The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 9, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XXXIV., NO 5|98 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MONDAY ShPT 9 I9..,. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS WRECKAGE OF LOST PLANE FOUND ON MOUNTAIN SIDE 2 ARRESTS ARE MADE PANTAGES CRIMINAL CASE Hollywood Women Charg- ed with Attempting Influence Witness LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 9.— Two Hollywood young women are jailed under $25,000 bonds, charged | with suggesting to a State’s witness that $25,000 might be given him if he testified against the State in the forthcoming criminal assault trial of Alexander Pantages, the- atrical magnate. Nancy Lee and her half sister, Janice Hill, are said to have made the offer to a witness whose identi- ty is withheld. District Attorney Fitts said thc two were planted in a rooming house in an effort to intimidate a witness. A note is said to have been slipped under the man's door and suggested “there might be $25,- 000 in it for you if you will testify in the Pringle case.” Investigatiogp disclosed that the note was_written by Nancy Lee. The roomer who got the note, and the landlady, claimed they had been urged to join drinking parties with the two girls, which they re- fused to do. The two girls are formally charg- ed with attempting to influence witnesses, suspicious assault with a | deadly weapon and possession of | highly potent liquor which is claim- ed to have been thrown from their room when the police entered. ADMIRAL EVANS IS HERE; GOES WEST The steamer Admiral Evans, Capt. 8. K. Gilje, arrived in Ju- neau Saturday night at 11 o'clock with the following passengers for Juneau: Henry W. Schoefield, N. G. Nelan, Coma: o and Mrs. Edward Addison, Tom Hall, James Morrison, Mrs. C. J. Bergstrom, Lyman E. Snow, Jr., M. A. Snow, Sam Guyot and four steerage. After loading 27,000 feet of lum- ber at the Juneau Lumber Mills dock, the Admiral Evans sailed Westward at 4 o'clock in the morn- ing with two passengers from Ju- neau: Margaret MacDonald and S. P. Dragovich, both for Seward. — e AT THE HOSPITALS Theodore Kotof is receiving med- ical treatment at St. Ann's Hos- pital for an injury to his foot. Edward Coster, seaman off the freighter Cordova, is receiving med- ical treatment at St. Ann’s Hospi- tla for an, injured back. — e PRIZE WINNER IN LOLAL CONTEST ENROUTE SOUTH Mrs. Hannah Katanien, prize winner in the George Brothers' contest left Sunday morning on the steamer Prince George for Se- attle. She is the guest of George Brothers on this trip, and will re- main in the south two weeks. - Fredda E. Longfield, 17-year-old Kansas City violinist, owns an in- strument made in Italy 357 years Mrs. William G. @rected by her husband on returni MRS. McADOO BACK FROM ABROAD McAdoo, daughter of President Wilson, was Associated Press Photo ng from abroad Aug. 23. CHINA - RUSSO FIGHTING IS NOWREPORTED Soviets Maie_Air Raids— Artillery Bombard Frontier Town TOKYO, Sept. 9—Rerewed and more serious fighting at both the Eastern and Western headquarters of the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria is reported to the Rengo Japanese News Agency from Har- bin. Messages from Pogranichnaya said the Soviet air raids Sunday set fire to the railway station and surrounding houses burning them and doing consicerable damage. A second raid of the day took place when planes appearing over the city bombed the residence sec- tion. The Soviet infantry is reported to have advanced to the frontier under cover of artillery fire. Chi- nese troops returned the fire with machine guns. Residents are panic stricken and have hidden in their ceilars. One report says the artillery fire | was directed against Pogranichnaya | and the entire town is afire. - SON IS BORN TO MR. AND MRS. J. B. BURFORD SUNDAY A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. St. Ann’s Hospital. birth was premature, caused by a fall which Mrs. Burford suffered Sunday evening, both she and the baby are nrogressing nicely, it was ago. said toda;. PUBLIC LAND TRANSFER PROPOSAL INVOLVES ACREAGE OF 190,031,722 By R. 8. PICKENS (Associated Press Staff Writer) WAS:IINGTON, Sept. 9.—If Pres- ident Hoover’s plan for transferring public lands to the states meets the approval of the commission he will appoint and finds favor in congress, 190,031,722 acres of land will be placed in the hands of the states. The greater portion of the area is in states west of the eastern Colorado and Wyoming border. Nevada, where 53410938 acres or 71 per cent of the entire state is in public domain, will be most greatly affected. Utah, with 25,147,867 acres of its area in public domain, is the sec- ond largest public land state in the union. California, with 20~ 209421 acres rank$ third. The income from the public land of the country last year was $6,193,- 996, which includes money receiv- ed for the sale of land. Of this amount 10 per cent went into the general fund of the federal treas- ury, 52 1-2 per cent to the reclam- ation fund, all of which is spent in western or public land states, and 37 1-2 per cent went back into public land states for schools and roads, More than half of the amount received came from bonuses, royal- ties and leases of mineral rights. The amount received frqm that source was $3926,150. The sale of public lands brought $312,144. The sale of revested timber and rail- road lands in the northwest netted $684,018 and power site lease fees totaled $12,302. The remainder of the money came from widely scattered sources. The only eastern state with any appreciable area in public lands is Florida, with 13,855 acres, largely in swamp land in the center of the everglades. There are scattered parcels of ground belonging to the govern- ment in Alabama, Kansas, Louis- iana, Michigan, Mississippi, Okla- homa and Wisconsin. Acreage of public land .in other states follows: Arizona, 16911,367: Arkansas, 25983; Colorado, 8,812,875; Idaho, 10,734,420; Minnesota, 197,996, Montana, 6900.144; Nebraska, 28.- 860; New Mexico, 16,282,582; North Dakota, 152,113; Oregon, 12.227,- 141; South Dakota, 402670; Wash- ington, 951903; Wyoming, 17,025~ 537. J. B. Burford Sunday morning at | Although the | Heat Wave Is Scorching British Isles LONDON, Sept. 9. — The unusual heat which has scorched the British Isles the last few days continued unabated today with tem- peratures as high as 88 de- grees recorded over a large part of the islands. Thou- sands have been driven to seek relief at the seashores. o0 eensecee ——————— REED IS GIVEN 10-YEAR PENAL TERMBY COURT | Pleads Gum_y to Man- slaughter for the Killing of Ole Brudeseth A. L. Reed, indicted for murder in the first degree for the killing of Ole Brudeseth at Saginaw Bay, Saturcay entered a plea of guilty to manslaughter before Judge Jus- |tin W. Harding in the Federal di trict court at Ketchikan, accord- ing to word received by United States Marshall Albert White. Reed was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in McNeil's Island penitentiary by Judge Harding. He will be taken south frem Ketchi- kan. Brudeseth was a herring foreman 'at Saginaw Bay. He was shot by Reed in the latter’s cabin last July and was rushed to Petersburg for medical aid, dying, however, before the boat made port. Reed, it was testified, at the coronor’s inquest, was drunk at the time of shooting. MERRITT AND SMITH RETURN FROM TAKU After a week's absence, M. L. Merritt, Asst. District Forester, and Ranger Harold Smith returned here from Taku River. They made the trip to survey two areas, one con- taining 76 acres which has been applied for by Jack Kobi, and the other a five-acre homesite for Os- car Olson. Mr. Kobi plans to use the tract covered by his application for a |beaver farm. Stock for this ven- {ture is said to be available in that vicinity. While in the district, Mr. Merritt inspected the Jounson Creek trail. He authorized rehabilitation, mainly clearing work, from Bullard’s land- ing, at the mouth of the river to Johnson Creek. —_—————— — SEAPLANE KETCHIKAN |a RETURNS FRC'I SITKA | Seaplane Ketchikan, pilot Anscel | \Eckman, which left Juneau for| Sitka late yesterday afternoop, re-| turned here at 2:15 o'clock this afternoon. The plane left Sitka at 1:20 o'clock this afternoon and RING GHAMPION UNDER ARREST AT HOLLYWOOD Mickey Walker and Three Companions Charged Liquor Violations HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Sept. Mickey Walker, middleweight cham= pion, has been jailed on charges of being drunk and possessing in- toxicants. The boxer and tliree oompanions were at the motion picture colony when arrested after the police an- swered frantic calls from the resi- dents of the fashionable Whitley Heights district, that a fight wts on in an apartment house. Officers said the furniture was arrested Walker, Rav Hallor and | Arthur Housman, actors, and Gors den’ Sceney, director The police said thev tournd Wall- er and three unidentified men, early in the night, fighting on the Canyon Road but they were released when they insisted they were engaged in a rriendly scuffle. SEVERIN WILL BE HERE SOON FROM SEATTLE {Private Advices Say Capi- tol Contractor Leaving for Juncau Soon N. P. Severin, head of N. P. Sev- erin and company, Chicago, con- tractors who are to construct the Territorial capitol, will leave BSé- attle next Saturday for Juneau, @b~ cording to advices received here today from Glen Carrington, well- known Seattle and Alaska business man. Mr. Severin has just arrived in Seattle from a trip to Japan. Letters received here from other sources said that at least some of the crew that will be employed on the building will be here by September 15. These indicated that work would be started about that time. No official word has been re- {ceived by J. C. McBride, custodian of Federal buildings and in charge of the site of the capitol, as to the date when work will be started. Mail is arriving for the engineer in charge of construction, however, and it is expected he will arrive here shortly. ———————— TRIAL ENDS; JUROR INSANE CHARLOTTE, Npl'th Carolina, Sept. 9.—The trial of sixteen Gas- tonia textile strikers on charge of murder growing out of the death of O. F. Adersolt, came to an abrupt end when J. A. Campbell, juror, became violently insane. Judge Barnhill declared a trial. Campbell suffered from religious emotional insanity the first time on Saturday then again Sunday when he became so violent that it took four men to subdue him. mis- Ship Is Surrounded by Wall of Flames ROTTERDAM, Holland, Sept. 9. —Three men were burned to death |and eight or ten are missing in a fire which broke out during the cleaning of the British tanker Vi- giera in a dock here. Oil on the water around the ship caught fire, imprisoning the ship in a wall of flames. -+ — TODAY’S STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 9. — Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today at 8, Bethlehem Steel 130, Con- tinental Motors 15, Corn Products 114, Cudahy 15%, International Paper A 35, International Paper B, no sale, National Acme 33%, Stand- ard Oil of California 76, Stewart- Warner 68%, American Ice 497, Independent Oil 31, General Mot- ors 1%, International Harvester 1347, /made a fast flight to Juneau, 95 seaticred around and broken. Thcyi 1 i Thomas G. Reid (inset) of Downey, Cal, endurance at the Cleveland air races. Reid was in Alaska in 1926 with the Navy Air Magpers. lost hs life after establi Reid was married the day he IIIFR I’LU]\GLb T() I)l‘A'lH AFTER MAKING PP(()RI/ CHARRED BODIES OF VICTIMS ARE {fflUNDWREGKAGE Flve Passengers Among Dead—Entire Crew of Three Killed PLANE CRASHED THEN CAUGHT AFIRE, BELIEF Scene of Wreckage Is Cov- ered with Debris— Bodies Brought Out GRANT, New Mexico, Sept. 9.— George Rice, pilot of the Trans- continental Air Transport, late Sat- urday afternoon reported finding the T. A. T. air liner City of San Francisco, crashed near the top of Mount Tabor, the 11,000-foot peak |in New Mexico. —Associated Press Photo. ishing a new world’s mark for solo | took off on the fatal attempt.| While their mother and several other persons stood on the shore powerless to help them yesterday afternoon, Elmer and Buddy Lind- strom narrowly escaped drowning when their boat tipped over in; Lena Cove. They were saved by S. Hellenthal, well known attor- ney, who arrived in an outboard motorhoat, after the boys had been drifting toward midchannel for about 15 minutes and were about, 200 yards offshore. The Lindstrom boys with their mother, Mrs. E. Lindstrom have a summer camp on the shore of the cove and possess the only boat along & mile of shore line. Yes- terday afternoon early, the boys started trolling for salmon with|® the water smooth and silvery in! the sunlight. Shortly after thuy‘ started out they had a strike and ® a fight to land the salmon began. §4 The salmon took a 'course under the boat and as both boys jumped to the opposite side to balance it the skiff capsized, throwing therl both into the water. After getting hold of the boat they tried to paddie ashore \ulh their hands as the oars had be en! Meanwhile the tide and the salmon were taking them out toward nnrl- channel. The boys soon started m chill but they only sent up one cry for help—when an airplane swooped down close to the water but was unable to reseue l.lum) As if answering the cry for llt]|) Si Hellenthal just then came around the point from the nmm in his outboard motorboat .m(ll headed for them. The youths \\m- picked up by Hellenthal, but not| until each had gone under. They| were taken ashore and the over- turned boat was then towed in. The salmon was also saved. weighed about 15 pounds. ——————— ‘A PEDERSON PASSES AWAY Pioneer Rancher and| Dairyman Dies at His Home on Highway Albert Pederson, aged 68 years, | pioneer rancher and dnirymnn,‘ died at his home on his ranch on| the Glacier Highway yesterday | morning as a result of influenza. The body is at the C. W. Carter| Mortuary and the funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Lutheran Resurrec- | tion Church, Rev. Harry R. Allen| officiating, interment in Evergreen cemetery. Mr. Pederson was born Am.ukt‘ 18, 1859 in Norway and came {0 in Alaska in 1902 which has been| his home since then. Mr. Peder- son will be laid to rest in the cemetery of which he was car taker from 1902 to 1910, when he took up the ranch which has h(uL |his home since that date. \ | Mr. Pederson was married in| {Norway on July 13, 1896. He came to America first and was then joined by his wife. Mrs. Pede son and son William, aged 33, sur-| vive, } — - Wife desertion has been made a| jfelony in Texas, i thrown clear and were out of reach. ® |of TWO YOUNG BOYS NARROWLY ESCAPE DROWNING ; SAVED BY LOCAL ATTORNEY | | Hit-and-Run 'Aviator Is Being Sought NEW YORK, Sept. 9.— The police are seeking the pilot of a seaplane which struck a motorboat on Jam- ica Bay Killing one person and injurying anether, and then dlsappearcd into the air, Henry Ramsdell, when questioned concerning a dent in his pontoon plane, said he struck a log in the bay. He denied ‘hurriédly flying from the scene of the acci- dent and said he was not near the locality at any time. William Brown and John Dee were fishing from a motorboat when the nose of a seaplane loomed from the mist only a few yards away. The plane rippex through their boat, nearly cutting it in tdo. Brown was killed and Dee was badly injured. 700 ARE DEAD DEAD; ONETHOUSAND AREHOMELESS MANILA, Sept. 9.—Communica- tion lines are slowly being repaired after the passing of the typhoon of last week and reports have been received that. the death toll is more than 200 persons and thous- ands are howmeless, Great havoc has been done to crops and prop- erty damage is greatly in excess jof what it was first believed. EIGHTY-TWO PERSONS LOST {Steamer Turns Turtle Dur- ing Storm—Victims Mostly Children HELSINGFORD, Finland, Sept. !9.—The police have set a tentative total of 82 persons, most of them school children, drowned Saturday when the Finnish steamer Kuru !went down in a storm outside of |the harbor at Timmerfors. about 20 aboard were saved. A coherent account of the dis- Only @000 06000 o0 o o ojthe United States in 1900, arriving |aster is not obtainable. Those saved are 50 unnerved by {the shock that they are unable to lgive any connected story. The steamer is believed to have run into a huge wave which swamped it. The passengers, the majority being below decks, were panic stricken and ran to one side the vessel causing it to cap- size » Rescue steamers rushing to the scene found the Kuru bottom side up and many persons clinging to {it until swept off by huge waves. Lifeboats were overturned in the turbulent water SOVIET PLANE SCHEDULE 18 MADE PUBLIC Rcleased by Officials at Moscow Through U. S. & Navy at Bremerton ’ BREMERTON, Scpt. 9.—Contin- jgent upon the time of arrival at | Attu, Aleutiin Islands, the Nava! |Bureau of Navigation and Opera- tions announce the following sched- ule of the Plawt of The Land of | Soviets: | Leave Attu between September 13 and 18. Arrive at Seward hetween Sep-| tember 16 and 21. | Arrive at Sitka between Septem- ber 18 and 23. Arrive on Puget Sound between September 20 and 25. Arrive at San Francisco between September 28 and October 3. Arrive at Cheyenne, Wyoming, September 29 and October 4. Arrive in New York about Oc- tober 16. This scheduls is released by So- viet officials at Moscow through the United States Navy. The above table overlaps in all instances it all depending upon weather conditions. MATRIMONIAL STATELINESS I WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Capi- tal brides are setting a solemn, se- date pace in their marches to the altar. Weddings again are becom- ing stately ceremonials. Mad post-war days, with their hurried weddings and brides in simple traveling dress, are about over. The short-skirted bride with scant veil has disappeared. Solemnity is the order of the day and pure white lilies the flow- ers of the hour. Veils, some of them entirely covering the face sweeping trains and ivory prayer books are the choice today. Church weddings with the sub-| of majestic stained glass win- roll of the dued light dows and organ fitting to this demure and dignified mood. The Bethlehem chapel of the Ca- thedral of St. Peter and St. Paul was chosen by Miss Diana Cum- mings, daughter of the surgeon general of the United States and Mrs. Hugh S. Cummings, for her marriage to Manville Kendrick The bridegroom is the son of Sena- tor and Mrs. John B. Kendrick of Wyoming The wedding was followed by a reception at the Washington club. Miss Francesca Braggiotti, daugh- ter of Isadore Braggiotti, was for- tunate in having a wedding gown which had been worn by her late mother. It was of white satin. The long court train was edged with beautiful old lace.” Miss Brag- giotti married John Davis Lodge, {work only. LIVES AGAIN accompaniment | The plane had apparently been struck by lightning and was set afire. Rice was unable to see the bodies !of the eight occupants but believed |all burned to death. Land parties started out immed- iately the report was received but it would take many hours to reach the plane because of the rugged country. PLANE IS REACHED; CHARRED BODIES GRANT, Sept. 9. search for the air lner: an Francisco ended as ~|of forest rangers, ambula and newspapermen lifted 1 and crumpling fuselage charred bodies of the five gers and crew of three on of Mount Tabor. The bodies were unrecognizable with the exception of the women which can side The plane plowed a swath 300 feet long through the heavily wood- ed mountainside. The bodies were thrown forward land crowded the front part of the cabin. An area of 300 feet square about the wreckage was covered with de- bris. Only the doors and windows of the all-metal plane were left in- |tact. There is no indication that the (plane was struck by lightning as first reported. Victims of Crash Those who lost their lives, were: Amatha B. McGaffey, of Albu- iquerque, New Mexico. | Wwiliam Henry Beers of York. William Livermore and Mrs. Cor- ina’ Raymond, of Glendale, Cal. J. B. Stowe, chief pilot, of Clovls New Mexizo. Edwin A. Dietel, Braunsfels, Texas. C. F. Canfield of New York. M. M. Campbell of Cincinnati. The bodies of the victims were brought down by hand stretchers for seven miles then brought by |auto, 20 mlles. to this p]ace CHARGE DEPUTY SHERIFF WITH MURDER, YOUTH |Eighteen - Year - Old Boy Killed by Officer Séek- ing to Make Arrest New copilot, of New ASHLAND, Alabama, Sept. 9.— |Deputy Sheriff Cecil Guthrie is being held in jail on a first de- gree murder charge for the death of Clarence Bailey, 18- year -old |Ashland high school football star, jwho was shot to death as Guthrie sought to arrest him on liquor {charges. Guthrie said Bailey attempted to (flee through a pasture. Guthrie |claimed the shooilng was acci- idental. He said he fired two shots {in the air 4as he pursued Bailey, then stumbled, discharging the pis- tol the third time and the shot 1s said to have hit the fleeing youth. | - ZANANDREA WANTED Information relative to Gelindo |Zanandrea, who worked at the Hollis mine in 1923, will be grate-* fully appreciated by his family in a grandson of the late Senator Lodge. Italy. The request is made by H. |B. Le Fevre, aitorney of this city. | bo.tdentiiod, by denta__