The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 3, 1929, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” NO. 5064. VOL. XX Hl JU'\JhAU ALASKA \VLDI\ESDA\ APRIL 3, 1929. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN LVTS MEXICAN REBELS REPORTED TRAPPED IN JIMENEZ SHODTING DRY RAIDER TO BE HELD, MURDER er’s Jury Recom- mends Action Against Illinois Officer BOY TELLS STORY OF CRIME IN HOME Beating of His ather and Shooting of His Mother F C ner the NEVA jury b Dept Sheriff who shot and an Aurora woman during a ¢ raid, be held to the Kane nd jury and prosecut g of manslaughter. recommended the ver- a day of hearing wit- resses tell of the raid on March 1 the home of Joseph Deking in which Deking was beaten to un- conscioyiness by Deputy Roy Smith killed M Lillian d shot and wounded Ger- aged 12, who had shot e leg. iermed the shooting as y ahd held that the war- 3 the raid was made L, April 3.—A coro- killed 1t on which ¢ [: oAl was the principal i 8 fle told of howjhe shot 1ith in the leg after watching 1 club his father and shoot his story was disputed by , who was brought to the ng on a hospital cot. Smith ned N Deking was pom(mg 2 When Sestwediled shot her accidentally after the boy had shot him. Id said his mother was seat- telephone calling for help ith fired at her. She previously gone to her uncon- husband. Gerald said he did not shoot until his mother was wounded. WET VICTORY [N WISCONSIN IS REGISTERED Vote Repeal of Enforce- ment and Removal of Home Brew Penalties ious MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 3.— The Anti-Prohibitionists scored a victory yesterday in the referendum election when an overwhelming ntiment in favor of repealing the te Prohibition Enforcement Act vas registered. Returns from 1,494 precincts out( of the State's 2,759, representing every part of the State, showed 212,000 favor the repeal and 106,000 inst. On the other question of remov- ing home brew penalties and fines, 158,000 voted “yes” and 96,000 voted The Wets claim the final mar- gin of uc(:)ry will be 120,000. —— | RESULTS OF CITY ELECTION First Second Thirda Total Mayor— NE Thomas B. Judson 330 164 86 580 Councilmen— . M. Bothwell 33 144 22 553 Bolhwc“ MaCKlnnon and| Lockie MacKinnon 146 a1 552 3 Charles G. Warner 137 53 153 KMUSE A”"lHCCth ‘ R it S et as Lounciimen ‘ PEOPLE'S TICk Y Aavar. | Mayor ; b - s Thomas B. Judson was yesterday Henry Roden 198 97 87 282} re-clected Mayor of Juncau to serve his third term, defeating Attorney | 4 : Roden by 198 vot o s bt D, 3t Hothwell and Tockte Magl] 3 101 404 n, on the Judson ticket.| 239 110 a7 as the Citizen's ticket, were | Rl s ed to the City Council ! SCHOOL DIRECTOR: Charles G. War third man M. L. Merritt 363 143 120 €31 on the Citizens' ticket was defeated | Total Vote Cast 532 258 173 933 ||by G. E. Krause on the People'§ Total Registration 583 285 189 1058 ||ticket, by 11 v Mr. Krause was | BUGEY ELECTE! AT KETCHIKAN T0 BE MAYOR tntire Citizens'- Ticket Wins—Two Proposi- tions Are Accepted KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 3.— M. J. Bucey was )e. erday electec Mayor over Roy C. Jones by 551 to 348. Councilmen elected were E. W Brown, Hugh M. Sawyer and Percy G. Charles. Mrs. Axel Carlson was elected to ythe sc 00l Boay:! prises the entire Citi-| zens' ticket as sponsored by the Ketchikan Chronicle. The voters approved of the ordi- nance granting a central steam heating plant franchise Ferris and by referendum approvad the expenditure of necessary monzy for airport facilities. AT PETERSBURG PETERSBURG, April 3—Earl Ohmer, famous as the Shrimp King, vas elected may vesterday. R. M. Allen, Greenaa, C. E. Swanson and Jacob Hanseth were elected to the four| vacancies on the City Council. An- drew Heimdahl was reelected the School Board. DIEMART WRANGELL MAYOR WRANGELL, April 3—G. E. Die- mart was yesterday elected Mayor and Ernest M. Campbell, Harry R. Coulter, James Nolan were reelected | to the City Council. Dr. 0. H Whaley and L. B. Chisholm were elected to the School Board. SEWARD ELECTION SEWARD, April 3—P. C. McMul- len was yesterday elected Mayor and Elwyn Swettman, Otto C. Schallerer, R. J. McKanna, won for council members. was elected to the School Board There were 247 votes cast, but a strong, cold gale kept many from the polls. BITTER CORDOVA FIGHT CORDOVA, April 3—In a bit- terly contested municipal election, SWEDES SEEK HOMELAND SHELTER AFTER 250 YEARS EXILE IN RUSSIA By ULRIC SALCHOW (Associated Press Correspondent) STOCKHOLM, April 3.—After 250 | vears exile from their ancestral homeland, a Swedish colony which now numbers 800 villagers and farmers of Gammalsvensky in the govéfnment of Cherson, Southern| Russia, has appealed to the Stock- | holm Government to be brought ‘’k to Sweden. ir story is that of a commu- exiled for centuries yel al-! ireaming of their homeland,! seneration after generation dly maintaining their native language, customs and re- ligion. Their ancestors left Swed-| h shores about 1670, and for 100{ were settled on the Estonian | land of Dagoe. In 1781 Empress Catharine IT of | Russia ordered them to the Ukrain- jan steppes near the falls of the river Dneiper. Cossacks escorted ! them on that forced march. THeir caravans, like the wagon trains {hat erossed the Western plains of America in the days of '49, crawl- ed 1,200 miles to the new home. The journcy took nine months, |admiration through Sweden, half the colonists In 1792 the group numbered only 200 persons, ac- cording to the cherished church record of the Swedish vicar. When forefathers of the' group and more than died on the way. left Sweden, Dagoe Island and alls the Baltic territory belonged to Sweden. The liberties they had enjoyed under Swedish rule were taken from them in 1721 when Rus- {sia, expanding toward the sea, took possession of Baltic shores. Rus- sian land owners attempted to force the Swedish settlers into a condition of serfdom. The Swedes| sent deputy after deputy to the| Empress, and at last, in 1780, suc- ceeded in getting an imperial ukase | which defended their rights, a pre- cursor of the liberty granted all Russian peasants 80 years later. But under the new freedom the colony was ordered to the Ukrain- ian steppes. . The tenacity with which they have clung to Swedish culture, a record piously preserved in parish Bibles, has aroused deep and the Government is studying plans to help the Gammalsvensky colony realize its ambitions. to L. 8 r of Petersburg | Charles | to] W. C. Erwin| House rgoes Serious | A Operation | Y high man on his ticket, polling 93/ votes more than Mr. Roden Cash Cole was low man election, receiving only 36i The total vote cast in the elee- | tion was 963 with a registration by precincts of 1,058 Voting was lively from the time the polls opened yesterday morn=| : R f}m.'- Y?RK Apnl_vv—‘Col_ 2 ing at 9 o'clock until they closed Edward House underwent a’ e , = L\st evening at 7 o'clozk. There o scrious operation late yester- o s g o day for removal of a growth ihs LnlyL!ated‘ o on the \jl?lflfl(‘l” .h.r'vflbf(‘“fi- ® |vote. The day cold and erisp, Sl iclan sald his condl- ® gty gunshine ne: the entire e tion excellent. The op- e/ and this called out the women e cration was made imperative ® |yote in large proportions » bleeding for 48 hours. @ . f, Merritt was reelected to e Col. House is 70 years old ® |the School Board without opposi- e and has always been active @ |tion, | s in State and National Demo- e e e AR O | ® cratic Councils, but never e | ® ran for public office. He was @ : the personal representative e | 'e of President Wilson to Euro- e ® pean governments from 1914 o ! Wt : AND SEARGHED p-di | e000eecv0 00000 | with a large vote polled, the old | City Council was repudiated by the election of W. H. Liebe (formerly of Juneau), Al Lung and Frank Jones of the Citizens’ Ticket as controlling members of the new council. Calvin Hazelet was elect-}| ed School Director by four votes.! The Independent Ticket elected Dr. | {W. H. Chase Mayor by nine votes | and also I. R. Schroeder for coun-; | cilman. 1 | | Inspector of Customs GALE BLOWS AT VALDEZ | VALDEZ, April 3—A strong gal land cold weather killed interest nh A. J. Dimond | |led the Council ticket, the others| being John Cook, Andy Dieringer, !John Ekemo, Bruce Haines, J. H.| Patterson and W. T. Stuart. Mrsv {Stuart was unopposed for the| School Board. | yesterday's election. ELECTION AT FAIRBANKS | FAIRBANKS, April 3—Dr. F. De LaVerne was yesterday elected Mayor of Fairbanks for the fifth {successive term defeating R. W. Ferguson by 363 votes. The entire DelaVerne Council ticket was elect- |ed—Jesse F. Bryant, Vance R. Mc-| Donald, E. H. Stroecker, Charles F. Peterson, the latter re-elected. The election hinged around public umi-! ties issues, the DelaVerne ticket favoring a franchise for the Ameri- can States Public Service Company. | ANCHORAGE’S LARGE VOTE { ANCHORAGE, April 3.—With 669 votes cast the largest at a muni- cipal election here in several years, James J. Delaney was elected Mayor tover R. C. Loudermilch by a major- ity of 186. In the field of nine candidates jfor three councilmen, t w o-year Iterm, N. J. Gaikema, H. H. Mc- Cutcheon and Carl E. Martin far joutstripped the others. For the one-year council term Oscar 8. Gill defeated M. J. Con- roy by a majority of 155. For School trustee, Mrs. Wanda M. Gelles polled 399 votes over J A. Borges, seeking reelection, with a vote of 245. {MacMillan Is Going Into Polar Area in | June;Purchases Yacht| CHICAGO, April 3. — A second MacMillan Arctic Expedition which is in prospect for departure in| June, became known today with the purchase of the yacht Allegro from the estate of the 'late James Flverson, former owner of the Philadelphia Enquirer. The yacht is a floating palace and was built for salt water serv- ice by Elverson but he died before use. The ship will be taken to the ILHp into the Polar area. | Stuyvesant Fish's yacht was boar: Judge Won't Let Arctic by MacMillan on his ninth ‘up. following methods of FOR WET 600DS Wealthy Man who Al- leges Discourtesy NEW YORK, April 3.—Officials| of the Customs and Enforcement Bureau have acknowledged that od and searched for liquor by and a Patrol | boat crew, but they denied there| had been discourtesy. Pish, wealthy sportsman and ibroker, made complaint that the {men, believed to be members of | the Coast Guard, halted his yacht| by firing their revolvers then one| searched the craft while the others! pointed their guns at the Fish fam-} ley. | At first the officials of the Coa |Guard denied stopping the craft but finally admitted the incident,| saying guns were fired when the Fish craft failed to stop on a whis- tle signal. The officials claimed they did not display their guns. They found nothing aboard the vaght and it was permitted to pro- ceed. FELSONIS | NOW COLONEL GRAND FORKS, N. D, April 3.— Capt. Ben Eielson, noted Alaska, flier, is today a Colonel. st night at a banquet given the aviator by the American Legion Post, Eielson received the commission of Colonel in the North Dakota National Guard presented by Gov. George F.| Shafer. st | Her Marry Again For Fifty Years RICHMOND, Ind., April 3.—Dora, McLain, petitioning for a divorce, is so sure she does not wish to be| married again that she ressed that effect before Judge G. H. Hoel- scher. “Do you intend to marry again?” asked the court. “I will have to make an order forbidding you to marry again within the next two; “It will be all right .with me if you make it fifty,” she replied “All right, I will,” said the judge,| and so the decree in the Tecord reads. | e - 1 Poland's judictal system bas been| unified. It formerly was badly split various countries. GEN. ESCOBAR - BAD POSITION redmals Have F Rebel Lead— er qu roun"k‘(] ‘ Stronghold ALL BRIDGES ARE REPORTED BURNED sion of' Jimenez Is Clallnor] by Federals Callc, Views EL PASO, Te .r\,*n'il 3—Trap- ped within the city of Jimenez, the rebel troops under Gen. Escobar are reported desperately seeking a way to retreat to the north while the powerful Federal forces steadily sed in on them. Dridges leading out of Jimenez are burned and a retreat for the rebels seem almost impossible. § Federal i have bombed the rebels ince: and it is now be- lieved the Federals have a clear- cut victery after two days violent fighting. Possession of Jimenez is claimed the Government which hopes the victory pres s the collapse of the rebel movement. At Chihuahua, Commander-in- Chief Calles said extermination of the rebels is only a question of hours. The rebel losses so far are placed at 600. Federal losses are not an- nounced. | The rebel version of the battle 'is lacking as the telegraph lines are interrupted. The last rebel message yesterday by | Ontario. | found dead in this mass of steel. Mayor Thompson Is Winner in Chicago Election CHICAGO, April 3.—The frn'c«‘ of Mayor William Hale Thomps: won nine out of eleven Alderm sterdey’s election y grip on the City Council for the next two | years. The victory gives Mayor Thomp- son 36 out of 50 votes in the City Council, two more than is neces- |sary to pess appropriation meas- |ures. a firm PIGEONS USED IN BLACKMAIL PLOT IN N, Y, Doctor - Receives Warning —Police Lose Clues —Guard Home NEW YORE, April black- mail plot in which pigeons were used, has been revealed by the po- lice after failure of their to trace the birds’ owners. Several weeks Dr, 3 sk ago, Louis | Alofsin received an express package ons tied by the | containing two pi neck, in a silk with a note threatening death unless 810,000 in the bag He released the b tion of the police. T pared a note which explained to the blackmailers that Dr. Alofsin reluctant to entrust so much money to such uncertain ns of trans- pertation and sugg 1 an ap- pointiment be made so0 : money could be turned over personally. he placed police pr was After the pigeons had been fat-)| tened for slow speed the police re-| |leased them and at the same time {herself in no uncertain words toj a score of detectives with binocu- lars stationed themselves on roofs {of buildings. ‘The pigeons were lost in the haze over New Jersey. Three days later ceived a letter stating that chance of arresi was too gr to enter- tain the doctor's i and con- tained a death threat to the entire family. The note said the pigeons would be expressed to him again since the police were guarding his home. — e A voleanic erupti ters of the Moon in s forecast. 1 in the Cra- i nic attempt is on direc-| doctor re- ¢ outhern Idaho r Upgper plioto shows the mass of wrecka Below is a picture of cnig train, 'l hich ninet 80 burned 13ath, Complalnt IS Madc l)y n which nineteen persons were burned to c2ath 0L, LINDBERGH CFLIES HIGH 70 KEEP IN SAFETY Soes Hundreds of Miles Off | Regular Route to Visit His Fiancee MEXICO CITY, April 3.—Mex- ico’s internal strife h cast a ow over the romance of Col. es A. Lindbergh and Miss Anne Morrow. It different Mexico which the T ing today. Both he and his fiancee | seem aware of the ct In flying here y Lindbergh went hundr lay, Col. of miles ‘over war-torn Southern Chihuahua |and possibly being mistaken and shot down by the rebels. Instead of taking a short cut from El Paso to Mexico City he {flew the length of the Rio Grande to PBrownsville to traverse the peaceful area of Tamaulipas but even then took precautions against i@ mishap growing out of the dis- turbed conditions of t ntry. When Col. Lindbe arrived {here, he wore a parachute over his gray business suit, the first time one has been seen in Mexico City. When he arrived he flew several way to dip low over the American Embassy to in- form Miss Morrow he had arrived. It is not helieved he had notified I of his intentions to make a visit at this time, A o Alfred Dixon, Who Sold Alaska Ice In South, Is Dead! SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 3.— Albert Dixon, aged 82 years, who luring the Sixties hauled ice from on a sailing ship and sold it here at $100 a ton, died last it. He married 57 years is survived by his widow four children. ikl g B. H. BARNDOLLAR LEAVES Alaska B. H. Barndollar, Disbursing Of- ticer for The Alaska Railroad, who has been in Juneau for about a | month, conferring with Gov. Georga A. Parks, about business of the rail- road, leaves today on the Yukon to his headguarters at visit- | out of his way to escape passing ago | and | reported the capture of 1,000 Fed- ' erals. - Government messages also report | further victories on the West Coast. | MORE BOMBS DROPPED * NACO, Mexico, April 3—Eight bombs were dropped on the Fed- eral entrenchments in a renewal of what developed in a regular daily Mexican rebel air raid. Seven exploded with determined effect. None of the missiles fell on the United States side of the inter- national boundary line. - GREAT HONOR Il.lvl national |Highway Gets Good Bomt SEATTLE, Lu establish April ‘Th2 project d construct 850 miles Fal -International-Seat- le Am hwa; ough British Colum- has been cndorsed by the Se- attle Chamber ol Commerce. The Vancouver, B. C. Board of Trade! thas approved of the undertaking BE AccuRDED and agreed to secure cooperation | \of similar organizations in British | | Columbia and Yukon Territory. One hundred and fifty miles of the highway will be in Alaska, 0 miles in Yukon Territory and 400 miles in British Columbia. - M. T, HERRICK France Will Go Limit in Last Rites to Dead U. S. Diplomat PARIS, April 3.—Never before in |the history of France has a for- ‘Pigner been horored in death as | France will tomorrow honor United States Ambassador Myron T. Her- rick. Every French regulation will have \been stretched to the utmost to THEVENOW 1S IJURED WHEN AUTOS CRASH LAKELAND, Fla., April :L——Crm-‘memoriul to the cally injured in an automobile France and America. crash, Tommy Thevenow, shortstop| The ceremony will be extreme in of the Philadelphia National Club | simplicity but cnly spare of the is reported resting fairly well to-|limit of the grandeur obsequies for day in the hospital. Physicians a man who once, although a for- saild he is badly hurt. A prelim- eigner, offered to give his life, if inary examination is said to have needed, for France. disclosed several broken bones in-| It is announced definitely that cluding a fractured nose and jaw.|the ceremonies will begin at 10 The Tfull extent of the injuries|g'clock tomorrow morning. The will not be known until the X-ray body will be forwarded to Brest to- is deve‘upnl | morrow night FOUR AMERICAN BANKS IN BILLIONAIRE CLASS W YORK, April 3—Marked in- in Americ mililonaire clan ! n 'nt years has been accom- | panied by a growth of billionaire ! banks. Four b ing $1,000,000,000, iness as 1929 beg friendship of 1926 through absorption of Me- chanics & Metals National Bank of New York, and the Chicago in- stitution’s resources were increased by combination of the Continental s with resources exceed- National Bank & Trust Company are doing busi- | and Iillinois Merchants Trust Com- s and the urge to | Pany late in 1928. Extensive growth ge which has affected the bank- |of the Guarantee Trust Company ing, as well as other, fields may |in the last quarter of 1928 carried produce additional billion dollar in- | its resources to new high levels. titutions before 1930. Bank fallures in 1928 probably | were fewer than in several years, Continental Tillinois Bank & |due chiefly to profits made by Trust Company of Chicago and the | banks generally through greater Guaranty Trust Company of New |business activity, widespread public York now have joined National City | participation in the stock market Bank of New York and Chase Na- ‘and consequent increased needs for tional Bank of New York on the |credit and high money rates. S illion dollar plane once occupied |also were able to participate more by the National City alone. The |widely in business through oroader Chase Bank made its mark in |legislation. bx REPORTED IN