The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 21, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS 4LL THE TIME” VOL. XXX., NO. 4589. " JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESD * ZEPTEMBER 21, 1927. 39 PLANES RACI, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS NG TO SPOKANE Majority of Scribes Favor STORMY SCENE ENACTED OVER | AERIAL REPORT) Paris Convention Adopts Report Urging Separate Air Department MITCHELL SETS OFF VERBAL FlREWORKSi Former U. S. Army Air| Chief Makes Fiery Speech on Aerial Policy PARIS, Sept. 21.—After a stormy session, characterized by spirited debates and many failures to get a vote, the American Legion convention here formally adopted the re- port of the National Defense Committee, It called for the consolidation of all three branches of Government aviation into one Federal department with a Cabinet Secretary at its head, co- equal with the present ex- ecutive departments. | | DIES IN SKAGWAY \Pioneer Alaskar, Former | Legislator, Vigilante Lead- Passes er, Away . Josias M. Tanner ior more than {thirty years a prominent citizen at{ of Alaska Skagway, aged 79 years, camz to Juncau in 1894 went to Skagway in 1897, From almost the moment of died last night He one of the leading citizens of that place and ‘econtinued such was-finally taken option of the . eral State delegations split on the roll eall. Mitchell Starts Fireworks Brigadier General William Mit- chell, former Chief of the U. S.| Army Air Service and stormy ! petrel of that branch, started the fireworks that lead to speech: which, at times, had the assembi in a turmoil. His own fiery speec wag followed by many other re- marks and eventually many of these were stricken from the rec- ards. The former Chiet of the Army Air Service argued heatedly that) | | | while Europe is honeycombed witi | new “sdcalled commercial air lines which between night and morning may be turned into mili- tary weapons,” the United States has been standing still. “It has been proven that a $15,000-airplane can destroy in a few hours $70,000,000 worth of battleships,” Gen. Mitchell shou{-i ed. San Antonio Wins Out | The convention today selected San Antonio, Tex., ag the city 'n which to hold the annual conven- tion in 1928. Elections of various officers for both the American Legion and its auxiliary were xaullI to be held. ———————— Woman Bags Polar Bear On Borden’s Expedition CHICAGO, Sept. 21. — Mrs. John Borden, Chicago rociety leader and nfember of an Alaskan expedition headed by her hus- band, brought down a polar bear in the far north. The party is on its way back from Wrangell Island with seven walruses and seven polar bears. Mrs. Rochester §, Slaugther of Chicago, another woman member \of Skagway luntil the end. He had served the people of Alaska in many public offices among them, United States Marshal for the First Di- vision, Territorial Senator, Mayor and Deputy United States Marshal. Leader of Vigilantes While he made good in all the offices that he held, his wid-| t fame came from his work as leader of the Vigilantes which » | cleaned up the “Soapy” Smith| sending the‘ {Gang at Skagway, leaders to the penitentiary. and many of the hangers-on .ut of | the country. J. M. Tanner was born at Pon- tiac, Michigan, where his father {was Warden of the Michigam State Penitentiury. When young man he moved to Colc rado, where he was married in 1871 to Miss Julia Valentine, ;sister of Emery Valentine, wei' known pionesr and many times Mayor of Jureav. Of this union (Continued on Page Three.) RIOTING ENDS HOT ELECTION IN PITTSBURGH i Wounded—Police Jailed, Charge Election Fraud PITTSBURGH,, Sept. 21. — The most disorderly primary election campaign in the history of Alleg- heny County ended last night when the pollp closed in the City-County election. The records show two men met death at the hands of political gangsters and many oth- iers were wounded. n\nd| his landing at Skagway he. was| {Two Killed and Many Are| 0DDS ON CHAMP STILL FALLING, EVE OF BATTLE "['hirty-Eight_Writers Pick ' Tunney, 24 Backing Jack , —10 Notcommital DRIFT IN BETTING IS TOWARD DEMPSEY Three Are Mentioned as Referee—Suit to Stop Fight Is Dismissed [ CHICAGO, Sept. 21. — Of 72 representative boxing and sporting writers who are here to attend the big heavy- weight championship battle, | 38 today said they were con- | fident that Gene Tunney \ would win. Twenty-four of the remainder picked Jack Dempsey to regain the title while ten rcfuscd to go on record. Despite thiz predominance i among the writers of senti- ment for the champion, which naturall; exvoeted, there is a growing feeling on the of the public, at least in that sec- tion representel by wagers, for the challenger, as is evi- denced by the dropping of odds to six to five with prospects that it will be even money before the two men step into the ring to- morrcw night. i | | | | | i Outstanding Developments Pre-battle battle preparations for | the championship battle today ap- | proached the climax with these developments: First—Continued reports of al decided drift in Dempsey's favor with wagers on Tunney down to odds of six to five in many in | stances and prospects of even money before the scrap begins. | | Second—A new flood of coun- | terfeit tickets of all denominations was announced by Tex Rickard, and resulting in increased vigil ance by both Federal and local agents: " Confer on Referee Third—A conference of the Stat: Athletic Commission with man- agers of the rival fighters on the rules, together with reports that | the Commission had further whit-| tled down candidates for referee | to three who are genmerally sup- posed to be Walter Eckersail, newspaperman, . George Lymon, business man, and David Miller, wealthy sportsman and veteran ring official. Fourth—The dismissal in the Federal district court of the suit| brought by Rev. Elmer Williams (Continued ;n‘l"—l;e Two.) - cee— Secretary of Federal ol B_;o_-_td to Resign WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—Ed- ward 8. Rochester,” Secretary of the Federal Oil Board since its ! Irvington, 'Descend;mt of i?eeboo&er of the expedition, also shot aj guyndry riots occurred through- polar bear, out the day. Police ofticers were| {1ont Goolidce. hag. wavind Soo R o i TR jailed and many. eiection officers| .. . ro work ' Cikisman ot the . were brought before the courts Aflflp‘ Expert |iiareed with violations of the|pre that e wiates 1o give up In Seattle “, Self | etection 1awe. ) before December 1. He formerly 4 The vote is estimated at morei ., o Washington newspaper- SEATTLE, Sept. 21, — First,than 150,000 despite the fact that men, and later servéd as Assist- Lieutenant Thomas K. Matthews, [only county and city offices wera|gn¢ 'to Attorney Generals Daugh- Government aviation 'expert at- invojved. erty, Stone and Sargent. B tached to the Boeing an‘il’lfllef and Five Sons VETS’ SCRAP OVER AERIAL REPORT - N & g WOMEN STUDY POLITICAL ISSUES AS FALL CAMPAIGNING STARTS | WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. — In the' fall the voter’s fancy turns ‘lu thoughts of politics, platforms and parties. Women are no ex- | ception, it seems, to this rule, and organizations interested in the politicai expression of women are laying plans for approaching cam- paigns. Announcement has just been ‘made by the Woman's National i Democratic Club in. Washingtoa, Mrs. Casper Whitney (left) of Mrs, Emily Newell Blair (right), N. Y, director of thefone cf the nfmlder;mvl : L oman’s ational ocratic National League oi Women Vot- Club, agree that now is the timc ere; Mrs, Harris T. Baliwin|for all politically minded women (center) of Washington, ch: 'fo begin studying probable cam- of its living costs committee paign issues. it will stage a national contest for the best.Democratic glogan in 1928. This is the outcome of the | widespread interest aroused by a local slogan contest held by the Club in May, which brought in not only a large number of Will Seek Treasure Taken In Sack of City of Panama =i, won o wemvers o 1all parts of the country. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21.— Its Not Partisan A A descendant of Sir Henry Mor-' The National League for Wom- gan, notorious froebooter of the e Voters is not affiliated with 17th century, was preparing for Dy party. Its members, however, Makes Recall of Ambassa-i dor Rakosky Prerequis- an excursion south to the Isth- study the programs and accom- ite for Negotiations mus in search of some of the Plishments of each. Suggestions loot which Sir Henry's followers for political study are being made cargied away after they had sack- UOW to members and chairmen of ed’the city of Panama in 1671,|its committees for choosing the (and were said by tradition to topics which they will discuss with have buried on a bayou near, their colleagues before the pvi- Darien Bay, in the present Re-|maries begin. public of Panama. “The tariff is a subject that all The treasure hunter is Louis; thinking women should be study: {Morgan, son of Frank Pierce|ing,” eays Mrs. Harris T. Bald- |Morgan, the District Attorney| win of Washington, D. C., chair- jof Victoria, Texas. Captain A.|man of the living costs com- Pearson, veteran skipper on both mittee of the National League the Atlantic and the Pacific, has,of Women Voters. |joined in the venture and thef “When reviewed in terms of \men recently launched the 40-|Paris gowns and luxuries, the |foot auxiliary launch Saxon for|tariff seems far away and vague, the voyage to Panama. hut when seen in terms of nec- Have Ancient Map essities of life such as sug. The treasure hunt will be|salt, cotton thread, knit goods, guided by a map wepyted to have|and cultery, it becomes a grim ;been left to his descendants by| reality,” Mrs. Baldwin pointed out. Sir mry himself. Louis Mor-| “Qur sugar tariff bill is yeariy gan said he obtained the parch-iabout $216,000,000. Is is too high ment on which the drawing was|or too low? Women as purchasers an indispensible condition to anyscrawled from his father. The|gnould consider this seriously. negotiations between - the two|tradition, as he relates it, i8] “women as voters must con- countries for a non-aggression that eight men buried the loot|gider the tariff earnestly also when pact. Other conditions laid down‘.lor Sir Henry and afterward were|they cast their ballots because by the French authorities are:{murdered 80 that the buccaneer|pe party in power to a great Cessation of interference in whe obtained knighthood from|extent controls the tarift main French internal affairs by Snvlptlflhlrlu II of England after his|iained by the United States.” agents or agents of the Third explorations on,/ the Spanish| wrs Baldwin has had exten- JAnternationale, and ' the early Main, was the sole survivor of|give governmental training in mat- conclusion of negotiations for the those who knew where the doub-|q.q dealing with 1llving _costs. settlement of the old Russian/lons and pieces-of-eight had been|gn. gigo attends all Congressional debts. ! secreted. hearings and floor debates on < Publlc opinion, which tolerated | qiglation relsted to subjects in Young Huerta Reported (Continued on Page Three.) |the Living Costs program. . Executed by Mexicans PARIS, Sept. 22.—What was virtually a demand that Chris- tian Rakosky, Soviet Ambassador to France, be recalled has been made on Moscow by the French Government, it was announced today by Le Matin, leading Paris newspaper, The announcement said that the French Government had in- formed the Russian Soviet Gov- ernment that Rakosky's recall 1.«‘ | | Before her marriage in 1922 Mrs. Baldwin was an. expert . the U. 8, Department of Agri- culture, and in three years travel. ed in virtually every state conm- ducting special campaigns. _Stuwdy Prohibition “Wet or dry?” is another ques- tion for which many enfranchised women believe they must find an answer. Members of the Women's Chris. tian Temperance Union through- out the country will pay special attention to the question of pro- — ) h' Flyer’s Fall TUCSON, Ariz., Sept, 21.— Thrills Tiny Village George O. Hilsinger, local attor-| . ney returning here from Nogales, | SOMMERBERG, Upper Aus- declared he had recelved infor-'tria, Sept. 21.—Aviation provides mation from sources which he thrills for hamlets which are regarded as authentic of the ex-!lcagues out of touch with the ecution of Alfonso de la Huerta, |world of dare-and-do. The same himself through the head. o cause was assigned for the deed.| Aw“ BOSTON, Sept. 21.—When the {7 ‘Plant here, died after shooti Join Same.Fraternity|Fest Is Candidate-for M Molineaux family of Metuchen,| SPRINGFELD, O., Sept. 21.— L|N. J., appeared at the biennial|United States Semator Simeon & jrlvmumn col ing ' of a|for re-election to' that office. Sept. 21. -~ \father and five sons; it won read-| Senator Fess, who has been ¢ ing to ily “family “trophy” of the|mentioned as a possible candidate ‘via the t, Hraternity. g 6 |for the Presidency, sald he was biplane | Notsonly are all the Molineaux| well pleased to have in- g5 o conclave of Kappa Sigma with a:Fess announced his candidacy hibition all elections. At i annual convention fust held in Minn is, Miss Laura Volstead daug! of the author of the Volsf Law, urged the assembly to pay 'attention to the political tields. With “primaries approaching, with minor elections to be held locally and with choice of presi- dential candidates soon upon the voters, jed the women to a younger brother of the former kind of a surprise that came to provisional President of Mexico. |Ver-Sur-Mer, French fishing vil- lage, when Commander Byrd and Pastoral ‘r Nets |his erew landed there after their 9 Te | tra tlantic flight, came to D’Annunzio $33,000 | sorhmertiers when the British —_— ' | Hawker-Horseley bomber bound GARDON] Ttaly, Bept. 21.—!for British India in a non-stop 2"1?; i aml-l ;"“'x""h'm’“’”‘ into the Danube y in 2 ys, e d'Au- recently. g ! nunzio | snted it in an open air| Nobody in the village had the theatre at bis willa before a per- slightest knowledge that an air- sonally selected audience of 600 plane was in the vieinity. Vil- who“w‘unw total of $33,000 tn\lfln::l 4.:. I:ll nu' occasion and see ft. e money is to be d Ll ured Flight voted to & thmn"un his’ garden | L ind hewn from rock. At his death com; the § unnal‘oul D. C., that during the early autumn |' Poor O Army! Can’t | Buy, Must Dye Its Old Uniforms D. C, ! | WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—Because of the | lack of funds to buy new un.forms, the Army is plan- | ning to renovate and dye 3,- 500.000 khaki uniforms which it has had on hand gince the World War, it was | announced here today. The uniforms, the newest of which date back to 1918, | will be dyed the standard of olive drab used by the Army for many years. NORRIS HINTS THATHEWOULD SUPPORT SMITH Nebraska Senator Would Prefer Wet and Catholic to Reactionary Dry OMAHA, Neh, Sept. 21.— United States Senator George W. | Tunney to Win 1omorrow DERBY PLANES ROARING WEST IN MAD FLIGHT Two in Nonstop New York to Spokane Hop Take Off This Afternoon ELEVEN LEAVE FRISCO IN WESTERN CONTEST Greatest Aerial Race in Country’s History Is Nearing Last Lap irplnes wees Tonvg 08 airplanes were ward across the Ccontinent and 11 others raci! " {l‘lniflfl cfi' ?“ Spokane. ea lor These include 16 planes in the Class A and 10 in_the Class B National Air Der- Norris would rather. see. an hone|. .these +est Progressive, though a wet, in office than a radical dry who is reactionary in everything else, the Omaha Bee-News quotes him as saying in an interview. A Presidential candidate’s par- ty polities, religion, or views on Prohibition,” no’ matter what they may be, will not prevent Senator Norris from supporting him in 1928, provided he meas- ures up to the Senator’s standard as a ‘“sincere, fighting, honest progressive,” he assertod. Senator Norris would mention no candidate. He sald this, how- ever: “Governor Al Smith of New York s of course handicapped by his religion and because he is a wet. I belleve, however, that he is honest and that he is a genuine progressive. 1 am a Protestant and a dry, yet I would support a man who was wet and a Catholic provided 1 believed he was sincerely in favor of law enforcement and was right on economic issues.” Art Theatre Revived In San Francisco Now SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21.— Emerging from fire and other adversity, the Little Theatre movement in San Francisco faces unilinchingly a season of 20 plays. ¥ > The somewhat rickety 300-eat home of the art play on the West Coast, converted from a church; into a theatre, went up in flames but the spirit of art for art'’s sake without obesiance to the box office came through without scorching. § Former Senator Phelan and Charles and Kathleen Norris are among the sponsors of a program that will include at least one old-fashioned play, a Shakespear- ean and a Shaw drama and a revival of Prunella by Laurence Hausman, The only concession spirit of commercialism in the reestablisment of tle Theatre was due to physical necessity. The number of seats has been increased to 700 and a location has been chosen on the fringe of the business distriet instead of in the restdential sec- tion as formerly. Cereal Factory Job Beats CMC:__N:,S&nGH NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—Jane Weaver, 20, bobbed brunette, is convinced that a job in a Cleve- land cereal factory is better than a career“in the cabaret night life of the.roaring forties. On Rive #ide Drive a policeman found her in a state of collapse be- cause she had not eaten enough in her one week’'s career as a dancer. A magistrate took up & to send her back bome. to the ‘involved the Lit- TWO MORE IN AIR NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—Eddle Stingon of Detrolt, hopped oft on a nonstop flight to Spokane at 2 o'clock this afternoon, Stand- lard Eastern time. He gave the Iplane full throttle to get off on a 3,000-foot run. “Duke” Schiller, in the plane Royal Windsor, shot down the runway at 2:13 p. m.,, making a beautiful takeoff after a 2,000~ foot run. Steve Lacey, Lomax, failed to arrive before the zero Lour. Fred Koehler, test pilot, ac- companied Stinson on the flight. Schiller "'had Edward Bohn of St. Louis for a companion. e : SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21. — Eleven airplanes hopped off from here at an e¢arly hour this morn- ing, comprising Classes A and' B in the Pacific Coast Alr Derby from San Francisco to Spokame. | 8ix were Class B machines which - took the air shortly after 5 a. m. | while the five entries in the Class A race followed the lighter craft, | taking off at 6 o’clock sharp. When the Class B planes reach. ed Medford, Ore., at 8:30 a. m, Vernon Showalter was leading. Almost neck and neck with him in a thrilling fight was James | Rinehart, trailing by but 30 sec onds. ON LAST LEG s GLENDIVE, Mont., Sept. 21. — Eight Class B airplanes in the New York to Spokane National Aerial Derhy hopped . off froms there at 8 a. m. today at ome-min- ute intervals with Leslie Miller. and C. W. Myers still fighting for the lead. Trailing planes wers | (Contifued on Page Two.) Money First Had | ByQu.__dm | LONDON, Sept. 21 —The term ‘“pin money” originated early fm the 13th century, aceording to A. H. Riddle, a member of the tamous British pinmaking trm Ryland and Soms: Pins, says Mr. Riddle, were first used in 1872, when the pin- makers of London were incors . porated into a city craft or guild. ¢ ) o7 4 In the reign of James I. act of Parllament was & protect the manutacturers bidding the importation This aot' was hd Charles 1 who from the 1 handed wite He private