The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 1, 1929, Page 1

TH VOL XXXIV., NO 5217 ]UNEAU ALASKA, TUESD DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” AY ()CTOBE.R 3 1929, LGSO SR PRIC[ Tf N CENTS MEMBER OF ASS SOCIATED PRESS RUSSIAN PLANE TO HOP FOR SEATTLE TOMORROW PANTAGES LOSES ONE VENUE CHANGE NOT GRANTED, ASSAULT CASE Plea to Postpone Trial Is| Also Futile by Theat- vical Magnate TWO CHARGES FACED ! BY ALEX PANTAGES, Wife Grar;:d Five Day| Pronouncement of Sen- tence Because Il LLOS ANGELES, Oct. 1.— Alexander Pantages, who ran his stake wrested from the Yukon in the gold rush days to $15,600,000 and a vmde-‘ ville chain of theatres, today faccd trial on two charges ufr assault brought by Eunice Pringle, 17 - year - old co - ed| dancer. Pantages lost his fight to obtain a change of | venue. | Pantages made two re- quests, a change of venue or| postponement of the case un-| til the ordeal of the strain was over which was caused| by his wife’s conviction of | mapsiaughter 'in the death of | Joe Remumoto, wio died as ai esult of injuries received when run down by Mrs. Pan- tages when: driving her auto- mobile. Mrs. Pantages has won al five day pronouncement of| sentence of from one to lem years in San Quentin Peni-| tentiary as she is under the| care of physicians and in too serious a condition to have | sentence passed. ! ——l 1 RAID IS MADE; | BOAT ANDCREW | AREINCUSTODY, Freighter Utica, 32 Mem- bers of Crew, Much Liquor Seized MILWAUKEE, Wis, Oct. 1—A huge lake freighter is impounded and 32 men are in custody with liquor valued at more than $30,600 in their possession as the aftermath of a raid by Federal agents, the| most spectacular raid ever staged| in Wisconsin. Docking here from Windsor, On-} tario, the ferighter Utica was met by agents and Coast Guard forces. Virtually every part of the ves- sel contained whiskey, ale and wine. | Belief is expressed that more will be found. Capt. Robert Koch and his crew were arrested pending a thoraugh' investigation to determine rcs.pon-, sipnility for smuggling. Woodruff Sues for Divorce; Wife Files Cross Complaint | i \ RENO, Nevada, Oct. 1.—Mrs. Mil- dred Curtis Woodruff, daughter of Charles C. Black, President of the| Standard Oil Company of New York, was sued yesterday for di- vorce by Kenneth Crane Woodruff and almost immediately Mrs. Wood- ruff's attorney filed a cross com- plaint. ‘Woodruff charges cruelty, with-| out specific allegations. Mrs. Wood- | ruff sets forth her husband told her he no longer loved her. They were married in October, 1921, |Was badly shaken. \age however, was reported. ———— Cuba receives the bulk of oon.on" handkerchiefs exported from the! United States. iwhere 480 quakes 'terday lasted for an hour and a Helen’s Baby No “Act of God” I”’- . V. vy ¢ >2x 93 cents per ton. One of the most interesting decisions ever made by the Actor’s Equity Association relative to a dispute by its members, is the organization’s ruling that the coming of the stork which prevented Helen Hays from rehearsing with her cast in a new play, is no reason for the producer to withold salaries. maternity was “an act of God” but the Equity took issue on this point lnd‘the actors who were prevented from rehearsing in the play will receive two weeks salary, lnurn-tlonnl Newsredl Mother Of New.Son. MINISTER ROBS BANK AND THEN ‘Husband of- Wealthiest Woman in lowa in Mys- terious Crime | LEMARS, Towa, Oct. 1.—For three hours yesterday, Rev. Rex Frolkey | | forgot he was an ordained minister "ol the gospel, forgot his respected ™ position as land owner and citizen, {fastened r. black mask over his ! face, shoved i pistol in his pocket [and robued the Bank of Sioux Cen- |ter, Towa, and then, with arrest ! near, killed himself. | The robbery is most mysterious Associated Press Photo |be one of the wealthiest women in IEngllnh soclety lhowefrfeg com [ youn gratulations on Lady Dut ooper-,l Y it [umou- beauty and actress, who is m‘mzt boforth he ?]-MFT;:: 2 ithe mother of a son, born in Lone |the farm of his wife, Fr ga dons T ~-—~- |$360 to Fred Dickman, tenant, W ith | he the explanation it was money jobtained from the robbery. 48“ AKES l The license plates on Frolke: ‘Lal urned suspicion to him. Pe wns who saw the holdup, traced 'thP plates to him. Members of the posse questioned Frolkey but his ‘dcc]'\ratmns of innocence and his nding in the community influ- enced them not to arrest him. Seismic Acllvn!y Rocks' Frolkey then went to Dickman, ISldnd Of Hawaii—| 2 {gave him the money and then sho? himself with the same gun used | Days Df Tremors earlier in the robbery. e i e HILO, Oct. 1.—Seismic activity which rocked the Island of Hawail for 12 days and declared to be a forerunner of eruptions of one or more of the island’s volcanoes, to- day shifted to the western slope were recorded in the past 24 hours. At Holualoa, between Hualali and volcano Mauna Loa, the heaviest tremors were felt since the act\viw began on September 19. Shocks starting before noon yes- Band of 50 White MOSCOW, Oct. 1.—The Wiping out of a band of 50 White Russians, who invaded the Soviet Territor along the Manchuria western bor- der, is the report received here The band is said to have invaded north of Nerchinsk under protection units immediately organized a coun- ter attack, wiping out the band. ——————— Aviators flying to Chicago have half and everything in the district No great dam- e Nebraska’s dairy industry is val- ued at $93,000,000. The producing manager held that Miss Hays coming | TAKES HIS LIFE i because Frolkey's wife is reputed to| Russians Wiped Out s the region of, Demossovo, 25 miles$ of Chinese fire and the Red Army b 29 landing field to choose from.|e or the lake if they are flying am- e CLEARS $141000 * DURING AUBUST Operating Profit for Month | One of Largest in His- | tory of Company t wing an operating profit of | 3141,000 for August, the Alaska Ju- neau Gold Mining Company's local | {plant had one of the bes fact not the most profitable, month | |in its history. Aftcr deducting ex- penses for prospecting other proper- ties held by the company and ac- 'erued charges, the operating SRr- | Iplus for the month was $123,900. I These figures were made public in the monthly operations issued | from the San Francisco office. The | | operating profit was $27,500 larger than in July and the operating sur- plus was $27,000 larger. Total Recovery Eigh The total value of the gold; lead fand silver recovered was $317,000, $308,300 being gold. The average | for the gold per ton was 90.10 cents tand for lead and silver 254 cents. !Tho costs averaged 5147 cents leav- ing an operating profit of 41.23 per ton. To mine and tram the ore into 'the mill cost the company just :26.47 cents per ton, a remarkably |]o\v figure and equalled by the low ‘cnst of milling which averaged Qther Jlocal |costs incidental to the operations or the prgperty added 2.34 cent: ton, ana New York stock Lrnnfler and San Francisco office overhead 0.73 cents per ton. Financing Prospecting The prospecting being done by the | Alaska Juneau on the Taku River, !at Pleasant Camp on the Stampede |Group and on another property on the American side of the boundary lon the Taku is being financed by - the company out of its operating | profits of the local mine. In Au- | gust these charges amounted to 188,000, While no statement has been !made by company officers as to the |showing so far made, the policy of the company in buying up the ad- joining claims to the Manville Group seems to point to unusual confidence in the ultimate outcome |of the present development pro-| |gram. Work on the Manville, Sparling and Hill Groups, while part of ¢ |unified program, is being prose- jcuted on each as a separate entity. On the first a permanent camp has been erected, machines placed, in- cluding compressors and diamond drills, and substantial progress made on diamond drilling, tunnel- ling and sinking a shaft to connect with the main prospecting tunnel. Camps are being erected on the other two groups and it is planned to carry on development work on all three properties throughout the winter. In addition to the mining, milling ‘and outside development expendi- tures charged against the local mine, the monthly interest on bond- ed indebtedness paid by the com- pany amounted to $9,100. ————— MAN ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF PASSING BAD CHECKS & Charged with passing bad checks, Harry Goldberg was arrested here vesterday by Deputy United States Marshal Walter F. Sibley. He will have a hearing tomorrow before | United States Commissioner Judge |Frank A. Boyle. | Total Crop Yield | |Indicates Six [Per Cent Drop | . WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. ® 1.—The Department of Ag- @ |® riculture in the October re- ® le port issued today says the @ total yield of crops this year @ s in all probability 6 per cent /e below the 10 year average ® ‘ because of severe droughts this summer, . Although the September o rains broke the dry spell in @ the Pacific Northwest, the @ |® situation 1is still serious. ® Ranchers had difficulty in e . . e preparing lands for winter o wheat. The vegetable crops are glso effected. ALASKA JUNEAU 1’ur0nts of Notod lepl. ai Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, bull aft the reception tendered bull's Plainville, Conn,, home. SHEARER GIVES HIS SAY ABOUT GENEVAPARLEY Denies Flatly He Broke Up| Conference — Calls Pearson a Liar WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—Williara B. Shearer told the Senate Inves- tigating Committee that his job at the 1927 Geneva naval parley was “to get the American side of story and the strongest ever said at the Geneva parlc that we needed a treaty of paritv or 10,800 ton cruisers with eight inch guns and no compr i The naval propagandist denied flatly that he broke up or claimed to have broken up the Coolidge parley. For four hours the one-man, tor- ipedo boat inventor, and forr night club promoter of London, t his story between sharp exchanges with the Senate investigators Clash At Start Shearer clashed at the outset with the Senators as he sought to tell his own story in-his own way but was refused. Asked about statements Pearson, newspaper repor conference who quoted a having said the conference mu not sugceed, Shearer said: “I wil say that Pearson is a liar. Shearer said he went to Geneva on his own account to attend the Preparatory Naval conference the suggestion of Washington na- val officers. No Amecrican Lobby Asked if there was any American lobby at the conference in 1927 Shearer said: “The only American lobby 1 saw was that of Rockefeller trying to lobby the United States into the League of Nations,” and he added| however that there were Britich and Japanese navy lobbies at th parley. by Dre ter at thi 1eary ->oo MOHAVE DESERT GIRLS WEAR SILK HOSIERY|! BERKELEY, Cal, Oct. 1- oasis made on scientific plans I sprung up on the Mohave desc It is the town of Trona, thre hours’ ride from the nearest habi tation, 1,000 population and havin fine residences anc “open-air theatre, the latest dial-type telephones the latest shade in silk hosier The quotation is from Prof Ross Robertson of the Universit of California, in a report to th American Chemical society, on suc cess of the American potash indu try which built Trona on the sit tof its modern laboratories. He says the potash industry has emerg- ed winner from a ten year battle between science and nature. former Pre: ‘l[r, is debatable FIGHT ) i R cption DAYBHEAK,TIME e | SET FOR TAKING IR FOR SOUTH |Plane Land of Soviet | pects to Resume F Early Tomorro 'PLANE TO FLY SOu Y DIRECT, GUTSIDE. LANE Juneau Delegation Giving Special Banquet and Dance Tonight | (Special to The Empire.) SITKA, Alaska, Oct. 1.— The plane Land of Soviets pects to hop off Wednesday morning at daybreak for Se- attle according to announce- ment made here this forenoon by Commander Shestakov. Yesterday 15 men were em- ployed to give the plane a thorough overhauling. Sup- ‘plies are being loaded aboard — ithe plane this afternoon in {anticipation of the start of the flight to Seattle, weather | permitting, tomorrow at day- break. | | The dance given last night to the four Russian fliers was a huge success and lasted until 2 o'elack this morning. The Commander ap= parently enjoyed himself daneing with the girls and real repartee. | Tonight the Juneau Russians, headed by Sam Gazaloff, who ar- rived yesterday by special boat from Juneau, will give a special recep- tion and dance to the four Rus- sians. Going south to Seattle, there will be no radio transmitter on the Land of Soviets. The plane will |go south on the outside route di- rect to Seattle according to plans |announced today. Yesterday the entire town of Sitka visited the plane, the schools closing for two hours to give the jpupus an opportunity of making an inspection | The fliers were taken to all pm(es of interest by motor and A]‘su hy baat FRENGH FLIERS STILL MISSING Fears Expressed They Might Have Been Shot Down by Chinese —Associated Press Photo. , Mr. and Mrs. Jehn Coolidge, M d his bride, the former . and G Trum-~ John Coolidge Florence Trumbull, Trum- (Picture by Telephoto from New York) [ NOW IT’S MR. AND \ll(u. J( )H\r COOLIDGE | ! | | | | | | —Associated Press Photo. John Coolidge and his bride, the former Florence Trumbull, leaving | the church after their wedding. (Picture by nate Is Potenuul Barrier to Hope.of Disarmament Treaty PLUMMER |a treaty we rvice Writer) | bouquet or a brickbat. 1 Guided by the protecting hand ot |fliers are dead. Oct. 1.—When | genator Borah, to whom by virtue| The Question Mark was painted Ramsay MacDonald and |o¢ peing chairman of the foreign|in red colors, assoclated with So- Herbert Hoover cement | nittee would fall [hcwvxet military. of their government on The two fliers have now been un- Telephoto from New York). LEBOURGET, France, The pos ility is advanced here |that Coste and Bellconte, who |hopped off last Friday in the plane Question Mark to make a long dis- tance flight record, hoping to land in Siberia, might have flown with- lin the lines of the Chinese army |in Manchuria and been mistaken 1d be greeted with a|for Russian aviators. It is feared that in such an event, the French Oct. 1.— By HERBERT (A. P. Feature § WASHINGTON, | | relations com ord h(- ac task of fely conducting such a| naval parity, then what?— {eats th the Senate, it would Ireported for more than 100 hours. Like Little Red Riding Hood 'y,ve more than an even chance The message that they were vhen she left her haven of protec- | o caining approval. ' sighted yesterday flying eastward ion, naval limitation still would| . . 1 B the tedabs et bt 1 Uosibirsk, Siberia, is regard- |have a long and tedious path to o "”"‘ a8 ”""'If" SROFL led being garbled, and rather nl‘ \«luI ;Em” € .nr{‘.m; Lh‘;lm— I Saturday or early Sunday, pions of the r will be found in|yuther the Hoover - MacDonald gesture | te. gon: Thate e T | e e vill be only the starting point. The | gtance, members of the committee |, : 3 s will. be mch five-power | o ngya) atfairs who in the closing Tug and Tow Are in | :onfe similar to the ‘one that | ;... Seventie re: . . e bl | days of the Seventicth Congress., [istress; Immediate izzled & pushed through, over strong oppo- | | The auguries now for such a |sition, the bill calling for 15 addi- stance Requested athering possibly are more aus-|tional cruisers. These men have | sicious than surrounded the Geneva | definite convictions and undoubted-| MIAMI, Fla., Oct. .—Distress \ffair. |1y would exert much influence. |signals from the tug Safshe, with Then, presuming again that an| There is Senator Hale of Maine, 22 men aboard, towing the oil tank- eement is reached at such a con- | chairman » Senate’s naval af- er Tiolene from Smiths Bluff, Tex- rence, the principles will be in-|fairs comm Over the oppo- as, to Tampa, have been picked up | -orporated in a treaty for transmis- |sition of President Coolidge, and by the Tropical Radio station. Im- | ion to the foreign affairs commit- | the views of er, then president- | mediate assistance was required. ee of the senate | elect, he uvered the ecruiser, The position was given as 50 | Once n a clean bill in com- |bill throug ¢ intact the time |miles west of Vedarrkey. | nittee it then will go to the Senate tself—the one body in the. world | where anything is liable to happen. | as to whether such | limit for con There | tion clause. The Coast Guard boat Tellapooa, itor Shortridge of |was immediately dispatched and is expected to reach the tug and tow | tomorrow. (Continued on Page Three)