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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09

GENEVA, May 9-An American
juridical expert, Benjamin Howe Con-
ner, who is president of the Amer
lean Chamber of Commerce of Paris,
has taken leading role in the
drawing up at Geneva. under the
auspices of the League of Nations,
of a draft convention 10 facilitate q
commercial arbitration.
The treaty provides that trials Of
commercial cases may be held be-
fore arbitrator in the country chosen
by the parties. where witnesses. docs
ments and Information necessary for
the proper presentation of the case
are available In cases where the
person against whom the sentence
or charge is pronounced resides in
another country, or has his property
in another country, the sentence can
be executed there without the .neces-
sity for second trial in that eoun.
try.
1t was due 10 Ire delay in The de-
cision of commercial awards and TO
the attendant expense that the al
tention of business men was first
attracted to the use of arbitration
in commercial matters, and it is be-
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09
ARREST five IN
NARCOTIC RAID
Woman, Said to Be Brains of
Ring. Reported Caught
in Seattle.

SEATTLE, May 9.-In two raids,
one in the palatial University resi-
dence district, Federal agents ar
rested three women and one man
and seized narcotics valued at
$1,000.
The two raids are believed to
have broken up a ring supplying
narcotic to dealers.
The five prisoners are Mrs. Char
ry Adams, aged 2S, said to be the
brains of the ring; c. NJ. Twohey,
aged 26; Mrs. Twohey. aged 26
Bernice Richards. aged 26, and Bert
Johnson, aged 81. The Twoheys
and Richards, who were arrested
in a down town hotel, are declared
to be out of town agents working
under the direction of Mrs. Adams.
Federal agents said ii is known
that narcotic peddlsrs from Oregon.
Washington, Utah, Montana and
Idaho. frequently visited the Adams
home. Narcotics are alleged to
have been distributed from the
Adams residence and it is believed
the narcotics reached here from the
Orient on japanese vessels.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09
Ey ELMER CLARK,
international illustrated News Staff
correspondent.

w EW YORK I-N)-Does some
N strange hoodoo guard the ais
X Y ways of the Atlantic. prevent
ing the great flight between New
York and Paris?
Skeptics scoff. Yet last minute ac-.
ciGents have held up every attcm1t
made In the last year to span the
1900 mile Stretch.
The deaths of IieutenantC Com.
mande7 Noel Davis and Lieutenant
Stanton II. Wooster in the crash of
the American Legion at Messick,
Va. are but one of series of trag
edies and mishaps.
The first was the wreck of the
giant Sikorsky plane last September.
Everything had been tested. The
plane had made its trial flights per-
fectly. Paris seemed but few hours
away. The engines were started.
The machine raced across the field.
The moment 1t was expected to take
the air it crumbled up in a ditch,
caught fire, and in a few seconds
only charred fragments remained.
Jacob Islamoff and Charles Clavier.
members of the crew. were killed.
Captain Rene Fonck and Lieutenant
Lawrence w. Curtin escaped.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09

air. but was unsuccessful. Chamber
lin manouycred the plane In the afr
for hours, 1t seemed to those on
the ground-until the field was
cleared and an ambulance arrived on
the scene. Then carefully. very care
fully, the machine was brought down
on the remaining wheel. 1t SWUNG
around, but no one was injured. The
plane was damaged again In landing.
delaying the date of the start.
Repairs are being made, and the
ship may yet take off this Spring.
Charles Lindbergh, st. Louis avia-
tor, has also announced his intention
of making the flight. His plans have
been kept secret-possibly to guard
against the jlnx. A later entrant Is
Lieutenant Winston w. Ehrgott,
who plans to fly an Airco Amphib-
ian. This plane Is not yet completed,
nor will be before the middle of June.
From Paris several efforts may be
made. Little Is known of any of
the proposed flights-secrecy pre-
walls here, too-except that Of Lieu
tenant Charles Nungesser, famous
French ace. He'll pilot a monoplane,
materials unstated.
Captain francesca de Pinedo, Ital-
ian aviator, may be added to the rae
ers. lie is now awaiting a plane,
from Italy, in which he may cross
the Atlantic.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09

ciation, New York, and Samuel T
Orton of the University of Iowa.
The Church and Social Justice"
is the topic of an address by Rabbi
A.. Fl. Silver of Cleveland. Methods
of criminal procedure are to be
taken up by Alfred Betthman. of Gin
cinnati, and Edwin J. Cooley, chief
probation officer of the New York
court OF general sessions.
Civilian rehabilitation as social
task will be considered by Charles
A. Prosser of Minneapolis and r. M.
Little OF the New York State De.
partment of Education. Jane Adams
of Hull House, Chicago, will address
the conference on the social conse-
quences of immigration restriction.
Twenty-eight affiliated groups will
meet simultaneously with the con-
ference. and so social service bodies
will have exhibits.
The conference makes no recon-
mendations, striving only to serv.
as forum for social problems.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09
FIFTY KILLED
IN S TORMS IN
SEVERAL STATES
Cyclonie Winds with Heavy
Downpour Of Rain Oc-
curMany Injured.

:. fSA NsAS CITY, Mo. May ~
At least 81 lersone were Killed and
more than 100 injured with prop
efty loss OF more than $4,000, 900
by tornadoes and cyclonic winds.
accompanied by downpours which
lashed the Middle West and South
west over the week end
Death lists are expected to in
crease as additional reports come
from the storm area.
Texts was the hardest hit with
25 deaths and so injured by tor
nadoes at Garland and Neyeda early
this morning.
In Missouri the tornado toll is
II dead and an undetermined num-
Der injured
Kansas reports 10 dead One per-
son was killed in Iowa.
The greatest property damage is
at Hutchinson. Kansas. where the
tornado swept the industrial district
and poorer esidential section. eaus-
ing million dollar damage but
only one death.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09


That ended hopes of reaching Paris
until after Winter. This year greater
plans were mare. as more planes
were entered for the s25. 600 Ray
mon Orteig prize for the flight. it
took on the nature OF a race.
The monoplane America. in charge
of Commander Richard II. BYRD.
seemed to have the opportunity for
was In readiness. On a test hop at
Teterboro, n. j., 1t nosed over after
landing. Byrd, his pilot. Floyd Ben
nett. and the radio man and engineer,
Lieutenant George Neville We're in
jured, and Anthony Fokker. the de.
signer, who was at the wheel, mar
rowly escaped.
The Bellanca plane Columbia. which
now seems to be the most promising
entrant, also had an accident.
Clarence Chamberlin, one of the
two men who may pilot it TO France.
and John Carusi, engineer, took off
with two girl passengers, Eloyse Le-
vine, nine, and Grace Jonas, fifteen,
shortly after the craft was chris.
I ned at Mitchell Field, l.. /.
In leaving the ground one wheel
was crumpled. While the plane was
aloft other aviators flew up and
warned the men of their peril Ca
rusi attempted to make repairs in the
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09
HELP DRAFT LEAGUE
COMMERCIAL TREATY

lieyed that adoption Of the treaty
would be Of great value in facilitating
the solution of commercial disputes.
A protoclo touching this question
was prepared in 1923, and has been
ratified by thirteen nations. However
it deals only with the submission to
arbitration Of disputes, and not with
arbitral sentences or awards The
draft convention now elaborated cor
reefs this omission. and it is be-
lieyed IL viii have a beneficial effect
upon trade relations throughout the
world, including the United States.
In addition to Mr. Conner. jurists
from France. Italy Czecho-Sloyakia,
England, Germany and Austria parti-
cipated in the framing of the ar
rangement.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09
FARM AND CIVIC ILLS
TOPIC OF CONFERENCE

DES MONIES, Iowa, May 9.-The
city with its fleshpots and its flam-
ing youth, and the rural community
with its economic problem and its
dearth of social life, will be drawn
up side by side for inspection at
the National Conference of Social
Work here May IL to Is.
Four thousand persons engaged or
interested in social service are to
have a part in the weeks discussion
of moral and social conditions in
city and countryside, law enforce.
ment, community welfare and prob
lens OF the home.
The unwholesome aspects OF rural
life 60 under the microscope NAV
IL with Henry A. Wallace, farm pub
Usher. and Grace Abbott, chief of
the federal children's bureau, direct
ing the discussion. The school will
have its day with addresses on its
betterment by Howard w. Nudd, d.
rector Of the Public Education Asso.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09
Z FL|ERS HAVE
HOPED OCEAN
ON WAY TO N. Y.
Nungesser and Coli Reported
to Have Crossed Over
Atlantic Ocean.

NEW YORK, May 9-The New
York Times has received a report
from a correspondent at Sydney.
Nova Scotia, that the White Bird,
the Uungesser plane, was sighted
off Cape Race, Newfoundland. at 10
O'Clock this morning. II this is
true, Nungesser should arrive here
at o'clock tonight, eastern day
light time on his nonstop flight
from France across the Atlanic
TO America.
The French aviators, Nungesser
and Coli, hoped off from Lebourget
Flying Field, near Paris, at mid
night, Saturday. eastern standard
time, on the nonstop flight to New
York
The New York Evening Post this
afternoon says Commander Richard
Il. Byrd will take off in the America
for Paris next Saturday If Nun
gesser and Coli are unsuccessful.
He said Bert Aeosta will replace
Floyd Bennett who is still suffer
ing from injuries when plane fell.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09
CAPT. M. J. O'C0NNOR
OFF TO SITKA ON TRIP

Capt. NJ ]. O'Connor. in charge
of the juneau office of the United
States Bureau of Fisheries, leaves
tonight on the Admiral Rogers for
Sitka, where he will authenticate
the seal skins brought in. He will
remain in Sitka until June 8. when
the seal patrol will be practically
over.
Miss Marie Donovan, disbursing
officer of tba Alaska service of the
United States Bureau OF Fisheries.
who arrives from the south tomor-
row on the Alaska Will have charge
of the Office until Capt. O'Connors's
return.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09

NEW YORK. May 9-Counsel for
Henry Judd Gray, accused with
Mrs. Ruth Snyder of the murder Of
the womans husband Albert Sny-
der. charged that Mrs. Snyder plan
ned to poison Gray on the same
night her husband was killed but
only Gray's steady drinking of whis-
key saved him. His attorney as
serted Gray never struck Snyder
with the sash weight but "he struck
at him but missed and the blows
that stunned Snyder were all de-
livered by Mrs. Snyder.
Both defense summations were
completed after four hours. Will
liam Willard. addressing the jury
for Gray, declared that Mrs. Sny-
der. like a poisonous serpent, drew
Gray into her glistening coils and
there was no escape"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09
Says Seattle Is Wet
And Always Will Be

SEATTLE, May 9.-In almost
less than week after Sheriff Ban
nick presented Mayor Bertha X.
Landes with a list of $50 alleged
law-breaking places in the city, the
police made A arrests on charges
of liquor law violations
Police Chief Soaring denied he
is engaged in a cleanup campaign.
Asked ii the city is any wetter or
dryer than before he took office,
Chief Soaring said: Il always con-
tended Seattle was wet and always
will be-"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09
accurate Charts
Alaska W aters,
Reduces Losses

SAN FRANCISCO, May 8
The Coast and Geodetic Survey
announces that as result of
the publication of accurate
charts of Alaskan waters,
marine losses from 1921 TO
1925 were held down to S4S1,-
900. Col. +. Lester Jones. Di-
rector of the Survey, estimated
that if the losses had continued
in the same proportion as dur
ing the previous five years, the
total would reach $5,000,000
due to the increase in com
merce.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09
NetU Flood Area
Is Threatened
BY Leuee Breaks

NEW ORLEANS. May 9.--The
Sugar Bowl of Central Louisiana,
with population of 100000 per-
sons, is threatened with inunda-
ton as the flood waters of the
Mississippi River are surging
from six creyasses in the North
eastern part of the state and
piled up against the Bayou Des
CLASSES leYee. Federal and State
engineer fear the dyke will break
inundating 100000 acres.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09
FAIRBANKS INSANE MAN
is ON HIS WAY SOUTH

Marshal Lynn Smith OF Fairbanks
Is coming TO juneau on the Yukon
with an insane prisoner who will be
delivered To Deputy Marshal +. r..
Sherman. OF Haines, for conduct to
Mornngside Sanitarium at Portland.
Two pioneers enroute TO the Pio-
neers' home at Sitka are accom-
panying Marshal Lynn and win go
from here TO Sitka.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09
H O W Ard RIDING
FOUND MURDERED:
WORK or FIEND
Roadhouse Keeper Beaten to
Death-Body Is Badly
Mutiliated.

FAIRBANKS. Alaska, May o
With the discovery of the mutiliated
body of Howard Riding, woodsman
and trail roadhouse keeper, on Lit
the Chena River. II miles north
east of here, has led to the belief
that fend is at large in the
woods in this district.
A eoroner's inquest disclosed that
Riding vas beaten to death. his
body k oked and trampled and
other sc mutiliated. after the vic
til vas unconscious.
fhe roadhouse bore evidence of
a terrific struggle
Riding's right arm was torn from
the sockets.
An aged neighbor discovered the
body
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09
Author White Going to
Cruise Along Alaska Coast

SEATTLE, May 9.-Steward Ed
ward White, author, is here to in
spect his motorcraft. being built for
him for ali Alaska cruise this sum-
mer. The boat is big cruiser and
will be christened the "Simba." the
name of the book White wrote in
1915 after his big game hunt near
Simba, Africa, for lions.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09
FOREST RANGER SMITH
RETURNS FROM TRIP

Harold +. Smith. forest ranger
with Headquarters at Juneau return
ed Saturday night from field trip
TO Sitka and way ports on the Ranger
No. J. Capt Carl Collen of thu
Ranger No. 7 will he in Juneau for
several days before going out on an
other trip.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09
Hundred Narrowly Escape
Death Building Collapses

CHICAGO, May 9.-Nearly 100
customers and employees are be-
lieved to have escaped without in
juries when the Louis Department
Store, four-story structure, col
lapsed in mass of ruins.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09
Alaska Stations Given
Broadcasting Permits

WASHINGTON. May 9. Radio
broadcasting stations granted tenn
porary permits include KFIU at
Juneau and KFYD at Anchorage.
The station at juneau KFIU is
maintained by the Alaska Electric
Light and Power Company. BROAD
casting will not be done, however,
until next fall according to present
plans.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09
CAPT. CANN LEAVES
HOSPITAL; AT GASTINEkU

Capt j. n. Cam, who has been
confined to ST AIMS Hospital for
the past four weeks with diphtheria
left the hospital yesterday Capt.
Cam is at the Gastineau Hotel. of
which he recently became part
owner.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09
Accepts Position With
Fairbanks Mining Company

LONGVIEW. Wash. May D.
John C. Coates, electrical engineer
with the Longyiew Public Service
Company for the past four years.
has left for Fairbanks TO become
Chief Electrical Engineer of the
American Smelling and Refining
Company.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-09
CRAY. MARKED
FOR DEATH IN
SNYDER TRAGEDY
Counsel, in Final Pleading,
Asserts Mrs. Snyder Plan
ned Double Crime.

BULLETIN - NEW YORK,
May 9-The Snyder case went
to the jury this afternoon at.
4::59 o'clock after Justice Send
der delivered a charge of over
an hour, during which dozens
of women were overcome by
the heat.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-26
f44 MILES or
WIRESTRUNG IN
PHONE PROJECT
Final Changes Announced For
Cut-oyer to New Cen
trail Office

Final changes in B.smarck's tcle-
phone wire system preparatory to
the cut-over to the new central Of
flee at Fifth and Thaycr streets will
be made this summer according to
+. W. Snyder, area manager for the
Northwestern Bell Telephone. COM
pany.
Long distance telephone lines rum
ming both east and west of Bismarck
will be consolidated on the Sweet
street telephone line and the main
underground cable will be extended
one block in Fifth street, in order
to cut over all lines from the old to
the new, central office. Poles will
be removed on duplicate pole lines on
Main and Front streets, which are to
be abandoned.
On the long distance line between
Mandan and Sweet Briar Junction on
the state line, IA miles of pole lines
will be abandoned and the wire trans
ferred to the poles placed last year
for the new northern transcontinen-
tai line. The line to be abandoned is
located on a state highway, which
is to be graded and widened in some
sections and rerouted in other parts.
The project involves stringing 144
miles of wire and placing--530 feet
of underground cable in addition to
removing 627 poles, 1874 miles of wire
and 1927 feet of cable and putting
up S55 new crossarms. Work will
start this month and is expected to
be completed in September.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-26
Notes On European Travel
by George ID. Mann

line of cupid's aides. which made
this spot famous for it's "fleet"
matches. The blacksmith's shop ri
vailed all other locations as the ia
voritc place for having the letters
forged:
but we stood at the blacksmith's
door ut last.
And he forged in the glimmer-
ing moonlight sheen
A fctter Of silver to bind us fast
Lover to lover ut Grctna
Green"
Within the shop is an ancient an
vii, an old coach, the high hat Of
some priest Of Gretna Green and a
few certificates of "anvil marriages.
In the latter part of the eighteenth
century. Gretna Green thrivcd. There
were many places. other than the
smithy's shop. where quick marriages
could be arranged. This scenic
countryside swarmed with self-con-
stitutcd priests, for the most part
illiterate and careless of all except
the fees.
With the romance Of Grctna Green
AS our introduction to Scotland we
headed north toward the land Of
''Bobbie Burns" Entering Scotland
through the lake district, into Car
Isle and on to Dumfries is most
scenic route.
Long evenings in this quiet, friend
~ land, the heart of WHICH Burns
understood and so feelingly por-
trayed in his immortal verse, add to
the wonder of the tourist. Today
the writer stood overlooking the
firths of the River Clyde and it was
10 o'clock before the sun disappeared
and past II before darkness had set
tied down in as fair land as eye
can see. We stood also on the "auld
brig of Doom" not many PAGES from
the birthplace Of the plowman poet
but that is, as kiplins says, another
story.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-26

A. r. Baker writes us from Naples,
in Italy, and says he has gained IL
pounds, which is doing very we'll for
a young man like he is. Back here
we had " ,rried about his eats when
he struck q land where there was no
manuda, M baseball, few Methodists
and Presby xerians. And he has been
gaining weight all the time. When
he left here. he was perfect thirty
six and had begun to lisp, and now
he is likely to become a complete 81
again.
Says he lad been up to see Mr.
Vesuvius boiling and steaminp and
belching. Must have reminded him
of Willard Ferguson, vlee,n- i.
alarm. Didn't say SO. Just think
ing of the pleasant things.
He still loves this old Valley bet
ter than any spot on earth. It is
doubtful if any man was ever more
devoted to this section than A. Y.
Baker-Rio lGrande Phara Texas VAL
lev Sun.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-26
GREAT FUTURE
AHEAD HERE,
SAYS VISITOR
o. J. Arnold Of Minneapolis
Predicts Rising Generation
Will Develop State

Prediction that North Dakota, with
its fertile soil and vast area. some
day will be as highly developed an
agricultural state as Illinois was
made. here today by o. }. Arnold,
president of the Northwestern Ma
tlonal Life Insurance company OF
Minneapolis.
Mr.. Arnold, who is completing his
first visit to western North Dakota,
expressed himself as greatly I'M
pressed with the possibilities OF the
country.
This is a relatively new state. and
the families of these present farm
ers ypon are going to settle down
on North Dakota land to develop 1t
themselves, Mr. Arnold said. The
average farm, believe, viii be con
sderably reduced in size as the
years. pass, since the younger genera
ton will be farming it. 1t will mean
loyal citizenry, brought up mere
and anxious to make the most Of the
wonderful opportunities offered it,
Cities Lose Lure
The tendency of farmers children
to migrate to the cities is lessen
ing, Mr.. Arnold believes. Eve have
had rather an unusual situation in
the attraction the large cities have
manTe strd for the farmer youth,
partly bataase, QfstRe high wages the
citiei iaa5S, II y 1qrr More lore and md
beginning tasrea1ns they are better
off on farms, that they can develop
Individually there, whereas they are
only cog in monstrous machine
in the cities
Diversification is praiscworthy and
one his company favors highly, Mr..
Arn9d sald. from the company's
standpoint. he said, the man who
dlversifies is better customer, since
he is able to pay his insurance in
stallments regularly. 1.-THE diversified
farmer" he sand, "is less of gam
bier and more Of a conservative bust
nessman."
Crops throughout the state look
"wonderful.' Mr. Arnold said, and
he expressed surprise ut the pro-
grcsslScness and up-to- datencss OF
the cities.
air. Arnold and A. W. Crary Of
Fargo, state a,ens, have been tour
ing ;hc state since last Thursday.
WISHING Fargo, Devils Lake. Grand
r. vs.. Minot, Roiia. Winston. Dick
ii ~ ald other towns.
Dru Of the things which impressed
HIN about North Dakota, Mr. Arnold
SAID was the fact that the roads
were-bcYng built on pay as you
GO basis, instead of by pIling up a
huge debt for the next generation
to pay.