The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 17, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXI., NO. 4688. ]UNEAU ALASKA TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1928 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GIRL’S KIDNAPPER, SLAYER IS CAUGHT CHIEFS WARN PROHIS OVER BREAKING LAW New Manual of Federal Bu-| reau Gives Orders | to Agents WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. A word of caution again has been passed by the prohibition bureau to it agents not to violate the law in their eofforts to enforce the law. A new manual of instructions just issued by the bureau forbi agents to search a pyvate dwell- ing without a warrant and de- fines a dwelling as a residence hotel, apartment or boarding louse that not occupied tran- siently. Searches may be made of other premises, the rule proe vides, if the agent has reasonable grounds to suspect violation of the prohibition law. “Unreasonable search or seiz- ure is always illegal and reason- able search always permissible,” the manual stipulates. ‘‘General- ly, if an officer has reason to bhe- lieve that an offense is being committed he may search with- out warrant, just he may ar- rest without warrant when an off is committed in his pres- The manual points out that the Wills-Campbell act makes it a misdemeanor punishable by fine and imprisonment for any Fed- eral officer to search a private dwelling without a search war- rant. Particular stress is lald on the Tinnecessary use of firearms. The ‘‘promiscucus flourish and digplay of fireayms is prohibited,' the manual declares, adding that! _"a weapon should never be drawn | CHT@ peson exvepl in seif-deleuse or to prevent the commission of a felony.” Once close friends of the I;e held at Pontiac, Mich. 17—A family af UTROIT, Jan. ighingahat | st3he. 4 - soore..o! years, to be blasted by busziness and financial difficulties, will fus- nish a touch of drama to the trial of the §6,000,600 suit of chr) M. Leland and his son Wil fred against Henry Ford and his sor Edsel. The case will go to trial in Pontiac, near here, home The entrapment of a violator by the use of decoys is permitted, but agents are warned against| enticing a person to commit a erime in order to make a case. Neither are they allowed to ob-|of the Lelands. tain a confession unless the pris-l 4y, rejands claim $6,000,000 ¢ oner first is informed that it will| {due the several hundred be used ainst him. holders in the Lincoln Motor Cur Company, purchased by Ford af- GAPITAL 0F ter it was forced into receivership junder “aland ownership. When Ford was still an eccen- Fire Bugs Suspected of Series of Blazes in tric tinkerer, unable to ebtain fi nancial backing for Washington horseless carriage, Leland also had turned his attention to auto- mobile manufacturing. He brought out the Cadillac automobile not long after Focl started turning out his Model T. Leland ‘later concentrated his in- terests in the Lincoln Motor Com- pany and it was then that the Le- lands and the Fords became close friends. Mrs. Leland and Mrs, Ford were constant companions for several years. ‘When (he Lincoln company WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Five “extra” alarms of fires, inter- ar ;Broken F rwmlsht p Lies in Background v‘ Of Ford-Leland Suit| right) and his son Wilfred (lower left) are pitted against Henry! Ford (upper left) and his scn Ed:zel (lower right) in a ‘8,000000‘ suit over stock in the Lincoln Mztor Company, bought by the Fords after it went inte receivership under the Lelands. stock-| his ridiculed | “HOOVER FOR PRESIDENT” SHOWS GAIN {Assistant Secretary of| Navy for Him—Predic- tion by Shortridge WASHINGTON, Jan. movement to obtain the {can nomination for President for | Herbert C. Hoover, Secretary of |Commerce, has been given im- |petus by the statement from As- sistant Secretary Robinson, of the Navy Department, that he fav- ored the Department of Com- merce head and the prediction on the floor of the Senate by Sen- itor Samuel M. Shortridge, Repub- lican of California, that Hoover will be the next President. At the same time, Secretary of ‘| Treasury Mellon declared pub- lished statements that he favored Hoover did not originate with him. Mellon said he had neither indicated his position on the question nor intimated” to any- one what I plan to do in the Na- tional Convention.” 17.—The Republi- pirit of St. Louis Is Ready ;Lindbergh Off on Hunting Trip PANAMA CITY, Jan. 17—The | Spirit of St. Louis is ready to Fords, Henry M. Leland (“pp"‘(nrry Col. Charles A. Lindbergh to new adventures but the Lone | | Eagle is some 200 miles away from here. A telegram said Col Lindbergh will return to tho! Canal Zone on Thursday but thn | date for his departure for Caracas,| { Venezuela, is still undetermined. | The trial will into financial mtllculllen several | years ago, Leland, after endeay { v “Fing to” mrerest - seviral Corphra ‘ansfil Fun tions, went to his friend Ford.| | And the latter hought the Linco Motor company, leaving Leland in | charge and assuming all the oy standing indebtedness. It was reported at the time that | the friendship petween the two! men had been a factor in M| Ford's move ARl | Two years later of years was the asgsociation abruptly brokea when Leland made public com- plaint that Ford had not lived up to his agreement. He then sought | to make Ford pay the $6,000,000, and later he filed the court getion, Leland, who is past 85 years of age, has worked untiringly on the case for three years. He induced 1,800 stockholders in the old Lin- coln company to become partizs to the action. William Henry Gallagher, who figured in the Ford-Sapiro libel sult, and Kenneth B. Stevens, SeSSion here. Former Woman Candidate/ for Senator Draws Up Peace Plan WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 ~The | peace plan drawn up by Mrs. Ben Hooper, once Democratic candi date for United States Sena.or| from Wisconsin, has been chosen | as the best of all those submit-| ted to the Conference on tae; Cause and Cure for War, now in| presed with several minor ones and a few false ones, threw thej National Capital into a state of turmoil last night and early to-| day and led the police to believe fire bugs were at work. The blazes, the first of which | began shortly after midnight, | continued until after 9 o'clock this morning, bringing apparatus from nearby Virginia and Mary- land town to aid the exhausted ‘Washington fire force. The police are starting a wide gearch for suspects believed to have deliberately set the fires and then turned in faise alarms else- where to divert the fire fighters. One suspect has been arrested. — e Says “No” Thrice ASK FREEDOM FOR OLMSTED Defense Attorneys in Li- quor Conspiracy Case _Start New Action SEATTLE, Jan. 17.—Petitions by attorneys of Roy Olmsted and other convicted defendants in the first Olmsted liquor conspiracy case to obtain their freedom, pending review by the United States Supreme Court, have been taken under adyisement by Fed- T eral Judge Neterer. s‘h" l.m” The defense attorneys contend- 4 ed the action of the high court, 4 deciding to hear arguments on PONTYPOOL, Wales, Jan. 17, /the legality of wire tapping evi- —Pontypool’s hero, not of theldence, entitled the defendants to hour but for a good long time|liberty on bail. The Government to come, is Thomas Haden, Town |opposes bail. Clerk, who said he would not ac- cept a raise in salary, and stuck Rm‘. M-b.‘ Mlll Without Even a Seratch to it. ‘The increase was handed him on a platter, but he reluuvl point blank. Mr. Haden, who was 75 lasi| HAZLETON, " ponn, Yan. 17— pirthday, in declining, exp ombed for more than 12 hours his appreciation of the honor a fall in a level 700 feet from done him by the Town Couneil surface, nine minets were res- in increasing his salary onelcued from their prison. ~ani pound weekly, but said that heibrought out of the mine early would not have it in view of . morning . without a scratch. existing conditions in the South{i a few loiterers were about Wales coal fields where there are|the entrance of the mine when the $0,000 men out of work: rescued and mu came to the This 18 the third time within|surface. Fears of umlv« had as many. ‘that Mr. iy has said “no" to salary lnorw b mmnu. .o —— WHITE IN HOSPITAL Jack proprietor ‘of the ‘Totem Grovery, ~entered the St. Ann’s hospital yesterday and ic m observation Iir’s mfir op- -fiufl. 2 : el 2 , . Mrs. Hooper's plan vecommend. be l'k‘m:(}.\‘l’ll(('ll by ('Hfrurd 3, self definitely on record as qmnvl Longley and W, i’. Middletown, ing unequivocally for outlawry of 5i the ;‘m«‘ will go to trial hefoce/ WAT and compulsory arbitration Judge Frank L. Covert of tha With every country in an attempt! Oakland (ounly '(”“m Ooiiet, to settle international difficulti:s . and make peace treaties. ! Mrs. Hooper also urged the | United States to join the World| A P I. { Court, that it revise its laws on | neutrality so it will refuse to fus- nish arms or supplies to any cou:-| BLAMED mnT try that has broken treaties by refusing to arbitrate; that it se. |cure an amendment to the consti ! tution making it possible to rati WALBENBUBG, Colo, Jan. 17. ¢y treaties for "peace by a ma- —Respomsibility for the riot of jority vote of the Senate and January 12 in this district in jypoyge, which two striking miners lost their lives, is placed directly on g . the State Police in a verdict FW"P"IM' ""_ reached by the coromer’s jury in-| Be Clue in Murder vestigating the deaths. | The verdict said the riot wa.q:' CHICAGO, Jan. 17—Comparison unprovoked, with the State Po- of fingerprints on tape used in lice showing a ‘‘total disregard the slaying . of Betty Chambers for human life by firing through last Thursday, with those of Mi<. windows into the street outside Doris Hemphill Kirk, friend of and we do recommend further the slain woman, opened a mnew investigation into the case.” ;nvenue of inquiry into the murdcr — e —— case. The fingerprints of Mra. Jm “ Kirk are identical with those unman {found on articles of the decd l‘n. mk Shm girl's room. Mrs. Kirk explained | |she bound a cut on Miss Cham- PHOENIX, Ariz, Jan. 17--A;ber's finger with tape several jealous three gun man ran amuck d8Y8 ago. today with ome gun in each haud i and a third in his helt. As a re-Seattle u Is m; sult, two persons are dead and a o third seriousty. wounded. 'Out of Revenge” Plea Manuel Montayo, er he -hm ’ an killed D, I and wounded- SEATTLE, Jan. 17—Shot in the M. Valle, was himself killed by |back, Louis A. Hill, laborer, wi: Deputy Sheriff Balentino. - Mon. | 8lmost instantly killed as he ap- tayo's sweetheart was arrested as'proached his home last night. On: a witness. hour later, ' the police arrested Arnfinn 0. Skjallal, who wzs limping down the street with a loaded repeating shotgun with 2 powder blackened barrel -hoved into his trouser leg. Skiallal said: - “I shot-him m{ | Texas, 1000,000 { Ameriean _ agricultural HO[ DING NICARAGU AN SITUAIIO\‘ IN HAND Uppér left 1s General Sandino, who trouble in Nicaragua today. Upper are the two American commander. the war zone, Brig.-Gen. Logan Fela M. Gulick. Gen, Feland will assum his arrival at Niearagua. lLower TAX REDUCTION BEING BI.UGKED BY SEC. MELLON Chal.'ze Is Made on Floor of House by Represen- “tative Garner WASHINGTON, J.m. 17—Secra ary of Treasury Andrew W. Mel- lon was accused on the House floor with deliberately attempting to block Senate action on the tax reduction. bill becguse ‘l had been rovered the measuré would in crease by approximately $50,001, 000 the total tax assessment of about 1,000 large corporations. The charge was brought against the Treasury head by Representa- tive John N. Garner, Democrat of Democratic leader, and of the House Ways and*Means Com- mittee which drafted the tax measure. 3 Representative Garner said he referred specificaily to Mellon in matters of finance as the Secre- tary spoke for the Administra- tion. Representative Garner sa.d he had been advised the bill would increase by more than $50,- and added “and that does mot look like a tax reduction to yous Uncle Andy.” mediate consideration by the - ate on the tax bill. SIDETRACK VOTE WASHINGTON, Jan. 17—Ths Senate Finance Committee voted to sidetrack the $25! tax reduction Dill until | March 15 ————— HIGHER RATES the tax on corporations in which Mellon was interested, About the time Garner Wi speaking, a decision was reachi by the Democrats in the other end of the Capitol to demand im- 0,000,000 after FARM PRODUCTS NOW PROPOSE Minnesota Representative! Introduces New Meas- ure for Protection WASHINGTON, Jan. 17—A plea for higher fariff, protection for products, | was made today by Representa- tive €. G. Selvig, Republican of Minnesota, in an address. The Minnesotan introduced a bill increasing the tariff rate o1 more than a score of dairy, live- stock amd farm products. He sald the t rate on competitive proddets l:n too low if the farm- ers are to receive adequate pro- tections on what they produce. He farmers only want a Selvig asked the Means Committee to set a «for hearings on the agricultural schedule. 18 ¢ with the United Marine aviat plane which are casualties among center and right s of Marines In nd and Col. Louls e command upon left 40 right are using all the | | | Cinerautivnn) # B President Dinz of Nicuragus, who Is in sympathy States, and Major R. E. Rowell, r, who led the bombing attacks by air- reported to have vesulted in heavy Sandino's forces, New SANITY AMONG TURKISH W()MEN BLAMED ON NEW FOUND FREEDOM MAKRIKUEY, Turkey, Jan. —Turkey's foremost alien Mezhar Osman Bey, declar half the women of Turkey either insane or suffering some neurotic complaint. blames the situation largely that are fro:mn old Turkish repression to the newly acquired Iruevln m. ““More than 50 per ‘cent or ka i ish women are insane or neuras thentic. Knock ' at any door n Turkey and_you will find wilhin at least one case of insanity or melancholia, Only one in every 1,000 cases of insanity in Turkey is being treated, and insanity has been increasing since the War by leaps and bounds.” Thus Dr. Osman summed condltions. He iy the guardian of Prince Sefaieddine and creator and chief of Turkey's first mod- ern insane asylum. The new. government, alienist’s instigation has at the closed the sole existing mad-house of the/ a vermin-infested prison, and has built a modern asylum in this suburb of Con- stantinople where 1,200 patients are under Dr. Osman’s care. Radfo, moving pictures, swim- ming pools, a large farm worked by the patients® with American]| tractors and farm implements, | well equipped laboratories and clinles, immaculate cleanliness throughout the plant, are innova- tions at the asylum. This plant! will serve as a model for others| to be opened throughout Anatolla where at present freatment con- sists in locking the dangerously insane in the tiny cells of aban- doned divinity schools. Native growny, hesheesh, the allenist sald, i8° an important cause of insanity in Turkey, where it is widely and cheaply sold in coffee houses despite gov- ernmental regulations. The chief causes in Turkey are in the web of the social stru ture and the woof of Islamic men- tality=—in the repression of wo- pen and in Moslem fatalism, I Osman sald. Time will save the situation, he believes. Rest Cure for Suits Makes Thom Look New Well- sultan’s regime, LONDON, Janm, 17. dressed London men are well- dressed because they have gen- uinely good plain suits and take good care of them. Suits need vacations just as much as their wearers do, and 8ix weks of rest often maké an old suit look almost new, a fash- fon writer in The Evening Stand- ard says in support of his con- tention that a good suit made of plain dark eloth ought to be wearable for five years or longer.! It is the boast of Lonmdon's most expensive tailors that their suits are so modest in cut and material that thgy never ge® out of date, but the fashion ecritic urges that tailors cannot guar- lantee their wares if wearers fai to care for them properly and fail to keep them properly huug hen not in use. “ He! on 1 their too rapid transition from the Great | - State Auto, of Small Type, Sold for 35 Cents, Credit CHICO, Cal, Jan, 17--Chris | Sauer was about to wreek a | small antomobile of a P koW make,” when? Vie Mattizi heard about it and offered, Saner 26 cents for the o “Hold,” said Mattizi to ! Sauer, “I haven't two bits with me, ‘but I'll give you 36 cents if you'll trust me.” | “Take the car,” said Sauer to Mattizis and the deal was finished. Chamberlin Is Forced Down Again;lce Forms [ On Wings of Airplane NEW YORK, Jan. 17—Ice on the wings, which frustrated the third attempt vesterday of Fliers ! Chamberlin and Williams to estab- |lish a durgtion flight record, is regerded by the airmen as a po3 sible explanation ' for the disap pearance of many airplanes in the trans-Atlantic flight. Chamberlin and Willlams were forced to des- cend on account of ice forming on the wings of the plane. | |Preston Troy Candidate ! For Judge Sup. Court OLYMPIA, Wash,, Jan. 17.— Preston M. Troy, attorney and |former President of the State Bar Assoclation, has announced his candidacy for the Supreme Courg Justiceship. He is a brother of John W. Troy, Editor and Man- ager of The Daily Alaska Empire, of Juneau. For seven years Pres- jton Troy was a member of the Bar Examiinng Committee and for two years President of the Olympia Chamber of Com- merce. MIBHIGAN MAN ~ UNDER ARREST; HAS CONFESSED Slayer of Five-Year-Old Girl at Flint, Is Caught by City Police ' 'STABBED GIRL TWO TIMES; NO TORTURE Says ‘‘Terrible Hickman® Crime Caused Deed —Police Charges FLINT, Adolph Michigan, Jan. 17.— Hotelling, slayer of five- year-old Dorothy Schuneidpr, caught late yesterday by the wthorities, was impelled to com- mit the crime by brooding over the Hickman-Parker case, he de- :lared in a confession, the police said. Although the complete text of ‘the confession is not available recause officers who took it rush- 2d out of town with Hotelling, the stenographer’s notess how he leclared the ‘‘terrible Hickman’ :ase kept him awake night after night. Hotelling said he spent sleepless nights, turning over in ris mind the details of the Hick- man crime. When Hotelling picked up the little Schneider girl and drove with her on a deserted road, he told her he would kill her it she rarried out her threat to tell her nother. According to the poliece 10tes, after walking the girl across the field from where his :ar stalled, to the bank of a creek, she repeated her threat and he killed her by stabbing her twice with a knife. Hotel- Jin, accordini to the confession,, agserted he T gt o erime, Hotelling then to his home After the drove to Flint, in Owosso. MORE CRIMES CHARGED FLINT, Mich., Jan, 17.—Pos- sible bearing on the Hickman case were dispelled today when the police said Hotelling confess- #d to similar attacks on children over a period of years. Two of these attacks occurred in Owosso, one on a two-year-old girl and wmother on an eight-year-old girl. — e — PRESIDENT I8 ON WAY HOME FROM HAVANA Sails Out of Harbor Aboard Cruiser Memphis— Great Event HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 17.— Cuba sald Bon Voyage to Presi- dent Coolidge and his party and sent him back to his country with the memory of the great- est acclaim ever paid in Havana to a visiting head of a foreign nation. A President Coolidge steamed out of the harbor into the ocean on the cruiser Memphis bound: for Key West, Florida, after baving left a message of good-will and interpational amity, the first de- livered in person by an American Executive on Latin-American 1horea. SCOTLAND’S HAUNTED CASTLE DEMOLISHED ABERDEEN, Scotland, Jan. 17 -—Slains Castle, lashed at its base for centuries by roaring waves which in their time have kept such notables as Samuel Johnson awake all night, is being de- molished. It became too old and spooky for any earthly use. The last items of furniture, oak beams ami the llke were sold at auction some time ago. For centuries Slains Castle, built sheer on the cliffs juttim above CrudeniBay, was the seats of the Earls of Erroll, lord high constables of Scotland. In 1916 the estate was sold to Sir John Ellerman, shipowner, - who dispos- ed of it in 1923 because of what he considered exorbitant taxation, and it has been empty ever since ‘The last tenants were Lord ani Lady Oxford, ago, and it was there that Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, then Miss Violet Asquith, had an exciting adventure when she .became lost among the crags during a lm mist. Residents in the neuhhnnw& for years have never gone near the old castle at night, in winter, because of the eery sounds emanating from the strue: ture as the North Sea winds whis-' tled through the floorings of its rumerous ghostly chambers. regally entertained at the e on their tour of Scotland in and Johnson greatly 'admived noble site, but the famous wrijer and lexicographer wmnlM bit terly that he did not sleep & at night because of the pounding ot the waves several summers; bedroom window.