The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 27, 1927, Page 1

THE NEWS 1L THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2 iy 1927, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE SS PRIC o ————— L TU0CENTS v WILL BREAK LEVEE TO SAVE CITY GASTINEAU HOTEL SOLD TODAY TO CANN AND BIGES Claude Exicson Sells Leading| Hotel—Consideration $90,- 000 — Largest Deal. What is d to be yeal estate transaction place in Juneau, as far as the con sideration is concerned, was mad> public today when it was announc nd; that John H. Cann and John H.} Biggs have purchased the Gastineau Hotel property, including four 1o:s| in Block 13, the hotel building and| furniture and adjoining two-story frame building, from Claude k. Eric son. The price paid for the property was $90,000. The transfer of the ho-| tel will be made May 1. John H Biggs will be manacer of the hote! while Mr. Cann will continue to d¢ vote his attention to the Apex Fi| Nido mine. Mr. Biggs will leave for! attle immediately where he wil] attend o personal business and ro-| turn to Juneau in about two week: In the meantims My «harge of the property The sale is the tions that were begun last winter. | was expected to have them closed | carlier, but the illness of both M Cann and Mr. Ericson delayed th- consummation of the deal The Gastineau Hotel was 1914 and enlarged in 191 bhoen for ten years the la probably, the best known Alaska is a favorite gathering place for the people of Juneau a sort of social and business cente for the city. Old Time Associates Mr. Cann and Mr. Biggs are friends and associates. They been partners both in business mining for many years. Mr. Cann, better known Cann, has been interested SeCtiomedoro many - Foars en® Qs one | of the best known men in the coun- try. For the last several years he ha been President, General Manager alf principal owner of the Apex El Nid) min: on Lisia Inlet, Chichagei Island. Capt. Cann has brought more thun $450,000 into Alaska for invest ment in fishing and mining durine the last dozen yes Biggs Old Hotel Man 1. Biges has been a der twenty years rug busineas s manager operated the Seattle Hotel. He ali devoted time and money to minin ations there, Mr. Biggs came north in went Dawson where he eral years betore locating the ever to take| lar: ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE IFormer United States Scnator Indiana who died suddenly W Indianapolis of today - IS RECOMMENDE built in | It has st and, “hotel in $61,850 from Appropria- tion of House. Recommending from the measire it passed House, the Senate Finance tee returned the Alaska College propriation bill to the Senate toda approving its a5 amende The repatt ws ved by Ch Steel, and (wo other membe Senator Pratt not concurring Bhiction. The Committee ed the item cover pro, sliced off dormitor 000" item for pub ersham's hibliog rature, and about tenance amd operation Hit Nome Bills Two Nome measures weve lin Fina Committee repo Rydeen’s bill for a telephone subsi ned down by two membe and appr d by two of the Co mittee, an M Gaffney's n continuing the Seward Peninsy shipping subsidy was approved three members and disapproved Chairman Steel. Mr. Steel il valdez | \torney Gen had : lefore coming north he was en.|Atorney Gene Jlb s, ag 5 ion 1 the f these bills w caged in the Botel busine Mont. ! Chvisto, Wash., and Seattle. He also | legal. and M B g g and operated apartment houses | *0™¢ Guesiion the validity Seaftle, His hotel and hotel and'h¢ second Yithent louse. ownership and man. | A, f1ood of bills were weported Covered o period of & dogen |0 Committec in the Senate today, | cluding 11 inating in the Hou and three £ nate measures, and se eral resoiutions Amend School Measure number of amendments It a cut of $61 old have and Capt in this medjorvity di 000 from t allowed the $ iing Judge Wic aphy of Alaskan li $80.000 tor ma aiso | of Vald He was en and, with 1897 spent and | ev- i in . ‘ Biggs, who Seattle Hotel at associated with Mr. Bige in the management of the Gastineau Hotel Will Improve and Extend Hotel Mr. Biggs said today that it is the purpose of the new owners to im- prove and enlarge the Gastinea Hotel as soon as the new manage was manager Valde will b | A we lestablishing a new poliey of Ter torial aid to public schools in orporated towns. One of these elir [nates the four classes provided in t joriginal meas A second sets $30.000 limit on Territorial refund —_—————— | The measure will come up for seco [reading tomoirrow Dutch Jake Goetz Is House RBill No. 60, fficial grave markers for world Dead in Spokane, Wash. |Vercrans and for interment of - = rceased veterans under certain con SPOKANE, Wash., April 27.—Dutch {tions, was unfavorably reported. T Jake Goetz, one of the four originai|measure appropriating $3.500 for owners of the Bunker Hill and Sul-|lief of the City of Dougl was livan's mine, the largest silver and|ported without recommendation lead mine in the world, dead. Har Jator Howard's bill establishing ry Baer I8 the only living membes!community property law was of the four. Goetz and Baer grub- ported adversely staked the discoverors, obtaining a Two Bills quarter interest as the result. The Senate passed two —_——————— this morning, both amendments |the code relating to the challen No Bull Fight for lof jurors for implied bias. Pri / W ale Senator Howard, by rince o ales; Is Congratulated (Continued Page Eigat.) consent, introduced a measure, | propriating $10,000. to be deduct {from the Third Division's road all s jment, to aid on controlling Low YORK, April —The Al\‘.-‘»('u-«k for protecting various proper erican Society of the Prevention of iin and adjacent to Seward. Cruelty to Animals has sent a tele- gram congratulating the Prince of Wales for refusing to attend a buil fight which had been arranged in his honor at Madrid. The telegram says: | Three men were drowned late y “Your disapproval of a cruel sport|{terday in the swollen shows your fine spirit of humane- while attempting to stretch a fer ness.” cable, 27 27 NEW —————— — THREE MEN DROWNED CALICO ROCK, Ark., April % o wee | OOLLEGE GRANT 2. Senate Comr:)illee Chops Ofl! Commi M. easnre jrecommended to the House measur providing for measures unanimous ap-| 27. White River |nominated BEVERIDGE DIES VERY SUDDENLY Passes Away This Morning | While at Work — Death Causes Severe Shock. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind April 27 Former United ates Sonator Jeremiah Boverid did this morning of heart dizcase. been working upon hls late life of Abrahain Lincoln, which | only one half completed. His th has been poor but death cam shock 1o his frisnds Albert suddenly | He had hook H One of the direct Albert sistontly was didate under the pioneer exponents ol section of all public offi Jeremial Beveridge con | unsuccessful a can-| the system | | Twice he attained membe fthe United States nate from In {diana through election by the sta |legislature, and twice he was rejoecte las an aspirant for the same placs popular referendum When Theodore Roosevelt holted republican in 1912, Beve went with him. At the Bull convention in Chicago, the| temporary chairman, w ered the ciples upon which th progressives relied for succoss Through the irony of circumstances the measures which the progressives spoused and helped to enact wr eterrants to the ambitions of Dey ship in by the | Moose | Hoosier, as I Tries to Return Since his retivement from thy 8 in 1911 Beveridg: twice sought turn. In 1914, he was defeated ! progressive candidate and i he won the publican nominu over Hary New but | olection to M. Ral 1the democratic andar hear 1912, Beveridge was defeated ogressive candidate for gove "lindiana. | Beverias tirmly land in | {ate i 1192 tion the r A Samuel on thousands in the lower mn I g did to the main street of 1 1y, prominent o i his iterary Great Flood his ability as an or b2 {in his statemanship. His L f [John Marshall” is regarded as the Kl ost illuminating exposition of the 1 it chief justice of the United e Supreme Court i a vear in Europe | spondent for a national {magazine, Beveridge returne ot publish, on the evening Yijea's entrance, a volume “What i “SiBack of the War which brough: " pitiless castigation from 1hose wio isaw i it justification of the ( Vi man action. 1t was harred from many Y libraries and training camps | Born on Farm That he should have attained pro ficlency in many “ndeavors is more [significant in th light of Beveridge's | "humble beginning. He was born O | tober 6, 1 on an Ohio farm which | [ mave little more than a scan ""‘ istence. After the Civil War th U amily moved to Iinois 51 Before he had qui | Beveridge had worke chore hoy. “action | railroad, a teamster and time however 10 school and — entes Greencast] was car or, 1 5, as wi ki in 191y Amor-| o it a by he | in- | as | of nis Cteen farm hand on & logzer, He complat De Pauw Ind. Work oy as " tound I grade University, in- mi- he af 1s. | nd | (Continued on Page Seven.) CONFESSION OF GRAY IS READ IN COURT TODAY NEW YORK, April Judd Gray agreed to Snyder, art editor of magazine, because Mrs. Snyder| “hounded me and got me in a whirl with her love making,” he asserted in his confession ready to- day in court. Two Sea Monsters Reported Seen In Howe Sound i he | re VANCOUVER, B. €., April Fishermen arriving here reported seeing two sea monste 0 feet long and capable of raising their heads six feet above the water, in Howe Sound. ————te—— The confession related how Mrs. Epidemic of Malaria Snyder told Gray of half a dozen Feared Ho"d Section il attempts she made to slay her hus- PINE BLUFF, Ark., April band and the confession said “I was | like a man in a hypnotic trance. | With several cases already report 2 I Monticello is taking 3 eeanti Seattle ‘Man Nominated o1y I8 Ayary precauld Governor of Rotarians to prevent an epidemic of a and malaria among hundreds of tlood 3 | refug there. Eniergency wards . i 91 have been established and scrusm TAC A, Wash,, April 27.—Hen! " Mnn‘:vorf Seattle. w;s \ul‘;nlmnuu is being rushed there to check the \a Governor for the Firse [$Predd. There are 4,000 vefu v | District of the Rotary International | | embracing 57 Northwest Rotary Clubs lin Oregon, Washington, Biritish Co.| —Henry kill Albert a New York 97 21, w ze ed ot- ell | es: Drank Fizzes With Another Man W hile Husband W as Dvin o LOS ANGELES, Cal, April ‘The District Attorney's office an. nounces it has obtained evidence that Dorothy Mackaye, stage actress, wa: drinking gin fizzes in a Hollywoo'l Apartment of Paul Kelly when her husband, Ray Raymond, musical com- edy actor, died at the Hospital from the beating administered last by Kelly. The announcement said the hospital shortly before Raymond d and evidence will be used in on a charge to cover up facts the murder. o] week evid- ence shows Dorothy Mackaye left the went to Kelly’s apartment. The the trial there and four fifths are women an children. ——————— |lumbia and Alaska. The nomination {15 equivalent to an election. Seattle | {was chosen for next year's conven.| Expelled Archbishop Predicts Mex. Revolt 'tion. A golf tournament for 200 dele- | @ | gates is being held this afternoon. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., April The Daily pre; morning P o A paper, quotes the Most Reverend Leo- | LENA JACK FOUND GUILTY |14 Ruizy Flores, Archbishop of Lena Jack, who was arrested yes-|Michoacan, one of several Catholir terday and charged with violation | jrelates recently expelled from Mexi- of the Alaska Bone Dry Law and | forecasting a revolution in peace, was found gui! [ Mexico soon . Commissioner’s Court | | cannot be very long now until ied [this morning and sentenced to three |y, pun of the hour will make dis- months’ imprisonment. This i8 her|,ppcarance and when he does, the third appearance in the U. 8, Com-|pcople will follow him in a crusade missioner's Court in the last six fo, religious liberty,” the Archbishop months. ‘unlmuut‘e\l. of Local, State and national agencies are being pushed to th Mississippi Valloy sround near the Kentucky town, From Cniro,‘ 1., to the sea, the most menacing flood in recent years is sweeping the valley and its tributaries, following abnormal rainfall. banks between Vicksburg and Nutchez, Miss. 1 L ito “lthe work left in the news D SUFFERING IN MISSISSIPRL FLOOD i ; s R ———— e utmost to reduce suffering inflicted {10 Photo shows wh it rising waters s of homeless camping on high kinan, Ky, and s» ) Menaces All of Lower Mississippi!™ S ———— ippi Photo shows the river far out of its trike Reported Near Republic, Wash. REPUBLIC, Reports of a CAPT. AMUNDSEN (o= ¢ GOING T JAPAN |Hopes to Return to Alaska i Sometime to Renew i Acquaintances. Wash., April - rich gold strike two miles west of here cansed a rush of 600 persons to the vieinfty rly 100 of the stampeders staked claims The started when Joe Wise- man Round, prospectors, rep they found gold rock rush and ted Jack along a wall of Roa'd N hopes sometime to veturny |4 10187 D¢ and renew acquaintanes solid dy, of said the pound ore Department runs abhout 8 “ SEATTLE. Amundsen He said he Alaska Aprii Capt INEW ORLEANS IS " THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS ,Louin.:pn_ Governor Orders Artificial Break to Pre- vent Inundation. { | | NEW ORI Q. H | proclamation {lic emersoncy the creation of the levee the inear at Simpson declaring exists April I Goy i a ued a that a pub- and ordering artificial break in Mississippi River noon on Friday to from inundation divert the flood [waters which are rushing towards INew Orleans but will inundate {100,000 acres of fortile lands below ity general evacuation of parishes {of ternard and Plaguemine be- Ifore Friday has heen ordere Adjutant General L. A. Toombs ihas ordered out the entire Louisiana INational Guard as a precautionary measure to meet possible Hood de- velopments 1 of ydras W Orleans break will [ The i A St HOMELESS NOW 160,000 MEMPHIS, Tenn.,, April While a general exoduc has com- menced from two parishes to be flooded by the breaking of the levee south of New Orleans, many trap- Ipers and other residents maintajn jan armed watch demanding guar- |antees agdinst loss before quitting their posts. |" Fhe Lomeless persons are now es- jtimated at 160,000 and is hourly |inerensi as the flood moves across I Arkansa and Northern Loulsiana. i v FORTY TUWNS UNDER WATER | MEMPLIR, April 27 ——-Nearly 40 ftowns in « pyadius of 100 niiles an Giatas, ara under. water wit) of tile" refugeey descriissl in al Red Cros reports as serious [in tie extreme. Those in devastated regions are <anding piteous calls for Ihents, clothing, food and other sup- i plies Refugees who have heen {perched on levees for several ‘days without foord or sholter were discov- night. One woman Red verker braved the floud ip & motorboat alone last night to Nem oald tiny | WASHINGTON, April 27 | Red reliel fund has {over half of the §5,000,000 s - DEFENSE RESTS IN DOBBS' CASE 'LE Cross sought, I 1 i | The defense . Dobbs, H in the of charged with Whitehail April 27 Dr. Chester he murder of Letitia ol sterday after- noon and the State launched efforts to impeech the testimony of the de- tense witnesses who testified seeing | the school girl four hours after she vas supposed to have been slain. attorneys indicated the case ot go to the jury before e might atur The defense scored today when Dr. Roy €. West, surgéon, testitied be examined, at the State's request, Letit Whitehall’s jawbone with another doctor. Both agreed that a nissing tooth had been knocked out {by violence and had mot been ex- | tracted The State had contended the tooth was extracted as an excuse to ad- | minister novacaine and drug to the girl Prosecuting Attorney Colvin brought an array of witnesses to | discredit testimony of the defense, schoo! companions of Henry Krester, star defense witness, who testified that he was not at Redmond where he said he saw Letitia on the night Lot ner disappearance. \h!n not to strive for further penetr tion of the Arctic Blind Spot | “There may be islands there, {someone else will find (hem |h|u problems have heen solved Aretic said Amundsen Capt. Amundsen will sail {Vancouver on June % for Japan and JAustralia for a tour lasting several {months. He said he had made no plans to meet Commander Nobile who is in Japan building a dirigible B SN Wheeler Coming North For Opening Navigation bu Al arid mere Have is [detail,” | from NEW YORK, April 2 hag a set of superstitions own. Perhaps no one trader believes in all of them or any great number of them, but well known speculators have their pet One of the street he can lof money betore pens in the mornin a loun to his best friend of his head ¢ the it bad luek to begin Wall Street all its ‘o ones the for help speculators will not, with a in | 3} SEATTLE April H. Wheel General Agent of the White Pass Yukon Route, has left for Skagw: and Whitehorse via Vancouver i connection with the opening of navi with an outgo of money gation on the Yukon. He will - activities in the stock market for main in Skagway during the summor | that oy are liable to result in a months and until fall, tloss. He likes nothing better than 27 re- In the jdea H n ists that is i | Wall Strm?t> S I;;zculators Pet Superstition. to find in his morning’s mail a check for income from an.investment or for the payment of a Yoan. That is a harbinger of profits for the day. And yet this man is a hard headed trader. There 1o st are other traders who lika «ach week with a little trade in the pet stock, usually a stock (in which at some time in the past | they have made a “killing.” A profiz, !no matter how small, n this firs. transaciion is regarded as a promis- ing indication of what the week has tin A loss, mo matter how a warning to watch thei 1o \Cuut’inucd‘un Plie -'-l'.hr".l _—_