The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 17, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR ————— VOL. XXIX., NO. 4430. “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH | ALL THE TINE” il 927 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS e —— — e PRICE TEN CENTS SINCLAIR FOUND GUILTY, CONTEMPT APPROVAL GIVEN PROSPECTOR AID MEASURE TODAY Passage Indicated when Sen-| ate Considers it Favor- ably in Committee. The Senate the measure octing, by nee to bona Committee of the asure had heen motion that it enactment was ssenting carries an for $20,000 for vides for the eation of the office of Commissioner of Transportation In the bill originally introduced the ation of the Commissione blank by its author Brown and Dunn. Th in today. the Mining Inspector made Commissioner. Passes House Resolution House Concurrent Resolution authorizing the appointment of Joint Legislative Committee in in- spect the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka, composed of seven Representatives il five Senators, passed by a un animous vote under suspended rule A motion was also adopted .|ull\m izing the Senate members of Committee to make to Hot Springs to inve » avail- ability of Goddard's anitarium for a Territorial Orphanage if it should be decided later by the Legislature to establish such an institution today zave its approval aimed to stimulat: extending financial fide prospectors Whole, after briefly discussed he passed to pro ags In m for without ad I vote. appropriation clause as ators filled being No. ed the trip to the sanitarium unnecessary. He was convinced was not suitable for an orphanage. Senator Dunn declared his mind wus also made up on the proposition but he felt as long as the House authorized its members on the Committee to make the (rip the ate should do likewise. There no opposition to the motion One Bill Introduced Senator Brown introduced No. appropriating the sum E to be taken from the moneys appropriated for road and trail struction and allotted to the Division for pay to the City of Nome to relieve it of its share of the obligation of maintaining Nome Harbor Improvement ormer Senator Dimond, President of the Pioneer of a, who arrived here today attend the Grand Igloo sessions, a visitor in the Secnate today. He was warmly greeted by the mem- bers and the courtesies of the floor extended to him. e — $25,000 FOR NOME HARBOR WASHINGTON, March '{ Department and harbors allotment scal year beginning July gating $42,000,000 includes for the Nome harbor. laska. Hugh DeAutremont, Manacled, Is Landed In Alcatraz Prison wi Joint Son- was S. 00, Second Grand Al w 17 The inounces that the for the aggre- 25,000 1, SAN FRANCISCO, March 17—~ Al- catraz Island, the grim United States Army prison, today received the un- iformed manacled and heavily guard- ed figure of Hugh DeAutremon brought from the Philippines to fac2 chargss of murder during the Siski- you train hold-up. It is not what is transpiring as nobody is allowed to approach within speaking distance _of DeAutremont. guards with rifles at his back are always behind him. Post Office In- spectors are understood to have charge of the severe grilling. American 'Good-Will Fliers Again Delayed RIO DE JANEIRO, March 17.-- Bad weather has again compelled the American Army Good-Will fliers 1o postpone their flight up the coast. ——> —— HALIBUT PRICES PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., March 17.—Sixty-nine thousand pounds of halibut were sold here today. Amgeri- can halibut brought 10 and 19 cents and Canadian 9 and 16.60 cents. THE DAY IN THE LEGISLATURE IN THE SENATE Bills Introduced: §. B. No Authorizi 500 for in of Nome Referved nance H ieney hounty Committee Reperts B. No N committee mended o Mr ation ¢ of Nome enanee 27 own appro tyment annual harbor o share rovenent B. No $10.000 defic appropriation for wolf 8 1. 10, e by Judiciary the i | recommended | i the biennium and pro-! Committee S. B. No, recommended considered by Committe Whole by Committee N and Mining Bills Passed M. G R appointment visit and inspect at Sitka IN THE HOUSE Second Reading H." B. No Authorizing plane landing Division s to he of on Mines No joint Pioneer authorizing committee Home fields PIONEERS MEET the ! Sitka | had | | today | opening B.| of | con i | | | | | | known | Three | | weleomed | words th| | felt | many Irelief from i to acquire IN 19TH ANNUAL SESSION TODAY Senator Hunt declared he consider|Gov. Parks Officially Wel- comes Delegates to Grand Igloo Sessions Here. Th don of the Pioneers is not Cov. George Parks declaved in his address of welcome Grand Igloo, Pioncers of A which preceded the form=l of the nineteenth annnal His address at ption Palace Theatre. Governor leomed the behalf of the Territory and Mayor J. J. Connors formally | them in a few well-chosen on behalf of the community. Good Crowd Present \ public reception w well at-! many bei present to join Juneau's greeting to the officizl task the | made delega was the session public the The itor a for at w vis on The tended, in to | representatives of the men and wom- aska las! pro: | America’s excellent en who frontier. gram was Responses made by A dent, and Sccretary pioneered short and rendored. to the J. Dimond George J. welcome Grand Love, were Presi Grand | Text of Address his addr the Governor “l esteem it privilege and an honor to welcome you on behalf of the Territory and to extend to you and those whom you represent, most cordial greetings. ince the dawn of civilization, there have been men and women of every race and nation who the urge to depart from beaten paths of their fathers seek new lands. In 2lding to this des they have been impelled by different motiv some sougit oppression, others hoped wealth, while a few were by the love of adventur Whatever may have been the motive that inspired them, they were eager and willing to pit their strength, courage and intelligence against the unknown hardships that awaited them, confident of their ability to win. Their ranks were recruited from every walk of life but they met on a common ground. Together they shared adversity or prosperity as the case might be, and always they heeded the call of distress from those in need. “It was inevitable that many who started never would reach the goal Some became disheartened and turn- ed back, others lingered along the way dismayed by the difficulties ahead, while many perished and lie in unmarked graw A very few carried on and reached the end of the trail. They are the Pioneers. Men and women of indomitable will imbued with the spirit of optimism that enabled them to overcome all obstacles and survive in the face of adversity. “There are the men and women whom you represent and in whose in- terest you are assembled. It would be presumptuous for me to attempt to dwell on the experiences of the In said the | and | attracted (Continued On Page Twu) 0| y | Ibefore or | letter Vizin have ! LEGISLATURE IS ASKED TO BACK ‘FLAG GONTEST' American Legion Wants Com- mittee of Solons to Help Pick Flag Design. RRep today to the Am of th com itou d ion of th wi ‘ont gion when witer of direct l tion & st iz re L | Tevritory j munication ment of i operation from was referred lucation for FFor several months ! hosts have been |in promoting inte in designing Territory eral e Department final selection erican org i cived Alaska reques a De tiug from the part the th action ion e islaturs ymmitt to B o activ ly of engaged Alaska an ofticial flag Winning designs schools for the of the coived here and made shortly Wants Legisiative Committee | The Legionnaire have the House to nam m anlt two members will b from Ithe Senate to th others named by the Legion to select the | which the Legislature will be authorize as official for 1l | prizes are offered by have ) s¢ at asked mbers sted reque: th Legionnaires. The ning design will receive on the back of which will be d in colors the flag designed and | suitably engraved. The second prize is $15 and third prize $10. In additioa the Territorial Legislature will urged to appropriate funds to {the expenses of the first prize |ner to Washingten to present | Flag at the White Yo | The proposals of the were submitted to the [communication received today. Ther | no discussion of them either following reference of the the committee Session Is Brief House's session was B. No. 8, Mr. Grier, author expenditure in the Thivd to exceed $10.000 out allotment for constraction was read and will come up for passage Lomorrow The House abandoned of meeting a 2 p. m. daliy for the present. During the sossion [of the Grand Igloo, Pioneers of Al it probably will convene at m old wateh, | | | | | be | pay win the | e Legionnaires House In the | to | The H the Division of the trail time to-| | brief ¥ not of current road and onid fin 1 its practice at least 110 a > FATHER SLAYS TWO CHILDREN {Calmly Confesses Crime Fol- lowing Arrest on Infor- mation of Priest. CHICAGO, March 17 information supplied priest, Walter Scholl calm he Killed his children aged 8, and Donald aged ¢ covering their faces with towels, with an anaesthetic, then strangling them. in an unoccupied house in Ga Indiana. The children’s mother died five ears ago, he said. After his second | wife left him recently, he feared | the children would suffer lack of a mother's He declared he in- tended to kill himself but the priest dissnaded him The children and kept four Arrested by a | {upon | Catholic iy | Vivian | by saturated confessed | | care. were taken to Gary days before Scholl told them he was going to kill them. The boy pleaded to live but the girl expressed readiness to die with her father. Scholl waited until the boy slep: before placing a chloroform soaked towel over his face but the girl lay awake as he ended her life. He went outside for four hours, returned and found the children still alive. He completed the act by tightening to- | wels about their throats. Minisler— Appointed to Seattle Boxing Board SEATTLE, March 17. Landes has named Rev. George V. McClure, Congregational pastor, to fill the va cy on the City Boxing Commission. Rev. McClure ‘was ac- -— Mayor o FOUNDy FLIER r | taks author of the =«win-| refug enamel- | 11 | This Will Be No Joke on April First WASHINGTON | Denatured will have | to overhe the result Alcohol ment 1 cohol's flow nels. The pro in S0 denaturing ists describe the alcohol non-poi nauscating March after 17 April 1 comparable alcol an ed of nrep: automobiie oil as denaturant the new by will Jovern « prevent 1 hootl ol used Chem watured but into will be plants new - - AIASKA PLANE NOT LUGATEI], Ed Young's Plane, Aband- oned, Found by Mail Car- rie—No Trace, Young. FAIRBANKS, Mmarch to the News-Miner from A Bennett said Ed Yo und by mail carvier samut undam 4 but Young is believed o hay in a nearby roadhon Young left Mefirath Bethel 0 o'clock last Sunday mornin successfully flying the Range from Anchorage A he was not reported arriving al| Bethel it was fe been forced down gale and degree below zero weather on frozen tundry wasies botween 1o and Bethe®?” U. S, WARSHP GUARDS DOCKS American Naval Boat Dh» the patched to Docks Seiz- ed }1_\' Cantonese. 17.—A av 5 M‘u. a at Kal- abandon ed soug) after Alaska over ¢ in a 25 the Idita | | | Un | Re [in by for | he sen SHANGHAL ican warship Kingnan doc} American v This followed Gen Pi Su northern New fronts heen lacking A trusted Pi Su Chen Chang mander tions Cantonese Twenty affected unrest and in escaped March 17 has been where are cizure Chen hips of fighting on extended baltle and south of Shanghai received but confirmation An Amei to the mber of being built the docks by repairs of | v U y tha for to b witt e ahb west 1for has T representative of conferring with Kai Shek, Canfonese is reported and said to permit occupation of thousand mill by the growing Many murders are all the slay Gen of Gen | e Com | the negotia- | an amicable Shanghai hands ar iml..m.m reported | have | cases ers Buy Up Dog Biscuits LONDON. March 17 A dispatel | received by the Daily M from hanghai the Shantung Com- | missariat is buying up supplies of | dog biscuits in Shanghai to feed the| soldie Despite which is industry, master an order the soldiers the the the has for loss of sn;.nmumL center of the umbrella Shangtungese Quarter- | succeeded in placing | 40,000 umbrellas riv o sW for i to [ the | frep | sh oo Negroes Start Run on Post Office In Florida WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., March! Jelieving the Government was going broke,” hundreds of negroes' lined up in front of the Post Office| when it opened yesterday morning and started an all-day run on the|ths Postal Savings Department. The recent bank failures started. wild rumors which swept the negro gections Tuesday night and caused the post office run. The run con- tinued steadily until the closing hour i sum of $25,000 was withdrawn The police maintainéd order. The negroes were told the Government could not go broke for there millions+back of the Post Jt Vear | for wi he w t the University of Indiana, tive in boxing in his college days | Offices ) this did not relieve the situation fever Senator ltry, [ the her The {qua CHIC/ jur ter who cago CONVICTED ON IOt multimil conten Hoover " CLAIMS TRUTH WAS PRINTER ki ARBUT ‘EAP!RU 1 that he had | Couneel M:llion DIFTROIT ited o, ( \HHn ything orn 18 I uth farmer pr t organi the f he At e 1 wi ver ar in n 1 Iy tobaceo ent e G00,000 Sapiro th Inde Dollar Mich Libe told w Reed d would painting e antom “muke hinding 1 than the and e panace romisin and materialize power in contra Prod the i farm open mark m the D Henry Makes Opening Statement, t how F()i'(l Libel. 17 I hrou jury | Her wit v Ford 1" [ 'w...‘ hout ciat coun the il liomes dream t or sold day conl One _ISKUM REPORTS SEVERE STORM L“’('l)“ill“} illl(l Pil” 0[ l)('('k' load Are Swept Over- board During Gale. Dt il ed at DOTLS ept a three chop ice HOTLS ip's wi 1 N0ES W HARBOR motorhoat Unalaska cargo overboard motor encoun master winter y g litehoats ery ship Ever said felt but n Alaska from The along M ATC kum 1 Seattle I and big part Ccroew hours to keep N tt and seas had Hays torm also) The carth Alen vol light the o active e ——o Chlcago Degenerate Is Convicted, Murder of Boy - three v the th a The is flour beat AGO, convicted murder hmith, hammer. fixed at life imprisonment, State the cember 17 treat him death penalty. insanity after March hours’ deli Harold of whom he Pur contend the W and dealer, child attem The § a ate 117.- son to death After beration, J. less the Croarkin six-year-old Wal- beat to death iishment wae c of ed roarkin, Chi when De- mis- a sune on pting to demanded the The de fense pleaded * MAJOR BiE! OIL OPERATOR IS CONVICTED ON 4 COUNTS Multimilhonaive Is Guilty of (nnhmpl in Not An- swering Qut‘sll()ns NGTON, 17 Har- has heen in con- Senate when he questions of the during the investiga- Dome Naval 0il March il operator, having been t Hirt than « in jail $1060 fix nor sentence of more than fine of not more than mnd a nor will tionably ap- highest court suit hrought the recovery incl the has i ( unque; the civil for Teapot Dome reserve. multimillionaire oil icted of refusing 1 « to the overnment he the the The 5 con au ' operator to answer propounded by the Lands Committee his sixth ap- investigation sensation of tion Public 1S Senate thres the a upon his oil the pearance in whi that 1 furnished P bt time Prodvalion ! raid Sinclair counts in ning one refused und guilty Vi Ve (uo/ the of to ur ndict the s que wer ) The WORTH Judg nied (he rick a 11 Penit jury deltberated eight hours. - CAPT. WILKINS NOT HOPPING . Flight to Vf’oirr‘xt Barrow, Scheduled for Today, Is Delaycd \IRBANKS, Alaska, in assembling Las necessitated a postpone- of Capt. George H. Wilkins spoft for Point Barrow, scheduled today. The hop-off will probably be before next Monday. Weather continne unfavorable with and low visibility. Fairbanks' aviator, from the States and Wilkins' party >oo Stinnes Asks Decree ; May Reside in U. S. Dr C. ‘Wit ition ral prot A yeau a f Dr Cook, term for A must i ervin avenworth th mail also iy defraud | s hut t et .- I‘fl' KLY HOPS ATLANTIC) March 17 the Stinson PERN Maje aviator o coast at W ol AMBUCO. ) Peird at Porin I=<land Brazilian wrmento wrived th 0l 1 not the i do due norih 10 world Bi of conditions now falling ocl Wein ned o'clock morning Atlantic circling flight. Th aros Island e Guinea, at 6 o'cloc shit i D U. S. Attorney Is Pistol Target for Second Time across has will Major | nea | in i n last | 1 Sitnne RLIN, March the a divoree according two said to tranged during the long stay Stinnes in the United States. unes i@ reported to be plan- taking up permanent resi- the United States after personal affairs here. D Conservahves Reported Dying on Battlefields MEXICO CITY, March 17.—Dis- patches 100 Nicaraguan Conser- vative soldiers are dying on the bat- tietields at Muy Muy and Rierra | Azul because lack of medical care The Libérals unable to attemd them because their supplies are sufficient for their own needs. Pedro Zepeda, Liberal Envoy, & | charg Americans have forbidden and | importation of medical supplies to re-| the Liberals acquired | Liberal the Keith-| wounded circuits took the De Mill Edmund Hugo Stin from his reports have be- 17 on of late MARION, T1il Attorney ion County last night door his gax Boswell v March 17 United Boswell hot wirs ne wif [ here is M ‘1 ome ¢ by Dr eeking Htae Arlie rearet to Willoa wi in the are Lol clo i be month hack 5 he the of e i second time ha n a It vla ntj pistol tur in seven on e in reason ettling h reported prohibition is the re KEITHA!BLE PATHE, ORPHEUM, DE MILLE MERGER IS EFFECTED EW YORK, sun March 17 ys that a the th-Albes the Pathe Exchange Producer Distributing which control the De Mille consummated inter said in the merger Merrill-Lynch Compa jfah Milbank. Blair & was reported to have in Pathe Orphenm inter N¢ The merg and Orpheunm Inc Con | | | | | | Vork er in say volving circuits ul the poration, of 0. 'B been of outpat pictures, | are motion to ha not be Blair Janking ent to 4s80- ciated were Co., said “countless crawling along the medical attention. Many from exposure and ex- cently an interest Albes over dispatehes and are and half my a road seeking {are § hau SCIENCE TURNS CAMERA LENSES ON COMET TAIL March 17 a st in il tior ing comy vear ago, CHICAGO, photograph of a comet’s 1, the first ever attempted by science, will | be undertaken in June by University of Chicago scholars When the Pons-Winnecke gets within four and half miles of rth—the clogest of a comet on record win B A whether fonized is an element of Frost and Lemon the opportunity effort determine carbon-monoxide the tail have awaiting since 1924, The experiment will be underfaken at Yerkes' observa- tory at Williams Bay, Wis., by means of cameras attached to tele- spectrum to comet’s been comet a uullmn speci scopes Pro ates already et tail carbon director ot observatory, and Professor B. Lemon of the physics will nse Frost, r Lemon have spectra monoxide, and his assocl- proved that comi- form from ionized &) department of came