The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 14, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXX., NO. 4583. JUNEAU ALASKA, W[-DNFSDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 1927. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HEAT WAVE CAUSES MANY DEATHS Coolidge Is Asked to Reopen Alaska Salmon PETITIONS OF ALASKANS ARE CIVEN TO HIM Delegate Seeks to Override O'Malley’s Closing Order, Fisheries Australian Visions Continent Linked to World by Air Lines ‘r COOLIDGE REFERS | MATTER TO HOOVER, Petitions Say Destitution Faces Fishermen Unless Extension Granted | T"ASHINGTON, D. ©., SGDL‘; 14.4 The early closure of Alaska’s fishin_\season reached the White House today when the President was asked to grant an extension of commercial salmon fishing, The request was made by Delegate Dan -Sutherland. { He presented a number of pe- titions from eitizens of -the far north Territory, -declaring they faced destitution unless an exten-! sion were permitted. The entire matter was referred to Secretary Hoover, of the Department of Commerce. Have So Effect That President ~Coolidge wm refuse to intervene in the l‘lo!“l"e; order of Commissioner Henry! O'Malley, was the opinion voiced ! here today by Archie Shlels,% Py lent. of the Aunette Island Packing Company and Viee-Presi-| dont o (BEY l’:m%%— Ambrtown ¢ Fisheries, who s in this city. Mr. Shiels, accompanied by Mrs. Shiels and their son John,| arrived on the Alaska last night #from Seattle. They will remain here until Thursday afternoon, leaving for the south on the| steamer Yukon. i Approves of Order | The companies with which he| is affiliated are among the larger factors in the Alaska canning in- dustry. Commenting on the clos- ing order of the Fall fishing by Commissioner 0'Malley, Mr. Shiels said he was convinced that ‘the, Commissioner had taken the pro-| per action” to insure future fish| runs, thereby benefitting both fishermen and packers. i Packers generally have accept- ed the closing order as a “closed. incident.” A movement was start- ed to have them appeal to Wash- ington but it was not successful. The packing plants, as a general thing, have closed down for the| year, removed gear from the wat-} ers and returned to the south| employees - who were brouxht‘ from there to aid in operations. Thus, it was pointed out, even| though the closure were set! aside, before any material opera-| tions could be undertaken, pro-| viding they were economically possible, the late salmon runs, would be ended. The , routhern, or Ketchikan, | district and the Prince of Wales' Island area are practically the| only ones in Southeastern Alaska affected by the closuré of the Fall fishing. In the past, after! September 14, trap and seine! fishing has been permitted in those districts only. Fishing in| the local district has been limited to gill nets and trolling. The closure limited commercial fish- ing to trolling in the southern and Prince of Wales distriet and made no change locally. There is no restriction in the order against fishing for domestic! use in any of the Alaskan waters. now vmtmgl i ABOVE: W. H, ROSEWARNE BELOW: | | First Dawson-Nome Mail Carrier Dies in Seattle SEATTLE, Sept. 14.—John, Clinton Ware, 66, who is said | | to have been the first man to | carry mail into Nome, driv- ing a dog team from Dawson, | died here yesterday. Ware was, also, the man from whom Rex Beach created the charac- | ter “Steve” in his novel, “The | | Silver Horde.” ! | |—g——————% e —— 3 MORE SUITS ARE FILED IN SALMONFRAUD SEATTLE, 14, — Three more suits have been filed in the Federal Court here as a direct outgrowth of the activities of El- mer W. Smith, salmon broker, who is under indictment on charg's of fraud in comnection with htf business. Suits were brought against the Great Northern Railway to collect money advanced on bills of lading ssued to Smith when it was sub- sequently found that the salmon was not shipped. Two suits were. instigated by the Copper River Packing Company and the other by the International Packing Cor- poration, ———————————— After spending the winter at Healds Business College in Oak- land, Cal, Miss Eva Tripp, fcr Pmer Juneau High School student, returned here last night on the Alaska, and will remain here for an indefinite period. PAPEETE NOW BOOTLEGGING CENTER * * * * * * HANDLES CANADIAN LIQUOR FOR U. S. DETROIT, Sept. 14.—A vision >t his native Australia linked to the rest of the world by air tran- sportation has led William &, Rosewarne, wealthy Detroit con’ tracton, to finance the first trail- blazing flight from this country to the “isolated continent.” He is sponsor of the proposed flight of Capt. Frederick A. Giles from Detroit to Wellington, New Zealand. Like the poet Tennyson, Rose- warne as a youth “dip't into the future, far as human eye coull see,” and visioned “pilots of the purple twiiight, dropping down with costly bales” into his own hidden country. It has been his persistent ob. ject to further good will betwe n the United States and Australig, and he conceived a flight from Detroit to Wellington as the climax of his effortg. While on a visit to’ Sidney four months ago, he became acquaint- ed with Captain Giles, who was enroute to Vancouver, where be intended to obtain a plane for a flight to Australia, Rosewarne persuaded Giles to come o Detrofi and fly under his auspices. Giles, an Englishman, has been flying since the world war. “Australia, a remote land wit obvious need of commerce linking the country with larger natious, is a fertile field for air transporta- tion routes,” says Rosewarne. “Aside from the fact that an American flight to Australia would be a powerful agent for good will, it would give impetus to the ertablishment of solid commercial “‘relations with a continent whick is"as large as the United States, but about which relatively little is known by Americans.” TEESE OUITS ALASKA OCT. 16, 1% ANNOUNCED Head of Alaska Road Com- mission Will Not Return to the Territory Col James G. Steese, for the past seven and one-half years President of the Alaska Road Commission, and, several years United States Dis- trict Engineer, will be relieved from his duties on October 16, it was announced at local head- quarters of the Road Commis- sion teday. He will not return to Alaska, it was said. Maj. Douglas H. Gillette, at present Assistant Engineer, is be- ing detailed, at least temporar- ily, as President of the Commis- sion and its Chief Engineer, and United States Engineer. Lieut. Frank A. Pettit will succeed Maj. Gillette as Assistant- Engineer. All of these changes are effec- tive on October 16. It was stated, also, that a permanent President and Engineer Officer of the Com- mission, and District Engineer would be detailed by the War Department next Spring, and would take over the duties of these offices, about March 15. There is no indication given as to who might be expected to be assigned to the positions. No definite information has been received at local Commis- sion headquarters regarding Col. Steese’s plans for the future. He left here several weeks ago for an official visit to Washington to present the Road Commis- sion’s estimates to the War De- partment. After that he took a short vacation, but is now back in Washington to appear before the Bureau of Budget to defend his estimates for next year's ap- propriations. Local friends of Col. Steese believe he is retiring from active service to accept attrac- tive private offers known to have been made to him. ———— FISHING BOAT SIGHTS PLANE WRECK AT SEA May Be One of Dole Flight Planes — Sighted Far Off Cape Flattery OLD GLORY WRECKAGE IS TAKEN FROM SEA Brock and Schlee Reach Tokyo—Miss Elder Re- fuses to Abandon Trip MARILYN BACK Proposal for - — l’rmulont u 1” ’\0! ( all Special Session (ong ress WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 D 0., It was stated of- ficially at the White House | today, unless he is convinced by further investigation that a special n of the new || Congress this Fall is neces- sary, President Coolidge will adhere his original de- | lling one. GOV. SMITH IS SURE OF TWO THIRDS VOTE {New York World Says Ex | pert Check of Canvass Gives Him Nomination i‘ NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—A tele- | graphed letter to the New York | to SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14.— Twisted and battered wreckage of an airplane sighted two weeks ago several hundred miles off Cape Flattery by a fishing | schooner is belleved lere possibly to have once been the plane | Golden Eagle, missing contestant | on the Dole flight to Honolulu. . e | There was no sign of life about : i [ ; | | the wreck. The fishing H. Smith, Capt. Schmidt, four days out of the Aleutian Islands bound for San Francisco, making about 10 knots an hour in a heavy sea, when Isaac Neilson, helmsman, and Mose Riley on deck sighted a piece of wreckage sticking about four feet-out of water. It was William A. sehooner Gustav in addition, for| — World from its Washington bureau it is conceded in Washington Daihlef & ULight Yool M BN 4 {that Gov. Alfred E. Smith will| eral wires dangling from it. S D iratit. Preaid The two seamen thought it “mmv? the Democratic President- ial nomination. It says that a was a plece of another fish z \ g Ex dehing careful canvass by experts check tioas 20 ade. N .SRDL. tar must, | ©47 by independents who have ick Iiup, The Smith not: l“1 ‘ruy“h i mit‘ s one d no interest in the outcome give SHRAPDER With r&diousnd no nomndy star, -nupp.don lm | cov. Smith at least 735 votes in | Pldl. Marily; aboard had any knowledge of the by Gt NEGt e |the next convention. That is 4 x’ E-phnk h l | airplane race to Honolulu which more than two thirds of the dele ~~ started August 16. The wreckage was sighted Sep- | Bates. : tember 1. Thus, Capt. Schmidt The letter continues: “Gov. Smith's nomination for | stated, a drift of one-half mile 4 per hour could have brought the the Presidency by the Democrats next year is taken for granted in Four Hundred Dead and 2,300 Injured Reported wreckage to the position where t was seen even if the plane had all political figuring. In the con ferences at the White House when from Kuishui Island landed in the water on a direct f courseto the Hawailan lslands. it was assumed that President Coolidge would again lead his! He added there was no life about party the discussions of campaign the wreckage and even if there had been anyone alive on it orig- strategy nlwflysl counted Smith as the other end of the problem. inally they couldn’t have hung “The tacticians of Dawes, Hnnv-\ on long in view of the heavy sea which was running. er, Longworth, Lowden and Hugh —— es are basing all their calcula- tions on the hypothesis that it Is| __REPORT ON OLD GLORY % Gov, Smith they must beat. NEW YORK, Sept. 14. — The “The World has: come into pos Dally Mirror announced receipt Session of the results of the most recent survey of conditions among the Democrats throughout the country. Made ‘under expert ‘n- dependent auspices, this survey shows that if the convention were | held now Smith would win with or without the two-thirds rule.” | - e, i Mellon Favors Hughes | For G.O.P. Nomination (Continued on Page Two.) - ee— UNDERWOOD PRAISES EFFORTS TO KILL K. K. K. TOKYO, Sept. 14. — The ty- phoon which yesterday swept the Prefecture of Kumamoto on Kius- kiu Island, is bearing down on the city of Nagasaki with its 160,000 people, it was said here today. The tail of the storm struck this city early this morn- ing, flooding several thousand houses in_low-lying sections. Four hundred persons are known to be dead and 2,300 in- jured, and 700 houses were com- pletely destroyed in the Prefec- ture of Kumamoto by the ty- phoon and the tidal wave which followed it. Reports received by the Japanese Home Office said ithe western part of the Island of Kuishui had suffered most. Detailed reports from most of the stricken sections are lacking today. Leonard Cline Pleads Guilty, Manslaughter ROCKVILLE, Conn., Sept. 14. —Leonard Cline, novelist, plead- ed " guilty to manslaughter and was gentenced to one year in jail and to pay a fine of $1,000. He had been indicted for murder in the first degree for killing Wilfred Irwin, in Mansfield, on May 16. After a jury was imp&n- eled, Cline changed his plea from not guilty to guilty, — .- ——— Train Derailed in Tunnel, Is Marooned OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 14.— One hundred and fifty passengers on the Western Pacific Railroad's Scenic Limited train were m: BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 14 Former Senator Oscar W. Under wood, in a letter to Victor H. Hanson, publisher of The Bir mingham News, has voiced in his plainspoken way his approval of the contest now being waged in Alabama to end Ku Klux Klan domination of the Democratic Party in that State, and at the same time to put behind prison bars every Klansman, or other person, who participates in flos gings and such outrages. Mr. Un- derwood said that mot until the Legislature of Alabama proclainis that honest men in that Stace have “no occasion to cover their faces in public,” can those who are battling to eliminate the poli tical control and curb the criminal activities of the Klan count the victory won. —— — HALIBUT PRICI —Secretary Mellon, of the Treas-| ury Department, said today he favored personally the nomina- tion of Charles Evan Hughes, former Secretary of State and prominent New York lawyer, for the Republican nomination for President, but that this did not mean that he necessarily would support Hughes if he did run. EAITER_N G. 0. P. IS TURNING TO HUGHES NEW YORK, Sept. 14. — With the probability growing stronges daily that the Democrats will turp to Gov. Alfred E. Smith as their National standard bearer New York and New England Republi- cans will make another suprem.e effort to induce Charles Evans Hughes to enter the race for the Republican nomination for President. The feeling is growirg among Hastern Republicans that with President Coolidge out of the fight and Gov. Smith as the Democratic nominee the only hope for Republican success in New York and probably in Massachu- setts, Connecticut and Rhode Is- land lies in inducing Mr. Hughe. 1 %0 change his mind and becoming a candidate for President. . CHICAGO, Sept. 14. — Bright ‘ hued slippers are becoming pov- four hours today in the|ular in Chicago after many young d tunnel through the Sierra|women found out they could lac- five| quer them in any color they de- - and toppled|gired. The paint is said to taks . satin, m or othar leath PRINCE RUPERT, Sept. 14 Two thousand 500 pounds of hali- but. all Canadian, sold here yes- terday from 7.50 to 16.75 cents per pound, — SEATTLE, Sept. 14. — Halibut prices yesterday ranged two cen's higher at 17 and 12.75 cents per pound. Neptune arrived with 3,000 pounds; Sylvia, 11,000; Gloriz 300; Fairway, 14,000; Arcade, 1- 500; Gretchen, 650 pounds. - ——.e— , Me., Sept. 14. — A Winslow, ve’eran Rm':- mm-n man and dyed- e-wool baseball fan, has first Maine Coast|® fa - 5. Hel co! 1s sall mils | League 1 would solemnly kind (which later at Locarno produced Polaml Desires to Present New Pact to Preserve Peace,Announced GENEVA, Sept. 14.—The Norwegian representative to the League of Nations today introduced a “Voluntary Universal Arbitration” pact in the League of Nations Assembly Commission on Disarmament. WARSAW, Poland, Sept. 14. The Foreign Office has issued a' communique setting forth that Poland has a proposal to present at the session of the League A sembly at Geneva concerning pact of nonaggression, ment the existing League pact which it Is declared does not entirely exclude war in interna- tional relations. The non-aggre sion pact, as conceived by Po- land, will be open to all mem- bers of the League, and even-| tually to non-members. It is not directed against any country but! aims only to increase confidence | among nations and the League's| authority, | The Polish proposal is based| on the idea of gradual enforce-| ment of general pea by nlferlm.:l at once certain security for ev- erybody, and all members of the ad no-members are in-| vited to make a joint statement| that in the future none will have; recourse to war for settling in-| ternational disputes. Poland Is Determined Despite the assertion of Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Secretary, that the Polish plan fo1 4. generai pact for non: gression had been rejected, Po- land appears determined to push forward her idea of proposing a| general pact whereby the nations engage them- selves to undertake aggression, and, ‘above all, themselves not to help gressor power war, The Polish spokesman inform- the Associated Press corres- a to supple- bind any ag- which provoked ed pondent that although his coun-| try's resolution was not yet writ- ten, it would be based on the ideas of the Geneva protocol, which Jonkheer Beelaerts Van' Blocklands told the Assémbly he wanted revised, namely, arbitra- tion, security and disarmament. Fashioned in 1924 The Geneva protocol was fash- ioned by the Assembly in 1924, 'after five weeks struggle in a of ecstatic atmosphere, happier results, as this portocol, deemed too impracticable in that stage of the world’s political progress, was never accepted by the governments. That protocol was created largely thorugh the 'efforts of the British Labor Gov- ernment and M .Herriot’'s left| bloe Government of France, which WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 14. was in power during that period. i The conviction of Poland and The Netherlands is that the| League must keep a bulldog grip on the problem of peace through arbitration, security and disarma- | ment, and never let go, else the worlé can have no assurance that, war has been banished as a de-| | stroyer of mankind. Would Extend Pact It is believed that numerous others of the smaller powers will rally to the standard of Pollnd. and The Netherlands. In his talk with the British journalists, Sir Austen Chamber- | lain expressed the opinion that' the League covenant and the Lo- carno accords provide aunlclent (Continued on Page Seven no war of| Fishing MIGWEST HEAT - WAVE SMASHES FORMER MARKS 1Hottesl September Ever Re(‘Ord\’d T?lk(’b TO” Of Life in Central States |MANY SCHOOLS CLOSE; {BUSINESS SLOWS DOWN Only Four Cmes Under 90 Mark—Abilene, Texas, | Hottest with' 100 CHICAGO, T1.. Sept. 14.—The Central States are today swelter- ing from h wave that is without precedent Many deaths were reported and from all see- tions came word of still rising temperatures. It is the hottest weather in' the history of the U. 8. Weather Bureau. Only four cities throughout the entire helt showed temperatures under 90 degrees. ~ Abilene, Texas, is the hottest spot in the United States where the mercury registered 100. At St L and Nashville it was 198. Many of the schools in Illi= nois, Indiana and Missouri were closed for the day on account of |the excessive heut THUUSANDS OF FROM UUAKES Jam Black Sea Transporta- tion — Many Dead and Injured Are Reported MOSCOW, Sept. 14. — Panic driven by re-curring earthquakes thousands of tourists are ecrowd- ing all means of transportation along the Black Sea Coast in a mad effort to escape the terri- tory which has been heavily shaken by tremblors during the past few days. The quakes have caused the death of many and many more have been injured. No estimates have been received on property idestruction. Late reports from Yalta said 13 persons were kill- ed there and 350 injured more or less seriously. Slight shocks were continuing. ! S e Among the cannerymen going to the westward on the Alasks were John Emel of Valdez llld <J A. Magill of Seward, ———————— [ || Organizes Slow Club;! i| Then Pulls Fast l One;Club Is Defunct September CHICAGO, Olive Potter, i Sept. 14,—Miss | | who 17 years oM, | a few months ago or-} ganized a “Slow Club” whose | | announced object was to wl | mote soclability among young | - ’Iolks without petting .and , | drinking, pulled a fast nm{ | today. She“telephoned her par- | | ents that she had eloped b} Y Crown Point, Ind, and mar- | ried Willlam O’Donnell - Chicago. Her club is dotn * SKIRTS FOUR INCHES BELOW KNEES * * * * * * MICHIGAN COLLEGE ISSUES DECREE BERRIEN SPRINGS, Mich., Seot 14—Young women enrolled at Em- manuel Missionary College, a Sev- enth Day Adventist institution, must’ wear skirts at least four inches below the kmee. In prom- ulgating this edict, the ithor- itles commend to the girl students the advice of Peter to the youw ladies of the early m ot a meek and quiet s The*Rey. William Gul dent of the