The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1927, Page 1

TH VOL. XXX., NO. 4536. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, “ALL THE NEWS DAILY ALASKA ALL THE TIME” ¥921. 4 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS MPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS LINDBERGH OFF, NATION-WIDE TOUR Compromise Expected to be Reached in Naval Crisis GFNEVA NAVAL 'ISSUES BEFORE » sarmament Tangle Dis- cussed by All-Members \nlh Premier. LONDON, July %0.- ber f the British Cabinet wjth Premier Baldwin and Geneva representatives today discussed the Geneva disarma- ment tangle Another meeting will be held tonight. There general disposition to support the vi:Wws of the British delegation and it is will %e ,’} All mem- met the and reached CONFER wWiTH PREMIER GENEVA, July 20. — Con jectures t the return to Lon don W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty head of the British nd Lord Decil, Naval Confere Con of and delegation, attending the terminated the were knocked out nnounced the two repre s were merely invited by Pranier Baldwin to-go to London and confer with him before he embarks for Canada ASHINGTON, of nee ference, it wa entat July State Kellogg Navy Wilbur, advisers on the have examined bagiador Hugh Gibson’s report aud said ‘they failed to disclose anwihing approximating an agrec- ment in principle on the cruiser tonrage, the stumbling block, and failed to find ‘any indication of a tentative understanding be- dween the British and Japanese e Dv chess Operates Needlework House LARIS, July 20. wre the greatest can have helieves ( Marie, a sister of the Gra Dmitri After the Russ lution the Grand Duche the most popular figures court of the czar, emer nothing but her nerve knowledge of embroidery. She has tudied the Swedish method of needlework for five years and she combined that knowledge with Russian design. Today she is owner-operator of one of the most exclusive embroidery houses of Paris. Trace of Bomb Outrage Removed| NICE, France, July 20.—A rigid police control has driven crowds away from the American Consula‘e here svhiere all traces of the bomb- ing yesterday morning has disap peared. 20 and S of with im- medint Confe ce, Am- hiluly nerves person Duchess 1k Duke an , one of at the ed with nd a assets a nd e EVANS DUE TONIGHT The Admiral Evans, Capt. Gilje, is due in Juneau from the westward at 8 o'clock tonight. RIT. CABINET said that a compromise| W|I<vl\‘ Naval| revo-| | | | ‘A shrinking violet was une rettiest eyes.’”” Miss Jocelyn mer, had never applied for a job ! ‘err picture taken for two years TWO STATES IN EXPORT COLUMN New Ymk Tcxas Lead First Quaner In- crease from Alaska ‘ bt WASHINGTON, July York and Texas were among the states of furnishing commodities for during the f quarter of 1 the Commerceé Department ] nounces. igures furnishing $1 000,600 which 20.+~New preeminent the Union in credit New York $193,000,000 and out of $1,1 represented the with Toxas 5,000,0( country quarter. California 000,000, Alaska was fourth with §$105,000 compared with $6 000 for the first quarter of 1 Alas headed ' the District | Columbia, North Dakota and ada. was third with $81- from last chtators of Styles Wy CHICAGO, July 20.—When Mus- solini aitempted to set styles for the women of Italy he undertook a task which was too great for dictators and monarchs of ancient days, Mrs. Minna Schmidt, costumer, asserts. For 50 years Mrs. Schmidt has studied the history of feminine at- tirve. Cromwell, shroud his ghe finds, tried fo women followers in austere garb, but -at his demise they went to extremes in dress which far surpassed those Crom- well sought to abolish. Several French kings, too, banned frills and furbelows, “All to no avail. Women wear what they please,” she says. “Neither king nor modiste can change them unless they want to be changed.” A hundred dolls dressed by Mrs. Schmidt represent famous women of the agss. The gown of each, she says, reveals an individuality which was a factor in the per- will 1 Unheeded by Women and achievement of its Cleopatra made her attire voluptuousness, ‘and cal charms she ed warriors and statesmen. Catherine of Russia and Eliza beth of England owed much of their prestige as monarchs to the'r dignity of dress, Mrs. Schmidt be- lieves, and Louisa May ,Alcott and Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the field of literature were distinctive for their attire as well as for their writing. The cave woman, with a raw | fur pelt wrapped about her, is the earliest exponent of costanming in the Schmidt collection—and the latest is “Trudy” Ederle. “Trudy finally demonsirated that woman’s quality of endurangce is equal to man’s" says Mrs. | Schmidt. “Her attire, the bathing suit, is symbolic of the modern girl, dressed in scant clothing which gives her body a chance to grow and to become healthier. add with dizarm- an- total of merchandise export for the overed when the Painters’ and 1Seulptors’ Club of Los Angeles seleated the ‘‘girl with the Blacklin, twenty-two, the win- in the movies, nor had she had before the contest. (International Newsreel) i Blggest Wet Job export | s Maurice Campbell is the lat- est to try to shut the liquor flood gates in New York (}u:y. "| He has just been nmamed F' | eral prohibition gdmuustn i & the dimietfl—!;!!‘_“" EXECUTIONER GETS BIG SUM SAN JUAN, P. R, July 20— Ramon Ros, burglar, serving a five years term in prison, received $1,000 in each case for acting as executioner of two fellow prison- ers convicted bof murders, He plans to use the money to estab- lish himself in business when his | term expire PR B DR. FREEBURGER RETURNS Dr. G. ¥. Freeburger returned Iyes(vrday from Sitka and a trip | to his island fox ranch near there. after an absence of a week from his offices here. He reported con- ditions normal on the ranch and said last season’s results had been at least up to expectatioms. WASHINGTO! July 20.<-More than 6,000 speakers, lecturers and artists are Hsted in the lecturn bureau of the General Federa- tion of Women's Clubs at its head. auarters here, MYSTERT Ship { doned trading Byrd and Noville Are Decorated YORK, July 20.—In the name of President Cool idge, Secretary of Navy Wil- | bur has decorated Commander Richard E. Byrd and Lieut. Georg Noville «with Distin- guished Flying Cross for “cour- | age and extraordinary achieve- | ment in flying an airplane | from America to France.” NEW ..o WRECKED UPON COAST, SIBERIA Vessel M'nv Bc Abandoned | la(l( ly kln(l(’l 5](’ Drifted 1,000 MllCS Alaska, July 30.—A mys ship which may be the aban chooner Lady Kin dersley, was driven high on®the rocks of Kolychuan Bayoon,” on the Siberian Coast and wrecked. Diomede Is d natives told this to Capt. Billy Thompson of the motorship Trader which arrived here today The natives said the vessel was stocked and provisioned which they took two years ago. The crew abandoned the Lady Kindersley as doomed in the ies pack 200 miles nevth of Dot Barrow. The crew was rescued after a long bike over the ice. Capt. Thompson suggested that the fall tid might have carried the vessel with the ice pack 1,000 miles to the Siberian Coast. | KILLED IN VIENNA RIOT VIENNA, July 20.—Ninety-one dead is the last official count of the number of victims in last Friday's street fighting near the Palace of Justice, Parlaiment buildings and Opera House. The hospitals are still harbor | ing scores seriously wounded, many of whom are not expected to recover. — College Girls Watch Baby As Class Works FAYETTEVILLE, Ark, July 20 —Emily Hays believes experience is the best teacher, so for her home economics class at the Uni versity of Arkansas she imported a three week old, 12 pound baby boy, and assigned his care to her | students. “Don,” as the youngster was named by the girls, came to tho school last October from an or phansg’ home. Never once during the time did he suffer with At six months he had surpassel all ayerags requirements for m,.x‘ age. “Don” lived in a model prac m-p, home and had a new nurse each week. The experiment proved | so successful from the standpoint | hoth of the child and the student: that it probably will be repeatod next term. | Stiff Collar Brigade Fights Bare Necks " PARIS, July 20.—The stiff co! lar brigade is getting ready to defend itself against the Irnup‘ of artists, actors and others who go Wwithout collars and wouid have the rest of the world do the same. The anti-collarites aim at a glo-| rified neckband elongated into a| tie or something similar. Ther:| fore, say the collarites, since col-, lars must be worn, the stiff collar meets the need of the munlm-l»} that has to pay the laundry bill Soft collars, changed every hour. look fresh for only a little while Beauty treatments, they add, might make wrinkled red necks beautifil NOME, tery | 5,000 | tion followini | der, FLIGHT 10 AMERICA IS OFF 1'DAY. Capt. Courlncy Will Not Take Air for U. S. Until Tomorrow. CALSHOT, 8. Capt. Courtney has until tomorrow, his tic flight to New of faifure of his Capt. Courtney plans New York from Valenc and back again after stop in-America. - —— NEW LIGHTING AT ANGHDRAGE July 20 postponed trans-Atlan- York ¢ radio & to Council Authorizes N(‘w Company Contract for Lights, Power, Heat ANCHORAGE, Aiaska, July The City Council has granted an ordinange authorizing 15 year contract: with the Anchorage Light and Power Company to furnish hydroelectric light and power. Rates are to be six cents a kilowatt hour for lighting, four cents for power and two and one half cents for heating. The company is given two years ¥ii which to complefé fhe project, bringing power from Eklutha Lak~. The city is ‘now getting powe from the Alaska Railroad which wili also take power from the new company when the project is finished. Didn’t Think She’d Do It, But She Did SAN FRANCISCO, July 20. Floyd Glotzback, former chauffeur- hushand of Madams Marguerits Matzenauer, Grand Opera star, arrested last night for forging the name of Mrs. R. D. Inman wealthy widow whom he chaut feured around the country, to check arrested not mlnk me." 20 a was When ‘I did that to Glotzback sail she would do BODY OF MIKE GASSIDY FOUND STEWART, B. C police are making an investiga- the discovery of "llu‘ body of Mike Cassidy, missing |since he left the hospital at Hy- Alaska, several months ago. The body was found near the wharf here, discovered by P A Hutchings, government liquor ven- der. . July 20—Ths [+4 ————-———— BIG AIRPLANE CONTRACTS LET WASHINGTON, July 20.—Fiva contracts for 54 new airplanes of improved types and' 48 air cooled engines, total Cost of $1,647,000 were awarded today by the Navy Department. PARIS, July 20.—A fortune of twelve million francs is sought hy two French families named Brun- swick who have been assured they are descendants of the German Duke Charles of Brunswick who left his fortune to the City of Geneva in 1873. The relationship has been a tra- dition in the family but only since the war have members of tha present generation sought to os- tablish their claim. Legal proceedings, the family says, will be started soon, now in a couple of generations, but meanwhile c¢ollars awelr to be needed, that it is felt proof enough ‘has been gathered to make the claim a nrlmu one, F Ireland | two-day | \ Marringo of Miss Katherine Kuhn and T. Jetterson Coolidge will be an important occasion in both Eastern and Western society, Miss Kuhn is one of the leaders of San Francisco society and Mr. Coolidge is a mamber of one of Boston’s oldest and most aristocratic families, The nuptials are scheduled for late August, = KING FERDINAND Di¥ES SUDDENLY EARLY T()DAY BUCHAREST, July Ferdinand, long in died at 2:15 o'clock this morning The Monarch’'s long battle with cancer came to a close in the sum mer residence of the Royal Ru manian family. The end came sud denly, the King closing his eyes calmly as if falllng asleep. Queen Marie and other memberg of the Royal family were at the bodside. King Ferdinand’s death had long been expected, Last year, just after Queen Marie hurried hom- from the United Statos, physicians gave him up. Prince Micha former Prince ( claimed King, 20, son of be pro young arol will BEGENCY SWORN IN BUCHAREST, July 20 The Regency Council has been sworn in before the National Assembly which cheered little King Michael who was accompanied by his mother, Princess Helen. CAROL NOTIFIED BELGRADE, July 20. The Rumanian Government has wired Prince Carol news of his father's death and telling him Rumania formally decided to respect the decision which accepted his re- nunciation of the throne and to establish the Regency for young Prince Michael, Ascends Throne King Ferdinand ascended the Rumanian throne during the trob- blous “times shortly after the out- break of the World War when his country was greatly agitated re- garding the position Romania was to take in the conflict. During the first two months of the war Rumania, under the rule of the late King Charles, it was charged, had been seeretly aiding the Cen tral Powers. Ferdinand took ths oath as king upon the death of his uncle in October, 1914, and immediately announced that Ru- mania would remain neutral un- less attacked. During a speech from the throne in November, 1815, King Ferdinand was shouted down with cries of “Down with Hungary”; “Down with Germany,” “Down with the Hohenzollerns,” This demonstra- tion was taken as an UNB¥nwe D) ROUMANIA AASSOCIATED PAES INAND FERDII D KING of the government's sympathy in the conflict. Ferdinand and his predecessor having been princes of the house of Hohenzollern. Sides With Allies In August, 1916, the former German kaiser sent a letter King Ferdinand informing him that it was his intention to send a special mission to Bucharest rela- tive to Rumania's position. The king replied that such an act would be inopportune and sinc he was a constitutional monarch he would be obliged to refer tho envoy to his n.mm A few THE untlmlwl on Eight.) to Page | me, ' WEDDING LINKS EAST AND WEST LINDBERGH 1S T0 TOUR EVERY STATEINU.S. /\n Hero Makes Announce- ment as to Purposes of Extended Fllghl NEW YORK, July 20.—Befors starting on a tour of 48 States, Col A. Lindbergh pointed out that his nation-wide air jour- ney is in no sense to be a prt sonal journey, but being mada solely in the interest of the pen- ple and to demonstrate possib: ties of commercial aviation. “The people, throughout -+ country, hoth on farms and in cities, have come to realize that aviation is a reliable means of transportation which has posai- bilities for furthering develop- ment of commercial life and so- cial welfare,” said Col. Lind- bergh. “While time and circum- stances will not permit my go'ng to all cities which have invited I am starting out to make one or more visits in every State of the Union Char HUPS OFF MITCHELL FIELD, July 20 Col. Lindbergh hopped off in his trans-Atlantic plane for Hartford on the first leg of a three months’ alr tour which will take him to 75 cities and every state. Before leaving, Col. Lindbergh paused in preparations for his flight to tell a sick boy in Boston that he was sorry he could not fly over a hospital in which th. boy was a patfent. He sent a picture of himself ard his plana to “Friend Ned” and sald it won'd be dangerous and against the law to fly over the hospital. — .. - PATTERSON IS IN FAR NORTH 'Motorship Sails for Hes- schel Island—Has Been to Point Hope. NOME, Alaska, July 20.—Tha motorship Patterson, from San Francisco, which sailed from Nome Monday night for Herschel Island has been as far north as Poinl Hope and encountered no ice. The motorship Charles G. Bow- ers is delayed here awaiting or- ders from the insurance company. Investigation showed her k-1 badly damaged and rudder pn it gone. It is believed the Browers con make a trip to Point Barrow p > viding no ice is encounterod. Plane Forced Down Carrying Sick Nome Man NOME, Alaska, July 20— An airplane carrying Georgs | Tracey, bookkeeper of the Lo- | men Reindeer Company, to [ | Seattle for medical treatment, | was forced to land at Tacotnw | for gasoline. The plane, which | | Noel Weln is piloting, is d» | layed at Tacotna by fog. It i3 | believed it will be necessary | to amputate Tracey's leg to | save his lite. { \' i | | | et Odd Styles F eature Weddings in Africa ROMA, Belgian Congo, July 20.— of the remote Kasai re- glon of Africa have taken a lik- ing to the fashions of civilization. “The first converted native couples 1 married,” said Father Achille de Munster, a missionary in the district for the past 20 years, “wore mnothing but a loln Natives indication now. cloth. But you should see them Recently 1 married 15 cou- ples. They all sported white su'fa and the brides wore shoes hats, and their black faces wers literally powdered white. “Some had on one white shs and one black. They seemed to think that was the height of chie." One hrldumne Father Mitn- ster said, fainted from the 5 in his costume of two pairs of trousers, two shirts, two vests, two coats and a tight collar,