The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 16, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE OL. XXXI., NO. 4714. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY,VFEBRUARY 16, 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BODIES OF 2 MISSING DEPUTIES FOUND Prominent Democrat, Defender of Hill, in Tragic Death 0. BROWNE IS DROWNED | NEAR ESTATE alls Into Swift Waters of | Fox River—Body Is Recovered DEFENDS MAN CHARGE WITH SLAYING MOTHER PDeath Comes While Jury | Still Deliberates Fate of His Client OTTAWA, I1il, Feb. 116.-—Lee] Y'Neill Browne, lawyer and Leg- slator, one of Illinois’s most powerful Democrats, as drown- d in the swift waters of the Fox | tiver, flowing .past his estate oday. | Falling from a stone embank- jnent at the rear of his new home, the body was carried near-| iy half a mile down_stream be-| fore it was recovered. One year ago, Browne, who| was 60 years of age, slipped| ffrom the me wall but was saved when his suspenders caught m an iron hook. Death of Browne came while| the jury was debating the fate! i Harry Hill .who Browne de-| fended against the charges of! atricide. Browne had just re-| ed from the court ‘howse-in Ligh spirits beMevifig that ~the t ong deliberations are favorable ' 0 his client. ! The jury the death is still unaware of | of Browne and con- tinued deliberations. The mem- bers of the jury have been unable to break the deadlock which for | two days has prevented them | from reaching a verdict. i The vote is still reported to be ! 8 to 4 for conviction. ———.———— FURS BRING HIGH PRICES TACOMA SALE TACOMA, Wash., valued at $200,000 [auction here. Ninety-nine per cent | of the fur offered were sold hy | the West Coast Fur Sales. Ral) Fox was high at $57 with aver- ag eof §38.50. Cross fox sold for $76 to §160. Lynx was high at $656 with average of $48. Mink sold for $17 to $20. White fox was high at $66. Silver fox also sold for high prices at $25.. (Wolves averaged $19; beaver, extra large, at $32; weasel from 2 to $3.50. Marten $28 to $33 for | ordinary lots. Blue fox sold tur, $60 to $70 and muskrat for $1.60, 'Wolverine sold for $23 to’$27. Feb., 16—Furs | were sold at {4 \ {Veteran Musical Comedy TRY COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE L 4 L A Phillips, the latter being the former Margaret Rochester, after their companionate marriage had been performed at the Phi Kappa Sigma house in Annapolis, Md. A male “gaaid of honor,” in girl’s clothes, added a piquant touch to the ceremony. (International Newsreel) Mrs. Walter W. CURTAIN RINGS DOWN ON EDDIE FOY SUDDENLY Old “Strad” Is Found in Wisconsin DARLINGTON, Wis., Feb Marian MceQuaid, zed liked to play the \||l!|| was ashamed to be | with the old f|r|(Ho belonging to her father. She had about decided to get a new violin when her teach- | er, looking her old one over saw on the age-hlowed paper | ingide of the instrument: (Yadivaring Cremone Anno enteen Twenty Oneél” The instrument has been in the gt family for 50 | years. 16, but in publie Star Passes Away in Kansas City - ee—— !Announcement ‘Made that $400,000,000 Want- ed for Project _————e———————————= | WASHINGIUN, reb. 16—Ch ASSOCIATED PRESS (TIMES WIDE wore: | man James B. Reed, of Arkan ECDIE FoOvY lof the House Flood Control Com- | mittee, announced last night, thit KANSAS CITY, Feb. 16.—Ed- a Mississippi River Flood Contrc) die ,Foy, veteran musical comedy ' Bill, the product of four months star and vaudeville headiiner, of hearings and study by the Com- died unexpectedly today while mittee, is to be introduced today. on a farewell tour of the stage| Representative Reed indicated on which he played for more, that the measure will call for a than half a century. Hé died ! expenditure of $400,000,000 after a heart attack had left him{curbing the destructive inund weak. He was conscious to thetions and will place full respons end. | bility for accogplishment of the i work upon the President, whe A benefit peformance for the designated to name a commi Chicago. Newsboys' Home in'of seven civilians to carry out the engineering project. (Contlnucd on Pm:a Three.) DEATH PENALTY LEGAL IN 40 STATES, i FOR PRISON MURDERS IN THREE MORE NEW YORK, Feb. 11—Fourteen states have abolished capital pun- ishment since 1847, but six of them. subsequently restored it and in three more it may be invokosd as a penalty for homicide withiy a prison. State law touching upon the death penalty has been tabulated anew by the League to Abolish Capital Punishment as a resuit of discussion aroused by the Sny- der-Gray executions in New York, the life imprisonment of Adolph Hotelling for murder in Micai- gan and the state’'s demand for the death penalty in the William Edward Hickman = case In Cali- fornia. Michigan, Rhode Island, Wiscon- sin, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota and North and South Dakota have abolished capital punishment, but Rhode Island, Maine and North Dakota still make murder within prison punishable by death.. * Michigan, first to do away with the death penalty in- 1847, has never zone back to it although a sure restorimg it came before state legislature i 1 and (efeated. The governor of " 'Registrar of Juneau Land Office to Get Salary But No Fees South Dakota vetoed a bill for res- toration of capital punishment in| WASHINGTON, Feb. 161t 1927 aftér it had passed the legis- flllllmm(‘ed by the' Commitiee of lature. { Public Lands and Survey that Colorado has abolished capital recommendation to the Senate nas punishment twice in 56 years and been made that the salary of the has restored it both times. Ir; Registrar of the local land office was done away with in 1872, made ! in the Juneau District, Alaska, he | legal again in 1878, abolished once |fixed at $3,600 without benefit ol morve in 1897 and put. back in fees. statg law in 1901, | J. Lindley Green is Registrar of In Tennessce the death penaliy;the Land Office, at Anchoragc. was made illegal in 1916 but |He was recently renominated inr brought back in 1918, Washing-|the position. ton and Oregon abolished it in, 1918 and restored it in 1920. Arl-| Bishop Chandler, zona and Missouri, which also did wway with, it in 1913, plgeed it | Methodist, Against the statutes again as the extrems Curm-Reed Bill penalty in 1918 and 1919 respec- tively. SEATTLE. Feb, xs—msnop P. The League to Abolish Capital, o Rowe has “““ for Alaska Punishment was founded in 1925,'where he will ordain two young and since then it has been active!ministers at Fairbanks after con- both in seeking elimination of the secration. of & new church at death penalty in states which re-| Ketchikan. tain it and in fighting its restora- ..__._”.L._... tion g¢lsewhere. No state has re- A J‘O%Q‘U'(’A‘Nom stored it in the three years, bm} NEW Yflm - ST neither’ “have ‘more nmas done ! Juneau mine “was quoted -wmm i NM“IE R FLOOD CONTROL MEASURE READY BE PRESENTED Old Time Gold Miner Going on | Trip, Ireland | CORDOVA, Alaska, Feb. 16 Canning, old time gold miner, leaves on the steamer Alaska today for his first trip outside since 1906. He | | is going to Ireland to visit his old home. FORMER PRIME MINISTER DIES ENGLISH HOME Earl of Oxford and Asquith | Passes Away—LUncon- scious Many Days H J‘Bac‘r H As*qu,»m SUTTON, wkngland, Feb. Earl of Oxford and Asquith, who, as Herbert H. Asquith, Prime | Minister, was an outstanding fi ure of the World war, is dead. Pulmonary complications brought death to the 75-year-old statesman {at his country home where he has {lived since his retirement from life after his resignation 16 public from the leadership of the Liberal (Party in 1926. He had been un- consclous since last Monday. Hard Working Leader The career of Herbert Henry Asquith was one of the most dis- tinguished among contemporary | statesmen in Efgland, where he | was regarded as one of the most jable, scholarly and hard-working leaders who ever headed the gov- ernment. His long period of pub- lic service was replete in dra- matic possibilities, but he never |took advantage of them to play to the gallery. Seemingly content to lead his people by following them, he advanced quietly hy sheer tenacity and hard work, coupled with natural ability. One of his warmest admirers once oh served that Asquith’s modesty verged on deformity. In 1868, as a London school boy of 16, Asquith is said to have told his schoolmates that one day he would be lord chancellor or prime minister, and constantly he askel his companions to test his knowl- |edge of parliamentary procedurc. {1t the story is true, it appears 1o {be the only evidence that Asquith ever boasted of his knowledge or (ability, or voiced his ambition. Serious Crisis Six ‘years after Asquith became | British prime minister, In 1905, |he was confronted with one of | the most serious crises in ' the world's history~—the optbreak of the European’ War. Quietly, he led a cheering nation into war, jand through perhaps the most perifous months ‘in its history. The first mad rush of the enemy was countered, but few regardel the stolid man at No, 10 Downlas Street as _a savior. Domes. " crises followed.. Public opinion turned from the leader who lack- ed magnetism, and n the war was half over the ' rship went to Mr. Lloyd Ge “who nad justthe human rulllbl that As quith lacked. Asquith - stepped aside, and the pictyresque person- ality of his Welsh secretary of war replaced him. {Con‘inued 0@ Page Seven.) '|SECRETARY OF NAVY WILBUR | CUTS BANUUET! Unable to Atlend Dlnnel to Plunkett — Is Taken as Rebuke EEE | YORK, Feb, 16.—Failure of N Curtis D. ttend testimonial linner given Rear Admiral “harles Plunkett is viewed as a publie rebuke by Col. E. A. Sim- mons, chairman of the banquet. The odcasion for the banquet was the Admiral’s retirement f; service on his sixty-fourth birt day. Col. Simmons read a letter in which retary Wilbur express- ed regret at his inability to at- tend but the Colonel later e pressed the opinion the letter was “but a smoke screen and the real reason why he did not come and which he made known to me the telephone was fear that his presence at the din-| ner so soon after the world publicity in connection with Plunkett's speech at the N:clhmul Republi¢ Club, would be mis understaod.” Rear Admiral Plunkett ]ml! urged a large and well equipped Navy and said that *“if history was read correctly, what we are doing today brings us n : to| war today than ever before in| history, because we are too damned efficient.” | oLe BOBS UP AGAIN NEW of Secertary Wilbur to over Reapportionment of House Comes Forth for Third Time in Seven Years | { WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-—For the third time in the past seven' vears a move has been launched in the House to reapportion mem-| bership of several States on the basis of their inc¢reased popula-| tion since the 1900 census. i Faced by a number of bills proposing the method of reappor- tionment, the House Census Com- mittee is now engaged in hea ings on the subject and is e pected to report out the measure that will reallocate memberships | on a basis of the estimated 1930 | census, Under the bill ‘under considera- tion, Washington State would gain one Representative and Cali: fornia six. Motion for New Trial i For Hickman Is l’ile(llj LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 16 More to loosen the noose, figura-| tively placed about his neck, | the slayer of Marian Parker, was the opening act of Hickman today in the session of the joint tral »f Hickman and Welby Hunt for the murder of J, Thomas, drug store clerk, killed on the night of December 26, 1926, in a hold-up. Hickman's attorneys filed writ-| ten notice of appeal to the State Supreme Conrt on the death seu tence in the Parker case. —_—a— — Mrs. Coolidge Shows Jmprovement Signs WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Mrs. Calvin Coolidge spent a good night according to attending physicians, Her cold has not yet entirely disappeared and she will be unable to be present tonight when the President receives the officers of the Army and Navy at the last White House reception of the winter social season. Col. Lindbergh Banquet Guest, St. Louis. C. of C. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 16—Col. Charles “A. Lindbergh, attending a banquet of the St. Louis Cham- ber of Commerce, given in his honor last " night, declared aviation .has developed more rap- Iby Mrs FLAP-JACK KING William Childs, mitlionaire restaur honeymoon at Atlantic City with Ludgate Murray. Mrs. Childs was formerly her husband’s secretary TAKES A BRIDE - —— ant owner, is here pictured on iis his bride, the former Mrs. Victoria and Is a cousin of his first wife, the late Mrs. Agnes O'Neil Childs. (International Newsreel) DR, M'MILLAN I8 ON TRIAL . FOR MURDER Jury Sclecled at Los An- geles—Eight Women and Four Men DR. CHARLES McMILLAN LOS ANGELES, The bloodstained Cal, Feb. 16 clothing worn Amelia Appleby, wealth Chicago widow and apartme owner, found near San a Los Angeles suburb, trussed in a sack, was identified as evidenye when the fi testimony was taken at the I yesterday of br. Chatles McMillan, charged with| the murder two months ago. The evidence vias shown to ihe ury consisting ol eight women | jand four men finally wera illlN\'Il at the morniug seszion y» terday after a day and one-half Dr. Frank Webh, Assistanr County Autopsy Surgeon, who ot ticially examined the body of the woman, was the State’s first - w ness, He also identified to the jury the photograph of the woman's body pointing out tion. of certain wounds Dr. McMillan has deniod his guilt. 1l cial adviser of Mrs e Wl‘”, W(’u’ Not Married Yet, who loca- was finan Appleby. But Ho,w Soon to Be! COLOMBO, Ind 16.— The former Maburs eb. Nuwara for left the resort at by special train Inia. version of Miss Miller ism will take place wedding of the two immediately. Machinery for Seattle Rlizy to Hindu- Cement Phnt Soon Moves .. SEATTLE, ["l'ly of machinery for cement plant to De 15-—-Shipments constructed that |in Beattle by the Pacifie (‘ontl Cement Company, vill soon he Fernand s, | b of Indore | and Miss Nancy Ann Miller havx-; Bangalore, | It is understood that con-|countries of the world are Russit| hese soon and the | will follow | SENATE VOTES FOR PROBE OF to Federal Trade Commission WASHINGTON, Feb: i6—By a margin of 15 votes, the Senate ré- ferred to the Fedepal Trade C mission” teves isa g of of public utilitles power corpora- ticns, The vote was 46 to party lines obliterated. The showdown came on amendment of Senator Walter ¥ | Geo Democrat of Georgia, 1o the original proposal of Senator Walsh, that the Senate itself con- duet the inquiry through a special 31, with an membership, The voi after 9 o'c Senate had more than was reached shor ck last night after tha been in session for nine hours proponents of the Walsh ! made three separate attempts |forece a vote earlier in the day. .- plen | : \Former Governor | Wants Conviction | MANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 18 | Warren McCray, former goverior of Indiana, and recently patrollvd from the Federal Prison at lanta, called upon the state | convict present Governor | Jackson on a charge of bribe | MdéCray testified that Go le-ksnn offered him $10,000 bring about the appointment of a | Prosecuting Attorney for Marion | Connty, of which Indianapolis i3 |the County seat, but that he re { Tused. | MeCray was the last witness of |the day. hiy 60 i the years and witnes: slain | POWER FIRMS Investigation Is. Referred| committee of five to be elected to, and afier| to Present Governor Ao o' He appeared feeble for| was helped to IMYSTERY OVER D1S APPEARANCE IPARTLY CLEARED {Bodies of Two Indlana De: | puties Are Found in [ Woods in Illinois TWO PRISONERS STILL AT LARGE {Intensive Search of Ovcr Week is Fruitful—Hun- dreds in Search DANVILLE, I'l, Feb. 16.—The | bodles of the two missing depu- ‘u.-« John Grove and Wallace | McClure, were found late today {in the woods at Foster where they were lying face upward Jwith carefully straightened arms at the sides. | 'The discovery terminated more {than one week of intensive search |of the territory by hundreds of {State and city poliee, | The two conviets, John Burns and Samuel Baxter, believed to have been responsible for the {disappearance of the oificers, are still at large. I'ie automoblle in which the ofiicers started out from Lafay- jette, Ind, on February 7, em- jroute to the State Reformatory, :u drive of 70 miles, was found 'shoitiy after the disappearance ,on a doserted street at Oecatuf. | The onty indication that a oy ‘car whl-~h the police said was caused by a bullet, Reports are that the back of |the heads of the deputies are crughed, When the deputies left Lafay- ette for the reformatory, the two priconers were handeuffed to- gether on the rear seat of the automobile, —— - — DECISION IN FAVOR, LABOR N, oL Suate lSIupremec(Snourl ‘: aKes nu n&n(:: pany ns NEW YORK, Feli, 10—A court decision hailed by Jeaders of or- ganized labor as far reaching and a precedent in their wide fight against Company Unions, has been handed down by the New York State Supremhe Court. | Contracts between the Intes- borough Rapid Transit . Company and employees, binding the latter not to join any but a TCompany Union, is invalid, the Court held, and it refused to enjoin the Amer- fean Federation of* Labor from pressing its efforts to organize the Transit forces. The Company officials announs- ed they will appeal’ to higher ‘courts. ! ? | | | r ‘rur growing industry in the Unite] States is forescen by J. G | Noakes, New York auctio :lll’l(l(’l‘ whose direction furs worth millions of dollars are sold to wholesalers annually. In spite of the popular impros- sion that the great fur-producin 01 {and Canada, Noakes says, the| United States = surpassos b'n‘l these nations in producing furs. !Last year, he discloses, the®value of raw furs marketed by Ameri- | can collectors was $70,000,000. But this enormous production d the decreasing area of foraat NEW YORK, Feb. 16A & great | ..‘...".M.J,F()RE SEES EXP ANSION OF THE FUR INDUSTRY V8 Nn:\kel. “we shall have to look inore and more to the breed- er us & source of supply.” An incressing interest is beinz taken in this indastry, he asserts. Almost every day, the firm of which bhe is genmeral manager re- eives inquiries from persong fu. terested in fur farming. Many ot inquiries are sent on to him, he explalns, at the sugges- tion of the United States biologi- \ cal survey. “Of course,’ em," he adds. | Noakes Is confident of the m ture of the fup industry in th', | United ~ States. American furs we encmm“ (aud swamp lands will bring a rc-|such as opossum, mink, muskrat, duction in the number of fur ani- the u,50001m mals that can be trapped, Nuuke» the finest jm the world, believes bred on coon and skunk, he belleves, are Amert can manufseturers and d Fur animals will have to Iw in his opinion, lead the -,,. farms,” he predicts, lu’n skill and style. -And America idly.in the last 25 years than hes{moving from the cast to s:anlu.{" silver fox now are being brg: any other ‘mode of transportation |it is anmounced. The ore for the! s«while thousands of pelts ‘m within & clnlln period, |fers a huge w for fur ) plant will be shipped from Alaska.| Gontinue to come trom mr.."inuu-. ; i