The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 20, 1929, Page 1

. THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” XXXIV., NO. 5208. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1929. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRES MPIRE . PRICE TEN CENTS 16 LIVES ARE LOST IN FIRE, DETROIT NIGHT CLUB FORMER JUNEAU MINER ARRESTED IN FRAUD GAME C. A. Sellander in Custody in St. Louis, Fraudu- | lent Use of Mails ST. LOUIS, Mo, Sept. 20— Charges of using the mails to de- fraud have been filed against C. W. Sellander, of Seattle, 60 years old, former gold miner of the Fed- eral Mine and Alaska Juneau mine, | 12 years ago, and Archie C. Dowell, in promotion of repairing electric light bulbs. Sellander said he paid| $2,000 for exclusive use of Lhe‘ method in Washington and later | discoyered it to be worthless. | & The promoters were arrested after ‘they advertised to sell for $1,500 the exclusive rights to the method | here. \ Sellander told the postal author-| ities he bought a one-third inter- cst in the scheme from Dowell for | - $3,000 in addition to the first $2,000 and they had obtained $1.200 in Omaha and $1,000 in Des Moines, | before coming here. | 8 FIND BODY OF HEIRESS:LOST FOR 3 MONTHS Rancher’s Son Finds Edith| Wolfskill—Foul Play Is Suspected ! FAIRFIELD, Cak, Sept. 20—The| Land in Jail Charged with attempting to “fix” witnesses in the Pantagss-Tringis ease in Los Angeles, Janice Hill (right) and Nancy Lge Hill (left) are now in jail. It is alleged that the girls moved into ar apartment house where tho state witnesses wiere living in order to influence their testimony Body of Miss “Eaith 'Wolfskill, aged | throteh bribery. ' 55 years, Solano County heiress, — missing from her ranch for nearly three months, was found yesterday N Y BANKS lN | 1¥s 1 GREAT MERGER afternoon in Dry Creek bed, a mile and a half from her home. Indications of foul play are seen by Sheriff John Thornton, in the discovery of the body clad in over- alls. When last seen she wore a sweater and skirt. | NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—A union | Donald Glassoff, 18 years Omv\of the National City Bank and| son of a rancher, found the body corn Exchange Bank and Trust| while hunting for a pole with which |Company, Creg:ling a system of to kno;k t}iflélth 1’0“;‘“ ‘;:95':}‘1‘ rc"; more than 100 branch banks in the cxpected that he W € Te- New York metropolitan , has| cipient of $5,000 reward posted by heen arranged and directors of the 3 Los A:gglc‘swlanorg; in w;flch “thE_}s:.nk of Manhattan Company dis- | eiress had X on deposit. [closed plans for formation of a| Miss Wolfskill was last seen by Lolding company which may be| a nurse whom she told that she ysed as a nucleus of an extensive was going for a walk. |chiin of banks. ——————— Acquisition of the Corn Exchange | JOHNSON RETURNS FROM 1Bfl.nk and Trust Company by the SHORT SKAGWAY VISIT Nationo! City Bank, places the lat- |ter in the lead for position as the W. P. Johnson, local agent for largest bank in America. Frigidaire products, who has becn! ‘The National City Bank resources | in Skagway on business for several are more than $2,000,000,000 while | days, returned home Thursday on the Guaranty Trust Company the motorship Margnita. Owen which acquired the National Bank K. McManus, Frigidaire salesman'of Commerce this year has re- e - |Severin Gives |$100 Check to Local A. L. Post A. N. Severin, of the Sev- erin Construction Company, of Chicago, which was re- cently awarded the contract for the construction of the new capitol building to be erected in Juneau, is the donor of a check for $100 to Alford John Bradford Post No. 4, of the American Le- gion. Mr. Severin offered his gift to Tom Petrich, Fi- nance Officer of the Ameri- can Legion, who accepted it in behalf of the local or- ganization. e eco o000 h‘nr.k and Trust Company gives |the National City Bank resources of nearly $2,500,000,000. who accompanied Mr. Johnson to Skagway, went from there to Sitka.! sources of nearly the same. Acquisition of the Corn Exchange — .- A commercial fertilizer plant to cost $7,000,000 will be built at Trail, British Columbia. 3 MINERS ARE | RESCUED FROM CERTAIN DEATH |Trapped by Fire and Smoke| in Terrible Edith Mine in Idaho | WALLACE, Idaho, Sept. 20— Three miners trapped since yes- terday morning in the Terrible| Edith Mine, at Murray, were res-| cued alive by a crew of men from | the Hecla Mine, who plunged, through swirling smoke until they | reached a barricade behind which | the imprisoned men had crouched. | Carman Pattrie, Jess Kerr and| Russell Anstaugh were located 1,000 | feet back in the workings. Res-| % |cuers returned for gas masks for| them and then went and brought ! them out last night. They were| rescued from behind a barricade| they had erected against smoke. The three men were trapped when the Silver Lead mine fire started. The fire started in the| company’s barn and swept over all quarters, garage, bunkhouse, cook- house, blacksmith shop and com- pressor. The damage is estimated at $30,- 000. The flames jumped across to standing timber near the mine's mouth, ignited heavy logs at the portal of the mine tunnel and the tunnel sucked the smoke t.hrough| the flaming portal into the black maw, 1,000 feet under ground. The miners fled, going back as far nsl possible. GOL. LINDBERGH OFF ON FLIGHT ;. HIGH SPIRITS {Leaves Miami to Retrace i Route Taken on His Good-Will Journey MIAMI, Florida, Sept. 20.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife took off this forenoon from the| Pan-American Airport on the first leg of a projected flight around the air route of the Caribbean Sea. The seaplane took the air grace- fully and headed for Havana, the first stop. The seaplane carried seven pas- sengers and a crew of four, includ- ing himself. The plane carried 135 pounds of special mail. ‘Weather reports indicated a per- fect voyage. Col. Lindbergh was high in spirits over retracing the route of his Good-Will journey one year and a half ago. Mrs. Lindbergh was attired in a blue dress with a closely fitted black hat. JAPANESE NAV AL MEN URGE NATION TO BUILD MORE SHIPS By GLENN BABB (A. P. Correspondent) TOKYO, Sept. 20—With a pro- gram of eight 10,000-ton cruisers, | each capable of 33 knots and armed with ten 8-inch guns, more than half completed, high naval authori- ties of Japan are publicly discuss- ing the possibility that the govex-n-I ment-will have to lay down more; fighting ships of this class in order to keep pace with the United States and Great Britain, There has been no thought of suspending or abandoning work on the eight new ships, four of which are already afloat with the others due to take the water within 12 months. The public and semi-public ut- terances of naval officers, from Admiral Takarabe, minister of Marine, down, indicate too Japan's intention of insisting at the next naval ccnference on a ratio of 10- 10-7 in the allotment of auxiliary warcraft tonnage to England, Amer- jca and this country. Japan asked for that ratio for capital ships at the Washington conference but fin- ally accepted 5-5-3. The higher] ratio for auxiliary craft was infor- mally advanced at the three-power conference in Geneva in 1927. The talk gave rise to recent news-| paper reports that a supplementary program, calling for four additional 10,000 tonners, 15 first class de- stroyers and a number of smaller destroyers, submarines, gunboats and oilers, had been decided upon. The navy department later said no announcement would be made at this time, lest it embarrass the MacDonald-Dawes conversations in London. It was remarked, how- ever, that no outrigu. denial of the reports was forthcoming. Naval officers and publicists are giving the Japanese press surveys designed to support the claim for the 10-10-7 ratio, asserting that the programs which America and Britain have in hand will give each of these powers between 250,000 and 300,000 tons of modern cruis- ers of more.than 7,000 tons, where- as Japan by the completion of her eight Nachi class ships will have a corresponding tonnage of only 108,~ 400, that is, eight 10,000-ton ships and four of the Furutaka class of 7,100 tons each. Hence, it is ar- gued that unless the two leading sea powers agree to reduce drasti- cally their cruiser fleets, Japan must build several more 10,000-ton fighters to keep within hailing dis- itance. Japan, it is authoritatively indi- cated. hopes for such actual reduc- tion by Britain and America, thus making any increase in the present Japanese cruiser strength unneces- sary. Of the eight new cruisers two, the Nachi, from which the class takes its name, and the Myoko are in commission. Two others, thz Haguro and Ashigara are under- going trials. The Tako and Atago are on the ways at the naval dock- yards in Yokosuka and Kure and are. due for launching this year. The Chokai is in the hands of the Mitsubishi yards at Nagasaki and the Maya is being built at Kobe. Both should take the water in 1930. The Nachi and her three junior sisters are to form part of the Second Fleet, based on Kure, whither the Myoko has just steam- ed from Yokosuka after being com- missioned. On her way to the western naval base she stopped for two days in Ise Bay to permit her officers to worship at the Great Shrine of the Sun Goddess national cult, Shinto. Each of the principal units of the navy is thus dedicated to the service of the na- tion. Each of the eight Nachi-class cruisers is named for a mountain ér rich religious and historical as- sociation, and aboard each is in- stalled a miniature Shinto shrine enclesing some relic from the prin- cipal temple of the mountain which gives the vessel its name. The Myoko, for example, is named for Mount Mpyoko in central Japan, wither thousands of pilgrims flock ‘each summer. at Ise, the highest temple of thej CUNMAN KILLS PHILADELPHIA, Sept.20.—Frank Reed Whitesides, landscape artist, was slain by a mysterious gunman |last night as he answered a door bell's ring in his quaint old two- story home. He was shot through the heart, dying instantly. The bullet which ended his life was found lodged in a door jam. Neigh- bors told the police they had seen shabbily clad youth running down the street after the shot was fired. Robbery is thought to have' been the motive as Whitesides's f pockets were turned inside out, al- though no jewelry was taken. B e o ST ee0 000000000 . TODAY’S STOCK L4 QUOTATIONS ee 0000000 - © ° . | NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted t,odny' at 7%, American Smelting 118%, Bethlehem Steel 122, Continental Motors 13%, Corn Products 114%, International Paper A 34%, Inter- national Paper. B 23%, National Acme 33%, Standard Oil of Cali- fornia 73%, Alleghany Corporation 51%, General Motors 73, Interna- tional Harvester 129, Pan American B 63%, American Ice 49. — e Just to “please the folks,” Thomas B. Russell, 79, of Brownsville, Tex., Jtook his first train ride recently. 1!ear. adjacent buildings, licking up head- P Suit o William B. Shearer (center), naval expert, against three American shipbuilding corpora- tions for services at the naval conference in Geneva in 1927, has brought department of justice and senate inquiries. Senator Borah (left), foreign relations committee chairman, and Senator Hale (right), chairman of the senate naval committee, are leaders in the senate move. HEARING ON | NAVAL CASE 1S STARTED Senate Pi’ofib—cfilnlo b e Sl Ship Builder’s Activity at Geneva Is Begun | WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. — The Senate tariff controversy today | shared interest on Capitol Hill with the start of the Senate Naval Sub- committee's investigation into the activities of American ship building concerns at the ‘u,x‘xsucessrul Tri- SHEARER SUIT B_l_zlfids SHIP PROPAGANDA INQUIRY :HFTY PfiSUNS " ARE INJURED:IN CITYHOSPITALS Flames Quickly Overwhelm | Patrons and Employees 1 of Night Club 'TINY DRESSING ROOM | PACKED WITH WOMEN ;Cigareitc Girl Suffocated | 1 Center of Floor— Bodies Charred DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 20. —~Sixteen persons were killed and more than 50 are in hos- |pitals with injuries suffered - iin a fire which destroyed the |Study Club, a night club on |the edge of the downtown theatre district. ] One hundred and thirtx- . patrons and 40 & Xk were in the club when flames broke through the first floor. | and swept up the main stair- way, cutting off the only means of egress. | Before the inmates were aware of their danger, smoke and flames were upon them. A cigarette girl wes suffo- cated by hot fumes as she stood in the center of the dance floor and dropped down ) over her tray. ,"' Associated Press Photo partte “Arms Limitation Conference | in Geneva. Officers of the American Brown- | Boverie Electric Company, one of those named in the suit of Will- iam Shearer to collect alleged back pay, were among the first called to testify. After them representatives | of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation | and Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock Corporation will tes- tify. Shearer will also be heard. Senator Borah, who sponsored | the inquiry, has called attention to | the fact that the three companies are now building navy ships. The tariff situation has been al- tered somewhat by the decision ofi the Republicans to speed up legis- | lative machinery in an effort to pass the bill before the December oL« Meny. satrons. fo a small dressing room, 7 by 15 feef, in the rear of the building. Thirty of them were found piled uncon- scious in the tiny space when fire- |men broke into the room. | Several were dead and others badly injured. Interior Ruined | The interior of the building is ruined, but except for broken win- dows and the fire escape, which hangs in useless mockery to those who ventured to trust it, the ex- terior is not damaged. " Make Charges Owners of the place blamed their X /) rivals in business for the blaze. = The Study Club has been operat- ing for about one year and has Associated Press Photo Here are some of the American naval officers who may be called , . prospering. session. ! Party regulars propose starting an hour earlier each day with p: )s-‘ sibility of night sessions soon. One Defendant Breaks Jail; 1 Case Is Mistrial i MARION, North Carolina, Sept.| 20.—Trial of Alfred Hoffman, before the senate naval commities to testify in the case of William B. Shearer whose alleged connections with large shipping Interests Firemen who tried to enter are under Investigation. Above: Admiral Wiley (left), and Rear through windows, found they had Admiral Plunkett. Below: Admiral Pratt (left), and Admiral Robison. been boarded up on the inside. P EDESTRIAN })ROTECTED Seven women, five unidentified, IN N. Y. TRAFFIC PLA were killed and nine men, one un- identified, are among the victims. NEW YORK, Sept. 20—Pedes-| trian rights, long neglected in traf- Most of the fatalities resulted from suffocation. Identification is hard because of _the charred condition of the bodies and disfigurement which follows i suffocation. 2 PHIL. ARTIST =z Southern representative of the fic planning, will be honored in| Union Textile Workers and five as- newly proposed eity highways. sociates, charged with inciting a| gpocialized highways, some pat- rebellion and insurrection against terned for the motorist to insure the State, has been declared a mis-'adequate speed lanes and some! trial after it was discovered thal pianned especially for the pedes- J. Hugh Hall, one of the defendants trjan's protection, are advocated by has sawed his way from jail and the regional plan of New York| and environs. ‘The Judge ruled the trial was un-| able to continue as the six men means of developing and protect- | were under joint indictments. ing residential neighborhoods, the Hall escaped with three others groanization serving the states of charged with minor infractions of yew york, New Jersey, and Con- the law. STILL FOUND: Prehibition Tandy raided the camp of Berndt Following a survey of.the besi Benson on Wrangell Island, find- | in Rescued from Roof Some of the patrons found their way to the third story roof where they were rescued. Others, becoming panicky, jump- ‘ed and suffered broken limbs. ] 20_‘ The fire came at the peak of ' and the night business as the theatres closed. - e — ARREST MADE JELL, Alaska, Sept Officers Church WR ¢ a still and quantity of moon- Couldn’t Put shine. iny ial Benson pleaded guilty this murn-\ller in Jail, g before U. 8. Commission Will- Byt She’s There G. Thomas and necticut, proposes increased special- |iam was fined T e T 8 ization of highways and @ reformu- |$1.000 and senienced to serve 10| CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—A school Graf Stowaway Given ilation of traffic ideals and stand- |months in jail. teacher is not above the law but | ards. ;T e T IMiss Victoria Vasche thor s : Mi: ught she Three Weeh, Released’ It proposes eXpress hlghways.;“l“i’,‘.[ Air |was and she over-ran a red light wide arterials fitted for high speed| ™ ™ | Officer Joseph Finn hailed her. FREDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, traffic, which would cut residen-|Line Is { She poked her head out of her Sept. 20.—Albert Buschko, German tja] areas into small islands. In|q .~ Miles |automobile and shouted: youth who stowed away on the these spots would he a maze of 15 Miles Long 1 “You can't arrest me. I'm a Graf Zeppelin on the last flight gtreets for low-speed traffic, lanes school teacher.” to the United States, was sentenced g, fashioned that speed would be ® SEATTLE, We Sept. o a 2 to three weeks mprisonment for jmpocsible and safety of the pe-|® ably. (b RSt Bt ') B pflfsjzpmfltax P disturbing the peace. Buschko Was gustrian the primary factor. ° zer line in the world rynning board and forced her to released because he had served his| gy some sociologists the auto-|® Is also likely the shortest. ® |stop. time awaiting trial. mobile has been regarded as a de-(® It Is operaied by Gorst Alr e | The teacher gazed at his uni- £ stroyer of neighborheod life,” the|® Transport, Inc, 15 miles @ form, police star and holstered pis- Three Drop in Plane organization reported. “Now, curi-|® across Puget Sound between @ tol and started screaming for the 2 ooo F . AI' Ki.“ d ously enough, it is setting up a pro- | ® Seattle and Bremerton, police. i eet; € €d (cs5 in city planning which seems" Wash. In the two months Finn explained he was an offi- | likely to produce exactly the op-|{® ending August 15 planes of cer, rubbed his sleeve over his star, TULERE, South Dakota, Sept. posite effect |® the line made 834 round trips polishing it, and threw out his 20—Pilot Sylvester Clegberg, of 2 AT |e and « ed 9458 passen- chest ‘ Avon, Illionis; Floyd McNeil, aged & 4y ‘e gers, an average of six a But Miss Vasche continued to 4 32 years, and Ray McNeil, aged 30, Twenty-six Killed e trip. Loening amphibian e lcall the police and a patrol wagon brothers, were killed in an air- I T ‘nhoon Wh , ® planes carrying seven and ozlo:u.'ed with policemen arrived. ‘ plane crash seven miles southeast n 1yph R e eight passengers, are used. o, She was still convinced a teach- of here early last night when the Hits Luzon Islands|e Boats operate between the e fer could not be arrested even affer iplane failed to come out of an at- MANILA, Sept. 20—The Philip-|® two cities, but require two e she was locked in the jail. ~ TR tempted loop and fell 2,000 feet. pine Service Bureau reports 26 per.1 e and a half hours, whereas e | S e e s ons perished in the typhoon which|® the planes make the trip in e| Gen. R. A. Sneed, national com- Non-profit making industries will lahed the southern part of Luzon|® 12 minutes The airplane e |mander.of the United Confederate provide work for 500 students af Islands on Tuesday and Wednes-|® fare is $2.50. e | veterans, is the oldest elected Oklahoma A. and M. college this day. The casualties reported were o official ever to serve in Oklahoma. : L8 on Ciraduanes and Rapurpo islands. Qoo onoins salins @ gt 84 he is state treasurer.