The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 23, 1927, Page 1

THE VOL. XXX., NO. 4539, “ALL THE NEWS DAILY ALASKA ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS L MPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH PRINCE, PREMIER ARE TO CONFER WITH AME AMERICANIS KIDNAPEDBY MEXBANDITS : 1 Anierican Owned Ranch Is Seized—Two Outrages Are Committed. PARIS, July ptoctives the thieves who valued at $30,000 W ney, formor New Senator and Republican torial candidate of that 2925, The robbery occurred Royat while Whitney and his { hre. ktonpime - thefe Police and pri- | searching for stole jewelry | from Ar! Jersey gube state ate ( are Wi IN PINK RUNS | IS REPORTED Large Catches chorled n Cross Sound-Icy Strait Area Yesterday. | | | A heay entered Strait salmon | and was run Cross of pink Sound waters Friday, it dicated today by information ceived at the office of the U Bure of Fishe Increasing J Heavy catehes were reportad from | this [ A ing ori its figh far ca in: Iy ley in o s 4y clegram received this morn from the Northwestern Fis! plant .at Dundas Bay | Inign Cove trap took 1,000 Friday, the largest haul so | tiis season. The Funter Bay | nnery of the Sunny Point Pack-| Com v reported it sligh he of last pack | this time | The Deep Sea Salmon Company. | Port Althorps, is improving showing rapidly. The Fisherie hont Widgeon, which returned from | there early this morning, reportcd the plant had sufficient fish hand to bring its output to datc up to 50,000 cases, Last Thursday | evening, only 386,000 had | been packed there. Reports from Ketchikan, said | halibut fishermen returning frots ) outside banks had observed many | large schools of salmon out at sea, in larger numbers than for | many years. The runs in the south ern end of the district, accordin | to official reports, are increasing | steadily and it is expected will become heavy in a few days. TWO PASSENGERS ON ALICE, JUNEAU| Passengers for Juneau arriving on the Princess Alice tonight from the south are Harry Sperling and Thomas Bastland. Woman Forger Suspect May Tell Things SPEATTLE, July 23—Asserting! that her story will “involve most prominent people in California,” Hage! Vallejo King, jailed as aj forger suspect, told inetrviewers hen. grandfather was an early| California Gove.nor, that her fa- ther was a wealthy banker ani her husband prominent in politics. She is suspected of having de- frauded merchants and. fashion- able hotels by fraudulent checks. She maintains she is a “victim | of circumstances.” season’s its on cases B A. H. Ziegler, Ketchikan lawyer, Ruth Newell, of Salt Lake City, was erowned beauty qucen 1 I_ANDS' BUSTUN of Mormonland in the annual pulchritude egntest in the Latter Day Saint capital. John Gilbert, sereen ‘‘perfect lover, the judge. MRS.MPHERSON PENNILESS NOW Evan gelist, Heartbroken, Leaves Los Angeles— Miserable Memories LOS ANGEL¥S, =al., July 23. Mrs. Aimoe Semple McPherson is penniless and heart broken ana rather then remain where hosis of misgrable memories pass beforc | her, she has left Los Angeles, “left all behind. which representeu § ears of to start all over again” tried field. This was the confession in a letter written to Rev. Charles Jaynes, her personal representa- tive, which he published today when Mrs. Minnie Kennedy re- Zased to let him read it from the pulpit of Angelus Temple. The letter said in part: “It be ing made impossible for me to return to the Los Angeles Angelus ‘Temple, except by some action of my people, my hands are hope- lessly tied because I always have done preaching and left the busi- ness details to mother’s hands.” The letter stated that Mrs. Mec- Pherson would rather spend her entire time in the field than fight with her mother. in an uu- RETURNS TO L. A. LOS ANGELES, July 23.—Mrs, McPherson suddenly returned to Angelus Temple today announcing that “she has come back to take the helm” emphasizing it, and naming Rev. C. E. Jaynes as business manager of the Temple in place of her mother who the vangelist said was “to get her vacation.” - eee L. M. Carrigan, trayeling sales- is in Juneau on a short business trip. He is at the Gastineau. i man, left for Wrangell on the Alaska. boolidg-e U n(lecicie(l .aa; to + Extra Session of Congress RAPID CITY, 8. D, July 23.— Prosident Coolidge will open the Federal Treasury to repair broken Mississippi River dikes but has not decided what course to take on Secretary of Commerce Hoov- er's recommendations to have the government help meet the inter- est and amortization charges on the levee bonds. The President also is not de- cided concerning a special Con- | J stated to be the cause of death. (International Illustrated New | g most exciting -labor, i MON ATBREAKFAST Lindbergh, Byrd, Cham-| berlin, Others Brought Together in Boston. { | | | | BOSTON, Mass., July 23.—For| the first time since the Atlantie and Pacific Flights which made them famous, eight of America's loading aviators were brought to- gether at a br fast this mornnl tendered them by Mayor NI cholas Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who was given a tumultous groeting vesterday, was joined by Lieute. nants Maitland and Hegenberger, | itic fliers; Commander |ard E. Byrd and his crew, Noville, Acosta and Balchen, and by Cham- berlin No sooner had the fliers seate:d themselves with 60 other gueste, mainly service men, than Lings bergh and Hegenberger plunged into animated comparison of, notes on their flights and illustrated phases by drawing pictures on the | tablecloth. MANY INJURED WHEN AIRMAN " was PraFOBET . BOSTON, Mass., July 23.—Over | eagerness to catch a glimp; of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh y;uo. day when he arrived on hi# Na-| | tional Tour, caused one death and 40 injuries. A 33-year-ald man dropped dead from excitement in the crowd at the field when the | flier landed. Many people were SN : carriéd from the grounds and the BUENOS AIRES, July " | | hospitals were overcrowded. Bombs exploded last night at ke T the base of the George Wash- { ington monument which (;Hl Wh() “Spurne(l” presented by the American : | Colony, destroying the peds- | a $100,000 Bribe | May Now Accept stal, Considerable damage done in front of the sk Automobile Agency. No alties resulted. The outrages are attributed to Sacco-Van- zetti sympathizers. AMERICAN 1S | Bomb Outrage Is Committed In Buenos Aires CHICAGO, July 23.—Marie Kryl younger daughter of Bohumir Kryl, celebrated bandmaster, who | several months ago flouted her father's $100,000 offer and became engaged to a young Greek scholar has changed her mind. The Chi cago Herald and Examiner say The bandmaster exacted a prom ise from his two daughters, Marie and Josephine, hoth talented mu-| ’ before they were 30 and promised each of them $100,000 on fulfill ment. That was in 1921, and n WASHINGTON, July 23.—Kid-|1924 Josephine forfeited her chance napping of one American by Mexi-| for $100,000 by marrying. can bandits and occupation of a Last September Marie announc 75,000 pcre ranch of another Am-jed ¢that she also would marry erican, are reported in dispatches | Count Spiro Hadji-Kyriacos, =« to the State Department with a|Greek scholar. The newspaper sail note from the Mexican Foreign Miss Kryl announced today at office expressing regret at the|Lexington, Ky, where she is vis attack on United States Consul|iting with her father, now con William Chapman at Puerto. ducting there, that she would not Russell Johnson, Superintendent | marry him when he arrived. of the American Smelting and Re- “l won’t say anything about fining Company, near Parrall, wae | whether I'll marry within the next kidnapped. e five years,” she was quoted as Two hundred revolutionists seiz-| saying, “but it won't be Count ed the ranch belonging to Delorcs | Spiro when I do, and the man that | Newton. 1 do marry will be an American.” | Paris Acrobat Weds DAUGHTER OF COLLIERS s o IS DROWNED AT TENAKEE Into Tutor’s Family PARIS, July 23-—Jean Lopez, The funeral or Lillian Collier, two-and-one-half-year-old daugh-|an acrobat in the Paris circuses, practiced for years under th> ter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Collier of Tenakee, who was drowned|watchful eyes of Paul Fratellini, last Wednesday evening at Ten-|eldest of the three Fratellini, France's favorite clowns. akee, was held this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Native Presby-| During his apprenticeship he e terian Church, Harry Willard,|garded Fratellinl as his fostor | lay preacher, officiating. Inter-|father and from afar admired his ment took place in Evergreen| pretty daughter, Rogina, also a Cemetery. circus performer, The child’s body was brought! Now Regina is Madame Loper in last evening on the tender of|Gjreus performers attended th the Alaska Consolidated -Canneryrecent marriage to celebrate Lo- and the body taken to the C. W.lpey' entrance as son-inaw into Carter Mortuary. the famous Fratellini family. It is thought that the baby o VAN fell from the wharf where she| Miss Mmnie Goldstein of the was playing with another child,| Nugget Shop left on the Alaska ‘Wrangell, HONOLULU FLIERS FETED ON MAINLAND Rich-: § "« Rounds of receptions are on for Lieutenants Lester Maitland and Albert Hegenberger, . GRS i San Francisco to Honolulu fliers, Picture shows Mayor Rolph, of San Francisco, greeting the aviators on their arrival there, Hat’sinRing’ Dusy 3 Political situit’on in New Jersey has been ccmplicated by the entrance of James Henry Harrison, former State Senator, into the Guberaatorial field, He's after (he Republican nomi. nation, SPAIN FACING NEW TROUBLES Artillery Students and La- bor Organizations Are Causing Turmoil. MADRID, July 23.—Undisciplin- ed elements exist among the stu- dents of the Artillery Academy says a government note today aad asserting that energetic action will be taken against them. The communique says the gov- ernment is faced with objections of the old Trade Unions to par- ticipate with other organizations appointed to settle disputes be- tween capital and labor. Drastic steps will be taken by the government to quell any dis- orders by workmen who are tfeat- ening strikes. Bahamas 'Get Water From _fli_allow Wells WASHINGTON, July 23.—Wells must be shallow to produce drink- ing water in the Bahama Islands; otherwise they will yield only sea water. That explains why Nassau, capi- tal of these British possessions off the Florida coast, is driving hundreds of shallow wells In groups to provide itself a water supply. N As outlined in Commerce De- partment reports, the Bahamas' problem is not unusual for smail islands of low elevation which are surrounded by the sea. Part of their rainfall is conserved in the upper strata of their soil, but un- derneath the briney flood seeps in rates it KING MICHAEL BEGINS REIGN Boy Monarch Issues First Proclamationn — Prince Carol Wants Throne. BUCHAREST, year-old Prince Michae reign yosterday as the his grandfather lay in his father an exile in The proclamation, young King's signature, King Ferdinand A private letter written by King Ferdinand to Premier Bratiano, two days before his death, has deeply impressed (he Rumanian The letter referred chiefl (5] Prince Carol, to whom the Kiog| bequeathed $400,600 in stocks and wsh, saying Carol must obey his renunciation of the throne 23.—Five began his body of state and Paris. over the laudad Carol Is Ambitious PARIS, July 23.—Friends close | to Prince Carol said he has not given up the idea of succoeding King Ferdinand to the Rumanian throne. The published announcement in which he is termed “King Carol of Rumania” remained unexplain- ed. It is too late for him now t go to the funeral in Buchares:. Datectives who have been watch- ing him said he must to go to Rumania. BUCHAREST, July Under the terms of the will of King Ferdinand, baby king Michael re- ceived property valued at $20,400,- 000, cash and crown jewels valued at $35,000,000. The total fortune is estimated at $70,000,000. The mother of the baby king has spend about $50 a| year on toys and '$300 on clothes for the boy. Civil lists in the will gives an- nual emoluments of about $2,000,- 000. John Gilbert Reported In Break with Producer . LOS ANGELKS, July 23.-—Tha Times says that John Gilbert, mo tion picture star has announéed that he may retire from film work for “five, ten or fifteen years” o- that he may form his own corm- pany and “have pictures to suit himself.” Gilbert said he was nét on speaking terms with his pre- sent employers and named dis- satisfaction over the stories sup- plied him as the main cause for the break, e SKAGWAY MAN WEDS HERE, TODAY AT NOON Ludwig Frolander, well known Skagway man, who has been here several days, was wedded at noon today by Rev. R. A. Gailey at the Methodist Parsonage, to Miss Evelyn Potter, nurse from Lin- den, Ind, who arrived on the 23 Alameda. The newlyweds left on _ home in Skagway. and accidental drowning was{for a weeks’' business trip wjmd a well driven too deep pene-|the Alameda for their future Méxicim Envoy? Bilas Strawn, (above) of Chi« eago, recently the President’s special commissioner to China, is mentioned as likely succes sor to J. R. Sheffield as Am bassador to Mexico, (Internatinnal anast & Dismissal Is Refused In Frieda Hempel Suit NEW YORK, July 2 Suprema Court Justice Mahoney has denied the application of August Hocks: cher, elderly philanthropist, to dismiss a complaint brought against him by Frieda Hempel, opera singer, for breach of a pur- ported contract to pay her $48,000 a year. Miss Hempel had charged that after paying one installment of money due for agreeing to quit her operatic career and sing for charity, Mr. Heckscher had re- fused to continue the contract. Blanche Sweet in . Income Tax Suit LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 23.— Blanche Sweet, screen star, who is in private life the wife of Mar- shal Neilan, film director, is made a defendant in a tax lien for $2. 828 income tax on her last years earnings. The lien was filed in federal court by the internal re- venue department. RICAN OFFICIALS PRINGE WALES WITH PREMIER PLAN MEETING British Representatives | Meet Vice-President Dawes, Kellogg. CONFERENCE TO BE HELD PEACE BRIDG'; Two Parties Sail Today from Southampton on Trip to Canada. SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., July 23.—The Prince of Wales, Pr's Minister Baldwin and their pa (ties sailed for Canada today aboard the liner Empress of Aus- tralia The two parties went direct to the liner from the train but the Prince of Wales had a hard time getting through the crowd of first class passengers. Capt. Lascelles, Private Secre- tary to the Prince of Wales, ask- ed regarding the rumor that the Prince would visit the United States after his holiday at the Alberta ranch, replied that nofh- ing was contemplated beyond the arrangements already made for a visit to the ranch, It is known, however, that a |meeting has been arranged with | Vice-President Charles G. Dawes, Secretary of State Frank B. K-l logg at the Peace Bridge at Rvf falo and the Prince of Wal s jand Premier Baldwin. - JACK DEMPSEY T0 BE MATCHED WITHCHAMPION - Tex Rickard Makes Formal Announcement—Time, Place, Soon Known. NEW YORK, July 23. — T'x Rickard announced today that Jack Dempsey has been formally named as Gene Tunney's oppon- ent in the world heavyweg't title boxing match to be h Ll sometime in September. Tunney has agreed to a post- ponement of definite announce- ment of the time and place until August 5. DEMPSEY WILL BE READY SALISBURY, N. C., July 23~ “I'll be there fighting,” was the only comment Dempsey would make concerning his coming bovt with Tunney. The former cham- pion was greeted by hundrods of admirers. He had a blue and swollen left eye. Widow of Colorade Congressman to Run DENVER, July 23.—Mrs, Kats Rothwell Vaile will be a candi- date on the Republican tickst fo succeed her husband, Congr: man W. N. Vaile, who died hein last weck. H. F. Preston, traveling man and W. W. Batcheller, local brol ers, were passengers on the Alaska for Ketchikan, ARMY WILL PICK OUT BOMBING WASHINGTON, July 23.—Selec- tion of a standardized type of bombing airplane is the next task of the Army in its effort to build up its flying forces. The bombers, the “dreadnaughts of the air,” are the last group in the Air Corps to receive at- tention in the selection of a stand. ardized type of machine, for the pursuit, attack and observaticn groups already have been equipped with planes considered the best types in their classes in the world. Equipment for Two Coasts As yet the selection of the PLANE TYPE bombing machines is in the perimental stage. A number of planes of varying types have be n ordered by the Army, but (" v will be used only in rigid and extensive testing both in fyiny and in engineering examinatj~y. | The actual equipment for the bon- bardment wings of the corps.ca the Atlantic d Pacitic con~'y probably will not be ordered ‘.n-. tl during tho next fiscal year Several types are under sideration by the Army air offi it (Continued on Page S