The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 18, 1927, Page 1

HE VOL. XXX., NO. 4561. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, LASKA “ALL THE N WS ALL THE TIME” 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCTATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TWO PLANES IN AERIAL DERBY MISSING; NAVY STARTS SEARCH 4 MEN FLIERS FIRST LEGION FORCE REACH FRANGETODAY Advance Guard of A. E. F.: for Annual Conven- tion at Old Scenes CHERBOUGH, Aug. 18 American Expeditionary Forc turn to France and fts battle began today whén the lines Pre dent Harding, first of the official | American transports, unloaded hali of its contingent buddies here f3 the descent on Paris. The othe half of the 500 Legionnaires mazined aboard the liner to visit and before proceeding to the Legion convention, number of the xcited at seeing they | | The | lds Eng Paris A arrivals France they were again | that declared were g ing to stay forever R “Tageblatt” Deplores All Beauty Contests BERLIN Aug. 18.—Beauty tests’ are deseribed as a nuisance b he Berliner “Tageblatt.” T ageblatt” calls attention | to a B n publishing house which in cireular has announced a beauty competition, at the same time asking people to subseribe to its weekly magazine. It puo lishies the question, “Who are the six most beautiful women of Ger “FAL persony ave urged (o cast their vote on this question and are advised to look up the | eitries they appear in the coa many as periodical Candidates are informed that the full name and address of every wouldbe movie actress will be | added in a special cutline for each picture published in the mag azine. The circular says the mag azine wil] prove a valuable re ferance sheet wnd study for tha film trade e, Carmack’s Discovery Of Gold Celebrated | SEATTLE, Aug. 18. k2 Yukon Club met at the home of the widow of George Wash ‘The Alas- CI APDLW l"ll W ST COAST LSRN SRR TR 'America has new weapon guarding the west coast. It is this giant coast defense gun nt] Fort McArthur, Cal. Picture shows tests, which demons jeéhle 20,0007yards wit thh’hnerrl.ng accurncy. Doheny Stranded On Desert Without Gasoline FORT STOCKTON, Texas Aug. 18.—Although large part the Hemisphere's Edward Doheny wa the desert without a drop of gasoline. He was forced to hail passing flivver and a gallon and a half to g to the filling Western gasoline supply, caught on a of te a horrow et him next station. - - Mrs. Constance Haller Files Suit for Divorce 18.—Mrs daughter Aug Haller, SEATTLE, stance R of ington Carmack in ecelebration of the thirty-first anniversary of his | discovery of gold on Bonanza Creek in the Yukon and witnessed | the unveiling of a the model a projected statue in memory th> discovery. of, i Ciiminal Action Is Taken Against 2 Men» SEATTLE, Aug. 18 action agajnst F. Creigh son, wealthy clubman and Y Captain Emory F. Bell, in con- nection with the drowning of Miss Violet Maude Payne, danc- ing teacher, folowing a liquor| party, was begun in the Superior Court ‘teday by the filing of man- slaughter charges. The coroner's jury did not hold the two nien «eriminally liable but branded them as cowards. - PRINCE GEORGE TONIGHT Crimina?! Nel- cht Siteamer Prince George is due to arrive at 8:45 o'clock tonight. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Shepard are passengers nbnard for Juneau, | States Judge T. M Dist Reed, Court of Ala has suit against Seattle capitalist, of the First filed a Theodor > Divi sion vorce Hallar N | ing cruelty Mrs. Haller complaint she is band’s jumior, 30 a month and sion of property valuad lhan a half million dollars. Mrs. Haller's husband's alleged cruelty took the form of personal indignities inflicted over a perioi of years, particularly compelling her to reside “in his @ancestral home, without comforts - suitable to her position in life.” The Hallers were married , n Olympia ‘in 1917 and separated last year. who states in th asks alimony at a e EVANS IS NORTHBOUND SEATTLE, Aug. 18.-—Steamer Admiral Evans, and Southwestern Alaska ports has sailed with 33 passengers in- cluding the fi‘h.wintz for Juneau: J. H. Michelsbn and wife, Mary Porter and C. J. Sullivan. London Glass House Has 25 Acre Roof, LONDON, Aug. 18.—Luckily 1o one lives in London's glass house, the Crystal Palace. 8o the old saw about the throwing of stones does not hold. The Crystal Palace, one of the largest amusement halls in the world, 4s famous for its roof with 2b acres of glass. Two hundred feet above the ground, it contains thousands of panes. When the Palace was reopened in 1920, $400,. 000 was spent in reconditioning the roof. Since then workmen have all but lived omn the roof, keeping it in condition, vc/m -netting s stretched under most of it, During the war the Crystal Pal ace was a favorite target fo- raiding German airplanes. All the glaziers were at work on the roof when one such raid was announc ed. One of the glaziers slid dows the railing of a circular staircase g0 fast that he burned out the seat of his trousers and was 80 dizzy when he reached the bottom that he fell to the ground unable to move. The building was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton and was con- structed originally in 1854 largely from materials of the hall set up in Hyde Park for the exhibition of 1851, tor Southeastern | {International Newareel.) ' tr te% that the guu (.OLllLl throw a prd BIG CHIEF CALVIN Con | United | ik di charg- | 2% years Der hiti-] of | equitable divi- | more | Coohdge ig City, 8. D, D Meet Wamble-To-Ka-Ha, or Chief Leading Eagle, as Mr. Fg’fi kngin’to the Sxoux. He was adopted utkp}i {3 CHARGED WlTH Having receiv P(l information Marshal the Nebraska, United States Albert White, aboard shal's boat, Helmar, the Nebraska at the entrance to ! Gastinean Chanpel Tuesday ove ning at 6:30 o'clock and placed the crew of three, Capt. Olaf Han | son, Ives Stolpe, and C chaels under arrest. A segrch of the boat revealed nine cases of canned salmon and a small quan tity of whiskey. The boat was taken to Thane and turned over to Deputy Marshal William Gars ter, who brought it to June and placed the defendents in ja A representative from the Al aska Consolidated Cannery at Pi- bus Bay Juneau this afternoon to identify the salmon, which officials from | the cannery allege was from the company’s when it was broken into at m. Tuesday. Chaplin Ready for His Case on Monday LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 18- Charles Chaplin has been served with a formal notice of the di- vorce suit started by bkis wife and said he was prepared to pro 2 a Lnsnu!lonnl swit, rk Mi | | | u, | is expected to arrive ul warehou je | | STEALING SALMON American Davis Nl be on the lookout for the gasboat | 1 Announced 5 8 8% i = - | Cup Team Is Mar- | apprehendel | ceed with the trial Monday in the|some unsuspecting woman { NEW YORK, Aug. | The Amenican Davis team will consist of Bill"” Tilden, William Johnstn, Richard N. Wil | liams and Francis T: Hun- ter, the selections commit tee announced today. John Doeg, of Santa Moniea, and George M. Lott, jr., of Chi | cago, wili be the alternates 18.- Cup “Blg M Noted Raven Dies In Tower of London! LONDON, Aug. 18. — Many celebrity Is less famed ‘than gar, the Tower of London rave Ku.m,*whuw death is announced. Edgar's age has been estimated at 60, 70 and 80 years. He | known to have been at least fif'y He was an aristocrat among rav ens Edgar’'s partiality was stockings. He preferred silk ones. He \wlnultl come running along the ground and before the woman was awarc of his presence, begin to peck ! furiously at her legs. It got to be a standing joke around the Tower and many a wag has directad past Sacco-Vanzetti [ | Case to Be Taken Highest Court BOSTON, ]\Iu\x, Aug. 18 An appeal to the Supreme Court of the United | wilk be taken in the Sacco- Vanzetti case in event the Massachusetts Supreme Court denles petitions argued before it last Tuesday. This is the announcement of the 2 CO Vanzett! defense attornoys .- - HIGH AND LOW | | | | | | i | | | Reported PAY TRIBUTE T0 E. H. GARY Funeral of Steel Master Is Held Today Body Flaced Mausoleum WHEATON, Aug. 1 and humble, who knew Gary and called him friend i at his bier today to pay 1 tribute The funeral the chprch which the Steel ter buiit as a memorial to parents The funeral services brought the leaders of the business world, neighbors and townsmen of the farm.. boy .who rosg to be the Captain of a great Industry. Thig' mausoleum built 17 years ago by Gary, at a cost of $250,000, was At the end of the journey, in which the body was placed In final rest. Great E. H Bath him fin wore Mas his services - SCOLLARD IS AT IT AGAIN to Have Left Wife with Fortune in His Pockets SEATTLE, Aug. 18.—The Seat tle Post-Intelligencer says that af | ter weathering a stormy season of | | affairs of George F. | vertible securities | has litigation involving dollars, the marital Scollard are running onto the rocks. Scollard said her husband again deserted her with over $1,000,000 in cash and con in his pockat. international millions of again Mrs. | She sald she contemplates seeking | | divorce in which she will probably name Mrs. Maud Harvey, Scol |lard’s former wife, and that sh2 alun contemplates a renewal of ‘MEAT PACKER - LEFT DEBT OF ; | | | | | MISSING ON PLANE MANY MILLIONS |Chicago Newspaper Claims, Armour Died $20,000,000 CHICAGO, ald-Examiner Armounr, 000,000 ing 18.—The says that J who once refused §130 for Interests In the Ar- mour Company, died leaving liab flities not covered by assets. It is stated that at the time death, he owed near to 000 which is dus to the Company Tho Hoerald-Examiner close unnamed financier with Armour as | vacker's debts are the unsuccessful - apeculation stocks with post contributory caus debts are protected Hey Ogden Aug quotes and grain deflation a Parts of tho by collateral - war Death Interrupts Call »Arcnr)r»s Atlantic LONDON, Aug. 18.~For the firat jtime, death has spread jts fingers over the frang-Atlantic telephone systent, Charles W. McKelvey, on a stu dent’s tour of Burope, put through a call from the Savoy Hotel here to, his mother, Mrs. John Kelvey, &t his home in. New-York The - call came through In due course. After a minute or two conversation, McKelvey hoard. I mother say, “Oh, Kim, hold on a minute.” He walted at the tele phone, but eould not hear any thing. Repeated calls failed to bring any answer. About an hour later he pu through another call rvants o the house told him that his moth P FLERS S W Picturesque Bretons Want New Art Styles PARIS, Aug. 18.—Picturcsque old Breton furniture, crudely and dark with age and much wax ing, does not please the modern Breton Artists, decorators, manufactur ers and workmen of that have organized a competition to evolve new styles and dagigne, inspired by the trend of the mod- ern movement Their old costumes and headdresses may be used sketches submitted, but that savors of the recognized B! ton furniture, known to all an- tique collectors, is barred. - e ¥ | carved quaint In. the 'UIP criminal charges which 5lmlGERMAN PLANES CARRY | |of a century ago, drnppul last Sprlng | Capitol Bath Tubs Populist Survival TOPEKA, Kas., Aug. 18.—Bath tubs, installed in the office suites of the governor, the secretary of state and the state treasurer at the Kansas statehouse when the Populists were in power a third are still kept clean and polished by janitora, But they are never used, for since the Populists went out of power plumbing facilities have been extended to all the houses in Topeka. Frank J. Ryan, present secre. tary of state, chided the Populis: administration 20 years ago ba- cause use of the bath tubs was abandoned. He is now nearing ais fifth year as secretary of state and has not yet bathed in the +| tub, Convicted Murderers Shoot Way to Liberty PITTSBURGH, Penn., Aug. 18. ~Two convicted murderers shot their way to freedom in the Al legheny County jail in the down- town district. They wounded two guards. One of the escaped men, Paul Jawarski, was convicted of a mine payroll robbery and the other, John Bashinder, was con victed of murdering a man because GUINEA PIGS AND DOGS BERLIN, Aug. 18.-Dogs, song birds, white mice and even guinea pigs were among the passengers carried in recent weeks by Luft-Hansa, the German airwaye company. The guinea pigs probably hold | the long distance record. Twenty- five of them were hurriedly or- dered from the Berlin zoo by tae Tarkish Agrieultural Institute ac Angora. They were placed In the regular plane flying from Berlin to Budapest, were transferred to a plane between Budapest and Constantinople and finally were shipped by railway express from Constantinople to Angora. Expensive dogs are frequently shipped by airplahe to London o1 Paris or even to Moscow. They are found to suffer less 'in tran sit by the quick alr route than by raflway express. The plane flying between Berlin and the Harz mountains Is the chief carrier of song birds, ©re FINDS AMERICANS TOUGHER/ BUXTON, England, Aug. 18, - English boys are not as tough as American boys, the Rev. Paul Hanly Furfey of New York sail at a conference here of the Na- tional Association of Boys’ Cluba, Not only do the “tough” American hoys dispense with collars, he In- formed the English delegates, but the “regular fellows” don't even Bdgar's haunts just to see the fun. of refusal of the Joan of 25 cents | wear shirts, A. Me-| er had died while speaking to hin | region | anythire, | the | of his | $20,000,- | Armont 5 one of on the a wenool teacher and i one of th the betting the Honolulu Doran the five Hawaiian of favorites in mainland-to- | teacher, miesing She on flight > OLD GLORY IS AGAIN DELAYED ROOSEVELT FIELD, N Y.¢ Aug. 18.—Rain turned the runway {into a spongy swaup and . pre- (cluded all posaibility of a take. off this afternoon of the mono plane Old Glory on the project non-stop flight to Rome of Ber tand and Hill, air mail pilots, | who will operate the plane After Ingpection of the runway, all hope that a start would b made left the minds of the pilots although clearing weather might permit a test fliglht NOT FLYING COLOGNE, Aug. 18.—After conference with the weather perts, Otto Koennecke decided he will not attempt to hop-off morrow on his attempt to fly | the United States | - e Brother of Nome Man | Wins Appeal, High Court | OLYMPIA, wash, Aug. 18. The State Supreme Court has re versed the conviction Frank Po {let, former banker and broker Seattle's [talian colon | Tony Polet, Nome merchant. Th | Supreme Court found that (h court, which sentenced hix brother | trial charges. erred in technicality Prosecuting Attorney Colvin an- nounced that new charges will b¢ filed, { RS S ;Humpbacks Running ' In Washington River PORT ANGELES, Wash., Aug 18.~~An' extraordinary large run of humpback salmon is running | in Dungeness River to the spaw ing grounds. The run is the larg {est in 26 years, | w0 I No Increase in Rate On Utah Fuel for Alaska SEATTLE, Aug. 18.—The Inter state Commerce Commission has denfed the petition of increasing coal freight rates from Utah to Seattle, Portland and Tacoma on fuel for transhipment to Alaska ! chool | Flint| ex-! ) ot | {Planes ( | second AND 1 WOMAR MiSSING,0CEAN Miss Doran and Golden Eagle Fail to Reach Honolulu 42 VESSELS SEARCH FOR MISSING FLIERS |Second Plane Reaches En ] of Aerial Derby—Great Welcome Given BULLETIN, HONOLULY Aug. 18.—A spirit of depres- eion settled upon the city as no news is received of the missing Dole flight plancs bea]rm;: four men and one gir SEARCHERS OUT WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 - - Marshalling the greatest fleet of vessels at its com- mand on the Pacific Oczan the Navy Department had 42 vessels of various desor’ - tions under orders today tn search for the missin~ Ha- waiian fllsht planes.. the Misy Doran and Golden Eagle. L‘tio:t o{u:.he Ihl])l were u::l ready on their way early e “while dflm awaiting only stocki with provisions to s on the Pacific alc flight course in hopes of finil- ing the missing fliers alive. Those, abeard the M'ss Doran are pilot John Pedlar, of Detroit, Mich.; mavigiti: Lieut. Vilas R. Knope anl Miss Mildred Doran, sche 'l teacher of Flint, Mich., a passenger, Those aboard the Gold'n Eagle are pilot Jack Frost, of Sen Francisco and navi- gator Goydon Scott. ALOHA ARRIVES WHEELER FIELD, HONOLT- LU, Aug. 18. — The monoplane Aloha, piloted by Martin Jens'n, - of Honolulu, and navigated Ly Paul Schulter, arrived here at 4:50 o'clock vesterday afterngon. Pacific Coast time, the sepond plane to reach here in the Dela Aerial Derby and winning the prize of $10,000. Tan crowd went wild when the plane landed o WOOLARCO HAD GAS* WHEELER FIELD, Aug. 15 from two to fifteen years on fraud |[nspection of the tanks 0f the Woolaroe, winner of the derby §25,000 prize, which ar- rived here at 12:25 o'clock yes- terday afternoon. rlonolulu time, revealed that there were between 100 and 150 gallons of gaso!ina left, sufficient for seven hours more flying. Dole FIRST OCEAN DERBY EN DS HONOLULU, H. 1., Aug. The first Aerial Trans- Uv-tm # o (Derby in history has ended w'th Arthur Goebel, Hollywood st nt filer, winner of the $25,000 pr a4 offered by James Dole, Haw ! sn pineapple grower; and Martn - Jensen of Honolulu, winning tha. . second prize of $10,000. Two other planes are miscing, the Miss Doran and Golden B Goebel piloted the Wooly,u over the 2,400 miles of water from Oakland in 26 hours. 17 minutes and 33 seconds. Lisut. " (Continued on Pne Seven 1 LONDON, Aug. 18.—With the death of John Drew, American i actor, the famous Beefsteak clun has lost its only American mem- ber. The club was founded 51 years ago by John Toole, prominent on the English stage, and its name betokened the gatherings which its members held in Toole's pri- vate apartments over the tenda~ steaks for which he was famous Beefsteak Club Loses Last American Membe - But It was not the first Be-t. steak club, nor the last. Two hua- dred years ago a club by thy same name numbered among il members the principal wits® of | the day, with a gridiron ‘as thats emblem, and after Toole’s B steak club was formed, Lord ™ erborough gathered together red spirits in similar fashion whe der! the name of “The 'Su Society of Steaks,"