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TTTT7 1 I I 11/ ALASKA DAILY -ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XXIV., NO. 3564. JUNLAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1924. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. PRICE TEN CENTS IMMIGRATION IS NOW LAW L_J First Boat Reaches Nome; Ice Drifts Out to Sea BRITISH FLIERS FALL INTO BAY: PLANEDAMAGED World Fliers Met with Acci dent—U. S. Army Fliers Leave Tokio RANGOON, May 26.—The British gldbo aviators, taking the air late last Saturday at Akyab, fell imo Akyab Harbor and damaged their machine b:»dly according to reports received here. SMITH'S OPINIONS. TOKIO, May 20 The outstand ing impressions gained toy the world flight to Japan were detailed yes terday by Lieut. Smith: That the flight was possibly is largely due to the cooperation of the Japanese and American navies. That the route followed is im practicable for commercial flying at the present stage of aviation devel opment, and that aside front the bad weather, the trip was the same rou tine of flying. Lieut. Shiith said: "The worst regular flight was between Sitka and Seward, even worse titan the hop from Attu to Paramashiru, when a forced landing was made oil Bering Island. On the Sitka-Seward flight, we had wind and snow all the way, oeoing hardly any water and guided only by breakers on the shore which were visible through the snow.” The fliers have been entertained almost continuously since their ar rival here last Saturday by offi cial called luncheons and receptions. HOP-OFF THIS WEEK TOKIO, May 26. — The I nited Slates Army fliers, after a 'busy round of entertainment ending with an elaborate banquet last night, left for Kasumiguara whore they will Hpend four or five days getting their planes In shape for a hop-off Friday or Saturday for Kushimoto. TWO CHICftCO GIRLS MISSING Washington Girl Disappeared Wednesday—No Clue in Abduction Case. CHICAGO, May 26. —The police have commenced a search for Ger trude Parker, aged 17, missing since Wednesday. Her home is in Yak ima Wash., and she has been vis iting her aunt here. Nellie Taylor, adopted English girl who disappeared Thursday, is still missing. The police were told she iwas seized by young men when s.he opened the door of her room, and thrown into an automobile. Train Hits Auto; Man And Wife Are Killed SEATTLE, May 26.—Peter Teo dato, morchant, and his wife were instantly killed when their auto was struck Iby a Milwaukee train near Renton yesterday afternoon. MAKING MONEY IN AMERICA ASCRIBED TO JOY OF SUCCESS . LONDON, May 26.—Returning to Tendon after five years pastorate at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, Dr. J. Kelman told re porters that he and his wife had received wonderful kindness at the hands of the American people. As a nation Americans enjoyed the game of life tremendously. Although the gaining of money in business or by any other legitimate means, was the common interest of Americans, it mostly arose from the joy of suc cess. During the whole of the time lie was there he had not met a mis erly American. “The Americans are a practical, scientific people,” continued Dr. Kel man, “and meet the dangers of their highly crowded and highly strung life in New York by scientific relaxation. The business men of America rec ognize the dangers to health and efficiency that civilization has come to, and are avoiding or combatting them. The American citizen practi cally lives under a more or less per manent system of training to keep himself fit for his job." Millerand May Resign as French President. ' \ m I ? M~.i MriX/^E^AKTP | Because he had given his unqualk fled suport to M. Raymond Poin* '.are, defeated French Premier, M. ilillerand is said to have threat ned to resign as President oi ranee. -i MIRAGE CAUSED I DISASTER SAYS MAJOR MARTIN I . Commander of Globe Flight Reaches States—Gives Cause of Crash. BELLINGHAM, Wash., May 26.— Major Frederick L. Martin and Sergt. Harvey, world fliers who crashed on the Alaska Peninsula, arrived here yesterday morning aboard the cannery boat Catherine I). from Port Moller. Botli were give a heary welcome by 2,000 persons, including Mrs. Martin tmd her son Robert, aged 8 years, the latter being members of a party aboard a cannery tender meeting the steamer down the bay. Major Martin said a mirage was responsible for the disaster near Chlgnik. He said he saw what, ap peared to be water and believed it was the Pacific. Finally it disap peared, then he knew it was a mirage and ho changed his course. Immediately afterwards lie crashed into a mountain. tdajor Martin and Sergt.. Harvey who were to leave for Washington tomorrow, this morning received telegrams assigning them to Chan ute Field, in Illinois. Major Martin interpreted the orders as abandon ment of the plan to send him to Europe to join the globe fliers. An earlier telegram from Gen. Patrick had said Martin would be sent from the cast to rejoin the fliers as soon as possible. YREKA, Cal.. May 26.—Henry Thompson was shot and killed and Constaiblo Ballinger was severely wounded at McCloud last night dur ing an altercation with a man nam ed Moore who escaped to the hills. ■-..- ■ I I Engagement In High Life Is Broken NEW YORK, May 26.—An f announcement issued today by j Mrs. Rita Deaccsta - Lydig i reads: "Mrs. Lydig and D. Percy j Stickney Grant announce the ; | breaking of their engagement owing to Bishop Manning’s re- | j fusal to consent to marriage in j [ tho Protestant Episcopal | | Church.” Mrs. Rita Doacosta divorced i both W. E. D. Stokes and Phil- i | dp M. Lydtg. | I I «—- . _ ^ —-■ EXCURSION IS ON WAY NORTH Seattle Business Men Leave! Seattle on Alameda for S. E. Alaska. SEATTLE. May 2G. A party of] Seattle business men, wives and; families, left yesterday morning aboard tlio steamer Alameda for a I 10 days voyage to Southeastern Al-j askan cities, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, Haines, Skag way, and Sitka. The excursion is run under the auspices of the Young Men's Business Club. - ♦ « ♦ Soviet Authorities Showing No Mercy LENINGRAD, May 26. — Forty eight prisoners have boon tried, 17 condemned to die for bribery, 7 sen tenced to 10 years, 2 to 6 years, 8 to 3 years and a number deported to Siberia. Three prisoners were ac quitted. Tho prosecutor said: "Security of the revolution demands wo shall pave tlie way through truth with an axe, but in this case we pave the wayj upon lives and avo must do It unmer-i cilessly.” SUPREME COURT HITS SEATTLE _______ WASHINGTON, May 26. — The Supremo Court today declared the Seattle ordinance requiring pawn brokers to take out licenses and re fufing licenses to any but Ameri cans was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court also reversed the lower courts in the Spokane, Tacoma and Seattle telephone rate controversy. The Court holds also that troops in a cantonment in this country during the world war were oper ating against the enemy. The Court ruled that Chi nose en tering the country as merchants and afterwards engaging in manual labor are subject to deportation. Bishop Rowe Coining North During June SEATTLE, May 26. — Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe, head of the Episcopal churches dn Alaska, will leave here for Southeastern Alaska on June 4 aboard the Admiral Rog ers. Ho will return here In time to rail on the Victoria for Nome on July 5. Former Ketchikan School Teacher Weds in Seattle SEATTLE, May 26. — Assistant/ United States Attorney Clifford Tay lor McKinney and Miss Helen Sparks, of Crawfordsvillc, Ind., were married hero Saturday. The bride taught school at Ketchikan. NEW YORK, May 26. — Four workmen were killed and 10 were injured or trapped by falling tim bers Saturday night as the result of a dynamite blast of a building excavation on 49th Street near Broadway. GAS SCHOONER DONALDSON IS SAFE AT NOME Little Craft Reached There Saturday — Eleven Men Rescued from Ice. NOME. May U6. — 'fho gas schoon er Donaldson, Capt. **1 on command ing, which left Seattle TWay 3, touch ing at ports in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska, arrived here at 5 o'clock last Saturday morning after a pleoaa'nt trip. The Donald son had no trouble with Ice. The craft brought freeh goods which the sourdoughs began eagerly devouring, being the first of such food since the close of navigation last October. The ice broke on the Bering Sea front at Nome last' Friday after noon and went out to sea. Strong brccucs’ and high tide did the work. Frank Kleinschmidt with a party of 10 natives, was on the edge of the ice pack a rriN'e from shore when they fount themselves drifting out to sea. Ai bonV was launched from shore and rescued them two hours later. -»♦ » M’ADOO CLAIMS NOMINATION AND ELECTION SURE Candidate Returns from Cam paign and Says California Will Have Next President. J/)S A.NGEDES, May 26. — Cali-J fornia is going to clod the ncxl j President of the United States and! he is godng to ibe a Democrat, Will iam G. McAdoo told a group of friends who greeted him here upon ills return from an extensive cam paign tour throughout t he country. Those .who met Mr. McAdoo upon liis return at his home in this city say lie is enthusiatstic regarding the status of his campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination, and feels certain that he will get the; nomination at Now York. NEW MEXICO FOR M'ADOO. HAS (TRUCKS, N. M., May 26.— The Now Mexico Democratic State Convention announced its choice of William G. McAdoo for the Presi dency here today. New Mexico will ] have six votes in the National Con vention. COLORADO DELEGATION UNINSTRUCTED. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May! 28.—The Democratic Stato Conven tion will send an uninstructed dele gation to the Democratic National Convention. Sixteen delegates were selected, but their voting strength will toe only twelve. Eight dele gates at large were named. BROOKHART WILL NOT CAMPAIGN FOR OFFICE WASHINGTON, May 26.—.Friends of Senator Smith W. Brookhart made It known today that the Senator will not go to Iowa to cam paign for renomination for Senator, at the 'primary election that will be| held next Monday. -.■<> ♦ Hoover’s Measurements Adopted by Shingle Men SEATTLE. May 28. — Seventeen mills have formed the Puget Sound Shingle Manufacturers' Association and adopted Hoover's standard measurements. Indian Pastor Found Guilty of Wife Murder WEBSTER, So. Dak., May 26.— A jury has convicted Jonas Keeblo, Indian pastor, for the murder of his wife, BOBBED-HAIRED BANDIT HAS LOYAL SUITOR X/EOKA Sj-iEEKANX $ 15 E,. gTEpMEN^ lyeona Sheehan, pretty bobbed-haired Boston girl, under arrest there on the charge of holding up and robbing a Harvard student, is still in Jail, though her mail accomplice Is freed on ball. She has a stanch advocate, however, in Robert Edgar Stephens, engineer of tha Boston Art Club, who declares be stands ready to marry her as soon as aha la treed—if she says “yea.’* MYSTERY IN AN OFFERING AT FUNERAL i - I Floral Piece at Murdered Boy’s Funeral Believed from Kidnapper. CHICAGO, May 26.—While the funeral of Robert Frank, 14-year old son of Jacob Frank, millionaire manufacturer, was in progress at the home yesterday afternoon, a| floral piece arrived with a card "sympathy of (Jeorge Johnson." This name was signed to several letters received at the Frank’s home de manding $10,000 ransom for the boy's safe return and also given by the man in telephone conversations with tho father. Tho police and dotectives are working on the cas^but do nearer tho solution of the kidnapping and murder then when tho boy's l>ody was found. POLICE RECEIVE LETTER. CHICAGO, May 26. — I.oite last Saturday afternoon Chief of Police Collins received a letter purporting to come from a man who killed Robert Frank. Tho writer ex pressed regret, and said he would be dead when the letter was opened. Chief Collins was of the opinion the letter w:is written on the same typewiter as the demand for tlie ransom. / Arrests Expected to Clear Up Bank Robberies NHW YORK. May 26. — Tile police 'believe the arrest of three men here last night in conjunction with a huge bond theft will clear up tho bank robbery at Walton. Kansas, In January and before that another at Denver, also the killing |of two men in a robbery in St. Louis, COOLIDGE SURE OF DELEGATES FROM WEST VA. Nineteen Will Be Chosen at Primary Tomorrow—All Will Be for Coolidge. CHARLESTON, W. Va„ Ma* 26. West Virginia voters, tomorrow, will ballot In a Presidential and State primary election, but the Presiden tial feature Is aimost lgnorod. The name of Calvin Coolidge stands alone on the Republican ballot, and the Democrats will have no Presi dential preference because no can didates filed announcements. The delegation of 1!) to the Republican National convention is thus assured to the President, the State law pledging the delegates to the win ner of the preferential primary. The Democrats’ eight delegates at large, (Continued on Pago Two.) CHRISTIAN EDUCATION, MOTION PICTURES, DIVORCE EVILS AND OTHER THINGS ARE DISCUSSED GRAND RAPIDS, May 211. - That Christian eduiation is a basic re quisite for a living church Is one of the keynotes sounded In the first annual report to be presented to morrow to the Presbyterian General Assembly In session here by the new Presbyterian Board of Christian Education. The report is to bo made by Dr. William Chalmers Covert, General Secretary. In the reorganization and consoli dation agencies as now represented in 'the Board of Christian Educa tion Dr. Covert finds that the Pres byterian Church is at last undertak ing to face the problems or Christian education with genuine educational earnestness, with well-recognized educational standings in mind, and with educational Ideals dominant. A comprehensive program of Christian culture, making the contacts with age groups from the youngest chil dren to university students. Is now under way through u well-articulated organization of all Presbyterian edu cational purposes into adult life. It also Includes an educational ap proach to the practical subjects In (Continued on Page Two.) COOLIDGE SIGNS JAP EXCLUSION; BUT EXPLAINS j President, with Undisguised Reluctance and Explanation, App roves Immigration Bill. WASHINGTON, May 26. Presi dent Coolldgo today signed the im migration bill with the provision for Japanese exclusion. In signing the bill the President attached a statement In which lie pointed out that with the present immigration law expiring Juno 30 a veto might make it necessary to rush through immature measure. In tho state ment the President emphatically an nounced ills disapproval of the re fusal of Congress to delay the ef i foctivo date of Japanese exclusion. In his statement, the President said, “I gladly recognize that the enactment of this provision (Japan ese exclusion) does not imply anv change in our sentiment of admira tion and cordial friendship for the Japanese people." Tlie President said the bill ex pressed "the determination of Con gress to exercise its control of im migration instead of leaving it to international arrangements," but he emphatically expressed his opinion that it would have been much bet ter "if wo had continued to invite (he co-operation which Japan was ready to give.” I '-—— TAX MEASURE NOW IN HANDS OF PRESIDENT Senate and House Approve Conference Report, Ac cepting Simmons Tax. WASHINGTON, May 26. — The Senate and House of Representatives have botli approved the report of tho Conference Committee on the tax reduction bill which now goes to the President. A» the measure is presented to the President it contains the Senate Democratic schedule's on incom' taxes, including the surtaxes and the normal taxes. The provisions lor publicity of Income tax returns adopted in the Senate, when it accepted the amendment offered by Senator Norris of Nebraska, and the provision of the amendment offered by Senator Jones of New Mexico, taxing the undistributed incomes of corporations, also accepted by the Senate, were eliminated in the con ference. The bill provides for taxing gifts tho same as estates on which the taxes were increased by 40 per cent. PORTLAND, May 26.—A prema ture explosion of blasting powder at the county rook pile at Kelly Iiutte, nearby, crushed out the life of three men and serious Injuries to two other workers.