The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 28, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” LVOL XXXL, NO. 4671. lUNEAU ALASKA, WEDNFSDAY Dl:CEMBER 28, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS OAKLAND GIRL IS KIDNAPPED; MAN SPEEDY TRIAL IS WANTED BY '} "W, E. HICKMAN - Will Plead Guilty as Imph— cated in His Con- fessions {YOUTH IS SAFELY flutopsy Surgeon Believes| Girl's Heart Stopped Before Slain Cal., ard Dec. 28. % Hickman peed trial I'Iu» youth H stand by my want W xpwd\ 1 attorney, My mother, advises me to IN LOS ANGELES JAIL LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. William Edward Hickman kidnapping and slaying of Marian Parker and is safely behind the ,\bars of the Cownty Jail. Autopsy Sui..... H. F. Wagner announced that the “girl's dentn was not primarily due to strnnxu Iation” as Hickman said. Girl’s Heart Stopped The Surgeon, Dboxr of the slain girl's parents, ex- pressed beiief that when her cap-| tor “applied a towel about her Poeck; " she realized what “was about to happen and her heart stopped as a result of fright and exhaustion. “Hickman may have attempted “#1o do what he confessed but there Were no marks of contusions or constructions about the neck and he lungs were not congested, Ov %he contrary she was pale nnl bloodle Marian was a very nervous child and when she r¢ I{'alized the situation, probabl ) 7 neither slept nor ate during those | by an and terrible days, as shown empty contracted stomach from letters to her parents. Realized Fate “It appears that her captor told | | her he would kill her if she was ‘fllot ransomed. She realized what was about to happen and her heart stopped.” Hickman’s return, and a speedy race from the railroad yard into the County Jail, was without any great demonstration on the part of thousands of spectators who gathered to watch his arrival. Hickman was taken irfto courc | but his arraignment was posi- med until tomorrow to perm‘t ‘f:’lckman'a attorney, State Legis- ator and attorney Jerome Walsh. to arrive here from Kansas City - e — DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska, Dec. been received here that three white persons have heen drowned at Akutan. - ,,— — 24 Die from \ Drinking To Excess NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—Twen- ty-tour persons have died in New York from alcoholism since last Friday, Dr. Charles Norris, Chief Medical Examiner reported today. During the same period 68 cases ‘of \alcoholism were treated, 18 ing women. _Dr. Norris sald none of the deaths were due to_poison liquor but to_excess. 'RADIO BOARD TO GET DATA AT FIRST HAND — ¥ WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—Hav . presented radio listeners with LODGED L. A. JAll.; { | | of what the; engaged by | do.” | | 2844 has | |[ been returned to the scene of the ! l who was a neigh-| .28. — Unconfirmed reports have|— SLAYER’S VICTIM IN Pl(’l()l’s o g ) i § St 12, n, of Los Angeles, who was and right, she is shown with Marian Parker (left) aged dered by W am BEdward Hickm FATHFR OF LITTLE MARIAN PARKER V esuvius B By, J apanese | Expert CHURGH BELLS ARE TO AID IN Anti-Saloon League on Jan. 16 WESTERVILLE, Ohie, Dec. 28. | —Proclaiming the; Volstead Act a new declaration of independ- ence which brought abaut “high- |1y beneficial results” after eight years of ‘“only partial’ observ- ance,” the Anti-Saloon League of America is preparing for national observance of the eighth anniver- sary of the act. Plans for the demonstration to be made an annual affair are announced by Bishop Thomas Nicholson and Dr. F. Scott Mc- Bride, General Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. It is said that approximately| 25,000 churches throughout the! country will participate in the demonstration which will cul- minate at noon, January 16, by the ringing of church bells for eight minutes, one minute for Al Wilson entered the St. Ann’sfeach year of National Prohibi-| hospital yesterday for treatment|tion. for a severe cold. | PERRY M. PABKEB SOLDIERS ARE FOUND FROZEN BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, Dec. 28—The bodies of 17 soldiers, frozen to death .in the cold wave a week ago, have been discov- ered when snow melted along a railway. * Huge snow drifts hail prevented search, ———————— WILSON ILL Sc-o 3500 000 Fire WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—Fire starting from defective wiring, did damage estimated at about half a million dojlars at Bolling Field. The blize was confined to the Air Service and Quartermaster warehouse where $5.000,000 worth of service uniforms anil airplane nd tune in on programs to get n idea of reception under the 1ew allocations. The program for klg ounhl- kidnapped Great Eruptwn of DEMONSTRATION {Big Celebration Planned byi MURDER —— v | | | and then brutally mur-} her mother and twin sister. Forecast TOKYO, Dec. 28—An enormous | and possibly disastrous eruptioa of the Italian volcano Vesuvius is forecast by Dr. Akitune Ima- mura, as the next threatening gesture of the forces imprisoned within the earth. Dr. Imamura ig known as the leading seismologist of the Far East and is called by | some scientists the greatest g the world, Dr. Imamura’s views were sect| forth on his recent return from the conference of the Interna-| tional Union of Geodesy and Geo- physics at Prague. He said that ! Japan is not expected (o experi-| ence a great earthquake. disas- ter, similar to that of 1923, for | at least another century The seismologist's dire predic-| tion for Vesuvius is based on his | personal observations of this vol- lcano for many years. Since me' explosion of the erater in lsmi’ the lava has been creeping slowly | upward toward the rim until now, according to the earthquake ex- pert, it is at its 1905 level. Dr. Imamura viewed the volcano last month and, shertly thereafter, is- {sued a warning of the forthcom-!| ing eruption. But he qualifies his assertion with the statement that “we cannot always be right; iin 'predicting the eccentricities of nature.” So far as earthquakes and | Japan are concerned, Dr, Imamura told the Associated Press that,| 'whlle no great mnatfonal ecarth-/ quake i3 likely for at least a hun-| dred years, there can be no pre-; diction regarding = local carth shocks of such strength that con- siderable damage might result {Th concentrated shocks are| possible any time amd cither Yokohama, Takyo, Osaka, Niiga- {ta and other certain localitics on the main island can be described as susceptible. While people ma: be killed and lnjurm.-d proper: | ty damaged, by these loeal quakes, the seismologist doea not helieve anything approaching a real dis- aster is probable, . l That it will not h long before seismologists all’ over the world| {will be able to acemvately predict the i earthquakes 18 Imamura, quake, he - strain of the | ly large eartn- 18 moticeah.e | Interior {in the Teapot Dome case without {ment in fraud cases from six ISEARCH ENDS FOR TEAGHER; MAN IN JAIL Young Man Kidnaps Lady Love—She’s Rescued, He Is W]Aailed MANLY, object of Towa and Missouri, Thompson, aged 20, a teacher, has been found, and her kidnapper and suitor, Joey Rey- 10lds, aged 22, has been jailed. Migs Thompson has been held a viftual prisoner since Mondav when Reynolds forced her into #n automobile at “school. Reynolds said he got her into his automobile by telling her He had killed her brother-in-law. He planned to go to Canada and there marry Miss Thompson. R EVERHART TO NOW TESTIFY " OIL SCANDAL 28—The search in Pauline school Towa, Dec. a 24 hour |President Signs Bill Which Will Aid Government in Trials WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—Presi- dent~Coolidge has signed a bill, sponsored by Senator THomas J. Walsh, Democrat of Montana, which will permit W. T, Everhari, son-inlaw of former Secretary of Albert B. Fall, to testify incriminating himsélf. The measure decreases the statute limitations of the govern- to three years and opens the way for what the prosecution, in the conspiracy trial of the Sinclair- Fall case , considers fimportant evidence, that Everhart declined to give previously on the ground his testimony might incriminate him. —e——— MILLIONS IN TAXES ARE TO BE REFUNDED Secretary Mellos: Presemts Treasury Report to Congress WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—Re- funding of illegally collected taxes totalling, $103,855,687 and affect ing approximately 240,000 persons | has been reported to Congress by Secretary Mellon. The Treasury Department re- ports covered 12,000 typewritten pages and included refunds rang- ing from one cent to millions of dollars, Secretary Mellon said the cred- its covered years back to 1925. Congress, at the last session, appropriated money to provide for repayments. e CLARK IN HOSPITAL John Clark is contined to tha St. Ann’s hospital today for medi- cal treatment, — A | | Morgan Elected Successor to Elbert Gary - | NEW YORK, Dec. 28--John Plerpont Morgan, Internation- al Banker, has become nom- inal head of the United States | Steel Corporation, which his | father Wo-l. The Board late yesterday elected Morgan Chairman of the Board suc- ceeding the late Elbert Gary. | Myron C. Taylor was elected P" the ,Mnce i lthvlu ed- ’Lmdbergh Ho $ Off Today for Guatemala r MEXICO CITY, Dec. Charles A. Lindbergh hopped off at 6:35 o'cloek this morning for Guatemala City, his first stop in his Central American good-will flight. The take-off was made in per- fect weather. There was no wind and only a thin veil of mist was near the ground The flier's mother bid him good | bye and a few minutes later she| hopped off in the Ford plane which will carry her back to De- troit and her class room. Col. Lindbergh is heading his| Spirit of St. Louis toward Guate- mala, , Honduras, San Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama. I‘hemo he will fly to Havana, Cuba, to call while the Pan-American Con- gress is in session. From Havana he will return -in s plane to the ““home port" at 8t. Louis. At the advice of his counsel- lors, Col. Lindbergh, instead of flying direct to Havana from Panama by route which lies entirely over water, he will re- turn over land in his plane to the Mexican Peninsula to fly to Cuba by a route which takes him over only a short strip of ocean. AFFECTIONATE PARTING MEXICO CITY, Deec. 28.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh made Presi- dent Calles a farewell call late yesterday at a meeting replete with emotion. When the flier left, the executive's eyes followed aim as a father mignt watch the departure of a dear son. e TO HONOR MOTHER DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 28—The Detroit Board of Education ha: voted to confer & Gold Medal of Honor upon Mrs. Evangeline Lind- bergh, mothier of the famous air hero “in recognition of the great value to this nation and the Pub lic School System of the qualitics of motherhood she exhibited.” SAYS AVILA NOTORIOUS Purveyor of Dgcuments to Hearst Given a Black Eye WASHINGTON, Dee. 28—Frank Y. McLaughlin, civil engineer of Mexico City, branded Migue) Avila, procurer of the Mexican documents published by the Hearst newspapers, as a otori- ous purveyor of documents.” McLaughlin said he knows no- thing of the published papers pur- porting to show the creation of 8 million dollar - fund to bribe Uniteq States Senators but he told the BSenate Investigation Committee that Avila peddled *“2(¢ or 30 wnrmn' documents” to him, Avila is missing although h¢ had bheen asked to be present ai the committes ‘ hearings. Railway, a share uation figures of _Commerce Com- values 28.—Col. ! NO TRACE OF DAWN FOUND BY SEARCHERS Naval and Coast Guard, Vessels Searching New- foundland Waters ABOARD U. STUTEVANT, off Sable Islanl, N. 8., Dec. 28—Naval and Coast Guard vessels, engaged in an in- tensive search, have found no; trace of the missing flllpllnp Dawn which hopped off from New York last Saturday morniug for Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, with Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson anc three men aboard. The Stutevant has word from the radio station at Sable Island of the report of a| message which it is thought came from the Dawn, heard at Hearts Content, New Foundland. PERHAPS HEARD PLANE ST. JOHNS, N. F, Dec. 28— Rev. Edward Bishop, Anglican clergyman, 20 miles north of St. Johns, declared he distinetly heard an airplane pass over the church Sunday noon. He said he thought it was Mrs. Grayson's plane. 8. e e Forty Per. Cent of U. S. Rebuilt in Four Years| BEDFORD, Ind., Dec. 28—Ap- vroximately 40 per cent of the United States has been rebuilt in the last four years, says a sur-, vey of comstruction made by the Indiana Limestone Co. Four years ago, it is pointed | out, there were buildings in the United States valued at seventy | billion, and since then structures sosting more than twenty-five bil | Yon have been erected. ° Replacement of non-proof and cheap construction is declared the reason. DESTROYER | received | HUNT IS STARTED BY AUTHORITIES EX- CONVICT SOUGHT FOR NEW OUTRAGE Parolled Prisoner Kidnaps 11-Year-Old Girl from Mether MADE PROMISES TO AID GIRL’S FATHER Paid Sum of Money to Mother by Using Bogus Check OAKLAND, | } (Yal., Dec. 28.—A new man hunt, by the authori- I'ties, with the alleged kidnapper of 1l-year-old Evelyn Smith, as the quarry, spurred activity here today before the California pub- lic had relaxed after the excite- ment of the kidnapping and mur- der of Marian Parker. arrant Issued Mrs. Smith swore out a war- rant charging Robert M. McClel- {land, aged 27 years, paroled con- {vict, with having stolen the girl from her home under pretense that his mother, described as a wealthy Pasadena woman, would adopt her and also furnish em- ployment to her father who has {been out of work and ill. | McClelland’s mother is the wife of a Pasadena gardner, and de- nied that she is wealthy. She sald she knew nothing of her son’s plans to take the Smith |girt. A : Poor Contributor Mrs. Jessie McClelland, the ex- conviet's wife, and the mother of {his two sons, denied seeing her husband for three years, neither did she know anything of his plan to introduce another child into her home to which she said |he had contributed only $15 since sentenced to Folsom prison for forgery. McClelland gave Mrs. Smith a boguc check for $125 when he {took the girl saying it was for Smith’s first month's work. McClelland’s bank balance was less thnn $1. Berger Must Scm Jail Sentence iq Contempt CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 28 - John Berger must serve 10 days lln jail for contempt of coust |when a witness for the defense {in the George Remus murder trisl and also answer to a perjury in- dictment before he goes back \home. Sentence was pronounced ,by Judge Shook who also im- !posed a fine of $250. The sen- |tence begins immediately. |- DO e, v swamis 2 L | irl Loses 37 Day Fight With Death OCONTO, Neb., Dec. | Death last night won a 31- ] day fight for the life ot Alma | Overgard after her courage 1 and artificial respiration had enabled the 16-year-old girl to live from November 20 when infantile paralysis virtually ended her natural breathing. During the long hours that her arms were raised and | lowered by friends and rela- | * | tives, to force air into her | lungs, the girl was happy and | | | cheerful and insisted she | } would recover. I 6 it il H i i | i | | 4 = | ! | Bride Left at Church; Wants Expenses Repad} PARIS, Dec. 28--A member of the French Chamber of Deputle: who failed to put in an appear- ance for his own scheduled wei- ding last year is being sued by the lady who was to have begn his bride. She wants him to reimburse her for all the money she spent on her trousseau, for the .mew wnd for various other things, The deputy is Rene m—w who represents the Ld department. His bride-to-have-been is Antonia Rora. Bhe ch‘ she bought her own enj ring—12,000 francs—and was an utter losa. spent u.m francs