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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
AIR MAIL SURVEY
SHOWS WIDE USE
So Per Cent of Business
Houses on Routes Employ
New Transportation.

Ntnety-six per cent of all banks, IN
surance companies and business con-
Germs located on air mail and air trans
port routes are making regular use of
alrplane service, according to q survey
recently completed by the United States
Chamber of Commerce.
or all the concerns which reported
on QUESTIONABLE issued by a cham
Der committee, 40 per cent said they
use air mail and air express daily or
to an extensive degree in their activi-
ties; Al per cent that they made
limited or occasional use of the serv-
ices; Is per cent did not specify extent
OF use, while 4 per cent reported no
use of the aerial facilities. ,
Beside the expediting of general
business afforded by air mail, many
banks furnished graphic figures to show
that actual monetary savings In less
ened interest charges are effected.
Money, 1t is revealed, Is dead" while
in transit; drafts and checks cost their
owners at the rate of cents or more
per 81, 900 per day, while the sums they
represent are not earning interest.
Bank Endorses Air Mail.
One banking institution stated that
1t had been found sound economically
tation Of sums of 500 or more, adding
that this calculation was based on the
old air mail rate of 10 cents per half
ounce; this rate has since been reduced
to cents for the first ounce. Since
ordinary postage is included with the
air mail stamp, ordinary letters sent by
the aerial route cost their senderS but
3 cents additional.
A substantial benefit of the speeded
transit, it is shown, lies in the readi-
ness with which off-color deals and
"kited" checks may be detected. Quicker
action in the discovery of fraud has
already been of material saving to
business men,
Insurance concerns in their sum
inaries of air mail benefits stress direct
savings in time, while special mention
is made of benefits in good WILL ability
to settle losses earlier, quick delivery
of court documents, stolen automobile
identification papers, and other matters
which could not be dealt with by wire
or telephone because of cost, form and
necessary transmission of actual matter.
Time Saving Is Factor.
Business houses generally indicate
important savings in delivery time Of
correspondence and urgent supplies
contract and credit letters, documents
and sales promotion materials.
Items transported in the ordinary
routine of business are given new sig
nificance and new effectiveness with
air mail postage. These include adj
yertising proofs, announcements of new
products, news pictures and proto-
graphic maps, repair parts, rush ships
rnents of samples and out-of-stock
merchandise.
The publication gives a summary Of
air mail time tables and q skeleton
map Of the United States showing the
routes, including those to Cuba, Mex.
leo. Central and South America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
FLYER HAULS FURS
FROM ARCTIC EDGE
Pilot Brings $4,000 Cargo From
1900 Miles North Of
Winnipeg.

An auction sale Of $4,000 worth Of
furs was held few days ago in Winni-
peg, Canada. 1t was chiefly interesting
because of the fact that four days pre-
vlousIy the furs were in Fort Good
Hope, 1900 miles north Of Edmonton,
on the rim of the Arctic Circle. They
were flown out of the wilderness by air.
planes.
Pilot Dickens, of the western Canada
Always, who recently was awarded a
trophy as the pilot who had done the
most for aviation In Canada in 1928
made the trip from Waterways. at the
end of the railway in Northern Alberta.
to Fort Good Hope and return, calling
at the various trading posts along the
way
On the way north he carried $50
pounds of mail and a passenger. The
fight was made under difficult condl-
tions, the thermometer dropping to 81
degrees below zero at times. Ordinarily
the furs, taken in the Mackenzie River
district, could not have reached Winni-
peg for three or four months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
WEATHER FORECAST
SYSTEM IS CHANGED
New Method Is Intended to Give
Great Assistance to Air
plane Pilots.

Inauguration of a new system OF
aviation weather forecasting which is
intended to simplify methods, speed
UP dissemination of forecasts and rem
der them of greater value to aviators
was undertaken by the Weather Blu
reau the first of this month.
Forecasts of weather conditions and
of wind at surface and various levels
aloft are issued twice daily at approx
imately $50 am. and $50 pm, Wash
ington time, and cover q period of IL
hours each, beginning at noon and
midnight.
The country has been divided into
IL forecast zones and zone forecasts
are issued from i've central control
points, as follows: Washington, zones
/, 2, 8 and S; Chicago, zones 4,
and 8; New Orleans, zones and 9;
Denver, zones 10 and IL, and San
Francisco, zones IL, IS and IA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
LNDBERGH REMAINS IN PLANE
TWOHOURSTOA VOIDR REPORTERS

tentions Of the sort with which he. is
undoubtedly surfeited for the present.
He landed one day at the little town Of
Elko, New. On taking off for Reno he
asked the Government airways radio
operator at the field there not to report
his destination, as is customary.
"I Just told one friend in Reno by wire.
The friend told his wife, and when
Lindbergh landed there only two hours
after he left here there were about
5000 people waiting for him. They had
hard time getting the feld clear %
be could set down." 49,.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
Boat Passengers,
Becoming Seasick,
Return by Airplane

Many passengers taking the
boat trip from Los Angeles TO
Catalina Island, about IS miles
out In the Pacific Ocean, suffer
from seasickness and abandon
the boats to return by air.
James Wooley, vice president
Of q Western Air Transport or
ganization which operates flying
boats to Catalina on q regular
schedule, said that ckeckup of
passenger figures for the last year
showed that 90 per cent of the
passengers carried over by boat
had flown back.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
Air Mail Line to Arctic Circle.

An air mail service which will extend
into the Arctic circle has Been inaugu-
rated by Western Canada Always. ac-
cording to q report to the Department
of Commerce. The flights start at
waterways, the end of the railroad,
and stops are made at Wrigley, Fort
Norman and Fort Good Hope, dis
lance Of 1900 miles. Furs are expected
to constitute large part Of the cargoes
on the soutabound trips.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
|NEW PLANE RADIO
RECEIVER BUILT
Army Signal Corps Develops
Device With Number OF !,
Novel Features.

Development of new type Of air.
craft radio receiver, which contains
number OF novel features. has been
announced by the Army Signal Corps,
The outfit has been designed prinla-
rily for the safety and convenience OF
flyers. The control knobs and dials
have been constructed so that they
project as little as possible from the
face of the receiver and are carefully
beveled to avoid the possibility OF
the aviator In the event 1t becomes
necessary for him to climb out quickly
and descend by parachute.
Though set as close as possible to
the face of the set, the controls have
been designed so that they can be
operated easily when wearing heavy
gloves or mittens. The new receiver
can be operated with any one of the
three aircraft radio sets now standard
in the Army. It also can be operated
in conjunction with the present inter-
phone sets.
Aside from its ability to receive radio
signals satisfactorily, the new set Is
claimed to meet the four other impor-
tant requirements for an aircraft set
compactness, light weight, simplicity Of
operation ana ease OF LlbLdNatlOn.
One of the interesting features of
the receiver is its extreme thinness,
which has earned it the nickname
pancake receiver" When lying on an
office desk it occupies a space less
than that required for wire desk
tray. The receiver Is IL inches long,
8 inches wide and "a inches thick
Due to its thinness it can be installed
on the side of a cockpit with minimum
interference with the pilot or observer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07

SAN FRANCISCO, April 6 IN. N.
A.).-The popularity Of the most pop
ular young man in the world went down
to about zero among newspaper boys
here the other day. A group of them
landed big transport plane at Oakland
Airport. He started to get out, but when
he saw them, he ran back into the
plane, went up to the pilots compare
ment In the nose, locked the door and
refused to come out for two hours.
Col. Charles Lindhe-gh has had some
! tathen- unfortunate eEpexiences with Of.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
Planes Garry Over 100000.

The number of passengers carried by
Imperial Always on its Lcndon-to-
Paris airplane line has passed the 1oo,-
900 mark, according to report re-
ceived here by the Department Of
Commerce, More than 100000 miles
have been flown between London and
Europe and the planes have carried
about 5000 tons of express freight
across the English Channel. The line
was established in April, 1924.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
COVER $4,000 MILES.
Pan-American Planes Record for
so DAYS Announced.

MIAMI, Fla. [P).-Air mail and pas
senger planes connecting Miami with
Havana, Nassau and other cities in the
five West Indian countries on their
route carried TIA passengers and 10
tons of mail the first 80 days OF opera
ton. The Pan-American Always tri-
motored planes few $4,000 miles IN the
30-day period. This exceeded expec.
.tations Of hackers Of the project. 49,,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
Akron Air School Planned.

AKRON, Ohio P.-Courses in aero
nautics and aviation are being planned
here under cooperative agreement
between the University of Akron, Air
Services, Inc, and the Goodyear-zep-
pelin Corporation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-22
CONTROVERSY
 ON RELIGION
 IS NOW ENDED
M xico and Catholic Church Reach Settle
 ment of Troubles


 MEXICO CITY, June 22.-The settlersrnt Of thia controversy be- tween the Roman Catholic church and Mexico is announced by Presi- dent Portes Gil, as follows:
 One-The Mexican Government will allow the Catholic Hierarchy to designate those priests who are to register in compliance with Mexican Laws
 Two-Religious instructions will not be permitted in schools but will be permitted within churches Three-Right is reserved by the Mexican Catholic Prelates to apply for modification of the Constitu- tion any time in the future which is the same right granted all Mexi- can citizens.
 President Gil's statement said that it is not the purpose of the Constitution or Government to de- stroy identity of the Catholic or any other church or to interfere in any way with spiritual func- tions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-22
STEAMER QUEEN SOUTH
 FRIDAY AFTERNOON

The steamer Queen, Capt. A. w. Nickerson, sailed for the south at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon after being in port all day. The Queen trimmed ship yesterday in honor of the Capital Capital Yacht Race and helped give a festive air to the waterfront.
 Those taking passage for the south on the Queen were:
 For Petersburg Hulma Arness Mrs Olaf Arness, Carl Vevelstad Mrs. Chester Deering, Chester Deer ing
 For Wrangeli - Brick Burman Karl Theile, H. F. Stoll, Mrs. w O. Johnson, Elsie Jensen, Margarite M. Oliver.
 For Ketchikan-F. Swenson, R A. Teller, L. Schulman, Mrs. c. c Collins, c. c. Collins, C. E. Hoff- meier, Elmer Johnson, and Fred Scholtise.
 For Seattle-E. L. McCallum, Miss B. Kalen, A. E. Datin, F. L. Hut chins, John Rovich, Mrs. Annie Rasquith.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-22
AIR MAPPING
 STARTS HERE
Two Flights Are Made from Juneau Today
 Skagway, Speel River

The first photographing to be done by the Naval Aerial Mappers since they came to Juneau to base, last Monday, was done this morn ing when Lieut.. R. F. Whitehead, pilot of plane number three, flew to Skagway and return, taking oblique photographs of intermedi- ate glaciers and land features which are of benefit to the U. S.. Forest Department. He left Ju- neau shortly after eight o'clock this morning and returned shortly after noon. He was accompanied by Chief photographer Joseph M. F. Haase and aviators mechanic s mate 1st class, Homer E. Reneau.
 At 1:15 o'clock this afternoon Lieut.. G. g. L. P. Pawlikowski &C., companied by chief photographer Haase and aviation chief mechan- ic's mate Reed, left to take photo graphs in the vicinity of Speel River.
 It was hoped that the sky would clear so as to enable the party to take mapping photographs today but clouds made it impossible, R H. Sargent, Typographical Sngineer representing the U. s. Department of the Interior with the mapping party, said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-22
BRITISH COLUMBIA
 EXECUTIVE PRAISES
 LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

Juneau is one of the most pro- gressive and busiest cities he has visited since he started his Alaska and northern British Columbia tour, said Hon. R. R. Bruce, Lieu tenant Governor of the Province of British Columbia who spent the day here yesterday. He. H. F. Ker- gin, member of the provincial prov- incial parliament, A. M. D. Fair burn, secretary to MT. Bruce and Olaf Hanson, stopped off here to inquire about Taku River develop ments and needs of that district.
 Yesterday afternoon. with H. L. Faulkner, President of the Cham Der of Commerce, Lieut.. Gov. Bruce and his party were guests of Charles Goldstein on a motor trip to Mendenhall Glacier and were shown the developments taking place in Mendenhall Valley, and along the highway The party left last night for Wrangell and will go up the Stikine River to Telegraph Creek before returning to Victoria.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-22
YACHTSMEN TO
 BE GUESTS AT
 BANQUET TODAY
Covers Laid for l50 at Banquet Given by Shrine
 Club This Evening

One hundred and fifty persons are expected to attend the banquet given tonight by the Juneau Shrine club in honor of the visiting Capi- tal-to-Capital yachtsmen. It will be held in the banquet room of the Scottish Rite Temple, at 6:30 pm.
 In adition to the yachting guests, the Shrine Club will also have as guests officers of the Navy Alaska Aerial Expedition, and officers from the Coast Guard Cutter Snohomish, and R. H. Sargent, topographer with the Navy mappers.
 Visit Mill Today
 The visiting sportsmen were kept busy all of today going to various places of interest. The majority of them spent several hours this morning at the Alaska Juneau mill, where they were shown every courtesy.
 At 1:30 pm. today the visitors were guests of the Chamber of Commerce on a ride to Mendenhall Valley and the glacier, being taken out in taxicabs. Most of the af- ternoon was spent in making the trip.
 The banquet tonight will be fol- lowed by dance at Elks Hall, giy- en by the Juneau Yacht Club. Dur ing the evening prize winners will be announced and awards made to the successful yachtsmen. Taku Cruise Sunday The entertainment program will be concluded tomorrow with an all- day cruise of all yachts to Taku Glacier. The flotilla will be es- corted by the Chirikof, official boat of the Juneau Race Committee The start will be made at 9:30 am and the entire day will be occupied with the trip.
 Pictures will be made of the yes sells at the glacier. Fair weather was predicted for the day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-22
LEGISLATION
 0NPATRONACE
 IS PROPOSED
Federal Office Holders May Be Prohibited from
 Contributing

WASHINGTON, June 22.-Sena- tor Brookhart, Chairman of the Senate Patronage Committee, said the committee is considering pro- posal of legislation to ban Federal office holders from contributing to political funds.
 The announcement came after letters to the effect that Repre- sentative Robison, of Kentucky, had solicited funds from a Postmaster for his campaign, had been placed in the records.
 Representative Robson is ac- cused by R. B. Waddle, Postmaster of Somerset, Kentucky, of demand ing funds to meet his campaign expenditures, then filed a state m mt showing mo expenditures were made" Waddle added he refused certain illegal demands" of Robison and was not reappoint- ed at the expiration of his term.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-22
CANADA IS TO SEARCH BOATS
 FOR WEAPONS
Move Is Re C m m e nded Against Rum Runners
 by Dominion Police

WINDSOR, Ontario, June 22.- Reinforcement of the water front patrol and search of rum craft for weapons during the Governments offensive against rum runners, is urged by Alfred Cuddy, Deputy Commissioner Of the Ontario Po- lice, after an inspection trip of the Canadian Export Docks.
 Cuddy said he would recommend reinforcement and search as a pre- caution against shootings which might result in serious complica- tions. He said he considered the search of rum runners for weapons matter for Dominion Customs Inspectors in which Provincial Po- lice should assist.
 Cuddy investigated the riddling of a Canadian pleasure craft by machine gunlire few days ago by a United States patrol boat and reported the craft had never been used in the liquor traffic.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-22
NORTHWESTERN
 IN FROM SOUTH

The steamer Northwestern, Capt. Jock Livingstone, docked in Ju- neau from the south this morning at 10.30 o'clock and left for Haines and Skagway at PAS o'clock this afternoon. It is to return to Ju- neau early Monday morning and stop at Sitka on the way south.
 M. J. Wilcox, purser of the ill., fated Aleutian, Joe Stablery, Chief Steward, Charlie Sargent, Second Steward, and a number formerly in the stewards department of the Aleutian, are aboard the Northwest ern. J. E. Hewitt, formerly purser of the Northwestern, has been made swing clerk" on the Alaska and Yukon, running from Seattle to Ketchikan. Those in the stewards department who were replaced by the Aleutian's crew have been transferred to the Cordova.
 There are 49 round-trippers on the Northwestern and the follow ing passengers for Juneau: Barbara K. Brock, Dolly Brown, J. M. Cra- mer, Mrs. J. M. Cramer, Carl Carl son, Mrs. Carl Carlson, Mona Carl son, Harriett De Armond, Ross Fox, Frances Grinstead, D. Hastings, Dagney Jacobsen, Mrs. c. Jacob sen, Mrs. H. E. Mills, Billy Mills, w. A. Savikko, Richard B. Stap- Ter and three steerage.
 Locals arriving from Ketchikan were J. B. Merifield, Mrs T. Cha rion and Miss A. GallwaS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-22
CAME EXPERTS SEEKING DATA
 ABOUT GROUSE
w ant Suggestions as to Practical Plan for Ob-
 taining Live Grouse

The question of how to obtain live Dusky Grouse, more commonly known as hooters" is giving the Alaska Game Commission some concern and upon it's successful so- lution depends tue stocking of the favorable areas on Prince of Wales Island, it was made known today by H. w. Terhune, executive officer of the Commission. The Commis- sion, he said, will deeply appre- ciate suggestions from anyone who feels he is in position to furnish some of the birds, or has had ex- perience that might aid in the project.
 Can adult grouse be trapped suc- cessfully? Should eggs be taken and matched under domestic fowls? Or, should young grouse be caught and pen-reared before liberation? These are three possible methods being studied. And the Commis- sion would like to get some reliable information on them.
 The recent Territorial legisla- ture authorized the stocking of Prince of Wales Island with grouse and made an appropriation to cover the expenditures. AS soon as the Commission is in position to dc so, it will call for bids for furnish ing live grouse and undertake the experiment, MT. Terhune said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-22
Sutherland Seeks
 Higher Rates on
 Salmon and Shrinip

WASHINGTON, June 22.-Dele gate Sutherland appeared before the Senate Finance Subcommittee considering the agricultural sched- ule to the House Tariff Bill and asked a rate of Is per cent on shrimp meat, which is the same as crab meat; 40 per cent on sal- mon as against the proposed rate of 25 per cent and also retention of the house rate on herring
 The Delegate said the Japanese, with large concessions from Soviet Russia, were the greatest competi- tors of the Pacific Northwest area.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-22
PICKED TEAM IS TO
 PLAY ELKS TONIGHT

The Navy and Coast Guard will combine forces tonight and take on the Elks club of the Gastineau Channel League. it was announced today by President J. E. Barrager. A picked team from the Navy Air Mappers and the Cutter Snohom- ish will represent the armed forces of Uncle Sam.
 It should be real battle. The Mappers and Guardsmen have plen- ty of first class material to pick from and the Bills are going to know they have had scrap before the end of the game. Hostilities will open at 6:So pm
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-22
TAKU HARBOR PLANT PACKS 1000 CASES
 OF SALMON TO DATE

More than 1000 cases of salmon have been packed at the Libby, McNeill & Libby plant at Taku Harbor, it was made known to- day by Capt. c. E. E.'Ahues, Superin- tendent who was in town for few hours this morning. In addition the plant has mild-cured 52 tierces of King salmon.
 The pack is materially ahead of last years at this time. The in- crease in mild cured kings is about one-third. Only one lift of traps has been made up to today by the cannery, and 1,400 salmon were taken out of five traps The first lift last season yielded only 500 fish. Tenders left the plant this morning for Icy Strait to make the second lift.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-22
Lee Schoenl,air Of
 On Flight to Attempt
 To Bredk One Record

LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 22.- Lee Schoenhair took off at 3:4l o'clock this morning for New York in an effort to break the nonstop transcontinental record of Capt. Harry Hawks which is IS hours and 21 minutes.
 Nine minutes after his take-off a telegram was received by police headquarters from Fresno asking the arrest of the flier on a charge of issuing fictitious checks.
 The take-off was delayed three hours when wing and propeller were damaged in crash with an- other plane as it was being pushed doyn the runway for the flight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-22
PLANE JUNEAU REACHED SEATTLE ON SCHEDULED
 TIME LAST EVENING

The Alaska Washington Airways, Incorporated, plane Juneau. Pilot Anscel Eckmann, which left Ju- neau yesterday morning, arrived in Seattle at the scheduled time, seven o'clock last evening. according to a cable received by Larry Parks, Ju- neau representative.
 MT Eckmann plans to return in the Juneau Tuesday after the plane has new pontoons and undergoes a top overhaul. He expects to be accompanied by the Ketchikan, which, after the flight to Juneau, will be based at Ketchikan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-22
Race Winners Still Unkno,0n; Result
 EnDected This P. M.

. Winners in the 1929 Capi- . tai to Capital Yacht Race . were still unknown late this . afternoon and it was not . believed that the checking . of log books would be com . pleted before tonight. Judge . Joseph Patton, Official . Judge, thought it probable . that he would be in posi- tion to make the final an- . nouncements early this eve- ming.
 Judge Patton has a tough assignment. And, as it is . virtually a one-man task, it . takes a lot of time to &C., . complish anything. He be- . gan his work within a short . time after the vessels arriv- . ed here at noon yesterday. . Until midnight he checked . log books against courses . and handicap ratings. After . few short hours of sleep, he resumed his labors early this morning and at mid- . afternoon was still immersed . in a sea of books and sta- tistics.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-22
Film Star Boards Liner to Become
 ReconciIed, Wife

NEW YORK. June 22.-The New York American this morning said Norman Kerry, film star, boarded the liner Majestic and sailed for Europe last night without a pass port or ticket or other credentials in the hope of effecting reconcilia- tion with his estranged wife, Rosina, who is passenger on the liner enroute to London to visit her daughter.
 Kerry ,boarded the liner sitting on top of a trunk after eluding members of the crew who said he could not go up the gangplank be- cause he lacked passports.