusively, and they spend many hours together while the elder Pinkertons are evolving plots and busily engaged in writing, For some B RIS B Diana Kane, sister'of Lois Wilson, and herself a film tar, is reported engaged to George Fnzmaunce, movie director, BLast year Diana was veported betrothed to Everett Jacgbs, | multimillionaire New, Yorker. This is her latest phota. in accepting the resignation, | that Sheffield's courage and ability | the peacefnl! ha | Ona | small | RGET AGAIN HE RES]GNS o | ( | | | | f | | | resignation becomes effective npon sitnations | { American Ambassador Sheffield, “m Mexico, who quits his diplo- | matie post |Two Rivers Flooded; ! 55 Persons Drowned DRESDEN, S‘nxnn» July 9.— Fifty-five persons are known to {have been drowned in torrential ‘Hnmls of the Mueglitz and Got- tleuba rivers after a series of cloudhursts. {Calmly Confesses To Slaying Wife OREGON CITY, Ore,, July 9. ~—Calmly, and in a matter of fact voice, Alvin McCurdy told how he unemotionally murdered his wife with three blows of a claw hammer and after “just stand- ing"” outside of the house for half an hour, set the building afire. The crime was committed last night after his wife returped from .a motion “picture show. He said he lay awake three hours thinking about killing his wife before he committed the grue- some crime, ‘- Twenty Largv Seen in Western Two Vol('atuws Are Actwv DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska, July With the report of having seen large volcanoes, Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar, of Hawaii, volcanologist of the United States Geological Survey, returned here from a cruise of the Western Aleutian Islands, to Atka, on the Coast Guard Cutter Unalga. Dr. Jaggar said both Bogoslof* and Gareloi volcanoes are active, Dr. Jaggar landed on Bogosloff Island where he found a new steaming inner cone of hot rough lava, surrounded by a lagoon of 9. 20 . Attempts to Live On Water 55 Days; She’s Dead TORONTO, July 9 Weak- ened by a fdst of 55 days, by | which she hoped to cure her of indigestion, Mrs. Leontough collapsed several | days ago and died today. She had taken nothing but water for 55 days. | ARGUMENTS IN NEW CASE ARE chkersham s New Injunc- tion Case Taken Up— Right to Sue Debated The question of taxpayers to invoke interposition of the courts to restrain the o°x penditure of Territorial funds, ap- propriated by the Territorial legis lature, was argued in the U. § District Court today before Judge T. M. Reed in the latest suit brought by Judge James Wicker- sham against Treasurer Walstein G. Smith. After hearing the argu ments, Judge Reed announced he the right of | would considér the question a few days before rendering an opinion Judge Wickersham appeared for | himself, Eugene Wacker and D. W Hiskins, both of Ketchikan, who joined with him as plaintiffs in the action. The case was up to day on a demurrer filed last wesk by Attorney General Rustgard. Is Municipal Corporation Counsel for the plaintiffs tended that the Territorial con BOY | ernment was in effect a municipai | corporation and as such was sub ject to suit by individual taxpay ers; that it did not have the im munity from being sued which is possessed by the State and Fed eral governments. This was denied by J. A. Hellenthal, who with Attorney General Rustgard appear- ed for the defense. He argued that the grant of power to govern weos contained in the Territory’s con stitution exactly as are the grants of States. The difference, hc sald, was not in the grants, but in their sources, the source of the Territorial constitution being Congress while the States derived their constitutional powers from the people, themselves. Judpe Rustgard suggested to the Court that the power to maintain actions of the nature of the pre sent case was vested in the A torney General's office by a law passed by the Legislature in 1922 Other Questions Settled The lack of argument on other questions raised in the case was not - unexpected. Virtually everv one of the appropriations attacked RN . e/ Bl el (Continued on Page Three.) - Daily Forecasts to Be Made for Ocean Fliers “'ASHINGTON July 9.—The Weather Bureau is preparing for the day of regular trans-Atlantic flying service. Tentative plans of the Weather Bureau to devise accurate daily forecasts of weath- er conditions for trams-oceanic aviators to be included in the reports issued twice a day are now being made, - 1the HEARD TODAY Jthe active ministry Volcanoes Alaska; warm salt wa Outside of this was a complete ring of gravel with beaches inside and outside and no ‘open channel Dr. Jaggar believes & new spell of intense activity has started on Bogosloff @losely resembling tho 1906 eruption Four hundred sea lions found living in the beaches 3 to the active volcano and millions | of sea birds were nesting in the ¢liffs and sand banks. Sulphurous steam but no noxiou gases were encountered " FLIGHT NOW PLANNED TO ROME, ITALY Hope || # Ho\d Bmtaud lo Hop Off in New Plane Some- time in August. NEW YORK, July 9 fow air mall pilot will oceupy navigator’s seat in Ol Glory” when Floyd Bertaud pilots it to Rome from New York. The plane “0ld Glory™ is now umler construction and will be delivered to Bertaud July 25 Teantative plans-gatl for o take- off the second week in August. The plane will have a 495 horsepower air-cooled Jupiter en- gine and will have a wing spread of 64 feet The wing surface will be 630 square feet. The plape will carry 1,200 gal- lons of gasoline and will be about 12,000 pounds. 16 PAS SENGERS ABOARD ALASKA FOR THIS PORT Al A fel- SEATTLE, July 9.—Steamer aska sailed for Alaska ports at 9 o'clock this foremoon with 147 passengers aboard, the following for Juneau: G. Charistenson, Major E. D. H. Gillette, E. D. Baker, T. H. Grant, L. D. Henderson, R. S. Hasson, W. R. Potter, J. J Reynolds, Miss E. Hudson, Rose Fadlier, E. T. Watsins, J. Matten, Fred Gorton, H. W. Playter, Mrs. W. R. Porter and ene steerage. Legs of Young Woman Found, Wrapped Paper NEW YORK, July 9.—Part of the legs of a young woman, wrapped in brown paper, were found by the police today in a clump of bushes on Battery Point, at the tip of Manhattan Island. Physicians said the limbs had apparently been severed from the body by an axe. Parson’s Status May Invalidate 500 Marriages BLKTON, Md., July 9—The le- gality of marriage ceremonies, estimated at 500, performed since January 1 by the Rev. Richaid P. Westien, “marrying parson” of this Gretna Green, has been brought into question through the declaration of Superintendent J W. Colina, of the Wilmington dis- triet of the Methodist Episcopal conference, that Westien is with- out orders of that church and therefore unqualified to solemnize marriages. Westlen_said he received elder’s orders asga local preacher from the Upper lowa conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1908 with Bishop Lewis presiding. He is sald to have been dropp- ed from the Montana conference roll in 1917 fqr failing to report to the conference, this failure automatically excluding him from any state. the weight] E \ | gl JOHN DREW IS DEAD; BEEN ILL Noted AmPri('an At:lmm Passes Away—Was on Theatrical Tour. SAN FRANCISCO, July 9. John Drew, aged 73 years, noted American actor, died here today after confined in the hospital since | May 31 with arthritis and rheum- atic fever. Mr. Drew was playing a stage engagement which brought him to the west. He was taken seriously ill while at Seattle and upon arrival here went immediate- ly to the hospital. Coming from a family which, through three generations, holds what is probably a record for con- tinuous activity upon the stage, John Drew acted his way from an inconspicuous beginning to a position as one of the outstanding figures of the theatrical worll, and was regarded by many as the (Continued ou Page Eight.) SEVERAI. WEEKS* h | w. Hobby of Mlle. Arlette Serry, famed Parisian beauty is pearl collecting and now she is said to possess the finest private collection of the gems in the world. wearing some of the most valuable pieces, Delectxvcs guard her when she appears in public wikethem, In this new photo she is s Jewelers Wl!h 10-Cent Store Rings ] Seat- SEATTLE, thelyn Brown, tle girl, told the police to- | day how she and her 21- | vear-old brother bought rings | at 10 cent stores and then | visited many jewelry stores | where they exchanged them | for valuable jewels. July pretty - - \Death Aids Man in Prison Term Fight BREME R'I“:\‘. —~The fight in G. Walker, Wash., July 9 court made by electrical en- gineer, against a 20-year sen- tence in prison imposed for an alleged electrocution plot against a navy yard worker whose wife Walker admitted he admired, was ended when Walker died today in the Port Orchard Hospital as |a result of pneumunla MANY INJURED | | | | _|arette dropped by a passerby IN HOTEL FIRE IN VANCOUVER Three Children and roux Adults Met Death 1 Flames Yeslerdav. UPPER STORIES OF APARTMENT GUTTED Painter, All;zged to Ba Cause of Fire Is Held— to Change Ordinance VANCOUVER, Seven persons, B. C., July 9 three of them children, burned to death when fire gutted the upper stories cf the large Royal Alexander Apnrt- ment Hotel late yesterday after- noon Fully injured David Henderson, a painter, de- clared by the police to acecident- ally have started the blaze, {s held on a charge of manslaught r Immedite steps will be takin to revise the city ordinances re- lating to construction of bnild- ings. Mayor Taylor declared that after a survey of the ruins, (t was indicated the rapid spread appeared to be due to drafis through the air shafts, Most of the occupants of the apartment hotel were visitors and all lost their personal effects. Many -are being cared for at other hotels at the expense of the ecity. The police said Henderson ae- cidentally dropped sparks from a cigarette into a can of highiy inflammable paint remover. Henderson said a lighted one dozen persons weore elg- on paper, the fire. DEADLOCK IN NAVAL GRISIS was responsible for IS CONTINUING No Progress Rei)orted on Limitation Issues, Saito Claims. GENEVA, July 9—“No pro- gress has been made,” Admirul Viscount Saito, of the Japanese delegation to the tripartite Naval Conference, told the Associatad Press as he emerged today from a meeting of the Exectuive Com- mittee of the Conference. He ap- peared extremely downcast. Cruiser limitation and increas- ed submarine tonnage for Japan are the two stumbling blocks, with the former proposition caus- ing the present crisis. LONDON, July 9.-—Girls of the Victorian era were just as frivolk ous as the flapper of today, be- lieves Dowager Lady Raglan, a descendant of Charles II through her grandmother, Lady Lavinia | Cornwallis, Lady Raglan was a member of Victorian society in its most ex- clusive period. She discredits the prevailing idea that the Victorian girl was strictly chaperoned, and {never received a proposal unless her suitor had first asked per- mission from the sidewhiskered father of fiction. “The truth is in those days men proposed direct to the girl of their choice,” Lady Raglan said. "‘ln some ways the girls of that period had far more opportunity of knowing men case nowadays. “The London season started di- rectly after Esster and ended in July, after which young people met at country house parties. Here than is the VICTORIAN GIRLS : LED A GAY LIFE they were given plenty of op- portunity to know each other. “True, debutantes were chaper- oned at balls. But that fact did not prevent them from dancing as frequently as they chose wiih their favorite partners. “The idea that girls In th» Victorian era spent their days 'n sewing seams and practicing sea'. ¢ is another fallacy. On the con- trary those who came to London for the season spent their duys |in a whirl of social engagements. “Dress, not sex, was the great topic of conversation in thoue days. “Another popular delusion fi that the Victorian girl never in dulged in sport. Lawn tennis w, % a most popular game which was played extensively. Another favor ite pastime was water parties, Chaperones were dispensed with, and the girls and young wmen used to go down the river Tham:s in boatloads and picnic on river banks,”