The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 28, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA 'OL. XXXI., NO. 4698. ACHTS RACE TO JUNE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA SATURDAY JANUARY 28, 1928. PRICE TEN CENTS ER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS IN JUNE LEGAL TANGLE IN HICKMAN"TRIAL URY BOX IS FILLED; LEGAL ISSUE ARISES rosecution Passes Chal- lenge—Defense Accepts —There’s the Rub LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 28 A legal snarl has left the Wil- iam E. Hickman trial in a welter pf confusion over the Court’s ek-end r 88, The legal tangle in the closing ninutes of yesterday's session left hine men and three women tech- iically accepted as a jury to de- ermine whether Hickman can istinguish between right and rong but not one of the jurors re entirely certain he or she ill retain their seat after Court pens Monday. The mix-up apparently left the prosecution with 16 challenges put it is not certain it could use hem. The defense has four chal- enges left and may not be able o use them. Kinks in the iaw resulted when he prosecution passed the chal- onge of the jury to the defense nd Hickman’s attorney surprised ne court by quickly mtuepllng he jury. The move bronght District At- orney Keyes out of his chair ith the request that the prose- ution still might challenge if it o desired on Monday. “dudgd ¥, 7. Trabuceo swid he ould rule on the prosecution’s lequest »n Monday. SENATE WANTS INQUIRY INTO SUB DISASTER oes Against Coolidge’s Recommendation and House Action SHINGTON, Jan. Bite. going counter tions of President ml the previous action louse, insists that a Congres- jonal Committee should investi- ate the sinking of the submarin: b-4. The Senate did so by modi- ving the House resolution that he inquiry provide for the ap- bointment of a group of Senators nd Representatives to go into he disaster but left in the pro- josal the provision for a commis- ion to be named by the Presi ent with scope of its inqu! mited to study safety appliances nd salvage methods. The Senate's action brought uick reaction from the Whiie louse where it was stated in the resident’s behalf that despite th> tand taken by a majority of the penators, he believed the Execa- e Commission should go int) Jue full question. —————————— CHICAGO, Jan. 28.—An elec- ric - iron left connected by a ousewife today burned its way hrough a two-inch table, dropped ) the floor, burned 28—Tle recom- Coolidge of the to FAVORITE SONS FROM OHIO Upper loft 1gy obtain the nomination. that he has an excellent chance. FIRE PROVES mEY‘ Tcms. Jan. _2K~~Ra~ Heved from what had beeén fearcd was a hologaust, but which took a relatively slight toll of life, si thousand inhabitants of th two year old town, took a holiday last night hy the light of a colonade | of flame surmounted by a mile high wall of smoke from the oil tanks of the Rumble Refiner which was ignited by an explo- sion yesterday afternoon. Fred Hendricks, chemist, known to have been killed. Prop- erty damage may reach $500,000.! The blast focked buildings hait a mile away and the flames spread to eleven other tanks, most #Beveral perzons been in- dark. last might. are reported to have jured. RATS INVADE ENGLISH TOWN LONDON, which the driven from the riverside are beeming a serious menace at South Lambert. Rodents suffering from ger have invaded the living rooms of houses in the day time in search of food, even though people are in the rooms, and at nights rats enter the {bedrooms and terrify the occu- pants. Mine Death Rate Decreases in "27 Jan. recent Rats have fim)qln WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.-—The death rate from aecidents in mines in 1927 was lower than in 1926, Scott Turner, Director its way|of the United States Bureau of {lar Visit to my house and leave! Governor Vie Donahey of Ohlo, who can have the support of Ohlo Democracy along with former Senator Atlee Pomerene, lower |““. right. 'These favorite sons have agreed to help each other In trying to Senator Frank B. Willis is the avowed Re- | publican candidate and says that he is in the race in earnest, belleving | (lnlcn\lllonll Now-u-x. TEXAS TOWN CELEBRATES BECAUSE I]AWES IS IN ~ OIL HEARING is | of which were burning long after’ lhrough the floor, tumbled to the) Mines, said today in pointing out partment below and set fire to|that the safety movement in the he furniture, causing’ $600 dam- coal mining industry made con- ges before firemen arrived. siderable progress last year. TTO KAHN'S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER TO WED NEWSPAPER REPORTER; HE IS THE GRANDSON OF THOMAS FORTUNE RYAN NEW YORK, Jan. 28—Miss argaret Dorothy Kahn, youngest aughter of ‘Otto H. Kahn, is to e married to John Barry Ryan, Ir., newspaper reporter and grand. on of Thomas Fortune Ryan, nancier. The marriage will link two of merica’s weglthiest families. An- jouncement of the engagement as made from the Fifth Avenue » of Mr. and Mrs. Kalm. No was set for the wedding. Mr. Ryan, 27 years old, is a of Mr. and Mrs. John Barry an of New York. He fs a re- F jer on The, Newark Ledger and |/ warlgw news- w tinge in|Kahn's Thomas Fortune Ryan, now 77 years old, had accumulated a for- tune estimated at $100,000,000 ‘when he retired twenty years ago. His wealth was chiefly made in street railway, electric power cow- panies and tobacco. X Miss Kahn is 26 years old and is. an accomplished rider, golfer and all-round sportswoman. Mr. Kahn, one of the chief pat- Tons of the Metropolitan Opera Onlnlly. is semior partner of Kahn, Loeb & OCo. His second son, Roger Wolt xm, attained i 1 Senate HOLOCAUST i 8 | Senate Committee Sum-! 1 mons New Witness— | ! Hearing Tuesday WASHINGTON, Jan. Beman G. Dawes, brother of Vice-Pri dent Charles G. Dawes, heads a new list of witnesses summoned by the Senate Lands Committea |in a resumed investigation of ofl leasing. Dawes is chairman of the Board of the Pure, Oil Company. The Senate Committee desir 0] know whether his company had any relations with the Continen- tal Trading Company of Canada. | The committee will resume the | hearing on Tuesday and in addi tion to Dawes, has summoned Robert Stewart, Chairman of the | Board of the Standard Oil Com- pany of Indiana. Father of 33 Asks Aid for Haircuts LOS -ANGELES, Cal, —Pedro Novarez, aged 73 years. | has appealed to the city for aid in giving his children haircuts. “As a father of 33 children to raise, takes much money,” said Pedro. *“The stork pays a regu-| Jan. 28 me muci poor and humble.’” Novarez is father of chil-) dren by three wives . and the stork .is soon to visit his home again. {JUDGE BOYLE GIVES TWO SENTEICES TODAY | ber, | gally i Col Political Activity Grows As Primary F iling Period Wanes;Many Contests Loom JUDGE REED IS UNDER ATTACK AGAIN BY KING Utah Senator Wants to Know Why He Is Hold- ing Office, Etc. WASHINGTON, Judiciary be directed to take cognizance of the fact that Thomas M. Reed is Jan. 28 First Division of Alaska without appointment and without coa- firmation of the Senate, under the| resolution of Senator William . King, Democrat, of Utah. The resolution points out Judge Reed was appointed to of- by the President in Decem- 1925, and that the Sub-Com- mittee recommended that he be’ not confirmed. The President then Reed’s name. It is pointed out that no other person has been nominated. Although Judge Reed's term expired in August, 1925, he continues to serve, the Senate is informed in the resolution. . The _ Judiciary - Committee. . is asked to report to the Senate whether or not Judge Reed is le- holding office or is an in- truder and usurper. The resolution also asked as Lc whether any proceedings are available by which te secuie Judge Reed’s ouster if he is illa- gally holding office and whether any legislation is required to deal with the matter. LINDBERGH MAKES 600D Reaches Bogota on Time Over Heretofore Un- traveled Route that 28- Ameri prom of Bogota on BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan Charles A. Lindbergh, can Good-Will Ambassador, ised the citizens Thursday that he would arrive here on Friday. He did, reach- ing here yesterday afternoon at 3 o’clock making good time from Cartagena, 400 miles away, over high mountains and crossing country never before crossed any other plane. 4 ARE FOUND FROZEN DEATH Bodvi of Negro Is Found— Head Caught Under Store Window CHICAGO, Jan, 28. — A sub- zero cold snap, which descended on Chicago, is blamed for the deaths of three men and one woman." The frozem body of a negro, his head caught in window of a grocery store, was a by | Sunier Rrsokioh, Boyle fined | ick Velovich $100 and costs and sentenced him to serve 25 days | ln the local Federal jail, in thei 8. Commisstoner's Court today. | Veluvlch pleaded guilty to al charge of vagrancy. A. Johnson pluduf guilty to n charge of being drunk in a pub- lic place and was fined $15 and costs. | ——————— — ALAMEDA DUE TOMORROW The Alameda, cut Charles Glasscock, is scheduled to reach here sometime 'tomorrow after-|som. Seattle. She sailed from Ketchikan Yor Juneau at 2 M ‘afternoon. The ¢ day’s mall found by the police who be- lieve he was trying to break into !the store. He raised the window and it dropped and held him fast. Wife of Polo Player Wins Divorce Decree PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 28 —A final decrce of divorce was grant- ed in Common Pleas Court today to Mrs. George A. Huhn, 3rd. The former Alma Mae Curtis, ‘Iln‘ Huhn charged her husband with desertion, They have one {(.nu ‘Huhn, a’ well known polo player, is in metion picture work at Hollywood. His marriage u,lm:.c-wc in October, 1918, Thy Committee will| withdrow With the final date primary distant, political four Divisions is increasing, cording ‘to reports received by local party men. Indications point, it is said, to an unusually large number of candidates in tho field in some of the Divisions. The primary filings are > quired tp have been made by th first Tuesday in February. The primary elections are held on tis last Tuesday in April but ten activity in elections days Contest by Republicans { Apparently the contests for Teor- ritorial offices, and possibly, also, | for Divisional posts, will centa i tiiling the office of Judge in the| M8inly i the Republican primary It is not believed likely that George B. Grigsby and Judge James Truitt, endorsed by the illemouruln for Delegate and Attor- iney General, respectively, will have aty opposition in the pri- mary. On th¢ other hand there are al ready two aspirants in the field !for those offices in the Republi- jcan ramks. Delegate Sutherland is being opposed for renomination by Senator Bartley Howard of An chorage, and J. L. Waller, chorage attorney, is opposing A torney General Rustgard for that office. It i not believed hore e will be any other filings for 1 OF ATHIF TS pr dicted’ for party offices. In the Democratic ranks harmony appar-|with her wedding to the Harvard student and declared the elopement selaction | was hardly - necessaty. ently prevails over the of a National Committeeman ant delegates and alternates to National Convention. ‘There will be considerable competition in the Republican primary for these sitions in their party. Nons the Democratic filings have be made, but the candidates endors by the Territorial convention are | preparing their declarations for filing at an early date Fight Over Committeeman A three-cornered fight is expect- ed to develop over the Republic National Committeeman. T only filing actually made is that of Senator Frank A. Aldrich. it is expected that two other cau- didates will be in the field befor: the filing period ends. Major G. W. Albrecht, said to have tae support of the Sutherland faction, is regarded as virtually certain to is enter the race. Capt. Austin ¥. Lathrop, moving picture theat owner and coal mine operator, known to be considering filing ot the request of friends in Third, Fourth and First Divisions. He is expected to make known his decision before the end this week. 1 But | | | Aa- | | | | | | | | | for filing ' declarations of candidacy for the | all| here | 'FLOOD CONTROL YACHT RACETO JUNEAU IS TO START JUNE 2 {Craft Will Assemble at Olympia and Start at 12: 30 oClock nv ELOPINC i | i | | I | |EXPECT TO REACH THIS CITY ON JULY FOURTH Date Is Arranged at Con- ference—Nowell Re resents Capital City nifl‘!m ., Jan. Yachts und, l ‘eet in 3 | will begin %&n from Olympla 12:30 o'clock on «of June 26 it was fter a conferenee $ E. Nowell, of the © of Commerce, tives of the Olym- Commerce, fixed to give the unity to be in the on July Fourth. All boats istart from Olym- pla at he s time and handi- caps will by red in Juneau. Seven pri will be offered. . The boats 1l be in two di- |vlsmnn. the first comprising those 1hetween 45 and 65 feet and FOTMER HOME WOMAN WEDS PHILIP DODGE Lillian Sutherland Marries President of Mergen-* thaler _Company, NEW YORK, Jan. 28—Philip decided here | between Will |Junean Cha l‘aml repres:ul Ipla Chamber {1 The date crulsors opp : Iw.;m.«kn Capit n VR, i s fRass., skipped oit* an® wlaped #oy llmlu 18 J. Kedian in Kittery, Me. ' However, Susin's family was pleased (International Newsreel) | Amemln-rnt l I’ropnsml to Prohibition Act | | MUSTBE AIM | OF GOVERNMENT Hundred Per Cent Plan of WASHINGTON, Jan. 28~ | An amendment o the Na- tional Prohibition act limiting | | penalty for illegal manufac- | ture, sale, transportation or | importation of intoxicating liquors to a tine of $10,000, or | five years imprisonment | | | of i A fight has also developed for seats in’ the Natlonal Convention.' There are four candidates in tnée! called upon field for the two and more are almost sure to en- ter the race. Only one alterna.e are W. H. Sitka Dr. W. H. Chase, of Cordova, anl Gus Gelles of Anchorage, filed for expected. delegates, and Judge L. K. Pratt, ‘Chu-"‘m Gangsters pion pected Fairbanks attorney, to file. Third Division Leads For legislative positions, Third Division leads in the ber of candidates who have although it seems that is ex- num- both par-| ties will have full tickets in the | field in every Division for the Fall elections. Few contests are looked for in the Democratic pri- mary for these offices, but there are many aspirants showing up in some sections for places on the Republican ticket. The absence of contests among the Democrats is largely accounted for by the (fact that in each Division the party has held a convention and worked out a program for the party that has been generally ap- proved by the rank and file of the party well as its leaders The Republicans failed to hold any conventions. First Division Lineup In the First Division, it is 12 ported the Democrats will put s, H. Zeigler, prominent Ketchikan lawyer, up for the Senate. Pos- sible cn“‘qtu for the House of Repremm discussbd includ tha | | » and “anything less than s cent the the opinion delegateships | can assume the control of ,dies which may be found prac {'able candidate has appeared but others the disastrous flood of last Caswell, ! and this agent is the Federal Gov-|last Judge James Wickersham, 'ernment. filed.spon men, helieved to be lker and W. L. llrtml Page Bight.) Protection to Pre- vent Disaster | Dodge, aged 76 years, President of the Mergenthaler Linotype Com- pany, and Mies Lilllan Sutherland, aged 45, former Seattle and Nome, Alaska woman, have been mar- ried. She came to New York 10 vears ago. She lived in Nome in the early development days. hoth, 1s propesed in a hill in troduced by Senator Wesley L. Jones, of Washington, he maximum is now one both. Flood | "f“:"?'r"IBANEZ DEAD; WS N EXLE country 100 pe plan of protection might re- in a supreme disaster,” in of John F. Stevens 28, whose Apo- the | { WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 control of the Missiszippi a problem comparable first settlement of the Lilllan Sutherland, Dodge, is well known to residents of Juneau. Sho in the early days of Noma. private secrotary to Dr. Cabel Whitehead, banker and mining man, who was killed many years ago by an accident on one of his mining properties on Seward Pen. insula. Miss Sutherland is a du. cided bionde, vivaclous and wae popular with all classes at Nome e COMMUNISTS KILL 1,500 CANTON, Jan, 28. — Advices Miss Mrs many now sult former Chief Engineer of lln-‘ Panama Canal. Stevens told the ‘ontrol Committee today that the | “very best talent among the en-|calyp; gineers of the country should be widest but only one agent|writers, died today, a politica rem pxile, of complication of broncho {pneumonia and diabetes, His son of flew to his bedside in an airplans year, and wa- with him during the two hours hefore death i | | France, Jan. ’ Blasco Ibanesz, Horsemen of the made him one of know of contemporar House Flood | to prevent a repetition { came. —— R NI M!lk Mmd Contest Is Won by Ogden Woman Stage Sensational £t A OGDEN, Utah, Jan. 28.—Mrs. Holdup, Milwaukee: T. Hunt of Ogden, won the Jan. 28~ annual milk maid contest at the Chicago ' Ogden Livestock Show here this gangsters, boasting of being arm- | afternoon when she coaxed nime L. MILWAUKEE, V\'I\ . from the Northern borflers of Canton Province tell of the s ing of two berder villages and the murder of 1,500 men, women and children. No Americaus were in the vicinity. Four thousand alleged Communists from the Honan Province staged the raid am‘ massacre on the villages. ed with machine guns, held-up!and one-half pounds of milk from the members of the Wisconsin|a Placid Holstein in two winutes Athletic Club shortly after mid=jand. 10 seconds. Mrs. George night, slugged one man, ent the Higley of Hooper. was second telephone wires and escaped wlth with 8 and one-fourth pnumlq currency and jewelry worth $12,. 00:'rhe bandits lined “ D"'lglble L08 An (?lL’S 3 Accom phshes Big F eat members of the club urely robbed thém. The Los Angeles nosed gemtly The club is located in ma, heart of the downtown u!strlcl,i {down and came to a stop with the control ecabin just up the and le ——eee Norman SO“W Is Happy LAKEHURST, N. JI. Jan. 25— Now in pmn in c‘l After alighting on the deck of the .ahplam- carrier Saratoga at sea, Jan. 28, the first dirigible to ever have ac- Both ships were making good spee SAN QUENTIN, Cal., —Normal S8elby (Kid 8ot the most desired job inside jhle Los Angeies is safely back| To bring the divigible down, the walls when he became prison | jn the hangar here. 'nn- '3 wage thrown to the crew .ag( fireman. His promotion makes, mhe operation was hazardous -sl'he Saratoga and the ship’s it possible for him to sleep in tno big silver bag is 650 feet long ! hiclped warp the big alr IH‘ g & room fil a basement instead of and the entire leugth of the Sara- | position to make the cell and another prisoner Will toga is only 880 feet, Ittle . wore | complete for m-un( nerve hg meals, which - MeCoy than half of which is available as | showing pueh may eat alone, } : 4 AP McCoy) | complished such a feat, the dirig- | touching the deck of the Saratoga.