The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 10, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXX., NO. 4580. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA SATURDAY, SEPTPMBLR 10, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ROY LYLE TO BE SUPPLANTED SOON Indian a 0O GOVERNOR AND MAYOR CHARGED BY GRAND JURY| - Gov. Jackson of Indiana and Mayor Buvall of In- dianapolis Are Indicted CULMINATES INQUIRY FOR PAST 11 MONTHS Believed to B: Result of | Exposure Threatened by Former Klan Leader INDIANAP .H‘IS, Ina, ~Gov. RWd Jackson of was indicted this morvring ed of conspiracy to commit a felony throngh artempted brib- e€ry. Mayor John L. Buvall o!] Indianapolis was charged in an- other indictment of violating the Indiana corrupt practices act. in the same indictment| ced Gov. Jackson were Coffin, Chairman of County Republican Commiltee, Robert 1. Marsh, formerly law partner of Gov Tackson and counsel for the Kuj Klux Klar durirg the Granl Dragonship of .. C. Stephenson, now serving a life term in the Indiana Penitentiary for murder The irdictments are the climax of an eleven mcnths' inquiry by! three successive Grand Juries Int)| charges of political corruption in| Indinna, : After few appeared with Sept. 160 Indiana “hary the M arion remaining sifent until a| ago, D. C. Stephenson Iefore the Grand Jary trunk full of papers. It sed thet e hal previously ened to “spill” 11 he knew an the Governor would par- don him The Ku Klux Klan supported Gov. Jackson clection for the actively in the Governor- SPECIMENS OF ALASKA PLANTS WILL GO EAST| Specimens of 130 different varie- ties of plants grown in Alaska! collected by District Forester C. H. | IFiory of the United States Forest. | ry Service here, labeled and classi- fied, will soon be sent to Wash ington, D. C, to be added to the | general herbarium of the Forest Service, The herbarium for the Service contains over 50,000 speci- | mens of plant life which grows | fhe United States and Alas) mounted and classified accors to species, variety and locality of | growth. With the specimens which are now being prepared for ship. ment, the - Alaska portion of the herbarium will contain 281 species. They are mounted in duplicate at Washington, and one set is re- turned to the office from whi:h they come. “It is our hope to build up a herbariuni in which every species known in Alaska is represented declared Mr. Flory. President Coolidge at Brookings for Address BROOKINGS, 8. D., Sept. —— President Coolidge, enroute from the summer Whité House at Rapid City to Washington, ar- rived here at 9:30 a. m. today. The President made the dedica- tion address for the Lincoln Memorial Library at the South| Dakota State College here. l Murderer and Robber in Successful Jail Break TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 10. Sawing bolts that locked the doors ot cells in which they were con- fined, a murderer serving a life sentence and a malil robber serv- ing a 25-year sentence broke from the McNeil Island Federal peniten-; tiary today. They are said to have escaped from the island in a stolen launch; 10. ————ee After spending the summer on ‘the Presbyterian missionary boat (Princeton, Dr. H. W. Greist, Yor- merly of Point Barrow, sailed this morning on the Princess Alice, ‘accompanied Ir[ ‘his wife, and son David ALASKA SAILS | Vuch, {derlich and sister, IDOUGHBOYS OF °17 SAIL FOR FRANCE “IN STYLF” BELIEVE A\t NEW YORK, Sept. 10.--W¢ memories today were revived on the Leviathan, pride of the Am erican Merchant Marine, which, af ter its seizure from Germany dur ing the WorldWar, helped 1o transport 2,000,000 American sol diers to France. It is again a “doughboy” ship, taken over by | American Legion delegates for the Paris convention. Seventeen hundred doughboys of ten years ago are enjoying pala- tial accommodations aboard the ship in striking contrast to the close, crowded quarters of wartime when 10.000 jammed the vessel on each trip it made between tho | United States and French ports There is no sailor standing at the elbows of the men with con- stant admonitions: “You can't stand there, soldier!™ In short, the one-time doughboy, little older certainly, a litrk touter, maybe, is returning to la belle France in style. The "submarine watch will be revived. Only, this time, insteéad of peering through the mists of dawn or the shades of night f hostile submarines, watchers wili scan the sea ahead for some trace of the missing airplane Old Gloty Sailing en the Leviathan was Wartime Chief, Gen. J. J. Per- shing, Commander of the Amer ican Armies in France. He de- clared he had the same faith in 1| the conduct of the Legionnaires in France in 1927 as he had when, as soldiers, he sent them into battle a decade nau 7 ROYAL WINDSOR FLIGHT HALTED [Pilot Schiller Abandons Ocean Hop—May Enter New York-Spokane Race OR, Ont.. Sept. 10.— a to England flight b~ the plane Royal Windsor has heen definite!ly abancdoned, Pilot Schiiler has wired the local flight ommittee. Ile and his con rade. Wood, will return to from Harbor ‘irace. they have been for several as soon as pessiple hiller’s telegram was in an- L} to a message sent from here d ting the fliers to return Schiller, also, expressed his ap- proval of the committee's plan to enter the Royal Windsor in the New York-Spokane Aerial Derby. - e —— a Miles Poindgxter, American ambassador to Peru, returns to the.United States on his fim vacation in four years and re‘ lates the maximum in_fishin stories,. While cruising o Peru, he relates with solemn face, he participated in the capture of a seventy-| five-toq whalc. o Wawarast FROM SEATTLE; Alaska ane Steamship| Sails at 9 a. m. Today —26 for This Port |aviator — { Windsor SEATTLE, | wher ka Line . from here 98 passengers. Those aboard for Juneau were: Miss BEva Tripp, Paul G. Reding ton, A. R. Marsen, wife and three children, Mrs. J, C. Martinson and ee children, S. Bortello, A Mr. M, H. Tarp R. B. Martin, Miss J. wan (HEAVY RAINS DAMAGE Edith Manner, e HIGHWAY BUT LITTLE| arpplett, A Glacter Highway was almost vu 5 . out of commission just beyonl! the five-mile post last night and | early this morning when Lemon Creek, swelled by the heavy rains, overflowed its banks and washed out part of the road. Dairy trucks coming in this morning reported that the water had run over the Sept. steamer 9 a. 10.—Tue Alas Alaska m. today \\'Hh{ Mrs. Ruth M. evaroff, Shield, steerage. CESEISS Texas Youngsters Have 32-Piece Band WICHITA FALLS, Texas, Sept. 10.—A juvenile band with a mem- Staats, Mis Mrs. M. wife and time i bership averaging eight years of eight years of age plays in Wichiia Falls a repertory ranging from grand opera to the jazziest of jazz music. The band was organized, at the Austin school, a primary institu- tion, by Miss Mattilyn Wilson, who directs it Members include puplis chiefly from the second, third and fourth grades. All instruments—from the harmonica to bass horn—were provided by parents, as were the white and gold uniforms. There are 32 members in the band. The youngest is six years old and the oldest ten, and the leader, Ralph Mallaby, is nine. Reserve Officer and Instructor Is Killed SANTA MOXNICA, Cal., Sept. 10. —RHarl Carlisle, Army Reserve of- ficer and aviation instructor, was killed and Thomas H. Corey, a passeng was seriously injured when the® Carlisle’s plane nose dived 150 feet in the air. —— Jacob Britt was a passenger on the Princess Alice for Vancouver on his, way back to Annapolis atter &' twos monuu' leave of ah. road on both sides of the bridge but had damaged only south stde, washing the road bed down about a foot in places and making it so narrow as to barely to permit a car to cross. Ditches on both sides of the bridge were running fuli of water last night, and this morn- were partly filled with gravel. Several small slides fell onty the edge of the highway between here and the Juneau dairy but did not block the road. German Hotel Built In American Manner BERLIN, Sept. 10.—The “Duis-| buge Hof,” the new hotel just opened in Duisburg, has a double interest. It is owned by the City of Duisburg. and American meth- ods were followed in design- ing it. OVERSEA HUPS ABANDONED BY J: WHERE LF"“N MEETS AT LEAST TWO Intensified Storm of Pro- test Causes Abandon- ment of flights WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 10.—Steps to prevent long distance flights over water by land planes are recom- mended in a report to the Navy Department by Lieut, B. H. Wyatt, who served with the committe which in- spected the Dole flight planes before their take-off from Oakland. NEW YORK, Sept intensified storm of against trans-Atlantic 10 protest flying has [left in its wake the abandonment| projected] of at least two more overseas hops, it was announeod here today. There were indica tions of a Presidential invostiga tion of such adventures. The Navy Department openly displayed its opposition to trans- oceanic flights by withdrawing leave granted two Naval offigers who were planning &uch flights. The President voiced his gon- cern over recent disasters and revealed a desire to have oceanic flying investigated. Philadelphia and Boston have withdrawn prizes of $25,000 of- fered for flights from these cities across the Atlantic. Friends ‘and relatives of three men pianning hops ‘appeaed’- the fliers to abandon their Inten- tions. Mecanwhile, the fruitless search for the Old Glory, bound Old Orchard, Maine, to Rome, and the Sir John Carling, was being continued REPORT OLD GLORY HALIFAX, N. §.; Sept. 10.—C. H. Harvey, local agent for the Mariné Fisheries Departmest, re- ceived a message today tawa stating that the Old Glory was sighted approximately 400 miles northeast of St. Johns. SKEPTICAL OF VALUE OTTAWA, Ont., Sept. 10.—The| mesgsage relayed to Halifax from here, reporting the Old Glory 400 miles off St. Johns, originated at Washington from where it was handed to. Canadian Naval resentatives here by U. 8. Em bass officers. Naval Service while forwarding the message to ships was skeptical of its value.| SEATTLE NEWSPAPER WOMAN VISITS HERE Miss Lulu P‘dlrlldllkx employed in the business office of the Al aska Weekly, published in Seattle, | visited with friends in Junean while the Aleutian was in port She is returning from a trip to the Interior made by way of Skag way, Whitehorse, Dawson and Fair. | banks. She went out’ over the Al- aska Railroad to Seward, wher« she bourded the steamer souta- bound. Miss Fairbanks trip was in no| way connected with business, but | was made during her vacation. | She declared that it had be: n\ marvelous, and said that she ex- | pected to come north again next year, to see all that she ha: missed this time. Opens Barber Shop For Chinese Wcmem SHANGHALI, Sept. 10.—A barber ‘ shop for Chinese women, th ‘ first of its kind in Shanghai, h' been' opened under the auspic of the Chinese Y. W. C. A, According to the announcement of the opening of the new “shop | it has been made necessary | meet the increasing demand the part of Chinese women wl.o m“’ rep- Here is the Trocadero, » WORLD FLIERS '~ HOP, SHANGHAI {Globe Circling Plane Hops | from Hongkong to Shang- hai — Tol\yo Is Next from Ot-| | SHANGHAIL Sept. 10. of Detroit, piloted ors Brock and Schlee, arri from Hongkong at § uxlmk tonight after a flight of, 30 miles. It left Hongkong 26 a. m. The fliers made landing at the Chinese ment’s airdrome 10 miles outs of the international settlement. Both aviators were in lm.vh spirits when they stepped out of ' their globe-circling plane. Both |declared the | was the |leaving Detroit. been refueled The 5 lt' most successful The for the proposed | [take-oft for Tokyo at daylight Sunday. The fliers said the en- |gine was in perfect condition and| needed no attention, | e 'Metals of Two Wars In Virgin_ia Memorial since ! | YORKTOWN, Va., Sept. 10. |Metals from old instruments of |war, used by French soldiers in |storming British defenses at Yorktown during the Revolution- ary War, are being fused with metals sent screaming into Ger- man lines in the Argonne forest by American World War troops to mold a memorial to the forces under Lafayette who gave their |lives for American Independence. ’nmmlnder Richard Evelyn Byrd vILdI(‘nted the memorial here on Nptcmb@r by ——. Wlne Aru Shrinking Elrfll Grom Cold PARIS, Sept. m.~ The earth is !cooling much faster than savants "lhlnk" is the conviction of wine- |growing experts. As evidence they point to the fact that the area in which vines can be grown to advantage is gradually re- ceding, A century ago wine was made The rooms have built-in clothes! have hobbed hair for women ba: |in the north of France, and no closets, instead of portable ward- robes usual in Europe. Half of! the rooms have private baths. Since the hotel is designed chief- 1y to serve guests who come to Duisburg on business, 80 per bers.” | Two men barbers were retain. )} when the shop first opened ‘) train the women barbers. They have since been replaced by wor en. | cent of the rooms are single rooms. Rooms without bath eost $1.44 to $1.92; with bath $2.40 o $2.88. Not only 4re Chinese women | patronizing the shop, but forei: l women are finding it an excellent place to obtain barber service. ,rull growth around. Paris. l longer than 40 years ago there were 50,000 ‘acres of vineyards in This jarea mow 18 too cold for growing | wina: grapes. Touraine growers are begin- ning to realize the danger of the ineres dampness and express fears, the future hithe) )‘mrdul Industry, S R R R where lLeK!nn are to be held during the | 1 | \ by | | Govern-| hop from Hongkong | 3z plane has g |M yYOUNG GENTLEMEN" | | | estimated of their|dog meetings -of the American Paris convention. lf"wnm; Takes Steps to! Rid Herself of Two [ | Husbands;Files Suits | Nev.,, Sept. 10 I“Il—‘ two suits to end marriage inst two different men, at one and the same time, Mrs Leona Gladys Mills yesterday asked the District Court for | a divorce from Walt Tins- ley, whom she mar 1 in Eureka, Cal, two years ago, and to annul her marriage to | Clarence Bagil Mills, whom she wedded last year. She said Tinsley deserted her and | she understood he had obtain ed a divorce when she mar- ried Mill Afterwards she | found Tinsicy was alive in | Fitzhugh, Okla., she left Mills, RENO, ing a — e CAUSE “PUTSCH"” RUMORS! BER -Rumors of flying hout when a crowd of young men at more than a thou- sand were seen sforming a large hall ne: 4 Friedrichstrasse rail way station, It turned out that they had come jp response to an advertise ment Yfor “twenty slim young gentlemen of good appearance to take part in a vaudeville show.” Only nine passed the test, 4, o~ DRESSMAKER HAS BAR FOR THIRSTY BUYERS PARIS, Sept. 10.—A wholesale dressmaking house has added a refreshment bar and buffet to ity establishment, Fatigued buyers may nourish and sustain them- gelves without quitting the prem- ises and possibly falling into the hands §f competitors. Not oOnly soft drinks but cock tails and “hard liquor” are avail- able. A small grill room is run with the bar. American buyers are particularly enthusiastic in their approval of the innovation. DOGS NOW ATTEND LONDON WEDDINCS LONDON, Sept. 10.—Dogs are now part of the np-to-date Mayfair bride’s equipment for the altar. Mrs. Quintin Dick and Lord Howe dispensed with most of the “fixtures and trappings” of the society wedding when they wer: married at St. Mark's, and also | dispensed with the usual honey- moon trip. Theve was no recep- tion. The bride, however, followed the recent fashion of bringing her | supremacy, ‘along, in this instance, a Lahrador, fficials Are Indzcted on Conspiracy Charge Five Times Married, And Divorced, Will Try It Again SIOUX CITY, Five times married times divorced, Mrs. Flos- | Lane still believes in the institution, She ob- fifth divorce today and then announced she pected to marry again. Her first marriage oécurred when she was only 12 years of age 1o Sept and wa, 10 five sie marriage tained her - NORBECK BOOM LAUNCHED FOR SECOND PLACE Pres:dcnhal Pranse Starts Boom for South Dako- tan for\’lce Presndent RAPID CITY, 8. D, Sept. 10— Following high praise for U. 8. Senator Peter Norbeck, spoken by President Coolidge, a movement has been launched here for his nomination for Vice-President at the next Republican national con- vention. In his address here, departure for farewell just prior to his Washington, the President refer- ring to Senator Nerbeck said: “I am especially grateful to Sev- ator Norbeck, 1 regard him as one of the great men of the na- tion whom your State may well honor in any way you can.” The reaction of the President's commendation was quick. Within an hour after the President hal spoken, C. N. Leedon, U. S. Mar- shal for South Dakota, and John Boland, Republican County Chair n , had issned a statement urg- ing Senator Norbeck’s nomination next year for Vice-President. DAVIS CUP IS WON BY FRANCE GERMANTOWN CRICKET CLUB. PHILADELPHIA, Sept, 10. For the first time @ hislory France today captured the Davis Cup, em- blematic of international tennis when French entries captured both of the closing singles matches. By the same vic- tory, the seven-year reign of Am erican racquet wielders was end- ed. The final score was three to two. Rene LaCoste vanished “B'g Bill”.Tilden while his compatriot, Henri Cochet, downed “Little Bill" Johnston. L o PP S S Irish Police Hunt Poteen Moonshiners GLENEGANNON, Ireland, Sept. 10.—The mountaineers of West Virginia and Kentucky have nothing on the mountaineers of Ireland when it comes to mak- ing moonshine, .only here they call it poteen. -Poteen is white whiskey, manufactured mostly from barley and sometimes from potatoes. The Irish Civie Guards, who are also the revenue offi- cers, look for columns of smoke in searching for poteen &tills. The Irish mountaineer is also a pastmaster in the art of camou- flage. His barrels are carefully concealed e e BULLD SLIDING DOORS IN NEW FRENCH HOMES PARIS, Sept. 10.—Sliding doors have been built throughout in a dozen modern homes by a Paris- ian architect. His view is that the hinged door is an antiquated waster of space. This view has found a good deal of support Those commenting on the idea express surprise that people nev- er have rebelled agaiust the swinging door. “How ridiculous it one, “to have to step to open or close ' door! The old-fashioned door destroys the harmony of a room if left|read under 2 AGENTS ARE SUSPENDED BY SEC'Y LOWMAN Treasury Officials Reiterate Lyle Will Be Shelved in Short Time FIFTY YEARS NEEDED MAKE AMERICA SOBER Head of Prohibition En- forcement Says Crook- ness Rampant WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 10.—Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Low- man today announced that Roy Lyle, Federal Prohibi- tion Administrator for Ore- gon, Washingten and Al- aska, has returned to his post ‘“‘awaiting the outcome of regular Civil Service ap- pointments.” Treasury offi- cials, however, reiterated he probably would be supplant- ed _soon, Mr. Lowman made known that he had suspend- ed Alfred Hubbard and Rich- ard L. Fryant Prohibition Agents under Administrator Lyle, from duty for * o larities in connection with the smuevline of Hflor." CLEAN UP SERVICE A determination to rid the Federal prohibiticn segvice of dis- honest and incompetent agents was expressed by Mr. Lowman in a formal statement. He deelar- ed: “If America can be mado sober and temperate in 50 years, a good job will have been done. He added that while there were “a ‘lob of fearless men. in the service,” ther® are many in- competent and crooked men, ahd bribery is rampant. There are wolves in sheep’s clothing. Wa are after them, and a lot of them lately have been let cut all over the country. The Govern- ment Intelligence Service has been very helpful.. Some days my arm gets tired signing orders of dismissal. ‘The Customs and Coast Guard are well organized but some erooks show up, also. in thesa bureaus. They go out just as soon as we can locate them.” SAYS LYLE FAILED HOQUIAM, Wash., Sept. iv.— Congressman Albert Johnson, (Continukd en Page Two.) ->oo —— TEACH SOCIETY GIRLS ART OF COUNTRY LIFE ANGERS, Fr, Sept. 10.—How to run a country home or the essential accomplishments of a future wife of a gentleman farme: are being taught in a new “houye- keeping-farm™ school opened at Angers. This fills a gap, say enthusiastic supporters, in the “education of young girls of the ‘world.’"” Tae “world,” in this case, means the upper crust of society. Literature, languages, good man. ners and etiquette are sandwiched. in with instruction on dairying, poultry-raising, the chemis."y of the soil and farm bookkeeping. PO b P 250 CAR LOADS IDAHO APPLEG FOR ST. LOUIS it ST. LOUIS, qul ll] *—With the under mounds of sod.jcontracting recently with orchard- ists of Twin Falls and the Payette section in Idaho for 250 carloads of apples, a St. Louis firm has completed one of the largest appio deals transacted in this city fos some time. A total of $250,000 i involved in the transaction, &e- cording to an official of the Shipments are scheduled to start September 20, A i —— A HOME BY ANY OTHER NAME— -DULUTH, Minn,, Sept. 1 Houses are named as well numbered in Park Point, resident distriet. up and down the open at right angles to the wall,|such names as Hank’ says another, and it kills good wall space if it anng back against the wall. is ugly and|sweet is| Rest Asylum, Step Im, and other n owner's originalityy