The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 3, 1929, Page 1

TH VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5219. PANTAGES GOES TO TRIAL IN Gm F FOUR FLIERS IN AIR EARLY FOR FLIGHT, SEATTLE Leaves Sltka. Alaska, at| 5:43 o'Clock This Morning for South TWO DESTINATIONS ANNGUNCED BY MEN If Weather i:éood, Plane Lands at Seattle—If Not, at Port Angeles (Spe: to Empire) | SITKA, Oct. 3.—The Russian plane, Land of Soviets, hopped ofi for Seattle at 5:3¢ o'clock this| morning. It was partly cloudy and a southeast breeze was blow- | ing ! If the weather is favorable, the | plane will land 'on Lake Wast ington, at Seattle, and if not, at, Port Angeles. Yesterday the fliers worked all day in the rain under canvas, re- pairing a leaky air line and testing the motors. Last night the fliers were dinncv guests of Capt. Kolseth, of the steamer Admiral Rogers, and a dance was given by the ship’s or- | chestra, | Leaving here, the fliers indicate.!} they would take the outside route | to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Thc‘ niane is exveeted to reach tho Strait carly this afternoon. WINGED MESSENGER NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—Over a haz- ardous route a winged messenger of good will is on its way here. It bears a quartet of Russian avi-| ators ambitious to fulfill their mission as good will ambassadors of their native country. It is a hazardous voyage of 12,- 500 miles upon which the ‘Russians cmbarked August 23 after a first attempt was halted when their plane was wrecked in the Siberian forests near Chita. Covering part of the route fol- lowed by the Graf Zeppelin in its recent globe-circling trip, the haz- ards of the voyage rival those of any flight undertaken since man turned to the air in quest of new| fields to conquer. i In flying from Moscow to the American metropolis the Russia»s| are braving terrors of a re;‘,ionl vhere perverse nature is at its t in unleashing its death deal- T weapons. Typhoon, thunder and lightning and treacherous wind to try the skill of the navigator lie! i | | i ! [ as mechanic is enroute to New York City, This is the third attempt of the Russians to reach the U GREAT GERMAN STATESMAN IS ‘ALL, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1929 HOOVER LOSES HIS POWER ON TARIFF RATES 5 j Senate Adopts Democratic Plan to Enact Emer- E gency Tariff Rates - | | | \SENATE VOTE IS 47 ~ TO 42; PARTY SPLIT (om!).nnhun nf Democrats and Republican Inde- pendents Win Out i WASHINGTON. Oct. 3—The Sen- ate ran counter to the wishes of President Hoover and has adoptcd by a 47 to 42 vote, the Democratic plan of restoring to Congress the |power to enact emergency tariff rates now enjoyed by the Chief Executive. | The proposal, a substitute for that offered by the Senate Finance, “FThe Land of the Sovieis” pilotcd by Shestako; and Bolton with Sterligov as navigator and Furnyev Committee of Republicans, would It ates, by way of disasier to the planes and slight injuries to the ovcnpanls REACH AMERICA DEAD, BERI.IN Suddenly Today—Ger- many’s ‘Lloyd George’ ception to British Pre- mier and Party I J e e S | ABOARD LINER BERENGARI {Oct. 3.—British Prime Mini Ramsay MacDonald will arrive ir |New York City at dawn tomorrow {He is rested and keyed up to wh |he hopes his visit will {reaching in furtherance of Anglo- | Americ anunity. | Six days aboard the liner has | done him, his daughter Ishbel and .membcrs of the party, much good I'md all face the reception in New |York city with smiling mein and | pleasant anticipations. The Berengaria, probal {first time in her r {the ocean at reduced : not to bring the line which would comp! ;cemion arrangements. { There will be but a brief |New York City, the Pr to Wast mm .)cfmc noon tomorrow. for the plowed ped SO0 S ate the re¢ in left Mk [] [] N ALD Tfl l Will Entertain Premle: TOMORROW AM. {Gustav Stresemann Dies| New York Clly Plans Re-| be far in too soon, | Sitka this morning for Seattle. !change the flexible tariff poliey| the last two ventures having ended adopted by the Republicans scven |years ago, to make Congress, in-| stead of the President, the final |arbiter of findings of the Tariff| Commission. As a safeguard against | general revision, it would limit Congressional action to the rate| or rates dealt with in the Com- mission’s report. Upsetting the Republican admin- |istration majority in the first ma-| Jor test on the tariff bill in the‘ f and Republican Independents thich are fighting the measure, [showed it had votes to write its own bill if the coalition remains | intact. | | Senator Borah, of Idaho; Norris, jof Nebraska and thirteen Republi-| lcans joined 3¢ Democrats in over- |riding the President. Thirty-eight |Republicans and four |were for the commm.ee bill. H MASON DAY IS FREE MAN: LEAVES JALL | Associate of Sinclair Was | Freed Shortly After Midnight ; Comments 3 Mrs. Herbert Hoover, first lady_af | the land, will entertain Premier Ramsay MacDonald and his daugh= WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. — Henry Mason Day, associate of Harry S Senate, a efmbinatien of Democrat. ter during their visit in Washing- Sinclair in international oil activi- DAILY ALASKA K MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICL TEN CENTS —— SMULT CASE MILLIONAIRE FACES GHARGE MADE BY GIRL Theatrical 'Vlas_,nflle De- fendant in Alleged As- sault on Young Dancer 'SIX MEN AND SIX WOMEN ON JURY .,enaalxonal (_ase to Be Air- ed Now—Jury Is Taken to Scenc of Attack LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 3.—Six men and six women have been chosen as the jury to try Alexander Pantages, 54-year-old millionaire theatre owner, on chatges of a statutory offense preferred by Eu- ‘ulcc Pringle, 17-year-old coed danec- ;y—-ken place in | preliminary | was held for ¢ | Wilson of the' | furnished. . The attack is alleged to have tages’ private of- early in the girl ‘went there to an en- gagement in a’ company. Pantages, f:fl"mg a three-day on August 16, y Judge Leonard ich) rt and 5 set, h was Judge Wilson in or- mge' bail of $25000" ‘ldcring Pantages to be tried, said: » i prm— sy Eunice Pringle, aged 17, holds fast to her story of being attacked! by A ander Pant office in Los Aungeles. The case is now on triai. T s in his private s faces charges on two counts, Democrais - “there is sufficfent cause to be- lieve the defendant guilty.” Preliminary Hearing ‘The preliminary hearing opened w2 e Mg Beingls testifted: as- to. the " alleged improper’ agfion % | Pantages when she went to his pri- | vate office in an effort to hdve w dance act booked for his vaudeville | circuit, Only one witness was called by the defense during the hearing. He \ms Nicholas A. Dunave, the au- "thor of the dance act in which Miss Pringle hoped to perform. Pantages’ attorneys obtained from him a list of men and women acquaintances of himself and the girl ‘and a se- ries of dates upon which Dunave testified she had been in his com- pany, The rest of the time was taken up by testimony of state witnesses and their cross-examination. These took up the story of the attafk where Miss Pringle left off, telling of rushing to the scene when they heard her screams. Actor Tells Story The testimony brought to the stand by W. C. Hale, an actor, who had been sitting in the balcony of the theatre where Pantages' offiees are located when the alleged at- tack occurred He said he ran into the corridar when he heard the ton. Sincenewsof the Britishstates- n’s trip to this country has been | confirmed Washington society is fearful that the question of seating | will again come up as it is pruhable that Mrs. Dolly Gann, sister of Vice : President Curtis will demand that Fall-Sinclair conspiracy trail. she outrank Lady Isabella Howard, | Day stepped nonchantly across ithe threshold of the jail at 25 minutes after expiration of his sen-| tence at midnight last night. ] Pantages 1 a police guard “I'm glad to be out, who wouldn't who asked ~—lbe? My only regret is that it is for his home after threats were | @00 00000 00 o e e onotSinclair instead of me who is made again daughter follow- |® TODAY’S STOCK ® |leaving.” ing her charges. ithe town has been under martial| g QUOTATIONS | Sinclair is serving a six months’ ‘ o = {law. ®osecec v e e e e sentence F:)ur!h Huit i leled Post-War Statesman | Two scores of arrests have ! Day bid his associates goodbye In the chaotic conditions that made, mostly involving women jone by one, to his fellow prisoners| [)aay Hun!mg WashlngtOn ’ B " : Mickey O'Neil, casting agent, that Oct, A ViaB . 08 it o |he was hired by Pantages to testi- gripped Germany for several years! Meanwhile the military court NEW YORK, Oct. 3—Alaska Ju-|who worked with him in the white | after the World War, Gustay Strese- Which worked late last night, cOn-|neau mine stock is quoted today atieollar section of the jail and who !mann rose up as an antidote like tinued today to question witnesses|g Bethlehem Steel 112, American waited up to say goodbye. He had h oil on toubled waters. [in an effort to determine {Smelting 1073, Continental Mo-|a hand shake for each one and a Anacortes hospital .f fy was the basis of the threatened It was as if Stresemann stood assassinated District Attorney ¢ "tors 11%, Corn Products 1097, In-iseries of remarks. He joked and of Puyallup, h‘unm‘; charge. by while others tried this policy‘flolmes. ',tc: national Paper A 34, Paper B pped them on the back and they nts have already taken' a Three employes of the Pantages Theatre also have made depositions. changing their earlier stories and declaring their employer had or- SPOCIATES PR GUSTAV STRESEMANN | RAIDERS RS START | TOWN CLEANUP | wife of the British Ambassador, UF KENTUGKY paralysis shortly after 10 o'clock | | £ Ve B Abauadie last night. Apparently he gmnnd : i who wil ostess e |strength and physicians hoped he 'BOF'_CGER,“ Texas, (?c[g :;"ryr,m Donalds: \would live but a heart attack just Sauads of raiding B e |before dawn this morning was too Y Texas Rangers, have put in ¢ fect a general cleanup of Borger. v hysique and ;?ftfierf“éufl,’imfi.'“” PoRg ,ordered by Gen. Brig. Wolters, since | (Conlifiued on Page Two) voung dancer's screams and thab she fell into his arms. Hale said he then entered Pan- tages' office with Patrolman A. L. Courtney and found the -theatre magnate. “I don't want any publicity quoted Pantages as telling Another Parallel District Attorney Buron Fitts an- nounced that a 16-year-old former usherette in the Pantages Theatre had made a deposition telling a story that closely parallels that told by Miss Eunice Pringle, the dancer. The usherette escaped. Another char g e—subornation of perjury—also threatens the million- | aire, Fitts said. A statement by ties, is a free man for the first time in nearly four months and is still professing his innocence of any wrong doing in connection with shado g of jurors during the BERLIN, Gemany, Oct. tav Stresemann, ‘man statesman and Foreign Minister die yudtler\ly‘ at his home here early today. Stresemann suffered a stroke ni 3—Gus- them. Dr. Lewis A. Pringlg, father of | | Eunice Pringle, alleged attacked by A | Tnternational Newsreel Preemptory Instructions by| Judge in State School Text Book Case FRANKFORT, Ky., Oct. 3.—Gov. Flem D. Sampson has been ac- quitted by a jury in the Circuit Court of, guilt in receiving books as gifts from a school book pub- lishing company. Gov. Sampson was acquitted on premptory instructions of Judge Pon C. Williams, who granted 2 motion of the defense after exami- nation of five state witnesses. been SEATTLE, death fir Vetus Sh accic . toll and that without producing any-. 237%, National Acme 30%, Stan-icheered lustily as he started for 1thmp like a semblance of orders! dard Oil of California 73':, Texas the jail door and freedom. land then stepped into thrust upon Seattle Hunters Are 63%, Alleghany Cor- it 5 Y the ccuntry his own ideas and| g 314, General Motors 63%, | sland. The : . § Fined in Oregon for | \Mother of Fannie il ey oL d him through two 'py A schemes. And usually he emerged | International Harvester 113'%, Pan successful. Trying to Beat Law|American B 61%, Standard Ol of Hurst Dies s“ddenly nn s «r underbrush to um". ml-arn- from | ey was rushed to a h ‘What he proposed often was at} New Jersey T3%. Indictments charging Governor|the risk of sacrificing his position| GnraRTO, Ore., ——,r———— coast guard cufter. On: Sampson and seven members of ‘the |in national afairs. His leadership, putated & t State Textbook Commission with however, turned these risks into! o save Shirley's life, “unlawfully receiving gifts” fmmrsucce»arul events and his achieve- R publishing companies were returned |ments made of him an outstanding | by the Franklin County grand jury, jinternational figure. {to Malheur County to hunt, were which investigatea state affairs for| “The greatest post-war states-|g 0. '¢)o0 cach for violation of the three weeks. iman of Gemany,” was a character- \game laws. The Seattle men are The alleged gifts were specified iZation often made of him. lalleged to have attempted to ex- as “a great number of common| It Was Stresemann who put an . . en "y oo himit of six pheas- school textbooks, the exact num- §Pd to the Cuno policy of passive ... “p ®o10 saiq to have em ber, description and time thereof, resistence in the Ruhr Valley and loyed two boys to go with them, s its stead Instituted a policy of P : unknown to the grand jury.” The B buying licenses for the boys on ks were alleged to have beemrcconcmahon with Germany’s for- were i | whose licenses adgitional birds mer enemies. Sgepted TorR SNt finns | which ] Together with Chancellor Marx t35ged. Tae licensgs were ordered were secking to have texts pub-', TUCL 100" G any in the Teturned to Green and Collins who lished by them adopted for use in l |were then permitted to continie the Kentucky public schools. Jhuntmg. ot in the leg by s companion while hunt- & o is —_— on tlac LmR Eunice ran screaming and Pantages land- ly released and bond was $25,- (Continued on Page Six) ———————— Trotzky Seeks 4 husband of Mrs. ahy awsiting sentence Admission of manslaughter To I‘l‘)”(’"d h of a Japan- he ran down > and he died - 'ed in jail, subseque held for trial. F 000, He is the |Lois Pant after convic ital pi Oct. 3.—Joshua Green, wealthy Seattle man, and {Josiah Collins, former State Senz- tor, of Seattle, members of a Se- jattle party of hunters who came ST. LOUIS, Mo, Oct. 3.—Mr Rose Hurst, mother of Fannic Hurst, novelist, died last night u her home here. She suffered from pleurisy recently and came he: with her daughter, who left a weck 'ago, when physicians assured the novelist her mother was convales- cing. The daughter and her hus- band, Jacques Danielson, pianist are to arrtve today. ! e Co | GRANBY'S QUARTERLY DIVIDEND ANNOUNCED ful effol SPOKANE, Oct. 3.—Granby Con- solidated Mining, Smelting & Power | Company announces a $2 dividend for the current quarter, placing the company on a dividend basis of $8 per share. Payments will to- tal $876444 and will bring the |grand total up to $13,821945. — Col. Lindbergh Hops Off from Way to San Sulvmlor) AMSTERDAM, Holland, Oct. 3.— |The Foreign Minister today said |Leon Trotzky, exiled Soviet war 1x-hief has approached the goverm= ment of Holland regarding its at-% Adsit returned from thetitude on his admission to Bolc ¢h left here scuth o » Yukon after a two- land. 4 An Indian picture of the Custer today for in con- 'm Seattle, during, Trotzky is now at Pera, near Cons+ massacre, done on deerskin by tinuation of his trip around the which under the care stantinople The first newspaper in the Nu.lh-fl}hwl Standing Bear, who took Caribbean. When the Colonel left of docte returned much im-| Germany, Great Britain and n west was the “Sentinel of the part in the battle, is in the Mis- here he planned to leave San Sal-'y i ts within a rea- merous small countries have Northwest,” founded in 1793 at souri Resources Museum at Jeffer- vador late this afternoon and spend time to regain his fused Trotzky permission to lcincinmm by William Maxwell. .son City. é L'hv‘ night in Guatemala City. « |his .v\ilc within their bounds, Vanagua on oo ADSIT RETURNS HOME M A San stay in time he wa H sonabl |health en ] (Continued on Page Two)