The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 6, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY Al VoL. XXX., NO. 4576. “ALL THE NEWS 4L~L THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, ! l:PTEMBER f.1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS SKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CE TS YOUTH ARRESTED FOR MURDER PRES. GREEN HAS MESSAGE le FOR WORKMEN Tells Them to Go to Po"s —Says Labor Move- ment Increasmg WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—In a Labor Day message to the Amer- ican workmen, President William Green, of the American Federation. of Labor, congratulated them on accomplishments of the last year and urged that in coming political tampaigns, their votes be cast for candidates who favor the labor tause Viewing “gradually ship and Green .urged continuation campaign of organization. plored certain court decisions labor cases, mentioning in cular the Supreme Court’s dis posal of the Stone Cutter's case, decisions against the Boston milk- men and Indianapolis street ca men Pr ed the the the labor increasing strength,” movement as in member- President of the i ident Green said he observ “most amazing” change in attitdde “of employers as well | hwll!tml and commercial i ' toward recognition of la- bor's contention |l|.u high wage make for ;n'n‘pvln) MARCUS LOEW PASSES AWAY EASTERN HOME : Theatre Wne: and Movie| f Magnate, Dies—- Leaves Fortune GLENCOVE, : 4 Marcns Loew, al his home here last night. Pennies grew into dollars for Marcus Loew until they fortune business. Popular priced vaudeville and motion pictures yielded him harvest from one of the largest chains of theatres in the world. Loew opened his first motion picture theatres in Cincinnati and New York when the industry was young, converting his penny ar Sept. 6 for him in the theatrical a (Continued on Page Three.) —_— e Col. Austin Colgate Dies, Eastern Home! ORANGE, Col. Austin dent of the prominent cal and military life, died at his summer home at Barnegat. He was 64 years of age and a bache- lor. For more than 30 years he has been an officer and member of the Board of the Colgate (‘n"mnny. N. J., Sept Colgate, Vice-Presi- Colgate Company, Four Penom Killed; Had Attended Church ZENIA, Ohio, Sept. 6.—Four psr-| sons were killed and one seriously injured Sunday when the cratk All-American Flyer of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad struck an auo mobile at a crossing. The dead and injured returning from at tending church services. e Mrs. M. Sweeney, mother of Ed Sweeney, was an arrival on the Admiral Evans yesterday from a visit with her daughter at Kodiak, She will remain here for a few weeks before going on to her hothe in Seattle. FOUR BATHS WOULD SATISFY THEM PARIS, Sept. 6.—The scarcity of bathtubs in most of France is often the subject of pokes, bu: reastic critics have a new fact give substance to their humor. In the town of Bedarieux, near the southern coast, there are 7. 00 people with very few tubs. forward-looking gentleman trans- upon promises of a good MM;;Q utntmnt parti- | theatre owner, died | | made a | 6.—| in New Jersey politi-| He de-| I'ne huge Fokker make a nonstop flight !lu.llf over New York. OLD GLORY IS ~ IN AIR, BOUND i ON ROME TRIP A n G Planc erican Giant eaves Atlantic Coast for Italian City ORCHARD, N. Y plane Old Glory, nonstop flight to Rome took off from the beac o'clock Bastern dayligh oday. The plane carrie men, James -DeWitt Hil eo-pilot with Lloyd’ Bertaud, th {former at the controls, and Phi ! Payne, representative of the Wil- |liam Randolph Hearst, the latter sponsoring the trip. The plane a later only a speck The giant ship rolled easily tdown the beach at the start gradually gaining momentum and after aboul one mile and a half the wheels left the ground and 0ld Glory rose slowly but stead- ily into the air. There is a mar- gin of at least a mile between the tuke-off peint and Old Orchard Pier which crosses the | beach. Hill bore out over the water and passed ‘the end of the pire with a few hundred feet |altitude and kept on south be- fore swinging, off and taking the course Last minute weather reports which continued to be favorable, were given the men by James Scarr, of the New York Weather Bureau . and indicated there is light rain along the French Coast but a good chance of it clearing up within 40 odd hours which is expected to be required for the trip. Armour’s Estate Has Dwindled to Million CHICAGO, Sept. 6.—The will of J. Ogden Armour has been filed for probate. Armour was once estimated to have had a for- tune of $200,000,000. The will indicated an estate of $1,000,- 000. The will left $100,000 out- right to his daughter Lotita, now Mrs. John Mitchell, Jr., and an annuity of $12,000 to her husband. The remainder of the plane Old Glory which Lloyd from the United States to Rome, Tests have shown the ship i in is show satisfactor, FLIERS MA m L “ oLD | The bounc for Ttaly at 1 time three few minutes in the sky Lloyd Bertaud another air . prior (left) lookin mail pilot, w to making the hop. Hill, Glory, Possibly the two persons Bertaud (leit), and Mrs. Flores CLD GLORY IS OFF ON FLIGHT TO ROME Bertaud an QA FLL..JS WIFE AND 'MOTHER of Old Glory’s flight from New York to Rome are Mrs, Hele: mother respectively of Lloyd Bertaud, taud, the pilot, [t | | | | d n leaving all KlNG TRlP DeWitt Hill the ground ¥ James to a test hope in | | | 1 e Mayor Landes Says Gov. Parks | Should Marry { f . SEATTLE, Sept. | Bertha K. Landes’s only re gommendation for improving [ Alaska that Gov. George A. Parks sho marr “The "Exccutive Mansion in Juneau [ 1% to large for one man,” said [tha Mayor who has returned Jrom a tour of Southeastern 6.—Mayor BflMB SHAKES - SKYSCRAPERS IN BROOKLYN gxplodes Between Hall of Records, Supreme Court Building NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—A explosion rocked the Brookly sky- scraper distriet yesterday, and ghattersd windows in the Brook fyn Supreme Court Building #HaN of Records. No one was it bomb | jnred. | { l | time bomb but declined The bomb exploded in tho al- {leyway superating the Court Buill Hall of Records Police believe it ing and The was a to phce [{wesponsibility although an investi wrm jon was g over maps with James DeWitt ho are aboard the plane Old il most interested in the succest nce Callaghan (right), wife gnz »|FARRAGUT IS _IN PORT WESTBOUND Steamer Admiral Farragut, Capt. C. C. Graham, arrived in port from the south at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon with 12 tons of A YEAR treight, one day’s mail and Miss Bunnie White for Juneau. The steamer has 400 tons of freight for western Alaska cities, and will load two carloads of ties at the Juneau Lumber Mills for the Al aska Railroad at Seward. She was got thirtysix to agree to take a|gcheduled to sail westward at 4 estate except a few minor he- quests to servants, was left trust for the benefit of the widow and daughter. Miss May Mills is in the S Ann’s Hospital for medical treat- ment. bath a month for a year. Afte- o'clock this afternoon. the first few weeks, acccording to T el reports of the enterprise, the sub- scribers reverted to primitive ideas Bo" .f lnventor . of hygiene and demanded part of Is Found in Brook their- tickets to be taken up. Sevn “A bath a month is too often; MORRISTOWN, N. J., Sept. 6. once every three months 18| _The body of Charles M. Lun- enough,” they are qiioted as say-|gren, retired lighting engineer and reputed, inventor of the gas The bathhouse tinally closed its mantle, was found yesterday in doors, unable to make a go ol a brook, five miles from his the bathing n He disappeared August ere Kpp evidence of vio- lence or mishap. The police be- lieve Lungren died of heart disease or exposure, Lungren had been in a feeble mental and physical state for some time. ———.—— SEINERS MAKE EFFORT TO GET FALL-FISHING in the Ketchikan dis- trict, where they represent the salmon to be running in greal numbers and the streams to be filled with fish, have organized to endeavor to get Commissioner {Henry O'Malley to permit fall fishing and canning of salmon. |They say if it is not done the creeks and waters will be filled with dead fish that will not have served any valuable purpose. Seiners R COHOES PURCHSED Eighteen thousand pounds u(’ cohoes were purchased by E. M | Basse from the Fern, Capt. John Lowell, yesterday afternoon. This| morning the Annie, a native trol)- er, brought in 3,000 pounds of cohoes, | mmediately started on that it migh tbe the Sacco-Vanzetti demon J$he theory work o drators. VICTORIA IS NOW DISABLED B Steamer Enroute, Nome to Seattle, Blows Out Cylmder Head HARISUR Alaska, The steamer Victoria, from Nome to Seattle,' DUTCH Sept. 6. enroute which left here yesterday morn-| ing, is disabled with a cylinder! head blow off, at Priest Rock, 10 miles from Dutch Harbor. The Coast Guard cutter Haida har( left here to go to the a%lfllnmu of the Victoria. The Victoria has a large list of passengers aboard southbound, and also much freight including gold bullion and frozen reindeer carcasses. Alameda Takes Run According to advices received by the Juneau office of the Al- aska Sfeamship Cor'pany the Alameda’s Southeastern Alaska trip, sailing from Seattle Septem- ber 13, has been cancelled and the steamer will sail for Nome on| September 15, taking the run of the steamer Victoria. NO TRACE OF DOLE FLIERS SAN DIEGO, Cal, Sept. 6.— The last hope of the searching! American war craft to find the missing Hawaiian fliers, seven persons in three planes, has ap- parently vanished when the scout crulser Omaha, flagship of Rear Admiral Luke McNamee and six destroyers arrived from Honolulu after searcuing apparently 450 square miles. Not a single trace of the missing Dole prize flight fliers was discovered. Continue Searching for Missing English Plane ST. JOHNS, N. F., Sept. 6 Private and Government agencies| lave joined in a search of the ileak labrador coast for the miss- ing English plane Straphael. Business firms with branches in Labrador have notified their agents to make inquiries along the coast as to whether the plane was sighted or heard from in their regions. The Government, thfough vessels, lighthouse serv- ipe and wireless stations, is pressing the search. —————-—— Mrs. Guy Smith of Douglas is seriously ill in the St. Ann’s Hos- pital l\tfl.flqq4 from an infection CHARLOTTE . UNDER TOW ~ FOR SOUTH ICPR. Steavier 1 Rajraite! | to Esquimalt, B. C,, from Wrangell WRANGELL, Alaska, The Princess Charlot leased and started for ;n C. Saturday night bond was posted for the Alaska Packers’ | suit for salvage. | A survey disclosed that ths steamer is not as seriously dam | agod as at first supposed. She has a tremendous dent in the first bottom but it is not punctured The leaks were caused from sprung rivets. If the fuel oil had not hecors mixed with wa t Princess Charlotte should have re turned south under her own steam The ng the Sept. 6 was re ¥ malr i Assoclation tug Salvage Princess Cha King is tow Inuu south. | LOWMAN IS | ON WARPATH Attacks G;xv. .Smilh Other Officials on Lnforcement | | | | | and| BUFFALO, | An attack on Gov New ‘York and on other Now York State officfals for failure jto provide. for the enforcement of the dry laws and a plea to the general public to help solve| enforcement problems <by report-| ing direct to Washington if they know of a still or brewery any where, was made here by Assist- ant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman. Despite thel \', Sept. 6. Al Smith of {the lack of enforcement, temperance jand sobriety is on the gain in| |New York City and everywhere! |else, Lowman declared. Expla ing why the Federal Government| |did not step in, he said the| ‘| police of New York City faced| open opposition of State and lo-| cal officers and that it would require an army of 30,000 pro- |hibition agents to handle a pro- position like that. e PAUL REDFERN | SEEN AUG. 26 | i NEW ORLEANS, Sept Norwegian 6.—The steamship Christian |Krohg, docking here, reported it !sighted Paul Redfern and his plane, the Port of Brunswick, on August 26 when he was within 1165 miles of the South American Coast. Redfern circled the ship for sometime and dropped five notes, three of which sought directions. {He was last seen heading in the; direction of the mainland of Venezuela, Between the steamer and the mainland, a group of |islands are situated. Officers ex- (pressed the opinion that Redfern either landed on one of the islands or reached the mainland. i e |Fire House for Purpose Gf Making Arrest, Negro EVANSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 6.— The body of Wesley Cooksey, negro, aged 40 years, riddled | with bullets, was dragged from his burning home yesterday after one dozen tear gas bombs had been hurled into the house. Five policemen, who attempted to en-| ter the place after Cooksey threatened to kill his wife, were injured, two seriously. Cooksey held the officers at bay for three hours. The police set fire to the house in an effort |to' drive him out. The negro at one time was an inmate of an asylum, e o BELICK ARRESTED Archie Belick who was arrested Saturday by Deputy Prohibition Administrator E. O. Birgfeld and T. L. Chidester and charged with alleged sale of intoxicating liquor and assault with a dangerous weapon, will have his prelimin- ary hearing tomorrow in the United States Commissioner's Court, n-f g Charged Wlth Murder 1S ARRESTED FOR SLAYING HIS MOTHER |Man Arresled in Seatt'e— Confession Comes HARRY D. HILL under arrest in Seattle for alleged murder of his mo r in Streator, illinois - WORLD FLIERS - KEEP IN AIR; I CALCUTTA ALLAHABAD, orld Fliers Brock ving to make by Sept. 6. and Schlee, up for lost timo Turkish red tape left| morning, ar-! r here at 0 o'clock yes- terday afternoon, after having' covered the distance of 935 miles, The Pride of Detroit hopped off at 7 o'clock this morning for Cateutta, a b 458 miles. a5 26 ntoof ARRIVE AT CALCUTTA CALCU Sept. 6. — The Pride of Detroit, forging steadily ahead in an endeavor to record for a voyage earth, arrived here flight of four minutes from Allahabad. The 9 are now 8,030 miles from rbor Grace, the starting point. around the after 10 flie a COAST FISHING SEASON CLOSES Millions of Salmon Report- ed on Way to Spawn- ing Grounds EVERETT, Wash,, Sept. 6.— In the midst of one of the great- est runs in years, according to| the fishermen, the salmon fishing season on the Pacific Coast auto- matically closed last night with| millions of salmon reported head- ing for the spawning grounds and good catches are said to hc assured in later years. J. 0. Morris, Vice-President of the Everett Packing (?ompflny, declared that while his ('umllun)’fl pack is not as large as last sea-| son's, it is very satisfactory. The largest catch of the sea- son was made last Sunday off Tatoosh at the entrance of the Strait Juan de Fuca. The year's pack is about 4nn-] 000 cases compared cases last year. Sir John Carling Has Narrow Esclpe to 525,000 HARBOR GRACE, Sept. 6.— Hopes of the pilots of the mono- plane Sir John Carling, which ar- rived here yesterday for the hop across the Atlantic Ocean from London, Ontario, to London, England, were mearly dashed when the plnne was endangered by exploding gasoline while 1 tanks were being filled pv'e'parm tory to the ocean hop. The tanks were being filled by lantern light and in pulling a plug the fuel caught fire. In a moment four barrels of gasoline in close proximity to the big ship were ablaze as were numerous five gallon cans. Newspapermen and photographers instantly lent 4 hand. maneuver the airplane to safety. ————— Miss Bunnie White, fourth and sixth grade teacher, arrived on tha Admiral Farragut this afternoou. She is a graduate of Bellingham Normal School and Washington State College and conies here from Charleston, Wash.,, where she break | today hours and | It took 10 minutes to. as Surprise | SEATTLE, Sept. 6.—Arrested V7 the merest chance, Harry D. Hily, is held in the City jail awaiting |arrival of extradition papers by | which the State of Illinois expoaers to return him to Streator a.d | stand trial for the murder of his | year old mother. Hill was arrested Saturday aight a Pawashop Detail Patrolmaa who wished to question him &as 1 car ti nspect. When a de d him and show Hill, much to tho fficer, announca: w Streator fugi‘ive, sought throughout the Unit:d States for the past two weel The suspect, through an e | nour _grilling held steadfastly |pmu~un.nmnu of innocence. H: Inmul he had forged his moth to checks and had lot ].v avily in gambling. He left Stre«- tor when the coroner's jury kil him ww!n of murder. He repea‘ed ly denied any connection with the laying Streator officials are expected rrive here tomorrow. Hill wil e extradition. The body ¢’ is mother, Mrs. Eliza Hill, weal- thy recluse and divorced wife of |a prominent Streator Physicisn (was found buried in the cellar |u{ her home on August 22. Th. | Btate charges Harry Hill shot hov lon August 1, | Father to Aid Son SEATTLE, Sept, 6.~Dr. H. € Hill, wealthy Hlinois physician, iz | reported speeding west to Seattis where his 22 year old son Har:y is held in Jail on a chargsy of matricide. Dr, Hill, who was ¢: tranged from the murdered wom- an, is understood to have lofL Streator Sunday. | Washington state officials moan- while await the arrival of extr, | dition papers in the Governor's el fice at Olympla before takiig steps to send the youth back t) | stand trial for the murder of h's mother. It is said extradition p - pers left Chicago by air mail and are due here late today. & 5 hy a tve approach his t wpri I ) New Developments STREATOR, I, Sept. 6.—New developments in the investigatinn {of Mrs. Hills' murder are in the |hands in the county authoritiss. |A bank clerk told of a conver sation with young Hill who pasad as his mother in talking over the telephone regarding his ch ok | dealings with the bank. In repl, to questions, Hill told the cler't it was all right for Harry to casa checks. The clerk said howev.y he recognized the voice as thn* ot Harry and not of his mother ———————— U, S. OFFICIAL SHOT,WOUNDED DRESDEN, Germany, Sept. §-— An unidentified person Sund-y shot and serfously wounded Steger, Secretary in the United States Consulate. The asspilint uncuym) |Funeral of Former Alulunm Seattle SEATTLE, SGD! 6.—The fun- eral of John Kane, Seattle mer- chant and former Alaskan, wll {be held this afternoon. Prior to entering business here! Kane uu“gad in mining throurhoul ‘lhe Yukon Territory and ’fair- | banks distriets | Ketchikan Seiners Making Protest, |Closed Season KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 6 —Protesting the order, closing fall fishing, as unfair, Ketchikan sein- ers have drafted a resolution Vf, Delegate Sutherland asking to go to President Coolh'o their views. “Five thousand resident and their dependents, e: natives, are facing a with nothing and if the closing ordg is not stitution will follow,” solutfon, - s