The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 4, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXIII., NO. 5014. | CONFESSES MURDER OF SWEETHEART AFTEM YEARS “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA, MONDAY FEBRUARY 4, 1929 SCORES COWBOY FORTY PERSONS LOSE LIVES IN EUROPEANGALE Shipping Is Demoralized— Many Wrecks Are Reported LANDSLIDE SWEEPS ELEVEN TO DEATH Entire Crew of German Ship Lost When Craft Piles on Rocks LONDGIN, Few. 4.—At leact 40 persons met death in Europe over the week-en? as a resuit of an unprecedented storm and cold weather conditions, the Balkan States and Turkey being particu- Jarly heavy sufferers. | pping everywhere is derang ed specially in the Black Sea, where numerous minor wrecks are reported The most serious disaster is off the coast of Portugal where the Arising from a sick bed, Gov. “Billy” Adams (center) was sworn in as chief executive of Colorado for the second time. Chief Justice John H. Denison (right) officiated while Edward Wheeler, stats lenator, Iooked on. Seeks Dream ls]and :UNI]ERARREST - FOR SLAYING OF DETECTIVE iDeputy Sheriff Is Charged German freighter Desiter found- 1 ered yesterday after driven on| \ . ; . Wikl £he-rocks 1-by- Aal: ‘pidlent * gatesfes- ! with Murdering Friend Twenty men of the crew of 26| | and Benefaclor were hurled into the a | Bl huge wave. The remaining six WILLIMAY Feb. 4. went down with the vessel. TIC, Cena., The second largest disaster was Trenor Rice, Deputy Sheriff and CAPITOL WILL BE ERECTED IN | THENEXTYEAR : Gov. Parks Says Contract to Be Let in April—Is Beauhful Structure The Territorial capitol building, costing $750,000 should be ulm { pleted within one year {of this year, acco Geprge A. Parks, who home today after an absence of al- mogt two months, hall of which time was spent in Washington, 0., on territorial husiness Final plans for the structu were completed early in January epecifiva(mufi detail should IL ready this wee! bids will be eall-| ed for at once; and the should be awarded carl ! Will Be Beautiful “The Supervising architec t's of fice in the Treasury Depar{moant has worked out plans for a really !beautiful building,” said Gov. | Parks. “While the lines are plain, {it is the very simplicity of fle- isign that will give the building distincgion. It will be modern in every respect, of reinforced con- crete with tile floors and fire I proof in every respect.” The building will be five stories in height and provide housing fa- cilities for all Federal and most of in Russian Turkstan, at the town ‘? r Constable of Chaplain, isjthe Territorial offices located in of Almmata where a landslide! under arrest, charged with the this city. ; swept 11 persons tp death. |murder of his friend and bene- 3 Pleased With Results oy workniah et to dlne] factor, County Detective William! The @0 ve'r nor expreseed- IMh- the tracks for the Simplin Ex-| Jackson, who was found shot to|self as being highly gratified with { death in the kitchen of his home press in Thracean, Turkey, were M. F. Bramley, Cleveland, 0., cor the results of his trip to the na- last Tue night. tional capital. He found Secre- frozen to death. il : £ S 3 e ,,:.r,“,,s Boire deiken th ::f‘:;’ Ry ‘"'::": "‘"’. A BUB- e ent ahy said Ric2|tary West keenly interested in the 3 . nd off the Pacific coast || ., tesseq to former State Trooper! Territory and anxious to aid in death at Budapest. Many wrecks have been report- ed cn the Black Sea. The Soviet which Wwas revealed to him dream, i Edward who headed the tut ctive, | Wheeler Hicky {County Det promoting its development and wel fare. cattle steamer Omsk sank while| s investigaiion, refused to confirm| The Secretary has authorized three other large vessels went s, ,|General Manager Ohlson of the aground. FURGED LABUR Rlse ed 8 24 ka Railroad to employ a colo- There is a serious bread short-| ‘d'f“:v" ot nyne ¢ which 1™ | nization agent and send him t aze in Constantinople. | el Saturday after his return from iy, states to endeavor to secure Numbers of houses are reported | Jackscn . fuperal at which "“moq:r.amp settlers for the agricul allbear thad been a LIKE SLAVERY (ollupsed owing to the high wind. | ky revealed Ih.ll he """ ¥ 1 GENEVA, Feb. <.—7orced labor, {Mrs. Jackson to invite Rice’fto LIEUT H.AUGEN {which many statesmen have d be a pallbe rer for Hu" purpose 2 iclared a close neighbor of slav of “breaking him done.’ i WEDS SEATTLE and hence something to be abol Hicky said that the Jacksen GIRL JAN, 26/t Wil fisure on the agenda of|family to' him that Jackson, on - the mext internal labor conference |'¢ ng fl:‘Ulll the "”; ordered which been convoked for May|Rice from his home. Previously Niels Haugen, |Rice had iived there but he qu Friends of Lieut. 30,1929, at Geneva of the Coast Guard Cutter Unalga,| p, perts recently met here to Teled with Jackson and mr[,‘“ today received announcements of| maye g preliminary study of P MY mw.wu hilu the officer's marriage in Scattle|gorooq Janor, which, while primar-| to Miss Hildur Sl:lhl'f:l:fls, daughter lily affecting Africa, also exists to| At Mt and Mia piariug Mopsen, Isome extent in oLher continents, The wedding ceremony was Janu- | e ary 26 in the home of the bride’s HARDY TB.ANSFERRED TO ik ey BRISTOL BAY DISTRICT Word of the marriage comes 1~‘ no surprise to ‘Lieut. Haugen’s fel-i N 0 Hardy, former local resi- dent and more recently warden | low officers, for when he left for | the south about a month ago there for the U. 8. Bureau of Fisheries | in the Prince of Wales Islandi was no little amount of speculation | area, has been transferred to and good-natured jesting as to the real object of his winter trip|Bristol Bay for the coming sea-| south. |son, according to advices received | Ti . e from Lieut. Haugén will rejoin thelat local headquarters of the Bu- Ma kes, FaSt 1 Miami to Havana— Tnalga when the cutter goes south reau. Hops Off Again LINDBERGH 1S for her annual overhaul and the| Mr. Hardy is now in .Seattle newly ‘married couple will make and will go to his new smuoni thelr home in Seattle. 'ear]y next Sprlng | ! HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 4.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, complet- FR NCH SEE S C 'mx: his first lap on the first air \mail flight to Panama, landed FORCES GAINING POWER ' 50 0 o J |after taking off from Miami. An hour later he’ hopped off from Havana for Belize, British Hon- By R % Nhior stantly to menace the government.lg, o on the second lap. He (A. P. Staff Writer) The aifficulty with which thejy oy P8 ok Belize this after- budget was put through and ’h“‘]nrmn PARIS, Féb! 4.—An experiment : gt signiticant, vote on the increase in|" ol «Iindbergh piloted o giant 1 socath f;;‘:;‘:m;::rl!"l{e the | the salaries of membery of parlid- sikorsky amphibian plane with T e St R Helt opeat the eyes ol I the first lcad of mail for Cristo- lic is being widely predicted for|or the modern groups supp bal. He is accompanied by Henry France during 1929. The situation es from the indecisive elections | spring and the fact that the revamped Poincare cabinet shows Poincare_to the shaky condition of the government. Some of them openly advocate a change of Buskey, radio operator; Col. Ham- bleton and J, T. Trippe, of the Pan-American Aircraft Corpora- ministration with the soc tion. unexpected weakaese. | control, 50 as to furnish the coun-| Tomorrow Col. Lindbergh wiil The nearness of megotiations ontry with a demonstration of the|continue on to Managua, Ni- the fundamental issues of repara-|real meaning of Socialist govern-|caragua, where after another tions and Rhineland occupation is |ment. night's gest, the flight will be resumed to Cristobal. - e FORSBERG IS ARRESTED a fairly safe guarantee that Pre- mier Poincare will remain until some settlement ig effected. The cabinet itself is divided on geveral questions, such as the re- turn of the Jesuits to France and the organization of the chamber of deputies. The opposition, composed of so- ts, radicals and republican so- Anticipating a socialist finan- cial program involving a capital levy, these leaders believe the ex periment with an extremist govern- ment would be short and sufficient- ly instructive to bring about a new grouping of _parties that would | furnish a stable-majority. The Socialists are conceded the upper hand in a new government On a warrant charging him with assault, Walter Forsherg has been arrested by Federal authorities, it was announced today by U. S. Marshal Albert White, Forsberg, lit was reported, was indicted sev- {tural areas along the route of the asked | Ajaoka Railroad and this will be done during the current year, Gov Parks said. Studie of cond tions there have shown there i D KILLEDINSTORM; MAN Fm'nmr Alaskans i't".; sk Charter |New Masonic Lodge eh. 4 the Adopting nar ‘x“, hern Light,” 60 for ka here, have arrar j€ for a charter for a \n‘ v lodge Free Masonm member- msisting of former 1 stiicers named are Res | Young, foymerly of Juneau, V {sh 11 C. Goss, f | v ., Senior Warde: Dr. O Keating, formerly o | Seward, Junior Warden; Stephen | er, formerly of Valdez, nd Henry W, Slater, va, Treasurer, Masters of former. Past A 11 SHORT TIME, Bids to Be Asked Soon- One Company to Survey Route Within 30 Days An air mail service to be immg urated between Seattle and Ju-| neau next Spring is a “cinc de clared Gov. George A. Parks to day Bids will be called for by the Post Office Department shortly two least he.ad rand there will be at bidders for hie contrach, The Gorst-Varney inte of Seattle will make an aerial sur- vey of the route in about 30 day It has now enrnute to the coast a Loening amphibian plane which will make the ey and one of the route. The plan of this company is to operate 10-passenger amphibians between Seattle and Ketchikan. It will have smaller planes same type, three or four-place ships, located at both Juneaun Ketchikan operating on a schedule covering intermediate po available for an aerial taxi service to outlying communities room for at least 1,000 more farm ers and a market for all of their Presi. ultural whe dent of the Alaska Agr! ! College and School of Mines, has been in Washington for eral weeks, is having marked cess” in his efforts to have the Hatch, Adams and Purnell acts ex tended to Alaska, and his program in this connection was heartily en dorsed by Secretary Jardine of the Department of Agriculture. Sena tor Capper of Kansas has chs um sev of the bill in the Senate and it expected to pass. This will m'm it law, as it was passed by House of Representatives at lm last session. The Senate also passed by unani mous consent, the House measure making an outright grant to the 7 {Con‘inued on Page Seven) Aimee Says She’s “Political Pawn” In Check Incident SEATTLE, Feb. 4.—Aimee Mc- Phersoh charges in the California State legislative inquiry into a $2.500 gift she gave Judge Carlos Hardy that it is a ‘“‘poiitic move” and contended she Wwas the ‘“‘political pawn.” She passed through Seattlc ln- day on her way to Vancouver C., where shé will conduct evan- gelistic. services. Mrs, McPherson said: “It is all in politics They want to get Judge Hardy out so they are using the check to try to oust him and I am the political pawn. But I am used to it. That seems to be one of my chief roles. You know that I realize what it is to be falsely accused because I have gome through it all. If we had a real auditor at the time the check was written. this would ‘not have happencd but we have a Methodist minister do- ing some of our bookkecping. T asked him why he wrote legal eral weeks ago by a local Federal any issue, but with the aid of dis-|because the radical party is shat-|grand jury. A bench warrant for gruntled and disappointed depu-|tered and unable to command the |his arrest was issued last week ties of other groups is able con-lsituation, }by Judge Justin W. H-rd‘ns ts, has no clear majority on|gormed by the present opposition on that check and he said: ‘Ohy I saw it was to a Jud '!hnughl of course it was (o be | classified under legal.’ " and! Qualo has been The Governor was not regarding the plans of the sec company other than another w be in the field after the contract for carrying the mails. The ser ice is contemplated for seven months in each yes “It is as certain that we have aerial delivery of mails a passenger and express scrvi in the near future, as anything could be,” was the way Gov. Parks summed \m the matter. BULLETS AGAIN HEARD, CHICAGD CHICAGOU, 1., Feb. 4.—Bul- lets continue to cut down the Jo Saltis mob. Eddie Piech ot three bullets in the chest when Le found the police waiting ‘2 his apartment. Piech was shot when he tried to scape Steve Kuezynski, traffic mun- ager in a beer business whih! the police say Saltis is the nead, was shot dead last Thursday, ab parently the victim of jealoudie that developed in the Saltis ranks since the leader began servinz a jail sentence for carryin on Secre- Alaska | - SAYSGOVERNOR the machineg that will be used nn!, of the! and | | informed at least| .|Ancient French Church PR]CE TEN CENTS MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS z’:‘i Ia | MENTIONED FOR HOOVER CAEBINE T FEAR HAUNTS - SLAYER;GIVES - UP TO POLIGE 'Man WalksVI:t; Seattle Po- | lice Station, Con- fesses to Crime ENTERED PACT TO SUICIDE; SCARED Foun‘-Yeal‘-dl?Tragdy in Fast Is Cleared Up in the West SEATTLE, ru.) 4. — Haunted four years by failure to keep his half cf a suicide pact, Harvey | Selhaver, aged 36 years, walked int@the police station here and confessed to“tke murder of his | 16-year-old sweetheart Sarah Eli- zabeth Johnson, in Kingston, New. Jersey, on August 14, 1924, | After shooting the girl, he said he was “so horrified that the gum {tell from my hands. 1 turned land ran.” ; Former Scnator James Wadsworth ot New Yerk has been men: tionsd as a possible candidate for secretary of war in the Hoover The girl was the eldest of {0"' B« lamughters of Joseph Johnsomy: . | tavmer, for who Selhaver wnrke&."' : Shortly after he started works ling, e became infatuated with |Sarah. The girl's mother warned him to cease attentions and sul- requently he was discharged. A few days before the killing, n suleide pact was agreed to hu‘, the girl realized -she s Badprecma i - <GNP { sl-nmxer ad been sought siice |the finding of the girl’s body on ° a college campus on the shore of Carnegie Lake. It was thought {he had fulfilled his half of the suicide pact which was revealed {in a note left by the L:irl Beauuful Woman and ‘ Missionary in Alaska | Involved, Cangt C doover Aide Takes fi: ATTLE, Feb. 4.—A ‘ifery con- troversy between a Quaker M sicnary In Alaska and a beautiful r-old woman of Renton, who taught school tory, flared into a fla in the me here |when Mrs. Eleanor D. Fortson en I tered suit for $15,000 against Del- ‘HER“IG Bus Ibert H. King, preacher, charging | !slander. . | | She charges King accused her of |which statement resulted in sing her school job two yes S CREMITED | Attorneys of both parties pic &, fight with K approv s in Eskimo Kotzebue and No Pinned Under His Stage but |1ages . T at jwhere she taught schoo’ ! Local officials of the Bureau of | < | Pducation denied the teacher lad| Willlam C. Mullendorf, food ad- | 1been removed, stating she had quait ,mlnistratcx for the United States REDDI Cal., Feb. 4—8. 3 | the service of her own accord be-{in Germany following the W i 0 blage: dFiver. cwis I use of illhealth of her hushand. |War, has become general atto; ed € nt owtdy 8 Mrs. Fortson's attorney claims (for the Southern California Edison)| (o 0% " 1 over ai. he preacher owns considerable Se- |company. He Is a, close friend 0” A S g pasoliiud property but King’s attorney |the President- elect. taik expl : * his client is only a p mis-| —— —_— | The accident occurred yesters nary. The |day morning during a rainstorm. Sensing the coming exnlosion the gasoline tank, Hoftman - PETERSBURG CHINESE IS SARREAL Fecltes HELD ON BOOZE CHARGE] controversy began at where-she azked to speak before that the Noorvik of jordered the 12 passengers to leave {the Eskimos in King's church. At.] Chin Soon, Petersburg Chinese,inim alome and escape or they t¢r the nfeeting, the Eskimo cold- arrested by Deputy Marshal C. :munhl be burned. v ors, with King, fsamed a lotiar| BTOWn. has been sentenced to s | The passengers hacked away 1sking for ‘her ®emoval as teacher, months and fined $100 and costs |through the rear of the bus and | The létter _éhamges “she l"(”‘"w Commissioner Clausen of that|then fled just before the explo= . charge of the eNurch and proached, Place according to advices rece inion 4 + wreng kind ‘0f doctrine, that(©d today by Marshal Albert White.| A tree stopped the bus from they showld play cards, dance “aud He \\:.1 serve his term in llm‘])lum:lm: down a 50-foot embank= commit udul( A Petersburg J iment. ) King is identified with_thej M iends Mission” which i3 said| W AR BORN GENERATION ’ . PAYS PENALTY FOR THE GREAT CHAOS OF 1915 to be an off-shoot of a Quaker or- ganization in Los Angeles. { e Yleld*‘ Strange Relic ) | TALMONT, F rance, Feb. 4 ‘ealed. weapons. Excavations under an eleventh! E'fl (;;Hh.’»\A;-BS,LvHZM‘N R i Mg b ancrs ChUR O B St ( Staff iter) hough the Dawes plan cally for QUALO BOUND OVER S 1) ot oo RILI b 4 vttt : ater effort, more intensive pr. 5 TO GRAND JURY ON s ship meawuring 27 fist generaiion of war childven {1108 416 larker exports, R t The originality of this approaches ma weakened by| .o bt et e SHOOTING CHARGE |-have is augumented in interast! approxima 500,000 Heasusl fipsone m“u[:‘lx- e ”mpm:‘ Mandius Qualo was bound over |rock 36 feet long. and that of its| Th on of life and the {bodiea workmen to .:\,“..,m,:. t0 the Federal Grand Jury Sat-|ten sides four ‘are only two .t T irths during the war It estimated that (ennnm SRy ‘Oti~8’ charge hooting |of the sea. ave an AmOGrAut BCf U e worid far. R ars Olson at C Jast Fr ki n the German labor market |Zien, 1 0 SO R othars Egm. His preliminary examina- STOCK QUOTATIONS development of Hie JeBub- | L7 r ol Soay biarn, il U fon was conducted by Commis- - This aet Decolisl SREREORG ) Ly fiic oty 4 Tarked skl sioned Bagley of Craig NEW YORK, Feb, 4.—Alaska|as the chiliren born in 1915 ap-| ¥ BP0 2 "N @ TACHE SR The latest repcrts m Craig|Junesu mine stock is quoted to-|proach the end of their l“fid" I"" bl '“,[ 3 “r,mm?“ o s4id Olson was In a dangerous|day at 8%, Capadian Pacific|sch ditterent rades, who NCUS SRS condition. He was =hot in the %, Chrysler 109%, Cu 1o urban lahor question is en.|SCRIse Of time become gkilleg i left thigh with a 30-30 caliber|637%, Kennecott Copper ging close attention of all Ger- im“‘ . rifle. The bullet ranged upward, ada Consolidated 48 % mau municipalities, whose repre. | ok o mushrdomed on the ieft hip, and [tional Power amnd Light sentatives meet every year in co Jora pepart. by . § eémerged from the back just below the kidney. taken to Ket- chikan where he is confined |the Federal Jail, o F & in|7 - | mann T. Morgenroth, eminent gress to compare notes and agree e on measures for the good of their |Mch statistician, It s shown whereas the wage-earning h Coal | communities. . tion between 15 and 65 within T Roe- buck 165%, Stewart-Warner 141, U. S. Steel 1883, Pittshurgh nevr Packard Motors 137, Sears, £ . General Motors, issue Unemployment | | Unemployment had passed t!nei‘”. S e N