The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 24, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA- EMPIRE VOL. XXX., NO. 4618. “ALL THE NEWS Fourteen Conmcted in Se JURY RETURNS | VERDICT, ROY OLMSTEDCASE Twenty - v Defendants Are Acquitted — 14 Are Convicted . = Fourteen the second Roy| Olmsted case have been convicted and 22 defendants acquitted. A B 1 verdict was returned and opened this morning. Those convicted on liauor conspiracy are: Pete Dahl, Mike Gaidosh, Lou M. Gilliam, Deey Goldsmith, Rdwsrd Graham, l\tllntlh Johuston, George Kears, eman, Stanley McClous- "rod Myers, Leroy Mills, Poth, ®hris Skronda! Trotsky. those acquited Dow, customs broker Gookins, Island County W. E. L. Hedges, Seattle| Captain; Raymond Mur- former King County Deputy| riff, and Sylvester Moore, for- v Prohibition employee. POINDEXTER T0 RUN FOR U. S, SENATE Armounces Hi Candidacy| and Makes Known Complete Platf‘orm SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 24— Miles Pdindexter, of this city, Am- bassador to Peru, announced his candidacy for the Republlican nomination for the United States senatorfal seat now occupied by | Senator C. C. Dill. Poindexter said he will resign the ambassadorship and begin a come-back campaign next March. The former United States sena- tor said he stood for peace, fed- eral farm aid, prohibition enforce- ment and rigid immigration ex- ¢lusion. SEVEN KILLED IN ACCIDENTS T0 AIRPLANES NEW TYORK, Oct. 24—Seven persons were killed in five Sun. day airplane accidents in widely “separated parts of the United States. The lives of two persons were claimed at . Lincoln, Nebraska, when a, plans crashed, falling into a cemetery. X A student flyer’ met death in Los. Angeles when -a- parachute failed to, open- and ‘a second fa- tality. of the same nature is re- worded at Kansas Clty, Mo. A plane crash at Santa Monica, charge of Among include’ Milhuy William Sherif; Police phy, Cal; during . a fog, claimed the|24—Twenty-one men and women|drafting a new tax revision bill. lives of ‘two persons, while . a third was seriously injured. A passenger was Mount. Clemens, Mich., plane fell into a field. — CEBALO FUNERAL WEDNEDAY|sons attempting to escape, found |13 % cents to 11 cents. “John Cebalo, old time Alaskan who passed away at the.St. Ann's hospital ‘after many months’ {ll- mess, will be Iald to feen cométery at 10 o'clock Wed:, nesday morning. Services will be held from the Catholic chureh, — e ALL THE TIME” MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FELT Olmstea’ Case in Seaitle GREEK PRINCESS 'ro WED SOON ' 2 jremme———— Princess Jrene of. Greéce, has justjannounced , hi Prince Christian Schaumberg-Lippe, Denmark. ‘The princess is, the tGem-ge Jof jGreece.” ] 54 T ew, N {biée g of 4ot joedformic K i MYSTERY STRANGER SEEN ON ISLAND IN FAR NORTH; MRS. GRAYSON | 1S FORCED TO RETURN AGAIN Defective Motor and Dense Fog Causes Fliers to Come Back OLD ORCHARD, Me., Oct. 24— Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson's amphibian plane “The Dawn” hopped off at 6:13 o'clock yes- terday morning for Copenhagen but returned at 4 o'clock yester- day afternoon, driven back by a defective motor and heavy fog. The plane was carrying Mrs. Grayson, Navigator Brice Golds- borough and Pilot Wilmer Stults. The plane reached a point off Cape Sable when the decision to return. was made. This was the second attempt to make , the Atlantic flight, the plane’ being heavy at the ncse onv the previous attempted flight and | was farced to return. - Twenty-one Persons Dead in Theatye Fire HELSINGFORS, Finland, Oet. were either burned to death or suffocated, and a number of per- killed near|sons were seriously injured in ajing of the joint Congressional when ajifire in a motion' pictire thestre{Tax Committee, declined to say ast night. The panic ensued when a film caught fire. Per- the exits blocked by those wait- ing for the mext performance. Firemen turned the hose on the st in Ever.| waiting crowds to force a patn|lea, But Not Sew, to those inside the theatre. Those in the galleries .jumped to the main floor and many were hurt. }lutomobde Diseases _ PARIS, Oct. 24—Parisian traf- fllo“ . Ml ine ays M ut up .np a8 tfiefil “auto; Doctor’s Specmlty them. Hard-working peges i .‘::1":‘.' m‘“" v e » _Tratfic accidents have become jtive here who ordered the search. SEVOONGA, S8t. Lawrence Is- land, Oct. 24—Seareh is being| pushed on this isolated island for; an unidentified mystery man, who| disappeared in a blinding snow- storm after landing on the little known eastern end of the island, in a 14foot steel boat, equipped only with sails. An Eskimo trapper saw the lone traveler make the landing in the Bering sea- surf on October | 12. The trapper investigated l""i could find no trace of the strang- er who left a somewhat damaged boat, oil stove, pair of shoes and sack of wet clothing, An Ameri-| can flag was found cached on the beach. Tracks in the snow led back| off the beach but were soon ob- literated by a snow stdrm. The incident was reported to T. 8. Scuphold, United States Bureau of Education representa- MAY REDUCGE CORPORATION TAX SCHEDULE; WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. — A general reduction in corporation rates will be sought by Chairman Green of the House Ways and Means Committee which will meet a week from today to begin Chairman Green, who return- ed to the city to attend the meet- whether he wil! support redue- tion in the corporation tax from ———-—e——— Girls Can Pour Judge Declares YAKIMA, Wash, Oct. 24—Too much ‘emphasis is placed on teaching girls to pour tea grace- fully, when they can’t sew & but- ton on a pair of blue overalls, Judge J. Stanley Webster told the Grand Jury in' his instruc- un s to. that body at the opening of the Federal Court sessions llnre - Judge Webster urged the jur-| ors to. veturn to their. ‘eom- ‘munities with a faith in the ad- nfstration of justice, declaring at one of the tions of the| Jury @ "be to close ' mouth of any persofi | physician, lgreat improvement. Lliabl3"to “punishnient -had e | carroll 1S AGQUITTED OF MURDERING IS DAUGHTER England Phinged Tate. Dl cussion Over Verdict —Peculiar Case LONDON, Oct. 24.—All land . today is plunged into the discussion of the “right to kill""] as the result of the acquittal of the young widower, Albert Davis, of the charge of murder for drowning - his three - year - old daughter, to save her further terrible suffering from an inecur- able disease. Most of the newspapers ap- plaud the acquittal but insist the case is exceptional and there should be no losening of laws protecting human life. The Daily Express quoted Conan Doyle, fainous author and as saying: “I think there chould be a law that three medical certificates would justity the putting away of a person in a hopeless position. As regards life and death, it would be a 1t would be humanity, common sense and Justice, “Phe case is a matter that gives us food for thought, when one considers the poor child could have heen an animal in- ,steml of a human. 8o far as there has been anything blameworthy in the man’s action in putting an end to the chlid's suffering, he w_glm actually have been done it." ———— — CARROLL TELLS OF HORRORS OF LIFE IN PRISON New York Producer of Plays Impressed with *“Forgotten Men" NEW - YORK ,Oct. 24. — The New York Americafh today prin'- ed a copyrighted article by Earl in which he painted a picture of prison life as “a trag- edy that struck terror to my mind. In a long corridor each day marches this silent army of forgotten men, The constant pas- sage of so many leaden feet has worn two groves in the pave- ment. ‘That 18 the road the men tread who have sinned against society. Certainly, there is mneed for protection to society, and the answer is the prison. As the pro- ducer of playsi a man with a sense of the dramatic, I coull not help sense the immense drama of the prison with its ever-trudging, ever-leaden, ever- grim stark souls of an army of forgotten men. Can you wonder why a few poor creatures, misled, misguided or puppets of fate, 'uu:ger back to & freedom that is blinding, just as it blinds me, and where you can have the solace of loving hands or under- standing hearts?” Carroll was recently paroled from Atlanta Prison where he had. been " serving sentence for perjury in conection with thc i tamous bath tub party. ———e—— Charles Naghel was an arrival on the Margnita from Killisnco. He has been in that for near- ly two weeks on a hunting trip. — U. S. Becoming Nation of Jack Sprats ¥ CHICAGO, Oct. 24—Meat styles have changed so rapidly that thc United States is. rapidly becoming lntlflflfil‘lll.’lh.whonl no fa of the m Packers tending tl here 2 Meat s at- and the 0 has| 7 the | 8 Eng- A oL {fore the Oscar G. Mayer, president | w: eonvenunn' e tor the in} MURDER CHARGE BRING.S CLIMAX TO DRAMATIC CAREER OF REMUS ARU"SEJ“NE““ FETTE & nemm of Cincinnati (upper right), erstwhile “king cf bootleggers,” vme. charge. - Romola Remus (center), daughter of Remus by a former marriage, is expected to testify for her ht.her, and Ruth Remus (lower left),, adopted daughter of the (lnuly, for the State. Col. Lindbergh \ | Completes His | Nation Swing | MITCHELL FIELD, . 1 | Qct. 24—Col. Charles A. Lind- | bergh, completing his 22,350 | mile tour of the country, | | landed here just one minute | | ahead of schedule yestsrdax | | He plans to rest for a while | and has no plans for the fu- | | ture, | [ S G O G S SR ——————————— ASK DEGISION ON TESTIMONY IN OIL TRIAL Up to Judge About Admit- ting Testimony Given -Before Committee WASHINGTON, ‘Oct. 24,—Jjus- tice Siddons of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, today| deferred decision as to admission at the present criminal conspir- acy trial, of testimony given be- fore the Senate Oil Committee by Harry F. Sinclair and Albert B. Fall, terior. Justice Siddons said- he wanted further evidence as to whether, Sinelafr had been subpoenaed bes fore he te Oil Committee be- ¥ ‘on the point, as neftl had made it eciear whether Sfaclalr appeared volun- tarily, bad been invited or legally summeoned, Tlolmm point which Jus- tice od to rule upon . ‘the n of Sin- clair's. muqnt to the Senate Oit t’n he went to . Mexico,, to see Fall “O ‘Wl Teapot & former Secretafy of In- CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 24—A costly mansion set deep in the lawns and groves of a suburban estate is the only physical mon- ument to the fortune George Re- mus reaped from his contraband liquer. Only half a dozen years ago he bought it, after he had married Imogene Holmes in Chicago in 1920 and had left his law prac- tice there to come to Cincinnati and pyramid into millions in the bootlegging business the $10,000 nest egg with which he started. The old homestead on Price Hill, dating from Civil war days, was virtually. rebuilt by Remus in order that he might endow with a setting of splendor the wife upon whom he lavished his| deals in /| wealth and deyotion. Some three years ago Remus | went away from the mansion to serve a term in federal prison for violation of .the prohibition law, and when he emerged he served another in an Ohio jail on a similar conviction. His wife fol- lowed him to Atlanta to live near him during his prison term and then, shortly before his re- lease, charged him with cruelty d sued for divorce. Remus countered with the allegation that, she sought freedom to wed Frank- lin L. Dodge, jr. tion agent active evidence which prison, then a prohibi- n gathering the sent Remus to Agaln In Cell Now “Beautiful Imogene” dead, and her husband, stripped of most of his fortune, is again in a Jail “cell=this time as the ad- mitted slayer of his wife, He waited for Her in a Cinchmati park October 6, and shot her as she journeyed to a divorce court o obtain her final separation. Prosecution of Rémus in his murder trial ‘will devolve upon Willlam P. Taft II, youngest son of Willlam Howard Taft, who be- came Hamilton county attorney last January after graduation from a law course at Yale, Two girls will be arraigned on either side of the case—Romola Remus, 23,° daughter of George Remus by & former marriage, who has sided with her father, and confronts a mur- der ehnge for ‘shooting his wife, Imogene Holmes Remus (upper left), after she sued him for di- Charles (P. Taft I (lower left), son of W. H. Taft, will' prosecute Remus on the murder 1 Rut! 20, adopted daughter thought of the Remuses and a companion of her foster mother the morn- ing of the Wn’, who will testl- fy for ‘UO t y son of Ger- _on Page Seven.) PIERA : J, T. DICKMAN PASSES AWAY VERY SUDDENLY Major General of Third American Army, World War, Dies, Washington WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—Major General Joseph Theodore Dick- man, aged 70 years, organizer and Commander of the Third Ameri- can Army in the World war, died at his home here yesterday after a sudden heart attack. Maj. Gen. Dickman spent ‘prac- {tically all of his life as a cavalry- man, since his graduation from West Point in 1881. Leading the Third Ulvlllml of the regulalr United States army overseas in March, 1918, Maj. Gen, Dickman participated in virtually every major campalgn of the American forces, rising rapidly in the ranks and finally receiving command of the Third American army, which he led into Germany. BIGIABINGEN Germany, Oct. is!24—Prince Willliam Von Hohen- zollern Sigmaringen, brother of the late King Ferdinaund, of Ru- mania, died today of heart fail- ure. He was 63 years of age. EARTH SHOCKS CITIZENS TODAY Severe Movemen! Felt About 7 0o'Clock - This Morning—No Damage snocxs FELT OTHER SECTIONS . E. ALASKA Seattle Seismograph Needles Thrown Drum—N. Y. Report Juneau, this morning, exper- ienced one of the severest earth- quakes in her history. That the quake was generally felt else- where is indicated in Associated Press dispatches received by the Daily Empire from Seattle and also New York. The Seattle dispatch said “both needles of the University of Washington selsmograph were thrown off the recording drum at 8 o’clock this morning, indicating the shock was of great inten- sity.” The New York dispatch stated that “an earthquake, about 2,300 miles away, described as the larg- est in years, was recorded on the seismograph at Fordham Univer- sity and the University officials sald the tremblors were tremenl- ous." Four Shakes in Junean Juneau was given a rare shake, in faet ose pronounced earth shock, two jerks and a just a He- tle trem Residents tumbled out of bed, because the movement was of such a pronounced kind that a dignified arising was out of the questiou, Many residents, those formerly living in California, made immed- lately for the front or rear doors and others donned bathrobes dnd rushed out of doors, taking no chances, at all. Others just got out of bed, quickly. Clocks stopped, drop lights / swung, dishes rattled and doors either slammed shut or just op- ened and swung. 3 At 7 o’Clocl Official time of the first shoek ranges from 7 o’'clock this morn- ing to seven seconds after 7 o'clock. The clock in Juneau's ofticial time headquarters, the United States Cable Office, stop- ped at exactly seven seconds after 7 o'clock. The first shock lasted from 30 to 35 secands, being north and south with particular violent waves of each movement. About one minute after the fifst shock, two jerks were felt and then there was one slight wave motion—and it was all over but the telling about it. One man gaid he believed. Ju- neau felt the end of a good shake and another spoke up and said: “End, man we were right at m head. When practically everybody ll Juneau seems to have been awak- ened, the movemen:'s lfl.rm an be realized. At Douglas, drop lights swung and clocks stopped d _ people tumbled from the beds. Sitka Shakes According to | reports received by the Dally Empire from Sitka, that town had two severe earth- quake shocks, The firet occurred at 6:59 a. m. followed five min- utes later “with a roar. Houses trembled and waves of the earth movement knocked pictures and® (Continued on Page Egnt.) LONDON, Oct. 24—The 24 fire- men of the Tottenham depart- ment will have one-third of an overcoat each. The Tottenham firemen said they were cold at night waiting for something to happen. | 'S0 the Tottenham . Council about it. 8o did lm Fire | Brigade Committee, “Elght men on at night” said Councilman Frost, living up to his name. “Why 24 overcoats? 1 often see firemen riding home with na overcoats.” Third of an Overcoat Given London F u'm “Firemen are of different sizes,’ asserted Councilman Jackson. “Oune is a small, vlry -”. A.- other is 6 feet, about 46 inches lmnl lln It the committee's rec tion is to he carried out the thing is to have eight made ot rubber, to' fln‘,hf big men and ‘shrink for the e Thereupon Coumneil o PR o