The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 7, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXX., NO. 4577. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1927. MEMBER PRICE TEN CENTS OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PLANE OLD GLORY IN DISTRESS; CALLS FOR HELP ARE REGEIVED ANOTHER HOP ’ IS ATTEMPTED OVER ATLANTIC | | Plane Siv John Carling| Takes Off for Flight ‘ to England ! GRACE, Sept. 7.—| Sir John Carling, | London, Ontario, to| London, England, with Capt. Ter- | ry and Lieut. Metcalt aboard,| htrp]url off from the airport “here at 7:52 o'clock this morning following complete overhaul- terday in which minor repairs were made The Sir John Carling took the | in good shape. If the aviat-| ors reach London safeiy, they will receive a $25,000 prize. The fliers of the Sir John Carl- ing were not informed of the Old Glory's “SOS” when it took oft but local authorities inserted a memorandum describing the de- tails and location in the fliers’ map case where it will be founc when they start using their charts FAIR BOOTHS DISPOSED OF of HARBOR The plane bound from ing ye: air Practically anl exhibit booths in the new fair building have been sold for the four days of the sixth annual fair of the Southeastern Alaska Fair Association, September 28, 29, 30 and October 1, according to J. T Hart,- manager. In fact the booths are in such demand, with more requests com ing in every day, that Manager Hart is trying to make arrange- ments for extra temporary booths to be erected to accommodate a greater number of exhibits. Agents are being appointed towns of the First Division, to urange the various exhibits and tuke entire charge of them, M Hart said. The Sitka exhibits wiil he rought over on one of the ranger boats, through the courtes; of the Forestry Service. Dr. H. W. Alberts will » of the exhibit from experimental station at Sitks will probably give several talks on gardening while he here. the sale and in have the | is Suspecl_ed Fire Bug ' Under Arrest, Seattle SBATTLE, Sept. 7.—A. L. Mit chell, aged 25 years, who his occupation as an advertising | man, is held in the City Jail| while the police investigate the| origin of three hotel fires which endangered the lives of dozens of persons. The blaze started al- most simultaneously in a group of brick rooming hous: PETTIT’S TIME IN ALASKA EXTENDED Lieut. Alaska J | Frank A, Pettit, of tie Road Commission, is in u from-Wrangell Narrows on his way to Lynn Canal points. He will return to Wrangell Nar- rows within a few days. His time in Alaska; which was to have expired September 28, has been extended for six months Libut. John Noyes left this af- ternoon for Haines on the Yakob: on official road work business for the Alaska Road Commission and will retufn to Juneau Sunday or Monday. and | hort | ¥ gave| | the yped with d on pleas her her May form pickle! ¢ find arres sixteen 1 the judge advised age gave in license, hecause. alread aflairs he her caused to be m she first Mant parents’ irried applice 1B gicense cle { { \ | Strong Quake Shakes Japan Early Tonight TOKYO, earthquake, ting minutes, was felt over area in Japan at 7 tonight. Sept —A strong a wide 33 o'elock - PLANE ROYAL Hops from" Old Orchard to | 8 { bor |ana itk a 8. King are in pretty De Comrt, of Boston, only to complaint that she was only charges to be drepped, but again because of tha false But now she can’t get a her. listed a8~ mgrriag ) a el the jon, i H e n————————— Norma Shearer, film actress is to be the bride of Irvin Thalberg, movie executive, (International Newsreel) continued de half of the that lower In view of the cline during the first current year, it is probable the rate for 1927 will be than that for 1918, - Sees Universal Leisure “When Atom Is Split” LONDON, Sept. 7.—In half a century or so hardly anyone will bave any work to do, says Dr. Percy Buck, professor of music in the University of London. “In fifty years from now every human being will have a vast amount of leisure on his hands.” explained Dr. Buck, to the uni- versity teachers. attending the summer vacation lecture course. “If once the Atom is split—and that is bound to happen in =a certain number of years—thera will be no need for coal, gas, electric light, steam or anything else like that. Think of it! We will be able to run a train from London to Edinburgh for half : penny, and to light the whole of London or New York for less thnn one single penny.” World Fliers Reach Rangoon; Fast Flight RANGOON, Burma, Sept. 7.-~The plane Pride of De- trit, with world filers Brock | | and Schlee aboard, arrived | | here at 2:15 o'clock this afternoon from Calcutta. The plane covered the dis- tance from Caleutta at an average of 100 miles an hour. The aviators reported that half an hour after they left Calcutta they ran into a bad mbnsocon. They plan to continue their journey | | tomorrow | | | THREE SLAIN, REALTY DEAL NEW YORK, Sept. 7.——Charles| Berstein, sought in connection with a triple killing in a real| estate office, night to the police. A real es- tate deal that went awry, ended in the death yesterday of Victor L Herskowitz and Robert fractured teinberg, Charles Henry C. Cohen. McGroaty received skull when Steinberg’s' falling body from the ninth floor,! Mrs, hit him on the this morning. Confusion reigned in the street where thousands of persons were| passing Bernstein ig alleged to have killed the trio during a real es- tate deal argument It is be-| lieved that Steinberg fell out of the window in attempting to es-| cape from the room after injured by a bullet in the head. England’s Birth Rate Now at l:oweot Mark| LONDON, Sept. 7.—The birth- rate in England and Wales has now fallen below that of France With the exception of Sweden, it is the lowest of the principal Eu- ropean countries, according to the Registrar-Geperal. The birth-rate for 1926, was 17.8 per 1,000 population. Except- ing the rate of 17.7 in 1918, the last year of the war, which at that time was'regarded as pheno- menally low, that for 1926 is the lowest recorded since the estab- lishment of ecivil re‘htuuon in head. He died Ontario, of be Wi a and lantic WINDSOR 1S NOW FLYING Harbor Grace for At- lantic Flight ORCHARD, N plane - Royal red gracefully into the 4:55 o'clock this morning r ming the flight from to England the plane was h Grace where refueled. Schiller reach Harbor of eight or continue over oLD The v The d for the plane Navigato: stima no! Ha uld flight will aft hou RCo nine the opportunity, | HARBOR GRACE, Sept. 7.— he Royal 150 | Bastern sfiwnam time. | Windsor this arrived o'clock ~ TANANA MAN IS MISSING | authorities | disappearance of Robert McMullen H Lake, | To! 15 is ed o | | sational j Hbuston sharp dustrial ¥ surrendered late last steamer from at afternoon cylinder head, will TANANA, Alasxka, Sept. are investigating adhouse keeper on Long miles from here. The beli expressed that he either drow in the lake or has met wi ul play. HOUSTON OIL severat At Qeean at the fivst favorable, | i Sept. | Windsor | 2 e} I Windsor, | will] \\'umlI they 9 er | s i minutes later, ilTCHl-b TO STAR Co-Pilots on Old Glor;) Iprerwnwd Flying Men afmmm.mT“ Seaes i | | | 7.~The | the ! n-| th | & i | | | IS GOING UP% NEW YORK, Sept. advance 0il featured upturn in stock prices which carried the general average to a of 20 points cord. PO AR SO | Victoria Is to Proceed 1| to | 7.—A lml i L new high South Under Own Steam SEATTLE, Sept. Victoria, Nome Akutan 1. — to Seattle, with a blown continne The | southbound | delayed out the journey south without an inter —Mrs. of Mrs. Aimee MPherson, here on Sunday, said she found the coun- try more beautiful than she pected. She sel £ | | | | | | L R SRS i Minnie Kennedy Pays Viiit, Anchorag ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. Minnie Kennedy, is interested arch work in Alaska. Cruise Wide Area Searcking For Musmg WASHINGTON Sept. 7 e | Naval vessels used 3,028,5 gallons of fuel in excess u! the regular allotment and regulated 112,655 miles above scheduled operations, | Admiral Jackson, Command- er-in-Chief of the Battle Fleet advised the Navy "De- | partment, in an unsuecesstul search for the missing Dole fiiers. In addition planes flew 9,000 miles and con- | sumed 3,100 gallons of gaso- moth: ‘mediary clyinder, shooting steam aj direct from*high to low pressure Katherine Wilson, a € *speakie” actress, and Richard Barthelmess, movie actor, are 7. 1o wed. The couple will settle in Beverly Hills, Cal,, where | lives the five-year-old daughter of Barthelmess and his first °* | wife, Mary Hay. Mary Hay is | in |now the wife of Vivian Bath, '» wealthy, Singapore xubbe: :» merchant. " $interaational Newsresl) ~ Mexican Killed in Attempted Robbery CHICAGO, Sept. An un- [identified Mexican was killed and three bystanders wounded when | police shot at "the Mexican who was branishing a big knife in |an_apparent effort to rob a mail truck standing before the Chi- cago Federal Rseerve Bank this afternoon. - Capt. George Whitney and Chief John Newmarker, steamboat ic- | spectors, arrived. on the Yukor from @& short buulm-ss trip to Ketchikan. Despite minor anti-American disturbances in France, the American Legion, thousands strong, is doing what the Germans failed to: occupying France. Top picture shows the arrival of the first contingent of conventionaires at Cherbourg, Bott (Internationsl Newsreel) HILL STAK{(ED FLYING EARLY, YORK, witt Hill, itor of Old | York-to-Rome plane, Scottdale, Pa., March son of Scotch-Irish parents His boyhood marked by “bent” for things mechanical, with the usual disastrous results 16 alarm clocks and locks. His first indication of a hankering after the air was given when he swip. a tablecloth from his mother and with this rigged out a para- chute, jumped from the barn roof. | Although the “parachute” did not perform its expected function, Hill | ! was not injured when he hit the i ground. { Hill began his college education at Lafayette, shortly after the | Wright hrothers had made their | first fiight, and when he did not | | get in college the sort of studie he thought would prepare him for a flying career, which he d¢ cided upon, he quit. Later hie went | to Cornell, taking up meghanica eéngineering. 111 health forced Hi l| to quit Cornell and he returned to | Scottdale and went to work as an automotive engineer. Prepares for Flying Still interested in flying, | went to Cleveland to see Glein | Curtiss’ plane on exhibition. T! resolved him and he began to finitely to fit himself for flying. In 1910 while in Portland, Oregon, Hill met Charlie Hamilton at a | county fa and every day he | went back to wateh Hamilton fly | From this time on, Hill studi |aviation, and even Hamilton | death in a sh did deter him. His health was such ithat he needed care the ! 8pirit of aviation was ing | brightly within him. To bring back his health, Hill took a grant of 160 acres of lan and homesteaded for 18 month This restored his health and h went to North Island, near San Diego, Cal., and learned to rlv at | the Hammondsport, Ind. There was not much opportunity for fly | ing in those days, but Hill wen { up whenever he could. Instructor When the world war broke, and from October 1, 1926 until the end of 1919, Hill was an instruc tor in flying at various fields. Two of his students were Lt. Macready who made,the first cross-continesni flight with Lt. Kelly, and Lt. Reel Chamber, war ace. He also helped instruct Gen. James K. Fechet later to become head of the U, 8. Air Corps, Qe 140 e TR N (Continued on Page Five.) NEW Jamos and the born 1885, gept. 17 co-pilot Glory, co- New in the was was as Hill s | not still but bur | Glory, balloon | mind about engineering work. {1n THREE FLIERS WIRELESS ‘S0’ - EARLY MORNING {Plane Bound from America | to Rome in Tragedy on At'anllc DISTRESS CALL SENDS | STEAMERS TO GIVE AID {One Vessel Arrives at Dis- aster Area—No Trace | ll of Plane Found NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—A wirs- {less. “SOS" from the monoplana {Old Glory sent out during tha jearly morning hours of darkn~ng {today when she apparently wag some 500 miles east of the north- jeast tip of Newfoundland, on the jlrlp from Old Orchard, N. Y., to Rome, ssent liners and warsh ps jracing to her assistance. The cry for help was picked {up by several ships and relayed by the Radio Corporation of Am- lerica. The cry was sent out at ' |8:30 o'clock Greenweil time. No Details Beyond the fact that the crew of three adventurous aviators ary in the grip of some tragedy over the trackless wastes of water, ny details were given, Within a few minutes of th» receipt of the “SO0S,” several ships were obeying the immut- able law of the seas and rush'mg full steam towards the estimat d position. | The liner Transylvania, west- {bound, appeared to be nearer than any other ship. The steam- jer was 83 miles away at the time. A collapsible rubber lifebost, |emergency pump valve in the gasoline tanks, a supply of flar*s and rockets, is cited by aviat en officials as basis for belief the occupants of the plane have a chance of saving thymselves if they were forced down. One Boat at Scene The Transylvania later veport- reaching the position whers Old Glory was thought to have gone ‘down and searched a 30- — om picture was taken a few BERTAUD SAID TO BE FLYING GENIUS NEW YORK, Wilson Bertraud navigator of the New Rome flight of the began to exhibit his flying genius when he was @ hoy. A* the age of 12 he designed a glider and demonstrated it before his companions, who helped carry him home with a lame back. Bertraud was born in Cal,, September. 20, 1 the son of Florence Wilson and Dr. Eugene Bertaud. His mother [mile area without results. was of Danish descent and his{ Capt. Bone sald he was pro- father of French parentage. His|ceeding further with the search. father died when Lloyd was two| Capt. Bone reported to the Cun- years old, and his mother married, | #rd Line: “Have searched an area some years later, Daniel Callag.|©f 80 miles without results, pro- han, after which the family moved | ceeding to a point in which ar- {o San Franclsco, A fow yoars|Plane was sighted by steamer later Mr. Callaughan Tied. The|California. Have advised all family moved back to Alameda. |®BiDs. F? Because his mother needed his| The message was timed at 9:39 {help, Lloyd left high school at | Bastern Standard time hu.l‘wu the age 17 and went to work as|70t Fecelved until 11:43 o'clock, a cadet engiveer, his uncle, Leon S}fihhd Last Night Jones. chief engineer of the Pa.| The California sent a message [cific Gas and Electric Company |3t 11:57 o'clock last night says sottiiin’ B 10b: <" |ing she sighted the plane 340 . miles east of Cape Race with everything appearing all right. Those aboard Old Glory ary Lloyd Bertaud and James DeWitt Hill, co-pilots, and Phil Payns, representative of William Ran< dolph Hearst, who is sponsor ng the flight. Sopt, 7 co-pilot Lloyd and co York-to- plane Od Alameda, | €1 He was Flying Course after taking his Captain Baldwin This changed job, in a his He went to Silas Christoffersen’s fly. ing field and took a course in the rudiments of flying., Christoffersen gave young Bertaud a job at h Ingleside Beach field paying him $20 a week for his services as a mechanic. Bertaud accepted ouly $56 for each week's pay, and the remainder went for further lessons in flying. At the age of 18, Hel'(mul got a pilot'’s license, at the tim being the youngest licensed pilot America Shortly Lloyd saw tlight. OLD GLORY SIGHTED NEW YORK, Sept. 7.-Tha | Canadian freighter Empress ro- | ported sighting Old Glory at 2:35 o’clock yesterday afternoon, East- ern time, 10 miles off D.gby, Nova Scotia. SISTEB SHIP OF LOST !LA“ NEW YORK, Sept. 7o ((‘onllnued on l’nge l-‘lvpr Less Juvenile Cnme » In France Since Wa? a year before the courts wers created. After the war the n'wms | ber passed 30,000, Now they : | about 18,000, The contrast with the mg statistics, say investigators, even more marked because poi officials in the old days o PARIS, Sept. 7.—Juvenile rl‘hm-’ inality in France is decreasing. Stat cs ghow there have been| only threefifths as many cases 8 during the few years just after the war. Juvenile courts hegan to upflrulnl in France a few months beforc)let minors go with lectures the war, though they were n’\"('aune they knew justice was. at their best during the five years| Now m[ng" go to court of battle, the police rely upon The average number of criminal | courts to use discretion, trials of minovs was about 24,060 |the law gives them,