The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 15, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXX., NO. 4584. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GLOBE CIRCLING TOUR CANCELLED HEAT WAVE IS UNBROKEN; NOW ON FOURTH DAY Twenty-three Dead in Chi-| cago Alone—No Pros- pects of Early Relief 15.—~The mid States were under the CHICAGO, western still prostrated today shimmering heat of the torrid| wave which has covered the area like a blanket for three days it entered on its fourth day there | no sign of relief official | predicted another bli Sept citi and | | | | was fore ering day. All September heat records have been smashed into nothingness in the threa days. Scores « have been caused. Thi died in this city alone Wednes day, raising the total here All schools in the are clc awaiting cooler tempe Every city in the Centr. are reporting weather abovs 90 degrees In the rural sections, hot weather has caused much rejoicins the farmers and agricul bureaus. Their only fear is it may prove too much of good thing' and scorch the corn which has already been greatly benefitted. as sts i deaths een to city down ratures Among tural that Navy Aviator Drowns; [ Plane Falls Into Bay‘ 15. was | SAN I)H‘(.() Sept J. K. Krueger, Navy pilot, drowned when his plane nose ai ed 500 feet into San Diego Bay this morning. Pilots E. L. Layne and J. Thompson, who were aisc in (he torpedo plane, were rescuel | by Naval speed boats. Krueger was caught in the wreckage. S eee | NOVICE WRITES BOOK 1 IN ONLY NINE WEEKS| NEW YORK, Sept ing rejection slips to aspiring authors is the best way to avoid| getting one yourself, believes 26- vear-old Edith M. Stern. Her first novel, “Purse String: as written in only nine weeks aft she had spent several years as a manuscript reader for the pub-| lishing house which is now bringing out her book. “I think unconsciously ab- sorbed the technique of novel writing,” says Mrs. Stern, a novice in the writing world, helping to -pass judgment on some 5,000 storles in manuscript form.” This experience, she feels,| combined with voracious appetite for current literature gave her| the equivalent of actual training, n writing. The scene New York ; i of of “Purse Strings’ the 1880’s It ows the development of char- cter in a conventional girl of that period and in her dilettante husband as they struggle to ‘keep up appearance,” emulat- ing " the wealthy household :n which she was reared. FRSSOBUR L is Posing for' Snapshot By Sweeheart, Man Is Electrocuted ESCANABA, Mich,, Sept. 15. — Posing in .a tree for a snapshot being fakew by his sweetheart, Olive Gunderson of Manistque, Lawrence Larson, Chicago, wus electrocuted today. As the camera clicked, Miss (Gunderson looked up to see her sweetheart's distorted body writ ing at the top of the pine tree, feet above the ground. The girl's father, Carl Gunder- who climbed the tree and tempted to release the body from the grip of the 6,600 volt high tension wire Larson had grasped to keep his balance, was knocked to the ground. He regained con- sciousness after several minutes. he | | Hill's | preparing WAL IRELAND BECAUSE TO RECIPROC. 1 MINJSTER QUITS Wal telegraph Italy refusin, seat in Executive | Council and participate th special election today - HILL MAY GET FREEDOM UPON $100.000 BOND 1., Sept, Harry to a $50,000 estate un 1 of his mother, whom of having killed, within -the next few bond “of $100,000, attorneys are said to to ask that he either be released on hond or formally arraigned immediately on a charge of murdering his mother. ! Attorneys for the State said the vouth's release would be conteste by them. H father to be financially able to the |)|u1m\’s‘4| bond. NOTED DANGER DEAD AT NICE Isadore Duncan Is Thrown| from Automobile to Road —Neck Is Broken NICE, Sept. —Isadore Dun-| an, noted American dancer, | killed here last night nmlnl» accident. When a new automobile, blew a long sc ing around her neck over the side of the car. It became en tangled in one of the wheels, drag. ging the dancer out of the machine into the roadway and breaking her neck. | Woman Mill Manager Wins Men’s Support MONROE, N. C., Sept: 15.— Women with experience have no trouble in keeping up with men in industry, believes Miss Pearl Rodman, President and active General Manager of one of North Carolina’s largest cotton mills, ‘“‘Before my father’s death I aided him in the operation of the mills and looked after the welfare of the workers in our village,” she says. ‘It was not planned that I should take over the mills. But this was virtually forced upon me. “I was the first woman active- ly in charge of a cotton mill in the Carolinas. At first 1 met with much opposition, especially in our own organization. Today, however, there is no trouble of any kind.” 1, Minister er .‘l‘ s zone to | ) retain his to OTTAWA, Hill, der 15 heir the w is he free under a ace days be .1 is furnis! was | in an auto-| trying out a gust “of wind she was wear 1 PERFUMED FERTILIZER IS LATEST THING FOR METICULOUS FARMERS WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. — A perfumed fertilizer has been found for the meticulous farmer. It is made from the by-products of man- ufactured cocoa and chocolate, and has - the aromatic excellence of both ,parent elements. Ordinarily the pgtency of fertil- izer is judged by the desire it creates for a gas mask, but t:e 1 RESIGNS FROM lll\lSTR) OF ‘[nf | not iqr in TAX PAYMENTS ' FOR 1527 MORE ENGLAND FAILS TE WITH I‘RP[ 57‘47!' DUBLIN, Irish Free State, p 15.—In a letter to President Cos grave, James Walsh gave )\1\ reason for retirement from Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs THAN FOR 1926 withdrawal, which was solely nn‘Alfl ka and Washmgton a Question of principle, he (states | Show Over $| 000 000 ! is temporary, and was brought about by the'fact that the tarice | Increase, Says B. Poe SEATTLE, Sept. 15 Income commission had dallied for a year | and the few remaining ‘industrie of the nation were permitted tax collections for the Washingto: | and Alaska in 1927 in- creased more than $1,000,000 over decline Mr. \Walsh says further the previous year's Burns Poe, Collector in favor of England, but that friendship in Revenue, announced fersons made volves reciprocity, and there ha receipts were to! district that he | | is friendship with 0 of today returns heavier money has been coin Imenwl b no reciprocity on England’s but the part. He cites England’s insistance {on payments of land annuities un ider the Land Act of 1903, amount |ing to more than £5000000 aiDetter in 1927 and what he calls the “Ul | There have oS Prink: {made by Congress resulting in England’s bad faith not nearly many persons as ot g be no friendship,” | heretofore filing returns. Yet wirk | Ihe says, “until England hanis|MOTe Deople relieved from payin back the chunks of Irish ter.|th® Teceibts showed an increase ritory that she took by the treaty| The collections for 1 192 He that i1 compared to cepted this treaty with relu Phio. privious. year d ar of the receipts corporations paid three much as individuals BANDITS HUNG UP IN GROUPS Mexican Government Forces Hang Outlaws by Wholesale e in Narayit ed more is E |-<v ; been certain cuts ster of as instances S0 sserts ac | ’ os ‘lz | analysis ,]nv\\ni times as at the time - | World Is (;ruu ing Better Says Chief Justice Taft NEW YORK, Sept Justice William Howard his 70th birthday, in a telephone | conversation from his summ-r| home, Murray Bay, Canada, wita Martin Green of the New York Evening World, said he believed the world is growing better but as rapidly as some people think. The Chief Justice sent a message of most grateful apprecia- tion for many boundless messagos of goodwill he received on his birthday. What Patrick Henry Ate in New Cook Book WASHINGTON, Handwriting cook 15.—Chief | Taft, on | NOGALES, Bodies of 38 Ariz, Sept. 15. bandits, hanging singly and in groups from trees and telegraph poles in Nayarit, bore mute evidence to the Mexican Government's efforis {o erush out- lawry,, said reports received here today. Dispatches tc the Nogales Herald said trainmen reported see. ing the bodies and were told by Federal troops that the bandit ante-| Victims had been captured, sum dating the Civil War and now|Marily tried and sentenced to in the possession of Mrs. Nancy|death | F. Munce of Virginia, will be in- S A {corporated in nn| Old-Fashion MERR"T BACK FROM TRIP 0!’ INSPECTION Cook Book, to be published this summer by the Woman's Na- M. L. Merritt, Assistant Dis- trict Forester, and Harold Smith, tional Democratic Club. Forest Ranger, returned lnu Mrs. Munce inherited these re- cipe books from departed ladies night on the Ranger No. VII| from a ten days’ inspection tri of past generations who thought nothing of mentioning eggs by of Mr. Smith's district They stopped at Port Althorp, and the dozen and cream by the quart. Most of them were hand- Hoonah in/ Icy Straits and Ten- akee, ed down from mother to daughter for generations by word of mouth writing in Chatham Canal, tarms, Sept. books 15 One of the old books is called Patrick Henry's Cook Book.” Although not actually his prop- erty, it composed of recipes of dishes used by his family and probably eaten by him many times. On the fly-leaf, in faded, delicate writing is inscribed the statement that these recipes were “drawn off” at Red Hill, the Patrick Henry home in Virginia, by Mrs. Elvira M. Taylor, one of his direct descendants. Revival of Emeralds Indicated for Fall PARIS, Sept. 15. — Emeralds, heralded for several months as increasingly important in the world of precious stones, are the keynote of several evening dresses in the collection of Worth. The famous brilliants and glit- tering embroideries of this house have given way somewhat in the new collection, to large em- erald colored stones in the form of brooches, buckles and orna- ments. Glasscock, is due in port from Chains of semi-precious stones|the Westward at 10 o'clock to- including topaz, aquamarine and |night according to word received turquoise are used by several by local agents this afternoon dressmakers as integral parts of | The steamer will remain in port their evening dress designs. The until 6 a. m. tomorrow in order flut, polished stones are set in to make the tides at Wrangell narrow rims of gold or silver and Narrows. the chains are from 18 to 24 in- —_——————— ches long. ————— Puget Sound Salmon 17-YEAR OLD BOXER | | Pack 675,783 DIES FROM___}__IARD BLOW| | Cases, Says Report Straits and Lynn visiting a number of fox is small timber sales and ditions, “We interviewed number of fox farmers when we visited their farms on Inian Island, they were all tremendously pleas-| ed with the work that Dr. E F. Grave: Territorial Expetr, who is on the present time fis doing,” de- clared Mr. Merritt. ‘““The farm- ers seem more pleased about him being sent out, than about any other action that has been taken in their behalf, and the inter- ests of the industry. I believe that Dr. Graves will have an the island at one of the greatest losses in the fur farm business has been fail- ure to raise the fox pups,” he| said. —————— YUKON DUE TONIGHT Steamer Yukon; Capt. Charles Federal Bureau of Soils has dis covered the sweetly odiferous con tent to possess a convenient ard suitable plant food. . A press-cake of cocoa meal, the department of agriculture says, can be made containing about 4 per cent of nitrogen, which ¥ the equivalent of 4.9 per cent of ammonia. \ LOS ANGELES, Cal,, Sept. 15.— | SEATTLE, Sept. 15.—The 192 Harold Williams, 17-year old box-| salmon pack of Puget Sound to- er, died this morning followins | taled 675,783 cases of all varieties failure to revive after collapsing in the first round in a scheduled 3-round fight against Jimmy Blake last night. A punch to the head floored Williams, fracturing nis skull. He was rushed to a hospital immediately, made today by Charles R. Pollock, | State Supervisor of Fisheries. The pack included: 503,095 case of humpbacks; 37,467 echinooks: 87,944 sockeyes 45,236 cohoes; l:,m chums; 106 steelheads. collections, | Fewer | Hawk nlet and other points| inspecting the general forest con-| Veterinary | opportunity to do much good as| according to an announcement | Mayor W alker (,nm Purse to Mother Of Pilot Nungesser PARIS, Sept the footsteps Lindbe and { Mayor James J le\ ( today jer of the Fremch flyer Nungessor {and presented her with a che | for §900, the remainder of a sur |'collected by admirers of her heroic { aviator son Madame Nunges timidly if she might | visitor. Tha Mayor, | she, bent tender tears in his eyes, ly. it | | mn 15.—Following 8 A Col. Charles Commander Byrd, Walker, of New v ed the moth of i r asked a bit moved an, with kissed her gent over, - I.EGIUNNMRES SEND 0UT S0S FINANCE CALLS Fo rmer Doughboys Find ! Paris Living Higher Now tan 10 Years Ago Sept. 15.—With lsos ¢ being sent home by ‘\'Isllmg members of the American | Legion during the past two day for financial assistance, two sp clal cable offices have been es | tablished in Legion headquarters The second American xpedition- ary Force to France is finding living more expensive in a8 individuals than it was years ago when they came doughboy attire, wearing the uci form of American soldiers. In fact, the Legionnaires have i | i | | | | [ PAR | ter than those that prevailed at home and yliscovered that the sum thought to he ‘necelsary for weeRs . in France has vanished in less than one week. One such Legionnaire, who had ago when he landed here, found it quickly mejted a in seei the Paris sights. He is returning to the United States Saturday {unable to stay for the convention YANKEE SQUAD BEATS BRITISH IN LAST GAME | Veteran Amerlcan Polo| | Team Wins from British in Deciding Match WESTBURY, N. Y, Sept. 15. veteran polo squad | | | | | America's re: tained cup when it defeated yesterday the British four by a score of and|§ to b in the deciding game. Coni-| bining the skill that comes with experience and all the dash of youth, despite the fact that they are well past that stage, the Am- ericans were too strong a combi- nation for the visitors. Devereux Milburn, | kreatest of all polo called players, the J. |and Malcolm Stevenson made up the American squad. Milburn is |46, Webb 42 and Stevenson 3§ vears old. Milburn has starred in | every international series since I'ill The "English squad was com- | posed of Major Eric G. Atkinson, | Capt. Claude E. Pert, Major Aus {tin H. Willlams and Capt. C. T Roark. Since the international matches were first initiated 1886, teams from the Unitad States and England have played nine times. Three of them :w won by the Britishers, once, in 1900, the series being unofficiai as no challenge was issued. In 1909, 1911 and 1913, the American teams were victorious. In 1914, the Enghish team .defeated the Amer- icans. From that date until now, the Americans have swept every series, winning in 1921, 1924 ani in the games just closed Canada, Cuba, Finland Get Seats in ‘League GENEVA, Sept. 15. — Canada. | Cuba and Finland were elected to filk:vdeant, noripermanent seats in | the League of Nations Council to- day. The terms are for three | years, cup many France | in found that Paris prices are higher | two | $1,000 with him less than a week | " to President the international challenge | Watson ‘Webb, Tommy Hitchcock ; in! THEY CANCEL FLIGHT T T N embrace her' Pride tlight uropeui of First (vight), round of then Detr ca pilots the world TO CET FUNDS TO PATENT BURGLAR PROOF LOCK, CHIC ONCE TOO OF EXTENSION OF - FISHING WOULD ~ SOLVENOTHING BELL l‘\(:"AM ‘\"I‘lh E. B. Pacific ating said Sept. 15 Deming, President of the American Flsheries, oper- several Alaskan cannerfes, virtually all salmon R down for the season of the fishing season, would not charge ! there at this time. Commenting on the appeal mace Hoover to set aside Commissioner 0'Malley’s ing Fall fishing, Mr even should President Cool- grant an extension, his com would, not reopen any (f Alaska plants, An extension he believed, the situation ordor said idge | pany | its its | i AN Humane Society Seeks ! To End Dog Cropping Y., Sept American Humane has begun another effort away with, cropping of Richard €. Craven, editor of the National® Humane Review, Ihas formally asked the American Kennel Club to rule that cropped {dogs born after a specified date Ibe barred from shows held under | Kennel Club rules. | Such a rule was the English Kennel vears ago, he said. prize shows, cropped dogs would have little value except as pets and the praetice would die out, he asserted “Cropping,” said Mr. Craven, “is faking. It {8 cruel, unsports- maniike and a practice that be- longs to a bygone age." - 15 ion |h\ to dogs. adopted by Club 30 Barred from She Runs for Senate From Lone Star State GALVESTON, Texas, Sept. 19 ~—Texas, one of the first states to clect a«woman governor, may have the distinction of electing one of the first woman senators too. Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunningham of Galveston, secretary of the Nj | tional Democratic Women's I tive Committee and chairman of the Pan American Conference Committee, has announced her in- tention of running for that office Mrs. Cunninghgm would oppose the precent genator, Farle B Mayfield of Austin. REDINGTON GUEST OF C. OF C. FRIDAY NOON Paul G. Redington, Chief of the Biological Survey of the United States Department of Ag- riculture, who is in Juneau con- ferring with local branches of the department, will be the guest x merce tomorrow at their regular weekly luncheon. The luncheon will be in the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company rooms 'and will be furnished by the [Martha Soclety of the Presby- terian. Church., | packing | plants in the Territory had closed | Deming | Associa- of the Juneau Chamber of Com-| | DETROIT PLANE PILOTS DECIDE TO QUIT TOUR Brock and Schlee Unex- pectedly Abandon Round World Flight at Tokyo TOKYO, Sep.t 15. — The globe-circling tour of the Pride of Detroit was called off here by Aviators Ed. F. Schlee and “Bill” Brock, it was announced today. They will take a boat for the United States and ship their monoplane home. A cablegram which Schlee received from. his children begging “daddy” te think of them before he attemnted the | long Pacific hop was said to " be largely the cause of the cnncel]nflnn Cnncellancn I!nexpccted The cancellation of the round the world flight of the Pride of I Detroit was entirely unexpected. " |On their arrival at Omura last Sunday, both Brock and Schlee AC AN DRIIRCT IS [told an Associated Press repre- 1GO MAN BURGLES [sentative they were determined TELLS COURT [to carry out their plans despite ‘th.- rising tide of protests against long overseas flights with land planes. At that time they gays heir proppsed route of flight the Pacific Ocean, from | Brock ! their ana Bill who reached Tokyo it off led TEN, HE CHICAGO, Sept ton, a burglar a lot about locks, he explained tc the court when arraigned here !over today on a charge of breaking |Tokyo to Midway Island, thence into a house, As he approached [t0 Honolulu and then to San 65, he decided to retire | Franciaco. l~<m-' the knowledge about locks | Arriving at Tokyo Wednesday, he had gained in his trade, he|After being delayed at Omura for invented the Burton burglar proof |three days by a typhoon, the | lock when even he could not pick. |fliers reiterated their determina- To raise funds to patent it, he|tion to make the Pacific hop, ad- decided to pull just one more job |4INE If they failed to locate Mid- He was caught in the act, way Island, they would continue | Burton told Judge Elar he was|o% to ‘;’;fl"l“'“ ;"A':;“',: stop. willing to plead gulity but asked | o continuance uhtil November 7,| The Pride of Detrolt lett De- to attend to patenting his inven. trolt August 22 for New York, tion, which he figures will bring|3TTIVIng there at 5:45 p. m. the | enough 1t to brighten his %M€ day. From New York they lite in prison by providing funds | Went to Old Orchard, Maine ox Ifor magazines and tobacco, Judge |\he following day, and hopped ofr | Bller granted the request for «|LTOM there to Harbor Grace, N. continuance. | They left Har- 15.~John Bur- learned quite 15 a to “|F. on August 26 bor Grace on August 27, at 65:14 la. m. for Croydon, England, ne- |gotiating the Atlantic success- fully. Two days later they were {in Munich, Germany. August 8¢ FEATHER TITLE found them in Belgrade, and on | the following day they lunded at Constantinople. Spending one Aay there, they Lhopped to Bagdad iPhiladelphia Boxer Out-| points Red Chapman, on September 2 where, on ac- count of red tape they were Boston, 10 Rounds PHILADELPHIA, Sept forced to remain until September 6. From Bagdad they jumped to Caleutta. and September 7, were in Rungoon, the following day in Hongkong, two days later in ny Bass, Philadelphia, outfouga: | Shanghal, and on the 11th, they “Red” Chapman, Boston, last down st Omure, night, taking a 10-round decision and winning the featherweighr | championship of the world. Both | little fellows fought viciously The bhout almost ended in a were forced knockout in the ninth round when both fighters connected simultane ously and fell to the canvas. Bass recovered in two counts, being the first to regain his feet. Chapman | remained down until the coun: of eight. “Red"” gamely fought on to the end of the tenth whea he was all but out on his feet. - RECOMMENDS WOMAN FOR CARNEGIE MEDAL CHICAGO, I, Sept. 15.—For an act of heroism performed while swimming at Palm Beach Mrs Henry Riggs Rathbone, head of ‘the Illinois branch of the American League of Pen Women, and, wife of the Illinois . Congressman-at-Large, has been|Y8lly with wrinkles and “crow’s recommended for a Carnegie feel.” was described before the medal. Hlllnul-x Association of Chiropod- She save five-year-old Joseph|!sts’ 'Convention here today by Morel of Palm Beach from|Dr. Paul F. Mahaffey of Spring- drowning. Not an expert swim-| field, Il mer, Mrs. Rathbone was further| “The look is daily traced in handicapped by a sprained arm,|the case of thousands of women the result of a dive the day be-|to their big toe, which is out of fore. \allxnmem ' Dr. Mahatfey explain- Nevertheless, she compelled the|ed. “Pain caused by the big toe boy to cling to her while she Is unconsciously written on the swam in twelve feet of water|features in wrinkles. A normal tes until she reached a iadder lead-|is a first aid to beauty. Keep your ing lrom the pnol Ibig toe straight.” FOUR R’S INSTEAD OF PROVERBIAL THREE TO BE TAUGHT IN CHICAGO CHICAGO, Sept. 3.—Four R's in stead of the proverbial three which have formed the basis of elementary education for mavy years, will be taught in the Chi. cago Public Schools henceforth, according to the latest Health Bui- lleun issued from the office of BASS CAPTURES 1 156.—Ben. | (Continued on Page Two.) B Murder Charge Is Filed Against Ok_lihoma Nurse ENID, Okla., Sept. 15.—Mur- der charges have been filed here against Mary Atkinson, 26-year- old nurse, for poisoning Mary Jane Daly, 18-year-old daughter of Rev. Charles Dailey, of whom Atkinson was reported to be enimoured. The charges follow- ed finding of poison in the dead girl's viscdra and a narcotic in a hypodermi¢ syringe. e, iLook Out for “That Big Toe Look”! I’s Beauty’s Foe CHICAGO, Sept. 15.—The “big toe look,” a visage blemished us- i Health Commissioner Bundessen. “Readin,” “riting,” “a’ rithmetic™ are all very well in their the Bulletin states, but the f which is named “ruggedness” w! henceforth head the list. The Com missioner maintains that it is the basis for good school work and for future growth, o A