The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 22, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXX., NO. 4564. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS S gom—— PRICE TEN L INTS REFUSE SACCO-VANZETTI STAY MRS. CHAPLI[N IS GRANTED DIVORCE DIVORCE CASE TAKES 1 HOUR COURT TODAY Film Comedlan s Wife Giv- en Decree — Charge Cruelty, Neglect Cal, Aug Chaplin LOS ANGELES, Mrs. Lita Grey today granted a decree vorce from Charles §. film star and comedian, brief testimony in the Superior Court to establish the routine and charge of cruelty Edwin T. McMurray, Chaplin’s counsel, announced a property settlement was reached outside of the court The settlement outside of conrt gave the wife §625.000 and cusotdy of the two children. The decree followed a lasting one hour the girl-wife took the dtand and told the court her husband lected and abused her. One year must elapse under the law before Mrs. Chaplin re- ceives her final decree. was of di- Chaplin, A trust fund of $200,000 is to the two children, | | | e created “for income from which Mrs, Chaplin their guardian for their support, tenance and education S M MELLON BIG OBSTACLE TO ENFORCEMENT legal main as J . | Former Governor Pinchot! Assailg Secretary of the I'reasury WINONA lu\ , Ind., - ford Pinchot, former or of Pennsylvania, addressing the Congress of the World League Against Alcoholism, yesterday as- sailed Andrew W. Mellon as the “chief obstacle to complete. en. 1c ment of Federal Prohibition.” The speaker declared that “back of him, and therefore chiefly ro- sponsibTe, President Coolidge For many reasons, Mellon is ut- terly unfit to have charge of en- forcement of the Righteen Amend- ment. The trouble with the Cool- Administration is that it has d in favor of the drys bil ll“ acted in favor of the wets.” After relating, his experience as Governor of Pennsylvania, Mr. Pin- chot declared emphatically that | Prohibition cannot be enforced “My four years of struggle fo make Pennsylvania dry has proved what is mneeded to enforce the law,” said Pinchot. “The " ons thing is defermination to see that Aug. 22 is the law is enforced. The e¢hi ,f‘.hrk Cave since Monday, Augus: obstacle to-enforcement in Pena- ! 15. sylvania wag the Federal Govern- ment in Washington. The 'thing that hampered me beyond all else was the refusal of Andrew W. Mellon to have the law enforced.” Dutch Air Liner Crashes to Earth SEVEN' OARS, England, Aug. 22.—A mechanic was killed and| geven pasengers injured when a Dutch Air Liner, bound from London to Amsterdam, crashed. No Americans were aboard. Gentle Juries Blamed For Many Love Crimes| PARIS, Aug. 22.—Sentimental juries ;and French sympathy with “ecrimes of passion” are creating quite a stir among those who think a few executions and plen-y of long prison terms would make life safer, It is even suggested that murder cases be taken from juries and tried by judges who generally pay more attention to the law ana the evidence than they do to the angnished heart-throbs that move many. J. H. Rosny, novelist, is among Mrs. the' the court| in which | neg- | will be paid| Govern- | Geologist and Explorer| 77()DAY AU i i z | 29.| after | Mayor by of the University | noon and evening Commercial Club Alexander he is gu members aboard accompaniad Washingto n, The two are excursion party husband, Dean Landis t of Juneau this after- of the University the steamer Dorothy Boy Is Swept Through Sewers Of New York YORK, Aug for more than halt a swirling underground of New York's sewers and finally washed into the || East River, seven year old | | Anthony Agostino is today lit- | | tle worse for his experience. | | | | BE CANDIDATE ' RE - ELECTION NEW Swept mile by waters 99, Makes Announcement Upon Arrival Here This After- for hi noon, with Party The” boy fell into a i 1 manhole while playing, sewer “While T have not formaily an i ke s ) lhounced it, I will undoubtedly be ¥la candidale for reelection next {year,” sald Mayor Bertha X ASHLEY Dle | Landes of Seattle, who arrived | on the Dorothy Alexander today with the University Commercial { Club Good Fellowship Excursion {trip to Skagway and return. “I no reason why women '(huuld not hold executive positions they are qualified, to do so svx should not enter into the ques tion at all, it gshould merely be a WO N | matter of training and abilty. do not think that women should | ever expect to hold office of any kind simply because they are wo- men, but they should see that they are thoroughly trained.” said Mrs. Landes, when asked her SHELL MOUND, Tenn., Aug. 22 4‘nmui|m of women holding execu- —Lawrence S. Ashley, geolugm,llw positions. and explorer, lost in the Nick a- Trip Delightful “We are all delighted with our yesterday | trip. While Southeastern Alaska main en-|i8 much like the state of Wash- ington it is in most part much ‘grander’,” declared Mrs. Landes. dition. He declared he has dis-|“We of Seattle feel that Alaska covered a new cavern even larger [4nd Juneau are our close friends that the Mammoth Cave in Kep.|and neighbors and that we owe tucky. a great debt to Alaska, and we Ashley was trapped from be-|hope that Alaska feels as kindly hind by falling rock and earth |toward Seattle.” after entering the passage from| Mrs. Landes admired the bas- which he finally emerged. kets of lovsly flowers presented Fifteen searching parties hal failed to find any trace of Ashley, Major A. E. Ransom and wife left on the Alameda for Seattle. see Trapped in Making New Discovery dug himself miles from out efght the trance. Ashley was in a semi-dazed con | " (Continued on Page Seven.) - ., Drinkwater and Ervine Disagree on Criticism LONDON, Aug. 22. John Drinkwater and St. John Ervine jbave locked horns over the Drink- watler declaration that “‘no prae- ticing artist should pass adverse judgment on the work of his competitors.” Ervine, dramatist as dramatic critic, says he cannot believe Drinkwater is serious those who feel French criminal jurispruden¢e has about broken down. Juries, says Rosny, citing| recent instances, are more lenient (when he makes such a state- toward those who kill than those!ment. Ervine says Drinkwater who wound. He gives it as his|has criticized contemporary poets, observation that assault is more|in spite of his pronouncement. severely punished than murder, [Poets, in the opinion of Ervine, on the average. are better qualified to criticize Some defenders well as of because the penalties are fix the sentences convict oftener, rightly o, | | STRIKES ROCK | Rupert, | when ’“'THREE PLANES | STILL MISSING PACIFIC OGEAN Navy Department Con- tinues Further Search Hawaiian Waters Ready to Sail South in-Small Open Skin Boat NOME, Alaska, Aug. Frank E. Barden, aged 24 vears, «Chicago newspaperman, and Fred Yenney, aged 22, Nome merchant, are ready to sail for Seattle in a 15 foot | open walrus skin boat with an outboard motor. | The twa men gxpect to con- tinue their trip to San Fran- cisco. They will follow the coast line and take the inside passage south. 29 HONOLULU, Navy Department bhaes Lout another area of Vaters to be covered in search for the missing Dole p flight planes, despite the fact that the Golden REagle and Miss Doran BREAKS RUDDER: 22, — Aug mapped Hawaiian - five days overdue Dallas Spirit which has not becn heard from since Friday night. Searchers refuse to gi up hope Those aboard the Golden Bagle are Pilot Joun Pedlar, of Detroit Mich.; Navigator Lieut. Vilas R. Kuope and Miss Mildred Doran sehool teacher of Flint, Mich., a¢ & passénger Phos aboard the @Golden Bagle are Filot Jack Frost, of San Franeisco, ‘and Navigator Gordor Seott Those aboard the Dallas are Capt. William P. Pilot, and A. H. Bichwaldt, Navi gator The Dallas Spirit left Oakland Friday afternoon over a zigzag course in hopes of find- ing the missing. planes. The last heard from this plane was whel an “S80S" call was sent out late Friday night when the plane was 985, nautical miles oft the Garifornia * coust. SEARCH IS FRUITLESS SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug - The aviation world has turned eyes westward with heavy hearts and today watches air- craft, naval veéssels and merchant ships contjnuing intensive search in trackless wastes of the Pa- cific Ocean. for the missing fliers Efforts of 68 naval vessels afd- ed by merchant craft, steering courses ' along the 2,400 miles and the great circle between San Francisco fand Honolulu, after a five day search, failed to reveal any trace of three missing planes. 1260 Passengers Are Safely Transferred to An- other Steamel Spirit NCOUVER, S wo hundred sengers on the Canadian tional ecoastwise liner Prince which broke her rudder she struck an uncharted rock in Seymour Narrows this morning. were transferred 1o the Union Steamship Company's ateamer Cardena. according to & wireless report. The Pringe Rupert was south- bound. She was towed to Plump- er Bay by the Cardena. The passengers are Dbeing brought south to Vancouver and are ex- pect®l to arrive here tonight. Swept out of the narrows by the swift tide, the disabled steamer was held ander contrel by her propeilers until the Car- dena arrived. A salvage repair the B. C., Aug and sixty 22. pas- Na- 22 is enroute to tug rudder Trip Cancelled Agent H. R. Shepard reaceived a cablegram this afternoon from the Vancouver office stating that owing to the accident, the trip of the Prince Rupert scheduled! from Vancouver for Alaska to- night, has been cancelled but it is expected the Prince George will come out on schedule next Monday nigm FIND ALASKAN NEARLY DEAD Was Attacked and Robbed —Left in Gas-Filled SEARCH ON THURSDAY WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—The Navy Department announced the search will be continued to Thursday for the lost Hawilan fiiers. SEARMH COSTS MONEY WASHINGTON,, Aug. Nava' statisticians estimated that the search for the lost fliers has cost the Navy $00,000 in addi- tion to $20,000,000 " worth ot property, in the form of ships and 3,000 men tied up for eight days, during which time Pacifie maneuvers have been interrapted. 22.—- CONGRESSIONAL ACTION WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Ad- miral Eberle, Acting Secretary of the Navy, predicted today that SEATTLE, Aug. 22. — Grand|Congress will enact a rigid law larceny charges have been filed|to prohibit long distance airplane against Anthony Marrison @nd Jo1 [stunt flights except under xlgld Grohman, two of three men vl |conditions attacked and robbed E. N. Foss. Alaska sourdough, last Friday night and left him to aie n a|Bobs Change So Often gas filled room. The police rescued Barben (JO to SCIIOOI the victim in a dying condition. PARIS, Aug. '22-—French hair- London Population L - Froeh bair 4 ressers are going back to school Shows B," Tacrease) e A ias i bobs. chanse b |80 often they can’t keep up with mi?ho?‘;z;:;:;n:f';:‘l:e':":l: the procession without technical instruction. thirty years registrar of births | sy art Their national organization, and deaths, brought out the faci " that the popuMtion. éf.the Cliy meeting recently, heard the cry of the provincial haircutters and of London has decreased from decided to enlarge the apprentice- 50,000 when she took over her job ship and training system now op- to 18,000 now. Most of the people erating only in Paris and a few have migrated to adjoining muni- large cities. Barbers from the cipalities which go to make up| metropolitan London. country will be able, before long, to take short postgraduate courses o in the capital, learn the newest Kills Daughters, Shoots | b Wife and then Suicides wrinkles and by reason of better technical training follow quickls OAKLAND, Wilcox, aged 4 Room in Seattle the changes that Paris dictates. —_— e LOG BOOMS ARRIVE , Aug. 22.—Clyde well-to-do, shot the jury |poetry than non-poets are, just|and killed his daughters, Patricia, system say juries frequently acquit |48 dramatists are better qualified|aged 3 years and Cleo aged 10 too | to eriticizs plays intelligently. Er-| years, heavy and that if the juries could {vine says most of the criticism of|fatally and thn sul Two booms of spruce and hem- probablyjicck ' logs were brought in this ded at the|morning for the Juneau Lumber shot, his wil ke owned by B, W, Steers, T ——— JUST PRICR TO TAKING OFF Miss Mildred Doran, Mich., passenger on in the picture all ready for the hop-off 2,400-mile fight to Honolulu. She and the plane have not been seen since the shortly after noon. “the flying the missing plane school teacher,” Missc Doran, is shown from Oakland in the her two companions on take-offt last Tuesday of Flint, Alaska Road Commission Given Highest Praise by Senator Willis of Ohw PRESIDENT T0 SPEND 1 WEEK YELLOWSTONE P e i T lndisposinon Kept Him in Bed for Part of Sun- day—Had Cold SEWARD, United States Willis, of Ohio, enroute to Yukon, “It is quite impossible to ov rate the agricultural possibilitisg of Alaska,” said Senator Willis “The scenery is the most wonder- ful on the Globe. The mineral wealth stored is beyond the fond- est dream of man. “I know of no other the United States- splendid sorvices for funds ap- propriated as the Alaska Road Commission, It is a most wonder- ful organization. I have been wiil- the men on the trail. When I re turn to Washington I will unroll a picture of the men of this Bu- reau, plunging into the wilder- ness, sometimes at night, to re- pair washouts in roads, and mark out new roadways, That s the way Empires are built. Cities cn the interior are planned and coast- al towns will grow proportional Iy.” Senator Willis urged group of leading Alaska citizeny work out helpful plans for the entire territory, He said such| plans would be useful for delibera- | tion at Washington. Old Royal Edict Bars Parisians from River PARIS, Aug. 22.—River bathing in the open js forbidden in Paris, Alaska, Aug. 22, Senator Frank B, has arrived here 3eattle on the steamwr PN Burean in giving such RAPID CITY, S. President Coolidge suffered a slight Indisposition which kept him from church services yester- day, before leaving for a weeks' D, Aug. 22— ed in bed with a vold. until A long fishing trip part in his indisposition. Woman Is Held for that a SOUTH BEND, Wash., Aug. 22 ~Mrs. James Boreano, aged 45 years, is in jail pending inquiry into the shooting of her husband at the family home on Saturday night. Four of the couples six children saw Mrs. Boreano fire three shots into her husband af- ter a quarrel, | {ONLY EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY CAN PREVENT DEATH Supreme Court justices Re- fuse to InterVene to Save Sacco-Vanzetti SCHEDULED TO PAY IN ELECTRIC CHAIR If Executive Does Not Show Mercy Massachusetts Murderers Must Die UNDATED - The refusal of Chief Justice Taft and Asscciate Justices Holmes, Brandeis and Stone to grant a stay of execution for Ni- cola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti apparently leaves the chance of executive clemency as the only pos- sible escape from the electric - chair where they are doomed to pay with their lives, e;rly t:lx?omg mornin ;. the penalty posed upon them for the murder of Frederick A. Parmenter, shoe factory foreman, Ales- andro guard, seven years ago. ' STONE REFUSES STAY STONINGTON, Maine, Aug. 22. —Justice Harlan F. Stone, of the United States Supreme Court, hes refused a stay of execution 1 the Sacco-Vanzett! case. PETITIONS WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Pe- titions of counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti asking reviews of the proceedings in the case in hte Massachusetts courts have been docketed in the Supreme Court. " TAFT GIVES REFUSAL BOSTON, Mags., Aug. 22— Michael A. Musmanno, of the Sacco-Vanzettl Defense Counseh, announces that Chiet Justice William Howard Taft has wired him refusal after receiving & p - tition for stay of execution be- cause the matter was outside of his jurisdiction. Chief Justice Taft advised him to go before one of the three Supreme Court Justices now in the district of Massachusetts, Musmanno bhas appealed in vain to Justices Holmes and Brandels. BEFUSE RITES OF mc’! OSTON, Mass., Auj \’llnla Sacco and Bnrlolomru Vanzetti have refused rites ol the church saying they prefer: d to die as they lived—outside of the pale. Prison guards reported the two condemned men slept soundly Shooting Husband. 'kllled during last night, on what js exp eted trip to Yellowstone Park. He stay-[to be their last night before th' noon yesterday | execution. Calestino Madeiros, also con- in the sun on Saturday played a|demned to dle at the same timg, slept well. PUBLIC BUILDING PA‘I‘IOI. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. Public buildings of the NiLunll, Capitol will be patrolled to cope with any reprisal attempts by Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers. SHOT IN DISORDER . PITTSBRGH, Penn., Aug. 22, —A State trooper was shot and a Sacco-Vanzstti demonstration at Acemtonia. near (Continued on Page Eight.) but only lately have the polic2 learned that they are enforcing a decree of Louis XIV, adopted ia 1688. When a woman and her hus- band, both in bathing suits, were arrested recently the loud protescs they- registered caused the author- ities to dig up the ordinance they were enforcing. The police had orders not to permit bathing in the river Seine but they did not know why. They|jected to a start of apprehension know now that the rule is abso |this summer when they receive lute and tliat costume has nolhlna‘ franked envelopes from the In to do ‘with it. |ternal Revenue Bureau. They In scores of entirely enclosud | won't necessarily contain the bad bathhouses along the river, how-|news that errors have been found ever, thousands bathe daily. Much ' in the recipients’ tax returns. family linen is washed in the doz-| ' Under a new procedure, all tax. ens of big laundry boats moored payers will be notified, as soor WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—Many of the 3,600,000 income tax pay- ers may—but shouldn't—be sub- they would |Bovel is done by novelists, and|family home here last Saturday|Mills by the Chief and the Spray,|to the babks in the center of the)as their 1926 returns are examin city. ed, that they do, or do mot, owe e e —— g b Income Tax Notices R Scare Honest Payer; the government more money. Most of them do mot. A number already have W mailed. Several protests hln received from taxpayers who ol jected to what they regarded an implication that they had dered incorrect returns. O 4 however, have thi the bugesu for the notices, which l‘fi 3 assured that no error has will be found. And the saves the bureau llnln” of correspoudgnce. ¥ &