The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 23, 1927, Page 1

e - = = - — t - ——— - - e P - e e Sy DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” J JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1927, ' — VOL. XXIX., NO. 4462. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS A ——— PRICE TEN CENTS FLOOD REFUGEES FACING DEATH FISH HEARINGS ARE CONTINUED BY COMMITTEES Divergent Views Given Last Night—Burckhardt Ap- | pears as Witness. | | | At a continuation of the of the Houso W Fisheries committe | ories taxation measures were opposed by two witnesses and approved by a third. C. A. Burckhardt, President | of the Alaska Consolidated Can nevies, and T Baye: al fish- | erman, appeared i and Charles W. Johnston, pioneer fish er urged abolition of fish traps After the sion had lasted twn and one-half hours, Representative Scott broke it up by asking Mr Johnson if e subscribed to the theory that a big crop of salmon | berries foretold a big salmon run The motion to adjourn as ba audible amid the laughter that lowed the question. Urge Decisive Action | Mr. Burckhardt, like other cannery | operators and independent trap oper tors, appearing in earlier was positive in statement canners could not opera under the proposed taxation bills. “Either pass | them they are written and pur us entirely out of busine or forgei | them. Don't keep us hanging on, and | kill us by " he said He his company had more an $1,000,000 in 1920 and follow year dropped another $34( 000 in alone, the can-| neries The following three years it made a littly ned operating profit all of which went back into maintenance and plant re- Following a re-organization in 5, there w a loss of more than $100,000 and in 1926 about $20.000 | He submitted figures showing plant | investment, operating profits and other statistics regarding the oper- ations of this firm. Refuses to Criticise ‘While he said the effect closing of bay areas, and the prohibiting fishing by seines within 500 yards of mouths of spawning streams curtailed the efficiency of seines by at least 25 per cent. i was not willing to expr, opinio! or criticise the BDurea ishories' | policy. He objected to questio along this line as “embarrassing” and was not pressed for answers to them. | “When the Territory takes overs the fishories Il put all my cards on the table, Until then [ have nothing to say.” he declared. Mr. Burckhardt told tee it was his policy many local secine boats get to fi The seiners, Wev had not been making much mone: and there were fewer fishermen now | than in the early d of the in-| dustry. It would be impossible to| maintain cannery operations on seine | fish alone, he said, adding he believ ed both seines and traps wore neces 52 for successful conduct of the industry. He introduced a marked map of Southeastern Alaska showinsg restricted areas and described gen crally fishing conditions as relating e and trap operations. Traps Used Elsewhere ps, he asserted, ar used in Washington, Oregon and British Co Questioned regarding British a, he said he had scen 2Ar on the south end Island and in Portland Canal. He cited British Columbia I ay compared to those in ing the former to have a $75 tax, $60 on purse ines and hearing: Means and s last night, fisii- | and s toi- | session that th and Mrs, lo:t the not operating. Three women, all husbands. tragedies occur in sets of three. Outstanding among the women is Mrs. Ruth Snyder. i of th order comforts for his home. Then, the State charges, Snyder and get Snyder out of the wa wrote letters and left would Indicate he was in Sj at the time of the crime, Snyder attended a party with husband, was found, beaten, choked cholorformed to death. M was found loosely tied with alls her home. Police the commit to employ as he could with murder in the first degree. goes on trial tax ITere are Mrs. Luey Daxter Barly, of th Snyder, of Queens Village, N. Y.—cach accused of the murder of lier hushand; eneh involved in charges with another man g each one in jail because the ““other man’’ confessed, within & NF:W YORK (I.I-N Speclal) — few miles of Manhattan, face the bar of justice on charges of participating in the murders of their Striking similarities of the cases recall the superstition that thres She, a cool and striking blond, is alleged to have had affairs with Henry Judd v, a corset salesman, while her husband, Albert Snyder, labored as art editor of a magazine to provide Mrs. Gray calmly plotted to Gray that cuse Mrs. her The next morning Snyder and rs. snyder ropes. She declared robbers had entered investigated— and charged Mrs. Snyder and Gray On the same day that Mrs. Snyder N in Long Tsland City with her alleged lover, Lucy Baxter appaict [ ewburgh, N. Y.; Mrs. Susan Raser, of Newton, N. J,, war {njurfes. Tls wife ¢ ! part of his insurance. One duy Early demanded the arrest of fam Wegley, a merchant, as result of a quarrel. In jall Wegley said, police that he had sent Barly po liquor at Mrs, Early's behest. Early's body was exhumed, and polson was found in the stomach. Mrs. Early denied having any part in his murder. Across the Hudson River, {n New- ton, N. J, is Mrs. Susan Raser, She Is older than the other womer, but there are many things she has in common with them, a character analyst might find. Her husband, FEdward, died, ap: ently of heart disease. Then she appeared. About the same tims aid Frank Van Sickle, a farm hand who hoarded at the Raser hem Police decided to Investigate Raser death, and found a bullet hole in his body. Shortly after Van Sickln figured In an auto accident and wae arrested. Here again, in the third instance, the man s sald by police to have made the confession. He told where Mrs. Raser could be found Secret, illieit love was again held respon sible for the murder of a husband I" is notable that all three of the women now ac- cused of killing their hus- bands at homes a short dis- tance from New York, were close to what has been termed the ‘‘dangerous age.” Mrs. Snyder is 32, Mrs, Early 31, and Mrs. Raser 42. All have been arrested after alleged confessions of secret lovers, All have lived with all outward signs of h re- spectabilit All have children. Sy der Wil the say, ned Mrs. Lorraine, aged 9; rly, Kenncth, 11, 1 el blond died of e, Danie froni the recarrence Here are three innocent victims of their fathers’ murder: Kenneth Early, eleven; Lorraine Sny- der, nine, and Daniel F, Early, Jr., der is accused of killing Snyder, ) twelve. Mrs, Early is accused of murdering Early; Mrs. Snys on drag seines, no tax on raw four cents per case on pinks cents on all other grades w additional four cen Dominion on sockeyes | He reviewed marketing conditions, ~ — s commenting on British Columbwa competition and the development of | the Siberian fisheries. The latter, ho | said; are increasing rapidly and mak. | ing heavy in roads in the English markets. The Soviet Government, h: added, was offering sockeyes deliver [ ed to floating canneries at 20 cents! per fish, free water, and labor at! pORTLAND, Ore., April 23.—Des- 300 per man for the entire son. { pite the order to the police to shoot 1(';\:(-“"wa:;iu':lggt;;f{;::fl at actual{to kill, Portland’s crime wave con- o8t 0] 9 8: tinues. He was questioned at some length! Ap outlaw held-up a girl in a by members of the Committee on downtown office building and ob- v_'a'r'muu nhn-e}% of his Statement. l";',ained $117. In fleeing the robber ;3;3”@0;‘3‘)5:%"5‘:; l}:h Ifl:m since [dropped the loot but a bootblack, 920, he v had been ac- thinking him an occupant of the tu.ally.' salvaging, that it had !ake:)'huudmg helped the outlaw to gath- :n\er_:“err?l:; t‘l:]ztmcou:;l be _Dl:ldfflr'-l er the mone: The robber thanked 0 savae 8. He pointed ouillhim and walked off. A squad “of price limitation in pink salmon and|police walked passed a restaurant uu:d ::lor!‘! are :Lei"‘sc mflf:; ";1 off-{ while two bandits were robbing it se! his by extensive advertising _— which was having some effect. ’ He commenced on the Plaxliclty'seltue ard Room Men of British Columbia regulations and. in answer to a question, said the| w.med by M.yor l‘.'ndu local sityation might be improved if o . » local regulations were made along! SEATTLE, April 23.—Mayor Ber- similar lines, more power being given | tha Landes warned card rooms to men in the field. that violations of the gambling or: Bayers on Stand dinances are ‘“mot to be tolerated. Capt. Bayers, who preccded Mr. [She said a “survey of conditions Burckhardt, said putting the trap|SDOWs that operators in many pub- out of business would destroy very|lic card rooms are not conducting largely the present salmon canning|them in accordance with the laws (Continued on Page Two.) Haws,” and we expect comypliance with the|of his TITOZANIBO JURY SELECTED FOUND GUILTY SNYDER MURDER — NEW YORK. April 23. -A try Henry Judd Gray and Mrs. Ruth Snyder on a charge of murdering M Snyder’s husband, Albert Sny- der, New York magazine art editor. | completed late yesterday afte: 550 talismen had been examined in past five days. Presentation of timony will begin on Monday jury te Former Socialist Deputy of Italy Sentenced for At- i tempted Crime. ROME, April 23.—Tito Zanibo, sol- dier, hero and former Socialist Dep- |t uty, has been convicted of an at tempt to inate Premier Musso- | lini on December 1925, and also | attempting to start an msurreclim“ against Fascism. He was sentenced to 30 years as was Gen. Luigi Cape! lo, convicted of complicity, Zanibo one of Italy's most valor- | ous soldiers and Gen. Capello aboul equally as well known nationally, Four other defendants received les. ser sentences. Zanibo was arrested in a roow overlooking Chigi Palace in Rome 5, Is Acquitted of Charge, NEW YORK, April 23.—Mrs. Caro- line Pratt was acquitted today of third degree assault upon her foster daughter, Roberta Jane. Justice Healy, one of three Judges ting the special session, dis- sented. He said he was satisfied From the balcony of the Palace M Mrs. Pratt was guilty of beating solini was to deliver an address. and burning the six year old child, Zanibo was dressed in the umiform | The other two judges said they were rank. He admitted on the|inclined to give Mrs. Pratt the ben- tand: “I alone am guilty.” ofit of the donbt, Bumhg_fit}le Daughter, BY THE SENATE ’ 5% Vote on R(-;xppmnhn(-lfl Unanimous Dates Back to Jan. I. By a unanimons vate sterday confirmed the nomination Walstein (. Smith for Treasurer fof Alasgka The appointment wis sent to the Senato on April 12, but it was dated January 1, last. a {which time his latest torm expired | The term for which he was ap- ‘[minlwl is four years Mr. Smith {has been holding the same position |for 14 years, or nee the of Territorial rer was created by the Alaska Le ture. His first lappointment was made by J. K. / |Strong, then Governor, and he was [ Successively reappointed by cach s | ceeding Governor of th being the fourth mission Pass Mining Bill measare amending secti nd repealing 5, Chapter 10, Session Laws of 1913, supplementary to the United States the ty of to sign y, passed the Senate today It was introdnced jointly [Pratt and Jensen Senator Hunt | cent, introduced (Senate tods penditure by Commission of 3 struction on either | Chickamin rivers in the southern lend of the Division. The funds for; this purpose are alloted from the| regular road fund allotment for the| Division Four election measures were ported out of committee today recommendation for consideration the conmnitte of the whole, Th include a new general elections biil, | two bills affecting the primary elec- ftion laws, and one regarding the election of delegates and alternates {to national conventions. A measure adding incomptability of temperament to the causes decrees of divo |a recommenda A House bill and fur licen recommended by sure in the g the ritorial L000 in trail con- the Unuk or re- with in! on that it do pass also num was A schedules for passage will considers and for various commitiees the daily calendar next Monday House in Busy Session The House had a busy session, all routine work this morning. It con- idercd 10 medq in second ve i, and § This the measure which adopts as Al- iska's official flag the prize winning the American Legion FI A second measure, appro- $1,000 for making up a by in tion design of Contest [priating (Centinued on Page Eight.) S - WHEELER PICKS CANDIDATES FOR BOTH PARTIES Anti-Saloon League Approves Six Democrats_and Two Republicans, President. EW YORK, April 23.—In the w York World, Wayne B. Wheel- attorney for the Antl-Saloon announced today that the Anti-Saloon League approves of six Democrats and two Republicans who have been mentioned as Presiden- tial possibilities. He sald the Re- publicans upon whom the stamp ot approval has been set were Presi- dent Calvin Coolidge and former Gov. Frank 0. Lowden of Illinois ‘the approved Democrats are: Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, former Secretary ol the Treasury William G. McAdoo, former Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma, Gov. {A. Vic Donahey of Ohio, Senator {Alben W. Barkeley of Kentucky and | former Secretary of Agriculture Ed- win T. Meredith of Towa MC ADOO CATHOLIC SUPPORTER AGAINST SMITH NEW YORK, April 23.—Col. rick Callahan, prominet ¥ and Democratic Louisville, Kentucky, form er, League, Pat- enthus- er of William G. McAdoo, charged to nominate Gov. Al Smith by the Democrats constitutes a ‘‘direct dis- ‘dtmtlnleu of the country” =1 Thiee Husbands Die; Three Women, at | Juneau Is Asked to Rais ‘Dangerous Age,” Charged with Murder ' $500 for Flood : OMINATION OF SMITH APPROVED . | which Appointment | I First Senate| officel ? ¥ Teritory, 6 disastor sections 4 and pajen laws in force in the Terri-/dispatch received by the Daily Alas by Senators uprgent response to the call for funds: | imous con-' pajgn ad for: that was reported with|short | w pealing all fur taxes ing ber of other bills were also reported|demanded B0 | | | | Catholic | cisco, leader of|thought to have been John J. Shack- jastic Bryanite and strong support-|known that the procedure of the campaign| FLOOD WATERS 2 ARE TRAPPING MANY REFUGEES 1sing Water Endangering Crowded Houses—Fifty Are Known Dead. MEMPHI and, With the the 'over 5o the | lives ufferers sident 4 procam Coolidg tion uling people of t nit o $5,.000. 000 {0 ief of iierer aclamation afternoon Chairman the American Red from Wil Francisco, to r the quota in the wvin s s upon wes te the Mis re 1 sipni flood The p torday Behrend Chapter of receivi Hunt, wits dssuod late and (oday, B. M, Junean R Cross request iam Carl San \ise $500 Florida ‘Tenn., April death toll known to be in the Mississippi flood. of hundreds of refugees crowd- tional Bank and the B. M.'ed in houses are threatened. The Behrends bank for transmission 10 houses are expected to give way at |:c:.] Cro; ‘1“ dquariers tany time, especially at Greenville, The cablegram received by Chair-| Miss., as the flood waters are con- man Bolirends from Mro Hunt, fol- tinually rising are undermining lows [ the L e lem ) ire from Red Cross officials said the home- states Pre issund fless could not be moved to the river proclamatic the peo- front for transportation to other to give quickly 1OusEy [ eities because of lack of launches Red Crosi Mississippi Flood 'to move them through flooded Relicf Fund It Lnergency ve with 7 cmergency “Problem acute refugees inere “Imiperative sed immediately 23.— Urgent v donations lood Fuand d for at ponse is requeste any amount will he received in National il i Coolic n cailin adquarters has 1pon » e v the extremely | anilneed situation 000 homel cai Fifteen been taken | steamboat hundred refugees have oft one levee by the Tollinger while the steam- boat Minnesota fis standing by at very hou |Greenville to take off others rolief fund b People are clinging to the house- to mcet mounting i tops, trees and levees awaiting rescue. TWENTY DEAD, < 100 INJURED, DETROIT FIRE |Explosion Causes Disastrous peretar Hoover, Mellon, Davis and | Wilbur estimated that 150000 per-| Fire in Detroit Auto- sons will be homeless soon. l moblle Plant- | - o— < numher of flood very ity part Use Red Cro Chap this nation me quota and stag for immediate Gravity of following must 1 appeal for Florida funds Situation Associated 1 do cam The Pr Empire, indicates the necessity V 1IN to of Miss was decided confer 'ON. April 23.—A cam- | 000,000 1or relief | River flood sufferers | upon late yesterday DETROIT, Mich., April 23.—Fire following a series of explorions in |one of the main plants of the Brigks |Manufacturing Company, an auto- mobile body firm, killed at least 20 men andy injured over 100 accord=- ing to the firemen’s estimate. Two firemen on the roof are be- d to have fallen to death in the ng interior. The building, brick and steel stroyed. Many the Many pected to die A corps of ambulances was kept busy carrying away the injured. | The explosion occurred in the that his wife had caused |paint shop. Paints, varnishes and a painful to him, when strong wind aided the blaze. she appeared in a summer resort in | Eree a ‘?‘~|IHI|;V ”sl:n"l m’l‘:w unln'lIulnlnnlm;‘] E SiX Catholic Ofllcmls sensation might be sed by a short | & skirt but that was what modern | Are Deported from Mexico women sought to do by wearing | fashionable clothes - Aviator Graham bl'i;);s Back to Point Barrow Austrian. Court Refuses To Make Short Skirts Grounds for Divorce VIENNA, April 23.—Short not grounds for divorce in 1 and a court has refus ‘parate Max from his wife on this charge which the husband | made in his petition. The court ruled the fashion of the day was skirt and any woman could| a short skirt without suggest immorality. | Ritter claimed that his official position as a government head clerk that he and his family example for the othe skirts ar Aus four-story was de- a new structure, bodies are believed to be ruins A of those Ar in injured are ex- 't a good people & a sensation, MEXICO CITY, April Two ! Archbishops and four Bishops, mem- 'bers of the Catholic Episcopate are ireported to have been deported. Cath iolic sources believe the six are en- jroute to Laredo, Servants at th April residences of the Archbishops said Wadnesd for the sextette re placed aboard a Eskimo guide. 'Laredo train. It is declared that only The plane was loaded with two se sven High Catholic Prelates remain of whe and tires, luggage and [in Mexico gas. Flying conditions were favorable pe e il April 23.—-Mrs. Anna SEATTLE HALIBUT PRICES Longfield pleaded not guilty of mu . {dering Harvey C. Smart, butcher, thus [ repudiating her confession mad» to [the King County Grand Jury that | shot Smart four years ago with thullets intended for her husband. Alas left with an A > Point April 23 Halibut ros cents yosterday. Five with light catches in- 00 pounds SEATT!. to 156 and vessels arrived cluding a cargo of 21 she “I'M DEAD AND INTEND TO STAY DEAD,” AYS DENVER MAN, REFUSING RICHES “Tell I'm going to stay them | ter grubstakes envy the luck Henry Ford Last year, Half the es in of near penury and Rockefeller and DENVER, April I'm dead-—and that dead, and buried.” That is the message John J. Shack- leford sont his kin in Hardin, Mo, when he was notified of his inheri- tance of §2500 and a share in the family homestead, left him by his mother Twelve ther died the aged mother died. tate, now increased in value, was bequeathed to tho faith- ful sister, half went to the man who never was believed dead by his mother in*the for Shackleford s renewed. The Rev. H. E. Corbin, stor of the Hardin Methodist church sent to Denver in quest of the stray e¢d member of his flock. Shackleford was located in the John departed | mean little hotel, where he was con- from the parental roof, .telling his|fronted with the news of his inheri- grief-striken mother and that |tance he was going away “to die.” Anger blazed in the little man's Yaare of Ssatch eyes as he recalled his leavetaking. of search by private “I've been dead twelve years,” he revealed no clue to the said. “And [ intend to stay dead.’ ing dead man's whereabout. The information that his inherit- Reports of John Sha ance would, if unclaimed, go to the death came frequently to county school fund did not shake Ais ing mother and sister. In determination to spurn the bequest. a man had died His cronies at the hotel, to whom the news spread like wildfire, gaped open-mouthed at the man who would reject an opportunity to live a life of eas And so John J. Shackleford lives on—a dead man by choice. But his former friends in the little Missour} Shackleford’s fa- search When his estate was set tled, John was I¢ without a cent The years of toil he had sacrificed on the 40-acre farm had been ig nored by his father Angry and bitter, years ago. de liv Years tectives ckleford's the wait- San Fran- he was The bullet-torn bodies of un- American doughboys were identified as ackleford. A wreck victim in Pittsburgh was thought -t be the missing man. But the living Shackleford leford. wai service to the Catholic Church and|in is a menace to the future political|tance, staying at a little hotel where town are trying to bring about a reconciliation, and win him back from his selt-imposed demise. Denver, earning a meagre pit- derelicts of industry spend their win. .