The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 30, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXL, NO. 4673. “ALL THE WS JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1927 ALL THE TIME” MEMBER PRICE TEN CENTS OF ASSOCIATED PRE Sfi DOCTOR ARRESTED; CHARGED MURDER Fight Against Oklahoma'’s WEDDING BELLS FOR “LULU BELL" N \ IMPEACHMENT {PRUBEEDINGS £ - * NOT APPROVED FScs | O B Oklahoma Senate Votes to Dismiss All Charges | Made OKLAHOMA ~Oklahoma’s CITY, Okla., Dec. i political insurrec- iom, aimed at the removal of Gov. .}i{enry S. Johnson and at least| o other state officials, reached an unsuccessful end with dra- matic suddennes The State Senate hrought the! impeachment activities to a close | ; by dismissal of the charges voted i by the House memb: against | i 8 Gov. Johnson, Chief Justice Bran-| on and President Cordéll of the E.m. Board of Agr culture | 5 3 At the meeting of the Senate | 1 ; e ! | a down town hotel, the Sena |lllh decided by a vote of 26 to 16| that the House of Representa-| tives had no authority to convene ' itself and vote impeachment | charges. Members of both Houses, who persisted in meeting despite un-| tavorable decisions of the Courts! and military resistance, abandon-! ed activities abruptly after the Senate’s decision and began to de- | art for their homes, unpaid for their efforts . . | started f counter NEw F|GHT 0N \CO()LIDGF PAN-AMERICAN VISIT ' TAX REDUCTION 5 FIRST TRIP OUT OF UNITED ST. 1TE9 BILL PLANNED Admmlstrahon to Postpone Action Until After March 15 WASHING T( full force of Dee. 30 the Administration will be thrown behind the move- ment to delay final legislative ac; tion on the tax reduction bill un- til after March 15. This movement will be by the Democrats who to array forces ck. Taking the ' stand that { ponement of action until after March 15 will permit (nu';u‘\v [5) act on the basis of reasonable tainty as more accurate info tion on receipts and expenditu will be available, tion group is prepared to put up a stubborn fight and hold the tax measure in the background after Con, reconvenes. —e,——— oppos- have for a ed DELEGATES OF SOUTH CANNOT overnor Suddenly Ended The | | post-; the Administra-| NEW SLAYING MYSTERY NOW CLEARING UP {Los Angeles Police Arrest { Physician for Murder of Woman | LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dee {——The police believe they cleared up another of the eity's recent slaying mysteries with the carrest of Dr, Charles M. MeMil- {lan, phys an, o | Dr. MeMillan has been charg- ted with the murder of Mrs, {Amelia Appleby, whose strangled land battered body was found, (sewed in a sack, outside of the jelty limits last Monday ! Arresting officers sald they found the doctor in the apart- jment examining Mrs. Appleby’s private papers and that thers {were bloodstains on his coat. | Among papers seized tthe officers was a will tin peneil and drawn in {the physiclan. { MeMillan denied he knew any- Ithing about the killing and said Ithe blood stains on his eoat was from. a nose bieed, MeMillan lived with Mrs. Ap- inle who possessed valuable ]vmuery. rnmnn power of aeted as her Izem by written favor of attorney and He holds the dead wo- = To address the delegates to the sixth congress of the hn- erican Union st Havena, JammryI 16 l’lmdcm Coclidge (left) will make his first trip outside the United States as the Nation’s Fxecu-’ I LV&. He will go by train to Key West, Fla,, and thence to' Havana on the flagship Texas (below). 5 g the United States delezltu to the congress is Dwxzht Morrow, (inset), Ambanador to : 4Eondnm I.s-'"flfiw At the right above is fl'fi an-Aueriggn, by GEORGE REMUS | SEAR M\i uw%ua.- " FOUND TNSANE cision Is Made Today in| Cincinnati by Judge Lueders .’DC ' CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 30 ™~ George Remus has been runml, insane in a decision handed down | today Judge William Lueders| of the Hamilton County Probate; Court. 1 Lenore Ulric, one of the best known actr such characterizations as “Tiger Rose,” “Kiki" and “Li soon become the wife of Sidney Blackmer, Southern leading man (i after uyt'\led reports of engag mcnl for several years. Good Business Predicted For Next Year , Remus was recently found not, “guilty of slaying his wife on the, Reg. Judge Lueders's decision was | %nnaam.«_\- by reason of the ver- er Remus would be granted com-; plete liberty as a ne man or L e 1 WASHINGTON, Dec, 30.—Har-, i ry E. Carlson, U. §8. Consul at, i Department of Commerce that a| pprizE, British 8 Progress of American traders Russian trust is endeavoring to pj. 39 —col Charles A, Lind- in the International Field dur- radio receiving sets in hhwmflhmsaum landed here this morn-| | ground for expecting stable There are now 10,600 receivingiyne and udded & new record to! | conditions in the country dur- ph e1ty ot Taltly: {15 the first man to ever bring a| | the opinion of Jullus Klein, | G < T {1and plane down here. The 0||Iv' {-Ohiat "ot the Huseml oL S0, .« grounds ol insanity. dict and he was tp decide wheth- incarcerated in the te Hospital 2 % | | 10,500 SETS IN ESTONIA | IN B H' TUDAY s | Tallin, Esthonia, reports to th“l WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 find a markat for Russian made pergh American Good-Will Am-| ing the year gives good _sets there, §,500 of which are i pis jong list of achievements. He| | ing the next year. This is p uoum'm SHEEP ILL' 'other airplanes visiting this city| | eign and Domestic Commerce | were the American seaplhnes | HELENA, Mont., Dec. 30— wpich Janded in the harbor. ountain sheep in the f-la('ie‘ i £ Park and Sun River distriets are ‘contracting pneumonia, ,says Dr.| Hadleigh Marsh, pathologist for; gmwaARD, Governor Vic Danahey ) | COLD AT SEWARD ; A 4 Aasia, Dec. 30— Doesn’t Choose Either the severest of the| o . is raging here today. | NEW YORK, Dec. to The Christian vl() be published in _its current ‘mmu. Governor A. V. Donahey, 10{ Ohio, reiterated that he will 30.—In a {letter Herald, BOSTON, Mass, Dec. 30—G.v Alvan T. Fuller, speaking - before he State Grange Convention, made his first direct referen:e the Sacco-Vanzetti demonsth. - wilons since his refusal to stay the - electrocutions ‘of the radicals last % ‘He described as “disgusting’ sent-day tendency ww rd ations in favor of crim- extending sympathy to fo 1 ot SEATTLE, Dec. 30—Winlock W. Miller, former University of Washington Regent, has been left the entire $750,000 estate of Mis Tother, Mrs. Mary Miller, whose'! ill was admitted to probate in ‘menaces survival of the herds. npla(e on the Democratic National Favor of Crlmlnals would support for standard-bear- eiticlsm of the attitude of a cor-f | “should be in fuli sympathy with #this attitude to “confusion, hos-dtjon of any part of the constitu- Governor, “for sacrifices on th2|brought about m an orderly and to our children that clierished ay- tellectuals ave preaching. a. de “Governor used the occasion | = “In Massachusetts we believe in during_the “time “when |stands for freedom liber; reigned ml died the State Livestock Sanitary, s cola wave, Board. He believes the disease yinier *“Disgusting” Full =“Disgusting™ Fuller ! iin no circumstances be a.candi- < date for either first or second Styles prlay in ticket. The Ohio Governor, in defining the sort of Democrat he —_— . —— er of Lis party in the Presiden- f {tial contest mext year, said he tain portion of the public toward ghe enforcement of all laws and ldw enforcement. He ““"h“'minnaltembly opposed to nullifica- tility’ and soft sentimentality.” [“tion or sttutes, and that he i“There may be need,’ said taglshould resist any change unless part of the present generation 1o {lawful manner.’ the end that we may hand dewn o —— preciation of American citizenshin Seattkflm Is at a time when some of the in- sm ‘with no consideration f0: {trine of infidelity, as evidence of families of their victims. intellectuality. nk the Granges of the state!the freedom of the individual. Wa svmpathy thg ‘expressad’ also believe that while ‘freedom m-a- for liberty uzfi:og of thenjeourt yesterday. ‘Meense.” s lay. Estate of $750,000, sues Warning, paign Managers WASHINGTON, candidates for Dee. the Republican Presidential nomination and cam-| are warned by ational Commi Klorida, that their mpaigns “dignified they should sentiment paign managers George Dean, teeman from pre-convention ¢ be waged in a in the South as in the North or react against them Any attempt, Dean to send contesting delegations the Kansas City Convention the hope of blocking nomination for i candidate willy “stir up strife’” with bad results to thé persons responsible Denying that the South deleg could be “delive man, the Commit- lared will go to. Kansas City and unpurch ase- be will declared, to in rn lt’llllll! l|l South I unrestricted able.” Dean said that the only pre-j requisite that will be asked of candidates will be that hey be| sympathy with the policies of | President Coolidge. Mrs. Lindbergh ilieraches St. Louis from Mexico ST. LOUIS, De Mrs. Bvan- ..|geline Lindbergh landed here yes- terday aiiernoon from San An- tonio, Texas, after stops at Dal- las and Muskogee, Oklahomé. Ad- verse weather reports caused postponement of the plans to 1 tinue to Chicago before dark. FLIGHT POSTPONED ST. LOVIS, Dec. 30.—Because of adverse weather, the flight of Mrs. Lindbergh to Detroit, the last leg of her return flight from Mexico, has been postponed until tomorrow. - eee Special Fur Sale Is Held at Seattle SEATTLE, Dec. 20--Northwest- ern wolf, mink, muskrat, and a small collection of silver fox were offered at a special sale of the Seattle Fur Auction yesterday. No Alaskan goods were offered Silver Fox brought $265, mink averaged $12.34 and wolf $11.20. Senator Edge Is for Hoover for President /ASHINGTON, Dee, 30— ('nit- ed States Senator Walter E, Fdze, annouscing his’ eandidacy for Delegate-at-Lar, lflm New Jer- publican con- sey, to the mext. yention, endorsed Herbert Hoover for the Republfean Presidential " mominatiod, should ! “I am from the! | VASHINGTON, President - Coolidge | United tatés “to add tho | ixth intérnational confercuce of | American states in Havana, Cuba, | January 16, he will.be making h s ,xn~( visit to the Caribbean re- 5('(uum\ since he became lllI(l executive of the nation. | Mrs. Coolidgo,| Kellogg and | Wilbur, the Dec. 30 leaves When tha | s Accompanied by scretary ol State cretary of the Na . president will carry a message | {trom the United States to the rep- resentatives of 20 other Ameri| ) jcan republics which make up the! | Pun-American Union. | WASHINGTON, Pa., Dec. 80 | cause congress will be In ses | —The half nude body of Thelma {ston and the White House soc al| Young, aged 17 years, with deep ! season at its height, Mr. cuts on the forghead and over [ will Dbe unable to spend morelthe right eye, has been n.mul‘ |than & day in Havana. But this a field, blood spattered for al i short stay, it is believed, will goradius of 50 feet, iis indicated | a long toward clearing 2lthe girl had strugsled with ! itmosphere of great ssailant i suspicion’ of the United It ! foreign policy and attitude towar | killed ’un- component states of th | found nearby. | Union, The girl's clANing wa from the body, which bor scatches and bruises. e e s Coo! is believed® the gi was | with a brick wl ! Confronzed with {of the report of the |of jurists which met this year i i Rio de Janeiro, the comgr expected to be charged with con troversial material. The report includes a complete codification of private and public international law, recommended for adoption hy the nations o! America. Several of its Hm: mendations, which the conference will be asked to approve or re ject, prohibit any kind of inte vention by one state in the terr: tory of any other state. It ai tacks and holds as illegal severa’ recent acts of intervention on the part of the United States, notubl, in Nicaragua and Haiti. Eight delegates, each chosen fn his individual excellence in som phase of the work to be done n Havana, will represent the Unitel States. They include Charle: Evans Hughes, Dwight W. Mor row, ambassador to Mexico, Henry P. Fletcher, ambassador to/ Italy and one of America’s fore most authorities on internationa’ law; Dr. James Brown Scott Washington, another internationa’ law authority; Judge J. M. O'Brier of New York; President Wilbur of Leland Stanford University: former Senator Oscar Underwond of Alabama and Dr. Leo 8. Row:, director geheral of the Pan-Ameii- can Union. Ambassador Fleicher has been in Wachington since Noy. 28 su- pervising the preparatory work of the American delegation. He ir secretary of the group. The Pan-American Union founded following the first in national ’oo.anme in Washing: (Coitm on Page lQNn. consideration commissio cattle Police Are In Bad: with Sheriff ; lmr-stu;ulmn Is On SEATTLE, Dec. 30 M:nyul‘, Bertha K. Landed announced she {will make an exhaustive investi- gation into the asserted laxity of the Seattle Police Department the search here last week for William Edward Hickman. ) The Mayor’s announcement was made dfter she had been inform- ed by Sheriff Clapde Bannick that he had not heen notified of the slayer's appearance in Seattle until more than three hours after the Police had recelved the 'n- formation and half an hour af Hickman had fled from the ¢ The news of Hickman's presen in Seattle, Bammick asserted, was| given him by & mewspaper report- er after midnight The police knew it at 9 ©'elock !Calves and Sheep Are Lost in Flood PINEDALE, Wyo. Dec. 30.— Two hundred, ealves und a large herd of sheep are known to have perished in wal from the New Fork Dam wi overflowed its banks. ng ndred 4rnwl)uys saved thousal d of cattle. HUMBOLT, wasg |Jerry Fairban) 0. {has documenti three of his on the Mayfy to lunds s 'l wa, Dec. 30, f Clarion, lowa, | evidence that getors came over Ancient deeds hof. NUDE BODY IS - -/ found to participate 'Iiu-“v'r senge of humor, { les: iull\»-r‘ group. | Africa DULL CHILDREN MORE VERSATILE AT PLA Y FOR PLANE . —_——— X Dec, 30—Dall Navy Department With- children appear ly more ver-| d F D raws I'ive Destroyers satile in their play responses than! A4 bright —ehildven, the psyet ~in Dawn Search section of (he American Assoc N ton for the Advancement of Sci-i° NEW YORK, Dec. 30.~Cofe vince? that rarther search of the NASHVILLE, wah told today In a paper Dr. Harvey C. Lehman, waters off the Newfoundland and clate psychology professor at Okio ' Mava Seotian coast for Mry., Fran- Universiiy, fces Wilson Grayson and her Dr. Lehman based thiz andthree companions in the plane other eonclusions on the resulis{Dawn is futile, the Navy Depart- obtained from admin tion of ajment has ordered the withdrawal “play quiz” devised by him toiof the five destroyers which for more than 6.000 children in the|two days have been conducting a third to ninth grades of the pub-|thorough nnd intensive '40«1‘(?! ic schools of Kamnsas City, Mo | Gr of bright pupils = were| woMAN DEAD loss frequent-| 1ps [ly ¢t the duil tivities of the more frequently quiring reading children in ne | motor type null in activities re.| They showed al but wore! than th clal in their play Is Trapped in Machinc‘ Which Plunges from Ferry at Seattle SEATTLE, Dee. 20— Mrs, Kath. | | 1 Environment Ruies ! Stature of Peoples | Why somo peoples are tall nnl{ others are short was today in a paper by Dr. R. Ben-| nett Bean, professor of anatomy | |at the Uniwersity of Virginia, he- ©"0e Mauny, wite of Henry Man: fore the anthropology section of 1Y, District Governor of thd Ro- the Amerlcan Assoclation for the |27y [nternational, was drownéd Advancement of Seience. ILmr night when an automebile “Looked at It fn the Mmm”“phnml off the rear of a Lake sense” he suid, “environmeni' Washingion ferryboat and sank molds the individual, selociion pa. )10 45 feet of water. taing the fittest under differon:! Manny was cranking the car environments, aud heredity ca when it suddenly shot into motion vies on the results tand dove off the rear of the forrv The greatest extromes of smaili Which was approaching the land- atature, he observed, are fount|ing. 4 among the Negrillos of Cential! Manuy plunged into the chilly and the Aymaras of cen-, water in an unsuccessful attempt tral Sonth America, who Mve in !0 Fescue his wite who was trap- Jungles characterized by poor food | Ped in the enclosed machine. supply and excessive heat. A s ! ilar, though not so pronounced, |’ condition prevails among the Fa-i y kimos, Lapps and Siberians, who! live in an excessively cold climags| ! with poor food supply. Peoples having the tallest sta-| ture, on the other hand, are nur | tured, he pointed out, in temp .- ate climates where lfe is active| and the food supply is abundant, notably in the littoral and’ Bal regions of Europe, in Scotlan and the Unfted Siates, western | Asla, eastern Africa and the plains| and pampas of the Americas, terday. Sea areas and probably sea twd| | Meeker said: “The people he said, have an influence in ré-| | of today are Munchl intal- ducing stature by inereasing tha| | lectually but they rtide toe consumption of iodine. When ' much for their health. I certain stocks move into emviron-! | my own good condition ments for which they are not. m-’ plenty of exercise, - tempe ted, he added, they avutulll; s | eating and taking no. Ly (Contiuned on Page M.) e discyssed | Erza Mecker Celebrates 97th Birthday SEATTLE, - Moeker, who traveled -the gon trall in" 1862 at wile an hour speed and to make the trek by nllvhni at 102 miles an hour, brated his 97th birthday ye: i ek