The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 29, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR VOL. XXX., NO. 4570. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 29, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE HOP OVER ATLANTIC; REACH MUNI Army Aviators Believed Captured Held by } U. S. FLIERS FORCED DOWN, HELD IN MEX, Captain and Staff Sergeant Reported Captives in Me)uco SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 29. —Belief that two Army av- iators, Capt. C. H. Reynolds and Staff Sergent Gus New- land, of Fort Sam Houston, he 1 cantured by Mexi- expressed here by two Army aviators were forced down Saturday while returning from Phoe- nix where they had been as- sisting in the ‘search for Al- Menard, shell-shocked war veteran, lost in the des- ert. A telegram received from Dapopiedra, signed by “Clock,” who is not known here, said the men had been captured by Mexieans but the plane was not hurt, Ar- rangements are being made with the authorities seeking the |cl( of the aviators, - LEVINE ON FLIGHT; 1S IN ENGLAND Flies Monoplane from Paris| to London—Drouhin Is Surprised LONDON, Ang. Levine, in the luml landed Airdrome this 29.——Charles A.| monoplane Co-| at the Croydon| dfternoon, He| had difficulty fn making the| Janding. The Columbia circled over the airdrome four times be- fore coming down and landed, with a great bump. Levine ap- peared rather mervous but had nothing to say when members of the flying field foree congratulat- ed him upon his narow escape from injury or probable death DROUHIN SURPRISED PARIS, Aug. 29.—Levina took French leave of France without telling anyone of his intentions. He flew the Columbia to London| giving Maurice Drouhin an un- pleasant surprise . Drouhin said he would ‘sue Levine for breach of contract. Levine, ‘t is under stood, has never posted 300,000 francs the contract called for| when Drouhin was signed up to pilot the Columtia on the return| flight to the United States. 5 Even Sparrows Take Holidays in August| LONDON, Aug. 29.—August is the vacant month in London. Even the sparrows leave the city. There is a great sparrow ex- odus to the grainfields now. The grain is ripe and most of it will not be cleared from the fields for some weeks to come. As long as any is left the London spar. rows will prolong their country visit. - Jacob Marty, owner Jacob Marty Mines, operating ‘at Windham Bay, arrived here vesterday and is a guest of the Gastineau. of the | per left—Fritz Eimermacher; | German ! than (;ornum y’ Lnlrum.s In Gordon - Bennett Race Fly for Fun A merchant, manufactarer, and oculist make up Germany's entry in the balloon ra Up- Dr. R. Hilben and Hugo Kaulen. (above) \||x 29.—Three busi- whom ballooning ation will ropr the Gordon-Bai of Detroit BERLIN, ness men to week-end re sent Germany nett balloon September 2 to To the three, er, dealer in oils R. Halben, oculist, len, merchant and piloting a gas-bag over the coun tryside what tennis and g>l! E to the American business man h is more than 40 years old considerably older than the leac ing men in other forms of sport in Germany. Eim cher, phalia, is the balloon most pictur: up in his 165 times since he flying in 1909, at the age Invited by friend to ac any him on a balloon trip, ho's in the sport an opportunity fo: developing personal courage and determination, cleverness and skil’ a balloonist's and showed his faith in his hokby by taking his honeymoon trip in his craft. him victor over 12 competitors In 1912 he was the only German in the Gordon-Bennett races Storms do not scare him peatedly he starts off in and lands in just as weather. On numerous he has won first, second or . In the recent races out of Gelsenkirchen, which determined (.mmun\ representatives at this Gordon-Bennett cup com- on, he tied with Dr. for first place In 1908, Dr. Halben, Berlin ocu- list and ophthalmologist, was in- structor at the University of Greifswald, Prince Henry of Prus- gia, the former Gorman emperoi’s brother, visited the institution. In a in aces out 10, Fritz Kimermach and fats, D and Hugo Kau manufacturer, is of Munster, most travelled ts and sque. He balloons Wes! has more began of 28, the gone Re a gale, difficult occasions third of | Halben | | li | perhaps | | tried | flight club, | { has His twentieth trip made | I | | point SAYS TESTS PROVE 1 1 2.75 BEER HARM UL PAUL REDFERN REPORTED BUT IS INDEFINITE Georgia Nfin-stép Flier on Trip to Brazil Is Seen, Says Report CARACAS, Venezuela, Aug. 29.—It 15 reported an airplane was sighted over the delta of the Orinoco River at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, flying in a south- erly direction. The Orinoco Delta i3 on the ccurse manved out by Paul Redfern flying to Bra- zil from Brunswick, Georgia, U. 8. A Since Redfern started on his | flight | been }* » of an automobile driva next to a capt who so enthused he began flying the cour: Dr. Halben sat in the air corps, the oculist that that same year. | Halben secializes in goal fly | ing, that in landing his balloon | as close as possible to a designated | distant goal. He achieved a world 1 vecord in 1924, when he came | within 400 feet of a goal 180 miles away from his st ] His only mishap in 1911, ] when he was caught in a tornado and negotiated a forced landing within 8 minutes from height of 11,000 feet. His back was in- 1 but the lives of his passen- were saved from the Baltic His nurse at the hospital to exact a promise that he would never go up again. Instead, she accompanied him on his firs after recovery, which also his world record trip. He flights to his credit 58 years old, of Barmen, has been an en- was a proved 82 Kaulen, in the Rhineland, thusiastic balloonist since 1908. A friend of his, Oscar oeh, re- turned from his participation in the Gordon-Bennett n Am-| erica in 1907 with enthusiasm for the sport and Kaulen caught the fever. He took third prize at '|-~‘ international balloon races at Oslo; in 1912 qualified for the Gorden- Bennett races out of Paris Inl 1913. In December, 1913, Kaulen with two passengers set a world's long distance and duration record, cov. ering 1,865 miles in 87 hours Though another German, Berliner,{ outdistanced him by 65 miles a| few months later, Kaulen still} holds the duration record. He has flown his balloon nearly 60 times rac LEARNING HIS ONIONS! W MONMOUTH, N. J., Aug 29.—To gather first hand material for his Labor Day sermon, Rev. H. Pierce, of the Baptist Church, is passing his days at the most arduous physical toil available in these parts. He has dug clams, worked in gravel pits, hauled fish seines and packed tomatoes. British Advertisers LY LONDON, Aug. 29.—“Say it with pretty women,” is one of the sl)- gans brought out at the Olympia Advertising Exhibition. “Put a pretty woman beside your name in the newspapers — ‘whether you make nuts and bolis, penwipers or motor cars—and you ve everybody neticing you, which is the first step toward uying,” advertisers say. ~ To carry out the idea, each of “Say It With Women” the sixieen national and interna- tional advertisers who placed ex- hibits at' the show were repre sented by a pretty gir]. “Tell the women,” the experts explained, “as they ‘are the world's spenders and the ones to whom advertising mnst be directed. Wo- men spend 80 per cent of the world’s money, directly or indi- rectly. M4 make the money but women spend it, therefore talk to the women,” Ocean Flier Is Driven Back by Severe Storm LONDON, Aug. 20.—The mono-! plane Sir John Carling, which took off at 5:60 o'clock this! morning for London, England, has | returned to the starting point,' driven back by a severe storm. Capt. Terry Tully and Lieut. James Midcalf were the navigators of the plane.'It is said they ran into a storm and heavy rain over Lake Ontario and decided th.t weather conditions were too sev- ere to continue today. Their Noses Knew 2 Perfume Thieves NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—No cred. it for sleuthing goes to the de- tective who rounded up Alfred Cargill and George L. Rodgers. The two lifted $400 in perfumes. more potent than rare, from a drug store, and their trail was plainly marked by the scent from a couple of leaky bottles, 'late husband; Harold Bolster, last Thursday therg no authenticated news of being sighted One stramer he was seen in his plane ing sou'hward through the Bahamas. o BODIES, SACCO .| AND VANZETTI ARE CREMATED {Final Service Follows Par- ade Through Streets of Boston ni [ reporte prog BOSTON, Ma a silent proc miles of city streets, while than 100,000 persons looked on the bodies of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were reduced to ashes at the Forest Hills Cra matorium yesterday afternoon. The ashes will be turned over to Mrs. Rose Sacco and Miss Luigia Vanzetti, widow and sister two executed Radicals. The ceremony at the cemetery was brief and simple. There were no religious exercises. Miss Mary Brown, member of the Sacco-Van zetti Defense Committee read the eulogy referring to the dead a, ‘“yictims of the worst plutocracy the world has known since An cient Rome.” e 29.—Aft r eignt more , Aug ion through Madge Kennedy to Get $500,000 Estate| NEW \’ORK 4\!“! 29.—Madge Kennedy, actress, will receive al' but $2,500 of the estate of her New York investment banker who di>t recently in Los Angeles, accord ing to his will filed yesterday | Attorneys estimated that the es tate would be appraised at nearly ‘5500.000. The $2,500 goes to Miss Elizabeth ploye. Rankin, a former em - > GODDARDS RETURN HOME E. M. Goddard, Tarrllorial Game Warden with headquarters dere, returned home Saturday night af- ter a B80-days’ vacation trip to the States. He was accompaniel as far as Wrangell by Mrs. God- dard. She remained thepe to visit friends for a few days/and is ex pected to arrive tomorrow. ————— 3 Cost of Income Tax Collection l’ Is Reduced WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 —Showing a decrease in the | cost of collection, the Treas- ury Deparment, reported tax collections for the year end- ing June 30 recorded an in- | crease of one per cent, with a total of $2,865,000,000. The operation of the law cost $32,000,000, a decrease of six and ene-half per cent. | hag A of the! IIL‘.NP APOLIS, \L\Rr investigation has disclpsod that 2,75 per cent beer contalu enough alcohol to be Mjurious t¢ @myong who drinks it, Miss Cor Frances Stoddard, of Boston, ds clared today at the annual conv tion of the Women's Christia Temperance Union, The orgdnization will base on Miss Stoddard’s report stand against light wines beer. xperiments in the research . ried on in the nutrition tory of the Carnegie Institu at Washington, Miss Stod reported. In one test, in gubjects were asked to watér in a series of of eight men failed to acceptabld marks after 2.75 per beer, sha }ulg. A two uy it ant 1aho tion Hara which tatch even ont Janak- drinking waid in another test d'nuons attention, efficiency of eight to have 11 per cent after ¢ a couple cent requiring she found seven men out of | been Impaired by they had drunk of pints of the con I the report advocated an ment laboratory for ev court handling liquor ®vidence. et NOBILE IS TO MAKE FLIGHT OVER ARCTIC ox el f Reported Norge Navigator| Will Fly Between Pole and Alaska ROME, Aug.‘20.—Although the Ministry of Aeronautics maintaing the greatest reserve regarding the projected flight of Gen. Umbert | Nobile over new Polar Regions because Premier Mussolini has not yet approved of the plans, the Milan Tribuna maintains the | flight will be over the region be tween the North Pole and Alaska. The Tribuna says the flight wll be made in a dirigible like the | Norge. The airship is ready iaj the Ciampino hangar. | The flight will be for the pur- | pose of gathering scientific data. | The plans for the flight are| being worked out under the aus- pices of the Italian Royal Geo- graphical Society as well as the city of Milan. | It is believed the dirigible N-R. which is the Ciampino hanger, may be the ship Nobile will uae! as the Tribune says the- N-R has already been altered according to Nobile'y plans for this kind of | venture, HIJACKER IS . SHOT, KILLED | | SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29.-- |Jackie Gordon, San Francisco prize fighter, died today from gunshot wourds received in what the police believed was a hijack- ing attempt on an alleged liquor establishment operated by Peter Peterson, occupant of a house [here where the tragedy occurred Peterson {8 held on an open charge after having admitted fir- ing shots which are believed to have caused Gordon's death. The cups. | | | the | hig arm around the daughter | the IS REPGRTED ON finnie Kennedy, mother of Mrs. Ang:lus Temple, Los Augeles, the steamer Aleutlan for 1edy is reported coming north believed to be accompanied by a The picfiire above of Mrs. she and her daughter were in 1g0 the Associated Press rived at Portland, Ore., by sald to be accompanied by student is J ud g(' U ph olti $ LONDON, Aug. 29.—“It i8 quite natural for a girl of 16 to rewars a boy with a kiss after a biey vide, i’ she thizks fit,” Judge I E. Bradley of Lytham has ruled “There {8 nothing unseemly or disgraceful in that.” A mother and daughter had! summoned a mext door neighbor| for assault. It was ed that several bogs and g were in street. One of the boys had and a bicycle man, smark »ful. kissing her after The neighbor, a by, stopped to kiss was disgrac trouble started. The neighbor was fined. JAP TRAIN IS HELD-UP Daring Rol';l;r;l Is Staged near Toyko—Troops Sent to Scene was ride ing the th Thet LONDON, Aug. 29 Tokys correspondent of the don Daily News says the holdest bandit exploit in recent years was staged over the week-end when a gang held-up a train east of the Japanese Capital, shooting the members of the crew and all others who resisted. Fifty pas- sengers aboard were captured and are held for ransom. A special train bearing troops has been crdered to the vicinity. B — o Daughter to Cohan Is Given Mexican Divorce The Lon- | LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29 Georgette Cohan, daughter of George M. Cohan, theatrical pro- ducer, returning to Los Angelos from a brief trip to Hermosillo, Mexico, brought with her a Mexi- can divorce from William ¥ Rouse, New York perfume iri porter, whom she had married or- ly a year and a half ago. Miss poilce found a quantity of liquor in Peterson's house. S eee Amnesia Victim Is Not Nnnl Officer NEW YORK Allg 29.—A de- tective of the Bureau of Missing Persons announced today that an | amnesia victim held at the Brooks lyn Naval Hospital was positive v | |not Lieut. Vomdr. Fidelio 8. Car- ter, 74 year old retired naval of- \ ]flcer. who has been missing since February 7. The patient had pre-' viously been tentatively identified as Carter. Detective Gisselbrecht said that it was now certain the man in the hospital was not Carter, U. S. Seaplane Sets Record in Altitude SAN DIEGO, Cal, Aug. 29.- MRS. MINNIE KENNEDY According to Associated Press dispatches to The indel under Ke: court at Los Angele: announced automobile, Kharv Rurht to Kiss America snatched one more world flight record from Italy when Lieu tenants Byron Connell and Herb- ert Rodd, Afreraft Squadrons, Battle Fleet, in a PH-10 seaplane carrying 17,726 pounds of sacked sand, ascended to an altitude of approximately seven thousand feet. The former altitude record was held by A. Passalova of Italy, who on December 8, 1926, flying « Savoia Metchetti seaplane fitted with two Isotta-Fraschina 500 horsepower engines, attained an altitude of 6,561.7 feet, carrying 6,614 pounds of deadweight, d .).4 TRIP TO ALASKA | Flight Afmee Semple understood finite visit in Ala an assumed young woina nnedy was taken at to that on a Bubeck, Mrs. Kennedy had rest trip ina Angelus ‘Il'l Temple Youth MAN IS SLAIN; GIRL ATTACKED | Sunday Brutal Crime Revealed WhCn S\’fll'ch l“' ]Vl”(l(‘, for rwo Missing MADISON VL Aug Fred Russell, ag d has b found dead, and his fiancee, M Pauline de Armond, aged 16 yea: found nearby, brutally heaten and tied near the old Fair Grounds | at Providence. The Police believe Russell was murdered and Miss de Armond attacked by robbers The young couple left Miss de Armonds uncle’s home here | Wednesday. When they did return, he began a search automobile was Fair Grounds Friday mo Russell's body was found 300 yard ‘ He had been dead, it ved, since Wednesday night The girl, unconecious, was found 75 yards away. She had been attacked, her jaw broken and | hole knocked in her head. Her | clothing had virtually torn from her body. The ground show ed indications of a hard struggle Court Gives Girl Fare Home as “Sentence” Ky., 20, n a T found NEW Aug. 29.—Ellen Blandt 8 old, convicted of highway robbery, got surprise | in the form of railway fare hom- to Cleveland instead of a sentence when she appeared in court learn her punishment. County Judge Taylor told he not only was convinced had no part in the robbery and therefore would set aside the Jury’s verdict, but would help pay her way home. He and formor United States Senator Calder New York, who had been in con- versation with the judge, gave her L.; for a ticket YORK 17 y a to her she [world by | ipleting { nonstop | Apparently Mexicans BROGK AND SCHLEE FLY OVER OCE#:/ from America England is Made i 23 Hours Time AV!AT(‘FS COFF ON SECOND LEG, T e} n MOH(‘ ;lfl[l(' l'li(]“ (‘f P‘ lill(l‘h { .ll' ill](] Rffi)(\vi' es Mlllli(:h BULLETIN — MUNI{T Aug, 29. — Completim tia second lap of their pmwc G l round the world Schlee and Brock arrivel here this afternoon in the's monoplane Pride of Detrolt, from Croydon, England City and State off the American Consul an?! large enthusiastic crowl, which had been waiting far several hours,,cheered louily as the monoplane came down gracefully to the Mun‘ch Airdrome shortly after 4 o’clock this afternoon. Breck and Schlee we each handed large glasses ¢ Munich beer as they steppsl from their machine. REACH ENGLAND SUNDAY OROYDON, _England, - Augy. 2 ‘The. monoplane Pride of troit landed here at 10:30 o morning from Harher Newfoundland, on tha to circumnavigate t o of i Grace, first lap The Prid the hou our Detroit, 0-mile in in the I i nd ightning, freezing ryingly it thu weat to ymposite of told to William Schlee, controls, story the Assoc! S. Brock who alte is as follow In Hurricane ran into what Hed hurricane ht which made and take notice s off flight Pre by Edward F. at the We mig during us both This the coa:t a up ¥ abe Ir in looking the cockpit, it was like it a blanket of inky was the darkest night us experienced n poured in wind tossed us about mercifully. The storm lasted hours, then we came into a which' delayed ue three hoar. We had a sandwich each en but it didn’t parti good as our minds we en with other things than food Upon completion of the fig flight, America to I'ar- fliers asked for f they were not tix >ea « it either and th taste land, he Heavy Rain Sterm Takes Lives, Japaa TOKYO, Aug. 29 patches report that a heavy storm Saturday at Ko Skikiku, one of four large of Japan, resulted in 36 per losing their lives. Other believed missing Many Iurt and hov bridges roads were washed away. Belate ] 4 1 i y eny 119 and re BUDGET PROBLEMS LOOM TOKYO, Aug. The Tanaka government, confronted with worst financial and economic ditions in the history of Japan, must soon “begin the compilaticn | of the budget for the next fiscal year. With an unfavorable trade | balance last year of more than 329,000,000 yen, and. the prospects exceedingly gloomy for the pre sent one, the cabinet must face | the almost impossible task of finding money where there is none. 29, the | | con FOR JAPAN nance admit there is no prosnact for any substantial inerease Im revenue. Last year there was =3 increase of 70,000 yen in rev-nua but officials doubt if any inmc: 2w at all can be expected this y ; Moreover, no substantial can be expected from the suri’ss’ reserve. There is a balance of 10, 000,000 yen in the hands of the' treasury but this must be ros for emergencies. The wholo fi this surplus, aceording to the e s mates of the treasury offic Officials of the ministry of fi,