The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 27, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXI,, NO. 4723. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBI{'UARY 27, 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATEL i RESS PRICE TEN CENTS FIVE MAIL TRAIN ROBBERS CAPTURED riere’s Keal ramuy L0S ANGELES. NOW MAKING LONG FLIGHT Airship Leaves Lakehurst for Nonstop' Demon- 1 | stration Flight ! WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—Dirig-| ible Los Angeles took off from! Lakehurst at 6:15 o'clock Sunday morning on a training flight to Havana to demonstrate useable- ness of lighter than air craft for commercial purposes. REPORT$ TO NAVY WASHINGTON, Feb. z7~5anl ing over southern waters in nonstop flight from Lakehurst, N.| J., to the Panama Canal Zone, | the airship Los Angeles reported ! to the Navy Department this | morning that she was three miles | off South Negril Point, Jamai This would place the ship miles from her destination. | The Los Angeles took the air vesterday morning, unannounced, | and i attempting the luuge«rl journey since flown from Ger many the ZR-3. The presen trip pproximately 2,200 mil mostly over water. The airship' should reach France Flying Field ' at 8 o'clock tonight, Kastern! -t.uulml time. | l Is |NcREAsIN Mrs. James Ivers are shown with thelr eight children and two grand- | children. No race suicide here, eh | what? (International Newsreel) 4 Almost the entire Ivers clan of Scotland have landed in Boston :ner a stormy passage. Mr. and Americ _Federation of Men Out of Jobs | | WASHINGTON Feb. 27—The| | | - Glee Club of Washington U American Federation of Labor an-| | . ", . Coming Nortl: neunces that one sixth of Labor Union membership in 23 repre- sentative cities are unemployed| | and idleness is increasing. “Since most of the unions give| special aid to members in finding employment, it is probable that| | unemployment among unorganized workers is much higher,” the statement says. The greatest unemployment is' in Baltimore, 42 per cent. Tho lowest is in Chicago, nearly 8 pell cent, Seattle had over 15 per| BLUE Fux lN | % i | i | | { | SEATTLE, Feb. 27—The | Board of Control of the Uni- versity of Washington has ap- proved of sending the Glee | Club to Alaska for six con- | certs, at Ketchikan, Juneau | and Petersburg. The trip will be made from March 19 to April 2 cent of labor union members un- employed. ———eeeo Two Improvements i In Alaska Bays Fail 1‘ Be Recommended! SBATTLE. Feb. 2 ;Fur Exchange WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Ma- February auction last Saturday jor General Jadwin has disap-|¥ith blue fox the feature proved of improvements at Port|Offering. The best lot sold for Frederick and William Henry | $92.50. Miscellaneous collections Bay in Alaska. “of raccoon, skunk, bear and cats | were practically sold at market prices. ‘_’T ~The Seattle completed the 500 Both improvemenrs were not! ————————— recommended by the Alaska Road Commission, it was said. at !he'lnk TI“OO RGPI‘C“ local office today. The Port Frederick project was | for the construction of a canoe! AUSTIN, Tex.,, Feb. 27—Borrow- passage from the head of Port ing an idea frum the Isle of Jer- Frederick to the head of Tenakee'sey, blooderd cattle now are being Inlet. This ‘was decided at the| lat‘ooed with indelible ink instead local Road Commission office to of being branded at the Texas be impracticabe, it was said. | State Teachers’ College at Can- The William Henry Bay pro-!yon, Texas, where Jersey cattle ject was for the construction of a' raising is a speciality. hreakwater to protect sthe wharf| The tattoo mark, made by ap from head winds. The local Com- plying indelible ink just below the mission concluded in not recom-nukln surface in, the ear, is per- mending the project that ucuvi-lmlnenl and not as susceptible to ties at the Bay, where the Alaska obliteration or alteration as the Endicott Mining Company mine!old branding method used on the is located, do not warrant im-; western ranges. provements at this time. At pres-| — v ent there is only a watchman on| G. A. Moncrieff. representative the property and no announce- of the Shaw Supply Company, was ment has yet been made of tu— an arrival here on the steamer ture mining operations. ! Admiral Rogers. U. S. SPENDS $20,000,000 YEARLY FOR GOOD MUSIC, MANAGER SAYS Six million dollars is spent by the public annually on the coun- try’s 13 major symphony orches- and nearly NEW YORK, Feb 27—Music pays in America-*to the tune of iwenty million dollars annually, asserts George Engles, New York concert mahager. The people of the United States | spend that sum each year for | concert and opera music, he esti- mates. Most of it goes, he adds, to the artists who sit at the top. “Far from being an unmusical tion, the United States gives a n l-l support to kood music tras, he ,estimates, four: millions go to the two lead- tan and Chicago. The remainder goes ‘to individual artists, mer concert . orchestras and few minor opera companies, “There are 17 artists who might the attraotions,” says Engles. “Their gross receipts rum_ up to about Texas Cattle Brand ing opera houses—the Metropoli- sum- be called first grade box office three _millions. 'flru of this 'Relluwd Costs 0 Treatment Promise New Prosperity to Mmmg PLANE, PILOT, | 1 PASSENGER ~ ARE MISSING ‘Take Off from New York! in Cold Weather—No Trace Is Found NEW YORK, Feb. 27—In ; flight in the freezing cold weather | of last Saturday. the plane’s pilot | and passenger, who wanted to| meet an incoming liner and wave greeting to 4 woman passenger, are believed to have added to! more names to the list of fliers lost at sea. g The two missing men are Wal-' ter Hendricks, pilot, and Dave Staggert. The two men 1 took off with a four hour gasoline supply. Noth- ing has Dbeen heard from them since. A search by air and water failed to bring any trace of them or the plane. Hendricks' fellow aviators fear the plane, which was not equipped for landing on water, was forced |down with a rrwon motor. FORD FLVVER PLANE FALLS; PILOT I8 LOST SEBASTIAN, Fla., Ford flivver plane, which disap peared into the Atlantic last Sat- {urday night off Melbourne, was | washed ashore near here this| | morning. No trace has been {found of the body of Harry| Brooks, pilot. The plane is badly «|.nuagea jone wing entirely torn off by waves. The fabric of the otllel 3wing has been stripped off. The! propellor is broken. The wrecked plane was brouxhl‘ to Sebastin and search for Brooks | continued, airplanes being used. Brooks brought the plane south from Detroit several weeks ago| {and has been flying off the coast of Florida since then. | i Feb. 27—A| | Is Brisk, Major Says! WASHINGTON, pearances to the demand for good horse and mules is greater in the United | States now than 20 yeun ago, in | the opinion of Maj. C. Scott of | the army remount xervl('e. ‘The general tendency the country is to get rid of the| nondescript horse that used to be| driven to town with a buggy and | tied to a, hitching rack. There is a great demand now for a big, strong, strapping mule or a 1,500 to 2,000 pound horse or a high class riding horse,” Major told the house appropriations committee. “There is more demand Hor this kind now,” he said, “than there has ever been before in. the his- tory of the country. They are oming back to citles in the con- gested areas qhite a good deal.” ———— Easily Make New Ford Auto Pass German Law BERLIN, Feh. 27—Twenty-five| cents worth of material and ten| minutes of time are all that are| necessary to make the brakes on the new Ford automobile conform to German law, Herr Heine, man. ager of the local Ford Company, declared. The new Ford system of work- ing hand and foot brakes with the same mechanism is in viola- tion of the German safety regula- tion prescribing a distinct mech- anism for each brake.: For this reason the latest Ford product was refused 4 license to operate. mmmnm nmoun Va., Keb. 27— While the blooded horse still holds high.rank in Virginia, his poor relations are passing out of the picture. . The . Feb. contrary, 27—Ap- the through : Scott | land | permitting lore comsidered in the past {will {instances | industry, }(‘h ristopher Skrondahl, INourse have been convicted, | Mrs. Goun DEMANDCIH for Good Horses | | tenced f Ore DENVER. Cols Feb.. 27—Re- newed prosperity is expected to result from reduced costs of min- ing and refining sought during the present period of transition and internal reordering of the metal mining industry. M. B. Tomblin, secretary of the Colorado Mining association, tells The Associated Press that de- | velopment being don2 on a large scale throughout the Rocky Mountain states and that many jtons of ore have been blocked out in anticipation of increased prices the perfecting of methods economies in produc- tion and smelting. “Remarkable progress was made last Year in methods of treating | ores,” Tomblin said, “and this has made ilable vast quantities of as of to the! is too iow grade to be sent treatment plants.” Tomblin is not over-outimistic about the industry’s outlook year. He believes metal mining progress slowly, but in a manuer that will insure prosper- ous conditions in years to come. “Low prices for lead and zine last year seriously affected pro- duction,” he explained. “In some it was patently unpro. to mine these two metals production costs were | the market ' price. The however, is . coming around gradually to the mining of low grade ores through cutting production costs. New metallurgy und new methods of mining will e their effect on the facilities for treating ore.” The precious and rare metals ienjoy a rosier prospect this year than do the base metals, in Tomb- lin's opinion, although he thinks that curtailed stores and increas- Ed demaiid nay cause lead and zinc to respond quickly to an up- wurd trend. ——————— TEV CONSPIRACY CASE IS ENDED; SiX CONVICTED SEATTLE, Feh. 27.—Benjamin A. Newman, John Arthur Boyd, Laurent Dan Huron and Fred Jack and ac- con- fitable because above Vereecker, Minsky, Eva Louis Boyd quitted in the spiracy case. Newman and Boyd have been sentenced to 15 months and fined $1,000 each; Skrondahl and Nourse sentenced to one year and one day and also fined $500 each; Vereecker and Huron sen- to six months and fined $250 each. Alfred Bussanich have been Zev liquor Hubbard and Richard L. Fryant, suspended Prohibition agents, were the principal Gov- ernment witnesses. One thousand dollars in cash is the alleged amount paid as an attempted bribe and a quantity of liquor seized when the 'speedboat Zev was captured was the material evidence against the defendants | The defense sought to prove their clients were enticed into a rum running smuggling ring and en- trapped by the Government': agents. Kaiser’s Former Home Is Threatened by Decay BERLIN, Feb, 27. — The threatening decay of the *'Neues Palais” near Potsdam, the ex- Kaiser's last residence in Ger many, was established by govern mental building experts on their annual round of inspection. Fun- gus growths were found unde: the flooring which, the experts believe, resulted from the spread- ing of dampness ensuing during the postwar cessation of the steam heating. As the work of restoration called for prompt action, this his- torical landmark of the Potsdam environs has been temporarily closed to the public. —— - ALEUTIAN DUE TOMORROW PSS Steamer Aleutian is due in port from the south at 1 o'clock to- morrow afternoon with many pas- sengers and 160 tons of freight for Juneau. * wing the ar rival of the Aleutian, and accord- ing to present ‘achedules, there will be one va mer’ is o s. JOINS BRITAIN TO HASTEN NEW YORK-LONDON DIRIGIBLE E ™, NEW YORK KEHURST, M. S s PROPOSED ——— | ROUTES OF R=100 ~ pite pregress made by heavier-than-air fly'ng craft in spanning the Atlantic, it is likely to, be a British dirigible, the R-100 (above), which will irangurate regular trans-oceanic air servioe,. C. D. Burncy (lcft) of England is now in the United Statcs conpelnt ng with U 8. cfficials un planning test flights over the Atlantic in September, Assistant Postmaster General Glover (n,ht) i is preparing for handling of U. 8. mail to Europe by dirigible if the tests succeed. The map lhom a suggested route for one dirigible line. WASHINGTON, IPeh. 22 “Con- fident that 48-hour air mail and passenger bet 1 Lon- don and New York at hand that attainment is only a matter of months, the gov- ernment is clearing the way for P ipation by the United States in new era of trans-oceanic transport. service is s0 its by announcement that British dirigible R-100, completion in England, demonstration voyages Atlantic in September to teasibility of the plan, branches are moving quickly to assure full American co-operation in consummation of an air line over the Atlantic. \ The posioriice department, through Warren I. Glover, assist ant postmaster general in cha of air mail, has indicated that i' Britain institutes regular trans Atlantic service, the government will be ready to dispatch mail in quantities to England by air at the regular two-cent postage rate now in effect. Similar by British postal for a three-cent letter United States-hound mail surcharge of nine cents, Representative Clyde Kelly of Pennsylvania has offered in con a measure authorizing — Spurred the giant nearing will m over th show the executive rate with a trans-oceanic mail at $3 a pound. Its passage will remove almost the last barrier to American use of the liners for mail. President Coolidge has expres ed his interest in the plan connection with the visit Washington of C. D. Burney, mem- her of the British parliament and ‘epresentative of sponsors of the R4100, At the president's Secretary Wilbur of the making available the mast at Lakehurst, N. J., for the demonstfation flight, and Scere- ary of Commerce Hoover is look- ing into the project with a view to aiding it as he may through the department's section of mercial aviation. The R-100 will be 109 feet long 51 feet longer than the U. navy dirigible Los Angeles. will have a carrying capacity of 100 passengers and ten tons of ireight, a cruising radius of 4,000 miles and a speed of 75 miles an hour. It will be able, Burney esti- mates, to voyage from New York to London in about 38 hours, but the westward flight will take ten hours more because of the differ- ence fin prevailing winds. The ship will have the luxurious staté rooms and appointments of an ocean liner, Present plans - call for ance uvering and mooring tests - he R-100 in July and August, to be followed in Septem- ber by the trans-Atlantic tests. If these. UNM ur navy is close | plans | authorities call | on' the | nostmaster general to contract for | to! direction, ' poring | | ‘?t‘ {parishioners endur-; British capital 1s Jw*mrm ‘lhm to build five more ships to iserve with the R-100 as a trans Atlantic air fleet. | - Too Much Fish; Stefansson Goes To N. Y. Ho.spilul, NEW - YORK, Feb. 27—Vilajal mur Stefansson has been admitted | to the hospital for diagnosis uf lan ailment of a minor nature su- ! perinduced by too persistent diel |of fish which has heen the prin cipal means of sustenance on Arc- tie oxpedhkms YOUTH FOUND - SLAIN;WATCH ~ STILL TICKS | SEATTLE, Feb. watch still ticking ‘of his vest, the body identified well-dressed found in a shack of here.’” The body {ed by an unidentified person who telephoned the sheriff. declared the youth was shot and (killed, then taken to the shack {where the body was trussed up| with a rope. The wateh and {change remained in |but all identification been removed. — e Copperitis Spreading 27—With in the pock of an un- youth was 15 miles north his | some small the pockets, marks had | | TAUNTON, Bugland, ¥eb. 27.| ~=Caustic comments on growing “copperitis’” of church collee- COM-itions in his church are made by | !the Rev. R. Lowman Lang, Viear of Holy Trinity in a letter to accompanying the accounts for 1927 He says under cover of seerecy of a hat people contribute a copper and ‘on January 1 there were no%less than 240 half-pen- nies in the collection. { “I' am mot writing,” he says, “in a bad temper but am trying to kindle some glimmer of con- {science in those who are fairly well-to-do people but who give bits. This ‘copperitis’ seems to be infeetlous for it is certainly spreading.” ————— A. J. QUOTATION NEW YORK, Feb. ju was discover- | Deputies | In Church Collection! | ! i [ | | da {to be the tond and LINDBERGH CITY GUEST Fhes to Boston from De-| troit as Guest of National E. A. BOSTON, Mass., Feb. Lcity is today playing host to Mrs | Lindbergh, mother of Col. | A. Lindbergh, who arrived yester- in the coldest weather of the in an airplane from Detroit guest of the National| Association Convention | vear, LEducation {now meeting here. Mrs. Lindbergh was accompani- ed by Miss Mand Dawsop, fellow | teacher. They arvived in a tri-| motored Army plane piloted by Lieut wallan fame. - 'nxm *t Seppala Wins First Leg of Dog Derby * POCONO MANOR, Penn., Feb.| 27, Facing 50-mile gale, Leonard Seppala won leg of the dog derby today. Owing jto the strong wind, only six miles were raced today aund the final will be tomorrow over 20 miles. Seppala’s time minutes, 20% seconds. Mre. Elizabeth Ricker Asle Seppala, of -Leonard, was third, e a wag soc- brother n and Albert Brown, traveling sales- men, came north to Juneau on the Admiral noxem COMMUNITY 27-—This, Charles | Albert Hegenherger, of Ha- | the first! was 21| POLICE MAKE - TUICK CATCH MAIL BANDITS {Part of le;)t fs Also Re- | covered—Two Robbers | Make Confession CHICAGO, 11, Feb. 27.-—The Chicago police announce the solu= [ tion of the $138,000 mail train | robbery, which took place on the (Grand Trunk Saturday morning ton the ontskirts of Chicago, by jthe arrest of five of the sevem | bandits and the recovery of a large part of the stolen money. | Twenty-five suspects other thave been released, investigation !proving they had no connection [ with the robbery. { The other two men | songht. | Deputy Police Commissioner yO'Connor said he has a detailed confession from “Limpy” Charlie {Cleaver and Willlam Donovan, | who the police said plotted the robbery with Willlam Carmody, Angelo Francisco and Joseph {Lamm, the latter proprietor of a |pool room where the gang gath- ered. Nearly $18,000 was recovered from Clever's home. | Cleaver and Donovan confessed to two other receént robberies, 'thn Ravenswood National Bank, where $80,000 was obtained, and ’Jownh Fekete, mngnge batker. SEATILE MAN 15 INVENTOR are heing | {Seattle Newspaper Says ¢ Suspended Dry Agent Discoveved Principle SEATTLE, Feb. Z7—in a copy+ righted story in the Seattle Post- !Intelligencer, that newspaper says | Alfred M. Hubbard, suspended | Prohibition Agent, is probably {the discoverer at least of the [ prineiple of the “free energy” mo: tor privately demonstrated in De- troit last week. In 1915, when Hubbard was only 16 years of age, he demon- strated an apparstus Wwhich he | claimed extracted its electric en- ergy direct from the air. ‘foday Hubbard declared that he believes the motor demonstrat- ed in Detroit by Lester J. Hender- shot s the denlopmmt of his apparatus. Hubbard declared that his claim {that his device was capable of picking ita energy from the air was ouly a subterfuge to protect patent rights. He now says the apparatus = extracted electric en- |ergy from radium and that as far he could Jearn, Hendershot's invention worked on the same | prineiple. Hubbard declined to' [ reveal further details. ! Hubbard said he sold 75 per cent of his patent rights to Radium Chemical Company Pittshurgh but quit the company ccold when the officials he sell them more: | - | WALKING TESTS LONDON, Feb. 27.—Walking upstairs and down again Is a good test for drunkenness in the case 'of motor ear drivers who are on B. Green, A. Van Mavern|the border line, Godfrey Carter, lecturer in forensic medicine at sh-lmd University, told the 'Royal Institute of Pubiic Hethhi CHESTS CALLED BUSINESSLIKE ' WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—The work of individual social agencies has stood out in relic lishment of co-operative cfiorts in community chests, and these mem- ber agencies have been forced to justify their existence, C. N. Bookman, president of the Asso- ciation of Community Chests and | Councils, told the Washington thalf-pennies Instead of llxvennym,,m_‘,em.,_. on community welfare “This is one of the maln f: tors in co-operative social work as it has been practiced in all but tive of the large American cities.” said Mr. Bookman. “The com: munity chest has also been re- 27.—Alaska | gponsible for laying & solid foun- was quoted | gation for business wn. {better mvom quently meroved social condi- tions in_the communities in which it has been established. 2k The ‘Washington conference; of which Col. Willlam C. Proctor of ' Cincinnati is chairman, is for purpose of obtaining the layman's point of view in the distribu of chest funds and adminis of the community welfare wo “This conference,” said '} Bookman, “ia a hopeful sign the the many problems still confrom ing the chests all over the cou {try will be glven attention by | and women who are w give constructive thought needs that m forth N butions” Qe insisted