The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 12, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" VOL. XXXL., NO. 4658. 'STEAMER DIAZ ARRESTED FOR PERJURY IN * ALLEN WEDS HIS D . SINGLAIR TRIAL | Witness for Defense Changes Story Today— Prohi Undercover Man h> had agent ¢f officers Declaring dercover hibition been an un- the local Pro-| to get Charl Sincl, that he had double- crossed, been double-crossed aul | finally shot at by the men for | whom he was working, Jack Diaz, | Who is said to have had a narrow | escape from serious i ¢ or pos- gible death when s el was fired on on the night of N. vember 18, defense witness in the 3 this morning came what he termed of his part in tne with account case. Diaz, who has here, being invol about two ) Scott, a Sitka he was convic sentence in the said he had Saturday and changed in several instances. Arrested for Perjury After he had denied having hal| any knowledge of the actions of | the prohibition officers in appro. | hending - Sinclair or having | in their offices a criminal recor, »d in an assault ago on Morris Indian, for which and . served 1 Federal ja ied falsely last | been | in the Goldstein building on the third or fourth of | December or at any other time,| Diaz was taken from the witness | stand and nplaced under arvast en’ a charge of perjury, at the close ! of the session in the U. 8. Uisnn'll Court Saturday afternoon. He iv] held in the federal jail. | Changes Story I The first witness on the stand this morning, Diaz, in his testi mony, said that on November 1% last he purchased a jug of moo: shine from Sinclair with money furnished by the prohibition offi cers. H iid that he h ] arrangements with the have Sinc on G nue on the uight date, and that there shine in the car when it driven on the Avenue by Sinclair, accompanied by Diaz and Ed Mathews. When the car wis stopped at the ITome Boarding house a jug of moonshine broken Di: said. Diaz s he did not know at what point on Gastineau Avenue the prohibition officers were to be stationed, that he did not see or hear them call or make sigis to Sinclair to stop and that he ir was (Cor Eight.) | | any other Lieutenant Governor Frank G. Allen of Massachusetts (inset) takes a his bride Miss Eleanor H. Wallace of Plttsburgh (above). Mr. Allen i 53 years old and his wife is 27, S| a close friend and classmate of the bridegroom's daughter, Mary. (Internati MPEACHMENT RESTRAINING ORDER MADE OKLAHOMA Dec A temporary ned to prevent the of Representatives impeachment S. Johnson V. Okla., Oklahc fro o to the Governor toda Judge T. G. Chambers. ing is set for tomorrow. by District The hear estraining erder charges | was issued ! JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1927. MEMBER PRICE TEN CENTS OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ORTHWESTERN RUNS AGROUND; PROBABLY TOTAL LOSS AUGHTER'S CHUM RTS, "1 MURDER TRIAL, SUNDAY COURT Judge Sits with Automatic at Side—Negro Guilty of Slaying Girl GOLDSBORO, Haltgd temporar tators who threatened a lynching the first Sun court tr | North Carolina came to a dr: tic end the sentencing * | death of Larry Newsome, 23, ne . for the murder of Buela Teld aged 15, daughter of a farm N. C., Dec ¢ by irate spec i sentence came barely hours after the body of the | was found in a cotton field throat had been cut | was pronounced only after a nea panic and riot in the ¢ and the presiding Judge sa with a huge antomatic at hi ready to squelch any further orde The ! court [ gir e Sentence 001 as sid ai th whey doac lder, he ough th after and the trouble beg had convene Tedder, father girl, and William brother, advanced courtroom toward the neg When they reached the nege each took an arm of the prison o land lifted him half way out o ~ | his chair as shouts of “take him broke from a dozen throats in the crowd. Others surged toward th prisoner and a stampede resulted | with many breaking for the exit | o quic surrounded {prisoner and beat off his lants. The sheriff placed his back {to the door and fired two shot linto the ceiling as a warning Meantime a National Guard bat ! tery called and sat around Newsome during the remainder of the trial of a he s a 1925 graduate of Wellesley an onal Newsreel) {Witnesses Are Suthmon by Senate, Committee, Mexico Case IS BETTING .%ot - {ination, Frank O. Lowden, forme; %Rail Bolts Remov:d—;_ WASHING TON Whil | Governor of Illinois, let it WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—Three | Train Is Wrecked declining to makesa de ite dec known he will not interfere wit! of the subpoenas reported to have! H ‘ | ‘NEw PRUBE Lowden Is laration tlfat he is candidate fo lefforts of friends in his behalt been issued by the special Sen-| prrrgpUs g Jate Committee named to investi | paiimore and Ohio Railron 1 of |gate the Mexican-United States fico announced that an inves tig Senatorial charges in the Hearst| tion disclosed that removal "(Continued on Pag i ol One Dead, Three I from Drinking Coffee LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 12— A coffee utensil, containing bev-|adjourned until tomorrow. erage, is suspected of fatally pol-; soning one motion picture actor| % and seriously affecting three wo-| Mrs. Coolldge's Mother N. G. on Duty OKLAHOMA CITY, Okia., | 12-Prevented from meeting in i the Chambers of the State Capitoi ! building by National Guardsmen, ta majority of the House members went to 4 local hotel and con Dee. | i : vened, discussed the situation un'l, newspapers are understood to) |have been for William Randolph | Hearst, Artiro M. as, Mexican Consul General of New York, and | | Victor Watson, Managing Editor iof the New York Daily Mirror, Hearst newspaper. | The committee is understood to thave prepared subpoenas for | many others to give testimony as; to the authenticity of the charges !in the Hearst newspapers that bolts from ends of caused the wreck of train en route to Washington, 30 mile: southeast of here, last night, kill ing one trainman and injurin: two oth A number of the pas sengers were severely shaken uj and cut by flying glase. Estimates $30,000,000 two a men. An investigation is prog-| ressing. I E. D. Bailey died, supposediy, as a result of heart failure shov.- ly after drinking -coffee at hh~I home, Mrs. Bailey, Her daugh-, ter, Mrs. Blanche Olivarias, and'the President, was today rumuvml: Olivarias, drnnk! from her home to a hospital, suf-y coffee and' fering from a severe attack of} Miss. Tommy some of the same shortly afterwards became seri- ously ill. Prompt treatment sav- ed them. I Is Il with Influenza NORTHAMPTON, Mass.. 12— Mrs. Elmira Goodhue, mother of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, wife of influenza. She is 78 years of ai and ‘has been living at the Ci idge’s home here, BAN DRINK, SAVE RICE, JAPANESE DRYS URGE| TOKYO, Dec. 12--Although pro hibition of alcoholic beverages i. not at all imminent in Japan, ns tive) prohibition workers are con ‘stantly’ busy in’ their "efforts to dry up the Empire. fiénfly the Japan Federation for, People's Prohibition won a | slight victory when it induced the imperial - population and food re- ' search commission to consider a . memorandum urging 4s & solu- | tion of the empire’s food problem ition of sake, the nationa' and other ~alcoholic liba- wine. They emphasize that this figure approximates the amouw which Japan is compelled to im port each year to make uap the shortage in the native rice pro- duction. The Federation also declares that Japan . spends about 1,500 000,000 yen a_year on liquor and that this expenditure contributes largély to the poverty and ec) nomic distress of the people. The national revenue from the liquor tax is about 230,000,000 yen, but the loss of this amount, it is con- tended, would be more than made up by the increased efficiency of the people and the benefits™to - | Flood Dam_:ge, Vermont Dec, | | President Calles provided a mil- \Yon dollars in funds for four| ian | United States Senators. Fran WASHINGTON, Deec. 12 A e C. Partridge, representing Go: | R John E. Weeks, has laid befors H . & “ 7 icth { President Coolidge an estimate ¢ ‘Kll! 0‘ SIIb VIdlllIl $30,000,000 damage ‘done by ti Lou $2,000,000 suit;!/rcuem flood in Vermont, y AR NEW YORK, Dec. 12--Suit:| FARMER UNDERWRITES | against the government aggregat- __COUNTY’S HIGHWAYS ling $2,000,000 by relatives of thir-) ALBLITA LEA, Minn, Dec. 1: ty-three men lost in th esinking of | —When a township near here de {the submarine $-51 in 1925 wan»{c!fleld ”'u .flr:yelfl every luf\j\'l‘lsh.x] jdismissed today in Brooklyn Fed-|road, Henry C. Hansom, a farmet {eral. Court. Judge Campbell ruled |bought the entire bond issue o Ithe suits should have been |$20.000 to cover the work. . ———— ! brought under the public pensions laws rather than under the pub- B -~ 6.k - lic veisels act. i | [UAUK DEMRSEY’ o Says Auto Killing . ! ’ English Home Life L.ONDON, ' Dec. 12— Englisit home life is being killed by auto- fmobiles. People instead of want- ing homes to go to, want hotels jand flats' to go from. This is the opinion of a veteran London architect, C. F." Annesley | Voysey, who has heen designing English houses for 53 years. He i8 .70 years old. In his younger days he was kept busy designing houses; jwith the advent of the auto nds time public ooy to - d ALASKA LINER WHICH IS WRECKED Stcamer Noithwestern, of the Alaska Steamship Company, which ran aground on Cape Mudge, B. C., early Sunday morning and may probably prove a tctal loss. All passengers were safely | removed. 8 q 1 LAVID REED, JR., WEDS DIVORCEE | DESPITE PROTESTS OF FATHER, | ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec narviage of the former . St. Louls, to Dav of the senior United ator from Pennsyly fter a turbulent codrtship du vhich the family of young wtempted to forestall the union, vas revealed in a letter from Mrs, Reed to St. Louis friends, writtea ihoard the S. S. 12 Mrs d Can “Brow Beat” Witnesses in | Remus Trial COLUMBUS, 0., Dec. 12 Chief Justice Marshall and | | Justices Mathias and Day, of | | the State Supreme Court, have denied the prayer of George Reémus, that'the Court compel Prosecutor and assist- | | ants “to perform their unlaw- | ful duties” and restrain thenf from “further unlawful and unethical intimidation and ¢o- | ercion of witnesses.” T’ young couple are on<ithe way to Sandiego Chile, where young Reed will be stationed as » representative of the aluminum | yre company by which he is em-| ployed. { The courtship had its inception ast summer at Lambert-St. Lous flying field, where the couple ms: for the first time. Young Reed | | - eee - was an officer in the Bridgeton Aircraft Corporation and was ta | ng instructions under David Ba- | ker, pilot for the company. 4| Ross visited the field to fly as a| IN wHEcK UF assenger { Mrs. Ross was married whon | | he met young Reed, but divorced | | R0ss, a certified public accountd wt. According to friends of the| couple, young Reed wished to o marry immedia but Mrs. Ros N y nsisted mecds tamily vo consuts.|Hulk of Boat, Sheeted in ed first. Ice, Is Found on Shoal On invitation from his son Sen- | ator Reed visited St. Louis ani| —oearch for Crew became a familiar figure at tas P flying field, appearing there witn his sen and the son’s fiancee, At that time, i Ross said it ippeared the parental blessing would be forthcoming, but imme liately after Senator Reed return :d,to._Pittsburgh, he telephone: his gon to return Kast immedi| ely SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich, ! Dec. 12 Afier 43 men had been l‘l'l!fl(:llol] from two vessels wredi- {ed in the Grea' Lakes, Coast inardsmen today began seeking 22 members of the crew of the steamer Lampton which crashed on a shoal off Parisienne Island and broke in two. The hulk, When the son arrived in Pitts.| J06 AFORE SR S urgh, Mrs. Ross sald, his father| Puckled amidships, and sheeted with ice, was discovered Dby the 1sed every means at his disposal g = io influence his son against ths| € Brnaute.cENy | irace fl the marriage. The elder Mrs. Reed,| SroW was found by the Emouts ‘at that time, was in Europe, u",.;l\u signs of life were seen hut W effort was made to have young! Yaces of a landing on the island Reed go to Europe and return! with his mother. Under pressure from his fath ar, Mrs. Ross said, the son agre o the plan provided he could re urn to St. Louig and marry after his return from Europe. On the I8, were seen, footprints leading from | the shore indfeating the crew hal abandoned the boeat and made their way to the island. The Ei- noute summoned other hoats to the scene and all blew whistles but the signals met with no re | sponse. | way to the station in Pittsburgh, . she said, her fiance changed hie| Shipping offietals *are attempt- jing to locate the Lake Chelan, mind at the last minute and, wlt!:]"emmer S0k Bys overdus, snd " the missing ship King 0il Fields Eliminate Man, But Not Horsesi 4 GARBER, Okla., Dec. 12—Man of petroleum in this section. s being eliminated from the oil! A 2Zinch pipe line to carry gas, ndustry at a faster rate than ti.»|from the Texas [Pauhandle to horse. Kansas City, now is being built The last crew of laborers dis- by large maehines which dig into placed by machinery ds that of|the earth amd make excavations he ditch diggers. A humorous of perfect geometric proportions »il company official who started Meanwhile metorization of th2 1is career as a ditch digger re ;nn industry is yet to be complet- narked recently that if he werc ed, for trucks dannot zo through 1 young man today he would not|mud during the rainy season l)ur-l have the same opportunity toling the wet smmmer many truclks tart his quest for success in the were pulled ghrough the mire Dy | usiness. He inted out that)horses. Depriek men and rig 10t 4 €crew o k-and-shovel. men | workers rode to. work on ponies s working the southwest vil Instead of in flivyers. Because felds , although more pipes the oil industry must keep its under ground than| wheels turnin weather, the Anas [1he; dlacuyvary 'purse. ¢o ve his place,| 'Ithv passengers on the Northwestern. ta hole torn in the boat, ALASKA BOUND VESSEL HITS IN SNOW STORM; PASSENGERS TAKEN OFF BULLETIN—SEATTLE, Dec. 21.—The radio of the Northwcstern was silent this morning in- dicating no change in the condition of the vessel since reperted aground, amid: s on the recks. The radio operators are believed to be conserving the reserve supply of electricity as it is dependent on the auxiliary batteries generating for the sys- tem. [Lloyds’s agents. with the tug Capt. Scott and the wrecking barge Skookum No. 2, from Vancouver, reached the vessel this morning. The Alzska Steamship Company officials said they be- lieved all first class wail has been saved. 4 SEATTLE, Dec. i2. -— Steamer Northwestern, of the Alaska Steamship Comp northbound “‘to Alaska ports, in command of Cept. Juck Livingston, ran ashore on Cape Mudge, B. C., Sunday morning and may prove to be a total oss. All passengers have been removed safely. PASSENGERS AT CAMPBELL RIVER, B. C. CAMPBELL RIVER, B. C., Deec. 12.—Capt. Jock Liv- ingston and 26 members of the crew of the steamer North- western, which ran ashore in a terrific snow storm on Cape gze, B. ., Sunday mocrning, remained on the leaking 2l throughout *the night, while its 112 passengers and remainder of the erew of 75, slept safely in a hotel here, 10 miles frem the scene of the wreck. The majority of the passengers were Alaskans return- ing home from the State: STEWARDESS IS HEROINE Mrs. Jane Warner, Stcwardess, was the hercine of the rescue when she calmly awakened passengers immediately after the Alaska bound ship hit ihe bottom, Alemeda Gees to Rescue Steamer Alameda, which left Seattle Sunday night te pick up the Northwestern's passengers, is due here today. The Alameda will return to Seattle with the passengers, then leave for the North with them again on Thursday. The Alameda will carry duplicate Northwestern freight shipments. | b . Aroused by Stewardess Edward G. Morrissey, Fublisher of the Ketchikan Chonicle, and Associated Press correspondent, was among He said: “A few minutes before 5 o'clock Sunday morning, pas- sengers were aroused by the voice of the stewardess, Mrs. Jane Warner.” 2 Morrissev related that “Mrs. Warner walked calmly about the decks, rapping on the doors and telling us to arise and dress hurriedly. “She said we were aground but in no immediate danger. In Midst of Howling Blizzard “Passengers rushed on the deck and at first did not realize how serious the,situation was although we were in the midst of a howling blizzard. “Capt. Jock Livingston went about reassuring the pas- sengers everything would be alright. He told them that at daylight we would be put ashore. “As the early hours of the morning wore on, the ship pounded terribly but fortunately this did not cause the lights to go out until daylight. Line Js Put Ashore “At daybreak, the officers and crew put a line ashore but the high sea and considerably driftwood prevented landing. 1 attempted several times to send word to the Asgociated Press but Cupt. Livingston said he needed the wireless for handling the ship's business and distress calls. Boats Are Lowered “It was nearly nocn by the time all boats were lowered into the water. The sea, at this time, was washing the upper decks. First Aid Arrives “The halibut schooner Expiorer, of Juneau, Alaska, was going by and the skipper of the Explorer said he re- marked he thought the Northwestern considerably off her course and decided to investigate. “When, he came alongsi after making a masterful landing in the raging storm, he said he could take all of the passengers and baggage and some of the crew to Campbell River. This he did and we were all comfortahly quartered at the Willows Hotel. Returns for Crew i “The Explorer returned to the ship to get the balancé of the crew. “Many passengers believe the Northwestern will be a total loss. Cattle Aboard Vessel Are Shot “Many cattle aboard the Northwestern, 'being shipped to the far north, were shot early in the morning as they were drowning in on-rushing water which came through ' In order that the passengers might not become alarmed at the shooting, attendants went among’ the passengers before hand telling them what to expect. Freight Believed to Be Ruined “Most of the freight will be ruined as all of the lower ' decks were awash shortly after the steamer went aground, land soon atter all passengers were on the upper decks. Capt. Livingston sent word for everyone to put on life " preservers and be prepared for any eventuality., In this | way, they packed the decks or stond in anxious groups until they were removed to the Expiorer. “The sea was 30 2:30 o'clock yes noon that none of the ers could remain on olfl thei hal‘:but boat and as there was not enough t t W’ r em in the crew’s quarters, they were :to'n_shy i