The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 25, 1929, Page 1

[ & ' o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” \/OL XX‘(IV NO 52]2 ]UNEAU ALAS]«./\ WhDNESDAY ql PTHV[BER 25 1929 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRIC E TEN CENT S SOVIET PLANE REACHES DUTCH HARBOR FROM ATTU FATE OF MRS. PANTAGES WITH JURY SECOND DEGREE MURDER TRIAL COMES TO END Mrs. Pantages’ Case Goes to Jury of Seven Men and Five Women IMPASSIONED PLEA FOR GUILTY VERDICT Trial Has Been Intensified by Many Sensational Developments LOS ANGELES, Cal, The fate of Mrs. Lois Pantages rests h a jury today to weig the evidence presented at the ond degree murder trial wealthy woman theatrical magnate, Alexander for the death of Joe Roku- Japanese gardener, who diea tages moto, after in an intoxicated tion. After three weeks of testimony and arguments, the seven men and five women took the case. alleged The trial was closed by Deputy | District Attorney Costello who made | an impassioned plea for conviction and recommendation of the maxi- mu penalty for second degree murder which is from five years td life in San Quentin penitentiary. “We have heard there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. By yeur sce,” declared Costello, Hard Fought Case The case has been hard fought | from start to finish and Mrs. Pan- t took , the stand herself and seid she was not intoxicated at the | time of the accident. trial was called for the date to be Mrs. Pantages entered a not guilty plea. The case was tried before Superior Court Judge Char! lLs Fricke, Her Testimony “I did not have a single drink of | ting liquor the day of the Mrs. Pantages testified in a calm voice, on one of the f tions asked hy her counsel, x Steuer, when she was placed on the stand to give testimony in her own defense. The state has held Mrs. Pan- tages responsible for Rokumoto's death, which occurred a few days after her automobile collided with his last June, because of her al- leged intoxication and alleged guilt in causing the crash. “I was not drunk,” Mrs. Pantages | testified. “Just before the crash I tried desperately to turn the wheel of my car to avoid hitting Rokumoto’s. I turned into Sunset and there was a car in front of | me. I tried hard as possible fo get into the middle of the road.! Halfway to Serrano Street a car on my right tooted its horn and I pulled over to my left. I was at he intersection when Rokumoto’s car turned left.” For The Prosecution Two important witnesses during the trial, latter a retired Texas rancher with gray hair and a keen eye, who took | no chances with his testimony. The (Cbntin‘xed on Page Three) Sept. 25.—, of the| and wife of the; Pan- being struck by an automo- bile driven by Mrs. Pantages, while ! condi- wordict we shall | in closing. | When the | for the prosecution, were | Harry D. and John F. Mason, the| | The “Sea Raider” Arrives in Amertca FLORENGE AND rH()OVER-M’DONA LD LU\ 1 ILRb/i TI()]\ o | OF SIGNIFICANCE TO ALL WORI.D ¥ Count and Countess Ferdinand Von Luckner arrive in New York aboard their yacht “I\Iopcln ” from the Bahamas, but this time the famoGs"Getman “Sea Raider” comes in peaceful mood. Both be 2and the Countess seem to be delighted with their im- -nessmns of America. DRY AGENT IS |Rain Falls and Aids Fighters Of Canadian Fire i H ] . _“j‘ | e HAFFORD, Saskatchewan, e ® Sept. 25.—After damage ¢s- @ 'Two Ofifcials Alttackied|e stmsagias w0m tad re 8 : ; A s rom fire which After Making Still Raid |e threatened destruction of o L 4 : ) |® this village, rain began to e | Woman in Case {o fall early this morning and e | ® aided the har fight- e | SAN ANTONIO, 1exas, Sept. 25. @ ers who up to then had e {—Charles Steve: Federa! Pro- e been waging a losing battle. e |hibition Agent, was shot and se-|e . \riously wounded in a gun battle © € ¢ ® 8 8 6 e 0 0 0 0 0 @ learly today with alleged bootleggers | on the highway. Stevens, who shot and Killed Tom Chandler in a raid on his home |last August, with Pat Murphy, an- | |other dry agent, had participated in a still raid and were returning Tn ANTARGTIG ito the city when attacked. Second Expedition Wil ——————— | | A woman blocked the road with her automobile and flashed*a spot- | (light in the faces of the two dry lagents. She was arrested and the |party was proceeding toward the |city when suddenly men from both ! isides of the road opencd firc with |shotguns and rifies. The ;w(‘ut’Sw routed the attackers. Stevens was | LLave fOl prlorahons | wounded. in South Region | 1t is believed the men who e Lcapecl from the still raid are re-| NEW YORK, Sept. 25. — Capt. sponsible for the attack. The Wom- |George H. Wilkins announced today jan is held on an open charge. that he will sail Saturday on the o |second Hearst - Wilkins Expedition |into the Antarctic. He said he ex-| vected to visit the camp of Com- mander Richard E. Byrd in the Bay of Whales and then penetrate ch further into the south than _lon last winter's expedition. Edward B. Costello, who has been | spending the greater part of the summer in Ketchikan, Ti |Juncau on the Alameda and Eue<t at the Zynda Huu] TEN IN U. S. INSURED FOR OVER 5 MILLIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—Ten per- sons in the United States carry life | insurance of $5,000,000 or more, and 295 have insurance of $1,000,000 or more, according to a list issued to- day by the Spectator, a weekly in- surance review. In the list of those carrying at least $1.000,000 or more insurance on their lives are seven women. According to the Spectator, Pierre S. Du Pont of Wilmington is the largest life insurance holder in the | country with $7,000,000. Follgwing Du Pont are John D. Martin, Philadelphia, $6,450.000; William Fox, New York, $6,500,000; Joseph M. Schenk, New York, $5.- 250,000, and Jesse Lasky, New York Adolph Zukor, New York; Frank P. Book, Detroit; Herbert V. Book, | Parker Cramer and Al Sheese- man, pilots, and Orvil Porter, me- ‘ch'mmun. will accompany Wilkins. e expedition will leave Mon \m(o Uruguay, on the whaler Mel- ville, about the end of October | Wilkins expects to reach Decep- Detroit; J. Burgess Book, D it, | tion Islands befcre the middle of and James H. Rand, Buffalo, $.- | November. ‘000 000 each. ———. ——— The women in the $1,000,000 or 1m0re class are Mrs. Hnnr:‘E Yei- son Of Graf Cummander Coming to U. S. to Work ser, Cincinnati, $3,250,000; Mrs. Mol lle Newbury, Chicago, $3,000,000 Mrs. E. G. Burkham, St. Louis, $3-| FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, 000,000; Mrs. Marshall Field III,|Sept. 25—Knut Eckener, son of Dr. | Chicago, $2,500,000; Nm ma Tal -‘Hu"o Eckener, Graf Zeppelin com- | | madge, $1.250000; Marie Smith mander, is to leave German for the Kansas City s],nat,m». and Mary United States early next month to Pickford and Constance Talmadge take up a new job. He b a po- $1,000,000 each sition with the Goodyear Zeppelin Fairbanks, Mary Pick- Company, of Akron, Ohio. . — Four cylinder American cars have declined in importance in the| yes of the German buying public, | vho are registering a great demand for cight-cylinder automobiles. |of Los Angeles, | Douglas | ford’s husband, also has $1,000,000 Others m |insurance on hls hfr‘ | the mo |surance are Will Rogers a {von Stroheim, both carry i]_v that figure, {|| The bric Iy . JOHN VISITING ' OLDHOMESTEAD &vfi Newlyweds in Vermont— Brid~ l\A Interests Cool- Ol(. Nexghbors PLYMOUTH, —One of the by Mr. 1 Vn-rmont. Sept. 25 first places visitec s. John Coolidge been the plain white where six years ago, r, now dead, swore as President of the in his presence. idge was no mnovell to the residents of the little ham- let but the neighbors were frank- ly interested in the new Mrs. Coolidge acquain old home: to the bride and John. newlyweds, I arm house where 3, the Calvin room August took the dent of the United States, "ceeding Warren G. passed away in San Francisco. | Between visits of the neighbors, Fl the bride, made | with ora Pierce, who for many yes kept house for Col. Coolidge. They sat in the old fashioned kitchen and talked of the wedding and other things. | The newlyweds reached Plymouth |last night after a motor trip from {Windsor, in the bride’s wedding gift from her father, a sport road- |ster. Enroute they visited Johm's great aunt, Sarah Pollard in Proc- m rsville. i ARE BUTCHERED LIKE SHEEP BY CHINA OFFICERS on 1923, Three Th@md Moslem Males Literally Massa- cred, Reports State HANKOW, China, Sept. —Ad- ditional details of the massacre of 3,000 Moslems in Kanshut Province by the Chinese authorities said the | Moslems were asked to go to |Taochow for a conference and re- ceive roasted barley. arrival all males between the age: Upon their WILKINS UFF !ul 15 and 50 years, were separated | lrum the women and children and aken outside the city walls and m.» hered like sheep. No word reached the women until the next day when pitiful scenes were enacted. While the women sought to identify the dead, mourn- ful cries shrieked through the city. The Moslems were concentrated in Taochow because of the intense famine in Southwest Kansu which resulted in thousands being reduced to desperate starvation and suffer ing which was intensified by being forced to live unsheltered because of warfare with the Chinese. CHURCHMAN'S SON IS JAILED OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 25.—FEd- ward H. Watson, former der United States marshal at Washing- ton, D. C., charged with a statutor offense by his wife, has been raigned before Police Judge Edward J. Tyrrell. Watson had nothing to say concerning his alleged ro- mance with his former wife, come- Mrs. Reine Davis, a divorcee. As a result, Watson, a son of | Thomas H. Watson, verger emeritus or the Washington Episcopal Ca- 1, will be tried October Tyr jury in Judge | court. Mrs. Watson, daughter of Edgar C. Snyder, United States Marshal of the District of Columbia, accuses her husband of deserting her in March of this year to return to Mrs. Davis. -— Mons Anderson, who has a fox ranch near Mendenhall Glacier {a visitor in Juneau and will spe nd several days here as the guest of |Cq |the Zynda Hotel, d with freedom of old ¢ flocked to the d to pay their respects ¢ met them in the very | morning o{ Coolidge oath of office as Presi- suc- Harding, who friends pany the British Prime (inset). ’ By L. A. BROPHY ) | (A. P. Feature Service Writer) ‘ ASHINGTON, Sept | men whose lives are an the ideals of Anglo-Amer: ocracy stand as key figur ited move toward 25.—Two | opitome of ! an Dem- | in an ! world | pea | The face to face meeting Washington of Herbert Hoover Ramsay MacDonald will b jevent of unparalleled historic |nificknce. The results of in‘ and | their | |ernments ‘in accord on naval| strength are ccrtain to be of su-| preme importance to the other na- tions of the world. } There are three definite move-| Iments their meeting may set inj motion: i NEW SAFETY | FOR PLANES GIVEN TEST ‘Hlmlnahon of Fog as Fly- ing Hazard Now 5(,(,!1)6 { to Be Assured MITCHELL FIELD, N. Y. Sept —Elimination of fog as & flying |hazard seemed assurred in a dem- onstration of three instruments; which enabled a pilot to rise and fly the plane with the cockpit com- pletely covered. Licut. James Doolittle, Army Rac- ing Pilot, took off in a plane and | directed it over a 15-mile cour and landed within a few yards of ‘lthc starting point by the solely use of instruments. The test was made under the rection of Harry Guggenheim and the instruments upon which he re- lied were artificial horizon, visual radio receiver, and delegate baro- metric altimeter. | The radio receiver di- consists of two vibrating reeds which indicate when the plane is heading directly ob- When over the left ca rapidly for an object. ject deviation right or one reed to vibrate more |than the other. The altimeter is so sensitive it measures the altitude of the plane within a few feet of the |ground, making possible a safe landing on an obscure field. Guggenheim caid the instruments; iwere not complicated and were not prehibitive in cost. D FRANK OLCESE WANTED that Information is wanted concerning | Frank Olcese, about 55 years of |age. He is wanted in connection s |with an estate matter and any in- formation should be sent to E. C Cox & Company, 164 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Tl Minister when he sails for the The friend the capstone 1 parity, tiations which have two months are suc on In such event the prin rived at will be offered as for naval accord bet world vers. The tions is expected tc "he colorful his nations lends a human interest to Hoover rose from an orphan farm President of the MacDonald, born in room coitage in the est (To [‘u*('nlv Alaska Missi SAN FRANCISCO, George F Ignatius | completed ¥ to leave fly Feltes, w College sour: for here will to the gesture provid boy Alas] 20 Jesult Mi Miss Ishbel MacDonald, shown scriously in portrait and affectionately with her father, United States will pla Anglo-American ing the nego- extended over cesstul, iples ar- a bas ween the other culmination of the negotia- » give impetus an|to and a technical background for sig- the world disarmame t movement. tory of these friendly gesture to bring their gov- ]mmm, of two of the world's great- background the conference. the poverty of to become United States. a humble twe- Scotch villaze ons Cal., Sept. 25 8. J, of St bho has about n flying, plans Col officials said they were not ce 1 when he will take off for Alaska but said he planned to ‘ulxlm’ the newest mode of trav:i lin ;)rvl‘“x‘( nee to dog teams. e COL. LINDBERGH STARTS RETURN | FLIGHTTO U. 8. MIAMI, Charles A Fia for Port of Spain, t can Airways officials here have been ised by gadio from the, flier The plane was later re- ported nearing Geor first leg of the 1 rest period. Sepr. Lindbergh has hopped off from Paramarito, Dutch Guiana, | directio he Pan-Ameri- | flight, where Lindbergh is preparing to land for | 25. Col getown on the e co0e00es 0000 e . TODAY’S STOCK . . QUOTATIONS 2 ce e e eves s NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—Alaska 2 mine stock is quoted todax left Juneau on the steamer Aln-‘wdm by 3312 meda for Seward. . Bethlehem Steel 119%, Con- tinental Motors 12%, Corn Pro- ducts 113! International Paper A 33 Paper B 227%, National Acme 33'%, Standard Oil of Cali- fornia 73%, Alleghany Corporation 51 American Ice 48'%, General | Motors 69%, International Har-| vester 122%, Pan-American B 63 4 - eee o — R. H. Chadwick, local salesman, 0 The crew of ka where he | col. | SURPRISE TRIP 1S TAKEN FROM ALASKAISLAND |Plane Reaches Second Alaska Landing Yes- ‘ terday Afternoon | et |CREW AND PLANE ARE SAVED FROM DISASTER \U. S. Cutters Haida and Chelan Render Air Dur- ing Sudden Storm Making another unheralded flight, the Russian plane Land of Soviets, with four aviators aboard flying {from Moscow to New York City, arrived at Unalaska a4 g'clock | yester afternoon, Paciffe Stand- lard time. This is according to an Association Press dispatch which stated the information had been ] |received of the flight at the Brem- ’cxton Wash,, naval station, by \f {radio. { Juneau customs officials also re- [ceived a cablegram this morning ‘ur\w,u.nrmg the arrival of the plane |at Dutch Harbor at 2:12 o'clock yesterday afternoon and stating that {the plane reached Attu at 5 p. m. jon September 21 and left Attu at will accom- September 28 on the DBerengaria 6 a. m. September 24 (yesterday) e s — |reaching Dutch Harbor several of Lossicmouth, rode through alhours later. The Russian cutter rough political ser to become |Which arrived at Attu ahead of the |plane, is now returning to Kam- chatka, the cablegram said The plane will probably hop off for Sewerd tomorrow agecording fo advices received by*The Empire. U. S. Cutters Aid The Associated Press ispatch stated that the plane and crew is storm bound at Dutch Harbor after Great Britain. Ameri- | of | Of added interest to the can people will be the presence of prime minister his Caught@ra withe tle- premioo. Miss Ishbel MacDonald will ac-| corapany her father when he sails for this country September 28. She is an attractive girl, is interested in politics and peace as her fathor, [SOT0 bound at Butes Katbet FHRer Since Mrs. MacDonald died, the ® P ) e &M daughter has been the premier southeast gale which nearly smash- U > °I®lea the plane on the rocks as it hostess and constant companion. | The MacDonalds probably will| tay at the British embassy in| Washington It is expected that the prime minister will make an official call on President short- ly " after his arrival, which the American Chief Executive will re- turn immediately. arrived at Dutch Harbor. The crew of the plane was only saved by rapid work of the United States Coast Guard cutters Chelan and Haida. Motor launches were irushed to the plane and after two hours of hard fight got the plane \crew to :.icly and tied the plane to a mooring buoy. the Land of Soviets taken aboard the Chelan where |dry clothing was given the aviators, also hot food and staterooms in \' hich to rest Surprise Flight aviators announced RAIN, FLOODS REPORTED IN | The that if the weather is favorable they plan ! sn AR'Z“NA to take off for Seward tomorio | " The flight from Attu was a sur- | prisc as radio reports said the | itors decided to wait another Rail Hivha 1 E day be of unfavorable weather. ail, ghway and Lven| e tors were greeted at | Air Traffic Disrupled Dutch ¥ by officials and to- s .Y da, » refueling their ship which | Rivers Rising | wa cd by the storm. ) PRSI > Not Coming Here | PHOENIX. Ariz, Sept.25—South-| The Russian plane will not be lern Arizona has not recovered from ,able to visit Juncau, according tg [the cloudbudst and floods of last @ t am received today by Gov. {Monday and sgain rivers, normally A. Parks from Capt. C. 8. ambling streams, are tearing at the |Cochran, U. S. Coast Guard officer banks, taking out bridges and weak- |?¢ Dutch Harbor. lening dikes along the low lands. | The local invitation was delivered Rail. highway and air traffic is Py him to the commander of the Russian plane on its arrival there Rain continued.to fall yesterday yesterday. Capt. Cochran then wir- and today. ed the Governor that the Russians Douglas is surrounded by sheets resretted they were unable to ac- |of water. {cept, but owing to the lateness of Highw are impassable in all the season did not believe it ad- w:mblL to diverge from their itin- | disrupted ay Motorists are reported marooned. | {crary. The Santa Cruz River is lapping| The Land of the Soviets will its banks threatening a course lcave Dutch Harbor Thursday for {through the city streets. |{Seward, if weather conditions per~ planes are unable to rise. mit. It is due in Sitka next Sun- Trains are delayed and officials |98Y or Monday. are considering cancelling all sched- MRS o i ¢ |ules until conditions are better. | | Wife’s Smoking ‘ No Divorce Bar | —_— South Dakota Bank i ”(,[’I_l 'I) ”,”[ R()I)[)(‘ll . LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25.—All I ’x I U |hands admitted that Mrs. Afton OCReq [) Vogel may have taken a drink of = lgin too much—"beyond propriety,” SCOTLAND, South Dakota, Sept. lJudgp Thomas Gould would say— 25.—~Three masked men $esLerdquut then, she was circumspect. She afternoon held up and robbed LhMpu\rn. took a drink in the presence Farmers and Merchants State Bank |of her young child, nor in the pres- taking $5000 or more. Four em-,(."“, of anyone else. }plo)rn were forced to lie on the| Then she smoked cigarettes. ARl {floor during the robbery, then|admitted that, but Judge Gould locked up in the vault with two told her lawyer, S. S. Hahn, that customer: |there was nothing wrong in that. ----- “Most every woman does that Eighteen thousand communities now.” said the judge, are linked together in England and‘ He then ordered that Mrs. Vogel 2 regular motor coach |should have her decree of divorce 'from Oscar Vogel, well-known chef, services,