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

THE DAILY A XXX., NO. 4514. “ALL THE N EW§ ASKA EMPIRE ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS De Auzfremont 1Twins Make Confession; Surprise Sprung LONG SOUGHT FOR BANDITS CHANGE PLEA Brothers | De Autremont Plead Guilty (vllv“l(‘ Siskiyou Given Life. fv!I-JDI-'ORD. Ore., June 23. Roy and Ray De Autre- mont entered a plea of guilty today and made a confession of the Siskiyou tunnel train hold-up in which four men were killed in 1923. The brothers reversed their plea of not guilty. The twins were sentenced to life imprizonment after a jury, hastily impanelled, heard the confession read ind immediately found a verdiet of guilty. The confession was a re- sult of an agreement with District Attorney Chausy that the State would recom- mend life imprisonment if they confessed. Hugh De Autremont, an- other brother, was found guilty but it was announceu vester an appeal would be taken. This practically ends the case in which a three year world-wide search was made for the thxte brothers. REGEPTION IS PASSED UP BY BGEAN FLIER #4104 Capt. C. Lindbergh Disap- points Dayton Citizens Mission of Trip. DAYTON, Ohio, June 23 colling ail previous arra for his entertainment the Dayton reception Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh off in a pursuit plane from Wright Field for Washington In a brief interview before leav ot. Lindbergh said he was side of Dayton would ppointed in not getting to soe him but he stated he knew nothing of the plans for a recep tion umd declined to participato hecause his visit to Dayion was unofficial ‘and for the purpose of respects to Orville Can ments made by committee took the ts his only. payin Wright ARRIVES AT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, June 23.—Capt Lindbergh landed at Bolling Field 11:27 o'clock this . forenooa , Ohio, and was met hy of the War, Navy and Commerce Departments who will confer with him on his future plans and also obtain views on the development of aviation ab- road. -~ RAPID CITY, S. The next session will act on Boulder Dam, resentative House motori dent (‘m)hflg«' D., June of Congress Rep- 23. leader declared John Q. Tilson, Re-|of the three men is shown. 1S SAVED FROM GALLOWS;WILL Illinois Supreme Court Aids Alleged Slayer— Officers Criticised. CHICAG June 23.—8ix times j und | insane | minute e — Roy mont, tod Oregon when rested (top) twins, in and Ray sprung surprise their hurried trial in The pictures were taken the two brothers were ar- at Stubenville, Ohio D THREE SLAIN IN SHOOTING rWU Poll('eln('n and Aul()' mobile Thief Are Killed —Witness Escapes. De Autre- a —Darkness slaying on the | this morning left to tell! ccept a mystery from the horror before the roar of the last re- volver shot died away Two policemen shot it out with an automobile thief and all three were killed. Officer Farley and conscious serves arrived, “Threw woman in car with him; she ran,” gasped the officer, be- fore he expired, but the officials do not know what was meant by the remark other that a wom- an witness disappeared. The deadly accuracy of the aim Al of the seven shots CHICAGO, June mantied the triple North Side with no witn what happened girt who fled . living Re was still when Police but one shot : here with Presi-|found a mark. A single shot fired wild. {by the robber went INDIANA PLANTING \TREES BY MILLIONS FOR FLOOD REMEDY INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 23, Harkening to the lesson of the Mississippi flood, Indiana farm- ers this spring bought and plant- el twice as many forest seedlings as in any previous year, according to the Indiana conservation com- mission, The State nursery, which dis- tributes the youthful trees at cost to Hoosiers, has distributed more than 250,000 this year. ““The dire need of more trees in this country is now being il “lustrated by the devastating floodh in the South which could have been lessened in destructiveness, I if not eliminated, had the country possessed proper forests,” Richard Lieber, conservation commissiion director, said. Conservation official are shap- ing their program to produce 2 million forest seedlings for the spring of 1930 with the anticipa- tion that the demahd may even exceed this figure. More than half of the seedlings distributed to date were sold to individuals for private planting and the others were planted on various soils of the reserve for experimental work to determine what species do best under cer- tain conditions, [in a « | door jln(tun and Alaska, within the shadow of the gallow four times saved by last minute reprieves, Russell T. Scot!, sentenced to death for murder, has gained a new trial. The S Supreme Court remanded his ca with criticism of Judge Marcus Kavanaugh and also the office of the Cook County United States Attorney “We wish it stood we have not considered the question of whether the dofen dant, shown by legitimate evid ence to be sane meaning of the severe distinctly under in this case, within the said the Court last phase of Scott's case went before the high Court upon appeal from a decision that he had recovered his sanity and subject to hanging after his life had heen saved by a last finding he was insane and after he had served many months prison for the criminal in or atue,” The once sane, The decision read: varent the defendant v fair and impartial trial. Scott was convicted of killing a drug clerk in an alleged hold-up His brother exonerated him. > “It is not ap. ¥ had Man Goes to Poor House, Meets Wife He Once Deserted L;\N(‘.—\STHIL Charles Trotter, traveled “over poor house” of the wife, Berthy serted fifty-six years ago The woman, who say serted her as a young been an inmate of the in lmlf)n since 1871, when she became il from worry over her abandonment and the death of her child During the fifty-six years Trot ter waadered the face of th | earth. While seeking his fortunc in the West, he s falsely in {formed of her death and mnever returned until, broken in old age and destitute, the poor house be came the trail's end for him His bride of more than half ¢ century ago recognized him. When asked by the matron if she still ‘ed for him, she replied: “No he left me when I needed him the most—he need not have returned. ., Ohio, 76 23.— old the th his de June years the hill to here and at institution mot 73, whom he de has he wi Garner Against Cut in Surtax but Favors WASHINGTOUN, June 23. — No, matter whether Congress meets in extra or regular session, Reproe- sentative John N. Garner of Tex- as, ranking Democratic member of the Ways and Means Committes says the Republicans will not suc- ceed with their program to lower the surtax maximum rate from 20 to 10 per cent. Mr. Garner will advocate a bill providing: 1. A reduction of the corpora- tion tax from 133 per cent, to 10 per cent. 2. Reduction of surtaxes on in- comes between $30,000 and 175, 000. 3. per 4. tax. 5. Repeal of the automotive tax. 6. Repeal of the theatre, club dues and the nuisance taxes. 7. Make exemptions of single men §2,000 and married men $4, 000. Byron Phelps Chosen Retention of the surtax at 20 cent, as at present Retention of the inheritance WENATCHEE, Wash., June 23. —Byron Phelps, aged 85, pioneer of Seattle, member of the Miller Post, G. A. R., was today electel Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic for’ Wasi- GET NEW TRIALi' G { Cut in Capital Tax|an of them parents, thus throw G. A. R. Commander ,1 the past month, _ Mrs. Marcom 4 W N f | | | S ————— i, William Marconi, Ttalian in- ventor of wireless telegraphy, is honeymooning with Countess Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scali, Jfaddress | forts and | robs a mail car, after a wedding in Rome. Mar- ‘eoni’s first marriage recently was annulled by the Rota of the Roman Catholic church. | This is the mewest photo of EPIDEMIC OF FLU REPORTED ANVIK,ALASKA 29 Parents Dead — Forty Children in Care of | Episcopal Mission. NEW YORK, June 23.-—An in fluenza epidemic is raging in An-} vik, Alaska, the Episcopal Church Headquarters has been informed in a radio message from Rev. John | W. Chapman, head of the church mission there. Twenty-nine deaths are reported among the Indians ing immediate responsibility of 40 children upon the mission. The message urged that a train ed nurse and layman be sent at once. At least $3,000 are requested for food and supplies. Rev. Chapman's message was supplemented by dispatches from Rev. Peter T. Rowe, emphasizin; the gravity of the situation. 47 REPORTED DEAD SEATTKRE, June 23. — Deaths resulting from the influenza epi demic in the Lower Yukon and Kuskokdim Valleys, Alaska, have reached a total of 47, of which 29 oceurred at Anvik and 18 at other points according to advices | Winston Churchill. received by Jonathan Wagner, Chief of the Alaska Division of the United States Department of Education here. He says nurses| and doctors are working in the two villages. A representative of the Depart- ment of Justice has been sent to investigate the extent of the epidemic. It is feared many deaths have occurred in isolated districts. L ————————— L. W. Baker, General Freigh! and Passenger Agent of the Al aska Steamship Company, is & passenger enroute to Seattle on the steamer Yukon, He has been at the westward on business for . MUST OBSERVE LAW DECLARES ATTY, GENERAL Flippant and _]errmg Atti-| tude Is Deplored—Sar- gent Makes Address. BEDFORD SPRINGS, Penn, ~Deploring the flippant jeering attitude toward law enforcement officers, Attorney General John C. Sargent, in here last night before the Pennsylvania Bar Association, declared that private will could not he substituted for public au thority, with the changing econ omic¢ conditions that bring com luxuries, with shorter hours and freedom from exertion and weariness. The Attorney there is a tendenc June and individual to society and turn li berty under the law into indul gence, regarding of the law “You cannot constantly, day af ter-day, treat the antics and pre- dicaments of the oplum user as a funny spectacle; the smuggl whg provides him with his ruin- ous pofson @8 & hero, and the officers who undertake to ferret out and punish and prevent smug gling, as snoopers, smellers, gum- shoe artists and so on through the whole list of villification, with- out cultivating and raising up in the minds of the thoughtless a wrong impression,” said the At torney ‘General. ."“Who wants to ! take the view that the man who who kills a Kumd is defending the mail, is hero, too? Who wants to take m- view that the officers of the law engaged in ferreting out and ap-1 prehending the heroic.robbers ar» snoopers, worthy only of opposi tion and dis agement in every | way possibl who e Ad Men Will Hold London Convention; | 100 U. S. l)vl(’gulm LONDON, June Z.X —More than 100 ot America’s leading publicity | men and representatives of ad vertising from all parts of Europe are expected to visit London for the great advertising convention in July. They will discuss problems advertising in every form. They will be addressed by several mem- bers of the Government includiryg of | | One session will be devoted en-| tirely to the interests of women During the convention, Olympia where the proceedings will take i place, will be transformed into an advertising city on which over a million and a quarter dollars will be spent. It will have streets of all-white stands, ideal homes, and modern shops and it will be f{lluminated at night in many colors. Dominating the city will be a “Palace of Beauty” with oriental arches and massive columns where, beneath a green dome, groups of lovely women will ap- pear in a succession of char- acters illustrative of the modern woman’s quest of luxury and beauty. The poster artists are to have an “Academy” of their own with a hoarding 750 feet long on which the best designs will be exhibited. Another feature will be the “Ideal Home” as the advertisers see it —a house in which “every brick and every stick” is advertised. A ball has been arranged for the opening night and banquets on nights afterwards. PSSt V5 (PR No Cigarettes, No Coal,” Miners’ Ultimatum LANSING, Mich,, June 23.—Oats issued as rations for the mules constituted the only food known to be available to the 328 con- victs and 14 captive guards bar- ricaded in the Prison Coal Mine since Tuesday morning, as the mutjneers passed the 45th hour under ground. There Is nothing to indicate they wished to withdraw the ul- | General declared | to forget the | seriong side of relationship of the | LOOFS OUT ‘ [ 2,000 feet to gain enough straps that flmn is their liveg trying COAST SEEMS T0 BE CENTER of FOR SUICIDES, Statistics Presented Show in 15,000 Suicides America Annually. NEW dency YORK, June 23.—The tea- to suicide is much more | pronounced in the large cities of the Pacific Coast than in the ! great centers of population in tha East and Middle West states, Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman declared in a statistical study prepared for the Spectators Insurance Journal Dr. Hoffman says the “wide publicitv of student suicldes does not justify most of the comments as regards alleged suicide epi ics or suicide waves which exist chiefly in the imagination of amateurish observers.” Pointing out that the increase during 1920 was less than one person in hundred thousand pop ulation, he estimates there are 15,000 guicides in America an nually. “Something must be radically wrong with our civilization, that 80 vast an army of men and women should find conditions of existence intolerable,” says Dr. Hoffman. The highest rate in 120 Amer- ican cities wag reached by Sacra- mento, Cal, with 46.03 suicides per hundred thousand population B e S Houdini Died from Blow, Insurance Payment Reveals NEW YORK, June 23.—Payment of $25,000 to Mrs. Beatrice Hou- dini, widow of Harry Houdini, magician, by the New York Life Insurance Company as indemnity for accidental death disclosed the company's acceptance of the claim that he died as the result of a blow. Houdini’s death on October 30, 1926, according to George Coxey, an agent of the company, follow- ed a week after he had challeng- ed a McGill University student in Montreal to strike him a hard blow. He did this to prove his excellent physical condition, Coxey explained. Lieut. Frank Pettit, of the Al- aska Road Commission, passed timatum of “no cigarettes, no coal.” through Juneau this morning on the Yukon enroute for Wrangell. hdqg. Doohfib ~AND LIVES! e Lieutenant James A. Doolxtfle holds the distinction of being the only man in the world to make an outside loop-the-loop in an airplane. He did it over MgCook Field, Dayton, 0., dropping he went 280 miles an hour— to swing up the other side. The loop is dnngu-oun because the downward swing throws the flier with such force against the and several have logt E | Economy Wave Strikes Motion | Picture lndustrv LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 23—The first economy move | in the motion pi-ture industry, | which was predicted ultimate- ly, will have a far reaching effect, came today in the form of a 10 per cent cut In all | salaries which exceed $50 a week. Jesse L. Lasky made the announcement for the | Paramount and Famous Play- ers, a Lasky organization. BRITISH NAVY GREATER THAN LAW PERMITS Naval Experts Make Reve- | lation at Conference in Session at Geneva. GENEVA, June 23.—That the British total (onnage in battle- ships and othor warships is great er than appears in the British {records if measured in standard tons by the system established at Washington was revealed at a session of naval experts. Application of the standard sys- tem reduces the American figures and increases the British. On cruisers alone the experts found that standard measurement in- creases the British strength 20, 000 tons. _BYRD'S PLANE i BE MADE READY - HOP TOMORRO¥ Weather Conditions Clefir* ing for Flight Across Atlantic Ocean. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., June 23.—The trimotorel plane America will be taken from the hangar tonight and drawn to the top of the runway preparatory to the hop-off for France at 4 o’clock tomorrow morning. FOG BANK REPORTE NEW YORK, June 23.—A fog bank between New York and Newfoundland is de- scribed as the only remain- ing impediment of the trans-Atlantic flight of the monoplane America. Belief that Byrd will at- tempt a return flight from Europe is strengthened when it was learned that T. Har- old Kinkade, Wright metor expert, has been ordered to report, | m Ireln.nd FOREST FIRE. RAGING NEAR BAKERSFIELD #|Fifteen Thousand Acres Burned Over—Fire Re- ported Out of Control. BAKERSFIELD, Cal.,, June 23. —Sweeping out of control, a great forest fire has burned over 15,000 acres in the San Emid's Distriet and is today eating its way into the Santa Barbara for- est area, north of Frazier Na- tional Park. Two hundred men are battl ng the flames. Men are being .re- cruited from here this afternoon. Wood :tm to Confer with President RAPID CITY, S. D, June 23.- Suffering considerable physic | pain from recent accidents, Gov ernor General Wood of the Philjy- pines, arrived this afternoon at the summer White House to make a report to President Coolidge. ——— = Defendant in Case, Killed In Court Room | DUNCAN, Okla., June 23— | | Arch Gilbreath, father of the | complaining witness in a cri ! minal assault case, shot and ! killed B. F. Cox in the court ' room here late yesterday af- | ternoon. { Cox was on trial charg 4 | with assaulting three young ! ¥ | women, Questioning of the juror- was about to begin and Judge Richardson annoviced the t-s- timony would be shocking and some persons might wish to leave the court room. Gilbreath raised his revolyr» and fired. Cox dropped dead. i | ( | | | | ¥ Visitor WASHINGTON, June 23.—Clos- er to the earth than any comet, except one, is known to have come before, the Pons-Winnecke comet will be only 3,500,000 miles away from us on June 27, about fourteen jand a half times as far as the moon, and far closer than any other astronomical body ordinarily comes. | But despite this neighborly visit, no empires will fall be- cause of its proximity, no kings will pass away, or at least, if Comet Getung Near Earth May Be Vmble nothing to do with the comset. Th fact, no signs at all are likely to appear in the sky, for it is quity doubtful whether the comet will become visible to the unalded evs, If it does, it will just.barely ha visible on a dark night as a falit patch of light, quite different fro: the usual conception of a con 4 for in the ten previous visits of which it has been observed astronomers, it has never s any trace of a tail. they do, their passing will hlval Only once, so far as (Continued on Page