The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 26, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY OL. XXXL, NO. 4696. S50MB WARFARE NEW JUDGE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26; 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS OPENS IN CHICAGO COW COUNTY" OFFICIAL IS T0 HEAR CASE udge Carlos Hardy Dis- qualifies Himself to Sit as Judge , J. TRABUCCO WILL PRESIDE AT TRIAL [ FOR YOUNG BRIDE OF OIL MAGNATE Bix Men, Six Women Plac- “ed in Box—Defense Indicates Move L0S ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 26. — An itinerant Judge, who comes from ‘one of the sparsely populated cow coun- ties of California, rules over the Superior Court where Willam E. Hickman faces justice in his sanity trial. The new hucco, of bd late Judge is J. J. Tra- iposa County, nam- yesterday afternoon by he Presiding Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court to hear he sensational case after Judge ‘arlos Hardy, scheduled to hear 1 JESSE JONES, HOUSTON MAN, FOR VICE-PRES, Boom s S-larléd for Sec- ond Man on Ticket ! Headed by Smith |DEVELOPMENTS MADE | BEEFSTEAK DINNER >Gov, Dan Mo;)dv Declines to Be Candidate— Jones Has Following | i NEW YORK, Jan. 26.— Pessibility of a ticket head- ed by Gov. A. E. Smith, for President, and Jesse Jones, of Houston, Texas, for Vice- President, is being discussed in Democratic circlcs. The boom for Jones as Smith's | running mate, developed at a beefsteak dinner at the National | Demoeratic Club and followed | word from Gov. Dan Moody, of ‘Tens, he' positively would not aandidate for either the AT EASTERN W. C. T. U. CONFERENCE | Mrs. Ella A. Boole ot Brooklyn, N, Y. (left) president of the Natlonal W. C. T. U, and Mrs. Margaret C. treasurer of that erganization, are among the chiet speakers on the “dry planks and dry candidates” drive sponsored by the W. C. T, U, during thc meeting of its eastern delegates at New York city. (International Mustrated News) h Gov., Texas Man Discussed as Running Mate wit \OKLAHOMA FAIRY CASTLE RISES IN TRIAL OF HICKMA Smi Munns of Bvanston, Ill. (right), CAN TERRORISTS USE 2 BOMBS;; MAKE ATTACK Warfare Oi):n;d on City Admimstration—Dyna- mite Is Weapon OF MAYOR'S DES ARE DAMAGED Windows Within Six Blocks of One Residence Are Broken CHICAGO, N1, Jan. 26— Terrorists opened fire today on the City Administration with dynamite bombs, ex- poding them almost simul- taneously against the homes of two of Mayor Thompson’s cloze political aides, One bomb, rrying an um- usually large quantity of dyna- mite,store away a portion of the residence of Charles F. Fitamor- ris, Chief Comptroller and fo IPAIGN FOR PURGHASE OF ' he trial, disanalified himself. . .4~ Judge Hardy's action followed | procentation of an affidavit by "Presideney or Vice-Presidenicy-and * ,did not want his name die- SEN Hickman in which the youth challenged the and. im- ity of Judg y abuceo comes from a less than 2,000 popu- flation. iposa was the Birth- of Trabucco 58 years ago. appointment from a list of Los Angeles Judges and 14 ting Judges to sit at the ght the approval of all connected with the of M 12 Placed in Jury Box Six mem [put in the jury box this morning at the opening of the second day of the Hickman sanMy trial and Distr Attorney ~Asa Keyes hriefly outlined the case. Detense Counsel Jerome Walsh | interrupted with a brief objec- tion to the phrase of the outline and was promptly overruled by the court Attorney tioning of talesmen ind Walsh's initial ques- ed he will challenge any one who had | daughters of the age of Marian Parker, vietim of Hickman. — i — . S, MARINES ARE CREEPING UP ON REBELS MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. 26 --American Marines are advanc- ing slowly and cautiously up th> slopes of El Chipote, once the stronghold of Rebel Leader Gea. Sandino. Wherever trenches, fortifica- tions or signs of rebels' occupa- tion are found, they are destroyeil by the Marines. The object of the Marines is to drive Sandino’s followers from populated districts into the unin- habitable isolated regions where it 1s impossible to get food or am- munition. g and six women were ! Lydia Miller Roberts (left) will become mistress of a million-dollar mansicn soon after he: r impending marriage to E. W, Marland (right), 53-year-old oil millionaire. The home, shown below, is being hurried to completion on Marland’s Ponca City, Okla. estate to receive him and the 28- PONCA CITY, Okla., Jan, A fairy castle of real brick stone has risen above the oil de ricks of Oklahoma for Lydie Mi i ler Roberts. With her wedding to E. W. Marland, millionaire oil man and her former foster father, the Phil- . adelphia girl will become mistress of a mansion here which rivi in ‘im splendor the sumptuous man- or houses of old England. | It stands on a wooded hill in the middle of a large preserve, ilooking out across forests filled { with birds and garhe, three poio :year-old bride who was fcr twelve years his foster-danghter. fields, stables and a golf course. Miss Roberis 18 fomd of horses, and one of her favorite sports is riding to hounds. The Marland - stables..and kennels shelter some jof the finest animals in the coun- itry, and the girl is no stranger fo them, for she has lived for a doz- en years as Marland's adopted daughter in the country to whicn' she is to return within a few | weeks as his bride. el | The new home will be complet-! ed soon after the wedding, which will be held before the middle of February. Marland, who is 53, has been a {PROPOSAL TO BAR BABY CARRIAGE. FROM BUSINESS STREET OF ONE TOWN IN CALIFORNIA AROUSES MAYOR'S IRE 3 Col. Lindbergh Resumes Flight, Hops Off Today COLON, Panama, Jan. 26. —Col. Charles A, Lindbergh, | resuming his Good-Will tour | after a vacation of 10 days, | hopped off for Cartagena, | Colombia, 400 miles away, | early this. morning. Col. | Lindbergh made geveral flights with friends and ac- | quaintances. | | | 1 I8 & SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26— Ordinance or no ordinance, baby!| carriages will never be barred | from the business: streets of San- ta Cruz, not, at ledst, while Fred Swanton is mayor. Swanton, who ' is in San Fran- cisco on business, read a story| from his home town about resur- rection of an ordinafice barring roller skating on main streets. I was stated that the ordinance. among other things, baired baby carriages, as well. “Babies make up my city’s prize crop,” sald Mayor Swanton,” add- ing that nothing will be done to hamper it. Tu ric Who Says Looks \CONSTANTINOPLE, , Turkey., Jan, 26—Zaro Agha, who claims. to be 154 years old, is about to take his twelfth wite, . The self-styled longevity cham- pion of the world i8 recuperating from a slight fllness in a Con- stantinople hospital and the agel Kurd asserts that his recovery would have been much more rapid 3t it had not been for the visits o his “0ld- woman," whose age He’s 154 for Twelfth Wife| ly centenarian. will' divorce her as soon as he iz released from the hospital and has offered his hand and heart through the Turkish press to any moderately pretty and young wo- man. This is the first time that the old man has been a patient in a hospital. Despite this temporary ilinegs, he is still so stalwart that plans soom to return to his ¢l Where he is | He vows that he| Trans-Atlantic Flier Is Sent To Conn. Jail | NAUGATUCK, Conn., Jan. 26 — Bert Acosta, - famous ' trang-Atlantic flier, was today sentenced to serve five days in jail when arraigned in the | | WIND STORM i &) | | Borough Court on a charge of { violating thé Connecticut air- | | eraft laws. Witnesses said | he made an attempt to maneu- ver his plane bHeneath an’ arch | of a bridge’ across ‘the river. I Acosta” was also fined $19.50 i} costa widower for two years. and her brother George, of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Rol erts, of Philadelphia, were adop! ed in 1916 by Marland and his first wife, who was their auni. George is now an executive in the Marland oil company. The former Marland home in frien | cussed. Jones is Director of Finance of the Democratic National Commit- | tee. \ | Would Tie-Up Texas | The Herald-Tribune, a Repub- lican mewspaper, commenting, on the Smith-Jones slate, sald: ““The nomination of Jones would tie-up Texas to Smith, despite the Gov- ernor’s wetness and other alleged !dpsabilities, and would appeal strongly to the Wilson Old Guard in the State as Jones was a close | d of President Wilson. he Texas Democrats are bad- ly split over the Smith boom. Col. Thomas B, Love and former Gov- ernor Pat Neff are opposing the {naming of any wet but honoring of Jones would go a good way toward modifying the Wilson wing and extremes drys and at the same time reward the gentle- IS UNDERWAY, ~ ALASKA, JOKE Move to Secure Democratic|G ove rnment Officials Do Nomination for Presi- dent Is Started HEADQUARTERS ARE TO RE OPENED NOW Samuel Fordyce to Have General Charge of Mis- sourian’s Campaign “'AS]”N(”‘“A\AA—JHH. 26 — A movement to have Senator James A. Reed nominated for President Ponca City is to be torn down,| . whose management captured by the Democratic Convention has and in its place will rise the s tue of the southwest’s pioneer wi man, by Bryant Baker, which M land is erecting as a gift to the region. It will be accompanied by a musenm devoted to Okli- homa history. OF SEVERITY SWEEPS EAST NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—The toll of the severest windstorm experienced in Eastern States for years sigod at gix deaths this morning with sceres injured and heavy property damage eéxtending from Cape Hatteras to Newfound- land. The gale left in its path dis- rupted communication, hampered traffic on land and marked cur- tailment of shipping at sea. In New York City the wind reached a velocity of 72 miles an hour which is said by the Weath- er Bureau to be equivalent to a velocity of 89 miles by a system of measurement in vogue prior; | to January 1. A heavy iron water tank on the top of a nine-gtory building in’/the downtown section of New ! York, crashed through four floors. Some $250,000 worth of plate glass windows were broken in the city. the Democratic National Conven- tion against opposition.” WILSON LOSES FIGHT ON VARE WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—Divid ling on strictly party lines, the | Senate Elections Committee has | votea to dismiss, for lack of par | ticulars, , the petition of William {B. Wilson, Democrat, contesting, {the election of Senator-elect wu-i iliam S. Vare, of Pennsylvania. | The Committee, however, agre2l |to give the contestant 25 days in: i which to file an amended com.! | plaint. | | The contest which Wilscn} | brought is wholly apart from the | challenge of Vare's right to it (in the Senate, made 'by Senator | James A. Reed, as Chairman of { the Slush Fund Committee of the | Senate. | | RECONSIDERATION | | WASHINGTON, Jan. 26—The) enate Elections Committee was | late today suddenly called into A} { session to reconsider its decisioa | ot yesterday on throwing out the petition of Willlam W. Wilson for |a recount in the last Pennsylvania senatorial election. CHAMBER MEETS TOMORRCW NOON { The Juneau Chamber of Com- i merce will hold its weekly lunch- eon meeting tomorrow noon fa been given impetus by the open- ing of campaign headquarters here. They are in charge of Lee Meriwether, of St. Louis, who said he was acting with the “full knowledge and consent” of the Missouri Senator. Samuel Fordyce, the Missouri Democratic Central Committee, will have general charge of the Reed campaign and divide his time between the East- ern headquarters and Western headquarters, in Louisiana. The Louisiana headquarters will be in charge of Edward Clen, who conducted the late Champ Clark’s campaign for the Presi- dential ‘nomination in 1912. Testimony of Oil Official Is Wanted By Senate Committee WASHINGTON, Jan. 26—Rob- ert Btewart, Chairman of the Hoard of the Standard Oil Com- pany of Indiana, whose testimony is sought by the Senate Lands Committee in a new oil investiga; tion, will not return to Washing- ton immediately. He was advised over the telephone that the Com- mittee would like to have his tes- timony as soon as practicable. Stewart, who is in Havana, said important business engagements required that he leave the Cuban capital for Mexico next Monday. He expects to conclude his Mexi- can visit early in February and will then go to Washington. Mother of Ketchikan Woman Dies in Chairman of Not Take Matter Very Seriously NO INDICATION OF ANY GENERAL MOVE Canadian’s Proposal Will Meet with Strenuous Opposition WASHINGTON, Jan, 26—Gov- ernment officials disinclined to take seriously the suggestion to be made to the British Columbin Legislature by Liberal Leader H. F. Kergin, that negotiations be opened with the United States looking to the acquisition by Can- ada, of the Alaska Panhandle. Officials expre: surprise the suggestion, saying it repre sented no previous conversations or exchanges between the two governments on this subject and 80 far as is known here, no move- ment in Canada of any importance has been taken. Canadian dispatches do not: ir dicate by what method it is pro- posed to acquire the territory. Presumably it can only be acquir- ed by purchase from the United States and there is no indication here that proposals for the puv- chase would be favorably receiv- ed. In Administration circles such a suggestion, officials be- lieve, would meet with most strenuous opposition in Congres:, even it the Executive Branch i¢ willing to discuss the subject, which does not appear to be. - SEATTLE FUR SALE IS HELD SEATTLE, Jan. 256—An unusual- ly large attendance of buyers showed interest in the Seattl2 Fur Exchange offerings, taking practically the entire offefing of 5,000 mink and 3,500 red fox. Mink averaged $16.70, the best lot $33.25. Red fox, strictly omes and twos, went for $55, the average price are ed at In the upstate sections, the|the display rooms of the Alaska, gRATTLE, Jan. 26 —Funeral being $40.95. blizzard piled the falling snow into heavy drifts. Grain valued at $20,000,000, intended for. export, is in ships ttled up behind the breakwater near Buffalo, Electric Light and Power Com- pany. Chamber, it is expected a number cussed. services will be held tomorrow for | fllness. Her daughter, Mrs. Johu | of important matters may be dis:| g Cloge, of Ketchikan, i8 smong. best lot at $1.75. the survivors, ' A collection of 150 mediocre While there is no special|pey Carrie M. Carroll, aged 63.'white fox avera N 4 i ! ged $49.70 the best uew business to come hefore the|who died yesterday after & lomk'of the lot going for $62.50. Muskrats averaged $1.55, tha Only a small portion of the 3,600 were sold. Service, during the Thompson administration. The ~bombs were tossed from closed cars. At the Fitzmorris home, the bomb shattered the front door, | wrecked the lower portion of the house and broke windows as far as six blocks away. S e STOCK VALUES - BUMPED AGAIN .~ ONEXCHANGE iReaction C;used by Rais- ing of Chicago Federal Rediscount Rate NEW YORK, Jan. 26—One bil |lion dollars wete written off the |quoted values of securities listed jon the New York Exchange yes: [terday by a sweeping reaction |inspired by an unexpected rais ing of the Chicago Federal Re- serve rediscount rate. The da2- cline, which ran, from $2 to $8 a share in active issues was an or- iderly one. Liquidation of stocks { was undoubtedly influenced by a {rather general belief that the Chi- ago rate is intended, at least ia part, as a warning against furih- er expanagion of speculative credit. e W ashington Atty.-Gen. Is Seeking Re-election As Result of Attacks OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 26-—At- tacks by Gov. R. H. Hartley cn his “integrity and ability” is giv- en by Attorney General John Dunbar as ‘“one of the reasons” for his announcement that he will be a candidate for re-election. o M —— | 300 Moving Picture Houses | Acquired by Fox NEW YORK, Jan. 26— Fox Films Corporation has quired control of 300 moving picture theatres omn or the Pacific coast and in consin in what is by Willlam Fox, as the larg- est single theatre deal in history of theatres. of the theatres are ! about $100,000,000 and | bought from the West Theatres Corporation, ’ - | e earll | | | | | | i 1 | | |