16 Apr 1925
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Newspaper
The Daily Alaska Empire
Location
Juneau, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1925
Page
1
A British airship R-33 with about 20 crew aboard was reported adrift off Youdien in a gale. Heavy seas hinder the craft from returning home as lines break and mooring proves impossible. Dutch steamers and Norfolk wireless stations relayed SOS and updates from Amsterdam and London to seek assistance.
The British airship R-33 stranded from its moorings at Pulham Norfolk as a fierce gale raged across England. Twenty crew members managed to control the craft and revive engines and wireless. By late afternoon the dirigible was fighting its way back over the North Sea with the gale subsiding.
Seattle April 16 Superior Court Judge J T Ronald asked King County Legislators for four additional Superior Court Judges He urged revision of court procedure to fix faults in criminal practice and proposed a commission to draft a new code with two judges and three practicing lawyers.
Oslo reports Christine Bonn evie, a Norwegian woman scientist, says she has developed a method to determine a child's father by fingerprints. She claims certain fingerprint traits recur within families, enabling paternity identification.
Lieut. B H Wyatt of North Island Naval Air Station will try in May to break the seaplane sustained flight record of 14 hours 53 minutes in a 6 ton modified Douglas torpedo plane. After a rest he aims for a nonstop Seattle to San Diego flight on June 8 or 10.
Vice President Dawes told a Chicago luncheon that in Lincoln Neb Gen Pershing was a proletariat representative while Bryan stood for predatory plutocracy. Dawes contrasted Bryan's two story home and Pershing's ten dollar room, calling Pershing representative of the common man.
Articles show the St. Elias Development Company formed with $400,000 to develop Yakataga oil fields. General Petroleum contracts to drill two wells on the Ibach or Ross claims, with Cordova as main business location. Drilling to begin early summer, using five permits per structure for a total of ten, targeting the main anticline of the Yakataga field.
Representative Sherman of Anchorage introduced House Bill No 78 to expand the Territorial Canvassing Board authority. The measure would allow the board to conduct a full canvass of ballots for territorial offices when questions about legality and validity arise, addressing rulings that limited its reach to individual ballots. It specifies the board may examine ballots where issues affect legality and validity.
Berlin April 16 Field Marshal von Hindenburg candidate for President in the April 26 election compares himself to George Washington. He says he is a solely one track soldier man and conservative organs cite Washington as a great general and president but omit that Washington was 57 when he took office while von Hindenburg is 75.
A cyclone tore through Condon Oregon late yesterday afternoon destroying buildings and unroofing many. Damage runs to several thousand dollars. Two local high school boys were injured by flying glass.
A Cairo dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph reported rumors that Italian forces have occupied Jarabub in Cremada, prompting the Council of Ministers to be convened to assess the situation.
A Alaska House hearing on Bill No. 39 to raise taxes on nonresident fishermen produced wide debate over the impact and fairness of higher levies. Amendments cut troller tax from 50 to 25 and serger tax from 250 to 50, while gill netter tax cuts failed. The measure, returned to committee for finalizing amendments, faces final passage Saturday. Witnesses clashed over packer practices and local vs nonresident interests, with J R Heckman disputing claims of packer discrimination and arguing against any tax on fishermen.
A college funding measure is reported to carry 163 thousand 360 dollars according to the article. Continued on page eight.
A House Joint Memorial No 6 denounces former Attorney Stone charges about Alaska lawlessness and seeks the informant’s name. A special order of business was set for tomorrow afternoon at 3 o clock.
Without a dissenting vote the House Committee favorably reported the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines appropriation of 163260, 32500 below the Trustees estimates. The Grier game and fur bear stocking bill was reported favorably for 10000, and Sherman timber protection bill was reported as recommended to not pass.
Great Falls Montana April 16 Over 50 veniremen sought to avoid jury service as the Wheeler trial opened. Judge excused 25 and jury selection was underway. Senator Burton K Wheeler appeared as a prisoner accused of selling his political birth right and taking $4000 from Gordon Campbell for oil lease work before the interior department. The case cites section 113 of the penal code.
Paris April 16. The Bank of France reports 350 million francs advanced by the Government this week. Parliament authorized 4 billion francs of additional currency and matched the same increase for bank advances to the state.
In Chicago on April 16 a divorce petitioner failed to win a new cause for divorce by claiming "golf widowhood." The judge ruled golf is not a ground for divorce and warned it would set a dangerous precedent.
Financial writers note short loans from banks to the government total 1 160 000 000 francs. Joseph Caillaux accepts the post of Minister of Finance. The Senate ratifies the finance bill by 1923 to 5.
Los Angeles sources report that original manuscripts collected by Jack London from 1905 until his death have been sold to the Henry W. Huntington Library Foundation, disclosed by his widow.
In Crown Point Indiana Mrs Anna Cunningham admits poisoning three of her children including David Cunningham aged 22 who is ill in a Chicago hospital. She denies harming her husband and a fourth child. The confession was given before her daughter Mae in jail. She claims to have used arsenic on bread and butter from six years of deaths in the family.
New York April 16 an X ray photograph of a human hand was sent by telephone wire to Chicago in seven minutes this afternoon. The experiment is expected to prove valuable in surgical work.
Arthur Bugs Baer a noted newspaper writer and Miss Marjorie Cassidy of Brooklyn were married in Holy Names Cathedral Chicago yesterday afternoon in a simple ceremony attended by relatives and friends.
In New York on April 16 Rear Admiral Fiske said peace societies led by women hinder national security by obstructing preparedness. He urged that the best path to peace is not higher living standards but lowering them and spoke to the Brooklyn Chapter of the Society of New England Women.
Washington reports 20 million gallons of pre prohibition whisky stored under government care, mostly in Kentucky warehouses. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes says no whisky is legally manufactured since 1922 and the stock will last about seven years as it is consumed for medicine. He notes a possible government buy and predicts medicinal whisky may resume around 1928. Rum shows no demand and 3,000 barrels may be exported. The public still holds an “infinitely small” amount of pre Volstead liquor.
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