The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 17, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” OL. XXX., NO. 4611. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, -1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 0 CHANGE FOREIGN LOAN POLICY FALL. New Pacific Flig DIL MAGNATE, FORMER SECY., TO FACE JURY Criminal Conspiracy Case Is Brou\%ht to Hearing in Washington TEAPOT DOME OIL LEASE IS REVIVED Decision of Highest Court Faces Two Defendants Now in Court WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—With the weight of a Supreme Court decision standing against them, Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of Interior, and Harry F. Sin- oil magnate, went to trial toda spiracy mous lease. Although today’s proceedings constituted only growing out of thé fa Teapot Dome Naval oil Sl CLAIR ht, With Woman Aboard, Planned on Coast y on charges of criminal con- | . the crimfnali} phase of the fight to cancel the| oil leases negotiated by Fall, as | Secretary of the Interior, the Su- preme Court, a week ago in can- celling the, Teapot Dome transac-| tion, expressed opinion that the twp défendants had conspired to- i Jury will’ be seeured ately pd will decide T tey “go free ‘or be fmprisoned up to two years. GANG LEADER AMBUSHED ON STREET, SHOT “Little Auggie” Killed' on " Crowded Thoroughfare in New York City INEW YORK, Oct. 17.—-Con- onted by a wall of silence sur- tpunding the warfare on the low- East Side, police are seeking the murder of Orgen, gang chieftain, own as “Little Auggie,” who was ambushed and slain by five gunmen in Delancey Street. Jack [Diamond, Orgen’s bodyguard, is iin a ecritical condition with two bullet wounds but he refused to fell detectives who shot him and s chief as they strolled along the crowded street Saturday njght. 3 The police could find no one ng the throngs that swarmed tBe. pushcart-lined thoroughfare 0 recognized the killers, three of whot trailed their men while two operated a getaway ci Despite reticence of all, detec~ tives know‘Orgen's death is due to -activities of the reorganized - “Kid Dropper” gang which still exists although Louis Kushner, /member of “Little Auggie ng"’ slew its leader thrée years ago. — Deputy U. 8. Marshal Willlam Caswell of Sitka fs in Juneau for a_few .days. He arrived on the Margiiita. . immed| i 1\ Alaska’s New Flag, Be Raised At Seattle SEATTLI:, det. 17.—Alask; new flag, designed hy a Sewa school boy, will ‘be raised on a 12 foot siandard in the Chamber of Commerce banquet hall as a feature of Alaska Day observance. Edward W. Allen, Seattleslawyer, student of Alaska history, will be the principal speaker on the program. = He was in charge of the Young Men's Business Club which will make the third ex- cursion north next summer. MEMORIAL FOR HARDING SOON READY Bodies of Former President and Wife Will Be Re- moved to Marion WASHINGTON, Oct. “17.—The bodies of former President and Mrs. Warren G. Harding will be removed from their present rest- ing place in a private burial vault to the great marble chamber of the Harding Memorial at Marion, 0., within the next six weeks, it was andounced following a meet- ing of the Harding Memorial As- soeiation. President Coolidge, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Postmaster General New and a score of prom- inent Republican leaders from sev: eral states attended the meeting. George B. Christian, secretary to President Harding in the White , House and now secretary of the ,&ssociation, declared work on the imposing memorial would be com- pleted early next spring. ¥ American Girls Win ' Praise of Brit_ons LONDON, Oct. 17+-American(than we do. Miss America stud- girls look a “great il smarter” fes “fit” far more than our girls, than English girls, .but. A: and this makes her lobk a great are badly dressed, aceording|deal smarter. Her feet are beau- to . the eéonclusion of thirty girls|tifully shod' and in this respect hfinm. staft of a Lon-ithey beat us easily.” depa store who have! But as for American men: to Londen after a tour| “Our men, at any rate, beat the ) milles to America and|Americans hollow. They are ter- J V[ ribly dressed their tatloring with English girls, adhmthx. The: only thing to sald is n it is comfortable |, In the face of recent tregedies of the San Francisco-Honolulu air race, a new flight is projected across. the Pacific from Oakland, Calif., to Hawaii, with Miss Doris| Concver, dan teacher, as a passenger and Tracy Dobscn as pilot. The flight will test mew eronautic devices. OAKLAND, Cal, Oct. 17.—An- other Hawaiian flight with a woman aboard is in the making. -At.is planned ‘to’By:-over and back and to test the invention of a Berkeley man's automatic drift indicator. The mechanism | fastens (o the cide of the plane |and records on a cylinder the jroute flown. Tracy Dobson, former Lieuten- lant in the Bleventh Army Pur- isuit Sqaudron, will be the head ipilot. He will take a co-pilot along, he states, in addition to IMiss Doris Conover, a dancing teacher of Oakland. Miss Conover has made.a study of aerial navigation and s an lmm.mzur telegraph operator. Dobson is aware of the opposi- tion to long distance flying in land machines over the ocean, ’hut says he is confident that this can be overcome by demonstra- tion of the plane’s worthiness and proof of thoroughness of preparation. He expects to fly a Mahoney monoplane powered with a Pratt- Whitney engine of 428 horse vower. It will carry 550 gallons of gasoline and will have a cruis- ing radius of 2,955 ‘miles, or a margin of 555 miles in excess of the distance between ‘Oakland and Homolulu. A date for the hop-off has not been fixed definitely, but prob- ably will be in mid-November, dependent on weather condition That the tragic fate of Miss Mildred Doran has not deterred womankind in its ambition to be first to fly over an ocean I8 indi- cated not only by Miss Canove determination to attempt the trip, but also by applications for passage from women in ClI land, Kansas City, Chicago and many other cities. Carrying virtually ' every s ty instrument of aerial navig tion and with a double inst ment board, Dobson declares the! plane will “be equipped in a manner to reduce the hazards to 8 minimum and to remove the andertaking from the class of th reckless stunt flight. A radio receiver for reception of the radio beacon signal will be taken along as an additional navigation precaution. Actress Spurms 2 us——?;.‘ _rlu.n CHICAGO, - Oct. 17.—Tired of, “playiug second, fiddle” to her hus| s first violin, Mrs. Geor-| sla Jonas, pretty vaudeville actress, she would file suit for against Paul The cruelty charga is supple- “the .complaint 'that COURAGE OF RUTH ELDER GIVEN TEST (Forced to Crawl Out .on Tail of Plane in Fall of Heavy Sleet HORTA, Azores, Oct. 17.-—Miss Ruth Elder had her courage test- o fully - before coming down alongside the tanker Barendrecht, it was related here yesterday. It become necessary. because of the heavy sleet that froze as it fell on the airplane, to throw some of the gasoline overboard. This was done in turn by Miss Elder and her pilot George Haldeman, Once it wus necessary for Miss Elder to crawl out cn the tafl of the plane to effect a balance. This she did without any sign of wavering. The sleet,, until th: plane was lighteaed, threat- ened to force it down and ndtledi to the danger of lowered oil pres: suve because of the broken l’eedl pipe. | CONFESSES STRANGLING . LOVED. I Butcher, in Fear of Knives, Admits Murder in New York i NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Fear of knives is the reason assigned by a six-foot butcher for strangling the woman he loved. finrry Gilmore has heen jailed after he confessed he killed Mrs, Helen Brandon, because she ter- rorized him by implements of the sort he cut meat with. The two came here from Wash- ington five weeks ago on an understanding he would support her in return for her services in keeping the house for him. Mrs. Brandon deserted her husband and brought her eight-year-old son Billy with her. Gilmore said the woman had not lived up to her bargain but lazily neglected to make his meals or wake him in time for work and also rafused to iron hii shirt. In answer to his remon- stration, she usually flourished a knife at him, knowing that he had fear of knives. New Salmon Market Indicated, Argentine SEATTLE, Oct. 17—The Ar- gentine’s government restrictions forbidding the sale of canned sal- mon unless inside of cans are lacquered before the fish are packed, may be removed within the next few days, accorring to advices to the McCormick Steam- ship Company. Representatives say the restric- tion becanre effective in December applyin gto all canned foods with sulphuric acid reaction of 3 per cent or more, this endint efforts of the West Coast Bhippers aad brokers to establish an Argentine market. With the present packing methods, lacquering in side is im- possible. 4 ———a— Jury Finds of —— CHICAGO, Oct. ‘17.—Testimony of Charles Cramers, Q'%fi ' Law ¥ ficial, that he had Murdock, eightesn, Great Lakes sailor, throw himself into the path of a train, eaused a coroner’s jury at Waukegan to return o verdict of. 3 O ON TRIAL LATEST Unusua cen Marie, and aia President Plan X \ WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. — A A deep admiration for the Cuban and for the progress they 5 el oae @ solf-goyerning na- tion' in securing the benefits of independence is said by President Coolidge’s friends to be a moving factor in his desire to visit/Hav- ana next January when the Pan- American Congress meets there. Whether he actuallly can leave the United States for the five or six days whic the trip would require is still conjecturable and entirely dependent on how his work :shapes around the first of the 'year. It is understood, how- ever, that he hopes to get' away, intending to make the journey stand out as evidence of his re- gard for the island republic. Should Mr. Coolidge go to Hav- ana his advisers contend he also would be paying a compliment to all of the republicsa of Latin-Am- erica, pince these will have dele- gates at the meeting which has as its purpose a discussion of the problems which are common to a'l the nations of this hemisphere. JUDGE GIVES INFORMATION ON DIVORCES, Most Marit;rT—roubles Can Be Blamed on Lack of Finances SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 17.—What sociologists describe as the “di- vorce evil” is really an ecomomic problem. It 18 not to be cured by more stringent divorce laws. It may be mitigated in a way by stricter marriage laws. But there will be divorces from now until the end of time. Judge W. W. McCrory, San Antonio's over-worked divorce court jurist and member of the American ~ Crime = Commission, speaks thus ‘upom the divorce problem, ! “It has been my experience that nine-tenths 'of the divorces result from & budget whose ends will not meet,” deglares Judge Mc- Crory. “This fact, at least, ac- counts . for of the divorces among yoUng married eouples. O"": m»::fi"?ul exist “There is mo in_m the youig y mind al posed phb(o of five-year-old 3 his rfoyal mother, Princess Helen. { PHOTOGRAPH OF RUMANIA’S BOY KING (International Hiustrated News' On Making Trip to Cuba Nex i MANCE- FILM RO Michael I of Rumania, with his m);nl grandmuil\?fl Picture was taken at royal pfle t January ' STATE DEPT. T0 ABANDON LOAN POLICY Approval or Vetoing of Financial Deals Now to Be Changed | i A \SEN. CARTER MAKES | SUCCESSFUL FIGHT Secretary mgg Perfect- ly Agreeable to Hands- Off Policy WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—With the conclusion of refunding of war time foreign debts, the State |Department is expected, by some |of the leaders of Congress, to abandon its policy of sanctioning or vetoing loans by private Am- erican banks te foreigm govern- ments. Indications to this effect have been received by the leaders in the midst of broadsides against the policy fired by United States Senator Carter Glass, Democrat ot Virginia, formerly Secretary of \the Treasury, who argued that the Administration 1s acting without constitutional authority. Abandonment of the policy {has been considered for some time by President Coolidge, pre- sumably at the suggestion of Bec- retary ot State Kellogg who rep- French® Tariff Proposals Unsatisfactory WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.— | The proposals contained in | the French tariff note, re- celved Saturday, are not satigfactory to the State De- partment. officials, so.far as | | ‘their examination of the |Plane Crashes and Well | seriously injured, and Lt. J. G. Hopkins, of Selfridge Field, Mich., carding of the policy. Lita Now Planning New Six-Bath Home | BEVERLY HILLS, Oct. 17.— +8ix baths and a private swimming pool are included in the plans of a $560,000 residence being drawn here for Lita Grey Chaplin, he: architect, Roy Sheldon Price, dic- closed today, The new home for the formor wife of Charles Chaplin and her two children will scon go up in Beverly Drive, and will be a two story stucco structure, comtaining nine rooms, | document has proceeded. — NEAR DEATH. IN ACCIDENT Known Man Is Serious- ly Injured DECATUR, Ind, Oct. 17.— Harold Emmons, Director of the National Air Transport Company and former President of the Na- tional Bureau of Aeronautics, was| Battles Storm Three Days In Tiny Craft e, ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oect. 17, was cut and bruised when the|—After battling a terrific storm airplane Hopkins was piloting,[on lower Cook Inlet for thr:wo crashed to the ground at Berne,|days, an aged Indian named Ped- near here, yesterday afternoon. .|ro, accompanied by his three chil- N happened. Emmons received a compound|dren, arrived here in & rowboat fracture of the left leg, a broken| which kad been propelled by a nose and varlous cuts and|seat torn from the tiny craft when bruises. Both men were taken|the oars were washed overboarl. to the hospital. They were en-iA United States Buresut of Edu- route to Detroit, Mich.,’ from|cation boat had been scouring th+ Madison, Wis., when the aceident;Inlet for trace of the missing la- Jasan and “children. {HUSBAND SLAYER & | B L A oo %, o0 4 Helene Colul lo, Hollywood movie actress, met John Regan. of Wi , D, C., ten years ago. couple recently met. again and are now going to M of a wild tem- per, during he abused and struck Ner; are charged to Oliver w. Wi.z Francisco miniug for divorce fiied SURRENDERS; SHE ESCAPED IN 1918 CONCORD, N. H., Oct. 17.—|mont, Mass. In two years she was resented as welcoming the-dis- .. After building up a successful bus- Iness in Troy, N. Y., under an assumed name, Mrs. Mary Folsom slayer of her hushand, ' has re turned voluntarily to the State Hospital for the Insane fr which she fled nine years ago, She had been contined for shoot- ing Henry H. Folsom, wealthy Boston lawyer, a former football star at Dartmouth, All trace had been lost from the day she disappeared until she prescnted herself yesterday at the home of Dwight Hall of Do- ver, her guardian and trustee of released, The hallucinations to which she had been subjected returned witn increasing severity, and In 1914 she was persiaded to go to thy trom | Folsom summer place st Exeter, N. H. Mr.s Folsom met her as he arrived £3r a week-end in 1918, and apperently she pleased at his coming. A time later ‘she was found ing at his lifeless body. “Yes, 1 killed him,” she