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THE ALASKA DAISY EMPIRE “/ILL THE HEWS ALL THE TIME" i VOL. XXV., NO. 3820. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1925. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SHEPHERD JAILED; BAIL DENIED; MORE BODIES TO BE EXHUMED t Prairie Fires Sweeping Wide Section in Middle West HUGE PRAIRIE FIRES RAGING MIDDLE WEST Hundreds of Acres of Land Are Swept Over — Sky Red with Reflection. BULLETIN—OMAHA, March 26. —A dispatch to the Omaha World Herald late this afternoon said ev ery citizen of Gregory, South Da kota, joined in a bucket and dirt brigade and have saved the town, 30 miles east of the Rosebud Reserva tion, after a hard fight. SHEEP ARE DESTROYED. MANDAN, S. Dak., March 26. Five farmhouses aear Selfridge, 200 sheep and much hay have heen destroyed in a prairie fire sweep ing toward the Black Hills before a stiff wind. One man is reported killed near Walker, South Dakota, fighting the flames. CITIZENS DESERT TOWN. MILES CITY, Montana, March 26. —'IHie entire population of Wakdnle, South Dakota, have deserted the town to fight a prairie fire at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation accordng to word received by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul officials here. The lire is near where Sitting Bull is buried. FLAMES REFLECTED IN SKY. VALENTINE, S. Dak., March 26. —The northern sky has a red re flection of flames. The wind last (Continued on Pace Two.i HECKMAN URGES HATCHERY WORK AS VITAL NEED In Strong Statement Before Fish Committee Says Propagation Success. Declaring that the poml-rearing method now used in Territorial sal mon propagation is successful and un doubtedly practical from a coinmei cial standpoint, J. R. Heckman, Vic - Chairman and executive member o: the Alaska Fish Cominirtsion, to'-l members of the Fisheries Committed of both the House and Senate yes terday afternoon that it was vita) that this work be continued. He was before the committees in joint session, for about one hour. Mr. Heckman appeared before the committees in response to a reso lution passed by the House directing that he and other members of the Commission, come here to testify regarding the hatchery ivork carriil on by the Commission. He was pr. ceded by Edwin Wentworth, Super intendent of h&teherles, who appeared in the committee hearing yesterda,-. Their attendance was required by (Continued on Page Seven.) Air Route Over North Pole ! Arouses Interest in Japan MERLIN, March 26.—Germany, the Scandinavian countries and Japan, all are showing interest in a pro posal to operate an air route over the North Pole area from the coast of Rupsia to Alaska The idea -a not particularly new, but it has been revived recently because of the im provements, of late years, in airship construction. It is understood that Dr. Fridtjof Nansen has offereil o lead such an enterprise, under inter national support. An airship a little larger than the Los Angeles is contemplated for the run. May is regarded as the best month in which to start. Murmansk.] on the north coast of Russia, would be the European point of depart ure. The route would be over Bin (peror Francis Joseph Land to the Pole and then over the unknown ter ritory of North Canada to Alaska. The return trip would lie over liering Strait, Wrangel Island. DeLong Is land, and the unexplored territory of Nova Zembla. The Japanese are especially In [ terested because success might re sult in quicker communication be jtween Europe and Japan. JERRY C. MURPHY. BOTH BRANCHES OF LEGISLATURE PASS ON BILLS ! — Senate Approves Six Meas-I ures — House Considers ' Three, Second Reading. — ! The legislative grist mills of both j Houses spent a busy morning today, the Senate passing six measures and the House considering three bills in second reading and passing one reso lution. The last document empow ers the presiding officers of both ] branches to appoint committees to] make the biennial Legislative in-] spection of the Pioneers' Home at Sitka. Four measures carrying appro-] priations ranging from $105 to $17.-! 200 were favorably reported by] House committees today and will he] considered in second reading to-1 morrow. The Ways and Means Com-1 mittee recommended the passage of! Sherman’s bill providing an ap propriation of $lo,oyo to supple ment current funds tor old age al lowances, and another measure car rying $1,05 for relief of Nathan P. Whitt for services in search for John 0. Parker, in 1018. With one member, Paul, not concurring, tiie same committee recommended the passage of the Seward Peninsula shipping subsidy measure with ] amendments, carrying $17,200 to | make the act effective. The Commit j tee on Education favorably reported! Sherman's bill for $7,500 for con-1 struction of a schoolhouse at Kenai. Pass Resolution. A concurrent resolution by Moody, Fairbanks, Chairman of the Com mittee on Territorial Institutions, was unanimously parsed under sus pended rules, authorizing the ap pointment of a joint legislative com mittee to inspect the Sitka Pioneer’s i__ I Continued an Page ahem • J. G. MURPHY,WELL KNOWN ALASKAN LAWYER, IS DEAD Former Attorney - General Found Dead in Bed at An chorage, Fleart Trouble. Jerry ('. Murphy, former Attornevj General of Alaska, former resident oi l Juneau, well known in all mining) camps in the Interior in the early J days, who has been practicing law I here for several years, was found j dead in his home in the Anchorage Hotel, in Anchorge. yesterday morn ; ing. according to an Associated Pre s dispatch received by the Empire ea • lv last evening. The cause of death is given as heart failure. The dis patch stated Mr. Murphy had been complaining of heart trouble for the past month Mr. Murphy was a native of West ern New York and about fifty years of age. He liven his early years in Minnesota and the Dakotas, practi. ing law when a young man for sev eral years in North Dakota. He came north in the early days of the gold rush to the Interior, and fol lowed mining and prospecting for several years. He practiced luw • t Ruby and for a time was a law partner of Senator John W. Dunn at that place. When Anchorage be came the headquarters of the Alaska Railroad. Mr. Murphy opened u law (Continued on Page Eight.) ' TACNA-ARICA IS SCENE OF i “ATROCITIES”! WASHINGTON, March 28-~-Chil ean authorities in Tacna-Arica nnd Tarake are charged with committing "atrocities” on Peruvian inhabitants in provinces after the delivery of the Goolidge award, according to published dispatches. The Peruvian Embassy charges the Chilean forces intended to sack and fire Tarake before evacuation under the award and have already started a reign of terror and atrocities of all kinds are reported from Tacna-Arica. Murderer Sought for 4 Years, Is Under Arrest — TACOMA, Wash., March 26. — A four year national search for the murderer of Harry E. Hallen ended last night in the arrest of Gino Spadoni, a laborer, of San Fran cisco, when a small arsenal of weap ons and explosives was discovered by the police. lADMINISTRA IN GIVEN SC( NG BY REPUB !AN New York Representative Talks About Double Crossing rf People. — I NEW YORK, i.'.'hrrli 2(1.—P. 11. I.aGuardia. Republican Representa tve from New York, said, in an ad dress in a local theatre last night, that there was "perfect teamwork" between President Cooiidge and the administration lenders In the last session of Congress which "seems to lie a new method of double-cross ing the American people. Vice-Presi dent Dawes lias yet to learn his ARCs in parliamentary procedure. I.aGuardia said "The President is safe in promising legislation such as lellef for farmers, cooperative marketing, Civil Service pension law, reform of tee Prohibition De partment, reduction of armament j and rent regulation while his lead-i ers In Congress are under orders to j kill every one of the measures. 1 expect little or no changes in the: rules of the Senate." Representative LaGuardla suid ] there would he »4duetirm In taxes hut not a like reduction in "high surtaxes Mellon promises his fellow millionarcs.” I Don't Eat Garlic If You Don’t Want Garlic Odor. Breath i - i I WASHINGTON. March 2G.— | Department of Agriculture scientists, after a long study to determine the way to eliminate the odor of garlic from the breath have agreed that the only way is not to eat garlic. Tlie scientists also agreed that I the only way for farmers to get | rid of tlie garlic flavor in the | milk of their cows, is to keep 1 I the weed away so tlie cows can- | i not eat it. I ■--■ DOUBTS SUCCESS FOR CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT WASHINGTON, March 20.—Unit ed States Senator William E. Borah declared, after a conference with President Coolfdge, he favored call ing a second arms conference but doubted if It will be successful. He said Russia holds the key to world disarmament and Russia is not ex pected to enter any agreement with out diplomatic recognition by the United States. • alamedThas 18 FOR HERE SEATTLE, March 26. — Steamer j Alameda sailed for Southeastern Al-I aakan ports at 3 o’clock this morn-! ng wth 7 5 passengers aboard, the! following for Juneau: H. L. Yshi.j J. L. Carlson and wife, Jean Carlson,! Katherina Carlson, C. W. Fetch,! Dan E. Standard, Frank Cox, Mrs. j L. Ahrenstad, Mrs. J. Jaeger, H Windson, B. Windso.i, (!. A. Nelson, L. Hamilton and four steerage. Finds Daughter He Thought He Had Buried WEST FRANKFORT. Ill, March 26.—Jerry Sullivan Who last Monday buried the body which he identified at the morgue as that of his two year old baby, killed in the tornado, foun I the child alive yesterday at the hos pital. \tr---■ 1 ' Orders Residents Of British Columbia I To Be I areinoted I - I VICTORIA. B. C„ March 2« | —The Provincial Board of j Health, following the order ef | fective on March 17 that per I sons entering the Pnited States | from Vancouver must he vac cinated. has ordered everybody | in British Columbia to he vac j ciliated. This is the result of | smallpox reported In Vnn j couver. I I ■--. . --■ CROSS CARIBOU WITH REINDEER _ Experiments to Be Carried on in Alaska During the Coming Summer. SEATTLE, March 26- Breeding experiments intended to double the weight of the Alaska reindeer by crossing them with woodland cari bou will be conducted on Nuntvak Island and Fairbanks during t lie icoming summer said L p. Palmer, head of the Biological Survey at Nome. He is here enroute north from Washington where he prepared a pamphlet on the reindeer In dustry. The plan of the cross-breeding iB to increase the weight of the rein deer from 150 to 200 pounds. Fif teen caribou hulls will lie taken from Korines down the Yukon to Nunivak Island where a small herd of reindeer will lie used in cross breeding. Palmer declared mother problem to study is lichens, reindeer moss, the main food of the deer in the winter. He said it takes from 15 to 20 years for a new growth and plans to discover a method to hasten the growth or find a substitute food. The Biological Survey Station at Nome will lie moved to Fairbanks and connected with the Alaska Ag ricutural College and School of Mines there. I I Air Mail Line Lor Alaska Towns Promoted 1 - ^ ' | SEATTLE, March 26. — tThe | Chamber of Commerce has been j Informed by the National Aero- | | nautical Association that an air ] j mall route line to ull Alaska j Coast cities, with Seattle, has | j been promoted. > SEif MURDER USE OPENED Hi-Jacking Case ancj Double Murder Tragedy Testi mony Is Presented. "■ VICTORIA, R C.. March 26—Al belt riuiiHsen, of Seattle, owner of the rum runner Dolphin, was a w,t ness yesterday at the opening of th trial of Owen H. Baker and Harrc E. Sowash, alleged murderers .if Capt. William 0. (iillis and his son William, on the gasoline launch Beryl f! In a hi-jacking raid on September IS in British Columbia waters near the American boundary. Claussen hestified he made *950 >. three trips to Darcy Island with Baker and Sowash about the time c£ 'the tragedy. He said Baker, refer I ring to hi jacking of the Beryl (i. j told him: “I took the whiskey from the old man and the boy." j Claussen testified Baker told him the (lillises were landed on Halibut I Island, which is barren, wlthouj a rowboat, and then the Beryl C. was jset afloat. I I At Oil Trial _ This Is the latest photograph ol Harry R Sinclair, New York City oil magnate and sportsman, snapped In Cheyenne, Wyo., where he ap. peared at the hearing of the Gay* ernment’s suit to annul his leases on the Tea Pot Dome Naval alt reserves. GOVERNMENT'S CHARGE, LEASE CASE ANSWERED Defense Announces Does Not Propose to Put Sin clair Upon Stand. CHEYENNE, Wya . March 26 George i’ Hoover, defense counsel in the Teapot Dome oil lease can cellation case, answering the Gov ernment's charge on silence regard ing exchange of bonds between A1 bcrt B. Fall and Harry F. Sinclair said late yesterday: “We do not prepose to put Sin elalr on the witness stand and havt him shot at" The defense’s case was dosed with arguments of .Martin W Littleton who attacked the contentions of the Government that fraud was used in connection with the turning of tin Teapot Dome lease over to Sindaii and the Mammoth Oil Company by Fall. Defense Indicating in Jazz Girl’s Murder Case SAN FRANCISCO, March 26. Fx amining Mrs. Julia Ott for the jury, the defense counsel asked her if she would he prejudiced against a verdict in favor of Dorothy Klllngson, if shown the girl did not shoot h -r mother but assumed the guilt to shield somebody. Dorothy did not show a flicker of Interest in this suggestion to th possible contention she did not kill I her mother hut slumped Into .1 faint as she left the court room at the noon recess today and she war carried into an anteroom unconscious SHEPHERD IS DENIED BAIL POISON CASE Heir to Instate of “Millionaire Oil )lian“ Is Sent to Chicago Jail. MORE REVELATIONS ARE NOW EXPECTED Coroner Orders Exhumation of Bodies of Mrs. McClin tock and Dr. Olson. CHICAGO. March 20.— William I). Shepherd, heir to the estate of Will iam N. MeClintock, known as the "millionaire orphan." has been de nied his liberty on bail as the result of the hearing which started on Monday. Judge Jacob Hopkins, Chief Jus tice of the Criminal Court said: "This is a murder case, or noth ing, and b\J no process could it de generate into a manslaughter case." Shepherd was taken to jail and he said: "Well hoys, I lost out. I guess I’ll he with you a long time." 1/ast week the grand jury return ed indictments against Shepherd and Hr. ('. ('. Kalman, of the National University of Science, alleging they caused flip death of MeClintock by tlie adminstering of typhoid germs, poison, etc. Other suspicious deaths are now being investigated, and these are re ported to also involve Shepherd. William Scott Stewart, noted criminal lawyer representng Shep herd, attacked the validity of the Indictment and sought to secure his ■lient's release on bail. Today the coroner announced he would order the bodies of Mrs. Em ma Nelson MeClintock and Dr. Oscar Olson to he exhumed. Mrs. MeClintock, mother of Will iam N. MeClintock, died lti years ago. I)r. Olson died three years ago. BUREAU MEN UNDER ARREST WASHINGTON, March 26.—An nouncement of the arrest of Fred erick Sutherland, auditor of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, several days ago, was announced today fol lowing the capture last night, in Mil ford, Conn., of John F. McCarron and James J. Clifford said to have resign ed from the Bureau and started out as tax reducers. Joseph I) Brady, lawyer for the New Haven Railroad, caused the ar rests. He Raids he had received an offer to have the railroad taxes halv ed. Investigators said the efforts of tin- throe men had defrauded th“ government of large sums, books of the Bureau being so changed as to eliminate indebtedness of concerns accepting proposals. WIDE RANGE COVERED BY PROGRAM OFFERED FOR WOMEN’S LEAGUE RICHMOND, Va., March 26. Tlv> i proposed program of work for th • National League of Women Votei carries as one of its principal recom mendations the outlawry of war and its abolition as a legalized institut ion. It will be submitted to th# annual convention here April IK-22 The tentative program, a compri - hensive outline covering all phases of the league's activities, is now be Ing sent out for consideration and discusion by state and local league; It includes two new federal recom mendations. the first being "support of resolutions permitting Unit ■ I States official representation in the disarmament conference when called by the League of Nations.' Tho second calls for "support of meas ures designed to make effective the Permanent Court of International Justice and providing for the codifi cation of international law"; also measures designed for the outlawry of war and its abolition as a legaliz ed institution. , Appointment of women to position) in the national, state and local gov ernments this year is supplemented by the plea for the placement on i commissions “and other bodies huv . ing International representation." i (Continued on Page Seven.;