The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 1, 1928, Page 1

e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” (OL. XXXI., NO. 4701, PRESIDENT JUNE/\U ALASKA WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1928. MEMBER URDER TRIAL OF TWO YOUTHS IS POSTPONED ickman 's Sanity Trial Causes Murder Case to Be Set Over 1.OS ANGELES, Cal., e scheduled murder Villiam B. Hickman and iint for the killing of Ivy Thomas on Christmas Eve, 1926, as today continued until Feb 15 by sfore whom the pair wa uled to to trial. done because the sanity Hickman is now sserting that indication insarity in Hickman could I from his Arkansas ances- down through the troubled domestic life of his mother to center upon Hickman himself today, were subjects of deposi- tions read by Jerome Walsh, counsel for Hickman in the san- ity trial Feb. trial of sched- g0 trial of in progress. of Mrs. Hickman was disclosed in the defense depositions, taken from relatives and doctors of Ar- kansas and the backwoods coun- as suffering at one time from imple depressian” and demen- tia “praecox.” seribed children + Dr. H. ‘gencrally Known: that n “was unfaithful to his wife.” The weport. of the Little Rock State Hospital for nervous diseases, where Mrs. Hickman was eonfin- [ ed two years ago, after she at- tempted suicide by pefso,n show- | ‘ed she was held there time. worry over her five and her husbamnd. P. Ruth said it was — e Sad Letter to Be Delivered To Alaskan SEATTLE, Feb. 1.—The | first mail boat in the Spring | will carry to George Albert, | trader at Port Hayden, Al- aska, a long expected letter from his wife, also the news she is dead. Mrs. Albert, | 60 years, died Sunday ' and | her fumeral was held Mon- day. Before she was stricken ter and it will go on the same boat that will news of her death. carry | | | | b 1 | { | she wrote her husband a let- | | i | | | Welby | Judge Carlos Hardy | This was' be | % { | ) l} | ' SHE’S These were de-| THE LATEST, TOAST, OF PARIS DEVELOPMENTS 1pt mum to goripare foreign standards ot beuuy with ow ~‘§ hove you.sce fhe newest sensation of Parjs—Mife, Jane Aubter | gtanding, 'ho'i doing her stuff at the famous Moulin Rouge in thsé gay' capita’ D'you think tho lr-dltlnnnl fiftty million Frénchmen can be wrong in t» case? ' (International Ilustrated News) \ WRITES OW IMRS. HALLER DISSATISFIED SEATTLE, Feb. 1. fied with §$30,000 cash as a set- tlement of her divorce suit — Dissatis- I | Nathan but wshort| y OUTH, cmmmr HE W AS KIDNAPPED, N RANSOM LETTER; ARRESTED)| ALHAMBRA, Cal, Feb. 1.— Sherman, previously re- {ported Kidnapped from his home in Alhambra and held for ran- som in San Diego, is being held for his parents by the S: | authorities, The boy was picked up late yesterday afternoon when he call- ed at the San Diego Post Office for the ransom money The police said he admitted he San Diego | the §tate Supreme Court for against Theodore Haller, Mrs. [wrote the ransom letter himself. Haller is preparing an appeal to| The boy said he ran’away from i {money when the small amount reagonable amount.” This (]vve]-me had with him had been spent. oped when the appeal bond ‘was:The idea of ransom seemed the signed. Mrs. Haller-is a daughter. | easiest way to get money from | of Judge T. M. Reed, of the First :‘p‘:"‘: m”“‘“ ; F‘l‘(’e"‘; A B I gne Jo «, Division of Alaska. I e o Gl requested $200 for his return and Activity Ends at Teapot | Dome as Big Revertsto the U. S. Navy CASPER, Wyo., Feb. 1—Teapot ; well was commenced on July il,! Dome no longer hooms and bustles with aetivity, Shut-in _oil wells and ' gassers, silent pumping stations and an ali but deserted camp are evidence that the big ‘field, 38 miles north of Casper, has resumed its for- mer status as a naval petroleum reserve. So it will remain, under preseat naval policies " unti its dtore of petroleum and fits - produc)t ars needed. The fleld has been formally’ ro- turned to the government by the Mammoth Ofl Company, a Smclair subsidiary, under a Cheyenne fed-| T eral court decree atter the United States supreme . court - deciston holding its transfer. void. Extensive -camp bulldings, a score of steel tanks with an ag- gregate capacity of 1,500,000 bar- gregated a potential flow -of 200, asked that the letter be addressed care of the General Delivery, at San_Diego. The police posted guard about the Post Oftice window and 'when the lad #ppeared he} iwas detained. He admitted that +he had not been kidpapped. Oil Reserve Former Beer iBi"orl.s Alcohol Kingi" Going Back to Old Vices 1922, and was completed the fol- {lowiig Oct. 5. Before the fisld was sthrown into receivership oun March 13, 1924, operations had resulted in 60 oil wells, 12 gassers and 17 dry holes. The field has an area of 9,331 acres, of which 2,430 acres are believed to be oil bearing and 1,600 gas bearing on the face of/ drilling already accomplished. The first Wall Creek sand, a prolific producer ‘of crude oil in the adjoining Salt Creek field and estimated by geologists to cou- tain. »30,000,000 barrels of oil .n t,. was found almost barren of oll, but the second and third Wall Creek sands beth were prov- ed. for. oil. Shutin ' gassers in the um'va sand, it was estimated, have ag: CHICAGO. ¥eo. . barons and alcohol kings longer reap enormous profits they once collected in Chi¢ago, a Fed- eral Prohibition Officer told the W. C: T, U. campaign strategists. “Gangsters have abandoned the beer and alcohol racket and they have gone ‘back to their old trade of gambling and vicg because li- quor traffic {8 not profitable. Government Prohibition Officers have driven them to cover,” said the Federal official. for Seat . in/ Wisconsin rels; pumping stations and equiz- 1000000 feot daly. ment, drilling rigs, l*. oy Ofl wells drilled by the !l;m lHBlOYGAN, Wis., Feb. P 18" pitted. against - brother ‘race for the ‘eircuit court tor received a| SPRING UP IN NEXTCAMPAIGN Lowden to File Nomination| Papers—Californians Launch Hoover Feb. 1.—Move# of Herbert C. of Commerce, WASHINGTON, ments in behalf Hoover, Secretary and former Governor Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois, for the Re- publican nomination, are well ad-| vanced by overnight developments in the political arena. The Lowden candidacy is defin- itely out in the open with the announcement that nomination papers will ‘be filed Saturday in Illinois where Lowden was once Governor. This was announced by Clarence Buck, who signed himself ‘‘Manager of the Lowden | Campaign.” Out for Hoover Not long after the Lowden de- velopment, Republican members of the House from California, met and gave endorsement for President to Hoover. ion was announced by Represen- tative Curry, who said the State's two Senators had not been invited ta, the caucus, one of heing Sen-' ator Hiram Johnson; who in the past has been a Presidential con- tender himself: Representative Curry said Hoover was endorsed because of his national | tional viewpoint. Adort Resolution The resolution adopted ~reads as follows: ‘Although a native of lowa, Herbert C. Hoover has been ‘continuously a resident ofl California for more than 35| years. We are proud therefors to propose his name as choice for President, because of his well known achievements as an en-| gineer, as a statesman and hu-| manitarian; because of his char- acter as a man and because we believe he can make a gréat President.” i Lowden Statement Clarence Buck’s statement on Lowden, reads: ‘“The East is lw»] ¢lcoming convinced that the Re-| jpublicans must nominate 'a West- | ern man for the Presidency and | Gov. able. | Lowden {s the most avail- , He has a national view- ir game .,Mhome and became desperate for|,oint, and is one candidate who ! I:u:!ern who stalk their g be depended upon to L(ll'l")’| can the West and the Republican Party must sweep the West to be “‘mwurenl of vlctory o | WASHINGTOH CONFEIENCE SEATTLE, Feb. 1. A State | jconference for * Houver for Pres-| {ident” delegates has been: called | for February 14 to be held in| Seattle the day after the Lincoln ! Day banquet by the Young Men's Republican Club. A State organi- zation to campaign for Hoover's nomination. will be perfected at' the conference, it is said. Four Governors Help Entertain Republicans At Convention in K.C. 1 | i | KANSAS CITY, Feb. 1—M!'s ysourl and Kansas each will have one present and one former gov- ernor at the Republican Nationsl Convention which opens June .2 in Kansas City, on the border oec- tween the two states. A former chief executive of pach state lives in Kansas City, and therefore will be resident host, while the present governors of the sister commonwealths w'll appear ‘as officlal hosts. Gov. Sam A. Baker of Missouri will help his immediate lecessor, Arthur M. Hyde, extend hospitali- ty to the , while Gov. Ben S. Paulen of, Kansas will join W. J. Balley, who was chiet ex-/ ecutive of the s-n!lnwor state | more tha: bank, retains tho lyde’ is presi- lite insur- The decis- : and. international |; rather thah from a sec~ A | government ! Sound. Two Political Campaigns Under W ay; Ccndemncd as foes of the Coast are;being warred upon by onctime mine sweeper, the hun OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRlCE TEN CENTS IS DEFIED BY U. S. SEN it lmon indf astry, sea lions vlu h apou the Canalian Govc:nment. ters operate with ‘which sometimes grow to great nze‘ VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 1-— War with machine guns and rifles is / being waged from a ‘mine sweeper and small boats against thousands of sea lions off the Canadian Pacific coast—Dbecaus2 their taste for fresh fish is hamp- ering the salmon industry. Thousands of the sea lions have been - killed since the Canadian declarea war four years ‘ago t@ preserve the fisher- »s. Prospects are that hostilities will continue ‘for some years to | come. The patrol boat Givenchy, which served in the World. war, is the base of operations of the lion a The annpal hunts have been confined to the Virgin and Pearl | Island groups, where the sea lons crowd the bare rocks in Charlotte The warfare was concea- (rnlul av. these rmim« houuwo of their proximity to Rivers h|le0" northern British Columbia fishiag grounds . Officials of the fisheries depart- ment, fishermen and canners a.:- sert that the hunts have been a big factor in preserving salmon and they point out that few nets are found damaged by sea lions and fewer fish mutilated in recent catches as proof of their contention. Hunting sea lons has its own dangers for the fharksmen. Shal-| low waters and dangerous cusr- rents make it impossible for large From the patrol beat Ginnuhy (oenur), rifles and machine guns against the animals, nual slaughter who contend that not follow schools of salmon into the nets, as fishermen allegs. They declare, on the other hani, that much of the destruction a:- tributed to sea Hons is done by hair seals, black fish and sharks. Major J. A. Motherwell, chie! inspector of fisheries for British Columbia, declares, however, that the sea lions kill fish not only for food, but also for the mera thrill of the killing. 'I‘he Steller sea lion, the only B s found in British Columbia and Smiths Inlet, two of the best |the sea lion’s sins are much exag- i Col gerated and that the animal does |completed craft to approach theé rocky ‘n- lets. The gunners leave the Giv- enchy in open boats. High seas sometimes make approach to the islands impossible. Riocheting bullets have wounded several of the gunners, although none seri- ously. There are opponents waters, is larger than the Califor- nia sea lion and structurally dif-| ferent. The males grow to 10110| to 1,300 pounds and the females; to 400 to 500 pounds. i The pelt of the sea lon pup| is beautiful and may become of commercial value like the hair of the an- seal. LAST TRIBUTE BE PAID HAIG Solemn’Flanders Poppy Pageant Will Be Held— Burial on ‘Estate LONDON, Feb. las Halg, at his own request, will be burfed at Bemersyde, his estate 1w Scotland, bought for him by ‘a‘grateful country after the Worldi War, Interment will be proc by a military fun- eral orgagized by the British War Offiee in London, and fun- eral urxtcas in Wentminlter Abbey. The national tribute will take the form of a solemn Flanders poppy pageants, typifying devo- tion of the Field Marshal and his comradeés during the World War. It is Lady Haig's wish that all wreaths and' floral tributes con- sist of W. poppies, the sale of which will swell the funds of soldier WM|lonn ] TRIBUTE !'eb. 1,—Thousands and women today ntly by the bier of (hin silent tribute to the sorrowful pro- former service men, limped p-lnmlg, ‘wept silently ai | 1.—Earl Doug- |CHARGE STATE WITH ATTEMPT BREAK STRIKE Two Faces Are Broadcast from Phonograph Record NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 1, | —The faces of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and President Coolidge, played in a phono- | | graph studio radio station, were thrown out mio the | |Former Governor of Penn-| ether and picked up by sev- ‘- | eral receiving sets in the sylvania Want: In- metropolitan district last # 2 | night, the first time a face Vesugauo" } has been transferred to a phonograph record and pic- ture broadcast. Another form was recently demonstrated from WEAF when a picture I of Mayor James A. Walker was put on the air. Feb. 1.-- wthorities of | Commonwealth of Penusyl vania “is being now, and has been for years, employed to bre the present Dbitur strike,” are made by ( chot, former Gover sylvania. Pinchot’s statem¢ ed in a letter to “on Johnson and has ke ate to investigaty con the bituminous f Pennsyleania and Wost Virgioi Pinchot wrote ANy gunmen | |and other bad anterd { ireappeared in th trike regi WASHINGTON ftord l ir of Penn ———————— Monoplane Columbia Is Groomed for Flight NEW YORK, Feb. 1..— The famed monoplane Columbia is be- ing groomed for a nonstop flight | next week to, Havana with its! owner, Charles Levine and Miss v Ay Mabel Boll, internationally lnown”‘“”"g i i s iachyy Ko as the “Queen of Diamonds,” s, and exercising I+ power as coal| passengers. tand fron police. Numerou saults upon m woren children have I R. W. J. Reed, who has been|by men especi: filling the office: temporarily ' vi-{to keep peace cated by N. E. Bolshanin who la has been on a vacation from ths Customs Office in Sitka, pass.d mh here on-the Admiral Rog- i to Ketchikan. He ;g lir 8 in n dit! a4 and ! ¢ and Charles Gol cHant. and fur ryi TR the Admiral togers round trip to/ Sitku. | the s Hoover cmd Lowden SENATE PASSES SHIPPING BILL OVER PROTESTS Opposition of President and Administration Is of‘ No Avalil WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—Over the opposition of President Cool {idge and the Administration lead- ers, the Senate has passed the lJones Shipping Bill to expand the American merchant marine and maintain it under Govern« ment control. A combination of Democrats and Western Republicans sent the measure to the House by a vote of 53 to 31 after rejecting by overwhelming votes a long | series of amendments put for- | ward in a last minute attack by | those who contended the measure | would establish a policy of per- manent Government operation of the morchzg marine fleet. ST. THOMAS, ' irgin Isla Feb. 1.—A Preside:tial salute 21 guns announc to Virgh Islanders yesterday atte:noon thit. Olrarles A. Liadbergh b another _lap of his’ Good-Will tour and completed 1,050-mile hop from Caracas' rfih 10 hours and 15 minutes. The entire region was notifiad of his approach by the firing of two cannons and the ringing of hurch’ ‘bells. St. Thomas went wild with ex- citement and enthusiasm when it knew the American favorite filer was near. MUGGLING PLOT NIPPED BERLIN, Feb. 1.—A plot to smuggle Poles and others into the United States with forged passports has been nipped by the police, they belleve, with the sentencing of the leader ol the plotters to* prison. X The plot was disclosed by the American Consulate ' General. Forger- planned to collect $200 {rom each smuggled. emigrant. They intended to forge German and other passports and identi- fAeation papers entitling the bear- jer to an Ameriva visa. The emi- Erasis would ‘them be smuggled “g uaider the German quota. ——— ”tw ‘e Favored Sons dre in Primaries In Nebraska State ANCOLN, Neb., Feb. 1—Three ‘avorite soms” probably will pe imong the ecandidates from whom braska voters may ¢ at spring preferential - primary ¢ presidential nominations. Properly signed petitions' from the siyte’s six congressional dis- (ricts haye been put in the handa [ the éecretary of state asking {hat the names of Gilbert M. Hiwheoak, former United States senator, and Charles W. Bryan, formet govermor and vice dentizl nomimee, be placed on ballot. 3¢ candidates for the w cratic nomination, Sevdial petitions also are ff enteging George W. Norris, United snm senator, as a utg, and sponsors ot Nr) boom say therg is no wl but that he will have & ballot. 3 some of the