The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 15, 1927, Page 1

THE VOL. XXX., NO. 4532. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY DAILY ALAS “ALL THE NEWS K ALL THE TIME” 1927. AT THE END OF TRA MEMBER NS-P. OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PACIFIC FLIERS FORCED DOWN, OCEAN A CTFF N7y AUEL PRICE TEN CENTS U. S. W orks 10 Avert Break-up of Naw[ Cnnference OISON MAKES PROPOSAL FOR § AN AGREEMENT U. ! Wl” Accept Scnl(‘—‘ ment if British and Jap- ! anese Can Agree. | NEVA, u : | Jast "!"lei”"‘ view the if ¢ an lem, At which July 1o night in of the United States, | Britain and Japan aired Hugh Gibson, head of rican delegates said that| Britain and Japan reach eement on the cruiser prob- | United States will be| ept-it, which would atened break-up of | val conference | d that the mutual | feeling of security uch an agreement more than a me, % | Tepre- eat certain ¢ thr present 1 Gibson ple confidence and deviva would be and worth guns hip CONFERS WITH GIBSON GENEVA, July 15. - Admiral Viscount Saito, of the Japanes delegation, called Hugh Gibson, Chief of Americ delegation, for g nl review | the situation existing in thej Naval Conference which continues | stationary - eee 45 ARE DEAD EASTERN HEAT NI'W YORK, July 15 directly attributed to the heat| wave under” Which 'the Dastern| States have been sweltering for turce days, mounted to 45 this morning with of prostrat-| ed. Many persons were drowned seeking relief from the humidity. | -oe 1 A‘lollu&r Hope Blasted On Fmdmg White Bird| a1 spark when wreckage on the a e of ~Deaths JOHNE of hope two in Iul\ 15 The kindled yesterday hunters reported the interior which | believed to be remains of “White Bird” which as by the French aviators' Nungesser and Coli. was virtually extinguished when Major F. 8id ney Cotter, after falking with one of the two men, discredited| their story. | was the flown Is Held Blamele:s For Vancouver Fire A corone H«l Henderson, aged yes a8 blameless on a nmn\lau;.lxuu v)mrl.:u in comnection with the Royal Alexander Apartment fire last Friday morning in eight persons were butrned death. The jury held that derson was ignorant of the highly inflammable nature of the remover which he using. owner was ¢ “i | { to | batween a few house which | Hen- | g6 ward “Taft. paint | The | onough sured for permit- | ting its use, i Louise Hunter, Ohio girl once proclaimed the ‘““most beau- tiful girl in opera,’’ is deserting opera and ‘‘single blessedness’® at the same time, - She’s engaged to wed Harry H. Windsor, Jr., magazine editor, and under contract to sing in a Broadway musical comedy. two- geasons, She was with the Metropolitan Opera for MYSTERY OF ORIENT IS FOUND IN LHI(,J(,() CHICAGO nels of aled Jul Chicago’s Chinatown today as a fact Chinatown {agents testified. The passageways were their labyrinthian i ARt hours, wn rev noncycomh narcot maz them of te block underground o extensive in| windings that | actually I their “Every tunnels erally are for Ch hene T fon h gen confined to connections 1 Majo the nareotic has they a . but Joseph A unit Manning, he Chicago of Federal agents block, running down al through vacant lots and the basements of buildings It was the most oxtensive ever had seen in quarter century of pression work, he Even in Manila, iid, he had mot borate system of escape an opium resort. He served there fy in the century on the staff the then Governor, William he a course of "a narcotic said Major found sup- Manning such an| tunnels are from four to six beneath the surface for two men “to The feet (Continued on Page DRY AGENTS | NE b} NEW YORK, July 15.—Pity the poor prohibition agent—his scheol starts at the time his children vacation days begin. Confronted with the new regu- lations of the United States De- partment of Internal Revenue, re quiring that all members of the prohibition enforcement staff qual- ify themselves for their posts by passing new civil service exam- inations, the agents attached to the New York office entered upon an intensive scholastic campaign for the purpose of holding their jobs when the ‘mew regulations go formally into effect in the fall. Most of the men attached to the New York squad, one of the busiest in the country, enrolled for night school courses com- prising a legal curriculum which would prepare them for the exam- W EXAMINATIONS TO HOLD POSITIONS jnations, held on tye p-u:cesnml TAKE in high school building here. The word went around that the tests would be far from e and considerable “boning” was| done in fhe days preceding thej xaminations date. The tests proved to be similac in form to those which many col- leges all over the country are ing. There were twenty questions and beneath each of them f answers were printed. Four of these ‘were wrong and fifth cor- rect, and it was the task a | from | .| Manifestation hig system covered an entire ;'1“""”“" through | & | f ' MOB RIOTING TODAY, VIENNA Stnur‘(l Result of Tury Verdict Near Revolution as 15 A crowd Palace of Jus windows and July rushed the smashing the ng the doors and throwing into the streets manifestation grew of a jury a number who were killed a So Charllendord VIENNA, { today | fore The verdict quitted soldiers having t in uary The clear were The carried tionalist Neuste of ac- out which of former accused of alist in a last Jan- police were the building demglished. manifestations were also out in front of the Na- newspaper Weiner Nachrichten, which suf- fered some damage. I'he crowd grew day and street. car powerless to The iron gates the was during traffic | halted. Documents and papers seized in the Palace of Justice were burn- ed in the street. Thirty persons were injured when the police tried to eject the demohstrators PARLIAMENT SUSPENDS VIENNA, July 15.—The wild demonstrations today caused Par- liament to suspended sitting and newspapers ceased publication. Many factories are closed. The Police Station has been fired. The police have been ordered to use carbines. There are many wound- ed on both sides. Crowds are at- tempting to erect barricades in order to bombard the police with stones, NEAR REVOLUTION LONDON, July 15.—Disorders by the the Vienna London correspondent of Evening News as a the examinees to check the right|“revolution.” one. The tests were on a gene knowledge of legal matters pe-- taining to their work, and the process of law. * The papers will be corrected in the early fall, and the agents noti- find sometime during October Flier Killed When IPlane_ Cr}dm Down RANTOUL, 1L, July 15.—Sec- ond Lieutenant Herbert V. Van Atta was killed and Benjamin whether they have passed. They | Gracraft was injured when the will then be subjected to an addi-|plane they were maneuvering in tional oral examination, [} the air crashed this forenoon,s |STEESE BIVES DATA ON WORK | | | | | | Total of $1,217,166 Ex pended on Territorial System During Year ending Ros During the fiscal Junoe ), (last, the ¢ Commission expendod $1,217,166.89 on its road and trail tem ia the Territory, according to a state- ment made public tod by Col. James G. Stee: President. Of this amount, $709,792.46 was ex: pendad for construction and §510, 4.43 was for maintenance activ- | ities. The year Alaska of the all expendi- Commission operations in the the end of the {last fiscal year was $12,028,339.42, Col. Steese said. This sum w derived from the following sources aggregate tures made by ince it began Torritory up to Fund, 5.41 from Territorial appro priations and contributions. Opens All Sections “The roads and trails constructed thd Commission have not only up to development nearly sections of the Territory, but effected large saving in el id the state ment. “The major “portion of this freight could not have been tran gported without the roads, and the direct logs which would have been occasioned by the restriction on the output and development if the roads did not exist cannot be timated.” The total mileage of roads.and | trails constructed or ined |.~,- the Commission ate: 10,446% miles, consisting of 1 miles of wagon road, 100 of tramwa 1,221% mile: sled road; i permanent trail, and temporary flagged tr performed upon 7,725 this system during the past year. by opened all he freight e 712 miles of 1. Work was 3-4 miles of tis Activities of 1926-27 “The work in the past was largely directed to ex the general rehabilitation ds in remote sec begun in year | tending to trails and roi tions of the Territory, 1920. This gradual rehabilitation starting upon the more important projects, has now ched extending to all inhabited parts of the Territory. Additional mileage of all classes of projects was incorporated i the system during the last f The Commission (l)n\lnuv"l 76 miles of new wagon road, 13f miles of additional sled road, 3871% miles of trails, 740 linear feet of bridges of 60-foot span Or 16 new airplane and 19 shelter, or re al more, fields cabins. There were material improve ments made to the existing syster A total of 96 miles of wagon road was reconstructed; 100 miles of | wagon road graveled; 15 miles of relie of &ton loads: small bridge to the standard and innumerable and culverts built. The maintenance program was extensive. This class of work was done of 1,067 miles of wagon road, 85 miles of tramroad, 758% miles of sled road, 4,692% miles of permanent trail, 313 miles of temporary, flagged trail, of telephone lines, four airplane landing fields and 25 shelter cab ins. the year was 33916 performed during 7,725% miles, consisting of: miles of wagon road, 100 mile tramroad, 893% miles of sled road 5,079% miles of permanent trail and 312 miles of temporary, flagg ed trail. In All Districts Work was carried on in all and bloodshed are characterized; regions of the Territory. The mor: important roads upon which new construction work was perform.d were: Haines-Pleasant Camp, 10 Southeastern Alaska, McCarthy-| Nizina and in central Alaska, Long-Poorman in the lower Yukon River sec- tion, Ophir-Tacotna in the Kuskox wim section. Wiseman-Hammon 1 and Wiseman-Nolan in the Koyu- kuk River district, Kodiak-Abbert on Kodiak Island, Homer Spit I" fiscal | lx‘zuln‘ landing | the Nome-Shelton tramroad raised | 400 miles | The total for all classes of work| of | Gulkana-Chistochena | i wherever il il OF PAST YEAR! shown in the photograph. LEADING SIN FEIN WOMAN = Today as Result of Operations. | | | | | Assec/aTen PRESS (rmES WIDE wamin | COUNTESS - MARKIEVICZ DUBLIN, (Constance the Irish early this { und nt | pendicitis to recover. July 15 Markiev. Countess active in Republican. cause, died morning. She recently two operations for ‘ap- from which she failed | The chief concern of Counte | Markievicz as Sinn Fgin's woman | leader was in the welfare of Ire- land’s laborers. She was beloved by the poorest of Dublin’s wage carners who felt that in her they had an uncompromising friend. | ‘Hor first entry into public af- fairs, in the rebejlious course of | which she several times was jail- |ed and e sentenced to death, was in connection with the labcr movement, It was about the timo when James Larkin in 1913 brought off a long continued trike affecting nearly every form |of industry in Dublin. Larkin | demanded a minimum e |one pound a week for | workers. Constance Markievicz threw her- elf wholeheartedly into the agita- |tion of Larkin for an improve: |ment in the conditions of the | noor, and was in close contact with James Connolly, chief organizer of the C When llw wi r broke out Count Markieviez, her husband, and their son of 14 or 15 years went off to fight for Russia. The | countess remained in Dublin and there was trouble she o w of unskill»d was in it. | Commanded Contingent She was conspicuous in the re- (Contigued on Page Eight.) I (Continued on Page Two.) PASSES AWAY Countess Markievicz Dies! The end of the longest all-over-water air flight in history, Map shows the route taken by Lieutenants Lester Maitland ‘and Albcrt Hegenberger to get thcu» " Wolves Ravaging Listricts of Kenai Peninsula Alaska, July first time in many years wolves are rav- ing the Kenai district in the heart of the moose coun- try. The wolves are holdly ralding “The residents' ™ In the Sunrise district rying off mileh goats working hayoc among SEWARD, 15 e the and the mocse, |8 R SALMON TRAP FISHER GIVEN FINE OF $600. KETCHIKAN, Pleading guilty a salmon trap in Seal last Sunda Kit Kittles, man iny charge, was fined §$600. Another watchman arrested with Kittles was released and the trap returned to the owner, Steve Selig 3 MEN DIE ON GALLOWS JOLET, 1, July 15—Out- doors, in a heavy fog, while 400 men who only a moment before had been laughing and shouting, looked on, three of seven convicts who slew Peter Klein, Deputy Warden at the Penitentiary on May 5, 1926, were hanged this morning. Those who witnessed the exe- cution had fought and struggled for an hour to get into the en- closure, The three conviets mounted the scaffold with (long flowing hair and moutaches and beards. Since their attempted escape for the third time six weeks ago, they were denied razors or services of a barber. e — Alaska, July to fishing with Passage watch- Divorce Is Diagnosed ; It’s Starved Men CHICAGO, July lB.w“Dfl!Il(‘nto.;, sen homes are horrors to declared Judge Joseph Burke of the domestie relations court to- day, in connection with his sug- gestion that public schools not only teach cooking to girl pupils, but conduct night scholos for young women. “A man doesn’t have to get married to eat canned food,” he said, “All he needs is a can open- er. Few of the men who come here in domestic wrangles seem men,” )tn be well fed” A SRR Wheeler Field, Hawaii, is PASSES AWAY lomat, Twice an Am- bassador, Is Dead. = P = g.‘..vw RYSVH[FE PITTSFIELD, Mass,, July 15. Henry White, former United States Ambassador to France and Italy, and American delegate to the Paris Peace Conference, died in Lenox today. Mr. White under- went an operation three years agn Months T"lp in and has been in ill-health egince then. Thirty years or more an Amer- ican diplomat, Henry White, merly United delega ot the Conference, which world war, was once by Joseph H. Choate as the who “set up a school of diplomacy in London from which were grad uated such notables as Lincoln, Bayard and Hay.” Mr. White was born in Balti- more, Md,, on March 29, 1850, and was educated in the United States characterized (Ci un(lnuud on Pag Twu ) End of Bobbed PARIS, July 15Tt the long nor short of it, when it comes to hair these days, ac cording to the latest edict of the Parigian coiffeurs. And it quite begins to look like the end of the reign of bobbed locks. For daytime Madame wears her hair in a soft wavy cut that does away with the boyish outlines of the bobbed hair. There is a slight shingle effect and the ears are FASTERN HOME Former United States Dip- for- States Ambassador to France and Italy and American | Versailles Peace | terminated the! man | Phelps, is neither SMITH RUNS OUT OF GAS; FORCED DOWYH ' | Fliers Attem ting Flight Land on Water 500 Miles from Land. HONOLULU, M. 1, July 15 The monoplane “City of Onk- land,” manned by Pilot Ernest T, Smith and Navigator Emory B. | Bronte, which hopped off frow the Municipal Airport, Oakian?, | Cal., at 10:39 o'clock vesterday | forenoon, struck the water abo:$ |500 miles from land at 7:45 |o’clock this morning, Pacific t.me jafter running out of gasoline a#: ianmmnnuu: four steamshipa t. her aid by use of her radio. 'he liners Wiljelmnia and | President Pierce and the army | transport Menowis are going to- ;u,mlq the plane's positon com- puted J The plane was In the air 81 ylmul'n and 5 minutes and had covered 1,800 miles of the 2,400- mile flight to the Hawa.lan slands | i | | “S08" PIC, HONOLULU, .nfif‘nxs,"— The liner Wiljelmina, going to tha aid of Smith's plans, reported: “Plane called us a few minutes ago. DId not give position. V'a heard nothing further.” ASSISTANC WASIIINGT%N,AEEIHYO}{.EQ"N retary of Navy Wilbur has dérect ed the Commandmant at ths | Naval Station, Hawall, Rear AA- miral Mad¢Donald to render all possible assistance to the fllera on the “City of Oakland.” HAVE RUBBER FLOAT SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 5—A message received by the Navy here Intercepted from tha {monoplane “City of Oaklana'* jsaid: “Landing in water. Rush ‘hvl]). About 500 miles northeast ‘()f Paia, Maul." A previous message from ths plane sald it was running out of gas and would have to land. T~ |plane carries a rubber raft I ka Byrd and his companions unsed !to get ashore on the coast of IP‘rnnre. CHAMPIONSHIP 'FIGHT 1S OFF ACCOUNT RAIN DETROIT, Mich., July 18- | The Sammy Mandell-Phil McGra _|lightweight championship box malvh is postponed until tomor- ruw night because of rain. e Completes Two Fos 12-Foot Boat KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 15, —Completing a trip from Seatt's ;ln a 12-foot boat with an ont- board motor, R. O. Whitney ar- rived last' night. The voysg) |took two months. Whitney was formerly a Death Valley pros- { pector. HINGHI\M, Utah., July 15— Fire which started in the Olym- pie Cafe destroyed four buildinzs and damaged half a dozen others | this morning before brought und- er control. The damage s esti- mated at $75,000. There were no fatalities. Locks | I left exposed, but the sharp lr:lm ks has disappeared. At night the bob is rarer them ever. The hair is now long enonsh to bo gathered to the back w' 15 a neat little chignon is att 1 67 A number of women who can stand it are wearing the halr & long as the shoulders and back behind the ears. “Not long, nof short”