The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 21, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY AL KIDNAPPER AND MURD “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” " JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1927. MEMBER SKA EMPIRE OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ERER ELUDES SEARCH BY POLICE CAPITOL FUND | #1S CARRIED IN REGULAR BILL Gov. Parks Wires Appro- priation for Local Build- ing Sure of Passage The appropriation for beginning construction on the Territorial capitol building here is containe: in the regular Treasury Depar ment appropriation measure no pending in Congress, according telegraphic advices received today by Frank A. Boyle, Secre tary of the Chamber of Com- merce, from Gov, George A. Parks. ¢ This takes the place of the $200, 000 item which was eliminatel last week from the deficiency ap- propriation bill when it was if ence. her= |} » Governor’s telegram to M. id the Treasury Depart- confident the bill wili the Juneau item the « first of next Parks has been as- gged by the Supervising Archi- u(l. that everything is in readi ness to proceed with plans for the building immediately on pas age of the measure. It will prob- ably be three or four months, however, before work can stari, he said. Funds for beginning construc- tion ~on the local building were Joyle ment is carrying shortly after year. Gov. pass ¥ o |Joseph J. Jores of Chicago and his bride, snapped just after thé}"a been married tinder one of those newly popular “companionate” agreements, the ceremony being altered to read: “Till death or the inclination of either of us do us part.” WAS FORCED T0 AID THE COVERNMENT included. in _aideficiency measure F passed by the House auring the last session of Congress, the ifem being for $150,000. This measue was passed again by the House immediately after Congress con- vened early this month, and the “*Juneau item was unchanged. The Senate raised -the amount to $200,006 when the measure was passed by it. Last week in con- ference the item was stricken en- tirely. Press dispatches merely said it had been eliminated, giving no reason for that action. The Chan ber of Commerce immediately wired Gov. Parks for information From his telegram it is apparent that the reason for dropping it was because it was included in the regular Treasury Department supply measure. More Corn This Year Than Last, U. S. Says WASHINGTON, Dec. —Al- though corn yield in the Balkav states is regarded as distinctly disappointing, the department agriculture has reports from five European countries that produc- tion will be slightly higher -thaa anticipated. The American corn crop now :s estimated at 2,753,249,000 bushels, which is four per cent above the ' 1926 yleld. Fourteen countries, representing about 90 per cent'uf the total Northern Hemisphere corn production, show a prospec- tive erop of 3,211,256,000 bushels. American Marine Pays MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 21 ~—Another American Marine has given his life in an attempt of Marines and National Guardsmer to . curb the ‘rebel activities in . Northern Nicaragua. Private Ber- nard F. Galloway was killel when a joint pistol patrol encounterel a band of 200 rebels and fighting followed. of 'District Attorney WASHINGTON, ward Kidwell, Jr., who has 1 the Jack in the Box in the of the jury oil conspir; turned on the testified he had been intimated by the District Attorney’s offic Called as a government witne. in the criminal contempt hearing against Harry F. Sinclair, Burns and others, Kidwell, who was on the jury in the oil scandal, charg- ed that James O'Leary, Assistant District Attorney, 'forced him fo sign an affidavit that O'Reilly, Burns detective, had ap- proached him. He swore that a2 told the Prosecutor that part of the statement concerning O'Reilly was not true. The District At- torney's office later denied the accusations. . Oklahoma Legislature Forbidden Hold Session OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.,, Dec. 21—Members of the Oklahoma Legislfture were today perman- ently enjoined by the County Dis- trict Court from holding a special session. The court ruled that the self-convened session is illegal and that the members cannot meet; that they cannot continue with impeachment proeeedings against Gov. Henry 8. Johnson and two other state officials. ——————— — CASE MAY END TODAY The case of Bowersox vs. The B. M. Behrends Bank, a civil suit now before the U. 8. District Court, will go to the jury late this afternoon, it is expected. Members of the regular panel of the petit jury reported in Court this morning and were ex. cused until 10 o’clock tomorrow morning. of the late yesterday government | VIGILANT SENTRIE PROTECT BABY KING BPCHAREST, Rumania, Dec. 21 —S8ix year old King Michael is ' more carefully guarded than the President of the United Statés. . Although probably only v the basest person would ever dream ‘doing violence to Princess lene’s sweet little son, who, is ~ sixteen million people, every step is dogged by vigil- _gecret service men, eager 1y sudden upheaval in the mates without a platoon of guards following him. Since the discov- ery of the alleged plot to restore Michael’s father, Prince Carol, to the throne, police have taken double precautions to protect the life of the infant who has inherit- ed the crown. ‘Whenever the lad drives ‘through the streets of the cap'- EVERYBODY’S DOING IT NOW. (Taternational Newareel) .| of Fall-Sinclair | Frank | IS GANDIDATE Missouri State Chairman Says So—Reed Not WASHINGTON, his friends actively seeking tha Democratic Presidential nomina- tion for him, United States Sena- |tor James A. Reed, will not under any circumstances again become a candidate for the Senate. Samuel W. Fordyce, Chairman of the Missouri Democratic State Committee, made the statement formally. “I am uing this statement this time because of the persistent rumors started presumably by cer- tain metropolitan newspapor:, that Senator Reed is not seeking the nomination for President.” Fordyce said, after a visit lo Senator Reed's office in the Capi- tal: “While it is perfectly trua, Senator Reed is not seeking the nomination, 1 wish to state most emphatically his friends are seek- {ing it for him: He is cognizant of this. Great pressure has been brought to persuade Reed also ‘o file for renomination to the Sen- ate, which under the Missou i law, must be done next June." Fordyce said the friends of Sen- ator Reed will do everything in their. power _to.acquaint’ the: peo- ple with Reed’s record and ex- plain reasons for vietion he can be nominated President and be elected.” - eee Dec. 21—With an OUTSTANDING DEMOCRAT OF - SENATE DIES of{ 'Senator A. A. New' Mexico, Washington. D.C. WASHINGTON, Dec. Deain | has removed from the Senate one its outstanding Democrats, Senator Andricus A. Jones, ol New Mexico. mn for 21 | Shortest Day | Of Year Is | Tomorrow A victim of frequent attacks of angina pectoris, Senator Jones died at his residence, here last night in his 65th year. His condi- tion had been weakened by a | that had confined him to hi ters since the start of the present | session of Congress and he was | unable to overcome the suddan recurrence of his ailment, | The winter solstice for the present year will ocenr tomor- row, December 22, at 11:18 a. m., Juneau time. That | means that we shall have the shortest day of the winter to- { morrow, and while it will not | | be noticeable for a few days, | the sun will start northward Andrieus A. Jones, Democrat, «{ : East Las Vegas: lawyer and stock | | and the hours of daylight be- raiser; born May 16, 1862, near| | 8 to, get longer each day Union Cliy, Tonm: son o Rav | | for the following six months. James H. W. and Hester A. A.|! (May) Jones; B. S. Valparaiso g o i University 1884, A. B. 1885, NGI taught school in Tennessee, and | was principal of public schools of BENTON HARBOR, Mich, Dec. 21—Their belief that “King” Ben- | Las Vegas 1885-1887; admitted to| | New Mexico bar 1888, bar of Su- | preme Court United States 1894; | | president of New Mexico Bar As- sociation 1893; mayor of Las V- gas 1893-94; special United States attorney 1894-1898; delegate Dem- ocratic national convention, Chi- cago, 1896; chairman New Mexico|jamin Purnell, who died last Fri- Democratic committee 1906-190%; | day, would arise from the dead, is chairman New Mexico Democraticjreduced to a mere hope today. committee during first State cam-|The leaderless House of Davil paign, 1911; member Democratic|colonists set about reorganizing national committee since 1908; |affairs. Frank Wyland, the received vdte of all Democratic |sonal bodyguard of the “King,” members of first State Legisli-|has been declared for the time ture of New Mexico, 1912, for|being to be temporarily in charge United States Senator; First As-jand he will be aided by Attorney gistant Secretary of Interior 1913 | De Whirst who deserted his legal 1916; at general election, 1916, “e | practice in California, to join Pur- received 34,142 votes for United jnell’s following and rapidly arose States Senator; Frank A. Hub-|{to a place of importance, secona bell, Republican, received 30,622; |to the Ruler. and W. P. Metcalf, Socialist, 2. >oo——— . MRS. METZGAR ILL —avo— i o Mrs. L. H. Metzgar has been in DM s“lh the hospital for the past two days T. Rgvi'e Tl’.de for medical treatment and is re- ported recovering rapidly. e ——— LONDON, Dec. 21-—Increased bank deposits would be the hest available means for- financing a trade revival in England, believes Frederick Hyde, president of tha Institute of Bankers and divector of Midland Bank, Ltd. Hyde suggests that hankers should corsider the advisability of inducing persons with . weekiy wages to open bank accounts and thus _minimize the use of cash in making payments. * i lish banks have: to welcome small dcco perhaps has been credit having peen ad|tended by English - situa: | ~ FORPRESIDENT| i 1 i b “our firm con. "INOMAN SAVED {on the island ‘of Manhattan sines | SENATORREED | ZAMMANY QUI ters farther uptown. "FROM_BURIAL WHILE ALIVE {In Coffin—Hears Funeral | Sermon—DBrother Discerns Life 1 LURAY, Va., Dec. 21.—Having {listened to a funeral sermon preached over her coffin in which she had spent the night. unable (to signal those who believed her |dead, Miss Fannie Broyles is alive today at her home. Ths woman’s brother, James Broyles, who stood about the cas- {ket with other mourning rela- itives, noticed a twitching of his sister's eyelid and the funeral| |services were halted. Resuseiation efforts were be- lgun and in a short time the girl |was able to talk. She said she twas awarg of all that occurred around her as she lay in the cas- ket, but still stunned from a blow om the head when a tree 'llnm fell upon her, was unable to move or speak. Finally her ifears of bheing buried alive re- |vived her nerves so one eyelid fluttered. Miss Broyles was this after- noon pronounced fully recovered. e — \ for Remus on December 28 CINCINNATI, Ohio, Deec. 21— George Remus, acquitted yester- day of slaying his wife, on the | ground of insanity, will get a san- 'll_v hearing on December 28, Judge Leaders announced today. Remus has been denied bond and jmust remain in jail until his hear- ing. NOTICE TO PUBLIC On’ mext Saturday, Decem- ber 24, the regular fssue of The Dally Empire will con- sist of 24 pages. In order that the final section may go to press earlier than usual to provideé for assembling of the three sections and dis- tribution by the carriers, all special es of Christmas exarcises all kinds must be in The Empire office: not | later them. Friday | avenue, | will {has no dearth of landmarks. % The vcnerable home of Tammany Hall on Néw York’s lower eact side is to be abandonel for At the left is the building cf the Democratic organization as it looks to- , and at ‘the right a scene at its" dedication duding"thé- National Democratic Convention in. 1867,/ ong famous Tammany members are Grand Sachem John A. Vcorhis (left), 97, and Gov. AMred E. Smith (center). The statue of the Tammany Indian (right) has become a party symbot. N an ‘W YORK, Dec. 21T m- Hall, symbol of democracy m 1789, is quitting its 6o-vear-old | home on the fringe of the Bowery. | From his historic “wigwam™ on the lower east glde, Tammany wili | move within & year to new quas- | ters farther uptown, closer to the | shifting center of the metropolis fand not far from Central Pack and the spires ' of upper Fifth | With it will go the paintings of past leaders which hang about the smoky walls, and the statuc of Chief Tammany which rises from a metal gornice atop the dingy red brick building. Bt with the razing of the structu bv interests whieh have acqui the site, a vemerable be missed by a el landmark city which To the nation at large Tam- many Hall represents the demo- cratic organization which has been a power in New York politics for | generations and which sprang from a society founded 136 years| ago by William Mooney, Irish up- holsterer, to fight the aristocratic | federalists under Alexander H ilton. But there is also nal side of Tammany, or bian Order,” closely allie charter of which defines it as . “benevolent and charitable society for affording relief to indigent and distressed members, their | widows and orphans and othe: proper objects of ¢l 2 Tammany's politic star hag | not always been ascendant, bacl the society has emerged from fre-| quent political defeats with new vigor. It wag hardest hit when “Boss" Tweed was exposed for graft and imprisoned to die m Ludlow Street jail. Other scan- dals have toughed it, but they have been suryived and, to a great extent, lived down. ~ In modern years a ‘new Tam- many” has beep heralded, led by such men as former Judge George W. Olvany, ‘present Tammany chieftain; Governor Alfred .| Smith of New York, a sachem in | the order; Mayor James J. Walk- er, U. S. Senator Robert F. Wag- ner and James W. Gerard, former ambassador t0 Germany. Since wo came into politizs | they have had a share in Tam- many’s acth , and teas in the society clubréoms have alterad the social pi m of which Fitz Green Hllllm”:he poet, sang a century ago: *ffl of porter in “There’s a h are swigging it ng. .Alld the In the time fiy youth ‘twas a TS HISTORIC HOME, DEMOCRATIC CENTER FOR 60 YEARS {21 {the gale died down this morning | sunken M- Ginley had been transferred from * the S-4 before the submarine lef: MORE EVIDENCE 1S SECURED IN GIRL'S MURDER {Hickman Was Seen Carry- ing Packages to an Automobile DIABOLICAL. CRIME 'CAREFULLY PLANNED {Drug Store.s‘—Eo bbed of Anesthetics—No Clues of Whereabouts { . LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 21. —While a cloud of clues and Ifalse leads effectively screened | the hiding place of William Ed- ward Hickman, kidnapper, who murdered and mutiliated 12-year- old Mariam Parker, daughter of Perry Parker, bank official, bits of evidence are being fitted to- ‘gelher to solve the puazzle of his | past. | Evidence presented by the po- {lice, picture the youthful “Dr. {Jekyl and Mr. Hyde” on one hand, and a neat orderly boy who attended church and Sunday {School, and never stayed out late jat night, on the other hand. vy Robbed: Stores “The Fox,” who for weeks planned and carpied out his cool, {cunning and diabolical murder !for revenge, is pictured as sho ing Wiin for three weeks, preced: ing the kidnaping, staging a ser- ies of. drug store robberies to ob- tain a stock of anesthetics and sleeping potions. He is declared |to have placed a pistol in a druggist's ribs and forced the [druggist to give the minute in- structions as to the use of an- csthetics. The druggist was ome BELIEVE ALL Murder Apartment police have definitely lo- leated | the the apartment in which Iprint and photographs have iden- Last Faint Taps_Heard‘Last Night from Sub- marine S-4 PROVINCETO Naval vessels marine rescue kidnapper lived. Finger . | " (Continued on Page Two.) | gt . ok = WHEELER 1S HEAD, WHITE Mass., resumed operations considerably there is no but it longer is a believed possibility | life remained on the S$-4. No | . { sounds from the submarine have | PA Bn E ;been heard since 6 o'clock last J |night when seven faint taps were detected. CNamed Preél}{ilgnl ompany — Chicago Offices Moved West SEATTLE, Dec. 21—The head offices of the White Pass and Yu- kon Route will be moved from Chicago to Seattle and Vancouver, B. C, effective January 1. H. Wheeler has been named President succeedinfg F. C. Elliotc | who is retiring. The White Pass and Yukon Route operates in two countries and two offices are necessary. George Jounson plead guilty tc|The change from the east to the possession of intoxicating liquor | Pacific Coast was forced through and was fined $25 and costs in|the growing tourist business aad the U. S. Commissioner's cour:|freight traffic due to increased this morning, Johnson was ar-|mining activities in the Klondike rested yesterday by T. L. Chides-'and adjacent territory. ter, at present deputy prohibition | The early boom days are beinz administrator. Mr. Chidester sail|replaced by hard rock develop- Johnson was drunk and had a ments, hydraulic workings and pint, of whiskey in his possession dredging on a large scale. ASK CONGRESS AID CIVIL W AR REUNION great reunion of Confederate ani|Nebraska, Richards said, will Union veterans in WashMgton in|bring the plea before eanmqr‘# 1928, Others who have become inte:~ L. D. Richards of Fremont, past|ested in the proposal have sug- commander of the Nebraska|gested that Gen. John J. Perah- Grand Army of the Republe, two|ing be made chairman of years ago conceived the idea of ajmovement and that € final gathering of the mmg‘Amerlcln Legion officials -~ & hosts of civil war veterans. 1t overseas veterans be given pl has been his dream since them. |[of honor on a board of ; The G. A. R., however, has nev-| ments. LSk | the| Richai of DIES FOR FRIEND PROVINCETOWN, Mass, Dec 21--A friendly act for a brother officer sent Lieut. Joseph MeGin ley Execntive Officer on the | submarine S-4 to his death, his father said today. Me- Portsmouth on the fatal trip but| stayed aboard so another officer could spend a few days before Christmas with his family. ——,e—— PAYS LIQUOR FINE FREMONT, Neb., Dec. 21—Con- Bress probably will be asked at this session to set aside am ap- thousand newspapers over the country, Richards says, have sup- ported it editorially.