The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 20, 1928, Page 1

re (2} THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE : VOL. XXXIIL, NO. 4975. LIFE OF JUDGE IN KIDNAPPING CASE THREA’I‘ENED? KELLOGE PACT, NAVY MEASURE, STIRS SENATE Klmuhko S('on(w Dec A gold rush g JATTLE, v F T » stopped street repairing operations Fighting men reenacted the| | LW L Executive Session Fails to|on Washington Street ana First'scenes of 30 years ago op o miyia-|Stars and Stripes Will Q . Avenue South for several hours|ture scale in the mudd . Settle Dispute— Agree~ yesterday when a workman turned | which yielded nuggets, gold chains,| I]}?at from Battleship, | ment Probably Today 1d mugget with his shovel.|South American currency, locket First Time, Four Years | s onlookers saw him make | rings, necklaces and brooeh | WASHIN Dec. 20—While the find and @ stampede began| One prospector found a siring| Rio DR JANEIRO, Dee. 20| the Kello outlawing war over the site where the old M. & of nuggets and )‘n- staked out a{when the battleship Utah passes | and a bill tor more cruisers vied!N. gambling house and saloon was | claim posting a “keep out” sisbije peadlands of the “most beau- | for Semate consideration vestor.|the mecea for returning Klondik-| Another man with a bucket panncd |yiry harbor in the world,” tomor- | day, the House passed the Agricul.|eTs and prospectors during ¢he | | pay dirt, but the streak was small [row, ‘1t whtabE tho ¥iFar s in | tural appropriation bill providing! ST o A Inearly four years the Stars and for an expenditure of §$143,000,000 D A | Stripes have flown from an Ameri- next year and received the supply “Tln th U P {can bat an waters. | bill for four other Jdepartments. | Dea o s Part | .Th ed Rio do Janeiro | Things broke swiftly after the —— - ‘u January | Kellogg anti-war treaty had been i Preparations for electric illumi formally reported. The Senate nations in welcome to Hoover found that the cruiser bill was next in order but friends of the Kello; however blocked consider tion the measure asking | that the treaty be made the next in An executive to setile dispute ate adjourned after was reached to take tion today. pact of navy sion and the an up the order. the Sen ques- FOR AGREEMENT WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The Senate leaders are trying to work sut an agreement whereby the cruiser ¢onstruction bill and Kel logg anti-war treaty can be taken| up together after the Christmas recess. PRISON BREAK DURING MASS rwo Convlcts Saw Bars‘. While Sacred Music Is Being Sung Dec, 20.—Search for two one serving a nxfl-} term, ay shifted from thej McNeil Island Federal prison to] the mainland last night when an abandoned boat was found on a nearby island. They are believed to have made their way to the main shore The two fugitives are Jesse Wat- kins, murderer, and Alvin Hodges, automobile thief. The two convicts sawed their way out of the penitentiary dining! room while attending mass. Sacred music drowned out the noise of the sawing. The two stole a row- boat from a neighboring rancher. S eee Motor Lubricants Exchanged Between Planes While Flying SHREVEPORT, La. Dec. 20.— nding at the Shreveport Airpor! aviators of the Flying Army tri- motored plane Question Mark, and the refueling ship C-2 announced the first actual change of motor lubricants hetween planes while flying. One hundred and twenty quarts of oil were pumped from one plane to the other while at an altitude of 1,500 feet through a hose. The transfer took forty- five minutes. Influenza Lases Are Increasing in States WAQIIING’I‘O\I ON, Dec. 20—Sur- geon General Cummings of the Public Health Service, said com- plete reports of the influenza out-| break indicated a total of 705385 new cases throughout the country during the past week, a decided increase over the previous week. failed | agreement i s —— who grew up to be a Jalme never got over. A re Reenacted on Strec Of Seattle Ye old rush days Jaime Del Rio and Dolores, the little Mexican convent girl eat movie star, are shown here in the first happy days of their marriage. Then came a divorce which He died in a Berlin sann.anum still wamng for his adored wife to return to him, (International Newsreel) | (' ongress Will \ | Take 11 Day | | | Holiday Recess \ “ WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.- The Senate yesterday approv- | | ed of the move initiated in the | | | House for a Christmas recess | from December 22 to January | | 3. | President to Have WASHINGTON, dent Coolidge has consented to have his portrait painted for the new building of the New York! RADICALS IN RETIRE FROM STAGE| 20.—The discomfi- the radical party in its Poincare going once again talk the eventual disappearance this old political organization that has governed France almost continually since the resignation PARIS, Dec. ture of conflict has set ahout of with Premier of President MacMahon. Fay representation whatever government. the first time since Gam- Detta’s ministry the party has no in “the ‘The Republican So- cialists, however, regarded as just a little more socialist than the Tadicals, have five men in the new FRANCE tween the radicals and socialists, while the radicals form a sort of “Dantzig Corridor” between the| Republican Socialists and the Gov- ernmental parties of the center. ‘Some political prophets expect that the loss of prestige the Radi-/ cal party has sustained will drive its most extreme elements to the Socialist, while those that fought for the National Union cabinet will drift into the parties of the cen- ter. This would leave only two big parties, the Socialists and the Republicans of the center, with the extremists of ides of the Chamber of Deputies ;..Ww.l | EARTHUUAKE DRAKESBORO, Ky., Dec. 20, This city is in mourning today as R AR plans are being made for the fu- b At nerals of vietims of the disaster: Albert C. Goss Dies & . in the Diamond Coal mine which| p ‘V|bmllons Sent Through |caused the tives of six men, most Suddenly in Seattle Core of Earth—Much Pofll‘llt Painted |corc o the oarth with such in- | tensity Dec. 20—Presi.|in several observatories of North America, L. D. server of Harvard University said. the Geneological Biographical Societs |stead of traveling arcund the earth the globe, more severe He explained went throngh ing a much than otherwize. T ngs Condition was able to return them to Alas-| 7ppe fj explosion was followed ka. The mother says she tried to|hy o series of shocks along tha' raise funds to go to Ketchikan and|sireets, slinging curbstones into fight for her children. She Was|ine air k & SR Tan then served with a divorce com- ang he T b : plaint filed in Alaska. She 3! Seventeen people were injuded B E— a cross complaint asking for cus One of the most remarkable es- tody of: the children,” While the{oanes was when a manhole cov suit was pending, she says sheleping welghing several hundred | | 1earned the children had been sent{pounds was blown 70 feet into the| “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1928. %HUUVER S T0 REACH BRAZIL ~ DURING FRIDAY | HONOR WR te duv practically complete with a special | arch in front of the American Eni bassy “Welcome Herbert | Hoov { MOTHER FIGHTS FOR CHILDREN Case Arising in Ketchikan (7'\F/11E51 FIGURES IN AVIATION HOCATERI '3 & i Two memorials marking the scene of the Wright's first experiments with airplanes at ititty to Havc Hean"g n Hawl \\ It‘ \:\‘(- n::“ «‘Iu-r of a cele )I’l"l(il!:l there D In\hl |j lx‘f u Rye ‘I“I it l i \ gotiated for the ransom. awlk, i center of a ce 4 ¢ Deces 7 upon the twenty-fifth anniver-| The Mafia is blamed by Seatlle Couns iy of Orville Wright's first flight. The tablet (upper vight), erectcd by the National Aecronautie| fhe State for the many _— Association upen a huge granite boulder, marks the spot from which the first plane took-off, whilel threats received by witnesses ‘ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FOER § LI LETTER GIVEN ~ JUDGE TODAY: Juduv Gentzel Receives 4 Warning Shortly Before © b He Takes Bench 4 IGHTS AT KITTY HAWK| WITNESSES TESTIFY 3} LIVES ARE NOT SAFE Mafia Blamed tor Attefnpts b to Miscarry Justice 4 in Chicago Case < :”J (’[‘l (“\fl _~ AINCRSIR : § CHICAGO, 1l., De¢. 20— =+ & A letter threatening death of | Judge Robert Gentzel was re- i ceived this morning shortly 3 | before he took the bench to resume the trial of three de- fendants accused of kidnap- ping 10-year-old Billy Ran- ieri last September and hold- ing him for 13 days while ransom was demanded. | The defendnts are Andrew Cappellano, who owned the farm on which the boy was held captive; Tony Clppel- lano, guard over the and Angelo Petitti who lu- tone on top of Kill Devil Hill (lower right) for the National John F. Victory planaed the official Kitty IHawk ominent in av took part, in the case and also by Judge Gentzel this morning. CHICAGO, Dec, 20.—A dozen (inset) fon history . Z preparations were made to lay a corners SATTLRE, Dec. 20.—After being| -, Y b ¥ies 7 : | Governme memcrial to the Wrights. spirited a three times between| ' 0 Blca ‘ot oiudie, A8 g Seattle and Ketchikan, Alaska,| Pilgrimage in which hundreds of men pr while the father and mother bat- e 4 3 tled for possession, two smalllGae in Mains in children were ordered brought ingo jcourt. under a writ -of habeas . ¢1 pus. The children are Arlene Keeney, aged five years and Raymond Kee- {London -Explode; People Startled ney, Jr., aged two years. L 2 " 5 f LONDON, Dee. 20.—West and The writ was issued when thef it gl . mother, Mrs, Inez L. Keeney, tear- ral London: wers given & siart. aid ng reminder of war time air when exploding gas mains a miniature earthquake that fully told that she was being d nied the right to see the children wused | heav- by Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Frease, of 5 Bothell. ed up long stretches of streets and Mrs, Keeney, aged 25 years, says |caved In shop fronts | shé left Ketchikan last Spring with| 7The explosion started when a the children for Seattle. Her huss|workman entered a manhole with! band, Raymond G. Keeney, Seattle!an electric blower used to remove fruit salesman, followed her tak-|goy from the passage leading| ing the children forcefully. Shelinto the larger inspection cham-| claims he hid them here until he|pher helow the roadway. | to her husband’s sister Mrs roof | g *lair and crashed through the il at Bothell, where she is not al-!o o house, through a bed in which | lowed to see them. 'a man was lying and into the room i e "below. < M . E. Robertson, occupant of the! Six M’n"’ Dead in bed said he heard his alarm clock | Disaster; Town Mourns'buzzing, ana nhaa rotled over to \ —_— Istop it when the manhole cover !tore through part of his bed. | of them married, Separate funer- only | of debris which closed tion Tor gall bladder that recordings were made u_‘femle of escape to |thm.\ mfivn._ A wife and son here survive Bt Goss made his headquarters at) Leet, Chief Ob- south recently! CUPId Unalagka and cam and' was taken to the hospital two weeks ag. /S0 we | pretty rations, in- (| register- | quake ! TCMORROW WILL BE SHORTEST OF YEAR : Tacklod ;b'y Cupid, American back, has fallen un- der Dan Cu Harrison and played the game |Nomination of West witnesses, some of whom reported . recelving threats if they testified % to, dri; tluul alls into flxa urun. m HIS BED i sk State hope m send three accused kidnappers of Billy Ranieri to the . ulm'n'lv chair, were among the | witness at the trial yesterday. Nick | Ranteri, the boy's unele, toid @f Police Make Discovery Fol- negotiating with Angelo Petiteh = f o (for the release of the boy. Onj) lowing Tip—Foster Par- |poiiceman told avout questioning | 1 ents Are Under Arrest |Petitti and Andrew Cappellano alsa | f told of talking to Tony Cappellano, i who was guard over the boy during RACINE, Wis., Dec. 20.—Soft ‘s Hahds todhy Drsased: o the thir pen days he was held cap- ths. 1 s of 11-year- tve last September. leld Raymond atoong, found i [chained to a bed in the home of {nis foster parcnts, Mr. and Mrs, | Charles Jehnson | Raymon is in a hospital \u.u.‘ i IS HEPURTE“ i boy so he would not run while they were at wark. 'Scow Believed Used b& I""A" tip that they would “find ; omething” If they went to the| Thrill Seekers Found Johnson home led the police to (e the discovery of the orphan hoy’s' on Colorado River oid plight . y "o A heavy logging chsin, h.‘m,,,“"""M"l'.h,‘\[“:'\:‘ “"’(."'1 .“""’3;; by two huge padlocks, held the! o e boy River partly released its grip om =% : the mystery surrounding the fate = Raymond sald he was chaine ) i ‘ordered to wash the dishes seckers of Hanssn; RiAi: SN Tn‘.l' s reported they have located & because he reca scow similar to that used by the told his stepfather was tco ill, he was upbraided e s R b {Hydes in an attempt to make @& ' s ltrip through the Grand Canyom, R g | Mother of President’s stranded at the edge of the swirl- ing stream. B 7 " als are planned. SEATTLE, Dec. 20—Albert C.| t The scow appeared intact and Intensity The recovery of the bodies, near-|q (8L R Wife Is Seriously Il .0 supplies similar to those " ly a mile from the entry, was not: Y e v e 4 known to have been carried by ducted the Alaska Consolidated | | NORTHAMPTON, Dec. 20.—For| CAMPRIDGE, Mass, Dee, 20— |accomplished until large groups of o el B8 A0 L TP . | . NORTHAMFIIN, Des. 30.—5ot| (e adventuiien. ; {An carthquake which originated injrescue workers virtually exhaust-l g g oo died Wi aglpsirisc ‘:," l;“““"'” L, L8 IH 8 ean “N. Searchers ‘expressed the opin- the vicinity of the Malay Penin-led themselves in the long hazard-io o o S5 L0 Death wal Pe s N ’ A vived' here' ‘to find lw!hm the scow had gotten out of | sula sent vibrations through thelous struggle against a heavy bank! 0 P mpila L0 NG York Uni- mother, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, con- | control of its pilots and strand= g the wholly unexpected after an opera-|yersity football star and All- \fined in a hospital. The ed after floating down stream. ‘<.' sufferer is growing stea er Av 4 in the canyon dapth& 'which foretold hardship for the stranded couple. i Hyde and his wife left dn | {their home-made scow for the trip through the canyon on Neo- vember 15. Since leaving Eite var no trace had been found A)Ids deft tackling. sent in” for Rella R \Royal Air Force | Plane Gets iKeport “ All Is Well, Kabul NEW DELHI, India, Dee. 20.—A[til the scow was located toda; {Royal Air Force plane flew over by lhe searchers. Spurred by § [ KKabul this morning and the Brit-'reward of $1,000, Indians ha was 1l that Strong and the actress are to %e married Tomorrow will be the ! H e h Legation signaled all i3 well taken up the search and alrpl Rep.flqd lmpmm REE: day of the year. The | | Appr .!de Committee md the situation is improvng. 'have been employed. winter solistice will occur to- ! WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 20.| ¢ gt P IR r - LONDON, Dec. 20—A bulletin morrow afternoon at 4 min- | i Feo s puplic Lands Com. | din Asks Mexi this morning said King George's :-'t:; nalx\«: ."),..‘.“)I,Z'.‘;.k.-' {:.‘.'x":i:: | | mittee yestorday again catled upon andaino ASRKs exiwcan progress is established on a firm- er basis and the right side of the ed. ing power. man Abram Mye Trade Commissi his nul‘nnflon idge. His heart is slowly gather- WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Chair- will turn about from its six condition of the ehest Is improv- e e vd the | |tions to hold the office of Secre- “‘:d z::):‘ ”\(,M”n‘ a short | |tAry of Interior, carrying with it| . Sitie we shall be able to ‘u membership on the Federai Pow.| MBEXICO CITY, Dec. 20.—Augus- | the local press by the rebel er Commission. er's agent here and often find th | However, general weather conditions in the Northern notice the lengthening days. ! Hemisphere will continue to ' : grow colder for five or six ‘lh‘”"\'\ weeks longer as the nsu i e stored in the last summer { The | | | {4 heat | | ‘has forwarded % ) President Cool.- season becomes cxhausted. jcutive { lnnglm Roy O. testimony concerning his qualifica-| Chairman Nye asked that an ad- verse report be made on the ap- pointment of West on the ground!propaganda campaign in Mexico. ruled the Chairman and at an exe.|tions for not coming to his aid, West of Ilinols, to give Support Against U. “uw Sandino, the Nicaraguan rebel | ehiet, way into print, Sandino’s agent nunn' sented to the Mexican “The Anti-Imperalist American flag across W written, allegedly in genera)'s handwriting, the tion that it was W United Q‘I‘Ql is conducting an intense est was conunected with the|Messages alleged to bear his sig- power interests. nature, describing his activities Committee however, over-|and flaying the Latin American na- session approved the nomi-iform an TS campaign, important part of the ‘They are delivered to