The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 13, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXL, NO, 4659. LINDBERGH HOPS OFF FOR MEXICO CITY JUNEAU ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE. TEN CENTS OKLAHOMA GOV. IS IMPEACHED GOV, JOHNSON IMPEACHED ON " MANY CHARGES, Lower House of Oklahoma Meets, Secret Session— | Senate Given Charges | o ./ i OKLAHOMA CITY, 13--Bills of Okla., Dec. impeachment naming - Goy. Henry S. Johnson and two other State officials. were voted at 2 o'clock this morning by the lower House of the State - ture, self-convened at a secret session, and were given to the Board of Manager for pro-| Senfation to the Senate. The ses slon was held in defiance of the al Guardsmen mobilized by | vernor to prevent the ature from meeting any- | where in the State. i Unable to obtain 54 members necesgsary for a quorum, the House adjourned the first meet- ing shortly after midnight. A call for more members brought Repre- sentat s from their beds, clad; in night clothes, to the improvised ! hotel Assembly room. | 3 -Guaic ‘men | o State Capi-| Meanwniie, Nailor were sleéeping In tl tol. Bix* charges were quickly ap proved against Gov. Johneon. The ARGUMENTS IN . SINCLAIR CASE MADE TODAY Attorneys Address Jury— || Liquor Case Will Go to Jury This Afternoon Alaskar Drops Lead at Beef Steak: Party | \ SEATTLE, Dec. 13—A beef | | steak party for five men end- | ed abruptly last night when | one of their number choked | to death on a mouthful of meat. The feast had when Patr arcely 'k Clements, aged 47 years, an Alaskan, who startled his companions by his avidity, suddenly burst into a fit of coughing and dropped dead start ed Arguments in the case of the J vs. Charles Sinclair, on charged . with violation of the liguor laws, were opened |George W. Folta, Assistant trict Attorney, for th® pros tion this morning in the U. IH ln(t Court. He was fulln\\m] H. L. Faulkner, counsel for tlu defense who closed his argu- {ments at noon. U. 8. District Attorney Justin Harding is addressing the this afternoon. Mr. Folta opened his address | with the sertion that Charles Sinclair has shown a brazen de- Former Film Star Sues fol‘:fmnu- of the law seldom known $|00 OOO—Bleach in similar cases, that Sinclair had boasted he would never be of Pron—nse caught, that he was too smart for the prohibition officers. friends, Mr. Folta ‘said are per- {sons who belong to what is known as a lawless vicious element, a festering sore on the community. Sinclair knows where his Studebaker sedan Mr. Folta said. e, CLAIMS THAW w jury LOS A\(.l'l Iu. (,ul.. Dec. 13 Harry K. Thaw, famous as th= result of his lengthy and sensa- tional trial for the slaying of Stanford White, is made the de- fendant in a $100,000 breach of is, His | 8 Juneau Federal | Appropriation Increased of more than $5,000,000 over that provided by the House, the first deficiency appropriation bill has been reported to the Senate by the Appropriations Committee. The Senate in- creases included §50,000 for the Federal Building at Ju- neau, Alaska. SLUSH FUND PROBE WILL NOW PROCEED uenate Ends Fued Between| *“Cousins”—Commit- tee to Go Ahead SHINGTON, Dec. 13 ive vote of 58 to 21, the Senate has ended the fued of i only cousins, Dave Reed of Pe sylvania, and Jim Reed, of souri, formally reaflirming ority of its Special Funds Committee headed by the Senator from Missouri. The vote auth- y | the murde! Campaign | HELD WITHOUT '/ BOND, CHARGED | 'KILLING MATE Young Wo;x;a;l. Must An- swer for ‘‘Unspeakable ‘Crime,” Rules Judge LE. Ohlo, Dec West, wife of - the man, whose muti found in his hom at Perry, Ohio, last Tuesday. ha {been held to the iake Couni: [m nd jury without bond on first degree murder charge, Ihe killing of her husband Judge Marvin Helter ruled tha | the young woman should be hel without bond after the pr i ary hearing. The Judge decl that ‘killing was the “most eakable unm in the history | Lake couniy” and he ordered th woman taken back to | await the Grand Jury | Janua ! Mrs. West was arrested her last Thursday ard confessed saying she killed her ith a hammer and table 13 | Mrs. | young lated bod Tma w for areq un yhunhand w ieg. Sheritf Edward |she told him that domestic | culties led to the slaying. : West's body, with feet tied by twine, gag in mouth, and skul ! crushed, was found his hed Rasmussen said ditti in 'PASSENGERS FROM NORTHWESTERN ARE ONWAY TOSEATTLE BULLETIN—SEATTLE, Dec. 13.—Making a fast trip south from Campbell River, B. C., steam- er Alameda, bringing 107 passengers and all but a few of the crew of the wrecked steamer North- western, arrived in Seattle early this afternoon. The passengers were cheerful, although many had lost their persenal belongings in the werck and confusion of rescue. They were grected by the same friends and relatives who had bid them goodbye. The officers and crew of the Northwestern and Explorer are highly praised by the passengers. The passengers are staying at Seattle hotels today and tomorrow at the expense of the com- pany prior to leaving again for the norith on the Alameda on Thursday. CAMPBELL RIVER, B. C., Dec. 13.—Steamer Ala- mela left here last nu:ht for Seattle with 107 passengers| and part of the crew of the steamer Northwestern which grounded on Cape Mudge last Sunday morning at 5 o'clock; when northbound from Seattle for Alaska ports. The Alameda is due to arrive in Seattle late today and will proceed north again Thursday with the passenger:. Capt. Jock Livingston and part of the crew remain aboard the Northwestern until disposition of the vessel is letermined. A The Northwestern listed considerably Sunday night, ac- cording to officers of the lighthouse tender Estevan, and the Captain of the Estevan said he believed the vessel was! 50 badly battered that it will not be practicable to salvage. The Northwestern is partly filled with water and may be a total loss. FLIER TAKES OFF SUDDENLY ON LONG TRIP Lir{dbergh,-ir—lgpirit of St. Louis, Off on Good- Will Flight INGTON, Dee. 13.—Col. Lindbergh hopped off 9 o'clock this afternoon Spirit of St. Louis for a flight to Mexico City will take him over 2,000 of mountain, plains and WASH Charles at 12: in the nonstop which vouthful hero decided that the time and weather was right and_ announced he was ready to o on his good-will errand which ‘n expeeted to take him 26 hours. Col. Lindbergh quietly studied the weather and maps and his annovncement surprised officials both In Washington and Mexico City. Col. Lindbergh- took no para- chute with him on his flight. An Army escort of afrplanes was hurriedly prepared and ac- companied the flier to Richmond, Va. The airmen announced he fwas flyine at 85 miles an hour at a 700 foot sltitude. Col. Liudhergh's plane felled {in the first two attempts to take the air, getting away on the third trip when it traversed al- allegations, including a charge of | Promise suit by Forgst Hope Wall, i t lidateg |20, one time film extra, She a» also ordered the Committee (n|x|llur he failed to report for work ncompetency, were consolidate 4 N The Assistant District Attoiney| s witl| Thursday morning at Per Th PARCEL POST MAIL most the ent.n- field for presentation to the Senate, which declared jtself a qnll(led ; Court” of Tipea nt." Two State Officers Named Regpresentative = Noon revealed that Chiel Justice Fred Bran of the State Supreme Court, is charged with “corruption in of- fice” and Representative Grahara amounced the allegation of ir- regularities - in handling funds were preferred against Mark 1. Cordell, President of the State Board of Agriculture. Yesterday, the National Guards men, stand armed at the do of the Capitol Assembly room prevented the legislators from meeting. Charges Against Governor Representative Moon announce:di that the charges against Gov, Johnson and the vote carrying them were: replacing civil an thority with military authority, 14 to 6; incompetency, 49 to 5; awarding Commission as Peacs Officer to Jose Alvarado, alleged bank robber, 44 to 9; employment of Kirby Filzpatrick, attorney of Ardmore, as counsel for the State Banking Department, 40 to 13: alleged illegal payment of $7,900, through deficiency certificates on the banking department to em- ployees charged by the House In- vestigation. Committee, to have been illegally placed on the pay- Toll, 42 to 13; alleged conspiracy between the "Governor' and his confidential secrétary, Mrs. O. D. Hammons, and an unnamed per: son in connection with the collec- tion of a highway claim by a con- tractor, 46 to 8. e, — L. J. Kane, merchant at Hoo- nah, is a visitor in Juneau thi« week. He cawe here on the mail- ‘boat Margnita over the week-end. | enses, Thaw of being invelved in a ornia’ - love affair in May, % 5 L 55 A At that | show, Thaw the Pennsylvani for the insane, Court records an inmate «f State Hospital except for occa- sional to his mother. On these visits, newspaper records indicate, ,he returned promptly to the institution. He was released in April, 1924, The breach of promise suit asks money for a broken heart follow- ing five evenings spent with the man Miss Wall declared to hava been Thaw, at Laguna Beaco, California. ——t——— TALKING WIFE CAUSED $PLIT SEATTLE, Dec. 13--Unending and unpleasant tulk, coupled with his wife’s desire to live up to tha reputation of his family, notwitn- standing the fact that his income did not keep pace with his social status, caused the break in the marital relations of Merle Denny, scion of an old Seattle family and his wife. He gave testimony in the suit for divorce hln wife has instituted, Denny said@ his wife's talk is likewise blamed for driving- him out of business and into a posi- tion of living on $150 a mbnth, $100 of which he pays his wife as temporary alimony. He de- clared that it was nothing for his wife to keep him awake until % o'clock in the morning, talking to him. HOTTER SUMMER, LONG AND COLD WINTER FORECAST IN A. D. 13927|tain it was also the idea of Chi- WASHINGTON, Dec. 13—Win- ter, it one believes the joke books, is that season when smart young _ women discard their furs and put + on their flimsiest raiment. Or, if one takes the common, more or less agricultural meaning of the word, it designates the pe- | riod of embracing December, Jan- uary and February, in the United ~ States, or Noyember, January, in England. _ Astronomically, however, it is for the northern hemisphere that period of time between the Win- ter- Solstice and the Vernal Equi- nox—when the most direct rays December | nights and the sun is not so high over the horizon. The earth is so tipped on its axis that the rays of the sun fall upon the surface at such an angle that they are called upon to heat a much great- er area, for each unit, than in {#ammer, when the sun is most | directly overhead, and they have less time to get in their warming work. | In about 12,000 years, however, because of the gradual change in the earth’'s orbit, the northern hemisphere will be: closest to the sun in summer and farthest away in winter. The effect, say: Humphreys, will be shorter and compared the sheoting of Novem- v, | ber 18 last to that tl&ne hy Coast “rialicd eutters on wimers, and said these methods of cap- ture were similar, Recalls Testimony recalled the testimony of Diaz that Mathews and Soberg were indebted to Sinclair and at the close of the trial would be en a clean bill of health. He said that if the first testimony given by Diaz was false then the whole testimony built up by the defense was fal Mr. Folta criticised sharply the anti-prohibition policy of The Empire and the news stories of the trial appearing in The Em- pire December 9 and 10. Mr. Faulkner's Address For the first time in his court experience Mr. Faulkner in his address to the jury criticised an officer of the law, Prohibition Agent Chidester whom he said he could not regard in the same light as other officials. Mr. Faulkner said he could not accept the testimony of Chi- dester, that a man who would retend to he a bootlegger and who would employ a man like Diaz would mnot hesitate to go on the witness stand and tell any lie to bolster his own case. The counsel for the defense said Chidester built up a story against Sinclair to turn atten- tion from the fact that he had fired at the defendant's car, No- vember 18 last, endangering the lives of passersby and the occu- pants’ of the car, one of whom was his own man, He said Sin- clair's Studebaker sedan was tak- en and hidden away by Chidester for the reason he would not wish it entered as evidence in case ‘he was prosecuted for shooting at the car. Mr. Faulkner said he was cer- He dester that Diaz be told to get Mathews drunk and take him ~to ‘the District Attorney's office and that District Attorney Hard- ing and his assistant, Mr. Folta, had nothing to do with it. Mr. Faulkner declared Sinclair would be within his rights if he saw a man hold out a hand indi- (Continued on Page Ei:ht.)_ ———e—-— Democrats Slip ; One Over on Republicans WASHINGTON, Catching the Dee. Republicans off of ‘the sun point farthest south|hotter summers and longer and!8uard, the House Democrats yes- and when they cross the Equator. Actually, it is the coldest sea- _ som of the year, lfinno that th | earth, moving In its. orbit, is . about 3,000,000 miles closer to the sun in January them it is in ' June. 5 temperature is low, says J. Hnmrch nl the colder winters. | But, considering the time allow- ed, man has plenty -of time to adapt himself to the chauge. As far as the approaching winter is concerned, he has mot been abla, m avallable indications, to dict whether the temperature terday afternoon succe in amending the revenue bill to re- duce the tax rate on net corpora-| tion incomes, of $15,000 or | carry Committee meet immediately and map out PIANS. [0F TeSVININE. b8 INVeRLIZN-| tions into the Pennsylvania and Hiinois pr n'iw nr last year. LEIGH WADE HAS SIGNED FOR FLIGHT DALI Dec. 13 Wade in the flight, who for day. Wade, United circled the globe in start on his flight next — e Unexposed Relics Texas, Leizl signed fo proposed Dalls Col. William sterwood has offered a $50,000 prize the flight announced here to has -Hongkong one of fliers who 1924, wili April. who the States was Army “s!',“t," by X-Rays, STOCKHOLM, Dec. 13- A meth od of applying X-ray photography to archacological finds has been developed by Gillis Olsgen, an en- gineer attached to the Historical Museum of Stockholm. Many objects found in the carth are so fragile that they when exposed to the air and cleaned. By taking X-ray pictures before the relics have been un- covered Olsen says it is possible | to determine whether th are xnhmunl[nl enough to be salvaged. F;nner Kllk Wife, 5 Children, “Suicides HENNESSEY, Okla,, Dec. 13 Phillip Millis, a farmer, killed his wife and five small children with an axe then hanged himself froia} a rafter in his barn. Neighbors said he had been despondent over financial losses and family trouble. He killed his wife and children while they were sleeping early this morning. 13.—|! which 1s estimated to add $24-| 100,000 to tax reduction »! by the bill uhlicans, hope to reverse Many of the R dbsent when the vo participate | crumble | | slaging occurred Tnesday night. ritf Rasmuscen guoted Mrs Wosl as sayine sho stmick Westf lover the head twice, once with o thammer when he fell over. She gaid she also struck him with a table leg a number of times, Mrs. | West, said she changed her cloth ing and went by automobile to the home of a friend in this city. | West, who was 26 years of age was a son of T. B. West, nation- Yally known nursery man. AMERICAN IS MOBBED {Reparation and Apology Will Be Demanded ! from Rumania | i ORADEAMARA, Rumania, Dec |13.—Appeals to the Rumanian Military Guards by Wilfred Kel- ler, American, to save him from a student mob last week, were ignored according to a witness [of the sceme. The witness, an| [impartial one, supported his statements by unbiased facts. This has led the American Min- ister to Rumania to believe the ack on Keller during the anti- mitie should be expiated only| by reparation and an apology from the Rumanian Government. {Quantities of Wax Extracted from Peat LONDON, De 3—The lowly peat bed may never rival th> honeycomb as a source of wax, but British scientists have suc- ceeded in extracting w#@ from j the .partially carbonized material \that dis used for fuel in some parts of the world. With . chlgroform, benzine or {mixtures of benzine and alcohol as solvents, the research worke:s have obtained a wax yleld of from 6 to 25 per cent from peat. IEx- i ish the value of the peat as fuel. e —— WHERE HOSIERY’S LUXURY DAKAR, Sengal, Dec. 13—Ho- siery salesmen steer clear of ‘this section, for whilé the ulation {of the British and French colonies | totals 36,000,000, fully 99 per cent || are natives who do not wear hose. The others 9huln their hosfery | cause the method ‘purt.llllfl‘ supplies locall; b FELT HATS VIANT‘D TOKYO, Dec. 13-—Trade observ ers congider the' Far East<an ex: | | callent manket for felt,Hats, poirt- ing to Japan's 1926 -exports with 1 total ‘value of $1,082,000. Ameri- can exports-to the num to- | znllt-d m : %fi‘- pit. Major SLATTLL Dec. 13.—~The special sailing of the steamer or Thursd | Alom is sch? as far.as possible, as u[ mer western, and special shipment of mail for the interior, giv- ing Alaska her annual Yulet pite the wrecking of the steamer. I’ract:cally all of the gruunded ship's parcel post mail consisting of 1,899 pounche cargo, destroyed by water. Ralph Alexander, worked until the mail room water, when he was forced of Christmas packages dest The registered mail, ters were saved. was lost. Many passengers SAVES CAN CAMPBELL RIVE prominent merchant of Ju mail clerk 15 pouches and 40 sacks of let- Everything that can be harmed by water OF GOLD FISH R, B. C., Dec. 0., FORGE N I.ANDEII IN CANTON Field Guns Takcn Ashore from Gunboat—Pro- tect Foreigners SHANGHAI Dec. 13--The Unit- ied States gunhoal Sacramento hag |landed field guns at Canton to 13.—Frank Gordon, protect forelgners. Anchorage, Seward -"ult The tield guns ¢ with duplicate. order chandise was lost on the hnrth- ide cheer from the outside, de«-‘ s, is also a total | with thc! The registered mail was su’efil on the Northwestcrn, | was more than waist decp with: to abandon hundr of sacks| ined for Alaskan cit also lost their baggage. neau, were taken to Fairbanks, passepger aboard the Northwestern, succecded|the United States Consulate amd in saving a ean of goldfish manded uf Santa (ldll Heéarst Talks On. Democratic (,muhdates NEW \URK Dec. 13 liam Randolph Hearst, article published, today New York World, says Sena tor James A. Reed, of Mis- souri, has the best chance of being elected of any candidate ! in the field for the Democra- | tic Presidential nomination, but that Gov. Al Smith has the best chance to win the | momination. Wil in an Scented Ether Mvas]( Brin]_u!lasier Sleep| BERLIN, Dec. . 13 - Sweetl scented ether masks are the la est surgical innovation, recorde by Dr. Gohrbrandt in the “Deu sche Mendizinis¢he schrift.” When the mask is placed over traction does mot serfously dimin-|the face of the paticnt on the oo- erating table, it s at first ng sprinkled with ether or chlor form but with . Cologne which is gradually replaced b the anaesthetic. Surgeons who have given this pa- method a uifl report tients are put to slecp qu easier thanm ordinarily, the suffocati cough that cker ang frequenti, from France by ' parcel post be-inoticed, as the Mauseating smell ‘cheaper than|of the narcotic s entirely elimia- ated. Owens MIAMI, Reginald O late Wil eran of D c. -in-law of th Army, *|Warsaw Police Cite in the | Wochen watar without 13—Major Bryan, vet- diel gontracted dur: v | the Amenjcan forces aided in the which his little daughter de- | evacuation of tarkignare TN A8 ! Chinese sections which are con- “ltrolled by Communists who have {ousted (he latest Canton dictator, . . Chang Fak Wel. | Women Taxi Dl‘l'efls Armed Inunches from the | WARSAW, Poland, Dec, 13- [l!nlted Btates gunboat Pampanga Warsaw has only two women have been sent to Tungshaw, a chauffeurs wmong the 1,500. driv-| suburb of Canton, to bring Ameri- ers of taxicabs. They are thecans there to safety. Misses Stanislas Nowaczek and | Blanka Markiowics. LONDON, Dec. 13--Soviet gov- Despite the faci chat driving is|ernment has been established in extremely difficuit in Warsaw as ' Canton by the Communists, who iborsecabs are still very numer-'seized the city, press dispatches tous and heavy cars with £0gds said. One of the most prominent pass on' the main streets, the two. Commigsars is leader of the Sea- irl-chauffeurs have never been mens' Union who was bitterly blamed for a traffics jam. hostile to Hongkong autheritiey They never have had &n acel'and was former chicf Secretary of dent and are held ar exampies Michael Borodin, Russian advisor .|'o their men colleagues by the io the former Canton Nationalist Warsaw pnllm fovernment. PARIS EDITOR I‘IFTURBS COOLIDGE “LIKE CLERGYMAN,” WITHOUT NERVES PARIS, Dec. 13 - Prosident|that his thought had never loft y | Coolidge may learn how he im | America, the United States, for t-| presses a Frenchman if he reads|one second. Elsewhere he sup- d|{M. Lucien Romier's description of | posed each wou!d do as he does. i-{him in the “Revue des Deux Mon-{ “But he! 1lis burden is heavy !des.” M. Romier, ...,.n lately an|enough, a continent to govern, to editor of the “Figaro,” I|”3(‘flb«’llh"“' to manage. This slendor 'hlu interview with the pr"mqt man has under his command larse. thus: jer (errltories and more peopls thau ever had Alexander or Na- poleon. His only care is evident- Iy to maintain balance in unity and unity in balance. “1 spoke of the American ecn- nomic situntion, of the slowing dp of certain indnatries, of the farm. ing eris Hig physiognomy be- ot 3 “President Coolidge rose and shook hands, He is tall, dry, his shoulders a little hent, his hair blonde and smooth, his eyes pale, almost timid, his complexion clear, his features those of a clergyman. This visage, wsensi- tive as a selsmograph, expresses|came animated, speculation W both austerity and close calenla-|im his eyes. Miracle! he apoke, tion. He smiles courteously, of | uc cxpluined, he poured de- ficially but _atfably, nothing of i, ‘v\uau “ pote, no sign of presumption, n')~ word thing ecertainly of the theatre por'nucum ‘No! of the cinema. He is there over- “He has a cool y d Y burdened, perhaps, without nerves|acity a little high, the . neither Impatient, presiding inpride, the republican simple pride over an fmmense! Figally the word Mexico came force, an immense work and Im-|{1 was about to visit mense riches, " o “I spoke to him of listened gravely, Lrteh aisipume.