The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 12, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXX., NO. 4556, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, MEMBER OF ASSOCIAT PRICE TEN CENTS D PRESS CHAPLIN TO FIGHT DIVORCE CASE COOLIDGE'S STAND IS REGRETTED LABOR HEADS DISAPPOINTED BY COOLIDGE Q Labor Circles He Is Not Candidate RAPID CIT 8. D.. survey conducted the of Labor diseloses awre virtaall grettivg Presid nnouncement that he candid Sacretary of La- late. Davis made this announce to lay Aug. 12 by that ani- 1t Cool- not u bot - zent WIFE DESIRES HE QUIT LONDON, Aug. 12.-—Presiden Cooli withdrawal from the Pre: race is due to per sonal reasons, according to a member of the Republican Na tional ttee now ir- ope, who -told The Tribune the Prazident is tired of the job and| under great pressure from wife and friends to . refuse another term. ‘he imformant said Coolidz mueh worried threatening letters, whie} been received in large n°M and is tired of the isola'® the position of First Lady' Land and anxious to retd? normal life. He also stated that; President Coolidge has had offers from law firms of a partnership which would produce a much larger income than his salary President. CHARGES OF FELONY FACE TWO BANKERS dential Commt in i by as Los Angeles Water Contro-| versy Results in Clos- ing of Five Banks INDEPENDENCE, The economic years standing resulting from with the City of deepened today as two of its leading citizens faced felon charges of embezzling nearly $1, 000,000 following collapse of all five of the Valley's banks W. W. and M jprothers and bank olved in the closing of panks. They declared the ngeies water controversy is kponsible DOROTHY ALEX. IN PORT TODAY Ihu'.flll) AlP)ullIl]i‘l Landstrom, arrived in port rom the south at 1:30 p. m. to- ay and docked at the Alaska uncau wharf. Passengers arriving here were: Mr. and Mrs. W. Fol- ette, Lucille M. Saxton, Mr. and rs. C. D. Ferguson, Ruth Fer uson, Bertha Ferguson, Harry uby, Leita L. Brandt, Martha Or- gen, Mrs. O. O. Snyder, Magnus zal riclsen, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Fesl, ‘oung Villa and three steerage. The steamer is scheduled to sal) rom the Admiral Line dock at idnight. The Christy orchestra aboard the steamer will give the usual dance uulxhl in" the Hkq Hall. Cal., turmoil in Owens the water Los An- many (W e are in- the Los re- The JIPrank Capt ey Siows Reglets in | his wealthy Waterson, | A riding, 'GERM A COU TOF | | De-| | | | | Mrs. | To the list of aspirants to | woennccke (left), wartime ace, | eompanion. They will essay, in by way of the Azores, BULLETIN.—BERLIN, Aug. 12. — Otto Koenneck’'e hop from Berlin to Cologne from where he plans to take off on his trans-Atlantic flight has been postponed until tomor- row. The flier was unable to | complete all arrangements | here. | | 1 { | | | BERLIN, Aug. 12 { honor and adventure will | considerations war and a wealthy count out from Hamburg in Caspar biplane on a trans-At lantic flight America Records be when | ondary a rman ace a set a to d Count ubach. Otto Koennecke, George Friedrich pilot Solms-1I backer and companim flight, will attempt to show Atlantic that fly ing over the ocean is safe anc practical, and they will fly along the route which they believe trans Atlantic planes will take wher ocean flying becomes a commo:a mode of travel Their route will take them from Hamburg to the Azores, and thence to Halifax, Cape Race or the Ber mud Koennecke his spurs as a flyer during the war, bringing down 42 enemy planes as a Ger man pilot during a meteoric care from private to lieutenant. Now he is chief pilot for the Lufthan | sa, German airw. corporation, {and the task of flying has be come daily routine to him through commercial flying over continental| Europe, to Turkey and Mesopo- tamia and to the British Isles. The pilot's wife often flies w'th him, as do the older pair of his three children—George, 7; llse, 5, and Rudolph, 1. Koennecke is 34. A younger man, but no less col orful is Count Solms-Laubach, who will accompany Koennecke. ©On his big estgte at Lavbach, in southern Germany, covered with forests and small industries, the count spends much time in fancy sprints for severdl miles on the by an crossing won ATTRIBUTES TO SUNDAY SCRUPLES SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Aug. 12 Seruples against engaging in o fainful occupation on the Sabbath ay have actually increased the profits of a dairy near here, as- erts Paul Loven, its owner, who efuses to sell milk on Sunday. Two years ago Loven decided hat, while it was necessary to tare for the milk on Sundays, it as wrong to sell it. Accordingly he gave the entire product of dairy to Orphans’ homes the Lext Sunday and has adhered to hat practice ever pince, PROFITS The loss of one-seventh of hig income hurt Loven's bank accoun®| rather badly at first. Since* that time, howeyer, he says, his cows have increased their production | and the price of milk has risen slightly-zo that he is making morn | now in six days than he formerly did in seven. Loven has 150 cows and every \ Sunday gives six local orphan- ages $75 worth of milk, cream, {Death Sentence for NT J()I]\ WITH ACE 'ROVE OCEAN FLYING SAFE trans-Atlantic flying honors Germany has added the names of Otto; and Count Georg Friedrich Solms-Laubach (right), the Caspar biplane shown above, a flight from Hamburg to America ) WOMEN DEAD each organ Only t he nl of morning and plays a pipe| b 1s one of the young toble families in | rmany. Until he projected the trans-Atlantic flight, the count’ aviation experience had been limit ed to tiat of military observe on the Russian front during the Double Kl"ln{,, in St. ) Paul world war, but when he began | plans for an ocean alr ne| Brings Gang's War took a course Jer Deaths to 12 lin, in orde radio | ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 12 Two young women were today communication, . throughout the | 01N shot to death in their home voyage, with a radio station un‘ B ERL Swaliislye - reslORTAINY (din trict sach side he Atlantic gy e i w The police: charge the deaths| e REEI 11to gang warfare which cost the has three children—a girl of two, ¥ “Ilives of two other women five and twin hoys a year old. His Wils | ytexs ago ”{;‘ year-old Princess Johaa |~ ppa qouble killing has brought Bar |the year's gang war deaths to over one dozen BIGAMY CHARGE AR STUDENT DIES, BURNS dead PARIS, Aux. 1 land, art student Wash., died today a w venture in flying near specializing in radio study to take charge of the equipment with which the pal of flyers hope to be in constant of count, is ane W na dressed were her were They and Kosser. SAN FRANCSCO, 12.—Paul Guzaroff, formerly of| Fairbanks, Alaska, has been ar-| rested on a charge of bigamy. Mabel E. Guzaroff, presenting the charge, said he married her| in Fairbanks on February 1f 4904, desetted. xR | received Wednesday when her and married Mary Cleo Salonisen; "P50veC BRIy A here in April under the name of| AL ¢ iR yreis, lighting an alcohol lamp. paul A 3 Paul Alex A\gnlf Miss Milholland came to Paris a month ago. The American Con- NEw GR|S|S ;mlaln has notified her sister, Mss. | L. D. Somers of &‘pnkml!' DUBLIN, \lu:. ~—The life! of the Cosgrave Government of the Irish Free State has been pro- longed at least until next Tues- day. Postponement of the crisis expected to result from the seat- ing of Bamonn de Valera and 44 members of his Finna Dail Party in the Dail Eireann is seen In announcement that a yote of con- fidence will be taken Tuesday. The combined opposition to the Government numbers 77 against posslbly 67 for the Government. Cal, Aug.| Ruth from in Milhol Spokane the Amer Conlraband Liguor N YORK, Aus. ,+ == Th Ansonia, a single stacker freight jer, said to contain a $500,000 load of contraband liquor is an- chored under guard off the Statue of Liberly after it had fled from a surprise attack of almost half a bundred Staten Island police. The Ansonia had cut a sand barge in half and run upon a sand bar where it was captured Thirty-four men were arrested and seven 7-ton trucks were cap tured along witu three expensive automobil 12, ¢ BT FRA TR SIS WHERE 18 J, MOSSI! Postmistress Lottie Spickett had received an inquiry from J. Hall Lewis, of Petaluma, Cal, asking the whereabouts of Joseph Mowsi His last address, known by his Former Cossack Leader MOSCOW, Aug. 12. Former Cossack leader Anenkof and Chief of Staff, has been sentenced to death on charges that he carried on armed struggles against the chieese, butter, and other dairy products, relatives, was The Daller, Oregon, but it is understood that he left for Alaska about four years ago Soviet government in the Fa» East from 1918 to 1920, his backer and GANG WARFARE I:r issued for the “wedding.” The law | | pr o | license I'two an hospital at Neilly from burns | Steamer Is Captured GIRL MARRIES ‘BETRAYER IN Secret Troth Will Give Ring to Young Mother, Give Child Name VER, Colo., Aug. enMfaired single girl wh who is a mother, will b “Wid" to a phantom man in Den ¥Ol 8 most unusual marriage, cere neny The girl, 12 A of nine who comes from south ern Colorado, will become the “Dide” of a ghost man in order thet her babe may have “a namo” ané n that may thrown around I safeguards of marriage and wedding ring Where the na is not ¢l since her Batd"s will be only a myth nateless, but those who know ingide of her stor ajng” . pians g a name Father And while this Jo loved not wis weds" herself to .m thing, which iz really middle-aged Denver man ther of her babe, escapes pousibility by settling ghost bride” pittance because she beyond ag ghe hav the cortificate order ar a babe will get it o ar, hus and the “we | | and the t “the mother Escapes ip of but too w eerie nothing, a | the fa-| his res upon “the of $500 statutory a som a is 4 ge Tindsey will perform the “marriage cerémony.” The girl will be before him in the flesh, but the “groom” will be before him in the spirit, invisible rasponsive, a something and nothing at all There will be | to this unusual glrl's mother will bo one of the ye few witnes ceremony. The | | | | | Names of others are not being an nounced, but Judge Lindsey has chosen them and from each he has exacted a promise that what they see and what they hear dur- {Ing the edding” of the flaxen-| [haired. girl and her phantou | | betrothed will be held in secret. | | To Get Certificate When the ceremony is over, :.'m; {a wedding ring has been placel l'on the finger of the “ghost bride” | Judge Lindsey will gave her a | marriage certificate. However, there will be no marriage license ribes that before a marriage | is issued there must be| contracting parties and they | must be in the flesh | — e Mm Reprieved Many Times, Finally Pays| HUNTSVILLE, Tex., Aug. 1)} F. M. Snow, aged 50, a wood- chopper, died in the electric chair uulay for the murder of Bernie ! Connally, 19-year-old stepson, in 1925. Snow received several re-| prieves on the ground of insanity but a commission found him per-| | tectly sane. | 'Fast Train Derailed; Two of Crew Killed MILWAUKEE, Wis,, Aug. 12.] The engineer and fireman were | | trix, killed today when the fast Mil- waukee baggage train, between | Minneapolis and Chicago, struck) an open switch west of Racine. Several others on the train were! not ' injured. The engine and| three cars were wrecked. H Indians ongwfur’l"alh' One Hundred Killed LAPAZ, Bollvll. Aug. 12.—One hundred hostile Indians are re-| ported to have been killed and| many wounded in a clash with Bolivian troops sent to put down an Indian uwgrising. It {4 sald that about 50,000 Indians arej involved. e Foul Air Results in Death of 3 Miners JOPLIN, Mo., Aug. 12.—Foul air in the mine shaft 300 feet deep killed three miners near Waco late yesterday afternoon. | (in charge said GVERNIGHT STAR 0DD WEDDING | [Fe e Latest meteorie sensation Mixandra, one of the younger flnluuulwlul Rules Womén_ New chairwoman of the Na tional Council of the National | Women's Party is Mrs, Clar ence W. long an opponent of legal dig crimination against woren 1 her own State. (International Newsreel), THEA RASCHE IN AGCIDENT POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. Thea Rasche, German dropped into the Hudson ver this afternoon after an successful attempt to fly the Poughkeepsia Railroad Bridge She was not injured and was rescued by two boatmen in rowboat. The plane sank and ihe tail alone is sticking out of the water. It is believed the plane struck the bridge. Condition of Curwood Aug avia- Ri- un- 12 Is Extremely Critical OWOSS0, Mieh condition of James Oliver Cur- wood, author, suffering from a bad infection, today remained ex- tremely critical. The physicians that blood trans tusion was perofrmed yesterday and the patient responded to the treatment rallying for a short time. Physicians state his con- dition is still extwemely grave with the crisis yet to be reached e ALASKA DUE TOMOHROW Steamer Al.’mk» is due bhound from the westward some- time tomorrow morning. The steamer left Cordova yesterdiy afternoon at 1 o'clock and ix calling at Port Althorp for salmon, enroute to Juneau, ; Aug. 12.—The south- it Smith, of New York under | CHAPLIN WILL FIGHT DIVORCE INL. A, COURTS {Is On Way >West from New York—-Settlement Pro- posals Withdrawn Aug. 12 comedian, to Los Angaley prepared for “a ‘ (nish for the sake uf i and the future of my babies,” in the divorce t rought by his young wife ta Gray Chaplin. | The creen comedian halted | here between trains long enongh to make, known he has definitely instructed his attorneys to w th draw all offers of settlement out of the courts and arrange for | court fight The case is set for August Los Angeles. Miintub a T v RADICALS ARE IN NEW CELLS HICAGO, wplin, film enroute York —~ Chari’e is hepe vo o L 93 in of the French is Mile. school of Parvisian comedicnnes. Illustrated News.) stage "ISacco and Vanzetti Leave “Death House"—Sac- co on Strike | BOETun, Aug. 12 — Nise'v ROOSEVELT 1ELD, Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanz~ttl A 12.—"0ld Glory i'\\'e,-l'v yestreday moved to mcra the Fokker monoplane which | (comfortable quarters a distan ‘e jertaud and Hill expect to from the ‘“death house” in tie try and fly to Rome, com- | |State Prison. They are in better pleted the final load test to- | \spirits than when in the “death day. The monoplane welghed | |house.” Sacco exclaimed, “It-ii 11,250 pounds loaded a beautiful day. ‘Warden Hendry, of | Prison, said that Sacco, |started his 27th day ‘nlrnkn by refusing breakfast, {not in a state of collapsc. He ex- plained at the prison that so lon as Sacco is able to walk the Prison Physiclan will not - | tempt forcible feeding. OARL AND, Cal., Aug,| Vanzetti broke his intermit- 12.—Aviators entered in the Dole|t¢nt fast aftér he recelved word | trans-oceantc flight scheduled to{Of the last Jeprieve and is uBABs “Old Glory” Is Given Weight || Test for Flight the Stats who hna hungz r bl - - DOLE FLIGHT IS POSTPONED AIRPORT, GENEm STRIKE STOCKHOLM, Aug. 12— Th# Sacco - Vanzetti committee in Sweden has decided to call {eral strike on mnext Thursda) .. and age 8. LONDON, Aug. 12—Lord Daw- son of Penn, personal physician {to King George and the Prince of Wales, seas in the United States a “horrible example” of what prohibition can do. tha i “l have never seen in recent years drunkeness of such a terri- Jble character as in America,” he I's * . a diet and a gradual working | start today at noon, last night| BaE b normnl agreement to postpone the take-| off until next Tuesday noon. | Lieut. Ben Wyatt, Navigation| ators held a meeting last night. | | Major Irving was the only one ready for the hop-off and appear- ‘ {would be ready to start in M\n-rinl Derby on time For Foreign Residents PARIS. Aug. 12.—A bill just p,ml KIUKIANG, Ohina, Aug. 12 4 Twentysix Communist leaders nra 'ly simplities the marriage of for eigners. Hitherto written consent| yankow following recent estab- | has been required from parents of | jjchment of martial law. It ia law this can be dispensed with| will probably be executsd. upon a formal declaration that PRI S, both bride and bridegroom are| | AN R | GIVEN MORE UNIFORMS ADMIBAL BOGEB.S IS i e PARIS, Aug. 12.—Parls stréet SEATTLE, Aug. 12.—Steamer| has not yet spoiled. The Parialans Admiral Rogers sailed last night still Lave them largely to theim. at 9 o'clock for Sontoeastern Al-|selves including the following for Ju-|pany announced with a fleuvi neau: Mrs. S. J. Watson and|that henceforward women condy daughter, R. A chmidt, J. C.|tors would be issued three in- ghogan, Miss Beil and one|forms, it was mostly the Pariziang stecrage. who rejoiced. “HORRIBLE EXAMPLE” told the House of Lords in course of a speech in which prohibition party which would va local option laws into effect. “You will see, as I have ¢ try than in America,” he said “British people are becoming m sober,” | signed a unanimous consent to an | Inspector, announced the | | ances indicated only four “”‘"LGDMMUNISTS Mamage Facllltated od by the French parliament great |reported to have been shot at contracting partiés. Under the new | qiq 44 others have been arreste! [more than 25 years of | WOMEN CAR CONDUCTORR NOW ENROUTE NORTH | cars are one thing the foreignar aska ports with 102 passengers, When the Paris tramway com- Capp and wife, Miss P. 8. Geo- stead of two black smocks as uni- AMERICA CITED AS opposed a bill proposed by tha far less drunkenness in this con SRS PR