The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 16, 1929, Page 1

| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5230. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1929. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ARREST MADE IN THEATRICAL MAGNATE'S CASE MAIL SUBSIDY IS SUBBESTED BY PRESIDENT Four Departments Asked to Aid in Solution, Air, Ocean Mail NEW NATIONAL SYSTEM| NOW BE DETERMINED! Air Branchaf Four ‘ De- partments and S. B. to Make Plans WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—The study of how letting of mail con- tracts might aid the development of the Merchant Marine and na- tional airplane system has been undertaken H The Administration’s problem| has been submitted by President| Hcover to the air branches of the Post Office, Commerce, War and Navy Departments. The most perplexing angle fis determination of a definite rate and structure for carrying air President Hoover is interested in finding out if it is possible to de-| certain national routes! a view of strengthening them for passenger service by support of the Post Office Department. Some! time will elapse before a perma- nent policy is announced, the plan being based to air mail is required until it has been built up. The situation is considered b the Administration to apply to th: Merchant Marine. The President has asked the four Departments and the Shipnlng‘ Boeard to determine essential trade | voutes t0° see” what-.can. ba. don by government support, the Post Office Department, in let- | ting mail contracts to improve the| Merchant Marine on the main ocean highways. ——,——— FAR REACHING LOBBY PROBE 15 INDICATED Sugar Tariff Influence May Be Investigated— House, Senate WASHINGTON, Oct. 16—The Senate'’s investigation into the pur- ported attempts to influence na- tional , legislation has encompassed both iponsors and opponents of the proyosed increase in tariff on sugar» an\ the raging dispute that for montys has surrounded the issue in thy House of Representa- | | | 3 1 ’ Capital Debs o;;_E(lge for Winter of“Guiet;r }d('h& arc (left to right) Marian Wells, Helen Walker, Alberta Perley and Catherine Berry. that Fedcral subsidy || ‘pk‘asnn‘u preliminary to the real| {vr. and Mrs, w5 CBLACK” AND “WHITE” ROMAN oo AR IS PHOTOS A tea October 19 will be the first event of the Washington social season for the army of debutantes. 3 XLk _©BACHRACH VAMARA | ervice Writer) (A. P. Featurs S Miss Marian Wells, dauzhter of Dr.|“coming out” is awaited with lnter-l WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. — The gnd M Walter Wi i other | est. her sister, Alice. | voyage POSS&_bXb. »Shu is no long “day of the dech” is dawning bright [of this season’s debs. Some of the girls find making| Mrs. Davis has taken a house m|Young and is _“”j‘l‘b?“l by et e on Washington's social horizon. | goyeral givls from forcign coun- |debuts so much fun that they “come | Washington so her young daughter | PTOUSht on by constant handling | Silver tea pots are glistening £0r|yros wi make their bow to society jout” a couple of times. Miss Carol [may have the fun of a real debut)Of radium. — Physiclans did not | the first venturesome fluttering of | (i’ wingor. Baroness Astrid Un-|Grosvenor, who had an informal|{With all the trimmings. Alice|WaDt her to attempt the voyage fedWbic’s” glorified new wings, Oc Sternberg, whose mother was|presentation to society last winter |Davis’ coming out waa ey s L vas the e TORNE d0a |the widow of a Russian diplomat|at a (ea dance, will be formally |season. He e Moma o) A tea for this season’s debutantes | pergre per marriage to an Ameri- | introduced this winter. Miss Mar-| Two giris who nave been abroad| ¥ HAC Spevul wirdless weather | will be given them by Mrs. Helen | .y army officer, will make her de- | garetta Bayard Wright, daughter of | this summer will make their debuts| POt b vl | Ray Hagner. of |Mr. and Mrs. Henry Price Wright, |is to make her debut both in Phila- It will be the first )4 )ore under the chaperonag “‘get together” and will be just "‘hor aunt, Mrs. Albert J. Myer. Miss LoranGa Prochnik, daugh-|delphia and Washington. ter of the minister of Austria and| Miss Cynthia Davis, daughter of | Madame Prochnik, and Miss Vic-|Dwight F. Davi Miss Alberta Perley, daughter of |45y Catalini, niece of the coun-fof the Philippines, Clarence Perley Of oo of the Italian embassy and ‘Washington, will be presented at alg tea dance Thanksgiving nncrm(;n.\ social whirl which will start about ! month later. will SOCIETY FACTIONS TO REUNITE , goverwor general have a fling at Washington society before nora Catalini are others whose!going to Manila immediately after e (Associated Press Staff Wriler) ROME, Oct. 16—Rome’s new so- cial season just about to, open will sce one of the most colorfu! chang- es of its history—for the “White” jand the “Black” aristocracies and the “White” and the “Black” dip- lomats will mingle again without fear of censure or embarrassment. | The signing of the Lateran treaties and the ending of the Rom: Question dissolved a strange social deadlock. | ’ By ANDRUE BERDING | | Ever since the beginning of the Roman Question in 1870, the “White” aristocrats and diplomats, ‘that is, those adhering to the | King’s court, and the “Black” aris- |tocrats and diplomats, those ad- hering to the pope, tained a distance and difference |which were theoretically radical, |although sometimes they approach- |ed in actuality very closely. | “Black” aristocrats did not ni- v |vite “White” aristocrats to thelr tives. Thost of both sides of ¢! receptions. “White” aristocrats re- SR iEnts So\IRE at iy ciprocated. Up until recent years gated. Now \he Semate commit-|.p,o oriciocrats were likely to tee promises to engulf the Senate itself when it calls upon members to, explain their relation to the controver}l as with other phases of the general inquiry into Wash- ington ldbying. One of the particular objectives| of the ifwvestigation is the expos- ing of irdividuals who may have obtained funds from the sugar in- terests on the strength of the claim they could influence voting of the members of Congress. Sharks Dodge Humans, Two Students Assert NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 16.—Har- rowing tales of man eating sharks are mostly “fish stories,” declare two young scientific studeics of Tulane university. vinced that sharks would not hartg live and moving human be- ingg, Fred Inbau and Vincent De-| bes' prepared to test the theory | witl life and limb. | They organized a party and set| out for the Rigolets outside of New| Orlpans and after they had caugh'.‘, a flour-foot shark and saw many | otBers in the water, dived in and swim for 30 minutes in the midst| of the sharks. | ;pope if they were seen with the “White” aristocrats. families of Italy were divided into ‘two camps. | Emvarrassing | In diplomacy the differences be- |tween the two orders have been |even more embarrassing. Many | countries maintain two ambassadors lor ministers in Italy, one accred- lited to the king and the other to the pope. Yet these ambassadors, though fellow countrymen, were not supposed to be in communica- tion with each other, were not to attend each other’s receptions, nor {other. They were to act as if they were accredited, one to Bue- {nos Aires and the other to Tokyo, jinstead of accredited to two pow- |ers whose centers were in the have main-| receive a gentle censure from the; The great; {to maintain any relation with each | TWO ALLEGED {One Is Shot and Wounded | inRaidMade on Apart- ; ment House SALT LAKE, Utah, Oct. 16—One | iman was shot and weunded, and |anoLher captured in a raid on an | apartment, house _in search for rob- |bers who held-up a hank messen- zer a week ago and escaped with $34,000. (ried by the messenger was found in an apartment and about $5,000. Jack McCarthy was shot when he Sy entered the apartment wh WO deputies were hiding and @ his return. The officers shot when McCarthy reac! |his gun. Jim Donoval, the © man, was in an automobile wh arrested. | 0T e { | GRAF ZEPPELIN - MAKING FLIGHT FREDERICHSHAFEN, Oct. 16— |The Graf Zeppelin started las night on a 60-hour flight over the Balkans on the longest voya since the completion of jeround the world. The flight will cover the ground flown over last | spring. | ——- [TOWN OF 1800 BUYS | COMMUNITY AIRPLANE BANK ROBBERS | ARECAPTURED § { Sheriff Patten said the bag car- contained ¢ To Wed Oilman i E | Mrs, Four of the leaders among capital Christmas to join her father and within a few days of each uLhcr‘i with claborate tea dances. Miss Helen Walker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Walker, will be introduced to society December 27. Miss Catherine Berry, daughter of Mrs. George Knox Berry, will make her debut December 31. INFATUATION IS CAUSE OF TWO GRIMES Woman Killed by Man,! Who Was Refused in Mar- riage—Bodies Found | WALLINGFORD, Conn., Oct —The Police are convinced ths Arn Bryan Ayres, aged advertising expert 41 who earned $100,000 a year, was shot to death by William Gaylor, a book- keeper, who then killed himsclf years, Their bodies were found in room at an inn here. Mrs. Ayers was the divorced wife! of Ernest Ayres, former Amhers professor and the mother of three; children. } The bodies, with pullet wounds! in their temples, were found by| Robert Hyatt, manager of the inn| who broke down the door after re-| peated efforts to get answers h"‘“l failed. ' The tragedy was climaxed by an infatuation which had its ml,‘c])-i tion last summer which brought a| proposal of marriage from Gay-| lord who had planned to divorce Miss Dorothy M. Ridenor, Wash- | his wife. Letters to Mrs. Ayers ington, D. C. society girl, is re-|from Gaylord were found in the to be engaged to Hemy|room and indicated she refused to ported Mason Day, aid of Harry F. clair, who, with his chief, served ® in- marry Gaylord. The couple went his sentence in the District of Co- lumbia jail. s LY ench Forward Naval Aceeptance To British Gout. r PARIS, 16.—The French gov- ernment has forwarded its ace tance to Londan, to join the naval conference. The text and a same city. TARIKO, Mo, Oct. 16. — Wh/v‘f'”‘"' will be made public tonight. How rigidly this was observed in|would imagine that a town of 1,800 R some cases was seen when King|would buy a community plane so0!® ® ® ¢ ¢ ® ¢ e 00 00 0o George of England visited Rome |its merchants, farmers and clerks ® TODAY’S STOCK . several years ago. He stayed at'might learn to fly? QUOTATIONS ° the British embassy accredited to| Tarkio has done just that. Near-|® © ® ® € © ¢ 0 0 s 0 ¢ 0 ¢ the king. Then came the time 1y a score of its business men are| when he asked an interview with (studying aviation. Their flying the pope. But tradition said helclub has bought a biplane and hir- could not leave an embassy accred-'ed a pilot-teacher. ited to the king and go directly to| When the student-pilots become the pope. So the British rulerproficient, they intend to give more changed his residence nominally lessons to later converts, buy plane for several hours to the palace of a|themselves and set up a shop deal- NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today at 8, G Harvester 1 Pan Amer %, National Acme 30. an B 64, Standard . They are now ready to tell the pana) nople, and then went to paying in motors and accessories for Oil of California 74, Standard Oil world sherks attack only dead hu- pg respects to the pontiff. man- bodies and that if a shark| ever struck a person it was be-| lof New Jersey 797% ! R more than 30 feet long lthe up-to-date aviator. Other Instances All this is necessary, they ex-| Another instance, though on a Plain, because Tarkio has an inter- cause of mistaken idenfify by this| denizen of the deep. t the law in Ohio, 'mediate flying field on the Kansas attorney general ruled, (Continued on Page Sxx; clty-omq)m air mail route, J Alleghany Corporation 447, Corn Products 121, Fox Films 95%, neral Motors 63%, International to the room yesterday. The mur- der and suicide took place about five hours later. . Army Flight Surgeons ; Must Take to the Air| WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Army air corps flight surgeons, hereaf-| ter, vust know whereof they speak. Under a new policy annourced | by the war department, all regular flight surgeons must receive ten| hours dual instruction on training 2 planes and must participate fre- quently and regularly in flights at their stations. The war department explained the purpose of the order was to familiarize the surggons with ac- tual conditions under which avia- tors fly. It is expected to ad- vance the treatment of disabilitic and other factors having a bearing on the health of the army flier. — e+ BEACON GUARDS PILOTS SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—A radio| | by Owen D. Youns MADAME CURIE | _ v % | REACHES U. S, | SECOND VIgIT Codiscoverer of Radium to Attend Dinner, Edison’ Celébration WILL BE GUEST OF PRESIDENT HOOVER Fecble Ben;ffarclor of Man- kind Is Handed | Check for $50,000 S NEW YORK, Oct. 15— Ass by Ambassador arles G Da Madame Curic, co-discoverer radium, landed late yesterday the Tle de France. She was yal Stork ‘the trial WITNESS FOR PANTAGES IS UNDER ARREST | Will Be Held to Grand Jury Indictment for Alleged Perjury « for BASIS OF CHARGE IS NOT DIVULGED Y Witness Gives Testimony Contradicting that of Girl in Case LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 16— Garland Biffle, defense witness in of Alexander Pantages, This 1s Madame Curic’s second | charged with a statutory offense ‘visit to America. This time she egalnst Bunice Pringle, was ap- will attend a dinner in cel i Crown Prince Olaf and his bride, rested for perjury as he left the, tion of the fifticth anniversary of |[Princess Martha of Sweden, are witness stand yesterday afternoon. Edison’s invention of the inca-|e€xpecting the birth of a child He had been on the stand more descent light in Detroit, October |about Christmas, it was reported than an hour for direct and cross 21, 5 today. They were married March examination when Prosecutor Fitts Her courageous spirit made the |21 last. (sent werd outside to arrest Biffle. | Fitts said Biffle would be taken D his course should rough seas arise. Madame Curie will be the guest of President Hoover and Mus. Hoover on October 29 and 30. She | received a check for $50,000 raised lin this eountry for the purchase of {to the Institute at Wrangell, Po-! land, her native city. AL SMI {a gram of radium she will present | OVATION ASHE BOOSTS MAYOR Campaign for Mayor Walk- er’s Reelection Opens— Smith Warmly Cheered before the Grand Jury for indict- jclined to divulge the basis of his TH GETS {ment as soon as possible. He de- |perjury charge saying the accusa- tion ‘had spoken for itself. Biffle gave testimony contra- dicting that of Miss Pringle and supporting Pantages' claims he was the victim of a “frame-up,” by the girl and others. The arrested man was formerly |a lawyer but is now a book sales- man. Biffle testified he was in the (bullding the day of the attack and !overhenrd a conversation Miss i Pringle assertedly held with Nich- Rl e Kills Husband Following Continual Abuse | | NEW YORK, Oct. 15/After a 0las Duneay, whom Biffle said he Tammany jally of blgring bands!saw accompany . the girl towards |and vast quantities of red fire,'the Scéné of the alleged attack. |Mayor James J. Walker formally Biffle said the girl said: “If he launched his campaign for re-clec- [doesn’t book my act, he will al- tion last night on a platform of |ways be sorry.” ast performances with all “mud-| e g inging” tabooed. The tremendous | (Jice and said 5, |yesterday morning when she struck | be SUMMIT, N. J., Oct. 16.—Mrs Laura Titus, white-haired and wrinkled by 70 years of life, kill-! ed her 73-year-old husband with | an axe. | The victim, James Titus, mar-| ried her 49 years ago. Mrs. Titus confessed to the po- she slew 'her hus-| band because she could no longer | endurc his abuses. He drank heav- | ily. She said he was intoxicated | him twice with an axe. She then alled neighbors who notified the police. MEMBERS OF HOUSE PACK BELONGINGS Will Return to Homes,! Despairing of Senate Tariff Action WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Many of the¢ House members, who have | waited patiently for the Senate to enact the Tariff bill, have de- spaired of its reaching them be- fore the close of the special ses- sion and are packing their bags| for home prior to the opening of | the regular sion in December. Meanwhile the House is to meet without transacting any business, every three days, until November 11, when it is expected a decision | will be reached upon the course to pursued before the December swssion, if the Senate has not ap- proved of the bill by that time, as! the House and Senate conferees compose the many differences, -—e enthusiasm aroused by former Gov. Alfred E. Smith was one of the features of the occasion. At the Tammany where all the Democratic candi- dates spoke and were loudly cheer- ed, Gov. Smith w given the great- est ovation of them all when he urged the retent.on of Mayor Walk- er’s Administration to fulfill the public improvement plan started by it Gov. Smith organization i id the Republican simply playing pol- iitics in the City election in order ! to perfect their organization for the Gubernatprial campaign in 1930, and the 1932 Presidential clection. ' Senate Co;l;e:mg Farm Board Members WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. — Th Senate has sidetracked temporar!ly the tariff bill to consider tk Agricultural Committee’s report recommending confirmation of |eight members of the Federal Farm o Board. Hall rally, | Enough people to populate a small |village were rescued by August F. Marty, St. Louis lifeguard, in 18 |years. He saved 253. | |Stunt Man Falls iTo His Death; !Injurys Others CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 16.— Losing his grip on a rope down which he was sliding from the top of the new 44 story Civic Opera Building, Rudy Climino, aged 23, New York stunt man, fell 20 stories to his death and in- jured severel spectators, breaking the neck of Albert Beckman, agcd 17 years. Hundreds -+ Climino fall. e was attempting to slide head first and was seen to have difficulty in keeping his feet up, then suddenly he somersaulted. ev0e0c0eeovos o /e FRANCE WORRIES AS TOURIST TIDE GOES ON LOW EBB By SMITH REAVIS (Associated Press Stalf Writer) PARIS, Oct. 16.—The great tour- ist tide to Franee went on the cbh this year and hotel keepers, travel tourists from America, being the jolly spenders of for- mer times, were careful with their }bauk rolls, stopped at the lesser | hotels, bought more sparingly and |went home with money in their instead of bureaus and merchants of all de | pockets. Tips were smaller and scriptions want something done|the more expensive cabarets and about it . 'oreigne came in ing the 1928 especially Americans, ntities than dur- son. Just what would not have sufficient time to|Percentage the decline represented business is hard to calculate in the absence of official figures but a general night shows were hard put to it to show a profit. i Dozens of reasons have been giv- len for the decline in the tourist Emmanuel Bourcier, the noted writer, frankly laid most of the blame on the petty annoy- MACHINERY DISPLACES canvass of hotels brought forth ances of life in France, red-tape an estimate that tourists were 25 HOPEFUL CLAM HUNTER | | RED WING, Minn., Oct. 16.—The | {colorful clam fisherman, hopeful | hunter of pearls, is following those |other romantic figures of the upper | Mississippi River—the fiery steam- boat captain and the agile log- raftsman, into oblivion, | Young men and machinery are |replacing the old water dogs, who |sought clams, selling the shells {for a livelihood, and always hope- | per cent fewer than last year. To make a bad story worse, how- ever, they spent less time and| money in France and presumably, | more in other countries. The tour-| ist who a few years ago remained here for weeks and months, halted this year a da or so and ther flitted on to It Germany, Eng- land of the Scandinavian countries. One authority places the num-| ber of “tourist days" spent by | police regulations, bad telephone | service, and other little difficulties that the stranger encounters. Other inquiries pointed out the increased publicity and advertising campaigns of England, Germany and the Scandinavian countries, |blamed the embarkation and de- | barkation taxes charged at French ports and the super-tax on hotel rooms in some French cities. Some Frenchmen have begun to wonder if the suspicious attitude ful for a a pearl worth a fortune. Valuable pearls were found here. | strike"—the finding of foreigners in France this year at!/toward Americans, expressed fre- not much above 60 per cent of Ins:iquently in some sections of the year's figures. The money spent| Parisian press, has not had some- beacon 80 feet high has been in-|One discovered 18 years ago sold by the tourists, he added, fell off thing to do with it. The increased army and commercial pilots. ) the stalled at Kelly Field to guide for $6.000. Others worth from $100:by millions of francs. to $580 frequeutly were found, cost of living is blamed in some | Another complaint was that the|quarters,