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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
____“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. XXIX., NO. 4360.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 24, 1926.
TRAINS CRASH HEAD-ON; MANY DEAD
EMPEROR OF
JAPAN DEADi ,
LONG ILLNESS
Most Popular Ruler of Flow'-1
ery Kingdom Passes Away
—Crown Prince Succeeds
TOKYO. Ilee. 24 Yosliillito llani
nomiya, Emperor of Japan, tiled to
ilay after a long illness. Crown
J’rince llirohito. Regent for llie Iasi
five years, becomes Japans 12*4tli
Emperor.
Emperor Yoshihito Harunoatiyu.
123rd mule successor to the Imperial
throne of Japan, was born August
31, l,s7!t. ami on his eighth birthday
was nominated by his father. Mut-|
suhito, as tiie heir apparent of the!
"Son of Heaven.”
Emperor Yoshihito was Hie third
son of Yanigawara, a hand-maid, one j
of the eight princisses of noble blood j
who became members of the house- j
hold of Emperor Mutstihito when it -
was seen that no heir was to he j
expected of the Empress llaruko.
Crowned in 1915
He was crowned Nov. 9. 1915, 2S
years after his nomination ;»s heir j
apparent and three years after the
deatli of liis father. For a while he
took a vigorous interest in the af
fairs of his office and enjoyed sev
eral forms of outdoor sports, but
reports were cireulaied from time to,
time that an affliction dating from j
his infancy was making serious in
roads upon his health.
in 1921. five years after his coro
nation.' il became common knowledge
that tiie emperor was suffering from i
a complication of diseases which had
undermined his nienlality and prac
tically incapicated him for tiie res
ponsibilities attached to his throne. ;
Yielding to public pressure, he.
consented on Nov. 25, 1921 to do-,
signato IiIh son. Crown Prince Hiro-,
liito, as Regent of Japan, whereupon
tin’ Emperor relinquished the reings j
of government and retired to seelti-'
sion.
Popular Ruler
Yoshihito was one of the most pop
ular rulers of Nippon. When crown- j
oil. 30,000 poems were written in his]
honor. His father was an admirer of i
Western civilization and the son con-j
tinned his ploicy. Mutsuhito, how !
ever, among other tilings, abhorred ]
cameras and electric lights. During ]
his lifetime Chivoda I’alace in Tokyo]
was lighted by candles and oil lamps, j
The new Kmperor, upon his acres
sion to the throne, took up amateur
photography and equipped the palace!
with push buttons, electric lights and
other appliances. A crack billiard
player, he installed American and
Knglish latiles in his royal home
and for relaxation from the cares
of state indulged in spirited games
with tlie court chamberlains. Ib- was
also an ardent motorist, a bicyclist
and horseback rider.
The young Kmperor was noted for
his benevolent traits. He celebrated
bis ascension to the throne by pro
mulgating a decree of amnesty to
many prisoners and giving $500,000
to charity. Some years later, during
the rice shortage, lie contributed $3.
000,000 to a fund to buy food for tin1
poor.
Had Advanced Ideas
Educated at the Nobles’ School In
Tokyo, Yoshihito's training was sup
plemented by the work of tutors,
lie spoke English, French and Ger
man and was an excellent conversa
tionalist. holding, it is said, "advanc
ed ideus of world peace and in
ternational morality.” Two elder
brothers died when he was a child
and thus made him the Heir Ap
parent. Upon their passing he was
decorated with thp Grand Order nr
Merit and received a commission R3
Colonel in the Imperial Royal Guards.
Subsequently he became a l.ieutenant
General in the Japanese army and
n Vice Admiral in the navy.
On May 10, 1900, the Emperor
who was then Crowd Prince, mar
ried the Princess Sadako Fudjiwara.
Three sons were horn to them, the
present Crown Prince Miehl-No-Miya
llirnhito. born April 29. 1091. Prince
Atsti, horn June 25, 1902 and Prince
Tenu, born January ”, 1905. It is
(CoaUnuea on Page Eight.)
E n,
I'leeziiifi II eat her
For Christmas
la California
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. Dec.
j 24 The Weather Bureau fore
casta freezing Christmas weath
er throughout Ottliofrnia. Or
charists have resorted to
| smudging, |
MAN IS FOUND
DEAD;ANOTHER
HELD IN JAIL
VANCOCYKR. B ('.. Dei 24.—
Reginald C. Burdick, Secretary of
the Victoria Salvage Company, is
in jail while the death yesterday
of Kenneth McLeod, aged 2 1, mem
ber of it prominent Montreal fam
ily, is being investigated.
McLeod's body was found on tin
roof of a one-story building ad
joining the hotel where Burdick
and McLeod had their apartments
on the eighth floor. They came
here yesterday. .
A necktie, handkerchief, envelope,
piece of paper and broken curtain
cord were found beside the body.
Both men were co-students.
SLAVER BEING
SOUGHT POSSE
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.. Dec. 24.
Posses ate scouting for Ozark Hills
today for Richard Lawrence, aged J
40, a farmer who yesterday shot and
killed Mrs. L Atkinson, aged 40, a
widow and neighbor, and seriously
wounded her only son. Cline Atkin
son, ttgeil 10 years.
Lawrence is a former Washington,
Oregon and Idaho school teacher. He
rented a portion of Mrs. Atkinson's
farm last summer. Disputes ensued
yesterday when Mrs. Atkinson anti
her son drove through a short pub
lie lane that crossed a corner of
Lawrence’s farm.
Three Firemen Killed;
Brick Theatre Collapses
WINNIPEG, Dec. 24.—'Three fire
men were killed and one critically
hurt when tons of bricks fell as a
theatre burned and then collapsed
yesterday forenoon. Other firemen
were injured. The structure was the
oldest in Winnipeg and a landmark
Another Attack Launched
Against Governor Hartley
SEATTLE. Dec. 24.—Initiation o'
a statewide organization of physi
cians, dentists and pharmacists to
cooperate In the recall of Gov. ft. H.
Hartley, is announced by Fred .1
Middle, of Seattle, State Director of
Licenses under former Gov. Hart and
I executive Secretary. Gov. Hartley is
attacked for vetoing bills which re
quire certain sciences by healing
practitioners and to regulate licens
ing practitioners.
Merry Christmas for
Street Car Employees
SEATTLE. Dec. 24—John G. Von
Herberg, theatre owner and capital
ist, announced lie will cash war
rants for street car employees. This
insures Christmas money for the
hundreds of employees of the Seat
j tie Municipal system. The hanks re
fused to cash the warrants.
Guie Is to Be Legal
Adviser to Hartley
SEATTLE, Dec. 24.—The Seattle
I l’ost-Intelligehcer says that E. II
jGuie, of Seattle, twice Speaker of
the State House of Representatives,
i will he Gov. It. II. Hartley's legal
i advisor at the next State Legis
lature.
! John It. Fogarty, of Everett, for
I mer Democratic State Chairman, Is
! mentioned us Guie's assistant.
BUNNELL LOOKS
FOR BIG GROWTH,
ALASKA COLLEGE
Says Attendance Next Few'
Years Limited Only by
Accommodations Given.
The Alaska Agricultural College
anil School of Minos "will develop
(o a point in the next five or six
years that it will have an attendance
of front -100 to 5dll or (inn students,"
Dr. Charles K. Bunnell. President
of that institution, told the Cham
ber of Commerce today lie. Coach
\V K. Abell and eight students of
the College were guests of the
Chamber at its weekly noon lunch
eon today.
President Bunnell declared lit"
iiuestioii of enrollment of students
in tile period mentioned would he
governed almost entirely by the
funds which the Territorial Legis
lature might make available in t h’
interim for building constrm lion. The
greatest present need there was said
to he a dormitory for women stu
dents who are at present accom
modated in a small temporary build
ing on the campus.
Describes College Plant
llr. nunnetl gave a highly inter !
esting i a Ik mainly on the college an.I t
what it means to Alaska. He etnplias- j
ized i|iat its greatest advantage was '
in the fact that ils ciirollmcnl was!
small and that ii was able, lo offer!
personal attention In its fac ility t■ > j
all students. affording a close!
contact and instruction which is not 1
now possible lo let* obtained from the**
larger colleges and universities in
the States.
lie urged that hoys and girls grad
ualing from Alaskan high schools
would receive proportionately great
er advantages from attending tin*
Alaska College, particularly for the
first two years, than from Hie larger
institutions in the States. In addition
to the* advantage of receiving in
dividual instruction in their class
rooms, it would give them an op
pol l unit y lo acquire poise, to become
better balanced and find (hcmxelve
which was rarely to lie found in
schools where i he* attendance runs
into the thousands .I class rooms
are so crowded with students il is
impossible for a personal contact to
exist between instructors and stu
dents. -|f we can gel them for two
years, we wont worry about the re
tnaining two years of the college
Course. We know they will stay with
us." lie asserted frankly.
Hopes for More Funds
IJr. Bunnell said if the Hatch, i
i Adams and Burnell acts should he |
extended to the Territory that by;
ll.tllO, tile Alaska College would he j
receiving $!t0.0l)tt annually front the j
Federal government for agricultural!
experiment and farm help work. The'
inclusion of the Territory in the pro
visions of these three laws, he said.!
would naturally turn over all the!
farm experiment work that is now
being carried on by the Federal Cm
eminent in Alaska.
A bill was prepared by hint last
year at the request of the Delegate |
to Congress for introduction. It was
not introduced, however, as the Dele
gate thought best to take it up with
the Department of Agriculture which
did not seem inclined to favor it.
He hoped that Delegate Sutherland
would present the hill ot Congress
at the next ssesion.
Centers on Mining
The principal work of (lie College
now centers on mining and the min-,
ing engineering department is at
tracting attention from many pros
pective students in the States. The
f[tensive activity of the Fairbanks
xpioration Co., in development of
placer fields In the Fairbanks dis
trict has again revived interest in
Placer mining and the College has
recently received many inquiries
front the State regarding its min
ing school.
The Fairbanks Exploration Co., he
said, plans an expenditure of
000.000 before it begins its dredging
operations in 102k. it is constructing
a power plant at a cost of $l.r>00.(lOO
at Fairbanks and Is building a ditch
line between 7n and ko miles long.
It was hoped, he said, to greatly
extend its agricultural department, (
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Pan-American
Plight Halted;
I Motor Hums Out
WASHINGTON. Her. 2 1
The Pan-American flight will
lie halted temporarily at Tam
pirn. Mexica. The airplane
St. Louis hurtled out a ’motor
yesterday and must await re
placement from Imuran Field,
at San Antonio, Texas
I
ONE PLANE GOES ON
V Kit A mry. Dec. 2 1 The
Pan-American flying plane San
Francisco arrived here during
the night from Tampico.
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and later to open schools of forestry
and fisheries.
Trip of Mutual Benefit
Referring to I lie present trip of
the College basketball squad. l)r.
Hnnnell said it was hoped it would
be of in it I tia I benefit to the College
and to Hie schools of Southeastern
Alaska. It would bring to the people
of Soulheastern Alaska a realization
that tile -Territory has tin institu
tion of higher learning and give
them a knowledge of the type of
young men who are attending it.
On Hie other hand athletic eon-!
tests between the College team and;
school teams would develop to a high|
degree school loyalty, stimulate in
etrest in local schools, and general
ly bring up thy morale throughout
every school against which the Col
lege team competed.
Suggests Rate Extension
Dr. Ittinnell called attention to
llte lack uf low excursion rates lie ,
tween Alaskan ports while it was
possible to obtain them between lo
cal ports and Seattle. lie sttg
gestetl it might be possible for (lie
Chamber to inaugurate a movement
to secure such rates. i
"If I were to suggest a slogan for.
Alaskans, it would he: Alaskans
Should Tour Alaska." he declared, j
Cow rates would make il possible!
to stimulate such travel and result'
itt a more general knowledge of AI -,
asktt by the people of the Territory.
Howard Comments on Trip
Rriee Howard spoke briefly on j
conditions in Seattle and vicinity.I
Seattle, lie Sitid. was growing and
was apparently prosperous. lUlsiness
leaders there, lie adde. were appre
hensive lest ti reaction be exper
ienced in llte next year or two on!
account or the fact that industrial
growth was not keeping apace with
its building enlargement.
Competition is growing to be In-!
tensive on all lint's of business.!
The chain store is driving out the I
small, independent grocer and the'
credit, situation is not encouraging.
Motor transportation on highways
is also cutting intiy the business
heretofore handled by rail and water
lilies. There are at present 5 2
motor busses operating on a regular
schedule between Cortland and
Seattle.
To Visit Juneau
A letter received by llte Chamber
said a party of Cos Angeles High
School boys would visit Juneau next!
summer A request was made for|
descriptive literature about the
town anil vicinity.
E. II. Duilois, of San Diego, wrote
regarding the prospective pulp and
paper development and predicted it
would come sooner than Alaskans'
generally believed possible.
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! Polar Flier to Come
Here to Deliver
Lecture in January
I -
j Floyd Hennett, pilot who was |
I the companion of Commander |
Richard llyrd in the first trans
polar flight last Spring, will be
in Juneau about January 8,
the Chamber of Commerce was
| told today by W. K. Keller,
Supt. of the Juneau Public j
Schools. He will deliver a lec- ]
i i ture on the polar flight, making
| | it under the auspices of the
Parent-Teacher Association for
j the student body of the school.
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AMERICA FOOLED
WKENSCRAPPING
SHIPS HASTILY
House Naval Affairs Chair
man Declares Other Na
tions Violate Treaty.
\V ASH INUTON. I ie<: LM. America
"as fooled into hastily scrapping her
"at ships while other signatories of
t lie IMJJ arms treaty violated the
spirit of the agreement by building
more ships: than they discarded.
Chairman llntler, of the Mouse Naval
Affairs Committee wrote in the At
my and Navy Journal, just off tie
press.
"I have route to realize that Na
lions, like individuals. always have
been governed by force and will con
tinue to he so governed In the fu
ture. Ilavirij succeeded in inducing
nations to destroy some of their
great ships, f suppose friendly re
lations had begun; that when Amer
ica sank SUO 000 lens of good steel,
those other nations appreciated the
generosity e: pressed in our willing
ness to sacrifice, hut when I learned
in the past week those oilier nations
built more sljifis than they sacrificed.!
I began to conclude America lias
been fooled.”
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SUPREME COURT
UNDER ATTACK
(’ll 1C A< JO. Dec. 21 The lllinnllul
Medic-iil Journal, organ of the Slate
Medical Society, sharply criticises j
the I'nited Stales Supreme Court |
in the decision permit ting Congress
to regulate physician’s whiskey pre
script ions.
"If a patient dies when whiskey
might have saved him, then the docr
tor beyond all reason, is a murder
er,” the Journal says.
Snow on California
Foothills; Damage Done
LOS AXCIOLKS. Cal., Dec. 21
Snow had chilled millions of rose
petals in I’usadena and the surround
ing foothills. A heavy white blanket
covered the ridge route of the high
way north of Saugus, following the
.coldest wave of the winter in South
ern California.
Man, Wife and Baby
Found; Nearly Frozen
WINDSOR. Out , Dec. 24 A Del
giun mun mill Ills wife, with 11 small
girl baby, were rescued yesterday
from freezing to death on I’eclie
Island, an isolated stretch in the
Detroit Diver. Through an interpreter
a caretaker and solilary resiilem c
on tlie Island, it was learned Dial
they paid $100 lo lie smuggled to an
American shore. In (he darkness. Hie
smuggler landed llieni on the island
and fled.
Train and Auto Crash;
Prominent Persons Killed
CHICO, Cal.. Dec. 24. four men
were instantly killed last night when
a Southern Pacific train smashed in
to an automobile at a crossing. The
impact threw (leorge Percy Dow
from the machine The train carried
the automobile, witli .lack Salyer,
its driver, and Halite Johnson, four
city blocks before il was slopped.
Those killed were prominent Chico
residents.
Former Alaskan Hotel
Operator Passes Away
WALLA WALLA, Wash., Dec. 24.
—J. W. Wilson has passed away
here. He built a hotel at St.
Michael, Alaska, in 1SH7, anil op
erated a hotel at Dawson, Y. T., re
maining In Die north eight years,
lie opened a restaurant here 15
(years ago and was operating it at
(the time of his death.
I i
1/fullest liurfilurs
Ire lie ported
{ From Spokane
SI’OKANK. Hit. 21 The pn- '
lice, last night, found Lett! Kel
land, aged 1«». lying by a Christ •
mas tree, sobbing. Purglars had
ransacked the house and took
tiie presents her father had sent
her from Havre. Montana. The
burglars < v**n took the candy, j
j
BLUEJACKETS
ARE LANDED
IN NICARAGUA
W ASHINGTON, I >< > . 21 A form
ol Amerirnn blue jackets has been J
larnleil at Kin Grande liar, Nhuraguu.
to protect American ami other for-;
cign lives anrl properly. This is (he
aniioiincenient made hy the Depart-I
ment of Stale. i
LOS ANGELES ;
CRIME WAVE
DOS ANGKDKS. Cal., Dee. 24
The holiday crinie wave In which
robbers have looted 2U homes, slugged
I wo persons into unconseloiisness. J
stolen money and goods valued a!
thousands of dollars and which has I
swept Dos Angeles County, came to
a culmination last night when two I
well-dressed youths looted tin- homo |
ol Mrs John T. Dimitry widow of
a capitalist, of Slu.mirt in jewuliy
and clothing.
COL. N. GREEN
HAS RESIGNED
SAN KHAN CISCO, Dec. 24 - Col. ;
Ned Green, acquitted of the charge1
of embezzling government liquor. '
and reinstated immediately as Pro-1
hiliition Administrator of Northern
California. has resigned, effect!’, e
January 22.
Col Green wrote Assistant See’
retary of Treasury Andrews, who
congratulated him on his acquittal,
'in the future, I will undoutdadly
look back, with great happiti ’s,
upon Hie continued confidence you
reposed in me."
U. S. Ambassador to
Argentine Resigns
WASHINGTON. Dec. 21. Puter
August us Jay. Ambassador to Argot,
t ina, lia k tendered his ;na.
to President Cnolidge c *sumed
Secretary of State Kellogg ill shfik
to dissuade him. 'Jay's daughter died
recently.
Mararajah Holkar
Is Now in Seattle
,KKATTLK. Dec. 21. Mararaiuli
Holkar, of Indore, Intla, after re
maining in seclusion since life ar
rival here Monday, was a dinner
guest last night of Mrs. Jennie
Miller, widow of a wealthy Alaska
miner.
(Children, Trapped
On Trestle, by
Train, Make. Leap
KAN JOKK, Cal., Dec. 2 1.—Trap
ped on a 2uB-foot Southern Pacific
trstle in Los Huston Canyon, by a
passenger train. Helen Dossee. ugeil
1 1 years, and Jane, aged nine, sis
ters, jumped fid feet to a rot hy
creek bed Helen died from in
juries and June was seriously in
jured.
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I Tiie Post Office In Sweden is a
money making institution, thu nit
profits for tiie last year being
I27l.iil7.5ti or $55 pur inhabitant.
1b KILLED, 29
! INJURED, WHEN
j 2 TRAINS MEET
fast Trains on Southern
Rail' ay Collide—Harrow
ing Scenes Related.
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| ROCK MAIIT. Oil., Dec. 24.—
, Kiyllteen persons were killed and
seriously injured In a head-on
j collision on tlie Southern Railway
jlnst niRht between the Ronee tie
M.ion train, northbound from Miami
U" Chitaeo, and the Royal I’alta
; train sou t It bound. OfTh-inls said
[tiny believed no more dead will be
found. The dead have been identl
lied All were practically from
Hasteni Statue.
SCENE IS DESCRIBED
ATLANTA, lie 2L- .lolin Mil
lespie, former Detroit Police ('uni
mlssloner. who led the r-si tie wci k
i-rs, told the tsory ol the collision
when tin. remnuut of the Ponce de
Leon train arrived here. He told of
dead men hanging out of car win
dows. dci apit ited women, unrecog
nizable corpses and mutlliated In
lured
The crash came win a at 6 •'0
o'clock last night when out train
was making "ill miles an hour. *
seid Llliesple "! was in the s c
ond car behind the diner. Kv#ry
person in tlie ear was thrown to the
floor by the impact which was nr
t'ih' The irain Jerked, groaned and
creaked ' There was a great crunch
ing and crashing sound If tn*
brakes were applied at all, il was
at i lie very moment of Die crash.
I got out. The fireman of a freight
train on siding told me the freight
engineer signalled the Police de
Leon train to make an emergency
stop as it sped toward the south
bound train around a bend.
"The day coach was virtually
driven through the dining car and
was telescoped almost the entire
length The lights In tile diner
went out and because of the dark
ness and pouring rain It was im
poasib'e to see inside. 1 gathered
up tw i or three injured men, com
ma lei red an automobile, and went
to Itockmart for aid and then re
! t urned.
Body Decapitated
"I uiKi the light of flares from
tw windows of the wrecked diner,
i suw terribly torn pans of two
negro .'.alters. Their bodies were
hanging from wreckage and their
whit;' cm s were smeared with
blood. From another window we
dragged tin decapitated body of au
apparently middle aged white wo
man Two little tols. who expected
to gre t San .. Claus tomorrow, w-re
y badly crushed that identification
wii t - almost impossible. I saw
a nan. still seated in a chair at a
table, apparently only dazed. When
1 reached him 1 found that he was
dead. His body had been severed
just below the waist ”
The diner was split down the
middle It was of modern sleet con
struct in.
Railway officials stated the col
lision was apparently caused by
the I'ouce de Leon engineer over
looking an order to take a siding.’’
Ketchikan Man
In dieted by Grand
Jury in Seattle
i SKATT1J0. Dec. 24 Former Chief
of l“.ilice Severyns- has been ad
! i Ised that Hoy Thornton, of Ketch!
; kali. Alaska, roadhose owner, has
I linen indicted by the (irand Jury.
I Thornton was u former associate of
I Severyns and former Mayor Brown.
ProseciitiiiR Attorney C. T. Koscoe,
^■f Snohomish County; former State
j Senator Smith and Deputy Sheriff
i McC tllock and Mvrick. of Snohomish
j County, lias been arrested on indict
ments returned.
I'. S. Marshal Albert White said
today ttiat p warrant had been re
ceived for the arrest of Thornton
[and cabled to Ketchikan. His bond
J was lixeil at $7,500.