The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 16, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ———— VOL. XXIX., NO. 4429. “ALL THEE NEWS ALL THE TIME” jUNl;AU ALAbI\A WED ESDAY, MARCH 16, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 927 FORD TO BE WITNESS, LIBEL CASE CRIMINAL CODE REFORM SOUGHT IN SIX BILLS Eleven Bills and Two Memor- ials Introduced in Sen- i ‘HA‘RMFUL BILLS . WILL NOT PASS, SAYS SENATUR‘! Only Laws to Further Pro- gressive Policy of Devel- THE DAY IN THE ll'(,l'sll,ill RE IN THE SENATE Bills Introduced: S. B. No. 16, Judic Com mittee by request. Providing for joint trials for defendents joint- ly indicted. To Judiciary Com- mittee. S. B fary No. 17, Judiciary Com- ate This Morning. bills and poured of the the Eloven orials were tive hopper ing, bringi bills 0 far presented Touse to All of the were introduced by the Judiciary Committee by request and, it is un | derstood, were prepared Attorney | General Rustgard i Most of them are designed put into effect some of the Attorney | Geners recommendations o the Legislature for reform in the code of criminal procedure. On: deals | with municipal contracts and two | others are largely technical in na- | ture. two joint mem- into the legisla- Senate this morn- total number of i the upper | proposed laws by to s Six Code Reform Bills Jills Nos. 16 to 21, inclusive, to effect various reforms in the criminal procedure cods, Joint trials | for persons jointly indicted, changes in the methods now in vogue for tak- | ing depositions in criminal actions, definition of insanity, intoxication and moral derangement, and pre- | scribing when and how the same | may be ilable a defense in| eriminal prosecutions, striking of the time-old provision that failure of a defendant to testity shall not : any presumption of guili him, making it compulsory for a defendant to elect and an- nounce at the time of entering a plea of an indictment, information o < complaint, whether he intends to upon a pled of insanity or defense, and admission of the evi- dence of an accomplice, without suspicion, even through it be uncor- roborated, are in ‘general the forms sought to be achieved by the first six bills introduced. Hill No. seeks to ihe recovery of public funds or perty illegally paid or diverted authorizes taxpayers' suits Bill No. 23, makes the of o vehicle without the consent of its owner, even without intent to steal, second degree larceny Bill No. 21, provides for pearance of the Territorial Attorney General instead of the U. S. Attorney is quo warranto proceedings insti- tuted in the nam> of the Territory under Chapte ., Title 13, Compiled Laws of Alaska. Bill No. prohibits cities, school districts or cipal governments from terested in contracts with cipality of which they Bill No. would various statutes of stituting the word place of “District” ter of seek | a ate against provide for pro-| drivine the ap- officers of other muni. | being in- the muni- officers amend all the Alaska by sub “Territory” in wherever the lat- is used to designate the Territory Alaska. Purpose of Memorials The two memorials presented were fntroduced by Semator Dunn. No. 1.| sceks to effect the removal of head- quarters of the Alaska Division of the Federal Bureau of Kducation from Seattle to some convenient place in Alaska. This step, the mem- orial declares, will promote efficiency in the bureau's work in the T ritory and bring about closer co- operation in educational activities with the Territorial Department of Tducation. Memorial No. 2, requests the War Department to survey and confine the various branches of the mouth of the Tenana River in channel enate Bill No. 3, Committee Sub- stitute, which permits the listing of unpaid assessment work on un- patented mining claims as taxes by lien creditors or judgment debtors, passed its second reading today. one Fors i Debt on British Citizen Is About $875 LONDON, March 16.—The British national debt on December 31 was 7,729,982,000 pounds, or 170,17-6 per head of the population of Britain, ac- cording to Winston Churchill, chan- cellor of the exchequer. Interest charges for the last complete finan- cial year ending March 31, 1926, were 306,996,000, pounds, or 6-15-9 'pounds per head. —_——-———— Great Britain, already a well-wood- ed land, is planting forty million trees to make 1,750,000 acres of new forests, chiefly of Scots and Corsican pine and Norway and Sitka spruce. mittee b for petuating cases S mitte sanity, request. To provide depositions and per- vidence criminal opment Are Likely. in pro By u as will be beneficial be enacted by | of the \l.\kx‘ Senator Ha for the \.-nult “Only such furtherance gressive laws of policy,” will ghth Session ture, declared Pratt, spokesman the dinner given in honor George A, Parks and members of the Legislature by the Chamb: 1\ of Commerce last night. And thi | was the viewpoint of n.-p.-.-mn..m Joseph W. Murray, of the lead Jers in the House in point of service, oldest member that body Approximately 200 dincrs attended the hanquet which was served in the auditorium of Elks Hall. A m‘u‘,;r'un‘ fof unusual excellence featured the | entertainment part of occasion “Dusty” Rhodes, of Cufe. provided a | which was well | provided through Alasgkans, Central Chamber Suggested A big, all-Alaska Chamber of Com me representative of the entire Territory, will come in time and be factor in its cconomic and industri life, said Gov. George A. Parks, the {first speaker to be introduced by | H. 1. Lucas, who The Governor, Mr understands economic here and the people of as few other men do world has come to realize, I YGov. Parks said, that a better un derstanding of the ideals and ideas of various nationals is a big factor in maintaining peace. So, he added, is an interchange and understandir of ideas botween the various tions of the Territory harmony and unity of effort. Some | day, he believed, there would be central commercial organization act as a cloaring house for idea from the various sections. Pending that, the interchange of views made | | possible by the visits of legislators 1to Juneau aided in bringing about | better and more sympathetic unde: standing between all the communitics fand districts represented | Mayor J. J. Connors, who followed the Governor, voiced a hearty we! come to the legislators in the of the community. Stillman Voices Welcome | Dr. O, A, Stillman, pastor of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church welcomed the legislators for the i Chamber in splendid short talk. | | The Cramber Commeree, he de- | elarea a political organiza- | | tion nor interested politics {as such It however, [by the Legislature. It occasion legislative action matte It has, on the ary, opposed other proposed legislu tion and would not hesitate to work againsi and endeavor to have de feated legislation which it was con-| vinced cconomically dangerous | #h¢ and unsound. But its interest in such | matters was business and not poli-| tical The considors Territory B. No by requ intoxi Judiciary Com- Defining in- and mental preseribing may Dbe in crim- ling t derangement when the availahle inal pre Section B mittee Section of Alas! part of said how [N same as a defense ceutions, and repes 2yl Gl Ty No. 19. Judiciar by request. To 2,258, Compiled by eliminating section which pro- vides that the w of the defendant in criminal action to be a witness shall create presumption against him S. B. No. 20, Judiciary Com mittee by request. Requi defendants in criminal prc Ji 8 tions to announce at time of pleading to an indictment, ete., whether they intend to rely upon insanity as a defense, self-defense. B. No. 21, Judiclary Com mittee by request To make testimony of an accomplice in a criminal action valid without requiring corroboration, hy re- pealing Section L. A S. B. No ry Com- mitee by requ provide for the recovery of publie moneys, funds or other prop- erty illegally paid or diverted. 8. B. No Judiciary Com- mittee by request. Prohibiting | the driving of a vehicle with- out the owner's consent S. B. No. 24, Judiciary Com- mittee by request. Conferring duties now vested in the U. § Attorney by Chapter 3%, Title 13, €. L. A%, on the Atfiorney General of Alaska S. B. No Judiciary Com- mittee by request. Prohibiting officers of cities, school districts or other municipal governments from being interested in con- tracts with the munici ities of which they are officers Judiciary Com- Substituting Gov Com- amend Laws that 3 one and of ver a no the the splendid o, Music dinner by Gastineau | repast | was the ing Ge wi the | Po the a or e, Se ore Ch of fre As Pro wis Lu con Al | e To do hir or sece{1h conducive to a 10| pa a the joi mi cep mitee by reque: the word “Te *for Sthe word “Distr! wherever it oc- curs in the statutes of Alaska All referred to Committee on Judiciary. J. M. No. 1, Dunn Re- ting removal of headquart- Alaska Division Federal of Education from Se- Alaska a que of ers of Bureau attle to 4 S. J. M. No questing channel survey improvement at the mouth the Tanana River. e, not it is in Dunn Re and of | on lec ha to IN THE HOUSE i | Bills Introduced: H. B. No. 9. Mr. Paul. Pro- hibiting the burning of timber, etc. Referred to Judiciary Com- mittee. H. B. No. 10, Mr. Paul. Changing and liberalizing pres- | ent system of Territorial aid to public schools. Referred to | Committee on Education. | H. B. No. 11, Mr. Paul, (by | title only). Creating an Indus- trial insurance fund and the of- fice of Insurance Commissioner. Referred to Committee on Labor. H. B. No. 12, Mr. Grier. Authorizing the Territorial Road Commission to expend road and trail funds in the con- struction of airplane landing fields. Referred to Committee | | on Roads and Highways . H. C. R. No. 2, Committee on Territorial Institutions. Auth- | orizing appointment joint com- mittee to inspect Pioneers’ Home at Sitka. Passed under suspension of rules. S. B. No. 6, referred to Com- mittee on Judiciary. Bills Passed: H. B. No. 2, Ways and Means, $ 4 ba ma udeville n rejected Il return to eks. One what he of the al con- man who stands for the best interests regardless of polit siderations, has his job cut out for him. declared Dr. Stillman. He must i have lot of backbone and not | mere wishbone. “A man can have property in his wife’s name and away with it. In a way, he can his religion in his wife’s name | as as some of the world is get by with it in a no man can get away his wife furnish the spinal column for the entire fam- ily,” he a ed. Pratt Makes Good Talk Senator Ha E. Pratt, senior Senator from the Fourth Division, selected by his colleagues to respond in their behalf, ade a brilliant speech, enlivened with wit and clev- ators. To cach in turn he devoted er satirizations of his fellow sen-| a few words in good-natured “pan- ning” which kept the diners in al-! L most continuous laughter. The days of arduous toil he and his colleagues are passing through ! were touched upon deftly. Modestly he pointed out how the Alagka legis- lature has kept down the number of va wi we to have and, concerned, fashion. But ! 1 with letting Se ry 10 | | 10,000 wolf bounty deficiency und. | | | | | | | | | | | | &—————————————81| Jaws it has passed and how, in con- ‘ trast to the rest of the country, all comparisons were in its favor, “And we get along harmoniously, The steamer Alaska is due to ar- sald the Fairbanks’ member. “As an ALASKA DUE MIDNIGHT rive in Juneau, southbound, at mid- night tonight, (Continueg on Page Right, ) | C fully for hibited work vestig day file dismissed thre: Lita ing over sinc bee: jee Dis Senator Dill Has a Wife Dut She Is “Miss™ March NEW the she YORK, word will contint fessionally known salic Jones, feminis to £5.000,000 ried United Dill, 16 Omit nd expla to b s o . and heiress ti ing a a was mar afternoon to nator Clarence Washing- vesterday States S¢ Democrat of ton - e e POLICE CHIEF CHARGEDWITH | ILLEGAL WORK Service Rules, Accord- ing to Charges. SEATTLE, March orge Crandell th the Civil it William H. Searing lice, has *“‘wrongfully ged in gainful profit’” in vielation of rvice regulations and linances The ief 16 filed Bervice Cc has charges nission Chief of and unlaw oceupation | the Civil| engi specific allegation Searing has received 2,808 during the last m the Police Pension sistant Secretary the Fund Commisioners. He none of the secretarial delegating it instead to es and they in turn are pro- by Taw from performing | not in line with their city officials Attorney Crundell also State ers have Her accusations Kenneth L Se 3 officers i Fund 1o Bouard of | lice has | ne nself, liny at exami he in ating the n for several vs Crandell's din behalfl of trolman, whom when were Webh, recently reported by found him Crandell ssal was tened pLance a asserted the dis hecause nt ordered to of police money. disclose Scaring MRS. CHAPLIN GOING TO WORK [Will Return to Films to Sup- port Herself and Main- tain Her Mansion. LOS ANGELE \ Grey Chaplin, unable alimony from Charlie been “starved” into returning the films. The cost of maintain- the Beve Hills mansion $2,000 month. She received only $100 separated from Cal., March 16 to col- t Chaplin, is a has she her hus- nd £ Mrs. Chaplin has ny offers from motion pictur companies but 1 She announced pictures within been and | ve she ., two | I offer of $2,500 a week and royalties for her appearance was re- ted because her babies be filmed. were not Contempt Cases Against Sinclair Goes to Jury {INGTON, March 16:—~The contempt cases against Har- J. Sinclair, oil magnate, was given the jury this afternoon in the trict of Columbia Supreme Court WAS nate VMan Buried Alive for 13 Hours FUQUAY SPRI , N. March 16.—Buried alive for hours under 40 feet of dirt in a T0-foot well, Jeff Ashworth | was rescued by crews which | labored all night. He said he | rested easily during the last | hours and was able to talk | his companions part of the | he was entombed. | five to time ——t “.'.M'i claims | weekly | receiving | i \ | | Nanki |Chief b(anm, Violates Civil|#n Attorney! municipal | gy '“""\.luhu | total e nine years! | work | snh-| | duties | revealed hootlegging | | | | It | | | P Hew | would | prospector, |Commander de Pinedo lnul’!llwul'll Quys No M(m Lu‘mu (un HENRY FORD T0 Defeat Coolidge: Relief ' Bill for Fm‘nwr . Dead| BE WITNESS IN EVACUATE WAR o é’ki.nflnfff’:@l;fi'fi] Bellee T JONE IN CHINA Sapiro Sunl 4 condit Senat WASHIN an hour Republican the MeNary was dead and also of Ol Haunge Cong 1 4 th “no t m i BULLETIN—DETROIT, March 16.—When Henry Ford testi- fies in the present libel case, he will take the stand for the plaintiff against himself. Mich., in ared t Cool iaugen of lSlmn_g,lum;vsv Defender Of fers to Quil for Five Million Dollars. LONDON Nationali:t wangiun Iull former Ilinois “Low woul e candidacy I AL DETROIT | Henry Ford Monday [brought March take the £1.000,000 him by 16 stand next libel suit Aaron Sa- dis el much | the in the satisl th and oty o 16. - With pressing Shanghai that Shangtunese f against i dec) on A senator | that Ford after the jury in late yeste comes » announcement iry I]‘||‘T1IHHH United Reed, of Ford iremen I prejudic will was 1y report Gen ao the ( hang hln]-\ ung was made amd sw ang - $30,00u LOOY IS UNEARTHED | fraternal f One in | cused \l\l wi member of [Klan. Two Vish faith | has hostilitie mong offered o evacuate 25 $5.000.000 paid Shangai th nnab! e of It thi threatens itself br Chinese or unwill On picked Hankow of intimida solid and p | general sirike direction, Labor [ i retreat the v Senator Missouri o States James A. chief counsel questioned ven- possibilities of and unfavorable to into carefully bring relig alli pro; after a war area (o i for ints who 1] fift itato i to out 1 and rained conductin and i money on hundy and ( 1ees pecialiy | from . campaien | Part of Currency o insurr Lhe Rt increasing t pective 1 juron informad wits the Ku the ex- Court Kiux Jew- Taken Truck Hold-up Is Recov- ered on Farm. 1 he murder the of response to veniremen m] issued under unrest were dismissed is aprio asks damages on the that the Dearborn Independ- an uarticle accused him of member international s lorganization of attempting to #ain control of products dis- | tribution. nms DEAD AT POSTLIGHTS OF CITY SHUT OFF PETERSBURG, Alaska, March 16, Assistant City Electrician M. P I Moyes dropped .dead from heart fail- ure his post at the City hydro- lelectric plant last Sunday. His wife hut oft the machinery and the city | was without light and power for 21 The telephone line was down of The hody arri night. ~vuu|u1 ent in PITTSBURC Thirty thons part of the lup Pitt March 16 in curre i nd dollar of antomohile ( A telegram to the DBritish it the Nationalists Acti Commissioner of fair who is the local Chin official, his native ant | the streetsand from q Theing of an Jews farm who bz 3 of loe. handit “an nored hurgh w e lleHIA Joseph | led | Coai 1siom then ass through fonad ' bes neis | dawor tentleyville ki, suspoect to the Penn the cache of money, wrapped in papar the tarm of Joe npe in M\ o | the officers | mon TWO ARE DEAD Woman Confesses Trying to Poison Family-— Loves Another Man. wis 1 up on another e owas d \‘u Kot 4(» nH at whe large ki irrested the | the day after| black powder | vighy nd the air £101,000 in hous bandit two mines plan the blowin the The bandits in int with P Suspect Arrested DETROIT, Mich., March Weekoski, wanted the armored ¢ Pennsylvania, afternoon SALT LAKE wTY, Utah Mrvs. Bernard Petersor he poisoned A two years, 16 conti payroll March at has con-| Kenneth Pet nd Margaret P 1n plot and and four { Joseph tion with in ar wis arrest detec slste with robbery in thi swopped down {home. 1e denied declared she loved| the robbe this prompted her wanted to free her- away with the Peterson, to destroy children Mrs another aged her one husl i when hi ed her hours. & Moy tive on connection | hec of heavy snow. ed here last > > \British Schooner Seized; Valuable Liquor Cargo Peterson man and she - FIRE RAGES AT UNGA;KOMEDAL STORE BURNED WITCH action self so she man The husband not eat bitter, could run in meat children | because H poison was placed and two other the meat | CHARLE | Seven men Higquor 1a arrested S, (. March 16 crew of the British Vinces were when the vessel's flight guard cutter was halt- the gnardsmen sent a shot through the bulwarks. The cargo is valued at more than $100,- Y000 and held pending removal to the government storage for destruc- tion STON, » ot the en schooner asted Gold Quartz Stnke Is Reported Made, Arlzona PHOENIX, gold' strike ov pah find has riping Springs east of here James B. Girand, rock miner and samples which from a coast (. when | erashing HARBOR -\ 16 United State Wee-| priftield reports that fire de the| Komedal's stove at Unga and dam miles | aged other building The fire! { threatened the entire town Wet veteran hard | plankets and a bucket brigade avert engineer, displayed! ed further damage High the Phoeniz Assay while the fire was burning. Office reported assayed $100,000 ln the ton. | one et avtanans e | Syymmetrical White House Tree One of Historic Line Dan Nevada ! Alaska, Commi March soner is March 16 rshadowing the been made in country ) stroyed > ¥ cook for France, for fr an her death Mile family yeirs, few Marianne in wielded days of 91 one " until Lat the the wind a before raged age Mctiraw, made said gold lies in from the ground up between quarz ite and diabase formations, the great| part free wire goid. e veteran the find, scattered masses Girand 16 visit Few is follows: here was takea oak which shades the tomb celebrated and never to be of | forgotten Washington. It is present- | ed H. 1. M. the emperor of all | Russins as a sign of the greatest there in|yagpect, by American.” fortunate at the time of vadio message from Corumba | President Roosevell’s day as a token | United | which was in the fall of finding a number of acorns Vommander de Pinedo, jof friendship between the i there, continued his fiight | States and It was bhorn, so0) and arrived at Satluzzio-| Lo speak, of exalted American parent- ground that had dropped Caceres, 200 miles north, near the|age at Peterhof, on the shore historic tree. Gathering a headquarters of the Paraguay river|the Finnish Gulf, 16 - miles we i sent them home and se- At 4 olelock this of the ancient Russian capital from the seeds thus planted - Former Secretary Hitcheock of aplings, one of which is here and now planted with the kind per- mission of President Roosevelt in urn Interior Department, one-time Four Men Burned to . |bassador to Russia, told the Death, Gas Exploflon the grounds of the White Houss, o while another is to be planted bo- |of the oak in a memorandum side erand-parent, which is still years ago. During his term AMARILLO, exas, March 16, bassador, he related, he inqui in existence at Mount Vernon, both of which young trees I hope will Four men were burned to death this|to the disposition of some afternoon when gas exploded in al!from Mount Vernon which Charles, gasoline absorption plant near Sham-|Sumner, then senator from Massa-| reach such age and strength as well rock. The plant suddenly burst into|chusetts, had sent to the Czar. They|in wrs to come typify the continued flames without warning, trapping the ! had been planted, he learned, ‘Iri&-nll~lnp of the governments and Island | people, respectively, of the United States and Russia for each other.” workmen. what was known as Czarina | ——— in the grounds of the imperial palace| Roosevelt and James Wilson, then | secretary of agriculture, assisted in of which planted translation the ' “The perhips, | from an the jof the WASHINGTON, March jof the thousands who White House annually and | observe symmetrical ouk aware as acorn a on western terrace, are cither Continues Flight North 4 historic 1naage, Brazil, March The wi planted to tree RIO DE JANEF A RO, an 16 says touching my 1898, visit, Russia, in on the from the handful 0 }eured few the am-| story ritten i w as am acorns on| 1l found a beautiful oak." to the British “Who's Who" to ac “There | commodate newly-famous subjects of | he wrote, at its foot | the "1 Lawn, ription “with a tablet Russian in A hundred pages have been added)at Peterhof planting on the White House King George, | hearing a