The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 28, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SOVIET PLANE VOL XXXIV., NO 52l5 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” RPN RIS V- -t REACHES SEWARD; STORMY FLIGHT JUNhAU ALASKA SATURDAY, Sl PTEMBER 78 1929 MEMBER OF AS )OC IAT ED PRLSS PRICE TEN CENTS ALASKAN AIR PILOT IS NOW MISSING AIRWAYS PLANE MISSING SINGE SEPTEMBER 16 Russell Merrill Disappears On Flight Bound for Kuskokwim JOE CROSSON AND BEN EIELSON SEARCHING One Report Received that | Plane Sighted Drift- | ing on Cook Inlet | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 28— | A ray of hope flared here that Russell Merrill, pilot of the Alaska Airways plane, missing since Sep- | tember 16, may be alive when a| searching plane piloted by Joe Crosson received signals from In- dians to the effect that Merril plane had been seen drifting with ‘he tide on Cook Inlet near Tyonec, an Indian village 50 miles below | Anchorage. Mrs. Merrill made the flight with | Crosson in a Standard plane while Col. Ben Eielson piloted a Waco plane. He has flown 3,000 miles in the past three days searching | bays and rivers and is expected | to return today. | Indians of Tyonec said a plane had been seen drifting four miles | out but no effort had been made | to send a boat to the rescue. “ Crosson and Eielson have been cooperating through signals with boats sent out to hunt for Merrill. | Merrill left on a flight to the lower Kuskokwim region with ma- chinery pany. e NO WORD FROM FRENCH FLIERS Are Believed to Be Soaring Over Siberia if Every- thing Is 0. K parts for a dredge com-| COMMITTEE TO lNQUlRE INTO SHIP PROPAGANDA A naval subcommittee will investigate the shlp building corporations for services he alleg he rendered in t Associated Press Phote of Willlam B.'fihearer (left), who has sued three welr behalf at the Geneva parley of 1927, Members of the subcommittee are, left to right: Senator Allen, Senator Shortridge and Senator Robinson. MDONALD NOW ABOARDVESSEL BOUND TO U, S. British Premier with Party Leave for America, Important Mission SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., ept. 28.— !Premier Ramsay MacDonald sailed westward from here last night |aboard the liner Berengaria on a missiofi. of .peace, and good will. His physical destination is Wash- ington, D.-C., U. 8. A, spiritual goal is unity between the two English speaking peoples which 1might lay the foundation for really universal era of peace and good will to all nations. The Premier, his daughter and members of his official family !boarded the liner after being the lcenter of farewell demonstrations from London to Southampton. “I am off in hopes to do some- thing to narrow the Atlantic,” said the Premier. Ambassador Dawes, in a spick and span dress and silk topper, elbowed his way through the crowd at the station for a parting hand clasp. ———— sencunort e s MILITARY RULE —If all is well, Dieudonne Costes | and his companion, Maurice Bel- lonte, in the plane Question Mark are somewhere over Siberia, soar- ing eastward in an effort to break the world’s long distance flight record. At 8:16 o'clock this morning they had been aloft 24 hours ‘and under favorable conditions should have gone 2500 miles. The plane has not been heard from since it passed over Cologne, Germany. Little anxiety is felt] The plane carried no radio and should the flight terminate unexpectedly in Siberia, the pair carried emergency rations. The plane might not be heard from for several days. .- CRCRCRC R RN SR BN B B A ) . TODAY’S STOCK . . QUOTATIONS . . NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today at 7', Bethlehem Steel 115%, Con- tinental Motors 12%, Corn Pro- ducts 114%, International Paper A 34, International Paper B 217% National Acme 31%, Standard Oil of California 173, Alleghany Cor- poration 49%, American Ice 47%, General Motors 66, International Harvester 119%, Pan-American B 62%. Charged with Murder, Will Hang January 4 PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., Sept. 28.—Stephen Doljmovac, Jugo-Slav- jan section hand, charged with the murder of Dmitar Smilevich, sec- tion hand, last July, was sentenced last night to be hanged January 4. Evidence tended to show the ac- cused was under the impression Smilevich was Doljmvoac’s enemy and trouble culminated in a bunk- Ultimatum Is Issued b Gov. Moody — Too Much Lawlessness AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 28.—Mili- tary rule for Borger, Hutchinson County, appears pn immediate prospect as the result of a tacit, ultimatum issued by Gov. Dan Moody that all peace officers must resign or see authority assumed by the State military forces. dication they will resign and lefl the issue up to the Governor. Gov. Moody said crime flourishes in Borger and the recent assassina- |tion of John Holmes, District At- torney, resulted from conspiracy of |peace officers. Gov. Moody has sent five Texas Rangers to the town and more will be sent. It is thought that between 60 and 80 National Guards- men will be sent there from nearby towns. Col. Lindbergh Takes Off on Another Flight NEW YORK, Sept. 28—The Pan- American Airways officials have been advised by radio that Col. Charles A. Lindbergh took off with a party from Maracay, Venezuela, for. Curacao, Dutch West Indies, at 8:20 o'clock this morning. ——e———— Convicts at Tubercular Prison Farm Make Break HUNTSVILLE, Texas, Sept. 28.— Burrowing 2 tunnel under a high wire fence which surrounded them, 17 convicts from the Wynn State house fight in which Smilevich was stabbed four times. Prison Farm for tuberculars, es- caped last night. and his | IN TEXAS TOWN The affected officers gave no in-| Leaves Plane in Midair; Can’t Find It for Two Hours . LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. o 23 —Howard Poyas, an aviat- e or, left his plane in midair e last night and it took him e two hours to find it. e Poyas was flying when his ® engine stalled and he resorted e to a parachute and landed ® in the back yard of a local ® resident. . A searching party found o of . off ° . . the wreckage several the local road. plane as a mass miles ©Secececcsccescee MRS.PANTAGES BE SENTENGED Is Under Observation of Physicians—Refuses Food and Water LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 28.— tMrs. Lois Pantages, wife of Alex- ander Pantages, theatrical magnate, is under observation of physic awaiting a mandatory prison tence from one to ten years, to as- last Wednesday of causing the| | death of Joe Rokumoto, whom she ran down with her automobile. Mrs. Pantages was supposed to| have been sentenced yesterday but her personal physician appeared in court and said she was physically unable to undergo the ordeal Under the California law, sen- | tence must be pronounced five days | |after conviction. Judge Hardy said that if it was necessary, he would convene court at her bedside. When informed that iMrs. Pantages refused water and |food, the court announced she| would be removed to a ho*pnal under official supervision if circum- | NEXT MONDAY sure she will be in court next Monday to hear sentence pro-| nounced. Mrs. Pantages was found guilty| NAVAL EXPERTS AT GENEVA ARE Will Appear Before Senate Committee Probing, Shearer’s Activities WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. — The Senate Investigating Committee into the activities of William Shearer at the Geneva Naval Limitations Conference gave watice to the ship builders that ‘American naval -ex- perts will be ready to follow Shear- er as witnesses. Shearer promised the committee members he will tell Monday about his work for the firms he is now | suing. The committee expects and by naval experts on the staff of ‘Lhe American delegation to Gen- associates of Shearer during that conference by Drew Pearson, news- | paper réporter at Geneva. | If thcse named do not come forward to answer to the commit- tee, they will be called. The investigators are also pre- paring to look into Shearer’'s past |records into activities in Wash- ington with the Shipping Board. e - BRIDE IS SHOT; BODY IS FOUND GREENBURGH, N. Y., Sept. 28.— The body of Mrs. Else Marshall, |aged 24 years, bride of three months 'who had been shot to death, was | found late yesterday in underbrush off a lonely road. She disappeared Thursday and the body was found by a searching party, including her IStaLes. husband. ! Two negro laborers, working in ‘the vicinity of the spot where the body was found, said they saw another negro emerging from the underbrush Thursday, carrying a shotgun. —————.———— (Is Killed in Fist ](.apital Lashed by High lTWEN'I'Y PERSONS ARE TO TESTIFY NOW has received requests for a hearing |gion of Florida Keys and Miami. eva who were named Thursday as‘YUKUN Is Now stances warranted and “if she will | Fight, Labor Temple not eat or drink, the court will take | charge. We will either make her| popTLAND, Ore, Sept. 28.—F. home a hosptial or remove her| s yarson was killed in a fist fight to one so that she will be in a|y ity Jack Frater at the Labor condition to hear sentence on Mon- Temple last night. |y, Both men attended a meeting The perjury investigation, out- ¢ the Pile Drivers’ Union. Fol- growth of the trial, has been start- |,wing the meeting they ecngaged ed by the county grand jury. SO-|in an argument and blows were ciety women friends of Mrs. Pan- | gimck, tages appeared before the inquisi-| torial body. ———————— Six Miner Are Killed e | PRISONERS BROUGHT IN | FROM PORT ALEXANDER | Five persons, sentenced early this | week at Port Alexander to varying terms in the local Federal jail, were By After Damp;Others | brought here yesterday by special | Deputy Marshal J. D. Reed and Dead from Explosion G. E. McKay, guard. They were POTEAU, Oklahoma, Sept. 28— | jicenhine Wick, Ollie Ove, Lillian Eight men were killed last night| o " aqon wilsbn and Pearl Wil- in an explosion and the result of it .' after damp in No. 7 Mine of the| Covington Coal Company. Hope | had been held out for six of the | eight until this morning when a| Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Sabin rescue crew reached the gas- rmed‘are receiving congratulations upon chamber where all bodies were hud- |the birth of a baby boy last night dled together. at St. Ann’s Hospital. Two miners had been killed out-| Tom McMullen entered St. Ann's right by the blast. The others were Hospital last night and is receiv- - e~ — AT THE HOSPITAL HURRI[}ANE DOES " BIC DAMAGE IN‘ Of Killing His [BAHAMAISLANDS Winds—All Small Boats in Harbor Wrecked | REPORTED TO BE DEAD Earle Peacox Convicied Vife On First Wedding Anniversary {Property Damage Said to Be Enormous—Nassau i i Cut Of 48 Hours \ | NASSAU, Banama Island, Sept. |28 —With 20 deaths and enormous \pr(,porly damage reported as the |resulf of a severe hurricane which |has kept the Bahama Island capi- tal isolated from outside communi- cation for 48 hours, Colonial Gov- crnment authorities are complet- ing today an inventory of the wrath of the storm which passed slowly on the southwesterly route in the direction of Florida. This city was lashed by the hur- ricane which had a velocity esti- mated at 100 miles an hour. The {hurricane wrecked all small craft in the harbor, broke the seawall in several places and communications and left the city without power. The Governor's home was badly damaged. Churches also suffered and streets were flooded by the raififall. ‘Telephoné were stilled. City offieials declare that the |storm is the worst in this section in years and scarcely a building escaped injury. The storm is reported hovering {near the Florida coast. Winds are [increasing in intensify in the re- e e ON WAY NORTH SEATTLE, Sept. 28. — Steamer Yukon sailed at 9 o'clock this morning for Alaska ports with 78 first class passengers and two steer- age. The following passengers are bound for Juneau: J. I. Marshall and wife, B. B. Neiding, Robert Fray, Mrs. C. Anderson, Miss N. Cornelius, Rev. Henry Young, and one steerage. Alaska Flier and £ Bride in Seattle SEATTLE, Sept. 28.—Noel Wein, Alaskan flier, and his bride, have arrived here to begin a two months aerial honeymoon over the United victims of after damp. ling medical treatment there. disrupted | WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Sept, 28.‘I "Cpar! Peacox; 21 old, has been convicted of murder in sec- ond degree for killing his wife on their first wedding anniversary. By the second degree conviction, the jury decided that Peacox was sane, that he killed his wife inten tionally, though without premedi- | tation. He can bz sentenced from | 20 years to life. | g v I THE STORY | WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Sept. 23 —In the same courthouse where lately- “Peaches” Browning and Leo- | nard Kip Rhinelander unfolded stories, of youthful marjtal adven- | tures that went awry another tale | of a marriage that failed, was told. | This time is was no mere suit fo separation which went to trial Sep- | (dhsah)s tember 16, but a murder indict-| oounty Courthouse at White Plains, ment charging that Earle Peacox 'n 'y in background, where trial 21-year-old radio repair man, killed |¢ oy “irace, In this ,blllldlng Alig his young wife and set fire to her | guits of “Peaches” Browning and kerosene-drenched body. conard Kip Rhinelander were The trial involved no million- heard, Lower picture of Dorothy, dollar fortunes mor any names in|gpin L,,,x wife. the Social Register. But court at- | taches were prepared to resist une | g £ greatest throng of “fan” spectators | "1O Sald she spent the evenin that has milled through the West- | ¥ith him several nights after the chester county courthouse since the ’klplnsz “S“” was found to have Browning and Rhinclander cases(tWO Suitcases of the dead girl's were Leard there. clothing, given to her by Peacox. Sensation A few Eugene Bussey, Westchester Earl Peacox lays iater, Wein is to -purchase a| Commuters opened their papers | YOune versity student, identified dual control plane. He will be|last April 27 to discover a sen-|himsell as.the young man whose here about one week. isation in their midst. The half- attentions to Mrs, Peacox had been burned _body of a girl had been 2@ factor in her separation from her found under a small fir tree beside husband. Japanese Plans to ia Scarsdale road. | The state charged that Peacox Fly ACI’DSS Pacnflc Presently, from a small piece of premeditated the slaying of his dress which flames had not con- | wife. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28- ‘sumezl the body was identified as| Sydney A. Syme, conducting Pea- Plans for an attempt to span lhc}that of Mrs. Dorethy Peacox, 20-|cox’s defense, maintained the kill Pacific by air is announced by Har - |yea¥-old bride of a year. ing wa idental; that it resulted ry T. Sanda, Japanese aviator, who | Her husband, radio repair man |{from a siruggle in which the young has arrived here on the liner Korea |at Mt. Vernon, was arrested as a|busband was goaded by his wife's Maru. He and his two companions |witness, and three days later, offi- |taunts. will fly from Yokohama to Hono- |cials announced, he had admitted Dorothy Heinzleman Peacox, slain lulu then to San Francisco. No|the crime. “madcap” bride of 20, drove her date has been set. His story, as they announced i:,|young husband, Earle Francis Pea- —————— | was this: cox, insane by her gay conduct in HUNTING PARTY LEAVES ON | Police Story New Y while they were separ- MARGUERITE, ROCKY PASS| He and Dorothy had been mar-|ated, defense Attorney Syme de- iried in April, 1928, and had parted | clared in his opening address to the Enroute to Rocky Pass and Dun-|after a few months. Peacox kept | jury can Canal for a hunting trip of Hp the apartment they had shared: “She was running around with several days! duration, the Mar-'in Mt. Vernon, and April 21, 1929 |other men and he simply couldn't guerite, tender of the Diamond K. the first anniversary of their mar-|stand it,” Syme told the “ble rib- Packing Company, left port last riage, he attempted a reconcilia- |bon" jury. night. In the party making the tion. Legally Insane trip were: Karl Theile, Secretary of | The young wife, returning to the Peacox was “legally insane” when Alaska, Mr. and Mrs. A. Van Md-‘apnrtm‘ nt, remarked: “Well, it's|he killed wife on the night of vern, Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Stewart ithe same old dump.” That angered | April 21, last, the first anniversary and Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bernard. | him, Peacox said, and they grap-|of their marriage, Syme said. In .. \pled. He struck her with a gun,|fact, he would show, the lawyer EATON RETURNS FROM SOUTH |and she knocked the weapon froia |added, that Peacox was a victim of |his hand. He seized her neck and |“hereditary insanity.” W. A. Eaton arrived in Juneau mouth. “Pwo of Peacox’s ancestors on this morning on the steamer North-| When he realized he had killed |the father's side, an uncle and an western after spending a short time |her he put the body into his car-- |aunt, were committed to an asylum in Seattle on a business trip. He|it was night—and drove to a thick- |at Utica Y.” sald Syme. “The also visited his family while in|et on Ardsley road, where he hid it J‘mm dmitted when she was Seattle. Miss Constance Eaton, Five nights later he came back 0|19, The uncle thought he was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eaton./the body. poured kerosene over- it |famous character of another gen- will_enter her freshman year al and set it afire. eration, the ‘Yellow Kid! He used the University of Idaho, Moscow.| Detectives also arrested Frances|.. . e Tdaho. . |Newman, a girl friend of Peacox, (Continued on Page Elgh'.)‘ | Russian RUSSIANS MAKE 8 HOUR FLIGHT ALIGHT SAFELY Plane Breaks Throu gh Rainbow Which Forms Rare Triumphal Arch RAIN AND WIND ARE ENCOUNTERED ON WAY Seward Residents Greet Fliers with Enthusiasm— May Resume Trip Sunday SEWARD, Alaska, Sept. 28.—The plane Land of Soviets, which took off from Dutch Harbor at 9:30 yesterday morning, Pacific time, arrived here yesterday after- inoon at 3:45 o'clock. The next leg of the Moseow to New York | City flight will be to Sitka. IN BLAZE OF GOLQR SEWARD, Alaska, Sept. 28.—Ar- riving here amid a blaze of color, the plane Land of Soviets appeared high over the mountain at the en- trance to Resulfection Bay, darting down thre ’g s rainbow. circling the ¢ %. a minute or ' landing close to the bouy whi re's flew the Al fiag. 4 The rainbow f was triumphal arch “the rs, ail of whom were tired from jexactly eight hours in pir from Dutch Harbor, battling 1hg, rain a wh\d 8 Coalomy o i The plane did not anchor fo bouy, owing to the rough seas, M coasted to the beach where every inhabitant in the eity, it seemed, was lined up to welcome the daring young Russians. The throng cheered when the s | Stars and Stripes and Russian Flaz were raised plane. It was fully half an hour before the aviators came ashore and began immediate arrangements for a new mooring location seeking every avil- able shelter possible from a brew- ing storm which broke two hours later, wind -and rain. Taken to Hotel Three hours of jockeying about with the rank and file of citizens, Mayor P. C. McMullen, Leon Ur- bach, President of the Chamber cf Commerce, to, stevedores lending a hand, four heavy ropes finally moored the plane safely and the aviators prled into a waiting auto- mobile and were taken to a hotel to bathe, dress and then to dinner Cannery at Disposal Charles Jenscn, local manager of the San Juan Packing Company, of Seattle, placed his big cold stora e plant at the disposal of the men from across the seas, supplying im- mediate necessities, rope, anchors and a guard at night. . The visitors found many native Russians here and with their as- sistance as interpreters, quickly made their wants known. 100 Miles An Hour The approximate speed main- tained from Dutch Harbor to Sew= ard was 100 miles an hour, stated A. A. Shestakox, chief pilot and ona of the most noted civilian Soviet 77«000@&\;}&5‘0:1 Page Two) - e — GEORGIA CITY IS MAROONED Sixty Th(End Persons Cut Off from Trans- portation by Flood AUGUSTA, Georgia, Sept. 28— While a crew fought to repair two breaks in the levee protecting the lowland communities from flood waters, Savannah River watchers along the shore expressed grave fear for safety of five persons marooned. They were seen yes- terday clinging to trees, scream- ing for help. When darkness came the cries ceased. The {lood waters have risen by the pilot of the Augusta dikes. Sixty thousand persons are cut joff from all means of transportas tion and business is suspended. | within three feet of the top of the i