The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 14, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI! VOL. XXXL., NO. 4635. SCORE KILLED, HUNDREDS INJURED JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” NOVEMBER 14, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS M4 PRICE TEN CENTS IN TERRIFIG EXPLOSION IN EAST « QUEEN OF DIAMONDS IN NEW YORK MEXICO GAVE SUPPORT TO | NIC. REVOLT Documents from Secret Files of Mexican Gov- ernment Printed SAYS REVOLUTION | FOMENTED BY MEX. President (Ealle; Is Involv- ed — All Papers Be Given to Congiess S RS o 'ASHINGTON, Nov. 14—The ald, Hearst newspaper, pub-| lishes a copyright article in which | 3 incorporated = facdimiles of documents, said to come from the secret files of the Mexican Govs ernment, supporting the claims of President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg, that the recent Nicaraguan _revolution swas fo- mented and supported by Mexico. One document, -date June 2, 1926. is purported to be an order for the payment of §50,000 to Dr. Perdo Jose Zepedo, Mexican rep- resentative of Juan B. Sacava, who led the revolt for purchasing armg and ammunition for the in- surrectionists, It bore the signa-| ture of President Calles. Other orders, purport to call for payment of sums ranging from $5,000 to $25,000 to Zepedo and Dr. Carlos Leon for performance of - secret missions - confided to each by President Calles or Chisf of the Presidential staff, anil charged in the documents to se- cret expenses of the Presidential Staff. All papers will be placed at the | disposal of the State Department and OGongress. | DIVORCE CASE RUMORS NOW Chigago Attorney Denies McCormick Has Retain- ed Him for Action CHICAGO, 111, Nov. 14—George L. Schein, attorney, today empha- tically denied Harold F. McCor- mick, Chairman of the Executive "Board of the Intérnational Har- vester Company, has retained him | fo file a -divorce suit agains Ganna Walska, Polish singer. The Herald-Examiner said Sun day morning it had learned from an “authoritative source Schein had prepared suit and would file the papers in Chicago this week.” ' Rachasive. Packunts For Dogs of Mayfair W sShe couldn’t,fly back with Charles Levine, so Mabel Boll, known as “The Diamond:Queen,” had to travel from Paris to New York by boat, Here she’s shown with one of her h;gesg« and costliest stones. g A 0 PLANE DROPS WITH CRASH INTO WATER German Plane, Enroute to U. S.. Wrecked in Harbor at Horta HORTA, Island of Fayal, | Nov. 14 Heinkel plane D-1 lies a ma of twisted wreckage in the as the result of the latest of a series of accidents that beset her gince taking off from Warnemun de, Cermany, on October 12, for the United States via the Azores The members of the crew of the plane were rescued uninjured. The D-1210 took the air Sunday morning with Harbor Grace, New foundland, as the objective, After circling around the har- bhor a few times, the plane beaded tor the open sea and almost im- mediately, the engines stoppel and there was a terrific splash. A motorboat with an Associated Press correspondent, rushed to the scene. The members of the w were found swimming, un- ACOUIT RODED PERFORMER OF SLAYING MAN Woman Fre_ed by Jury in| Quick Time — Wild Scene in Courtroom | N J Azores hydro-air- LAKEVIEW, Lorena Trickey, was acquitted late last afternoon of the charge dering her common law “Smiling Slim™ Harris, jury which considered but 20 minutes. The verdict demonstration gavel, pounded drowned out by the tumult Lorena Trickey appeared stun- ned by the verdict, but quickly) recovered and thanked the jurors Cowboy yips, delighted screams | of women, laughter and cheers tilled the court room lasting more | than five minutes. | Harris was stabbed to death! here on the night of September 2 while he and Miss Trickey were riding .in an automobile from the Ore,, rodeo Nov! 14 performer, Saturday of mur husband, by the the same | caused a. wild and - the Judge" in protest, wasy harbor | A1 LOSE LIVES IN BOAT WRECK, Honorary Degree Is Bestowed | Upon Lindbergh | { PHILADELPHIA, | 14—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has received his first homor ary degree. St. Joseph's Col- lege has bestowed the decree of Master of Science In Aero- nautics upon the flier, This was done in the presence of diplomatic representatives of 14 countries, churchmen and members of the Knights of Columbus Pa., Nov Out When Gasboat Jenne of Sitka Is Wrecked Eleven seven of persons, whom w 2l e children, > day | Sitka trance when the gasboat wrecked at Whitestone the bodies and taken s to and’ his and their wife, 1 (H | | ) | | were of the mailboat Margnita. What few details that are known here were received today by |The Empire from C. A. Bev- :mfi’.‘ Hoonah merchant. He wrote that the Jenne, Capt. Johnny Al- bert with his family and the Mor- say, Alvin Greenwaldt paid for gan family aboard left the slaying of his wife, Emma Sophia at 10 or M a. m. last {Greenwalat. Monday enroute to Sitka where | Greenwaldt and Arthur Paet- both families resided. Friday, a zold are held for the crime which White man trolling in the vicin- was committed a week ago. ity of Whitestone Harbor went Greenwaldt, according to the ashore there to -hunt. He dis- Ipolice, confessed that a $10,000 covered the hodies of the victims {lite insurance policy carried on on the beach and proceeded at Mrs. Greenwaldt was the motive once to Hoonah where he for the ¢érime, ed his discovery that the Greenwaldt said Paetzold was was {the actual slayer, strangling Mrs.! Small boats left Greenwaldt she sat between Saturday morning for the scene !the two men in a coupe of the disaster, just morth of Greenwaldt confes that all Point Augusta near where the e paid Paetzold was $3 which steamer Alki was wrecked in he had in his pocket and the 1919. They were unable to maks {rings taken from his wife’s hand. a landing owing to rough weath- He said he promised to pay $500 er and veturned to Hoonah. Later |more as soon as he collacted the Saturday the St. Martin, cannery insurance tender from the Pacific American | Paetzold told the police " that Fisheries cannery at Excursion it was not the money that in- Inlet, succeeded in putting duced him to agree to take a party ashore which picked up the {part in the slaying, but rather bodies and took them to Hoonah {that Greenwaldt was a ““good fel- Bodies Are Recoverel {low.” | Capt. Parks said he was told The woman’s body, partly clad at Hoonah t all of the bodies and bearing signs of an attack naked when found. Thers was found last Monday near was some discloration of the skin Waukeshaw, Wisconsin. Green- and flesh as if {waldt staggered into a roadhouse been an explosion aboard. Mr. nearby with the story of ving Bevans aid not mentioned this in {been slugged and his wife hay- his report to The BEmpire. !ing been attacked and killed by| It seems to he the belief at bandits Hoonah that the hoat was wreck- After repeatedly being ques- ed trying to make shelter in tioned, Greenwaldt confessed Whitestone Harbor. Chatham VI S A Strait - POINT AUGUSTA Tl Families Are Wiped| | Indians, were drowned probably last Mon- Point| report-| Jenne | Hoonah early | there might have| Britain and India Agoy Over American’s Expose Jenne of the en- Harbor | Nine or have heen to Hoonah the vietims were resi- PAID §3 AND - .. | Al ot 2 R'NGS FoR dents of Sitka and were return- ling home after spending the troll- DE H ing season at Hoonah. Those who ATHWOMAN are reported to have lost their lives were: | Johnuy Atbert . Alice Albert, Confession Clears Up Al- chilaren. | 'Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morgan, ]eg“f A"?Cl\(vand Mur- LM Altisor's parents; iwo Mot er o oman |gan children and two grand- REIEION children of the Morgans. $10,000 INSURANCE POLICY REAL MOTIVE Two Bodies Missing A1l of the bodies were recov- ered except Mrs, Morgan's and a usband Confesses to Po- lice — Another Man Held for Crime 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan. The first word of the disaster was brought, here vesterday by Capt. Larry MILWAUKEE, Wis, Nov. 14, ~<Phree dollars and two diamond rings, stripped from the lifeless hand were the price, the police threa| | Purks| | i | | | | | | S Sl Sl A KATHERINE MAYO (International Hlustrated News) Another “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is in the making! Katherine Mayo, well known author, has caused a s“mrm of protest in England and India over her latest novel, “Mother India,” which throws the spotlight of pitiless publicity on some of the more unpleasant conditions of thessubject state. b The book has been banned in India, but even its foes admit | it's going to vesult in the betterment of conditions for the poor. It’s nothing new for Miss Mayo to find herself under heavy | fire. The Mount Kisco, N. Y., author launched the campaign | ‘ and among her books were “That Damn Y,” a study of the | regime in the Philippines. EIGHT DIE IN OFTAMPERING FIRE; TRAPPED WITH JURYMEN THIRD FLOOR {Gov. Pinghot Names Man, Who Told Him—State- ment Is Made Out NEW EVIDENCE | INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov, 14— A nearly morning five that trap- !ped occupants of the third floor rooms of the Greystone ment Hotel, took eight lives. Thirteen other persons were Nov. 14~ Jured. Governor The fire, originating in the in WASHINGTON, D. C., | Gitford Pinchot, former ele. that brotight about the creation of the New York State troopers, | Y. M. C. A, and “Isles of Fear,” treating with General Woods’ | Apart- | HUGE TANKS OF GAS EXPLODES IN PITTSBURGH iFully Score Are Known { Dead, at Least Six Hun- dred Are Injured HOSPITAL DOORS BLOOD SPATTERED treets Floéc];a" by Broken Mains—Electric Wires Cause Danger | | | | | PITTSBURGH, Penn, Nov. 14—More than a score of persons are known to have been killed and approximate- ly 800 injured when the world's largest gas storage tank expleded this morning, spreading death end destruc- tien throughout the lower North Side district. Hampered in the work of rescue by wrecked buildings and flcoded streets, from broken water mains and dangling eleotric wires, po- lice and firemen finally pene- trated part of the devastated arca. .2y recovered seven bedies -within 2 few min- utes. Newspapermen said they counted at least 20 bodies in the strects, it S eon ,000,- 000 cubic feet of utln.lw% and when the explosion loose, thers was a terrific blast, Practically every buildi; in the vicinity was wrecked. Every hospital is crowded with injured. i Residents of the thickly settied |district rushed about the strects 1 like mad. i Search for Loved Ones i {men delved Into the debris of {homes in an eoffort to bring out isome 'of their loved ones they be- "Ho\'»d were trapped. The first 11 hodies taken to !the morgue were those of work- {men, Pleces of the tank and .steel (supports, some weighing more {than 100 pounds, were found 9 ,mile from the scene. Street Car Wrecked | A street car, three blocks from fthe tank, was wrecked. Every | passenger in the gar was hurt, Many school children in & nearby school yard were eut by flving glass when the windows were shattored, Many of the injured staggered the Presbyterian and Alle- ¥ &eneral hospitals and so |many victims walked up the steps {leading to the main doors that they were spattered with blood. ! Most of the injured were cut tand hurt by falling glass and {debris. § The gas works employed 300 i Women sought children while LONDON, Nov. 14--A smart Mayfair perfumier, capitalizing the very latest fad of London-so- i clety, has imported twelve exclu- sive brands of perfumes - from Paris and reserved them for pet dogs. ' It costs about two shillings a day to drop a spot of perfume uvn a dog's coat before taking him out for his exercise in Hyde Park. The idea is not as new as the vogue. When the Maharanee of Patiala was in London two years ago, her perfumier ‘used to pre- pare special essences for her Pe- kinese in her own suite at the injured, in gasolipe covered water. | The commander of the plane h“‘f not dacided what his néxt step will be. | The Junkers seaplane D-1230. ] which is alse here awaiting oppor- | tunity to depart for the Umleulu States, has postponed further ai-ipea, co jtempts to hop off. | Immortals of France To Get More Money PARIS, Nov. -IT' France's Forty Immortals of the Academie Francaise are going to get ¢ ire and rodeo grounds where they were | performers. The State charged she killed Harris becaus® of jeal- ousy. The defense contended she struck in self-defense when he at- tacked her with a wrench. e Dream of Gem Maker Recalled at Hlinois URBANA, 1, Nov. 1i—The base of a new telescope in the astronomy department of the Uni- versity of Illinois was once the property of an Urbana inventor who believed he could manufac- off Point Augusta is re- ‘gzll'd\'(l by navigators as a par- [ticularly dangerous stretch 'for |small boats when strong north- |erly winds prevail. The sweep e " . . |from Lynn Canal is said to be SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Nov. et there in full force, This Mrs. Eliza Simmons hus|kind of weather has heen pre- n&e:u’_»tl !to »'fv“n vears "H‘i‘vnlllng since November 6. some penal institution,” by Unit Moth i ere ed States District Judge T. Blake| pou "siChaayes Here Kennedy. ~ Mrs. Simmons was!amilies were well known at the found guilty by a jury of at-jocal Indian village . Mrs. Billy tempted murder for shooting Fed- Metjay, who resides in the local eral Judge Tillman D. Johnscilindian settlement, is the mother from his bench in the same court| e Johnny Albert. A cousin of in which she had been on trial. Captain Albert, John Lawson, Judge Johngon fs recovering from|,1.o resides here. A vator shaft, apparently ate | way slowly to the third floor Jury as a witness in . suddenly spread out cutting oft| . 9 gation of the charges of jury all means of escape, !Rel“ed :flly““en.; ay Held Taxable tampering in the Fall-Sinclair oil| The dead include six wonten, | ! conspiracy trial, and whose testi-|young girl and young hoy. AN WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—Tha ‘,muuy caused the government at- | City e pay of an Army officer on the ! torneys to give hint of sensational | Salt Laki Has Snow Storm reiized tist is subject to the Ked- charges, said that Burns De- tective Agency representative] 1 g t d by patu eral’ income tax and cannot be :;:::;'ler?:::":'fi.-‘:I,:',‘.'gh,“,i,, h:;::h“s:\l{r LAKE CITY. Utah, Nov.{exempted as u pension, the Board | iy bl R of attopts o |1 ;Sn«m tell here ~rcr three h:;uruinf Tux Appecls has ruled. The ast night. Reports from Poca- | ecase came up on an appeal from tello, Idaho, state a snow storm [ Alexis R. Paylon, & retired tamper with the jury pinc| X id et LR M oM il “;;‘ ;; is in progress in that section, colenci of Marin County. Cal. | of Pennsylvania, who meu, | last Saturday ore Woman Sentenced to 7 Years, Shooting Judge forts were made to make pear the government was guilty Savoy Hotel ever: ture diamonds by concentrating a heavy 'volume of /sunlighf on a preparation he had assembled. LONDON, Nov. 14.--The box of gold is not so much a dream of the past as most people think. Such a gift from an anonymous donor has just been Wanded in at the Queen's Hospital for Chil- dren. A woman in black handed a small cardboard box in at the secretary’s office, and hurried ‘away. The box was opened and . found to contain $1,000 in sov- ‘ereigns and half-sovereigns. On a .of notepaper wae a message iting that .the money was a tion for the hospital ‘‘with, wi Dr. R. H. Baker, head of the university’s astronomy depart- ment, unearthed the story in di- recting the assembling of the tele- scope, which will be the eleventh | in size in the world. “The “diamond maker” ordered the instrument from a Pittsburgh firm, and when his experiments fafled it was stored away. ——————— CARRIGAN ILL, L. M. Carrigan, traveling sales- man, entered the St. Ann's Hoa- Dmlt. urday. Tor medical treat- men is suffering from neu-| raige. Their, income will b2 tripled. They have been getting 100 franes or about $4 a month for many years. They also had bon- uses for attending sessions, which added, usually, another fifty franes to their salaries. Once upon a time when the franc was worth twenty cents the infmortals made about a dollar a day from their memberships but now its just over twenty cents. So many of the scholarly old ‘|gentlemen ure really poor, most of the academicians, some time ago, reduced their own salaries to.83.33 francs a month and had the balance added to'th ances of their less fortyng three wounds received September 30, when Mrs." Simmons arosc from her seat in the court and emptied a pistol point blank the Judge. b A plea of insanity’ was raised by the defense attorneys who contended that the loss of Mrs Simmons’ husband apd consequent legal difficulties had unsteadicd her miind. s . Death Penalty Remains . In G::_:!&.I Code at BERLIN, Nov, 14.—The Reich-| stag committée. discussion the has rejgcted motion to @ alty. The :"Mfll‘ has under A pepal code ‘al d!;acnm death pen- Capt. Albert and his father-in- law Charles Morgan, had been trollig fn Tcy Strait and Cross !Sound during the past season. | Their families resided in Hoonah. {Having quit fishing for the year |they were enroute home at the time of the disaster. {Edna’ Murphy of | TR | HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 14.—Edna Murphy, film actress and leading woman for Monte Blue, an- nounced 4oday that she would be rried pext month to Mervyn Fame to. Wed Director! of similar acts. McMullin .mm’CRY OF an gight - page ' statement which | Pinchot calls of the highest im-} portance. Mullin was turned ! over to the govérnment oil coun-! sel. uh::::'y flat d.:nl:’lw"fstll;; !_‘“;:" LONDON, Nov. 1i—Machinory {racing around the miniature track. 4 l“!l‘ o i jcan now be made to stop instant- | “Stop!” and the traing draw int» 'e}:‘l"’fi Agency were "“""1'_ "X ; :fly in case of an accident by the!n tiny istion. “Back!™ and the ?vo:’i:inl:ll:::::' .:"‘4":“"""““""'1',_ "" voluntary or iavoluntary ery of|trains ro.:orse. R R o lthe endangered person, .| The microphone s so selectd e -;n-‘::g:'lhfin:"" n ot Wik|. The system of “audible comtrel’ |that ft will disregard orl&:s:: e W, Who ac sstimony | 148 been perfected to such an ox-|couversation and react to e et iroating (esUMODY | one ghat it is now possible vacal. | (o key words, i }lf’t rtnl.)o Abojit mistrial in the |4y 4o control oven & raflroad train | Major Phillips belleyes that wl eapot Dome. case through the medfum of wircless |timately, as & result of “sudi ——— | waves. icontrol, train alarm bells will E. M. Polley, Territorial Tax| Major Raymond Phillips demoy- | repiaced by ~microphones whi Collector, y*i s heen in Ju-|strating his fnvention with ..mod»‘upon registoring an -exclamat “HELP” WILL NOW STOP MACHINERY | young screen dérector. icatatively, for December 15. A Yy neau for t rhe wedding date has bgem set'jeft for B4, few weeks, has el railway stands before & micro- of alarm, will stop the tratn. to continve ¢ phoue. “Ahead!™ be ghouts, and| Doors will aetuall open instantly two model trains Mluicommnd “open ‘U % % “"\. l hi3 wor