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Newspaper
The Daily Alaska Empire
Location
Juneau, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1925
Page
1
Oslo June 2 The Norwegian government will dispatch the Ingertre to search for Capt Roald Amundsen who left a week ago in two planes with five companions for the North Pole The 4700 ton ship with two planes and wireless will depart for Spitzbergen after a stop at Neuen and is expected to reach Neuen today.
The Supreme Court rules the Oregon Compulsory School Law invalid amid fallout from a Chicago suburb incident where sixteen year old Lucille Wunsch shot Miss Misa Sinneck and her parents after taunts. The coroner's jury later declined to charge the youth. Texas leads U S exports in 1924 with 757 million dollars, followed by New York and Pennsylvania. Commerce Department notes possible error but finds figures fairly reliable as state-origin exports are tabulated for the first time.
Wrangell June 2 The Vickers Viking plane from Prince Rupert piloted by Col J Scott Williams arrived here yesterday afternoon completing the trip in two hours and four minutes The craft will depart today for an aerial mining exploration expedition to the Cassiar and possibly the Mackenzie River country
Wran Gell Alaska June 2 The airplane hopped off at 9 oclock this morning. Denise Lake is to be the first stop as Richard Suratt a Fox cameraman undertakes an airborne expedition to film the Cassiar gold rush from the air.
Reports received by returning prospectors say Dease Lake is frozen making navigation impossible for several weeks. About 250 men are camped at Telegraph Creek at the head of navigation on the Stikine awaiting ice breakage.
Seward reports the Fairbanks Aeroplane Company arrives a six passenger monoplane aboard the steamer Alaska. It is the first of its kind in the Territory and will operate from Fairbanks to Nome with interior flights. Twenty landing places were built in remote districts over the past year by Noel Wein, the pilot.
A jury was selected yesterday before Judge M. Wilson in Thurston County to try Fremont Campbell Jr. on charges of allegedly embezzling 6800 dollars from the Pinta Bay Alaska Mining Company.
Supreme Court holds federal judges cannot be compelled to pay income tax on salaries under the 1918 law, even for judges appointed after it became effective. The decision stems from a case versus Judge Samuel Graham of the Court of Claims.
A regular schedule passenger airplane service began between Cincinnati and Dayton. The 30 minute trips run every three hours regardless of weather, with a fare of 25 dollars for a one way route. The launch marks a new air link connecting the two Ohio cities.
Minneapolis authorities announce the Norse-American Centennial June 6 to 8 featuring pageantry, songs and exhibits on Norwegian settlement in the Northwest. President Coolidge and Mrs Coolidge will attend on President's Day June 8 at the state fair grounds. The giant dirigible Los Angeles may attend. Major draw is a large Bygdelags reunion with thirty groups joining the celebration.
NEW HAVEN Conn June 2 The entire Freshman class of Yale faces probation due to riotous behavior Sunday in the Berkeley Oval dormitory area near the college year’s end. They attempted to break lights tore down a fence and built a bonfire. The incident may lead to recall of Harvard regatta participation this month.
Seattle dated June 2 reports the City Council approved purchasing the Rainier Valley streetcar line for 1.2 million dollars, a price eight times the cost of the Stone and Webster system.
The Supreme Court struck down Oregon’s compulsory education law aimed at requiring children ages 7 to 16 to attend public schools after September 1926. Opponents including religious groups and parochial schools argued the measure violated constitutional rights, prompting extensive legal challenges and nationwide interest in the ruling.
A party returning to Kanatak asserts trapper Xx. FR. Jones was murdered and cast into the Agashik River near his cabin. The body, found by mail carrier Johnny Komekoff in six feet of water, shows a deep head wound and extensive bruising. Mrs. Jones and others recovered the body. Two Eskimos are held for one murder. no clues to the second.
Vancouver June 2 Peetro Munizza was made a Canadian citizen yesterday after admitting he sold beer illegally to a provincial investigator. Judge Ruggles stated you can't damn a man through all eternity because he sold a bottle of beer.
In Des Moines Iowa during an electric storm two men were killed Peter Brown a farmer was struck by lightning and George Stephenson died of a heart attack when lightning struck near him Patrick Wilcox was stunned but saved by his rubber soled shoes Veterans of the area reported a vivid thunderstorm last night with three men affected by the electrical collapse and one rescued from deathителем
U S Senator Hiram Johnson denounces Wallace McCamant of Portland as unfit to be a Federal Judge or to administer the law after President Coolidge names him to the Ninth District bench in San Francisco.
The Charlotte Observer prints a year old letter by former Vice President Thomas R. Marshall replying to a call for Democratic unity on him for the presidency. He states he is not a candidate and denounces the idea of the presidency being bought by money or influence, noting the shift from citizens hiring servants to servants hiring the people.
Six Indians are dead and several ill after consuming dead whale meat that washed ashore near Chienik. Four children are orphaned, with one in hospital at Anchorage and others at Eklutna Orphanage. Whites warned the Indians, but whale meat remains a delicacy amid ample other food.
The five cent pound loaf of bread has returned in Cincinnati stores after disappearing at the war's start. Bakers say they will likely follow the same action, restoring the lower price amid market shifts.
BOSTON June 2 Secretary of War Weeks is somewhat better today but his condition is entirely satisfactory, physicians say.
Chicago reports a heat wave and sudden storm causing deaths and injuries across the Midwest. Highs persisted into today as records fall from Nebraska to Ohio. Chicago reached a record high while Iowa damage is estimated at $200,000.
Four people are dead and a dozen injured as wind and rain lash the East during a heat wave centered around New York on June 1. Local officials report tornado-like gusts and power outages amid scorching temperatures.
A Seattle report notes a Masonic apron has stayed in one family since 1786, surviving three fires and a flood. Originally presented to Sir Richard Harrie Call, an ancestor of Mrs. Mary E. Gilmour, it awaits a male Mason to carry on the line as her son Richard Harrie Gilmour assumes the role.
Spokane June 2 Gov R H Hartley after inspecting Cheney Normal School found 1000 students in attendance with classes in hallways. He authorized completion of the third floor of the girls dormitory. This marks the first institution inspected under the announced business survey.
Chinese agitators urged uprising in Shanghai as student rioters fired from rooftops at a unit of American Volunteer Corps injuring Thomas G. Martin, a Portland dentist and corporal, who died in the clash. Martin, 35, had returned to Shanghai after practicing in Portland and Victoria, with his wife and daughter in Shanghai.
A June Shanghai dispatch reports martial law declared as rioting continued with 20 killed and many wounded after a police station attack. A mob of about 2000 workers and students from Japanese cotton mills assaulted a Japanese police constable. he survived the fall into a creek and killed one Chinese, wounding another.
The Times reports New York bootlegging ring plans armored rum runners with machine guns. Vessels to average 40 knots, aiming to outrun Coast Guard blockades and attack from the sea.
The Supreme Court ruled that rates cannot collect inheritance taxes on group estates partly outside the jurisdiction and upheld the Trade Association method of cooperation for cement and maple flooring industries as not violating antitrust laws. The court also held that General Motors Company stock is subject to federal income tax.
In Olympia Washington on June 2 the state canceled eighty licenses and dismissed forty cases after a month of hearings on the qualifications of graduates from the American University of Saami practice, which was dissolved for operating as a diploma mill.
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