The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 29, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” YOL. XXXI., NO. 4672. jUNEAU ALASKA THURSDAY DECEMBER 29, 1927. KIDNAPPED OAKLAND GIRL IS FOUND MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'HICKMAN CONF ESSES ANOTHER CRIME flBUGGIST IS 2 ALSO VICTIM OF MURDERER Hickman Tells of Shooting : to Death Man in Pasa- dena Suburb SNAMES CGMPANION WHO HAS CONFESSED | Investigation Be Reopened in Case of Suppos- ed Suicide L0S ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 29 —William FEdward Hick- man, confessed kidnapper and slayer of little Marian Parker, 12-year-old school girl, has confessed to another murder near Pasadena. He shet and killed Ivy Thomas, druggist, in the suburbs be- tween Los Angeles and Pasa- dena during the hold-up of a drug store on Christmas Eve, 1926. Willoughby Hunt, whom Hickman said was his com- panion in the hold-up. was arrested today and confessed, corroborating the story told by Hickman. Hunt, while admitting his part in the b, demied - that shots drm is pistol killed the ruggist. Mrs(.;g}‘arrin Briskell, grandmother of Hunt, is held for questioning the boys lived with time, she denied the statement made by Hickman that she had {, learned of the boys' criminal ac- tivities. How Shooting Uccurred The shooting occurred when a police officer entered the store during the hold-up. He op- ened fire on the youths. Hunt step- also her received a couple of flesh wounds/ y_from the officer’s shots. ~# Hickman's confession came as| the result of a campaign of kind-| ness and insistent questioning by| Shhe jail officers. Under pressure of continued| questioning as to whether he ever| killed anyone besides Marian Par ker, Hickman blurted out ‘“sure, and then the confession followed. | Another Death Probe The police indicated that Hick- man’s confession will result in the reopening of the tion that followed the death of Hunt’s father, supposedly a sui- cide. The body of the aged dry goods dealer was found under a bridge at Pasadena from which he had fallen. A suicide note was found on the brid The police declared that the letter will be examined by hand- Y writing experts in an effort to “agcertain whether the signature is that of Mr. Hunt. More Revelations I 1t was also revealed that Hick- man and Hunt had been employ- ed at the bank at the same time. Hunt's father transferred to the bank, in which his son was em- ployed, a large sum of money but was penniless when the body was found. Motives, Parker Crime n a confession to the slaying Marian Parker, written for a ewspaper, Hickman elaborated on the motives for taking the girl’s life. He said the principal “motive was to protect his own safety. | “In the first place,” Hickman sald, 1 feared my apartment would be searched on Saturday and the girl would be found. The s ®rearch was spreading over the city and 1 expected and believ- fll my apartment would he parched anytime. 1 was afraid 0 leave the girl or take her out, * Peculiar Complex “Since my high scml days, 1 have suffered from a peculiar i/ gomplex. As a diversion from - school studies I had a desire to _icommit suicide. This seemed te Lovercome and control me gradu- v, 1 reasoned with religion and ) the eonclusion it was not on absolute reason. do not believe 1 am crazy ne but l,bnllovu this com- drug! investiga-| b 15 Allhnul{h} at the| | € | ¢ { Day. Shortly after their marriage BEAUTY MARRIED AND ARRESTED | which they are now located. > | Shelby Worrell (abové), once queen of Galveston, Texas, mardl pw. was married to Pat Somerset, English actor, recently divorced by BM% the bride and groom were A efte at a too hilatious celebration. The bride was dlsmissed upon hec ghap o “not guilty,” but the court tock $20 from the groom. (International Newsceal) SUTHERLAND LOSES FIGHT, NOME HIGHWAY {House Comm!!!ee Decides| to Leave Roads to Road Commission WASHINGTON, Dec. 20—Tho | House Territories Committee hu\ decided to postpone indefinitely action on the resolution by Dele. gate Sutherland seeking improv:- ment of highways on Seward Peninsula. Col. Wilds P. Richardson, for mer Chairman of the Alaska Rcad Commission, and Major Malco! Elliott, present Chairman, talked in connection with the measura The project proposed an appro priation of §750,000 to build roads connecting Nome and the coal de- posits of the Kugruk River, and make roads accessible for the de- velopment of the Kongarok, Im- | | districts. Delegate Sutherland argued that the proposed road project “inte:- ested the people of Alaska more than any other highway plan.” Major Elliott declared that he would not recommend the propos- ed construction and that his Com- mission was making plans to fur- nish less extensive hut adequats highways for the mining region. Chalrman Curry, of the Com- mittee, said the bill was mnoi necessary and he favored untl proposed road improvement De: left at the discretion of the Alas- ka Road Commission. ot Smemie <o o= SN Asks Federal Judgeship In Aluk_n_h: A. Frame WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Ar- thur Frame, of Anchorage, Al- aska, has been presented to Presi- dent Coolidge by United States l-llor Peter Norbeek, of Sou machuk and (,umll:a Creek mining|p 21 Placer Claims Are Recorded Near Tanana TANANA, Alaska, Dec. 29 Frank J. Miller and P. C. Dun- | bar, prospectors of the Fair- banks Distriet, who represent- ed English capital, have re- | corded locations on 21 placer gold claims on Moraine Creek, a stream which enters the Yukon 40 miles below here. | The claims are accessible by wagon road with easy grades | for hauling lwz\\'y machinery. DKL SENATE MEETS AGAIN Three Ses:i;_ns Held in Hotel—Impeachment Case Renewed OKLAHOMA CITY, —While National Okla., Dec Guardsmen |continued to patrol the corridors in front of the legislative cham- bers in the State Capitol, the Senate definitely shifted < hea quarters to a down town hotel where three meetings were held vesterday. A/ secret conference lasted through the night and early morning hours and adjoutn- ed at dawn today after rumers spread that the Senate had met as a court of impeachment to sus- pend from office Gov. Henry 8. Johnson, It was learned later that a quorum was not present. - ———— Sun’s Troops Enter Canton, Take Control CANTON, Dec. 29.—Troops of Gen. Li Chai Sun have arrived here and taken over control of the city from Gen. Li Fuk Lam, without incident. The troops be- gan patrolling the city. Gen. Li Fuk Lam withdrew his f ) i | prohibited FEW TRAPS IN ' LOCAL WATERS ~ ARE AFFECTED About 10 Outlawed, But Expansion Is Stopped by Regulahons ' Although only a small {of fish traps operated in the | neau district in the past are out- |lawed by the regulations of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, the significance is found in the limitations which virtually liust trap operations to those waters in is shown hy advance the regulations which ceived here this week A complete check of trict has not been made ents of the hureau, O'Connor, Assistant today. However, it probable that not more of re- copies were the di by Capt nt, d local M. J said than 10 ! Strait-Cross Sound the north end of the a the 57th and bH8th north latitude. Text of Regulations The regulations for Yakutat, Straits-Cr Sound and the Cen- tral districts follow in full: “Yakutat District-—All of this area west of the meridian of west longitude. * “I--The total aggregate lnnph fof gill nets on any salmon fishinsg boat, or in use by such boat, not exceed 250 fathoms nieasure. “2—Stake and anchored nets shall be operated in stantially a straight line, “3-~The distance by most direct water measurement from any part of one trap to any part of an- other trap shall not be less than 1% miles. “4—Commercial fishing for district a hetweon parallels of waters 138:h hung sal- less than 75 fathoms hung nieas ure in length and less than four fathoms hung measure in depth is For the purpose of determining depths of seine mea urements will be upon the basis of 3% inches stretched measur: between knots. “5—No salmon fishing boai shall carry or operate more than one seine of any donrmlmlu ard no additional net of shall be carried on such b purse seine shall be less than 175 meshes nor more than 260 meshe in depth, nor less than 150 farth- oms nor more than 200 fathoms in length, measured on the cork line. For the purpose of detar- mining depth of seine measure- ments shall be upon the basis of 31% inches stretched measure be- tween knots. No extension G any seine in the way of leads will be permitted. “6—The 36-hour closed perind for salmon fishing described iu Section Five of the Act of June 6, 1924, is hereby extended to in- clude the period from 6 o'clock post meridian of Friday of each week until 6 o'clock ante meridian o 0o presence of enough of the Monday following, makin; a weekly closed period of 60 hours. “7—Commercial fishing for sal-' mon in Dry Bay is prohibited ‘prior to May 21 of each year. “§—Commercial fishing for 15 mon is prohibited for the remain- | der of each calendar year after September 30. “9—All Commercial fishing for salmon is prohibited as follows: (a) Ankau Creek and Inlet; (h) Akwe, or Ahquay River: (%) The “Basin” above Dry Bay Icy Strait-Cross Sound District All waters of this area norh I the 58th parallel of north latitude and east of the 138th meridian of west longitude. “1—-The total aggregate lenzth of gill nets on any salmon fizhing boat or in use by such boat, shail not exceed 250 fathoms hun% measure. Stake and anchored nets shall be operated in stantizlly a straight line. “3—The distance by most dire:t water measurement from any part of one trap to any part of anothe! trap shall not be less than 1': statute miles. * k prohibite1 “4—Purse seines gontiguous wi g sube Lynn Canal (co-und 4 m This | | ['HRI',I OF M | i | attempted d to be | traps would be affected in the lcy | and shall | mon by means of any beach scine. | i ground crew. {his four brothers while they were !three and wounded the fourth. number | Ja-* According to Associated P hundreds of little coves and inlet to offer the only possibility that plane Dawn still survive ited to cover n New a new the picture above are York for Harbor flight to cross the horough, navigator; M dmu{n of the controls. from At son Fred Koe Bodies of Sub Victims May Soon | Be Recovered | | PROVINCETOWN, b | Dec. 29—Some of the bodies | of the victims of the Subma | rine $1 disaster, which lie in the broken hull, may he brought to the surface within two or three days. This indicated by those engaged in salvage operations The second and last which must made under | the submarine before she can be raised, is half completed NEW PHASE COAL STRIKE IN COLORADO Attempt Made ts Poison Drinking Water of Columbine Miners i | | | | is ) tunnel be i | | | DENVER, Col, Dec. 20Tk« | strike in the Colorado coal fiel after a quiet month, has suddenly | shown signs of life in the discoy-| ery of an attempt to poison drink ing water used by the miners at| the Columbine mine. This followed an announcement | from Trinidad that the Citizens’| Vigilance Committee had raided| ,a hall used by the Industrizi ! Workers of the World strike lead- ers and had boarded it up. Adjutant General Newlon has informed Gov. W. H. Adams thut an attempt was made last Friday to poison drinking water used by the miners. A chemical analys:s| poison to kill the entire undes- Kills Three of His Brothers, Suicides SEATTLE, Dec. 29—Albert Vil- "lard, aged 50, entered the head- quarters of the Woody Ranch, neay here, and opened fire na seated at breakfast. One of the men, intended as a target, sprang to Villard and disarmed him but the murderer reached to his hid pocket, ‘pulled out a new weapon, continuing to shoot until he killed Villard then fled to the home of his brother-in-law, asking him to care for his wife and nine children, the request contained in a sealed note, then continued, ril- ing in an automobile to a point |near Tulare when he hung him- self. He shot. himself befor:} choking to death. ———ee —— EVES KEENER WITH AGE SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Dee. 29— yesight becomes keener when a | person passes the age of 100, suys Nancy Amn Price, 101 years old. Mrs. ‘Price reads Bible, | Five destroyers which ¢ mbed Grace, | This city | mountains from Mexico City, | ing ISSI\(, l’ll\\()/\ ON ress dispatches received by The s along the ts of Nov, Mrs. Frances Wilson G son three of Newfoundland, lantie to Croydon. and Lient. Oskar ehler, mator expert, last Saturday Omsdal was the of th four “LINDBERGH IS IN GUATEMALA CITY BY PLANE American Good-Will Am-! bassador Makes Fast Flight from Mexico GUATEMALA CITY, Deec. 290 is the first in the C:n- tral American Republics to greel the Good-Will Amb or from the United States, Col. Charles A Lindbergh. Col. Lindbergh flew ']nr mak- betweea over the first there and this city. the flying field flight | He shortly after noon yesterday making extraordi | about 100 miles nary miles speed, averaging an hour for the The speed was beyond the flier's expectations. He figured on a nine hour flight at the max- imum but hoped to make bettes, which he did. MOTHER IS FLYING SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Dec. 20 Mrs. Evaugeline Lindbergh, mo: ther of Col. Lindbergh, rested at the hall way polnt of her proje:'- ed two way journey from Mexico City to Detroit. = She completed flight from Mexico City yes- terday afternoon, with a stop a‘ Brownsville. REACHES DALLAS DALLAS, Texasg, Dec. 29.—Mrs, Lindbergh stopped here today for 25 minutes on her return flight to Detroit from Mexico City after hopping off from bun Antonio this morning. — eee- — {Better Health Sought For Business Women NEW YORK, Dec. to raise the health standards o. business women of the United States and to reduce time-out for fliness in offices will be made during the coming year by the National Federation of Busincss and Professional Women's clubs, A nation-wide eontest for health| records was announced by Rose E. House, national health chair- man. “The state federation which can show the highest percentage of members who have not missed o single day from work because of illness during the current federa- tion year will be awarded a silver cup,” said Miss' House. . “The objectives of this heal'h program include a periodic healtn examination for every business woman, systematized recreational programs in business women’s clubs, with the goal of a resuit- ing perfect attendance at busi- nesq.” Each of the operate with zation M h e clubs will cc- ‘mational organi- ting its " Empire cotid and 0 square the persons who were aboard the Dawn when The photo shows, was over | 29—Efforts | I’l ANE DAWN — today from New York, 4 and her three miles companions in vesterday, today the separ- it took oft morning on the first leg of an left to right: Brice Golds- Norwegian Navy, the pilot in member of the expedition. th Mellon 1Is Not Candidate For Presidency | WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 Secretary of Treasury An- drew W. Mellon today reiter- ated that he is not a Presi- dential candidate. “Reports that T will be a candidate are untrue. 1 do not care to be,” sald Secre- tary Mellon DEGISI(]N ON REMUS RESTS WITH 1 MAN Judge Lueders to Say Whether He Shall Be Set Free or Confined CINCINNATIL, Ohio, Dee. 29~ Decision as to whether Georg Remus ¥ill be granted complets liberty as a sane man or incar- cerated in the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Lima, res:- ed with one man, Judge Leuders after a full day devoted day to the sanity hearing. Tlos decision was made mandatory the verdict last week when Re- mus was found not guilty of mur- dering his wife on the ground of insanity. Judge Lueders announced will need some time to formula an opinion, Remus was yesterday examined, when he was on the stand, by the Judge and three alienists. e M'CLELLAN BEFORE COURT A jury trial was opened at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the ourt of the U. S. Commissioner in the case against Charles Mec- Clellan, charged with having a small quantity of moonshine in { his possession and with being in- toxicated. He is represented by | | Le C. Winn. ) AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 20—A lawyer whose client Governor Dan Moody refused to save from ths electric chair plans to appeal the Texas. William E. Hawkins of Brecken- ridge, former associate justice of the state supreme court, defended A. V. Millikin against the charg> of murdering Mrs. Virginia Petty. Since Millikin’s execution, he has {announced himself a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, challenging Governor powuulcunhmm He Newfoundland are believed I\ yestow and Attorneys J. H. Hart and Grover dead man’s case to the voters of/ EVELYN SMITH IS FOUND SAFE ANDUNHARMED 'Kidnapped Oakland Girl Ts Located in Califor- nia Town 'ACCUSED ABDUCTOR DROPS OUT OF SIGHT Search Renewed for Ex- Convict — Girl Was Theatened, Death SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, Dec. 29.—With 11-year-old Evelyn Smith. of Oakland, vietim of California’s second sensational kidnapping, in the hands of local officers, search is underway through- out Southern California_for the ncoused abductor, Ern- est Arthur McClelland, par- oled convict. Discovery of the small girl at the home of Mrs. Emma J. Spence, near here last night, re- \vealed that she had been there since last Monday, dvelyn told the police officers that MecClelland had attempted to assault her. Mrs. Spence sald her first 'knowledge of the kidnapping |came when she read about it {n - | | | i i | H ; the newspapers. At that time both the girl and ‘Mu'lolluml denied Evelyn had !been kidnapped and stuck to the (story she was his sister whom ihe was taking on a visit to his ! mother. ar that her kidnapper would jearry out his threat, made dur- ‘in',: the trip from Oakland, the {giris home, kept her silent, When confronted by newspaper accounts, McClelland left the ‘\p(‘lhl home saying he “would straighten this thing ount.” He failed to return. 10l Case Witness Refuses Summons i | | | | | '3 o | WASHINGTON, Dee. 29.— | Counsel for H. M. Blackmer, mis- sing Teapot Dome witness, has lnuli!h-d the District Attorney’s 'nfl‘lu' that they will ask for a postponement of the oil man's fcontempt hearing when it is call- ed on January 6. Blackmer re- fused to heed the summons to testify in the Kall-Sinclair trial he has been cited to show cause why he should not forfeit $100,000 under the law sponsor- ed by Senator Walsh of Montana, in the Senate’s prosecution of the oil inquiry — .- CLUB DIRECTORS TO MEET WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—Repre- sentatives of women’s clubs in every state in the union wHl be | present January 9-13 at the an- !nual meeting of the board of di- rectors of the General Federatim of Women's Clubs. It is expected that 66 women will attend the five day conference. Tuesday evening members of the board will hold their annual reception to representatives of of | ficial and soctal lite in Washing- ton. The women will be received Friday noon by President -and ‘Mr» Coolidge at the White Housa. | LAWYER OFFERS VOTERS CASE OF DEAD CLIENT contended that the prisones’s constitutional rights had been v.o- lated at a sanity hearing. Governor Moody, himself a law: yer, granted four reprieves to give the defendant an opportunity to seck redress in federal courts, but be denied a fifth reprieve afta. two federal judges refused to set aside the sentence imposed by state courts. Millikin's attorney then determined to make the case an issue by his candidacy at tao Democratic ~ primary mnext sum. mer. Governor Moody, now serving his first term, »wulend:‘-um-uwmbanuuunmml be a candidate for