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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXI.. NO. 4740. "ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU ALASKA, SATURDAY MARCH 17, ALL THE TIME” 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NAVY PROGRAM IS PASSED BY HOUSh FAINT HOPE IS REVIVED ABOUT MISSING PLANE Residents OTM_aine Section Claim Plane Was Heard and Seen NEW YORK, March 17—Faint hope has been revived that Elsie MacKay and Capt. Walter Hinch- cliffe reached American shores, for which they set out from Eng land last Tuesday in the plan2 Endeavor. Hope depended solely on reports from several persons in the vicinity of Greenville, Maine, that an unidentified plane had been heard and seen at 6 o’clock Thursday morning flying in a northwesterly direction. If this plane was the British craft, it was near the limit of its fuel supply and a forced landing would have plunged it into a wild- erness broken only by lumber, camps and very few small settle ments. So many rumors have followed the disappearance of this and other trans-Atlantic craft that aviators have hesitated to place much credence in reports. PROHIBITION FORCED INTO STATE FIGHT Senator Willis Takes Shot at Hoover and 18th | Amen&nent 2 ; i | | | LAN(‘ASTER Ohln errh 17 ——With what appeared to be an indirect shot at Herbert C. Hoov- er, Presidential candidate in the Republican frimaries in this State, Prohibition was brought !m the front in the Ohio campaign' by Senator Frank B. Willis. Senator Willis declared in speech here that the voters thls‘ year will stand for no dodging on the Prohibition issue by Pres- idential candidates. “Campaigns cannot be won by evasion, consequently in the con- test of 1928 it may be under- stood at the outset that the peo-, ple demand and are entitled to receive a definite and unequivocal assurance of the position of can- didates regarding the Elghteen!h‘ Amendment and law enforce- ment,” said Willis. | - e, | $201,000 of Stock | In Mining Company | Found in Rubbish COLFAX, Wash, March 17 b Stock in the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining Company, valued at $201,000, was picked up on a, service station driveway ‘hers where it had been dumped with, rubbish from a remodeled bunt’u' ing. The stock had been concealul, in a partition of his living quar- ters by the late Gen. H. W. Liv- ingstone, Colfax pioneer, who died two years ago. In remodeling the building the partition was tora out. ! Heirs of General Livingston had been forced tp furnish a bond to the mining company for the missing stock. [ PORTRAI T OF VICE-PRESIDEN T the Greenville § L i-“l r!rctnn nu(,h oggurrence. | “ideal , This excel]ent likeness of Charles G. Dawes, Vice-President of the \\\ elby | liam E. | ern | der er, | gallows on April 27 {woman DES('RIBL.S HER IlII'RES'SIO “BEING DEAD”: SEE. 4LLS ON HER Hh4 HICKMAN TAKEN T0 PRISON;WILL | HANG APRIL 27 Has Smile on His Face—| Laughs During Fare- well to Brother SLES, Cal, March 17 With a smile on his face for everyone in the crowd of report- ers and press photographers. Wil- Hickman boarded a South Pacific train late yesterday for San Quentin prison where he has been condemned to die on the for the mur of 12-year-old Mariam Park- whom he kidnapped and then killed. In the prison party was als» Hunt, accomplice of Hick United States, is reputed to be the best likeness which has been [man in the murder of Druggist one. (International 1 lustrated Newa) | Two Women Dead | Baby Alive, in Snow Slide TELLURH)E. 17—Two women were by a smowslide that down a steep mountain here yvesterday. A year old baby had a miraculous escape from death and was dug out of the | snow slide alive. The slide crushed a concrete retaining | | wall buflt to guard the homes | | Colo.,, March killed swept | | | | { | HUSBAND IDEAL, - ONLY HE'S GONE CHICAGO, Mz husband” h(‘ is lost. This is the situation: Willian: Rozay, twenty-six, left his home 'and his wife to look for work. H2 has. not been seen since. Mrs. Rozay appealed to police to find her husband and here are the reasons: “He never called me anything, but ‘honey girl.’ “He never quarreled. “He helped wash the dishes and always liked my cooking. “He always consulted me before making engagements.” “He kissed me at least thirty times before he left home in the morning. “He never dropped ashes on the floor.” Deputy Commissioner of Polirs William E. O'Connor agreed with Mrs. Rozay that everything pos sible should be done to find her perfect spouse. ~ ————— — — NEW SQUIRREL FOOD ch was 17 — The found—but cigarett! STOCKBRIDGE, Mass, March 17—Gray squirrels have taken to nesting im a power company's conduit boxes - here. After th= town was plunged in darkness one night electricians found = that ! squirrels had eaten the insula- tion on some of the wires, caus- ing a short circuit. U. S. CHEMISTS GAINING IN DEVELOPMENT RACE l BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 17 —The rapid advance of chemical engineering in the United States within the last few years is being significantly demonstrated by the adoption of an American process and apparatus for electrothermal production of phosphoric acid by a French fertilizer concern.’ Heretofore the situation hos usually been reversed. Many of the important developments in chemistry have been achieved abroad and Ametican compa; to keep abreast of ‘the -indust; progress, have had to purchase the right to utilize these ‘discov- eries in the United States. ‘The phosphoric acid process was mhd out by euiloon and.-sef- l cently by the Societe ‘des Phos-| phates Tunisiens of Paris, whici at the same time arranged to have its engineers and chemists in- structed in the operation of the apparatus by American experts. In addition to phosphoric acid which will be converted chiefly into ammonium phosphate, a con- centrated fertilizer, the American equipment and methods will en- able the French company to mar- ket pure phosphoric acid and sev- eral pure salts, including mon> numnlnm phosphate, diammoni- us nhuwhm ind mdln)n phfl" s CORDELL HULL . MAKES DENIAL | | | | ~ ABOUT REPORT 1Says Never Agreed to, Wiihhold Publishing Campaign Deficits | | i | WASHINGTON, Mar 17—Em- denjal ot 4 go_of ["blans, agreements or arrange: ments of the slightest nature with nny official of the Republican Na- | tional Committee was made by | Cordell Hull, former Chalrman of the Democratic National wmml’» tee in reply to testimony given before the Senate Oil sub-com mittee in Chicago that there had been an understanding by treas- urers of the two committees in 1923 not to publish statements as to deficit in financing the 1920 campaign. Hull also made public a tele gram to ‘Wilbur Marsh urging him to publish any facts within his knowledge. Marsh was Treas: urer of the Democratic National Committee in 1923 at the time the Senate committee had been told there had been an agreement be- tween him and Fred Upham, Re. publican National Committe: Treasurer. GIRL'S ENGLISH WORTH $5,000 SAN FRANCISCO, March 17— Sixteen-year-old Mary Pinocci looked back on her school days| and found that they had been spent profitably. Just about $5, 000 worth, to be correct. When Mary took the witness stand in Jydge Thomas F. Gra. ham’s court' to act as interpreter for her father, Guiseppe, her Eng- lish was fluent. The court even complimented her on her pronun- ciation. And .because of her knowledge, her father was granted a* $5,000 estate that was left by his uncle, Battista Piccinini, who died last year intestate. The young girl } explained matters so clearly that the court granted letters of ad- ministration to the father. ———— - Appendicitis Operation For Nancy Ann Miller LONDON, "‘March 17.—A dis- pateh from Bombay says Miss Nancy Ann Miller must undergo an operation for appendicitis atter her,marriage to Tukori Rao and will safl soon for Europe for the operation. ——.e———— ml.wn LICENSE In the sume Star of March {7 ana in the ‘Seattle Times of ch 8, among the marriage M- banses is one ay follows: “Joun and Leone Gra- { | | t Mr legal, bottol Seattle. There is a John E. Me: Wune-n and Val- Graber, also of t whether the two ~ | brother lon April Thomas, and who faces life i | prisonment. Hickman bade farewell to hi¢ Alfred. There was un grief and instead the farewell was piced with frequent outbursts o’ | laughter. NO WOMEN AT HANGING SAN QUENTIN PENITENT! ARY, March 17—-A request by a woman that she be permitted to witness the hanging of Hickman 27 has been denied by Warden Holohan who said it was the first time in his experience a woman requested to see an execi tion. Holohan said it was strict- ly against the prison rules for a woman to be present at hangings. SENATOR FER CRITICALLY ILL IN WASHINGTON Report from Bedside that He Has Fighting Chance to Recover WASHINGTON, March United States Senator Woodbrige N. Ferris, Democrat of Michigan is said by members of his family to be “very sick with a fighting chance for recovery.” Senator Ferris is 79 years of age. He has been confined to his room for a week with a severe cold which developed into pneu- monia. He had a bad night and a number of physicians are at- tending him today. Senator Ferris has bee active op the floor of the Senate 17. {during the recent month. Senator Ferris was elected the term beginning March 1923, by 294,932 votes as against 281,843 for his Republican op- ponent the Hon. Charles E. Town- send. to Father Disciplines Girl; 5 Daughters “Walls Out” on Him NEW YORK, March 17—A fath- er reported to police yesterday that his five daughters, ranginy from 10 to 19 years in age, or. ganized a “walkout” after he had attempted to discipline one of them, and since have not bec: seen by their family. James Tuscano, an ice dealer, said that when he tried to stimu late his daughter ' Josephine, 12 years old, to greater activity with her studies her sisters, Rose, 19° Margaret, 15; Frances, 14, and Antoinette, 10, objected to- his methods and the five then lefi home wgethen Amenunw W‘ulclnl’l: D. BERLIN, llrc_h 17-~The first doctor of philosophy degree ever won by an American woman at the University of Berlin, was re cently awartled Barbara Morgan, wife of Shephard Morgan, eco- nomic adviser to the Dawes' com- @ native New mission. lfl'nn. ) at Bryn Mawr and Mrs. Yorker, st Colambia. Her thesis, “The Indi- ‘vidual's P] in " the Amerféan | | tered around a southern girl, | OF S MARBLE STAIR D;:SHE W lII RI'((N I'R SAN FRANCISC 0, Cal., \Lmh 17~ The Examiner today reports a case of.a woman being “‘brought | ! back life’ by a surgical op-| |eration after the he pul and respiratory organs stopped functioning five minutes, The patient is Mrs. I 8. We |She deseribed briefly the imnre sion of “being dead” and said: “It was a feeling like ithrough the air. 1 seemed see the marble steps, then I fell | upon my head. The next I heard the nurse say: ‘Are you back? Mrs. Weil had been cr ally ill for months from tumor at the basg of the brain Dr. Howard Naffziger was at her cide when became life- less, rushed her the operat- she to Mrs. cover Weil s completely. s L MORE MARINES WILL BE SENT T0 NICARAGUA Thousand ?édilional Leathernecks Will Be Dispatched South WASHINGTON, March 17 As a requel to Nicaragua's failure tc enagt le tion providing fo: American supervision of her next Pregidentinl election, plans are under way for dispatehing mope Marines to N P4 help enfopee the Stimson peace greement Two additional battalions of Marines will be sent to Nicaragua it aftnoujiced at the Navy I)fl:mmflt u},n affer President| Coolidge represented it as believ- ing the United States could still be of assistance to Nicaragua. The Matines will embark soon as sailing space is obt and they will augument 2,700 already in Nicaragua. —— e DETROIT MAN IS KIONAPPED, expected o re- DETROiIT, Micu, March 17 James Hall, aged 54 years wealthy hotel and cafe proprietor, has been kidnapped from his home in the exclusive Gross Poin{ Village district. It has been re ported to the police the kidnap- pers demand $1¢,000 ransom. *|South in Limenght Through Current Plays CHAPEL HILL, N. C., March 17 Samuel Selden, backstage man- ager of the Carolina Playmakers, believes southern playwrights are ! suggesting new horizons in Ameri can drama through portrayal of life in this part of the country. He points to “Porgy,” by Du- bose and Dorothy Heyward, deal iing with South Carolina Negroes; “In Abraham’s Bosom,” Paul M. Green's play of the struggles of a Negro for his race; “Coquette,” by Anne Preston Bridgers, cen and “Trigger" and “Sun Up,” by Lula ;| Vollmer, dramas of mountain life. ! D "| OFFICIALS WILL NOT INVESTIGATE REPORT Deciding that information . re- ceived from U. 8. Commissioner Frank H. Clark at Hoonah, con- cerning the finding of the dead body of an Indian woman at Funter Bay was not definite enough to warrant an investiga- tion, local federal officials wil not go to the Bay, it was said to- day. Yesterday, when the infor- mation’ was receved, it was thought officials might investigate the report. The mail boat Margnita has been advised of the situation and | requested to stop in at Funter Bay to obtain further informa- tiom o S — TO KiIS$ OR NOT TO KIss i / [ELD, Mo., March 17—- hundred senior high were asked if the were the popular was the answer of 1, s Nil ' schy kis rising | HELD,RANSOM FIRST PHOTO OF CHALIAPIN S BR!DE | to ing room and removed the tumor. The newly By Russian oxilea’in Now York. (International AT IS DRY IN IRELAND TODAY Drownlng of the Sham-‘ rock” Impossible, in | a Public Way BELFAST, St. h Ireland, March 17, Patrick’s Day is dry in the Free State country. annual drink bill eighteen million sterli the National Festival could not be celebrated with the time hon- Iuy'vll “drowning of the sham- irock.” Public houses were forced to close in’ the Free State today Dwellers, however, could lay in a stock of his favorite beverage and enjoy it in hiz-home or jour- ney across the border and drown the shamrock to his heart's con- tent. the into . Abandoned Buildings At Sitka Proposed for Territony of Alaska WASHINGTON ch 17--To grant certain abandoned public buildings and grounds at Sitka (o the ‘Territory of Alaska, is pro posed in a bill by Delegate Suth. erland. The Dbuildings Al be | used.as a home for the agod, sick and infirm ploneers Demand for Canada Twins Take Spurt EDMONTGN, Alta., March 17 “Have you any twins to spare’ The demand ai present is very heavy, according to Charles B, Hill, of the department of neg | lected children., A recent adver tisement for a hLome for year-old twin sisters brought a hearty re- sponse, Had there been twelve more pairs available, they, too, could have been provided with parents and homes. Al of which goes t» show that not all people consider twins a burden. ——-—e e — Hugged, She Wrecks His Car, He Asks $300 CHICAGO, M.mh Frank Nemanich hugged her, Mary Welch of Lake Forest wrecked his car, she told Magistrate Hamry Hovt in Wauke:| gon. for the $300 damage. trate withheld a ruling. denies the N i | 17-—Because | of Waukegon The ml(ll— pany | BIG MEASURE IS APPROVED BY 600D VOTE ?Building Program Is Pass- ed—Limitation Amend- ment Is Also Added BULLETIN — WASHING- TON, March 17.—The House late this afterncon apnroved of the $274,00,000 new war- chip construction program by a vote of 287 to 57 and scnt the measure {o the Senm- ate. The bill provides for censtruction of 15 ecruisers of 10,000 tons: one aircraft carrier, 13,800 tons, stipu- lating that eight be built in navy yards. The President is urged to secure another limitation conference and also gives him authority to sucpend whele or part of the conetruction in event of a limitation agreement. | WASHINGTON, March 17— | Without debate, the House adopt- led an amendment to the $274. | 600,000 warship construction pro. feram to request the President to | urge the necessity of another In- | | ternational Conference on limita- tion of armaments, The proposal was sponsored by | Representative W. H. Sproul, Re- | | publican of Kansas, and accepted | Here's the first ploture to be published in this country of Mme. Marla Chaliapin, second wife #f Feodor Challapin, the great Russian bariton eds were phatoed NEM at a birthday party given chalhfll Newsresl) _ PLANE CRASHES INTG MOUNTAIN Passenger Found Alive by Seachers—Pilot Is Dead LOS ANGEL , Cal, Bert D. Paugh, passenger in @ Southern Califoruia * Edison Conu airplane, which crashed iuto! mountain ridge 30 miles nortr of here last Tuesday, was foun alive late yesterday afternoo: with a broken leg, beside the wrecked planc Englich, The out by morning caused break a was dead. two men had the company to . survey by the St. Francis dan and were never heard until yesterday afternoon whet the wrecked plane was from the air by a searching plane ol el Sl Edwin T. Meredith Makes Statement been sen AImuL Candidacy! DES MOINF lm a, Makeh 17 Edwin T. Meredith, of Agriculture in the Wilsor Cabinet, will not stand in the way of the Presidential endorse ment from Towa a “favorit son"” ecandidate for the Demo- cratic nomination, he announeced in a letter to Thomas W. Keenan of Shenandoah, who requested statement in behalf of a of Democrats. Former Alaskan Is to Wed a Wealthy Widow |, SEATTLE, March 17 Caughey Fox, retired and once conencted Waiter physician with ernment in Alaska, will Mrs. Dora J. Wilson, widow, next Wednesday marriage dence as England, forsaken his native citizenship PRSI (SRS Armed Truck of Bank Is Robbed of $24,000 by Bandits \ BUFFALO, N. Y., March 17, Now he wanis her to pay le men armed with sawed- nfl held up the Liberty F‘nnk Bank’s armored truck this after-|the shotguns poon and escaped $24,000. March 17 Liis pilot, €. W | Tuesday the damag: sighted the | medical department of the Gov- marry wealthy | On the license it gave his resi- Le not having | without | a vote. Shortly after the adoption of the resolution an effort to reach a final vote on the warship con. struction program was blocked by Representative Thomas' L. Blan- ton, of Texas and the measure was emrried over. The House also accepted by a vote of 115 to 102 an amendmens: to provide that eight of lh ghips b ekt bl 7 Fifty Thousand Ties To Be Shipped from Seattle to Seward SEATTLE, March 17-—Arrange- | ments have been completed for the shipment of 50,000 ties to Seward for replacement of Gov- ernment Railroad ties. The total number of ties will measure about 1,900,000 feet. The freight- * er Derblay will probably load thy irst consignment and two othes ps wln earry the remnlndeméé JAIL MUSIC IS CAUSE OF NAVY TROUBLE [Real Reason Given for Sus- 'pension of Three * British Officers LONDON, ) | 1 1 ' f I\ 1 | March 17.—A di§ pite over music by a jazz band for the Admiral's dance is sald n Naval circles to have been the |real canse of the incident aboard Secretary the British battleship Royal Oak 'Ilollowing which three Navy offi- {cers were suspended. Newspapers are clamoring for he Admiralty to make an ex- I planation of the suspensions. 4! When (he Royal Oak arrived at Matla, Rear Admiral Collard : ":: planned a party with the battle- pary o Jazz band furnishing {ship the | musie. P Capt. Dewar refused to permit {the band to play aud Commander Daniel’ hacked him wup. Capl. Dewar said his boys had » much work to do and would be too tired to play all night, The three officers were sug~ pended. n Los Angeles City to Repair Damage Caused LOS ANGELES, Cal, Ma 17.—The Job of repairing Uhavoe spread by the hmklncu the St. Francis dam has lolsted by the Cify of Los A es onto fts own shoulders B vor: George Cryer acknowls eity’s “‘moral He told the co City Councilmen and ' fricials that “we cannot g |‘.mom,m