The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 9, 1926, Page 1

THE DAITLY ALA “KA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEW.S ALL THE TIME” —— VOL. XXIX., NO. 4347, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS A ————a— * PRICE TEN CENTS KENNETH G. ORMI} TON IS ARRESTED OIL MAGNATE ON WITNESS STAND IN OWN DEFENSE Bl Dohen;l;i"scusses Loan to Fall—Knows Noth- ing of Oil Leases. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. —Defensc witnesses today in the Government's case aaginst E. L. Doheny and for- mer Secretary of Interior A. B. Fall, including Doheny, his wife, his son Edward . Rear Admiral Cole, former Alsistant Chief of Navy np eration, and Admiral Coontz Mrs. Doheny calmly testified she and her husband tore the signature from the note signed by Fall so the latter would not be embarrassed it Mr. Doheny died. The note and signature, pieced together, was pass ed around the court. Edward Doheny, Jr., father did not have he lent it to him father the note Rear Admiral Navy regarded the Hawaiian Islands vital for defense and the bor oil supply was of importance. Admiral Coontz testified the Navy General Board agreed to all oil storage plans and all naval in 1920. testified bis the money and gave Cole paramount bases Loan Evidence Doheny testified that he Fall $100,000 to help ont an old and very dear personal friend. More than three years afterwards, Fall gave him as security a bfock of! ranch stock twice the value of the| debt principal. Donheny talked in a voice. Doheny said he and 1 had organized a new county in New Mexico. Fall said he was try- ing to get money from McLean, Washington, D. €., publiser and finally telephoned to Doheny in New York saying he failed to get the money from other sources. Leasing Negotiations Doheny said: “I do not know the details of the Pan-American leasing negotiations. The president of the company, Mr. Anderson, had direct charge of that business and 1 did not discuss the negotiations with him @8 they developed.” Yesterday. Admiral Robison guot- ed repeatedly from Dohen's test- imony before the & te Comuuittee showing Denby did not know the dewails of the Teapot Dome lease until the lease approved. Doheny i: think $100,000,- 000 is a conservative estimate of profit if there are that many bar- rels there to be produced” in Elk Hills in 25 or 40 years. Cross examination began Dcheny had testified for foar s e g asmammd THOUSANDS ARE ARRESTED OVER LIQUOR ISSUES WASHINGTON, Dec 9.—Prohibi- .jon Enforcement partially paid its way last year through collection of more than 000,000 in fines and forfeitures Commissioner Blair has reported. There were 74,000 per- sons arrested for violation of the dry law, 6,000 automobiles and 678 boats were seized. The Federal courts handled 53,- 000 cases convicting 41,000 and 13,000 were jailed. There was also a decrease of 222 persons on the Prohibition payroll. ———————— Alleged “Strangler” Arrested, San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9.—Georg» Hutchings, lumberjack, has been ar- rested on suspicion he is the strang- ler of San Francisco, Seattle and Portland women. He came here from Portland. ~——e———— loan=d quiet ater hours. e v o | $200,000 for | Work, Wrangell | Narrows | S | WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—The | | War Department has allotted | $200,000 for improvement of ' | Wrangell Narrows, Alaska. | testified the| Pearl Har-| even | | Fistynee Boward Mining Man ""”APPRUPRIATIUN BILLS FOR TWO DEPT. REPBRTED House Committee Makes Recommendation for Treasury, P.O. Depts. Good Prospects | For Auto Road ! McKinley Park SEAT R 9.— Super- [ tendent rstens of Mount Mc I Kinley Park, Alaska, enroute | north from Washington, D. €., after a conference of Park Sup- erintendents, declared the pros- pects were good for a Con- gressional appropriation for an automobile road to Mount Me- Kinley Park from the Copper River. The cost of the exten- w | sion he said was estimated at §$550,000. The has | | | | | | "~ HE'S NO COUNT COUNT SHOWS COOLIDGE IS CANDIDATE AT NEXT ELECTION Democrats See mn HlS Annual Message Announcement of His Plans. WASHIN N, Dec. 9. Demo- cratic Senators see in the annual message of President Coolidge, d - livered on Tuesday to Congre: an announcement of his candidac for re-election enator Claude A [ Virginia, said: *“His surely not a farewell has all of the clarations that candidate.” Senator Swanson, of message s nessage. It platitudinous de adoin the | | i i | | Pat Harrison, of Mis is-| [sippi, said: “The American veople| rezard the message as a doxclogy but he proclaimed it as an an nouncement for ra-election.” | Semator Henry Ashurst, of | zona, said: "It is an {of his candidacy. He will be nom- linated on the first ballot and he| L will be defeated n the jolis,” i Ari-| antounes ment | SHINGTON, Dec 9. House Apropriations committee {veported the Treasury and | fice annual suppl bill, — tor the Postal Service and $137.371. 1000 for the Treasur including $11,- 990,000 for Prohibition Enforc l‘|!\l'||'.l ‘ and § 9,000 for anti-lignor smug- | gling. The Treasury is $12,000.000 | | below the current funds and the| | | Post Office Department §14,500,000 | labove. Both are below the Budget | ‘ tigures ! N RA A ASE The House is considering, at Gen. | i | Andrews request, doubling of 230,000 | prohibition secret operatives. Mexico Recognizes One Fac-! tion, U. S. Supports Rival ‘SKlNNER TELLS —Complications. ‘ announces recognition of the caraguan Liberal Government and| {the inauguration of Dr. Juan Sacasa, | Revolutionist, as President. i | The United States has recognized the rival government headed by Gen.| . Diaz [President of Sunny Point Pkg. Co., First Witness in Trap Robbery Case | Nicaragua, offered to mediate |between Sac and Diaz. It is re- iported the Diaz Government con-| |sidered it a challenge to the United States prestige. | MaNaGua, {Guatemala h Dec. 9 Testifying today in the so-called “fish piracy” trial in the U. S. Dis American companies on the east!trict Court, @ilbert Skinner. prosi- coast have complained the revolu-|dent of the Sunny Point Packing Co tionists have interrupted operations | declared that Olfa Olsen. Captain of | and they have heen taxed twice of|the seine boat Mildred. had admitted | L e S e to him and Supt. A. N. Minard, of | The United States gunboat Tulsa,|the Kake cannery. that he and his | with Marines, is at Puerto Abezas. | COMmpanions had taken about 1,500 Sacasa has selzed American buiid-|#2lmon from one of the company's [1ngs tor Presigentinl ofta, traps in Seymour Canal. Mr. Skin AMONG MISSING | 1 | Capt. Olsen, Andrew Halborsen, | John Jorgensen and Haakon Thomp- | son, are jointly charged with larceny. A jury was secured this morning | composed of: Mrs. W. S. George, Le- | Roy Vestal, Ernest Berggren, B. K., | Benson, John Getchell, M. Halm, J. . Morgan, L.| Muellenberg, N. O. Hardy, Mrs. A. Baker and R. D. Peterman Morrison, rge J. | Disappears — Wife and Children Are IIL. SPOKANE, Wash, Dec. 9. disappearance of Ben R. Labaree,| forme rSeward, Alaska, mining man, was revealed here today when De- puty Sherifs said they have been searching for him since last Monday night. Labaree drove into Spokane fromn his country home Monday morning {and left his automobile in a garage here saying he was “going away for a few days.” Mrs. Labaree is ill at home with the influenza and the two children are now reported ill. Mrs. Labaree said that when her husband left home he was contem- plating buying cattle. She asserted| he had not heen feeling well. | MANY MINERS Skinner First Witness Mr. Skinner was the first witness| Tue| called by the Government. He testi ; fled he had seen a boat lying along i side the trap as he approached it} lon July 27, last, in his launch Wini fred II. His attention was called to the boat by a member of the crew named Westerlund who was at the wheel at the time. He said he watched the boat through glasses as he drew up to the trap; that just be- fore he reached the trap, it drew away and proceeded ac Seymour Canal about two miles. The Wini- ifred II, then took the watchman off the trap and questioned him. He said, according to the witness, that the trap had been robbed while he was ashore in the woods. Mr. Skin ner said that it the watchman to have been in woods as Ris clothing was wet there were fresh fish scales on his back and hat. He also testified that the log rail of the spiller was cov- ered with wet gurry and fresh ‘scales. Take Boat to Kake the and BOAT AND GREW - v v |since | {his wife { Chamber of ! President {at the noon luncheon meeting of the | Cafe annex, it | tendance ! mit was impossible for|and NEW YORK, Mec. o Count | Ludwig Salm Hgogstracten admit {ted in the givorce suit here that Iu- not even pA% for the wedding d Millicent Rog- | heiress He| had done no work| his wite left him in 1924 and! that he had lived on the money she t him. It wlso developed that| pald ‘most of the honey-| A [ LIQUOR TRADE WITH U. S, IS LUCRATIVE ONE, - | 2 ‘Vancouver Exporters Do NEw UFHclALS Bua:;;:flfx:::;m at UF GHKMBER To B \.\.,‘,1’.:1}\.}?.'?‘.;; :-‘:\,.:.';}.‘.-'q"'flmrfln..u' ASSUME OFFICE testified hefore the Dominion Com- The newly ring when he n [testified that he moon bills. mission sactions, [Unitea States the 1000 annually vesterday that Hquer trau- mostly smuggling into th amoants to $6,250.- elected officers of i Commerce, H. 1 Lucas.| Wiliam Levin, Secretary, ex- and W. S. George, Vice plained that most of the will be installed in office | Gug done from Vancouver ing 1o $14,000.000 invually. the Gastineauw —yo.in agrecd with the Commis- United was announce ay. | 4 N announced today that the Distillers, expected that a record at-| >0 ould e on hand for the ! Whose liquor his company shipped, Hisliintinn | was sent raw whiskey to Scot- ubscriptions o the Chamber's) 180 Where it was rebottled and 26 Community Chest Fund aggre.|"ehipped to escape taxes 50.70. as shown by the an.| Intransit liquor shipments whichj approved early (his week |#re brougit into Canada for thel nual report of Secretary F. A. Boyle, | United States would bring a vearly by the Board of Directors. Of this,revenue of $4,800,000 if taxed, Sec- sum actual cash collections were | retury Nowell told the Commission, $4, 0. Mr. Boyle will make a de-! A. €. Wood. driver of liquor tailed report tomorrow of the Cham-|trucks from Vancouver to the hor- ber's activities during the year to-|der, d he had been asked to gether with a financial statement | bring back Mmachine guns. showing the various expenditures, | ———————— ete CALIFORNIA IS HIT BY STORMS LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9--Thunder waterspouts, lightning, hail snow and heavy rains visited Southern Califor- nia early last night. business President, amount- { Chamber tomorrow at It was Seattle Banks Cannot Cash R. R. Cjty Warrants SEATTLE, Dec. 9.—The Washing-| ton State Banking Department an- noune y that it will not per- ks to cash street rail- way warrants. The City Council met took steps to borow from the hydroelectric department funds. Ten smaller banks have agreed to cash the warrants anad the Utilities Com- mittee voted to mak e$100.000 avail- able tomorrow for the November payroll. Quake at Calexico CALEXICO, Cal, Dec. 9.—Five earthquakes, two very severe shocks, shook this place during the night and elsewhere in the Imperial Valley ARE ENTOMBED BULLETIN — PRINCETON, Dec. 9.—Dr. Miller, of the res- cue crew. estimated that 34 men were killed outright. He predicted that many who have The witness said the yacht crossed the canal to where the Mil- dred was lying at anchor. When it| came up to the seine boat, about half | of its seine was in the water and it continued to make a set. Capt. Ol- wen, he said, at first denied taking been burned will die. fish from the trap but within a few - minutes agreed to go to Kake and PRINCETON, Ind., Dec. 9.—Sevenunload at the canmery. Arriving men have been killed in a mine ex-|there with the Winifred I, in convoy, plosion here. Two bodies have been|Mr. Skinner said the captain had brought to the surface. About half|told him and Supt. Minard he had of 68 men working are entombed,|bought the fish out of the trap from Some of the men had just gone to'the watchman, giving him $20. He work on the first morning shift. The|®aid he got about 1.500 fish. colliswy smiploys. $00 e After unloading all of the fish on This afternoon rescue crews pre- in Mldedilt was ke dn tow by dicted that the dead will reach 20|® cannery tender and brought to Ju- ot at Teaut. | neau by Minard, where the men were turned over to Federal officials. Mr. Skinner was crossexamined at considerable length by Henry Roden, who, with Grover C. Winn, is repre- senting the defendants. Most of it was directed at his knowledge of the cannery and fishing industry. The cross examination was completed at noon. This afternoon the Govern- ment expected to put other members Daniels was a former Lieutenant-{o¢ the crew of the yacht, and Mr. Governor of the State of Wash-|Minard on we stond. ington. S— i ! Thurston L. Daniels Dies in California LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 9.— Thurston L. Danijels, aged 58, Presi- dent of the California Pacific Ofl Company, has passed away here. then | & -8 LIGHTNING STRIKES TANK BREA, Calif.,, Dec. 9-—Lightning last night struck a tank on the farm of the Union Oil Company for the second time in nine months and set fire to a 50,000 barrel tank of gago- line and (Treatened a score of simi- llur tanks before extinguished. JUDGES TO GET MORE PAY NOW WASHINGTON Dec. ~After listening to an attack on Chief Just- ice Taft, of the United States Su- preme Court, for receiving an annu ity from the Carnegie Trust Fund, the House pa¥ked and sent to the President the Senate bill carrying material advance in salary for Judges. The salary of the Chlef Justice is increased from $15,000 to $20,500; Su- preme Court Associate Judges from $14,000 to $20,000; Circuit Court Judges from $8500 to $12,500 and More Shopping Days Before Christmas ’IMP()RTA \ T WITNESS 1 ARREST KENNETH G. ORMISTO: SENATOR REED GIVES POSITION Declares He Will Vote| Against Present Vicious, Indefelmble LdW. CHICAGO, Senator James A Elect Hawes, of the W. C. T. U wet despite the Missouri refe which polled a dry majority Senator Reed said: “As long as | am in the Senate the light of my own reasoning conscience in every vote [ would not vote for a law believed vicious and indefensible even if all the people in the world wanted such a law upon (he hooks Dec. 9 --United States Reed, and Senator Missouri, informed that they would vot: and cast 1 National headquarters of the U, declared the referendum should be accepted as mandates upon | Senators ———— WET BEGINS HIS FIGHT IN HOUSE WASHINGTON, Dec 9 sentative James A. Gailivan, crat of Massachusetts, this afternoon began his promised House wet at tack against the $12,000,000 prohibi- tion appropriation in the Treasury Department bill Representative Treasu had enough and Captain Kid and the chine gunners appear gentlemen.” Representative Gallivan said vnn one billion dollars have spen for prohibition and money will be needed shortly for “south of the Rio Grande where a storm is breaking." ———— — VARE-SMITH FIGHT IS ON WASHI :IUN. States Senator €. of Washington, has introduced a res- olution to reject the credentials of Senators-elect Smith, of Illincis and Vare of Pennsyivania. Senator Dill declared the [linos and Penosyl- vania Republican primaries “were conducted in a way repugnant to every idea of our institutions and more money was spent than neces- sary to elect a President. The cre- dentials of Vare are tainted and Repre Demo Gallivan been wide said open Chicago ma honest and heen Dec. 9. United Dill, Democeral District Court Judges from $7,600 to B s B $10/000 ke sticky with money, ON PROHIBITION, ndum | I intend to follow | which 1 statute | the | long | compared with Wheeler, | MIS SING N CASE OF M’PHERSON UNDER IN THE EAST ‘ HARRISBURG, Penn.. Dec. 9. —Kenneth G. Ormiston, former radio operator of Angelus Tem- ple, Los Angeles, and who has been linked in the mysterious kidnaping and disappearance of Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, Evangelist, was arrested here last night in a rcoming house. He is today enroute to Chicago in tustody of two detectives, who traced him through two letters. Ormiston said: “There will be a long hard fight before I go back to California. I feel cer- tain that District Attorney Asa Keyes is not very anxious to have me go back and stand trial.” Ormiston has been writing for radio magazines and has sold his articles to appear over his own signature. He was al- most without money. Really, I can't understand why it has taken so long for somebody to find me,” said Ormiston. “I made no partic- ular eifoit to hide. I have not used any disguise aside from assuming a different name. I have not avoided public places wud have been occupying my present apartment for two months. When the American Detective Society was in com- vention in the Ambassador Ho- tel in Atlantic City, I used to stroll through the lobby every day and mingle with the detec- wives. N,ot one gave me a second glance.” Ormiston said he had had no communication with Mrs. Mc- Pherson. Much Wanted Man Ormiston hus been reported in varions parts of the country since |missing fu the McPherson case of {last May. He is wanted, according u-. Keyes, for explunation of his {movements and especially at the {Carmel Coftage-by-the-sea, where it lis alleged e and Mrs. MePherson |spent several weeks. NO SIGNIFICANCE LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 9.— Mrs. Aimee McPherson declared [“there 18 no significance in Mr. Ormiston’s arrest far as 1 am [concerned whatsvever. His case has no bearing on mine . 1 know noth- ing about mm it EMINISTEH 5 - UNDER ARREST 'Former Pastor of Portland | Church Indicted, Mann | Act Charge. LOS ANGELE Dec. 9.-Depart- I ment of Justice agents have arrested Rev. Walter (. Jones, former pastor |of the Third Baptist Church, Port- !land, Oregon, on an indictment for violation of the Mann act. The minister is accused of eloping from Fort Worth, Texas, last Aug- fug twith Mrs. Pearl Lee, former freasurer of the church. | Government men declared he de- serted Wis wife and daughter. | Mrs. Lee left her husband and four ;wm«lll childri e irucmvs FISHERMAN | ARRESTED IN CALIF., 1 TO BE BROUGHT BACK | J. €. Sauers, indicted at Ketchikan H:m fill on a charge of robbing a nn ll‘d]\ has been apprehended at |Los Angeles, according to official ladvices received today by U. 8. At H nrney Shoup. He will be |hr(-n ut back to Ketchikan to stand |trial it was said, Suuers was in ed | Klemm and Walter McCall ceny by the last grand jury sitting [at Ketchikan. Klemm and McCall were arrested and tried, both being convieted and given penal sentences by Judge Reed. McCall is now in | McNeil Island penitentiary serving his sentence A stay of execution was securcd in the Klemm case and e 1s out on bond pending the out- come of an appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisce, with Val for lar-