The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 10, 1927, Page 1

“ALL THE JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1927. NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ~ PRICE TEN CENTS FRENCH OCEAN FLIERS ARE MISSIN - Juneau COLD STORAGE PLANT T0 BE . MUCH LARGER J | Company Will Erect Two-| Story Building with 1,000,- | 000 Pounds Capacity. | | lis 8. George, President anij Ceneral Manager of the Juneau Cold ! Storage Company, who arrived thi wmorning from Seattle, announced to day that the cold storage and ice | plant that will be under construction | a: Juneau within two weeks will be | twice as large as was contemplated | before he left here six weeks agc fhe main building will be two sto-| ries instead of ong, as formerl planned, and the storage capacity vill be 1000000 pounds inste 50,000 pounds. The ice manuf fug capacity will be 30 tons daily, with 1,000 tons storage capacity for the fisheries indusiry and a 70-tons capacity room for lacal use i Mr. George visited many cold stor- | ge plants while in Seattle and i ted with the A. W. Quist Con his architects, ani age men who were , declared that the completed plant will be second 1o | vone anywhere so far as modern | € juipment, location and plans ar. | ¢ mcerned. : A Jan expert ghown the were alveady has bids from | companies | Mr, Goorge five Seattle construction and will receive bids from Juneau| constructors until next Momnday. The | contract. for the construetion work | TWHL e Ter BUK W et fion must begin within two weeks. Ready for Business September 15 Fhe contract will specify that the bullding must be completed by ) tember 1, and the machinery install=d and in operation by September 15 The main building will be of cc crete and steel consiruction, 107 fee frontage on Front Street, 110 feet in depth and two full stories in Jieighth The behind the whout the ne 1> onomnd-a-half stories in heighth and constructed of wood and cur- yugated ivon. In addition to the lari floor for receiving fish it will have a full size loft for the storage of | pear and equipment | Arrangements for the purchase of the eqhipment and its installation have been about completed, said M George. The power of gravity will be us through the processes of handling i &nd fish. The ice manufacturing plant | will be on the second floor. fromt | will be it will the water building size except fish at shed main Seattle Bidders The Seattle bidders on struction work for the plant include tw 9. W. Quist Company, who pre-| Jared the plans and who have done | the cold storage planning and c(u-; struction for the New England Fi Company, the Petersburg cold stor and other cold storage concerns, the Warrack Construction Company, which built the Ketchikan school house, the Ingersoll Hotel and the Petersburg school house; the Sound Construction Company, the Tutler Construction Company, and| fPeufeul and Carlson, who built the! ©Olympic Hotel in Seattle. | Bonds Will Go ol Market Tha Juneau Cold Storage Company, wvhich already has sold $75.000 worth of capital stock in Juneau, will put| on the market immediately $75,000 | in 7 per cent bonds, redeemable | iwithin ten years. | Quite a lot of the bonds have al- | yoady been spoken for, and a ready sale for the remainder is expected. Paris Stock Exchange : Nicknamed “Cemetery” | the cor | ivienne Ceme- S, the is May 1 PARI & the nickname given pzoing on. The foreign exchange department, in particular, is so quiet that the | Trokers humorously propose L0 '“""i iheir big room into a “Dancing.” { Premier Poincare’s practical stabil jzation of the franc and the actual fixing of the exchange rate each day by the Bank of France, the | brokers say, has killed business. There -is no free competition and the | brokers spend most of their time gossiping or waiting nervously for “something” to happen. HALIBUT PRICES PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., May 10. tan addr HNaws {Alleged Rum" Ring Leader‘ Cold No Peace in China As Long as There Is Bolshevism May 10.-—Gen Military Advi Lin, Manchurian arrived here enroute D. on a Swine Chang Lord, to Wa mission Gen will long up with 't has hington L v/ secret | cr | ther “50 Swinehart declared be no peace in China as the Cantonese are mixed the Bolsheviks.” 1 ARE DEAD N STORMS IN SEVEN STATES ed Injured in Three- Day Storm Siege. BULLETIN—With additional deaths reported late this after- noon from Arkansas, Texas, Il- | lino’s and Louisiana, the toll | is swelled to 280 from the | storm section, | UNDATED — Casualty lists | in a three-day siege of torna- [ does and storms in Western States showed 202 dead and moze- Shans 800 Injureds . .. . The death “toll follows: Mis- souri 73, Arkansas 70, Texas | 33, Kansas 10, Illinois 12, | Wyoming 3, Towa 1, and sev- | eral persons unaccounted for in Arkansas, : - - ) SENATOR BORAH FAVORS TREATY OUTLAWING WAR Accord of Five ‘Greal Powers Is Sought for Protec- | tion of China. AND, Ohio, May 10.—1In| s on Foreign Relations, Sen- | ator William Borah declared that | he favored a treaty between the United States, Great Britain, Franc» Italy and Japan to outlaw be itween these nations, and Chi 1 Senator Borah s “The accorl! of these five Pow together with | he policy announced by President Coolidge in his New York speech, | would in effect put a ban on war, where outlawry is a most i CLEVE needed of her own tariff: H territory and execution of her own! which are things she is en-| titled to have and these five great! nations have it within their power| to grant these things:” | possession of he CONVIGTION OF | OLMSTED UPHELD CIRCUIT COURT | and 21 Other Co-defend- ants Lose Appeal. SAN FRANCISCO, May 10.—The Federal Circuit Court has sustained the conviction of Roy Olmsted and 21 co-defendants, resulting for a trial at Seattle for liquor conspiracy. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Frank Rudkin declared that for Fed.} eral oificers to gain evidence by wire tapping is a violation of the pe-‘ sonal freedom of those relying upon the privacy of the instrument. Case Be Appealed SEATTLE, May 10.—Attorneys said the Olmsted case will be appealed to the Supreme Court. The charge Olmsted was sentenced to four years ~—Halibut sale totaled 38,000 pound today. American halibut sold for 7135600 for heading a $500,000 Inter-|recovered from the ill-fated Everets-|fate, ,'nml to | { mination TEN MILLION T0 BE SPENT PULP PROJECT Gastineau Gold Mining Com- pany Property Is Report- ed to Be Sold. SEATTLE, May 10. — The Seattle Chamber of Commerce announces that the Cameron-' Chandler Company is expected to spend $10,000.000 develop- ing the Juneau paper end pulp project. The Chamber of Commerce official: have been advised the company has taken over the Gastineau Gold Mining Com- pany’s property and will use a portion of the mine buildings and machinery in pulp devel- opment, Confirmation of the Seattle report relative to the Thane property deal lacking loeally today Neither S. Gastonguay, in charge Alaska Gastinean interests, nor L. Paulkner, counsel for the com pany, had received any word of ti reported transaction It is known here, however, negotiations were instituted that some time ago hetween Camcron-Chandler| interests and the mining for all-of the Thane townsite, build ings aund developed waterpower and rights held by the latter. No actual transter had bheen made up to the tim f the bid for timber made s Cameron. for himself associates, and. aecepled by the Federal Government. = It was under- stood that an agreement satisfactory both parties had heen reached geveral months ago, the final cul of the deal depending on the success of the Cameron inter ests in bidding in the timber and their decision to procced with de- velopment of a pulp and paper manufacturing plant - - HEINTZLEMAN TO LEAVE TONIGHT FOR THE STATES company (To Confer with Zellerbachs and Cameron Regarding Summer’s Program. Zellarbach and ative to plans To confer with the Cameron interests re for initiating their development programs looking toward establish- ing pulp and paper mills in Sonth- eastern Alaska, Asst. Dist. Forester B. F. Heintzleman will leave for Seattle tonight on the steamer Yu- kon enroute to Sa “rancisco where both firms have their headquarters. |:||‘ngF and which China_demands of |, expects to be absent for about |the Foreign Powers, namely, control sy gays The Zellerbachs were awarded contracts for a large area of timber and given preliminary water power development permits in the Ket- chikan district April 16, last. Ten day later George T. Cameron and associates of Los Angeles and Port- and were awarded a contract for a imilar timber area in this region. Mr. Heinztleman's trip to San Francisco is being made to confer with both firms relative to the se- Jection of timber areas in the uwits covered in the advertised bids; to work out a plan of co-op- erative engineering investigations on water power matters; and to facilitate in any possible initia- tion of the preliminary work nece: sary befora actual plant eonstru tion can be launched. Both groups of interests desire to begin their investigations of water power, timber areas and site survey as soon as practicable, Mr Heintziems: aid. Bach is expected to put engineering parties in the field eavly th mmer. pPsadS ror i WP Bainbridge Colby Is Seekm! Paris Divorce PARIS, May 1 former Secretary Stat is seeking having au(hurize-‘ his attorneys institute proceedings and having tak en up his residence here. The petition will be filed shortly when formalitios will be fulfilled. —_— e ee———— FAIRMONT, W. Va, May 10.- Bainbridge Colby. of the United mprisonment and to pay a fine of Twelve additional bodies have been and 14.20 cents and Canadian halibut inationat Rum Ring. He was arrested [ville mine making the known dead sold for 7 and 13.30 cents. with 89 others. 72 with 256 miners still missing. calls fori a divorce in Paris, | to | Storage Company Doubles Its Plans Slayers of Snyder Are Found Guilty, Murder; Death Penalty | NEW YORK, May 10.--Mrs. Ruti {Brown Snyder and Henry Judd G her corset salesman paramour, [pay with their lives for tho crime which made them internationally | | known | Deliberating legs than {the jury convicted them of murder | and sentenced them to die in th» clectric chair, for slaying Mrs. Sny-| de husband, Albert Snyder, ma azine art editor The death sentence is Hfor first degree 'murder sentence was peostponed Monday Cheers Greet Verdict Cheers greeted the verdict | was flashed to the erowd outside | Long Island City Supreme Court { Inside the court, the verdict was | "aceived in silence. Neither defendan exhibited any great emotion and| seemed to be elther too dazed to| | ully comprehend its importance or only hearing what was expected | ‘ounsel for both defendants de ferred announcements of inte | regarding appeals. | Justice Scudder thanked the jurors | they left their all of th jurors heing men, Cheers them outside, along with flashlights as photographers pressed arounu | them two hour mandatory but formal until next when i the gre Stoic Defendants | When, after the usual formalitios the foreman uttered his “both guilty | of murder in the first degree,” Mrs ! Snyder's head +jerked perceptibly Her eves were fixed upon the square | shoulders of hor erstwhile lover, then she stiffened, her head came back into position ‘ergct’ and proud while | the jury wis polled Gray, whose plea of by the superior mind of Mrs. Sny der led some to believe him less stoic than the woman, made no more fuss than she Mrs. Snyder one at a time b their pedigree were led to obscurity to their separate cells | The murder took morning of March 20 began on April 18. G woman of the murder and she claim »d he did it, that she fainted when her husband and Gray began struggle M Snyder leaves her little daugh ter, aged ilone in the world Little Lorraine is the victim Mrs. Gray Loyal Gray, wife of the convicted stood by her husband State’s case was built on the| theory that Gray was the secret lover of Mrs. Snyder; that they planned to kil Snyder in order to continue their affair unimpeded by his pre sence and speeded by his life in- surance Mrs. dominance and were led place on tho and the trial vy acceused the Mrs. man, The s s e Here is the 1 testvpicture o‘! ‘Mrs. Ruth Snyd i Long Island City courtroom. ~— opdes, tken In the JURORIS ILL; TRIAL HALTED Hugh De Autremont Trial in Oregon s Delayed— Witnesses Examined. iray visited her husband im mediately after his arrest he ol- fered him comiort. But the were unmistakable sizns that her faith in her husband had weakened. The man to whom she had borne a daughter, the man to whom she had been a faithful wife for years, Wwi en | tangled in a damaging skein police eviden-e and a purported con fession. in Heart probably no on: the struggle that went on within Mrs. Gray's heart.' At one time it seemed as if would leave him to the fate sough r by the District Attorney, to be a| bridegroom of another at a ghastly | wedding, with Mrs. Snyder as the | bride ‘and the death house at Sing| Sing as the chapel. Struggle one knows will ever know No she JACKSONVILLE The trial of Hu | reputed Siskiyou Ore., h De May 10 Autremont, Tunnel bandit and layer, has been halted by the fl- ness of a juror. The Court directed adjournment until the juror is able | to resume his duties Then two of his attorneys rv.fl_gnem Forty-nine witnesses from :tlm case l’uh'leh:"ll:llmml furth- | A 2 Z % for the state. Fifty exhibits have er evidence agains! i | i be introduced. The testimony o IA|( ‘{.(.' )n|:!|lvv~]\\' hl||’:mw‘::‘fe' nl:'".‘-!::': ‘:‘n; as been of minor importance shortest for Gri emerged | hut re; as his champion | flater evidence She went among her husband’s| the slaying relatives ana her own, appealing for A physician; funds for his defense. She attended | juror, said he conferences in his behalf and offered | t one week | what little she had and told what | Charles Riddiford, Chief Postal In ! little she knew to save him frow| spector of the Pacific Northwes: the electric chair | annour that a hunt for Ray and Love had won out over hate. Roy De Autremont will be renewed o, { | with the release of a new circular containing their pictures S e — Dismembered Body of Woman Found in Trunk 5 had testifies n to connect Hugh with after would examining he ill for — Henry Judd G"u;" nttle doubt as to what the could tell by - “There was Mrs. Snyder Collapses |, pinds NEW YORK, May 10.—Mrs. S0¥ (g 010 pe. | der suffered a second coMapse in hev iy &gy vger answered ques cell this forenoon. Physicians al-|gpe wag not telling the truth tended her for nearly an hour after|,, pojjoved what Gray said.” she fainteil from an attack of hys-| p e terical epilepsy which doctors | plain often procede insanity. Striking Bricklayers 3 4 . 4 at | has a gruesome murder mystery o unl(vllm:;f(i’;’d\t:"‘ll"’lll "",'(.|f'“:“)'l::“k"’ 4 olve through discovery of the dis- o gl Return to Their Jobs membered body of a woman in « Physicians said | r |it might be necessary to take trunk in a baggage roon in the her | heart of London {m a hosgllal Eats SesMdatE ‘ hundred | The trunk has been in the station ; Y At ‘,m“wm""‘lhn Trowel |five days awaiting identification. Gray ate breakfas | Trades workers who struck Saturday, | The vietim has been dead a month and showed no great emotion at the | c oy, 0 their jobs toc . | o 5 ay. Ne-| Evidence is that the body was dis- verdict apparently having expected | o ions with the General Cont f i 8 iener; o membered by a person not familiar it and he resigned himself to i ! his | tors' Association will be coutinued by |with surgery lxhv Union. The understanding pre- | A railroad porter said the trunk vails that the Union will drop the |was brought (o the station in a taxi- demands for a five day week. x ab by a middle aged man. in an di th ) ms that | Wa LONDON, May 10.--8cotland Yard 10—Five affiliated ! Juror Talks 1 One member of the jury said: | York | windows lauthorities finally hauled down | teeling {of rded as the groundwork foy | the | at | NO REPORT FROM FRENCH AVIATORS CROSSING OCEAN At Noon Today Fliers Were 20 Hours Overdue— Searchers Are Out. | | | 1 | ] | | UNDATED | French ¢ At noon today the Nungesser and Coli, I off from Lebourget Fly r Paris at midnight boan attempt to maks flight over tl Atlantic 20 hours overdue are keeping a lookout government has tors, {a non-stop {Ocean, were Steamehi; for the plau ent ont | tha water S The 0 big naval tugs to scour between Bogton and Cape Al Prench aplines English ehannel may have been waterway It forced down off the Grand Banks the avia‘ors may be picked up by fishesmen and three weeks or more may | before news of their rescus wilh received. Wy log blinded the destrove he lookouts s, subchasers ang cruised about the in belief the fliers forced down in that Paris Is Alarmed PARIS, May 10.--This city is in a grip of a mixed feeling of anxiety ovor the fate of Nungesser and Coli, and resentment against newspapers for the optimistic reports last night which went so far as to annou the arrival of the plane at New The reporls even described the welcoma at New York Police were stationed at some of the newspaper offices to prevon: trouble. Some of the - offices had broken by those gathering who showed resentment. A front of the Le Matin I jeered and demanded that can flag be lowered. The hoth in front crowd hooted a the Am in the American and Froncl flags Some one passed the word thar deceptive American weather reports had sent the aviators off when in fact conditions were not propitious for an attempt. This increased the to the extent that a number Americans expressed hope that Bellanca plane will not attempt make the New York to Paris the present time ——ti— TWO AVIATOR STILL MISSING No Search Authorized for French Fliers Attempt- ing Atlantic Flight. the to hop at RIO other y of Capt JANEIRO, May 10.—An- has passed without word St. Roman and aviator Mouneyres who attempted to fly from Africa to Bry last Saturday High officials of the Foreign Office said the government has taken noy measures to search for the aviators because the flight was made againsc the wishes of the French govern- ment and the French authorities have made no request for a search. e -—— FOUND FROZEN IN MOUNTAINS 5, Wyo., May 10.—Rober* and his wife, both of this city v found frozen to death on Hizhway in the Laramic Moun- tains, miles' northeast of here. Two boys are reported to have been left in an osutomobile at the crest of e mountains and the National Guard Covalry is making efforts to rescue them. Wrist Watches Cut Applause in Theatres LONDON, May 10.-—The habit of earing wrist watches is responsible Ifor a considerable decrease in ap- |plause at London theatres and music halls. Leading actors and music hall ar- tists have for some time been won- dering w! hand-clapping has sub- ided to such an extent, while jokes are laughed at just as uproarously as ever Watchmakers have discovered hand clapping puts wrist watches out of order, and their advice is responsibla for the decrease in applause. The- atre patrons’ now ldugh and stamp when wishing to show approval, LAP AN N. l