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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXX., NO. 4555. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, VAUGUST 1, “ALL THE iWS ALL THE TIME” 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RESPITE IS GRANTED SACCO AND VANZETTI FOR ELEVEN DAYS FROM COLL DOLE FLIGHT IS POSTPONED FOR 2 WEEKS ¢~ Participants in Ocean| l‘||g|1l Not Qualified, Says Committee BULLETIN—HONOLULU, H. I, Aug. 11.—The Commit- tee here of the National Aeronautical Association on the Dole Flight, rejected the sugoestion of the Oakland Committee that the flight be postponed fm two weeks. OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 11.—Post ponement of the Dole §35,000 priz flight from San Francisco to Hono lulu, scheduled for tomorrow noon, | periad exceeding two been ordered by the it Committee and De of Commerce Inspectors approval of the Aeronautic Association of Honolulu The decision was made conference which lasted night. The recommendation not Chapte at 1 il mid-}{ to TO RADIO postpone the flight was based on inv ations, and in the opinion of many, that the partieipants, who | pope thus far have presented them |y .= & sclves, are mot properly equipped | or qualified and there is not sut- ficient time remaining mow and tomorrow noon participants to qualify The committee said no sched uled date was arrived at for thej fiight. The present hazards wers never contemplated by tha or committee and the results coull casily unfavorable, it said Ove. Auk Alstock of a Portland singing radio a ger tion, started between | _ for the her donor Spmms Rlches be is OAKLAND, Aug. that the local offic in of the Dole Air Race asked ponement greeted by 1l praise, criticism protast 11 Is New charge post the and was with -—— HEW THEATRE IS DESTROYED, MORNING FIRE Explosions Believed to Have Started Blaze— Loss $400,000 SACRAME! Aug. 11.—Three fircmen were in ed and $400. 000 loss was caused by fire e this morning which gutted new State Theatre. Efforts of the entire Sacramento | Fire Department were requirel to keep the flames from wiping out the entire block, including two garages in which there were more than 400 automobiles Nearby residents declare the fire was preceded by an explosior followed by a second explosion Fire officials believe the explo- sions were caused by gasoline but advance no theory as to th{ 8 'Stunt Rider Killed In New Kind of Thrill 6 years, mot- plunged 300 y after- 1pposed the beach his motor- 0, me the Left $1, 000 000 by the will of the late (,olrmcl Sherwood Ald- rich, whom she nursed in his fatal illmess, Miss Kthel Sears | announced that she would not accept any part of the estate until after Aldrich’s mother had been provided for. The generous heiress is shown alove, (International Newsrec!), —_————————— Bank Fails Because Of Embezzlemenls* BISHOP, Cal, Aug. 11. sments, not frozen loans|Eldon Honn, aged 37 reased deposits, caused |heml'\(14 stunt rider, closing of the Inyo County Bank|feet to death late yester lact week according to Will C.|noon when a parachute, ‘Wood, State Superintendent of to float him down to nks. He declared the shortage became entangled in amounts to $800,000. cycle. PROFESSOR PREDICTING AUTOMOBILESOF FUTURE ican University laboratories. Tha: professor says the motor car of the futuré will consume half the nug(.“ SAN DIEGO, Cal, Aug LONDON, Aug. 11, Eighty years hence it will be possible to drive 300 miles an hour in a completely enclosed automobile mlgasullne cars require today, will 4 semivertical position, “in the|be fitted with radio telephone opinion of Professor Low, English|and television and will be so easy scientist. to operate that a driver can see and speak to his friends at home while traveling. Folding wings, he says, will eventually be fitted to cars, thus enabling motorists to . make continental and trans- Atlantie” trips, The automobile will then be| governed, Professor Low says, by the principles ‘of perpetual mo- tion, in which science is mak- jng considerable strides at Amer- ' contralto career | ) serenade while in blond and answers correspondence ampus She is fan all her sonally. per- JAPAN PLANS ECONOMY IZ\ L()L( N”‘I()N COST TOKYO, under monies to November the young Empe crown Aug. 1i.—ireparations way for the great cere be held in Kyoto ir of 1928 when Hirohito successor of the late Taisho, will be formally the ruler of Japan Committ are being appoin: ed to take charge of the and accountafts are figuring out o coronation budget of several mil lion which will be presented to Diet that convenes next AT w i as event yen the pring Unlike for the coronation’ ceremonies Taisho, no special will eome to Japan Hirohito acce The se government h reques! viarious nations not to senc srdinary representatives, as in the id it is expected that the ambassadors and ministers sta tioned in Tokyo will be del ted to attend in the extraordinary ca pacity i The sentatives have to Emperor foreign envoys for th Japane od the ext sion past request that special repre be dispensed with is been due to Japan's wish economize, The officials in charge to exert every effort to the ceremonies in order least possible cost may be in curred. B even with the nt- most economy, it is feared thatr the Hirohito coronation expenses will be greater than those of ths Emperor Taisho which were ap proximate 10,000,000 yen, be- cause general costs have increas- ed. A number of special carriages are to be built and blooded horsas imported for the occasion. The music to be played during the various ceremonies is to be espe- cially composed by both Japa- nese and European musicians. Theé music to be played at the grand banquet following the coronatio will be purely Japanese, the or- chestra using flutes, harps, drums, gongs and other native instra- ments. At a subsequent banquet to be held later in the evening, the army and navy bands will play Western music exclusively. Is Against Separate Bureau Ins. Affairs RAPID CITY, 8. D, Aug. 11.— Secretary of Interior Work favors placing jurisdiction of all Insular Affairs in the Interior Department and has informed President Cool- said intend simplify that the idge that transfer from the War, Department may be done by an Executive Order. Secretary Work pointed out that Alaska and Hawaii are already governed by the Interior Depart- ment .and joined with President Coolidge in rejection of the late Gov. Gen. Wood's idea of a sepa- rate Burean of Insular Affairs, Ltun story still in progress, visitors ‘clq-x. erection Henry Ford Goes Into Air For First Time | DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 11 | Henry Ford took his first air | plane ride when he climbed | | | into the cockpit of the “Spirit of St. Louis” with Col. C | les A. Lindbargh at the Ford Airport and was taken up this | ‘ afternoon SREAT NAVY PROGRAM IS PREDICTED Senator Fess Says Congre Will Take ' Drastic Armament Action { KEYSTONE, ! United D., Aug. 11 States Senator Fess, Republican of Ohio, f the present leclared that Naval Armament stalwa ll Administratiops unless. anoth@ér Conlerence ef- Simeon D,y SUPREME COURT TOPASSUPON JUDGE'S RUI.ING\ [Judge Sandcrson to Allow1 Exceptions to Go Be- | fore Full Bench ‘ \COURT ACTION IS TAKEN IN DEDHAM| [Sacco- Vanzetll Detensel COUHSC] Fll(‘ .X(‘,QPIIOI\S in Superior Court ' BOSTON, Ma:s., Aug. ~—Judoe Sanderson of State Supreme Court, nouneed thie m-rming that he will allow the cxcentions in the Sacco-V- nzetti case to g0 be’~~~ the full bench cn his denial of the writ of error, The “announcement made after a two-hour ference with Attornev Hill, of the Bacco-Vanzentii De- fense Committee and the At. torney-General. 11, the an- was con- fects an agreement »f navy building, gress will insist upon an Navy comparable of Great Britain Senator Fess said: ‘‘President| Coolidge does not want to run but; U know of no man who would decline the duty of. running. if the nominatfon was tendered by the party.” for limitation| the next Con- an Ameri- with that} Senaor Fess know President posed to naval competition and| the expenditure of vast sums for| irmaments, therefore I am con-| fident he will seek another limi-| tation ment, but should the ‘onference fail, there is no Am erican leader who could stop the move that the next certain to undertake to bring! American armaments up to those of Great Britain.” LEON GIVON MAY START TOMORROW: PARIS, Aug. 11.—Leon Givon pilot of the Farman airplane Blue-| bird announced he would beg'n his trans-Atlantic flight attemp at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning “if the weather is better than it is now.” said further: * Coolidge is op. R {City Plan Provides For Two New Towns PARIS, Aug. 11 Beautiful Pa ris” will be “Ugly Paris,” if city zoning , and other improvements aren't adopted immediately, says M. Chardon, member of the Acad-| emy of Moral Sciences. Chardon has submitted a plan of modified city zoning to the municipal coun cil. Chardon’s greatest plan, how ever, and one that has already received sound support, is for the of two mnew towns i1 the vicinity of Paris, one of them for factoriey and workshops and the other to be exclusively resi dential. |of the state \ decisions | manno { whole Congress i3 . |from the case in favor of another | motion for {on "should A bill of exceptions was finally agtedd upon and after this had been formally worked out and ap proved, Judge Sanderson indicat ed he will allow it at a session Supreme Court which will probably be on next Tuesday ., EXCEPTIONS ARE FILED IEDHAM, Mass., Aug. 11 | Bxceptions to three rulings and of Judge Thayer have in the Norfolk County Court by Attorney Mus in behalf of the Sacco and Vanzetti counsel Attorney Musmanno sald the aetion was taken to bring the matter to the attention of the State Supreme Court Oue bill of exception tp Judg. rayer is his refusal of Attorney Hill's request that he withdraw been filed ! Superior Judge be some matter in the a new trial was based alleged prejudice on the part Judge Thayer. Bxceptions were also taken refusal of revocation and stay execution Judge of in of Thayer ruled that no Superior Court Judge has the ).uw.- to grant a new trial after senfefice has been pronounced - Dog Loven Organue Show for Mongrels PARIS, of Cachen, have orggnized nary mongrels, No dog who has any clear ldea of his ancestry will be admitted The number of uncalled-for spots and patches will be counted an asset, not a liability. Extremely valuable prizes will be given and the show will be an annual af- fair, with some of the most fa- mous dog fanclers of France as judges. H. suburb a show lovers Pa ordl Aug a Dog of for Encour-a;;—e; Deve‘l;;ment Of Alaska Tourist Travel SBATTL®, Aug. 11.—Vice-Presi dent H. B. Earling, of the Ch: cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, has returned here fro:n' Alaska. He said the tourist trave! be further developed and | that the government can well af- | ford to maintain the Alaska Rail mad even at a loss. White House Repairs Are Bar to Visitors WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.-—Com ing from all walks of life and all parts of the world, thousands of Washington visitors this summer have desired most to see th: White House. And the very con- ditign which has made it the most popular building for sight seers, the publicity about its re pair, has made it inaccessible tc them. ‘With construction of the new roof and reconstruction of the are practically barred even from the grounds, and the streets which lead to the east entrance are closed to bus and other traffic also undergoing repair. Since ' the greater part of the White House retinue is in the Black Hills with President and Mrs. Coolidge, the mansion is virtually deserted. Carpets and drapes have been removed, anc except for a few employees nbom‘ the only person to be seen is Rudolph Forster, the executive s s et e M GIVEN LONGER ne Bomb Found in London Slop LONDON, Aug. 11 time bomb was discovered today in the Public Telephone box in the shop of Robert Isaacs o famous Petticoat Lan A I\.L‘u s daughter, who found the ticking package, plunged it into a bucket of water a called the Police. Isaacs said he had no enem- ies as far as he knows and never expressed an oponion in the Sagco-Vanzetti case EXPLOSION OF BOMB, SOFIA QOutrage Takes Place American Consulate Garden SOFIA, homh Bulg exploded in the American Consuly but no persens were injured tle damage was done The authorities expres belief the bomb was th + protest in the Sacco-V but ~ without intention causing material damage Aung. 11,—A the garden of ate last night Lit d wn th as nzetti case of BOMB IN STATION BERNE, Switzerland, Aug A bomb exploded In a street station last night Injuring sons, one of them seriously, Police belleve it was the of Sacco-Vanzetti sympathiz 1 a ca per The work WOMEN 1S KILLED PARIS, Aug. 11.--One of two women injured in the explosion of a bomb at Basle, Switzerland, dies according to a Havas report from Berne. The woman was tho mother of five children. Three oth er victims are In the hospital. Berlin Pohce License More ¥ omen Drivers BERLIN, AllK ]1 German wo men are acquiring driver's licenses in inereasing numbers. The Ber- lin police now lssue permits to women at the rate of about 120 per month. Before a license Is granted to anyone, a rigorous examination is insisted upon. The candidate must show not only that he can drive a car, but that he is familiar with the motor and able to make re- pairs. He mugt also know the technical term for every part of his car. The police say that their ex perience with women at the steer ing wheel has been uniformly satisfactory. Women, they say, are by nature inclined to be more cautious. e LONDON, Aug. 11.—Ever hear of a Tappit hen? No, it isn‘t a joke; beer-jug. It is one of the favorite ar- ticles American tourists are buy- ing to take back to their native land. Tappit hens cost $50 to $75 apiece and are said to be worth 50 to 75 cents, it's a Scotch LEA! ; ON .LIFE DAWES' HOME - UNDER GUARD Special Police Are Assign- ed to Home of Vice- President CHICAGO, Aug of Vice-President Dawes i5 today -nnder as a.precaution of at the hands zetti sympathizers The guard will be until the case is disposed of, llice Chief Freeman said 11.—The Charley Police possible viol ence of Sace maintainud Po. Pickcteers Pay Fines BOSTON. Mass, Ang. 11—Dor sihy Parker, New York poote and each of the othor 31 Sace zotti picketeers arr near State House, p#id a fine of $5 after pleading guilty of violation »f the Cily ordinance by “saunter Ing and loitering."” - -~ Nonunion Miners Are Attacked; One Killed| the CLEARFIELD, Penu., One non-union miner is dead| and another injured as the result of disorders in the Clearfield min ing field. The injured men were attacked by four men who drove up to the cottage occupled by the two men and asked them whether they worked in the Trojan mines Without waiting for an answer, the four men started their at- tack Bends Tree l.unbs, 'Grow: an Arm Chair 11 twig sprang Aug l'I'VHh\ll/\hH. Wis., John Krubsack bent and comfortable out the ground By grafting and limbs of box Krubsack trained grow in the form of a chair. It took 11 years of patient effort, but Krubsack sold the “tree chair’ for $4,000. SN DA SN | Hallucinations Causes Suicide HOQUIAM, Wash Suffering from hallucinations of enemies who were prosecuting him, Capt. Charles White, aged 87 years, Civil War Veteran, sai- cided with a heavy caliber service pistol Monday night. His body was found last night when friends, missing him, instituted a search. - Aug the a chalr of bending elder saplings the trees to 11, of the | Aug. 11.—} RADICAL CASE IS CONTINUED BRIEF PERIGD {Gov. Fu“er and Execulivs Cotmul Grants Exten- sion of Time ! RECOMMENDATION }$ BY ATTGRNEY CENERAL Courts Will Be Given Fui- ther Time to Consider Proceedings BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 11 —~Gov. Alvin T. Fuller and | the Executive Council 1 st | night granted a respite to | August 20 and includiny Monday, Angust 22, to Nic- ola Sacco and Bartolom~n Vanzetti sentenced to die for the murder of Frederick A. Parmenter, shoe-factory pav- master, and Alesandro Ber- ardeli, his guard, in 1920; also to Clestino Madiros, w't- ness in the case, and who has been convicted and sentennnil tg-die for another murder. Sacco and Vanzetti wers lave been electrocutod | to | todav Gov. Fuller, upon recom- mendation of the Attornev Geenral, recommended ths respite to allow the courts an oplvonu o}fitu-ph.-pun sideratio] mell;tj nr:fier decision* nending and The prisoners received ths news without show of emotion | Vanzetti was the only one of |the company of three to make a atement and he only said le was “pleased.” é Out of Death House \ The prisoners were removed to- |day from the “death house” in [the State Prison. News of the respite spread r-»- idly along the police lines out: da the prison and within ha ¢ an hour, the heavily armed forss begun demobilization to light de tail The Constabulary galloped o, |first followed by the machine gun |and bayonet sgquads. Warden Nervous police boat stopped tha patrol when the pape's ying the exécution i hruuuhl to the Prison Warden He tossed them aside on his desl and remarked: “I'm a little ner- | vous. This has been some stramn ' Asked If the prisoners ate, th» Warden replied: “I advised them to eat That is all T can say. They did not touch their suppars | last night.” The river | | | | WORKERS' PARTY APPEAT H CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—Decla: nx |the execution of Sacco and Van- {zettl would “steel the hearts of the masses with loathing and hatred of the capitalist syat'm which you represent,” the Cen- tral Executive Committes of tha Workers' Party of America tole- |graphed a plea late yesterdiy afternoon to Gov. A, T. Fu'ler of Massachusetts. The plea said the exeention {was a_“legal murder” and f friki- er: “We demand you heed the voice of the multitudes of work- ers whose interests we represent.” Prince Rupert, Capt. 1. Donald, is scheduled to arrive in Juneau sometime between 8 aid 9:30 o'clock this evening. The BERLIN, Aug. 11.—The “Reichs- | bote,” which bears the sub-title, ! “Daily Organ for Evangelical Ger many,” and speaks for a larz part of the country’s l’rotosl:\»m population, calls airplane mar riages ‘“‘coarse nuisances.” The denunciation was called forth by the aunouncement of the double wedding in an airplane of two officlals of the Rohrbach air- plane works. This followed close ly upon the recent first airplane marriage in Germany of Heinz ‘Orlovlul, publicity chief of the NEWSPAPERS DEPLOR.E AIRPLANE MARRIAGES Lufthansa. “the limit pastor The paper finds it of poor taste” for a don his official T ln perform the ceremony up 14 the air, and to permit the rin. wing up of an altar in the plane. It threat “Should the report of this shocking event prove time, we shall expect the church nu- thorities to take a hand and llfl) s the nuisance.” The ‘“Deutsche Tuomnug.* organ of the German Leazue, criticizes llrplncu viages in a similar yvm. to |

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