The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 6, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XXXIV., NO 5196 ]UNEAU ALASKA FRIDAY SEP"IT;MBER 6, 1929 JURY SELECTED |Jercish Wailing MURDER TRIAL, MRS, PANTAGES Seven Men mFive Wom- | en Are Chosen After 3 Days’ Questioning ! | LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 6.— been questioned, a jury of seven men and five women today faced the stern task of trying Mrs. Alex- ander Pantages on a murder charge which resulted in the death of Joe Fpkumoto, folowing being struck by £/a automobile driven by the wife of the theatrical nagnate. The selection of the jury brought to a close the third day of ques- tioning of the panel. The prosecu- tion exhausted all challenges and the defense used all but two. ARMISTICEIN TARIFF FIGHT IS DECLARED Warfare Begin gins However Next Monday—One | Agreement Made WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 6.— The week-end suspension of hos- tilities is confined to activities in the Senate tariff warfare to those of quiet maneuvers by which Con-| gressional leaders seek to unite forces and improve plans for fu- The erusalem, ng wall of ‘a barrier to amicability between Jew and Arab. The map shows ihe ! By OSCAR LEIDING (A. P. Feature Writer) WASHINGTON, Sept. ture stratagem. wall of Jerusalem, a sacrifice to the ! The armistice ends Monday noon enduring faith of true believ .k whe thes batile Wi Begin in measurcd ont_hy wrathful Arabs. carpest. Forehcads to stone for countless| generations, until the roughhewn blocks have become smooth and | shiny, the Jews lamented at this spot “for the majesty that is de- parted; for walls that are over- thrown.” By agreement between Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, Democratic leader, and Senator Borah, spokes- man for the Western Republican Independents, effort to restrict re- vision of existing tariff rates to ogricultural schedules or recom- | mit the measure, will be postponed the Jews and Arabs over rights of until there has been some debate religious worship, the Wailing Wail on the merits of the bill as drawn marks the nucleus of fighting which by the Republican members of the has spread through the Jewish Senate committee. | quarter. For the Moslems, the rocky bar- ‘rier‘ towering 60 feet, is a retaining —————— FALI- |s READY | enclosing the dome of the ‘rock. Worn Smooth in A geé Of Race’s Sorrowm 2 principal centers of the recent disturbances. P 6.—Crim- f Lougrist son stains again color the wailm‘;; Center point of the clash between | Wall ALASKA SALMON PACK IS OVER 5,000,000 CASES |Total to Dale 5,195,085 ; Cases—Almost Double Output for 1927 3 The total from all di Alaska salmon pack ricts for the current ! season is 5,195,085 full cases of all varieties, according to preliminary | i figures released today at local| headquarters of the United States| Bureau of Fisheries. = Canning Isi Chignik areas and fall canning will | (be car on in some districts which expected to add at least | | 1C0,C00 cases to this amount, mak- ing the season’s final pack about‘ 5,295,000 cases. 1 { While this is about 12 per cent under the record pack of 1928, it is 1,629,000 cases larger than the| 'output of 1927, the last cycle year |for pink salmon which makes up the larger portion of the pack. | Big Locan Gain | The significant feature was the recovery of the pink salmon fish- jery from the serious shortage indi- | lcated by the pack of two yanrs‘ ago. The total output of South- east Alaska, nearly all pinks, at that time was 1,045823 cases. This year it was almost 100 per cent larger, the present figures being two views of which are shown, is| 2014554 cases, and this will be in- creased come by the fall canning | operations. Split int> districts the local pack | to date is: Yakutat, 36,072; Icy Strait, 289,877; Eastern, 232475; Western, 355,078; Stikine, 22,296; Southern, 521,7 South Prince of wales Island, 258,902; North Pringe | of Wales Island. 298,060; total 2,-| 014,554 cases. ] Other Districts | Bristol Bay was second high In| NABLUS passeges and dirty lanes. Through the narrow side streets pilgrim and alike have wended their way through tortuous turnings Lhm.‘; lead to the place of racial lamen-' tation. | The wall rises sheer as a cliif, fashioned of huge stone blocks, and | Ibetween the unplastered crevices the number of cases packed with| |spring small sprigs of growing|1066270 cases, 90 per cent of which | plants. Lower stones bear He-|was red salmon. Other western| | brew inscriptions. : The barrier is believed to have| been part of the structure of the| Jewish temple itself. The original| temple was built by King Solomon | on the summit of Mount Moriah, where it is said Abraham made hiz|nished more than 50 per cent of | preparations for the sacrifice of |the volume for the season, the to- Isaac, on a flat rock which later }lal of this variety being 2548902 became the threshing floor of Or- cases. The total for other varie- nan, the Jebusite. ties was: kings, 71,093; reds, 1,642 - —————— ,022; chums, 790,810; cohoes, 119~ 1909 cases. THREE OFFICERS | -~ HELD FOR TRIAL 2 i |Rescue Attempted OTTUMWA, Iowa, Sept. 6—Bur- sand and rocks which showered | down upon him, Weikens Priest, a 55-year-old well cleaner, is battling with death while rescuers attempt to free him from his prison, 35 feet below the surface. Continued caveins frustrate at- tempts of workers to extricate him.| At one time last night, the work- districts packed as follows: Cook Inlet, 158,212; Chignik, 134,001; K- diak, 480844; Alaska Peninsula, 511,819; Central, 829295; total for all other districts, 8,180,531 cases. The pink salmon fishery fur- Collision off California Coast Brings Charges of Negligence SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 6. The Captain and Third Mate of (of the races have been won by the | | tories in 19: | which wall Mohammedan shrine and mnst sacred spot in the city. Tu FAGE TR'A For the Jew it is a buttress of Solomcns temple, erected a thous- ‘and years before Christ, and there- {fore a sacred heritage. During long Returns to Texas Home to years of Mohammedan dominion ' it was the nearest part of the sac- Prepale .tO GO to ‘wred inclosure which a Jew dared Washington | approach. In the narrow alley, between the EL PASO, Texas, Sept. 6,—Rea‘iy"lolly walls and the low enclosure to face a jury despite the precari-|formed by the backs of yards and ous condition of his health, Albert Mograbin houses, Jews have gath- B. Fall, former Secretary of the ered since the middle ages. Interior, has returned to his home| A desolate chant is repeated here from his Three Rivers ranch again and again as, on Friday af- to prepare for his trip to Wash-|ternoons and Saturdays, the Jews ington, D. C., for trial on the meet to wail for the ancient glories charge of bribery in connection with the Elks Hills Naval Oil Re- serve leasing. The trial is set for October 7. e, SAN SU STRUTTERS ON ROGERS FOR PETERSBURG The San Su Strutters, who re- cently appeared at the Palace, are; aboard the Admiral Rogers from an engagement at Sitka, to play a 1. m_ engagement at Petersburg' on thu way south {of the past. “Because of the palace that lies desolate,” a self-appointed leader |recites and the lamenters Jjoin in ,the refr:nn. “We sit in solitude and weep.” The Wailing Wall is situated just outside the western wall of the temple in a quarter inhabited by Jews and the many ink-black Mo- igrabins from North Africa. 1t is a place of peculiar desola- tion, approached through devious paths, by winding stairs, vaulted U.S.NAVY RADIO POST PROTECTS SEAL HERD ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—On St. Paul Island, where only the bark of seals and breakers of the Bering Sea disturb the stillness of “the top of the world,” radio binds a small community to the outside. An isolated outpost, ice-bound for many months and even without cable to join it to the mainland, its only connecting link is the ra- dio station maihtained by the U. S. Navy. The radio’s mission is to enable strict government surveillance of the seal herds whose only land home lies on the islands of St. Paul and St. George, 40 miles dis- tant. By wireless, representatives of the bureau of fisheries kéep in con- tact with the revenue cutters which police the waters, and with the other government stations in Alas- ka and the United States. From the primary function of guarding the seal herd, the sta- tion has assumed further import- ance as the only link binding the bleak community to the world. It is an outpost of military value to connect Siberia to the western hemisphere, and has been equip- ped to give compass bearings to vessels. Thirteen men under cnarge of a chief radio operator, run the sta- tion. The station has two transmitters. one of two kilowatts, operating on medium frequency, and one of - single kilowatt, operating on high frequency. Press news is copied by the oper- ators and programs broadcast by commercial stations are easily heard. the Standard Oil tanker S. C. Todd, and the third officer of the coast- wise steamer San Juan have been ordered held for trial next week on charges of negligence in con- nection with the sinking of the San Juan following collision off Pigeon Point, Cal, on August 30, in which over three score of lives were lost. Testimony given by the officers, Capt. H. O. Bleumchen and Otto V. Saunders of the tanker, and Robert, Pappenfuss, of the San Juan at the Federal investigation, was wholly contradictory. Each swore his vessel was proceeding on a straight course and there would|is obtaining first hand Iocal color have been no collision had the other vessel not turned to the left and tried to cross bows. Two Members of Elisif Crew Fly to Fairbanks; Are Bound for Seattle NOME, Alaska, Sept. 6—Frank Dorbandt, with a Stinson Detroiter cabin plane, has hopped off from Nome for Fairbanks with R. S. Pollister and ice pilot Jochimsen. of the wrecked schooner Elisif. The two men are enroute to Seattle. ——————— QUIST GOING SOUTH J. 8. M. Quist, in charge of cabie office stations in Southeast Alas- ka, is a passenger for Ketchikan, ihis headquarters, on the Admiral ers. From the First City he Rogt Reception is good, with little|will go to San PFrancisco and enter trouble from static. the Letterman Hospital. ifor sometime, ton the steamer Princess Charlotte jers had Priest free to his waist, {but another shower of dirt de- :cended, and one of the workers were injured. Barrett Willoughby Flies to Nome with Lieutenant Eielson NOME, Alaska, Sept. 6.—Lieut. Ben Eielson, Executive Manager of the Alaska Airways Incorporated, piloting a new Waco plane, arriv- ed on Wednesday with Barrett Willoughby, Alaskan authoress. who for her next Alaska book. The two expected to return to Fairbanks today. —e— AND MRS. LORAIN GO TO VANCOUVER TO LIVE| MR. Mr. and Mrs. 8. H. Lorain, who have been residing at Chichagof left for Vancouver this morning. Mr. Lorain has been engineer at the old Chichagof Mine and is accepting a simliar position! with the Granby mining interests and will be located near Vancou- ver. e GROSS AND WIFE ARE BOUND SOUTH, THEN EARTI W. D. Gross, owner of the Coli- seum theatres in Juneau and Ket- chikan, accompanied by Mrs. Gross, left on the Admiral Rogers for Se- ! attle and from there will go east as far as Chicago to be absent per- |Gigantic Flying Boat BUFFALO, . Y., Sept. 6—A fly- | ling boat, said to be the largest| fever built in this country, will be MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS S. Lis T hrov i s i S R 5 S B R 0 Ameng the leading pilots to participate in the iaternational ba !28 will be (left to right) Ward T. Van Orman, Lisu'. Thomas G. Hoon rac W. Sctile and Capt. W. E. Kepaer, Am- St. Louus Wlll Spoe(l 10 Ba"oom In Quest of International T rophy; U. n Race Sept. 28| from St. Louls September ericans, and Ernest Demuyter of Belgium., Preparation of the bags means such a scene as this, taken spring. By ALLEN QU (A. P. Aviation Edi or) | ST. LOUIS, Sept, ¢—Ten bal-| loons, representing the United Btates, France, Germany, Belgium, | Denmark and the Argentine, will soar away from St. Louis Septem- \ber 28 in quest of the International | Gordon Bannett trophy. It will be the eighteenth of the international balloon races and the | third to start from St. Louis. Seven [ United States and five by B gained permanent D sion of the original Gordon Bennett | (trophy with its third straight vie- | |also has two, tory in 1924. The United States became per- manent possessor of the second tro- | phy with victories in 1926, 27 and '28. Now the third of the (-()rd':ll‘ Bennett trophies is up, with three American airmen seeking to gain the first leg on it. Capt. W. E Kepner pilot, and Licut. W. O. Earickson, aide, of |the army air corps; Licut. Thomas G. W. Settle, pilot, and Ensien Wilfred Bushnell, aide, of the navy and Ward T. Van Orman, veteran civilian balloonist and an aide, are the American entrants. Against them will be pitted the lone Belglan entry, Ernest Demuy- ter, who Is seeking his fifth inter- national victory. Demuyter is the only balloonist to have won the Gordon Beanett race more than once and his string of three vic- 3, and '24 won per- manent possession of the first tro- phy for Belgium. France has two entries, Germany and Denmark anl the Argentine each have one. Because -St. Louis is in the cen- | tral part of the country, new is- tance records for balloons are ex- pected if weather and winds are favorable. The present record is | 1,334 miles, made in 1912 by M. Bicnaime of France, who coared from Stuttgart Germany, to Mo;- An indication of the gas necded in onc of the monsters is shown in inset. | Iy > cow, Russia, in 46 hours. | It is likely the balloons will cail to the eastward from St. Louis, or |at least Jand to tha ' Ninety- fivé oM dei’ wi (he baloow | flights in this country, the aecro- | logical section of the army signal corps reports, land to the eastward of their starting point because the prevailing winds in the higher al- titudes are westerly. Licutenant Settle and Van Or- man won their places in the inter- national event in the national elimination race from Pittsburgh last May, which Settle won. Van |Orman is a veteran of many bal- loon contests. He has won four national events and the interna- | tional race in 1926. | The tragic death of his aide, | Walter W. Morton, who was killed by lightning in the 1028 national | elimination race, inspired Van Or- |man to invent a lightning arrester devlce with which his balloon will ‘be equipped in the Gordon Bennett event. MANY RUSSIANS ARE IMPRISONED O 100040 e Camp Charged with Commun- istic Activities MUKZEN, Manchuria, Sept. 6.— Provincial officials reported that 1,114 Russians, charged with Com-, munistic activities, are detained in! an internment-camp on the Sun- gari River. Seventy of the prison- ers are women. Each prisoner re- ceives two pounds of bread, vege- tables, sugar and tea daily. Friends are not allowed to communicate | with the prisoners. It is expected that each prisoner will be tried in-‘ dividually. e Building at Buffalo| tested over Lake Erie in Septem-| ber before being turned over to an aerial transportation company for| use between New York and Buenos Aires by way of Rio de Janeiro. | The craft will have a wing spread of 100 feet and will bel equipped with two 575-horsepc motors. The plane originally was designed to carry 32 passengers. but was remodeled to carry mail | and 22 passengers, for whom ]u‘(-: urious accommodations have been | provided. According to the manufacturers, the plane is the first of a fleet of 12 ships ordered by the aerial transportation company at $150,000 each, with delivery at the rate of one each month. . | BE ‘AHIM' W' PHERSON AND VOL IVA MAY SOON ENGAGED IN HOSTILITIES; RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES AT ZION SAID TO BE CAUSE |No Opposition 'To Huston As G. 0. P. Chairman . WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.— ® Claudius Huston, of Tennes- e see, will be elected Chair- e man of the Republican Na- e tional Committee without e opposition at the meeting ® next Monday. . Huston is the first cholce e of Natipnal Committeemen e from 38 States and no op- e position has been voiced by e representatives of other e States. ° President Hoover has not e given formal endorsement ® but it is known that he is e not opposed to Huston. ° seceo0o0es e iNavy Air Mappers Send Tribute to Dead Flier | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 6.— Navy air mappers here telegraphec a floral tribute for the funeral of Thomas Reid, at Hodsick Falls, | Y., who was killed during an cn- durance flight in the Cleveland, Ohio, air races. Reid was in {mappers in 1926. >-oe HENDRICKKON LEAVES FOR VACATION IN CALIFORNIA | J. H. Hendrickson, draftsman in |the U. S. Public Survey office here, left on the steamer Alaska Friday morning for Southern California to spend his vacation. He has a date ranch there which has been producing for the past two or three !years. . 7 Alaska with the| MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 6.—The Milwaukee Journal says hostilities have been opened between Aimee ‘}Sempln McPherson, Los Angeles Evangeli and Wilbur Glenn Vo- | liva, overseer of Zion, Illinois, over religious activities in chn Mrs. McPhe branch organization 10 m Zion for the purpose of “delivering |the poor Zionites from the bon- dage” of Voliva. Voliva has instructed his secre- tary to say he is not worried over the McPherson invasion. . Q7 T Fish Buyer Robbed Of Seven Hundred Dollars, Ketchikan KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 6.— Army Reserve Flier And Instructor Are Killed, Plane Crash ! PITTSBURGH, Penn, Sept. 6.— jand Lieut. Charles 8. Tygard, fly- ing instructor, were killed late yes- {terday afternoon as their small cabin pldne crashed at Rogers Field. Spectators said the fliers made two unsuccessful attempts to get off the ground. a tail spin less than 200 feet alti- tude when they finally succeeded in getting into the air. The craft was demolished and the bodies of the two men were badly crushed. | eastward. | a,vietims of a Capt. Marshall, fish buyer on the Iboat Phoenix, was robbed of $700| |in money which was taken from {the pilot house of the craft while tied at the dock and while the owner was uptown. Leo McEligott, Army Reserve flier,{ They went into l PRICE TEN CEN'IS —— GREAT FLEET OF PLANES SEARCH FOR MISSING CRAFT 20 AIRCRAFT TAKE UP HUNT FOR AIR LINER Fifty Other Craft Available to Make Search Over Desolate Region EIGHT PERSONS AND PLANE BEING SOUGHT R ward Tolalmg $5,000 ncentive to Indians and Also Cowboys ALLUP, New Mexi ca, Ib‘e — Twenty-one air- ™ y the first unit of an ae armada secking the lost air ter City of San Fran- jcisc. ‘has inaugurated the grea.eit plane search in Am- cries listory. T & twenty-one planes took off his morning on a survey of the wild area surrounding Gallup. The searchers are part of a (leet of 70 planes ayailable. They face danger ihto which the lost liner flew last Tues- day when it left Alburquer- que for Winslow with five passengers and a crew of three men aboard. Cloudy weather and poor vigibility added to the haz- ards of the rough forbidding cuunt,rv. yogged mountains, cad voleanoes and lava washes. These of f er little chance for successful forced landings. Rewards totaling $5,000 ;served to spur on hundreds of {swarthy Zuni Indians who are scouring the country and cow- {boys, motorists and others have joined the search. ——————— FAKE DEALIS REVEALED BY N.Y. BANKERS |Search Starl?i for Man Who Engineered $5Q0,- 000 Scheme Successfully NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—Search is under way for a man representing himself as C. D. Waggoner, Colo- rado banker, to explain the mys- terious $500,000 transaction in which six large New York banks are the fake telegraphic trans- { fer order. | Thus far no real money has been lost as the entire transaction has been executed with banking paper. The scheme started August 30, when six New York banks received telegrams in the bankers' code di- recting deposits of sums to the credit of the Bank of Telluride, Colorado. The banks were the Chemical National Bank, First National Bank, |Guaranty Trust Company, National City Bank, Harriman National Bank and Equitable Trust Company. On August 31, a man represent- ing himself as Waggoner, President of the bank of Telluride, paid off a note for $250,000 of the Bank of Telluride, and a personal note of | Waggoner for $60,000. He ordered 1$10,000 telegraphed to Tellurude and purchased a bankers' check for $1280,000 which, is the only piece of paper which can be converted to i cash. .- [0 000000000000 . HALIBUT PRICES . @000 0000 SEATTLE, Sept. 6.—Five vessels brought 80,000 pounds of halibut to port yesterday and sold for 16 and 185 cents. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. Sept. 6.—One hundred and fifty-four thousand pounds of halibut were ;sold here yesterday. American fish sold for 8 and 14.4 cents and |canadian for 10 and 15.1 cents.