The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 3, 1927, Page 1

‘; | R —— e —— —— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXX., NO. 4575. JUNEAU ALASKA SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 1927. PRICE TEN CENTS PRINCESS CHAR! SENATE MAY CONVENE IN EARLY FALL Contested Senatorial Cases| May Require Time for stposmon RAPID CITY, 8. D, Sept. 3.— Upon his return to Washingtorn, Presidont Coolidge will confor with the Senate leaders on con- vening of a special session of tiie Senate in the fall in order give it an opportunity to consider contested election cases. It is stated that President Cool- | idge is unaware of the exact stand- ing of contested cases but thinks | it might be helpful to take these up ahead of the regular meeting time in December. Two contests involving consider- able fireworks are pending for| seats of Senator Smith, of' Illinois | and Senator Vare of Pennsylvania. | © Both are Republicans. Sena‘s | leaders predicted a long time \\Al' be required to dispose of the con- | tests. ‘Shal)llu(‘l Is,Reported Seen BOUND FOR NEW YORK FROM ENGLAND? pan LOST PLANE IS SIGHTED, ONE REPORT Off Far North Coast of Labrador FINALLY GETS (International Tilustrated News.) | Hera is the all- metal Dornier-Napier plane in which Captam F. T. Courtney, ho; in New York from Southampton, England. CAPT. COURTNEY OFF ON FLIGHT Plane Leaves Plymou!h To- day by Way of Azores for United States AIR FLIGHTS BE REGULATED; ACTION TAKEN American Bar Association Makes First Move for Legislation, Congress VOVer 2,000,000 Cases Lost bwlll bé increased slightly by fall; PACK FIGURES - BIG SURPRISE; LOSE 3000000 in S. E. Alaska—Total Is 2,776,241 Cases 4 ! The 1927 salmon pack of South- eastern Alaska aggregated 951,799 tull cases, according to reports received from individual canneries by local headquarters of the U. 8 Bureau of Fisheries. The pack (o date for the Territory, with the Kodiak pack unreported, was 2. 776,241 cases. The Southeastern Alaska pack operations and the packs in K'I:y Prince William Sound area and Kodiak will also be enlarged by late operations. Decrease 50 Per Cent ‘The 1927 pack is apparently less than 50 per cent of that for last year when a total of' 6,652,852 cases were packed. The South- eastern Alaska pack dropped from. 3,068,065 cases to 951,799. The lat- ter figure, however, is not fina!. One small cannery has not “e- ShehasjlmtakenupherduhuuNiun ported and several canneries in this district will operate on gill- SHE’S THE ONLY WOMAN CONSUL Mus Emmiu Canton, 28 is the on\y wumn eonsul in the world. guan consul at San Diego, ()TTE LIBELED ACTION FILED AT WRANGELL AGAINST BOAT Salvage Claim of $250.000 Is Made by Alaska Packers Association WRANGELL, Alaska, Sept. 2. —Steamer Princess Charlotte, of the Canadian Pacific Railway, has been attached by the United States Marshal under a libel ac- tion brought by the Alaska Pack- ers Association, owners of the tug Kvichak which towed the Charlotte into Wrangell after he- ing pulled from the rocks where she piled up last Tuesday night. The Alaska Packers Assoelaticn has filed action in the Federal Court for $250,000 against the owners of the Princesr Charlotte for salvage. It is expectel the uisadled ves- sel will be held here as the re- sult of the action unless the Canadian Pacific Railway posis bonds for release. The libel case will be given a preliminary hearing in the D.a- trict Court at Ketchikan on Octo- Cal. Her father is a prominent figure in Central American affairs, ber 1. | YOUNG SCREEN i (Internaticnal Illustrated News) | ST. JOHNS, Newoundland, BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 3.—Alnet and troll fish after September “ it 4 : Sent STy T Deat ve. movement of airmen at the regu-t5. The pack by district as report- A KBy s understood that a bond b STAR Tu WE |unul that the monoplane Strap- lation of transoceanic flights, w}ad to the Bureau of Fisheries fo! F%éfig\% Wp(l’l‘,y]lvgl;“";gl:rLSBSOTYOSl]rrLRb FROM Irco;artll;:tem:i.l?. bo: l:rll:d Plrnlnc;n. hm has been sighted off Labra- pravent the loss of lives in un-|lows: U] RY, THEN DIES!| [, airworthy planes, was launched at|Bristol Bay . 891,074 PRy A i | neau today in the District Court, i, . e TR T I e { the final m‘eellllg of the Americant Cook Inlet 182.0!12: "r & i : ;hy R. E. Robertson, attorney. kithough no formal announcementiOFdered all wireless stations, | Bar Association, Fiftieth Annual} Chignik ... 67,487 ‘}J v Q HALL FARGO, N. D., Sept. 3.—Endur has been made, it was leumed\1‘““”‘“"‘""' customs and other Convention. Alaska Peninsula 276, 121‘ [E & HE four days of paln with a bulle: s ™ @ Wire that - Doroihy . Sebastian {officials to institute a g(»-“p'd]‘ The movement u?uk the form | Port Moller 15,674 % i\ h bdomen because he fe, IJ b \ young featured player under con- | search and report any discover- of a resolution, unanimously adopt- | Central Alaska 'l')'LLl“ ! V i punishment for playing with 2 - }|:|r~l to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, n.“’“ immediately. g ad, that plet_lges the members of | Southeastern Alnaku . 951,70 ' } forbidden rifle, Francis Langeg engaged to Clarence Brown, di- ‘ Those familiar with the coast the Association to urge Congress —— » agod 10 y.enru, died last night. sEAsoN NuT Shatar or many succsasti) plotures | expressed the belief that unless to pass legislation extending the | Total rorbas ; 2,824,442 ‘il ?Jn ‘—m. np ' hila first f'ump'l‘llned of Thev.will . be . married wheu."lm fliers descended Xmmed&atfily‘ powers of the Secretary of Com- _Big Laca! Decflne | P .( fl"%u the stomach ache. A doctor dia Browi's dfvoroe, obtained early | SPON ~Teachimg the - coast their| merce to fuclude such flights The dacline ‘imthe ~gouthern | L&) w: nosed the case as jaundice. The: r_ 7 S Wat - sbrine. heu‘;mes tinal * | situation is hopeless as the in- Chester Cuthell, Chairman of | Prince of Wales Island and cen- R the parents noticed a small hole La E o i 8 {terior is sparesly inhabited. the American Bar ZXASsociation’: |tral areas of Southeastern Alaska | in the boy's abdomen. They were Iy | Air Law Committee, introducing [ was the most marked. The south-|yy .1 o 58 : told by Francis and his seveu | Spouse Unfriendly, I the resolution, said: “During re |ern, or Ketchikan, area reported | < atn Follows Acc lfie[‘-l M| year old brother Bdward, wita Alaska P L Will \ Wife G “’DiVWCCiFARRAGUT AND | § ount transoceanic flights 25 u:e; 3 cannerlesdpatcketi eals‘obs‘s;fis cases| Which Alaskan Mission- | whom be was laying, that it i‘) dDed\ uxC ill Abide ave een lost, al reporte as compare 0 o A cases 3 was a nal woun as the result L l_f 70 | missing are dead. Most of these |last yen:l ary Fflta“}’ In)ured of a fall. Y § CISIOD' ommis- g HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Sept. ! flights were not strictly of a| The Prince of Wales Island dis- 4 i On the fourth day, Mrs. Langer sioner OMalley Bacanse he treated his wite, Ris commercial nature but were stunt [trict 11 canneries operating, re | CLARKSBURG, W. Va, Sept. 3 /(014 the child she thought the| Royce von Sternberg, “with aus- flights.” ported a pack of 63900 cases us| —Rev. S. Hall Young, aged 80 pole was a bullet wound, then| SEAYILE, Sepr. 3.—Represent- \ N iintandliness” . Sosed von William P. McCracken,, mem-| against 431210 cases in 1926, |years, missionary and author, of|the full story was told. Francis atives of 35 Alaska Packers have Sternberg, motion picture direc: | ALASKA PURTS ber of the Air Law Committee. | Right canneries in the central|Seattle and Alaska, died here af-|gjed two hours later. reached an agreement to abld:. said: “One feature of these flights |district reported 196,281 cases. In|ter being seriously Injured when without protest, by United Stat - " black chiffon evening frock, cor- tor, has no wife today. She has obtained a divorce and with it an | automobile, a diamond ring, $2,000 in h and alimony of $540 a| month. They were married July 6, 1926. Death Valley Scotty Is Named in Divorce LLOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 3.— “Death Valley Scotty,” picturesque character of the desert, and his biographer, Eva Madge Jorgensen, actress and author who is known as the “Queen of Death Valley,” were linked in a cross-complaint for divorce on file here. The hus- band charges that Mrs. Jorgensen found her biographical work so engaging that she refused to re- turn to her home in Los Angeles. | » | l MacNider Denies .| He Has Resigned | From War Dept. | WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. Hanford MacNider has author- ized a denial through his sec- | retary of the statement in the Army and Navy Journal | to the effect he has resigned as Assistant Secretary of War. ! B— &l Mayfair Wears Outside, Not Under LONDON, Sept. 3. — Mayfair's newest fad is the wearing of cor- sets outside instead of underneath the dress. These fashionable cor sets are made from costly mate- rials such as the lowly “coat-of- mail” corset of the past never dreamed of using. The most popular fashion {8 a ‘setted in the new manner with diamante embroidery and silver lame. At first glance it looks ae ‘it the wearer has a glittering girdle clasped round her body, m&d way "lfi a silver .t.fln. |gers who jSydney as the ultimate destina- Jaced down the back in the old-{the-back tyranny do we have to g SEATTLE, Sept. 3. — Steamer| Yukon sailed for Alaska ports at 9 o'clock this morning with | 150 passengers, Including the| following for Juneau: E. I’urs(n. Mrs. A. Sully and daughter, Mrs. | Fern Vance, A. Debous, Mrs. T. arks, Mrs. D. Waggoner, J. W. Woods and wife, Mrs. S. Hlun~i chard, Miss J. Rosenberg, L. West and wife, S. J. Kelly and wife. There were. four passen-; requested that names not be published. Steamer Admiral Farragut sail-| ed at 9 o'clock last night for Alaska ports with 27 passengers, including Bonnie White for Ju- neau. Capt. Wilkins Invited To Take Part in Flight SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 3. — The Chronicle says Capt. Kingsford Smith and C. T. Ulm, Australian fliers planning a flight from the Golden Gate to Aus- tralia, have invited Capt. George H. Wilkins to be one of the navi- gators. The Chronicle says a Fok- ker monoplane will either be pur- chased or will be built. It is planned to make stops at Hono- lulu, Samoa, Elijus Islands, New Caldonia and Brisbane, with w their | tion. Corsets tation of the dress, however, is quite pliable, despite the realism of its design and shape. A London dressmaker said of the new fashion: “The corset style of trimming for evening dresses is much more attractive thanm it sounds. It lends itself to many ideas and empha- sizes a good figure line, making a woman look far more ‘dressed’ than some of the recent all-down- alike modes.” Men, however, are asking, “Why when we thought we had been liberated from the old hook-me-up- | navigator; {and also a passenger aboard, de F. T. COURTNEY PLYMOUTH, Eng, Sept. 3. Capt. F. T. Courtney, who hopp~d | here from Southampton several | days ago, began his long delayed Atlantic ilight at 6:26 o'clock this morning. His immediate destina tion is Horta, Azores, a distance of 1,200 miles. He hoped to reach there by 10 o'clock tomight where he will refuel, then fly to New foundland, then New York. He i3 accompanied by Lieut. Downer, R. F. Little, engine scribed by the Air Force officials as a Canadian millionaire wno paid $7,600 for a seat in the plane. CHANGES PLANS LONDON, Sept. 3.—The Festizes radio station has picked up a radio message: from Capt. Courtney’s plane saying he is heading for Corunna, Spain, as there are tco heavy heads winds to reach the Azores. DETROIT HOPS OFF BAGDAD, Sept. 3.—The round the world fliers Brock and Schlee left for Bunder Abbas, Persia, 88F miles distant, at 7 o'clock this morning in the Pride of Detroii. DETROIT AT KARASHI KARASHI, British India, Sept. 3.—~The Pride of Detroit arrived here at 3 o'clock this afternoonm, Indian time. CARLING PLANE DELAYED CARIBOU, Maine, Weathér con- (Continued on Page Three.) — e REAL SAILOR JUMPERS SEEN ON TENNIS COURTS LONDON, Sept. 3.—Sailors have inspired the latest jumpers worn by tennis-playing Englishwomen. ‘The ordinary jumper was origi- nally suggested by the seamon’s traditional uniform, but the latest idea is copied direct from him. A square navy blue collar with white braiding, as worn by sea- men In the British Navy, appears on the new jumper, These jumpers are usually in white material, with navy ‘collar and cuffs. Crepe-dechine Is used, with the collar and cuffs of a similar material, but players who play strenuously. generally prefer | lawn, this hnin;l -lw of | harder is they are drawing attention from the safety of daily commercial aviation and leading to focusing of public attention on the disast- rous flights that mean little irv the development of aviation. I do not mean this s true of ail flights for some have been higkly important.” CLAIMS LYLE NOT LOSE JOB SEATTLE, Sept. Hicks, State Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, predict- ed today that Roy Lyle will be retained as Prohibition Admin- istrator. Hicks based his pre- diction upon word from Commis- sioner James Doran, and - Assist- ant Secretary of Treasury Sey- mour Lowman. Hicks asserted that “Lyle is perfectly safe and there will be no change in the Adminjstration Enforcement work in this dis- trict. The attitude expressed in telegrams 1 have received are such that I am convinced that Lyle will not be removed.” Hicks had wired the officlals in Washington in the name of the State Anti-Saloon League. Wayne B. Wheeler Is Taken to Sanitarium BATTE CREEK, Mich,, Sept 3.—Wayne B. Wheeler, General Counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, is seriously ill at a Bat- tle Creek Sanitarium and the hos- pital authorities announced his condition “is not regarded as immediately: dangerous.” Wheeler is suffering from a kidney ail- ment and was removed to the sanitarium - last night from the Shelby Hospital where he was taken from his summer home last Thursday. Mrs. Wheeler recently dicd at the summer home as the resuit of burns in a gasoline explosion ———————— PITTSBURGH, Sept. 3.—White crosses, grim symbols of traffic deaths, have been ordered painted at ten street intersections Here 3.—Bernard Mwflnthwhhl:vo mmlflhfl. Each marks the scene of an au-| struck by an interurban at Ziesing. Dr. Young was on his way to French Creek for a reunion of French Creek Pioneers. 1926 this district produced 435, CAz 090 cases. The best showing in Southeast ern Alaska was made by the Ju- neau distriet, north of the 658th parallel. Eleven canneries were op erated. These packed 344,073 cases up to August 5, the closing daco, as compared to 577,736 last year and 335,877 in 1925. This yea's figure for the district will be larger when final reports are re- Dr. Samuel Hall Young, one of the first missionaries to enter Al aska, often was described as a “living history of the northlana” because he had carried the Gospel by dog team over snow frails celved and, it is expected, prob-|and by canoe on summer streams ably will reach 400,000 cases. to all sections of Alaska includ- ———.————— ing the Arctic coast settlements and even across to Siberia. GERMAN-AMERICAN A companion years ago of John Muir on Alaska voyages whe “mushed” with his pack in every BERLIN, Sept. 3.—For the first|hig gold rush, including the stam- time since the world war, a Ger-|pede to the Klondike in 1898 and man and an American university|a veteran church worker who or- are glving a joint course. ganized the first Protestant church The department of fine arts of|jn Alaska, Dr. Hall lived to write New York University is conduct-|and lecture on his experiences. ing a summer session at Berlin| Among his books were “Alaska as part of the summer school held | Days With John Muir,” “The Klon- by the German Institute for For-|dike Clan” and ‘“Adventures fu elgners of the University of Ber-| Alagka,” and on the Presbyterian lin. lecture platform in the states he Seventy-five students, mostly | was known for his intimate knowl Amgriesins, are enrolled. Therc|edge of the golden north. are also Japanese, Britishers, and Dr. Young wad born in Butler, a sprinkling from other nations.|pa, Sept. 12, 1847, the son of a The purpose of the course is 1| minister. He attended the Univer. afford the students an opportunity | sity of Wooster, Princeton Theol- of ‘studying German art in Ger-|ogical Seminary and the Western many. Leading German autho:-| Theological Seminary and taught ities, among them Professors Adolf|gchool in Michigan, West Virgi- Goldschmidt, Max Friendlaendér,|nia and Pennsylvania before he Curt Glaser, and W. Riezler, give [ wag ordained in 1878, courses covering the whole his- Camped at Juneau tory of German art. As soon as he was ordained, FraTRg et g Dr. Young went to Wrangell, Al- BIG WESTERN FARMER aska, as a missionary and explorer and spent ten years on the south- SIOUX CITY, lowa, Sept. 3.—|gngy l:zut w:rklng among the August Klindt is the largest farm-| natives even before the whie er in South Dakota—in stature. He 's law had been taken to the is 7 feet 2 inches tall and weights country. In 1879 and 1880, Dr 485 pounds. Klindt is 28 years|young and John Muir camped on of age. He has turned down many | the gite of Juneau, the present sideshow offers. capital before Joe Juneau made the gofd strike that establishel PNIVERSITY COURSE T “f|the city. With Muir he explored the glacier that now bears the | Ruth Makes One t latter’s name. In 1884 he estab- i lished a missionary paper, the ! A,nd W Two Glacler, at Wrangell. Circuit Drives || Leaving Alaska in 138, Dr. ' o (A | | Young held pastorates in Long NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—Ruth | | Beach, Cal, Cedar Falls, lowa, | and Gehrig put on a famous | | Caberty, 1., and Wooster, Ohio. | home run act yesterday. Babe | 3&' out his 44th home run id Gehrig his 42nd and 43rd | ) and then joined the stampeda across the Chilcoot Pass to th Kiondike and established the " (Continued on Page Tv .. For ten years he remained away | | picker, ir £k WILL WED AND FLY TO ALASKA Joe Crosson, of Fairbanks, to Marry Portland Girl, Fly North PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 3.— Joe Crosson, Fairbanks Alaska, aviator, is to marry Florence Tonseth, aged 19 years, there this month” and the couple will then fly to Alaska in a new plane. Crosson met Miss Tonseth when she and her brother were attending the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines at Fairbanks. The wedding will take place in time for the couple to visit the Spokane air races in Cros- son’s new plane after which they will fly to Alaska. . —— Train Hits Opn Switch; 3 Killed PRINCETON, Ind., Sept. Three persons were Kkilled, an- other injured probably fatally, when the westbound Southern Railway passenger train hit an open switch and swung head-on to a Big Four coal train at the Francisco mine early this morn- ing. Fisheries ~Commissioner Hen O'Malley’s ruling on closing tae fall fish season in Alaska. A committee of seven was r- pointed however to gather inlor- mation concerning the run of fish. when it started and number of fish. The report will be preserved for future reference in case a simili* situation confronts the industry. H. B. Friele, Vice-President o* the Nakat Packing Corporation, sald the closing is a “closed in- cident.” Commissioner O'Malley announced the season is closed and this ends the question. Tha packers did not discuss this phase because it is something that was not an issue at the meeting.” ————— TWIN GIRLS QUIT SWIM o CAPE GRISNEZ, France, Sept 3.—The thirteen year old twirs, Phyliss and Bernice Zittenfsid, who started from here at 11: o'clock last night in an attem;‘ to swim the English Channel, had to abandon the effort after ewin:- ming for more than four hour:. One of the girls left the water at 4:07 o'clock this morning ani the other at 4:30 o'clock. — e Morris Ackerman, feature sorv- fce writer and publisher of a sportsmen’s guide, left last might for Vancouver enroute to his home in Cleveland, Ohio. Family Routed At Night, TYLER, Texas, Sept. 3. graphic story of how l was routed from the ! night, marched into the M and flogged by four masked was told today by ot victims, J. W R x one of . C3Ank . from Bed Givon'fl{o