The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 27, 1927, Page 2

Weather Conditions Al Recorded by the U S. Weather Bureau Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, begtnning 4 v. m. today: cold; 2 YOUTH TELLS OF CRIME TO L. A, GFFICERS Makes New Confesslon Re- garding Kidnapping and Murder Fair tonight and continued fresh t strong easterly winds. LOCAL DATA Barom, Temo. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather|: 4 p. m. yest'y . 29.65 20 55 SE 16 Cldy 4 a. m. today...R9.95 10 52 E 20 Clear Noon today 30.08 9 57 E 20 Clear Wednesday; For After Christmas and Pre- Inveniory Week — We Are Of- CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS o . - R 2 Odds and Ends at Bar- (Conunuen trom Page one) | VESTRLGR ] g i sending a telegram saying Marian| Nome 10 6 | wis safe and the instructions to| Bethel .= 12 Clear follow regarding the ransom,| Fort Yukon .. -16 46 - Clear Hi¢kman and the girl spent the| Tanana Rt P 2 - Clear remainder of the day at a theatre| Bagle ... =68 -60 Clear and in Hickman's apartment. ls”vtr;l‘*“}l{ i :: ':: (:lf;;r ute! arbor.. 42 2 . Cldy B e ickman| Kodiak 32 Clear the letter demanding a| Cordova 82 Clear He tied Marian to a| Juneamw . ... Clear chair while he mailed the letter.| Ketchikan . . Cldy Upon his return, Marian was al-| Prince Rupert Cldy lowed to write a letter and also| Hdmonton Clay another the next day. Seattle Clly Hickman said he promised Mar-| Portland . Pt. C fan he would return her if no| San Francisco.. money was forthcoming. Hickman got the idea at this point in the crime that he should kill the girl because of possible identification were she returned ‘ |alive. He strangled her with a towel for two minutes, then used the piano wire. Hickman said he always wanted to kill somebody. DEFENDER IS ANNOUNCED KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 27. ~—Carrying a letter to Hickman assuring him the family would “stand by him to the end,” Jer- “lomé Walsh, attorney and the }| youngest ‘member of the State Legislature, is ready to defend the confessed slayer. The announcement of the re- tention of Walsh as chief defense counsel, was made by Hickman's mother who telegraphed District v Attorney Keyes, at Los Angeles, Announcement has been receiv- Sp I'da rather that pending Walsh's arrival “1|¢d here of the wedding of Miss s I'd like vely on you to see that all of Ida Elise Myhre ‘and Mr. R. S. ‘nlhm clients do it!” my son’s legal rights are pre-|Reierson, in Seattle on December ———————— served, which I feel certain you!S. “Mr: and Mrs. Reierson will bu\FWE PERCENT REWARD wifl do.” at home after January 15, at FOR FRENCH “FINDERS’ Sorome Walkh White Bluffs, Wash. i PARIS, Dec. 27—Charming ac- age. B Both Miss Myrhe and Mr. tresses who lore strings of pearls Relerson are well known here,|and million dolar furs will hava They werd instructors in the le-ito pay for their publicity hereai- cal high school for sometime, ter. Miss Myhre head of the English| Finders of the lost treasures department and Mr. Reierson of | will be entitled to a 5 per cent}p the manual training and other|reward for the-return of the arti- subjects. cles under a bill adopted by the —,,——— chamber and considered certais HINDENBURG STANDS STILL to be approved by the senate. WITH NO BIRD TO LOOK AT French law now gives finders BERLIN, Bec. 2i—President von | title to lost property it it is un Hindenburg ' recently gave ' mnew claimed a year and a day after i proof_df the excellent condition of | i turned igtg the police. his merves by posing motionless The new system of rewards was for & ‘photographer for 25 seconds, | Nspired by several Striking . in- i ‘“Phe day on which the pres:. |Stances of ingratitude by wealthy SAYS HICKMAN CONFESSED |dent agreed to come to my studio | Persons who —gave startlingly small sums to honest persons who fce Creepers Juneau-Young Hardware Co. Time— ferin -y Clear Hardware and Undertaking —16 ~Such as Aprons, Towels, Also All Ready-to- cain Gloves, etc. The wrote ransom. gl Wear. w @ = 42 50 .01 88 tham 10 mu Note.—Observations at Duich Harbor, TRKodiak, Juneau, Princ Rupert, Edmonton, Seattle, Portland and San Francisco are made at 4 a. m. and 4 p. m., Juneau time. The storm area that was central over Kodiak Island Sunday morning has moved southward to British Columbia, the lowest reported pressure this morning being 29.36 inches at Prince Rup- ert. ‘The barometric pressure was high Monday evening over the Interfor of Alaska, the highzst being 30.60 inches at REagle. Under its influence, the coldest weather of the winter being*ex- perienced over the Upper Yukon Valley, — Eagle having had a temperature of 60 degrees below zero. The area of high bar- ometer had decerased in intensity during Monday night and a further decrease is indicated. Fair and cold weather will continue over Southeastern Al- aska for another day. —— e e i B.M. Behrends Co.; fnc: Juneau’s Leading Department Store Every Month in the Year! 1928 SAL DATES September 19 October 24 | stand stil! rather long. Imagin- Mmm ANB MR' | my surprise when he stood there, REIERSON ARE WED tirm iike a ‘rocher de bronze, for | fuil ive seconds! 1 was May 23 Tune 27 January 25 February 21 March 21 July 25 November 21 April 25 August & December 12 Spectal Sales Held on chuest of S]upyeu Advance Made on Shipments When * Requested SEATmz -URF.XCHANGE 65 MARION STREET VIADUCT SEATTLE US A to see my is 25 years of ATTEMPTS SUICIDE KLAMATH FALLS, Ore, Dec. 27—Willlam Edward Hickman, un- der heavy guard, was enrout: through here Sunday night for Los Angeles, California, on the Cascade Limited train. Hickman twice attempted sui- cide before taken from the Pendle- ton, Oregon, jail "to the train Once he tried to strangle himself. then again by diving from , his bunk to the concrete floor of his cell. . Eleven Vecto Heaters Sold during the month of November and all giving perfect satisfaction. AR Thirty-soven bodies recovered and seventeen others ) in the history of modern | Quebeo, With one the bodies of those recovered were those of girle in age from four to nine years. burfed bencath the debris of th Hespice is the death toll of the most destructive fire e Saint Charles rangl national Nlustra wer I-'ORMER COV BONE AND FAMILY SENDS SEASON’S GREETINGS TO ALASKA Mrs. now in Former Governor and Scott C. Bone and fami living in Southern Califo a letter just received, request that The Empire extend their greetings to Alaska friends and best wishes for a Merry Christ- mas and Happy New Year, ““Absence has not diminished their interest i or the Northland, but only enhanced both,” ex-Gov. Bone writes. He added they hope to visit the Ter- ritory during the summer of 1928. “Regular readers of The Empire, still our favorite news- paper, we thus keep well-inform- ed on Alaskan affairs,” he said The former Governor in recent months hag spent much of hi time in Washington and New York, but rejoined Mrs, their children in the holida) California for > BRANDY FAKING INDUSTRY GROWS LONDON, Dec. faking in England has become such a profitable busin that the bowl of dealers has been fili- ed to overflowing. There are some §,000 firms and individuals engaged in the fake brandy business, who aver com- panies selling genuine vintage| brands have opened a campaign against the fakers as an eye op- ener to the public. The swindlers are becoming alfogether too beld and too plentiful, says the old| firm representatives, and have bheen printing their own labels and even making their own bot-! tles after designs of bottles of Brandy Bone and} Committee Favors Mount McKinley, National Park WASHINGTON, Dec to establish the Mount M National Park in Alaska h reported favorably by the Territories Committee. The mittee also approved of the w ure to authorize Seward to i §50.000 in Public School houd Hous: com affection for| * B. Green, tr by hi . — B. & uumumt'(l T He ha Marshall has bcer hool in Seattle. Among the als on the Ad- miral Watson were J. R. Maurstad 12 Jdward Naghel, who has becn attending the - Alaska Agricultural College for the last year, came to uneau on the Alameda for a two * visit with his parents. H. W. Averill of Fairbanks was a through passenger on the Alameda enroute to the outside. S. M. Graff of the Seward Light and Power Company, is on the .-\hlmt‘ni‘l enroute to’ the States. Ho Is accompanied by Mrs. Graff. (m his way to the outside for 9 visit, Eam L. Godfray, mining man lditarod, passed through hore ou the Alameda. H. G, Hderton, general agent for the Alaska Railroad, was visitor' in Junean while the Ala meda was in.port. many years ago. ‘Habitues of the night clubs/ the chief victims of the: ly fakers, it is mmeuded, bottles are smeared with| the labels mussed up witn! »‘uflon- ways to give the| of age, and nu:' therein, costing perhaps is often retailed for . or more. leon” is a favorite fakers, wheth ¥ the o trom Cognuc, Hol-| on Miss Christine Halvorson, buy- er for Goldstein’s Emporium, left the Alameda for the States. She will visit for two weeks at her home in Salem, Oregon, and ithen will go east on a buying trip. JERSES s g ENTERS HOSPITAL Henry Yrjana entered the Si. | Ann’s howlulchrlu-u Day !C' medical treatment. ! g ‘Old papers mmn m .| from the E—— exceytion, g i |GARDEN N THE. AlR: - FOUND IN TROPICS CHICAGO, Dec. 27--An '“aerial rden,” a clump of flowerinz plants that grew far from sofl'of any kind, has boen placed on' ex- | hibition in the Field Museum in Chicago. 3 it is a gorn Juxm “mgie for of exoti¢' plants nt. vegétation ‘o where in thé mace and’ 14t man; diffe kind: of flowering plant: a { rfeed to lve in the tops of trcar, according to Dr. B. E. D:h'mon. acting curator of botany ~f th ' museam, ‘who ob: tained ' * specimen while at the head of the Stanley Fleltl British | Guiana sxneditwm | The le mass ccnters about |a voung fig tvae, whicn beghus 1ts | existence as a parasite anth its | long aerial roots, faliing from th. | branches of ths supporting cen reach the ground. affer wii 'h | it is enabled to “stand on its own feet.” Clustered about fhis in ‘the top garden ‘are the other which are not parasitic “but “epiphytes”—that is, Dr. Dahlgren explulns. plants with a “perching habit.” Amo them are a'r plants of the pineapple family, a flat-jointed cactus, a sim ed aroid, and an orchid wl‘h spidery yéllow flowers. About the plants is a dest built by a colony the Guiana competition low the nest there is a tropical mistletoe. ——ee——— VERNE WELCH RETURNS PORTLAND, Dec. 27-~The Port- land Telegram yesterday said i had learned on - good 'atithority that Hickman had confessed '‘to was a dark, rainy one, and I was dalmost in despair, for T Knew 1 would have to make a time ex- posure of some length,” the pho- found and returned large sums of | money. | Just the Thing for This Weather the “authorities that he alone was rosponsible for the brutal ‘murder &f Marian ‘Parker, 12 year old girl, whom he kidnapped. The Telegram says ‘the officers would ‘not ‘divulge the confession until Hickman was safely jailed for fear of lynching. It was re- ported 'the ‘crfime’ ‘was 'committsi in a more gruesome manner than tographer narrates. “The president military punctuality. ‘In what position ‘does your excellency wish to be photographed? I inquired. ‘Here you are the boss’ replied the president, ‘I submit to your directions’.” “I ‘then ‘broke the news gently to' him ‘that on ‘account of the murky weather he would have to arrived with |” generally supposed. AIMEE' SENDS ‘REWARD " LOS ANGELES, ‘0sl., Dec. 27— Mrs. Almee McPherson has blazed the Way Tor' the golden stream of reward money for ‘those contiect- ed with the capture of Hickman. Checks for $100 each have bexn Bent to Pendleton ‘Chief of Policn ‘Gudrawe, State Sergeant Liellan, o captured Hickman: George Willotighby, * Seattlé haberdashae, and Sergedint ‘Barlow, Los Angeles Ilg';er print eXpért> i " Janeau's ucund cold wave M present ‘winter, #wept over ‘the towh vesterday and its ‘intensity { inckeased today. At 4:30 n'em this ‘mofning Qe thermometer) tegistered ‘10 degrees above séro ‘and’ at’ noon “foday it was 9 de- grees above zero, swept the soft snow, which fell|: on Christmas day, into high and in some places fmpassable drifts,| and “each blast sends shivering|; efifll 8 to ' temporary lhalhn ays and alleys. of termites or white ants, and. be- . 4 the ground || ‘evening, Bécember 26, :‘} Iopu 24 inches; Fort YM on; 145 inches; . 'Paul Tsland,’ "8 inches, Annual COME IN AND SEE THEM HARRI MACHINE SHOP. Plumbing, Heating, Sheet Metal Work Manual and Automatic Oil Burners ALASKA MEAT CO. Wholesale and Retail Butchers PHONE 39 - SEWARD STREET MAIL BOAT AMERICA FIRST Leaves every Wednesday, 1 p. m. from Juneau, way peints to PETERSBURG and KAKE HAHO'S MOTOR BOATS LINE THIS SPACE RESERVED FOR 2 Juneau Lumber Mills, Inc.