The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 5, 1929, Page 1

DAILY ALASKA {/OL. X)\XIV NO. 5221. J UNEAU, ALASKA, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1929. CMPIRE MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CEN_TS PRESIDENT AND PREMIER TO HOLD CONFERENCES MISS PRINGLE SPENDSENTIRE AY ON STAND Testifies of Attack Alleged Made Upon Her by Pantages WITHSTANDS HARD ‘ CROSS-EXAMINATION Breaks Down and Sobs During Recital of Story—Recovers | LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 5—Al rigorous cross-examination failed to shake materially the testimony of 17-year-old Eunice Pringle, who was in the witness chair the entire day yesterday in the trial of Alexander | Pantages, theatrical magnate, whom | she accuses of a statutory offense | against her in his office, on August 9. Miss Pringle. reiterated in’ detail the accusation against the theatri- cal man and returned emphatic re- | buffs to the defense attorney toi break down her testimony. | The incessant fire of questions; by the defense attorney was not| complete when adjournment was| ordered until Monday when the: girl broke in unrestrained sobbing during the persistent grilling. She refused a recess and recovered her composure and went on. Pantages Reddens Pantages reddened under the de- liberate acusation of the girl. He watched closely when damaging ad- missions were made by the girl ard scrutinized the. efiect jnon the jugy of cross examination results. Miss Pringle denied the defense assertions that Pantages refused L engage her in a vaudeville dance act and said: “He said certainly he would book my act,” in the “little stairway cub- byhole.” Tried To Hold Hand Miss Pringle said further: “When he tried to hold my hand I told| him that the hand had nothing to do with business. ~When he em- braced me I pleaded with him to be a gentleman and let me leave.” | Her attempts at escaping from | Pantages, the girl said, by screams, were stopped by his hand over her mouth. She said she kicked him with all of her ability and strug- gled continuously until she fainted. She explained in detail the alleged attack. Miss Pringle said that her pre- vious visits to cee Pantages about her act was always in the main! office and his secretary was gencr- ally around. ——————— | eeceecs0cs0 0000 TODAY’S STOCK . QUOTATIONS ° 0000000000 NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—Alaska Ju- neau mine stock is quoted today a: 84, PBethlehem Steel 118, Conti- nental Motors 11%, Corn Products 111, International Paper A 34%, Paper B 24%, Standard Oil of Cali- fornia 73%, Alleghany Corporation 45, General Motors 68%, Inter- national Harvester 114%, Fox Film 96%, Pan-American B 63%, Stan- dard Oil of New Jersey 77%. MRS, TUNNEY IS mosT seAuTIFUL Rapto armisT NEW MOTOR IS - Associated Press Photo Olive Shea of WABC, key station of the Columbia radio chain, was announced as the winner of the national contest to find the most beautiful radio artist’in connection with radio world's fair In New York. 'Two Hundred Passengers Are Robbed Aboard Train MILWAUKEE, Wis, Oct. While more than 200 passengers on two Milwaukce trains slept e today on a short lay-over, thiev believed to have been di ised waliters, cars and stripped the passengers’ clothes and baggage of cash and jewels. | The Police estimate that the to- LR Shares Fortune crept through Pullman ! tal loss will run into thousands of} dollars. The lcoting was aiscovered when ) fhe trains arrived in Chicago a the passengers arose to dress. Several of the largest losers were Chicagoites. Several told of los- ing rolls of $100 bills besides jewe!l- ry and other valuables. Porters said they saw the fig- ures going through the cars hur- riedly but believed they were wail-| ers and did not molest them. Sy e ey | PERATED UPON BERLIN, Oct. 5.—Mrs. James J. ¢ Tunney was operated upon today by surgeons for the removal of her appendix and is resting easily. Mrs. Tunney was operated upon last spring for an appendix abscess but the organ was not removed ) then owing to her critical condi- tion. Recently she regained her health. Tunney said that doctors told him an operation would be necessary and for him to always keep his wife near a large city where an operation could be- ac- complished. i been found and that the fliers Vo ree ke Miss Isabella Pope, of Chicago, Illi- nois, fiancee of the late William Nelson McClintock, will at last re- ceive her share in the million dollar estate, left by McClintock when he died under rather peculiar circum- Atances five years ago. MME. LITVINOFF’S WRITINGS AROUSE BERLIN REDS’ IRE BERLIN, Oct. 5—The Communis tic newspaper “Rote Fahne,” be- lieves that Comrade Maxim Litin- off, acting commissar of foreign affairs of the Soviet Union, should divorce his wife because she com- mitted what Berlin soviet sympa- thizers consider a grave error in writing a decidedly bourgeois article in the democratic “Berliner Tage- blatt.” Ivy Litvinoff's article, “Berlin as Seen by a Visitor,” the Rote Fahne holds, gives evidence of far too great sympathies for bourgeois life. This, the organ considers sufficient ground for Comrade Litvinoff to instigate divorce proceedings and take unto himself one whose ideals are more in line with those of her husband. “From a cafe Unter Den Linden 1 saw handsome young men pass swiftly in automobiles of the size of an overgrown bug” Mme. Lit- vinoff wrote. “Then one sees l enormous automobiles ‘de luxe’ through the windows of which one can see beautiful women in gor- geous furs or genial captains of fi- nance. “Berliners have time to sit in cafes, to read newspapers, imbibe coffee and to flirt with évery pass- ing goodlooking woman.” To this the “Rote Fahne” coun- ters: § “Apparently, Mme. Litvinoff never heard that not all Berliners have time to read newspapers in cafes, nor is she well informed when she says that all Berliners notice and flirt with every passing woman. There are several hundreds of thousands of Berliners who wear no monocle, own no saddle horse and are not in the least swagger. They live in the proletarian quar- ters, work in factories and have only utter contempt for such ob- servers of city life as Mme, Litvin- off.” Washington, D. C. Policemen Are Scored by Blease WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.— Senator C. L. Blease, of South Carolina, thinks the ‘Washington police concern themselves too much about liquor and petting. “If there is one type of policeman I hate, it's the type armed with a flash- light, who sneaks up on some boy and girl making love. “You can't stop a thing like that and it is foolish to try, yet some police do it to fatten their record, al- though the only thing they do is to drag the name of some girl through the mud. “What's the sense of ar- resting a man because he has got a few toddies aboard if he is minding his own business and is on his way home? He ought to be left alone if he is doing nothing.” RO O R R ) — | fall until supplies are received. ! SENT NORTH TO' RUSSIAN PLANE Land of Soviets Is Disabled! at Waterfall—Supplies Being Rushed TRIP AFTER REPAIRS Cygan Placed at Disposal | of Fliers at Request of Governor sian plane Land of So- viets was forced down at Water- fall. 200 miles south of Sitka, sev- eral hours after the take-off from Sitka Thursd morning at 5:43 o'clock on account of motor trouble (according to advices received hy !The Empire. | Two fliers made their way $0 Craig and there reported the in-| terrupted flight from Moscow New York City, The fliers wel Iheld at Craig for several hours ,the cannery boat which was pected to take them back to Wai |fall, ran aground at low tide ai |had to wait until high tide. | The United States Deputy Mar- (shal and Radio Operator Huteson | did their best to entertain the vis- itors. The plane will remain at Water- | The Rus | Motor Damaged | Commander Shestakov and his |erew will begin work removing the {damaged motor and have every- thing in readiness for the new | motor and supplies which are ex- |pected from Seattle early next |week. The supplies left Seattle |today on the steamer Alaska for| Ketchikan and will be tuken frém. Ketchikan to Waterfall on the Cygan. Late yesterday afternoon, both Gov. George A. Parks and United States Marshal Albert White receiv- ed official radiograms stating fliers had reached Craig and that the plane was disabled at Waterfall. Cygan Sent to Assistance In answer to a cablegram sent out last night by Gov. George A. Parks which stated that the plane Land of Soviets was at Waterfall in a disabled condition and need- ed assistance, the Cygan, in com-| mand of Chief Gunner Helge C.| Hermann, proceeded to that pluce‘ at 7:25 o'clock last night. The Cygan was returning to her home | port at Ketchikan when she re-| ceived this message. The fliers) are safe and well. The Coast Guard vessels Unalga, ! Cygan, Redwing and Haida jn!ned! the search for the missing Suuet‘1 plane yesterday and were px'(‘pared; to comb the vast territory lying between Sitka and Seattle when| they heard that the plane l.;d{ were safe. The vessels then re- turned to their home stations. Goes After Motor Commander Addison of the Un- |alga received a radio from the, Cygan at 2 o'clock this afternoon | |that the vessel was leaving Craig| Ithis afternoon for Ketchikan to| {meet the Alaska there next Mon- |day. The Cygan will take aboard {the new motor and supplics and| |return to Waterfall where the Land | |of Soviets is now anchored. PLANE MYSTERY | REPORTED WEST Captain of Gasboat Reports Seeing One Over Ocean But Can’t Find It SEWARD, Alaska, Oct. 5.—After | a search of the waters between Pilot and Seal Rocks, 80 miles off | Cape Resurrection, Capt. Charles |Eimswiler, of the gasboat Chase, who thought he saw a plane in that vicinity earlier has returned; here. Capt. Eimswiler reported ‘he saw a plane with one man in it pass- ing over the ocean and at 3 oclock in the morning, rockets were fired. He was nearly out of fuel and returned here for a fresh suppiy, then proceeding to the vi- |cinity again. He cruised about for |two hours and found nothing | If Capt. Eimswiler actually saw |a plane it may have been the plane |due here from Nome or the plane| of Pilot Russell Merrill. i More than one-half the entire| tea importations into the United States are handled at New York. | uled jin jlease the Elk Hills, “Fall Trial P BULLETIN—Washington, Oct. 5—lilness may again bring a postponment of the trial of for- mer Sccretary of Interior Fall as a result of bronchial at to which he bject, and tendant weakness. Mis frail con- dition of health is causing ap- prehension on the part of in ily. The attack was o sioned by inclement weather last Wednesday going to and from the District Court where he was arraigned. By FRANK Y. WELLER A. P. Feature Service Writer) WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—Probabj the last nes in a drama of un precedented proportions in Ameri can history will be staged in thc trial of Albert B. Fall, on the charge of accepting a bribe whil Secretary of Interior. Azed and ill, the man who af the height of his strength and power seven ago leased valu- able oil reserves in Wyoming and California to the separate Sinclait and Doheny ccrporations, is sched- to come here October 7 tc defend the acts that have resulted numerous criminal and civi’ suits. Specifically, he is to deny that the $100,000 brought to him “in a little black satchel” by the son of Edward L. Doheny, bribed him to Cal, oil re- serves to his “old friend and fellow prospector.” If Fall is found guilty it will be the first conviction in five long years of prosecution in the oil scandal cases. Harry F. Sinclair |went to jail, but his concurrent six months sentences were for contempt jof the Senate in refusing to answer questions and for jury shadowing. All of the trials for conspiracy and fraud have resulted in either acquit- tal or mistrial. robably L t Albert B. Fall (left) will go accepting a §1090,000 bribe in conx Pomercne (upper right) 1 | Daugherty (lower right) will be session of valuable equipment set {up by the Sinclair and Doheny in- terests, Royalties were paid on all oil taken from the reserves and {Leo A. Rover, federal district at- {torney who will assist Atlee Pome- {rene and Owen J. Roberts, special |counsel in prosecuting Fall, say the ‘government has not lost a cent. | Prosecution of bribery charges against Fall and against Doheny {is virtually all that remains to be ”:Wurv in}hl Ca | { | 9 EXECUTIVES " T0 CONFER ON WORLD PEACE Discussions May Have Far Reaching Effect in Future History |HOOVER, M’DONALD TALK HEART TO HEART |British Premie: Is to Ad- dress Congress of United States WASHINGTO Oct. Meeting 2s friends of common ideals, two plain mcn, of humble origin, will sit down for discussions which may have a far reaching effect on |the future course of history. 7 on a charge of Atlee Harry H. to trial QOctober nection with naval oil leasas, Goverument prosecutor, witnes | aroused the wrath of a nation, Convicted, Fall will face a fine of not more than three times the | amount of “the alleged bribe, not | | more than three years imprison- Iment and the specification that he never again may hold public offiee. If he is not convicted, it is prob- able the charges against Doheny will be dropped and the curtain rung down forgver. Harry M. Daugherty, former at- Through civil suits all property done before the docket is cleared |torney general of the United States involved has been returned to the IN CAPITAL ENFORCEMENT ROW The latest enforcement flareu lowed charges by Senator Howell ( not enforced. Prohibition Comm! of the maeclstrom that almost government. In addition, it has pos- wrecked €n <administration and ) brial Associated Press Photo p In the District of Columbia fol lower center) that prohibition wa: issioner James H. Doran (right) replied that Washington was no worse than other cities. Maj. Henry G. Pratt (left), superintcndent of MUTINY DRAMA NOW ASSUMES COMMONPLACE Debris Being Cleared Away in Sensational Prison Scene CANON CITY, Colorado, Oct. 5. —The tragic drama has assumed a common place aspect today as the debris of the nation's worst prison mutiny was removed and preparations were made for the funerals of 12 men who lost their lives in a futile attempt of con- victs to escape. Of the twelve dead, seven are guards who laid down their lives jfor law and order and the other five are convicts. One was killed by a guard, three were slain by the ringleader who then ended his own life when chances of escape vanished. Hundreds of convicts did not par- ticipate in the mutiny. Work of clearing away the debris started today. An investigation is under way to learn why, by whom and where the tempest started without nearly |1,000 men rousing to the riot and 4 police, has asked additional funds |fire which swept buildings and |burned unchecked. I The damage is estimated at be- |tween $300,000 and $400,000. PRI TF iES IR DERBY IS t DETROIT, Mich.,’ Oct. 5.—Flying a biplane, C. W. Meyers, of Cleve- land, piloted the first plane from the Ford Airport today, inaugurat- ing the 1929 Air Derby. Following Meyers, more than a core of planes took off at minute intervals on the 5,017-mile tour. The planes headed for Windsor, Ontario, where they will stop, thence | to Toronto for the first night's top., Three -women pilots are among the group, - > “Merecy Slayer” Is Pardoned by Governor TOPEKA, Kansas, Oct. 5. —Fred Erb, 75 year old “mercy slayer,”, of his aged and invalid wife, who is serv- ing life sentence in the Kan- sas Penitentiary for first degree murder, has been granted a parole by Gov. Clyde M. Reed. eeeveccccccoe UNDER WAY NOW expected to be a witness at the W, J. CONNERS | DIES SUDDENLY HEART ATTACK “Conners ot the Midas| Touch™ Passes Away in N. Y. Home NEW YORK, Oct. 5—Wiiliam J. Conners, publisher of the Buffalo | « Courier Express and head of the dropped dead as a result of heart failure in his home here, Born in Buffalo on January 57, Mr. Conners attended public school until he was 13 years old, when he obtained employment a porter on a lake steamer., While |sailing the lakes between Buffalo {and Duluth, he obtained experience |which was to stand him in good stead In 1016, he accomplished what he believed was his greatest achievement, the organization cf ithe Great Lakes Transit Corpora- | tion, controlling ahout 85 per cent | castle boy of a little freight steam- ships on the Greal Lakes includin; extensive docks, terminals and warehouses along the lakes. ‘When rail lines were forbidden by act of Congress, to own, operate or control water transpertation ilines, Mr. Conners conceived the| {1dea of forming a company to take jover the great fleets operated Ly the roads. This plan he was abe q | | { a to consummate, and the man, who, (Continued on Page Two) | 'RUM RUNNERS PLY FROM HOLLAND TO SCANDIAN COASTS COPENHAGEN, Oct. 5—The rum running son in northern waters is in full swing and Danish authori- ties are combatting what they de- scribe as a great onslought of “the law breakers. | |Holland at low prices and sell in Norway, Sweden, Finland and oth- er countries where either govern- {ment monopoly or prohibition reigns isupreme. The Danish authorities \know the most flagrant offenders by name but are powerless fo deal with them as long as they keep outside Danish territorial waters. ‘The light northern summer nights are unsuitable for the rum busi- ness, so consequently the boot- leggers rest during the summeg |Great Lakes Transit Company,| Danish smugglers buy spirits n| 1 Unhampered by formalities, President Herbert Hoover and ‘Hrilish l’remiey Ramsay Mae- iD(mald propgse to open their Iminds to caeh other in the [hope that misunderstanding between the American and British nations may be im- possible. Details and nonessentials will be eliminated in the talk. The President, with Mae- Donald, his daughter Ishbel Ymu‘] members of the British party, will leave lat: tod=y ifor the Rapidan fishi {returning Monday. Premier Mu¢ Donald dress Congress dur: visit here. i THREE BANDI 5 FOILED, HOLD -UP SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5. ‘Three bandits were cornered in an Ak tempted hold-up on the waterfron | { |late yesterday when two policome, entered a club and opened fire bandits fought their way tlo auto at the curb and sent & parting volley at the officers as $hey. sped- away. One bullet struck a steve- dore, Rudolph Anderson, buryin: {itself in his wrist, and another tor: through the tunic of one of the of- ficers. The policemen lost the {trail of the bandits through the heavy traffic. PRI SEESA Capt. Cochran to Be Retired End of This Month SEATTLE, Oct. 5—After 46 years service in the Coast Guard, Capt. |C. 8. Cochran, who has been in command of the Bering Sea Patrol, with headquarters at Dutch Harber, retires from the service October 28. Capt. Cochran has made no plans for the future. His home will ba in Oakland where he is going to live with his daughter. Capt. Cochran is best known as the commander of the cutter Bear for many years. Capt. Cochran arrived here Thursday on the Coast Guard cut- ter Chelan and completed his last cruise to the North. months in fashionable waterin places or in their continental cha- teaux. In August the dark nights begin to return and the smugglers get ready for their winter job of refilling the empty cellars of the wealthy law-breakers. Most of the exchange is done on Herthas Flak, a tiny island in the { Kattegat belonging to no one. On | this no man’s land are stored large quantities of spirits bought at tem cents a litre in Holland and resold lin northern prohibition countries for as much as two dollars. The most daring of the runners was King Bremer who is languish- ing in a Norwegian prison, and, while serving his term, is writing his memoirs.