The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 26, 1927, Page 1

THIE VOL. XXX., NO. 4568. “ALL THE NEWS DAILY ALASKA ALL THE TIME” JUNFAU ALASKA, PR[DAY AUGUST 26, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS At e S SRR MPIR PRICE TEN CENTS REDFERN ATTEMPTS FLIGHT RECORD Promment T RESIDENTS OF VANCOUVER ARE INDICTED Beattle Grand Vjury Claims Men Involved Liquor Conspiracy SEATTLE, Aug. 26. — Seven of Vancouver, B. C., tome of them prominent in liquor exnorting and distilling concerne, are under indictment here on charges of iracy to violate the prohibition law This revealed eral Judge Neterer eret indictment returnd grand jury on June 2 nection with the seiz liquor-laden Canadian launch Zez Among the 24 defendants are kland Lampman, Managing Di- tor the Joseph Kennedy | Export House of Van-| couver; Harry Reifel, Secretary of fhe same company and mem- ber of a millionaire family of Vancouver; George Reifel; Har- ry Lamond and N. Milne, ware- housemen the Kennedy Com pany; Masie, and Louis Beruadina, liguor dealers. A Can acian customs official unoffi-| cially reported to be among thres=| men mentioned in the indictment as John Doe. None of the Can-| adians have been g | residents cor Fed- a se the in con- ire of the| moto: when released by was a a re Liquor George rrested. - eee - SUBSTANTIAL TAX GUT 1S T0 BE MADE n Green Makes% | Chairma His Prediction—Says Treasury Errs WASHINGTON, Aug. 26— Chajrman William R. Green, of the House Ways and Means Com-| mittee, predicting a substantial | tax reduction by Congr aid he believed the Treasury officials! were too low in mating that| surplus of only 150,00,000 would be available for the pur- pose [ Chairman Green has called the| conmittee, which has juri-vun-n.m\ over revenue legislation, to meet| October $1 and take up the writ- ing of a new tax bill. | EQUATOR IN PORT | The Equator, Capt. Frank Sut- heland, arrived in port from the Péril Straits Packing Company at | Todd, at 2 p. m. today, and will remain here until tonight or to-| morrow mnrnlng | 2 S GLIDER TO CROSS _anadians Indicted Seattle Grand Jury OCEAN Adrien Remy, French inventor, and his new hydro-glider, with which he hopes to cross the At!antlc in four days PARIS, designed in four 26 A hydro-glider, the Atlanti is being fash Remy, French Aug to cross oc days Adrien an foned by It is to travel on the water, it will have motor-turned prop: | lers like an airplane and a shal low hull, so built upon two float- ers that it will “slip over the tops of the waves” instead of cut them. The floaters are nine NEW ARMY TRAINING o CUTS BROOKS FIELD FATALITIES PLAN Salmon Fishing In B. C. Stopped For One Week . B. C, Aug A. Motherweall Inspecfor, has ad vised the Dominion Fisheries office it has been definitely decided to prohibit all salmon fishing for one week in the waters north of Howe Sound - NOVA SCOTIA HIT, STORM HALIFAX, Aug. 26,—As the result of one of the worst storms in the history of Nova Scotia, seven persons are reported dead, heavy damage has been done to shipping, over a dozen small craft having been smashed to pieces or sunk, disruption of com- munications throughout the Prov- ince and trains are held up by washouts. Crops and buildings have also been damaged. PRISON CONGRESS URGES VACATION OF M’NEIL ISLAND TACOMA, Wash,, Aug. 26. Coming as a sequel to individual criticism of the McNeil Island Peu- itentiary, which has been .reely pas sed by delegates to the Amer fean Prison Congress, which met here. the resolutions committes of the organization submitted to the convention a resolution urg- ing abandonment of McNeil Is- land as a site for a Federal pris- ‘on, The following is the resolution: “The congress, as a body, visit ed the United States penitentiary at McNeil Island and viewed i’ with disappointment. The warden and his staff appear to be doing their best to meet a hard situa- tion, but the prison is difficult of access for freight and passen rers, requiring both boat and auto- mobile. The government owns on- ly a portion of the island, per- haps 600 acres out of 4,500, Its territory is insufficient and the security of the prison is diminish- ed because of the occupation of the island by other owners. “The soil is poor and unfertile. The projected water supply from wells is uncertain as to quantity and cost of production. There are po shops or other productive in- dustries besides farming, and most of the prisoners are idle a con- siderable portion of the time, be- cause of weather conditions. “Two-thirds of the prison build- ings are obsolete. The penitentiary contains at least four classes tait should be segregated and classif:- ed—young men under 25 years, drug addicts, mental defectives and ordinary normal prisoners. “We believe that the public in- terest would be promoted by the abandonment of McNeil Island and the selection of a new and better site. If this is not practicable, we advocate the use of the present penitentiary for drug addicts a.d defective delinquents, and, porarily as a reformatory young men under 25 years of age, and the immediate location and building of a new United States penitentiary at such su':- able place as may best serve the needs of the Pacific Coast ani other territory now served by the McNeil Island penitentiary.” Those sentenced from Alaska, for long terms, are for the most tene g tor| When | based on a reckoned speed of Jmne(l by a cross struc which contains a seven-foot high cabin in which ten persons can be accommodated Remy is building the craft from a model, but he has not date for the launching, pending in etallation of motors. His estimate of a four-day Atlantic crossing i 10 finished long anc | teet apart, ture set knots craft, 24 feet for the is 60 feet an hour which wide SAN. ANTONIO, ing has become almost as any other means of transporta- tion at Brooks Field here since e precent type of primary train- ing plane was adopted by the U Army. Records show oaly (wo fatal accidents have occurrad in approximately 66,000 hours of flying with this plane. This 'is equivalent of a trip of about 5,00¢ 000 miles. Aug. Fly- a8 saie Before the present plane, known as the PT-1, was adopted instrnc tors expected that they would lose at least one, and usual more, of | the members of each class through fatal aocidents. A board of flying officers se- lected the PT-1 as the most 4> sirable training plane in Septemn- ber, 1925. The plane they selec.ad made three radical changes from the former type. In the first place almost all »f the wood used in earlier planes was discarded for steel tubing. This strengthened the plane and at the same time did away with! splinters, the cause of many in- juries. The old instrument board in the cockpit, against which many a flier had crushed skull, was taken out and all the instruments placed outside of the cockpit. The cockpit itself, which often collapsed upon the flier in a crack-up, was reinforced and heavy crash pads placed at the front and rear of the pit t) protect the flier's head. As a result of these precautions the first three classes to be trained after the plane’s adoption went through without a fatal ac- cident. Many planes were dan- aged, but the pilot would crawl from the wreckage, scratched and bruised, but would be ready to fly again the next day. The plane is as mearly fool proof ‘as possible, but much credit is due to instruetors, officers say, who take every possibla precau- tion to insure safety and preve.t carelessness. One instructor at the post pnt in more than 1,000 hours in the air in one year and more than 2,000 in three years without a fatal accident. Other instructors have flown 900 hours a year with- out a bad crack-up. Field officers point out that this record is all the more unusual it is considered that the greater part of this flying is done with a novice under instruction at the controls, President Catches o o WET INTERESTS AFTER LYLE IS Seattle Exposes Al- leged Conspnracy SEATTLE, Aug. 26 Hicks, Superintendent Anti-Saloon League, “liquor deep — B. N. of and well organized Northwest Prohibition trator and put ir wet who will law.’ In an “1 warn prohibition not enforce interview, Hicks said: those who believe in and its enforcemene, propaganda which s spread taroughout the district is very significant that to the trials of the large prohibi tion conspiracy cases, when men of political, social influence, are elther wear indictment and that an investigation and expasure, is hibition is a material That thi press Albert bo “Is witness in a case, has been done recently in district and according dispatches, Congressman Johnson, of Grays ims credit for it it not significant in ty, together with other political and financia! were recently arrested now in the custody eral Government charges? This king moonshiner is alleged to have collected money from law violators tb be used in political campaigns and for other purposes.’” MAN TKAPPED UNDER EARTH Ninety Men Dng Through Night to Reach Vic- tim 1in Deep Well WORCESTER, Mass, Aug. 26 —Rescuers are endeavoring to reach Fred Lenneau, aged years, of Auburn, who has bheen trapped in a 40-foot well since it caved in 36 hours ago this morning, Lenneau men of influenc and on liquor 37 was still alive this appreciably weaker through the night. He is held by timber and earth in an upright position, He is unable to move but his head is protected and he is able to breath freely. Ninety men worked throughout the night dig-! ging towards him by a parallel excavation. They had reached a depth of 18 feet. Firemen, aiding the rescuers, have run a hose down through the tangled ticbers and are pumping an air supply to Lenneau. Train Is Derailed, 15 Persons Killed CHAMONIX, France, Aug. 26 —Fifteen persons were killed and 20 injured in the derallment of a train iin the mountains. L i New Airplane Built, Be Shipped To Fairbanks WICHITA, Kan., Aug. 25. | ~—Equipped with skiis as | well as a regular landing | gear, a five-passenger custom built biplane, is crated and | ready for shipment to Fair- banks, " Alaska, by Irl Beach, | Wichita airplane builder. | Two Large Trout YELLOWSTONE PAPRK, Aug. 25.—President Coolidge caught a 15-pound cutthroat trout yester- part sent ‘to McNeil Island Pris-}day and a‘so one weighing nearly on, four pounds, The plane is expected to | land on ice or land and it | wil! enter the service of the ! in Alaska. | —— MADE INCHARGE Anti-Saloon Léi;gue Man in the charges that interests are executing a ment to oust Roy Lyle as Pacifie Admin's= his place gome the not to be misled by this shrewd being 1t just prier financial indicted or launch- ed into the activities of the Pgo- Administrator's office to get something on some agent who to Har- view of the fact that the king moon- shiner and bootlegger, and politi- cal Jeader of Grays Harbor Coun- morning although he had grown' Bennett-Rodenbaugh Aiwrways | | ‘s‘] . are’ of the Fed- By JAC SHELDUN (Associated Press Correspondent) BRUNSWICK, Ga., Aug. Faul A. Redfern, youthful aviator, in planning his non-stop flight to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, proposes | what some persons believe to be !the most perilons journey ever at- |tempted by a flyer. He left here ! yesterday afternoon. | For an attempt to better the continuous, long-distance flying record of Clarence Chamberlin, Redfern laid out a tentative route which would take him over ap- proximately 1,700 miles of wates yand 2,800 to 3,000 miles of land. Before him are the Caribbean £ea, whose atmospheric conditions are more treacherous than the (Pacific or Atlantic; the jungle ‘lands of the Amazon river valley, thousands of miles of which have never been penetrated by man, (8nd many ranges of mountains, lsome of them more than 13,000 feet high. Traveling over a straight line course to Porto Rico, Redfarn plans to head almost directly for Rio de Janeiro. He would strike the South American mainland in ‘Venezuela, probably east of Cur- 26. I | LBRUAN S WICK I e | MENEZUELAS ZCOLOMB) e ‘\“' ana, after crossing the Caribean 8 On reaching land, Lave to begin climbing to an #l- titude of more than 8,000 feet ty avold the jagged peaks which ri | fram the range of the Guiana high- lands, standing as grim sentinels over a territory only partially” ex- explored A forced landing in the rugged fastness of these highlands, ex tending for a distance of zome 500 ‘mlle! or more into Bitish Guiana | j would mean instant death, in the | opinion of airmen. From these mountains, Redfern plans to wing his way into the 1a- terior of Brazil, which in area is larger than the United States, and for the next 1,600 miles would fly New England the most tracts as large as unpenetrated by even venturesome explorers, Below him would be the Ama- zon valley, in which danger lurks. A descent into the jungles, miles of which are covered with wat-~r, or upon the sun-baked or semi- inundated Llanos plains is less in- viting than alighting upon the sea and equally as dangerous as the mountaing just passed. Only vhe native ahorlglnes are SEA MOUNTAINS AND JUNGLE IMPERIL SOUTHERN AIR ROUTE OVER WHICH REDFERN FLYING he would | | the lowlands and even the small over an expanse of territory with | Paul Rgdfarn - the in said to be able to withstand torrid atmosphere prevailing tribal villages of ®he half-wild In- dians are few between, confined mostly to the banks of the Ama- zon and its tributaries. After flying over the state of Para and, perhaps, the northwest corner of the state of Matto Gros 80, Redfern would have completed approximately three-fourths of his journey when he crosses the bor- der line of Goyaz and again strikes mountains. The Serra do Parana, the first before him, ranges in altitude from 3,000 to 5,000 feet and ex- tends throughout the length o? Goyaz. Less than 200 miles from where he crossed this range, Red- fern would strike a group of higk- er mountais in the state of Min as Geraes, extending 800 miles ‘o- ward Rio de Janeiro and topped by Sa do Mantiquera, a mountain to exceed 13,000 feet in height. A less dangerous route, per haps, would be to hug the coast- line of South America until Rio de Janeiro is reached, but a much greater supply of gasoline would ha requ(red SCHLEE HOPS ~ INTO CANADA OLD ORCHARD, Maine, Aug. 26.—The monoplane Pride of De- troit hopped off at 5:25 o’clock this morning for Harbor Grace, | Newfoundland, where a start will be attempted for a new world- circling record. EASTPORT, Maine, Aug. 26.— The Pride of Detroit, flown by Edward Schlee and Willlam § Brock, passed out of the United States at 7:65 o'clock this morn- ing bound for Harbor Grace. .- FARRAGUT DUE SUNDAY Steamer Admiral Farragut is due southbound Sunday morning ‘at 10 o'clock according to radio advices received late this after- noon by Agent Brice Howard. Basse fish house, NEW DISTRICT SEARGHED FOR PRIZE PLANES HONOLULU, Aug. 26. — Re- ports from the Wallukau Dis- trict, Tsland of Oen Maur Kyaui, £4id a sherifi's posse ir searching the hills because of statements of residents of the district that they heard the hum of an air- plane the day the two missing Dole flight planes were expected at Honolulu. Residents sald the hum grew louder and then ceased suddenly. The reglon is precipitous and sparsely settled. — e The Tillacum, Capt. Ernest Fei- ton, discharged 32,000 pounds of kings and cohoes at the E. M ' OLD GLORY IS DELAYED NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—The monoplane Old Glory, loaded and fueled, is perched on the run- way ready to hop on a nonstop flight to Rome, but is earthbound isighted GEORGIA FLIER REPORTED FAR ON HIS FLIGHT Paul Redfern Is Sighted High in Air Near the British Bahamas ST I’ETEHSBI RG, Fla.,, Ang. 26.—A radio message from Nas- sau, picked up by the Finane al Journal’s 40-meter station, said the plane Port of Brunswick was 300 miles east of the British Bahamas by a steamer which arrived at Nassau at 31:40 o’clock last night. The steamer reported the plane flying at an altitude of 2,000 feet headed in a southerly direcfion FOLLOWING COURSE BRUNSWICK, Ga., Aug. 26 The wireless report from a steam- er reaching Nassau that the Red- fern plane Brunswick has been sighted east of the British Ba- hamas, indicated the Georga navigator was holding to the course he expected to follow {when he hopped off yesterday. VESSELS DO NOT SEE PLANE MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 26.—The Hilaleah Station of the Tropical Radio Telegraph Company, ri- ported during the night that ships east of the Bahamas and south of Porto Rico had so far failed to sight the monoplane Port of Brumswick. Radio officials sald they had communicated with several vec- sels whose positions were report- ed directly or near the cor Redfern was to follow on the way to Brazil. - FOR DISTANCE RECORD BRUNSWICK, Ga., Aug.- 26-- Paul Redfern, who hopped yr=- terday afternoon at 12:45 o'clock for Rio de Jaueéiro, 4,600 miles away, It successful, will estah- lish a distance record. The fitsc land on the route is Porto Rico, ) miles away. Redfern said if he was forced down in the Amazon Valley he could live Indefinitely with tue {equipment he is taking. Redfern said: “Don't lose hop 1 it I fall to return for at least six months or more."” IS RESCUED FROM CLIFF IDAHO PEAK Young Man Hauled Up 100 Feet from 12-inch Ledge High on Mountain McKAY, Idaho, car Sples, aged 19 years, has been rescued from a perilons position near the top of Mount Caleb, the second highest peak in Idaho. Three men hauled Spies 109 feet up a rugged mountain side with a rope and they in turn were hauled another 50 feet by others of the posse summoned by the young man’'s brother. Sples was ogught in his peri's ous position yesterday when a rock became dislodged under his foot and rolled down the moun- tain completely marooning him and making it impossible for hifa to retrace his steps. The ledge on which he was twelve inches across. men made the perilous near the summit of the eliva- tion, nearly 11,600 feet, where . the rope was dropped to Spies. Aug. 26.—0s- stood Five climb by a fresh wind which halted the take-off. Neither Bertaud nor Hill, pilots, appeared om the field. Mechanics said a wes' wind; is needed to lift the plane into; the air, R LONDON, Aug. 25. — Persons who pass through Huton Gardan, famed diamond center, often won-| der at the Royal coat-of-arms fix- ed in front of Nos. 52 and 63. This place until 1842 was the old Hatton Garden Police Court, where Charles Dickens sent Oliver Twist to get a three months’ scn tence for stealing a pocket hand- kerchief, U. S. War Craft Under Fire in ; Chinese River UEKING, China, Aug. 20— The United States destroyer Nu suffered a persistent rifle machine gun fire from the mlh bank of the Yangtze River abive - Chinkiang and returned the fire, according to advices. No cwhh, ties resulted. About the s 2 tine the gunboat Isabel, hip of the Yangtze River patrol, was. fired on from both sides of ¢l river at Nanking,