The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 19, 1929, Page 1

VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5233 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNE AU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1929, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BEAR KILLS JACK THAYER, JUNIOR FORESTER TRY TO CLEAR PANTAGES OF ALL GHARGES First AttempTIs Made by|: Testimony of Four Doc- tors of L. A. SECOND MOVE IS ALONG NEW LINE Contradictions and Denials’ Bob Up in Case— Startling Rapidity LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 19.— Contradictions and denials were flung in startling rapidity in Alex- ander Pantages trial yesterday as the defense fought the state’s charges of perjury and a statutory offense. The first attempt of the defense to clear Pantages was completed with the last testimony from four medical experts. In the second move, the defense drew testimony from Jake Rosen- stein, publicity agent empl of Pantages that he saw Miss Eu Pringle in Pantages' office “at least once a week and until late hours from May 1 to August 1.” Crime, Not Frame-up Garland Biffle, law book sales- man, was confronted with an affi- davit and testimony of Attorney L. A. Mills, that he made 2 statcment re; iating his own testimor Bif- fle dismissed the charge with “I don't recall it.” Later, under the State’s hammering, Biffle admitted most of Mills' declarations but ex- plained it referred to the actual crime and not to a frame-up. Two doctors, bacteriologist e: S ified to conclusions ar Chemist pe opinions citied by Police TteX- Weleh, ;who appeared for the | State, regarding germ specimens of the two principals in the case. No Criminal Offense “Impossible and faulty” were the acscrtions and these werc supple- mented with testimony of two other doctors Thursday who said the ex- amination of Miss Pringle, four days after the alleged attack, re- vealed no criminal offense and evi- dence. It is announced that the state had the affidavit of Mills and it will be used against Biffle if he pleads not guilty on October 28. The affidavit alleges Biffle talked with Mills in Stockton October 3, discussing the casc. Mills said Biffle told him he had been sum- moned by the defense but did not understand why they wanted him. Mills quoted him as saying: “I don’t know a thing about the cas Exposes “White Slavers™ NORCO HITS f [ pany, struck a small iceberg at 10 o'clock last night a short distance || AN ICEBERG ing—Gees Into Peters- 2 bury for Repairs (Special to The Empire) torship Norco, of the Northland Transportation Com- north of Petersburg while enroute ! from Juneau to Seattle. The damage is small but ' the vessel is reported leaking. The! ceded here and is mak- J She will probably leave for the south tk afternoon. ce | | | Betty Martin, of Boston, Mass., one ‘of the gitls involved in the expose of the white slave ring, brought to light through the murder of the racketeer Reinstein in a Boston ho- tel, told Federal officials that “1,000 girls are bought and sold in Boston’s white slave traffic every year.,” [ International Newsreel |16-Year-Old ‘Duugh!er of {Vera to Wed | |» LONDON, Oct ment, of the 16-year-old daug of Vera, Countess of Catheart, announced today. Dolores de Gra; the Countess’ daughter b; mer marriage, met her fianc year-old Theodore Mcdlam, a year 0. | “They are | true, but I ga |I was married at 16, My daugh- |ter believes with me in carly ma riag said the Coun LOSES AN er £ ) , who is a fo only youngsters, it is tess. Alaska Fisherman Sues ve them my blessing. | ~ WANTS SE5000 1 was in the building at the time of the attack but did not see or| hcar anything.” 3 | This is direct contradiction of | Biffle's testimony he heard Miss| Pringle say Pantages would be sor- | ry if he did not book her dancing Robinson Fisheries Co. in Seattle SEATTLE, Oct. 19.—For the loss act. e — JAMES COOKE GOES T0 CELL Former Portland Bond House Head Must Serve 7 Years PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 19— James Cooke, former President of the defunct Overbeck and Cooke Bond House, convicted on an em- bezzlement charge, will surrender himself Monday to start a seven- year term in the state penitentiary at Salem. The United States Supreme Court’s decision upholding the Cir- cuit Court's conviction of Cooke has been entered with the clerk. Cooke hos been at liberty under a $15,000 bsnd. The Jroker was convicted after the pond house closed its doors with’a loss of several thousand dol- lay: to speculators. of an eye, Axel Hagenson, aged 40, |seaman, has filed a suit in the | Superior Court for $25000 against | the Robinson Fisheries Company. While he was a fisherman | Bering Sea last June on the | schooner Azalea, filth from the |deck of the vessel splashed in his {eye causing an infection. | Hagenson said he pltaded with ithc officers to put him ashore for |medical attention. to give up operatio |he finally arrived “cutside” the eye |was so far gone, it had to be re- moved, the complaint says. ———————— RUSSIAN PLANE ' OFF FOR SOUTH VANCOUVER, Wash, Oct. 18.— I'I'he Russian plane Land of Soviets left Pearson Field at 8:40 o'clock this morning for Oakland, after be- ing forced down here yesterday morning, two hours after leaving Seattle, by a leaking oil pipe to one of the motors. in British Lawyers F ace Hard Times in London/| LOND/ON, Oct. 19.—King's Coun- sel are /finding it hard to make a living in the Law Courts these days owing /0 an increasing tendency on the part of the public to avoid liti- gation. It is declared that the legal year just closed has been the worst in the memory of the Bar, Many ex- perienced junior counsel did not earn $4,000 in the year and some (of the rank and file were reduced to_penury. How bad is the situation can be seen from the fact that 300 appli- cations from practising “silks” and left Juneau at 9 morning ~ after | 116,000 pounds of fish at| Cold Storage for the | New Fish Company for| ldelivery Vancouver, B. C. The| co tcok no passengers from here laccording to Agent D, B. Femmer. ! GRAF ZEPPELIN BRCTIC FLIGHT PLANS PROCEED Aero-Arctic Society Repre-i sentative Is Now En- ! route to U .S. {loadir Ithe PERLIN, Oct. 19.—Despite diffi-! culties with the crew which showed | | disinclination- to-tajfe the Graf Zeppelin on: the Polar trip next, spring, the Aero-Arctic Soclety is| \proceeding with its preparations for the flight | The society's representative, Prof. | | Bistein, has left for New York to | complete rrangements for the | Fairbanks, Alaska, base and to su-| pervise the shipment of fuel, re serves and spare parts. He will 50 range radio equipment and discuss flight plans and scientific work with American scientists. The acro-Arctic Society insists the flight will be made rding to contract and that the trouble with the crew is up to Dr. Eckener. Three reppesentatives have gone to Friedrichshafen to scttle de- tails for the {flight. | NEARLY DROWNS IN BATHTUB IN Mg N. Y, HOTEL Much Mystery at First Fol-| lows Incident—Police Insist on Details NEW YURK, Oct. 19.—Harry S. Black, Chairman of the Board op- erating the fashionable Hotel Plaz was nearly drowned in the bath- tub in his apartment on the eight- eenth floor of the hotel. ! A pulmotor crew worked over him five hours before he was re- vived. | Black fainted while in the bath-| tub and was: found unconscious by a bell boy, his head submerged by. the overflowing water in the tub. Considerable mystery surround- ed the accident, hotel officials re- fusing to disclose the identity of |Black fof some time and only on insistence of the police were de- tails in the case given to the press.| e 1 License Granted { For “Aerial Eye” { To Make Flight | WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—A li<I cense to enable C. Francis Jen-| kins, of Washington, radio tele-| photo inventor, to make rnum} tests with his “Aerial Eye” has been granted by the Federal Radio Commission. | plane pilots in war time with| equipment to pick up a continuous| picture of the land over which they are flying and transmit it to re- . SOUTHBOUND| Motorship Reported Leak-|i TRSBURG, Alaska, Oct. 19.}! IN SC EDISON JUBILEE SET - The Ford historical village at Dearborn, Mich, is assuming for reproducing Independence Hall; below is the restoration of Edison’s FL. Myers, Fla., n for the Edison Octob At the jubilee labei Edison today; at the right as he appearcd when he invented the electric lamp (1 DETROIT, Micl Coming to recel tribute on the Golden Anni- versary of his invention of the ircandescent light, Thonias A. Edison arrived here today from East Orange, N. J., traveling in the private car of Henry Ford. The to the Oct. 19.— e the nation’s OMATA, Neb., Gol 1€ thorough survey of industrial and itions in Alaska, W. dent of the Wood- ord estate at Dearborn Aller a and planned to keep out of the pabiic e until Monday eve when President Hoover will voice “tiie nation's greoting in'% formally dedicating the New Edison Institute of Technology ablished by Ford in Dear- men of Asgociation, announces organization will open oliices Alaska within the near future. Oiflces will be opened at Juneau or Ketchikan for the development of the company's business, according to the anhouncement from t Home Office at Omaha, Nebraska Other branches will be opcned a the business progresses. The announcement follows Mr. Fraser’s return from a recent trip to Alaska, at which time he made a thorough survey of the Alaskan business situation. Wonderful Cpportunity In making public the contempiat- ‘ed extension of the company’: ness, President Fraser said “I believe there that in By DAVID J. WILKIE (A. P. Corrcspondent) DEARBORN, Mich, Oct. Scenes thet tell the past and fore- tell the future will greet President Hoover when he comes to this city October 21 to participate in the ceremony memorializing achieve- | ments of Thomas A. Edison. The historical village that Henry Ford is creating on a 120-acre site already has assumed shape, many of the buildings pu in various parts of the c S form the “community of yeste " {opportunity for our o have been restored to their origi-iin Alaska. I was greatly i nal condition and placed on foun-|eq by the progressive sy 18j— of the Bu 1e World Life Insurance | the ARbiank; Alaskan people, the evidences of Just across the road, to furnish a sharp contrast, is the huge Ford airport, with its large hangars and the tall mooring mast for dirigibles. Completing the modern note are the Ford enginecring prosperity, and the promise for the future, disclosed by my recent investigations.” The opening of Alaskan offices is ancther step in the phenomenal lest will center in the actual labc |son in Menlo Park, N. J., | Pt. Myers, |after the future inventor had set{ments in securities of over | “Fairlane” skirts a trunk line high laboralories | growth of the Woodmen of the and the other buildings of the auto- |Wworld Life Insurance Association. mobile plant, “just around the cOr-{prom a small beginning the organi- ner” from the scenes of an almostization has grown steadily until forgotten past. day it is the largest and strong- As the day is to honor est fratermal organization in exis- Thomas A. Edison, no little tence. The Woodmen of the World wa organized June 4, 1800, with membership of one hundred and thirty-five. Today its membership totals near a half a million Vision of Future me tories and offices used by Mr. Edi- and in Fla., which Ford has brought to Dearborn and recon- structed in the most minute detail. 1t is here that Edison will repro-| yUndoubtedly the pioneers of the duce his original experiment thatlwoodmen of the World had an in- brought the incandescent lamp 10!spiring vision of the future of their the world. organization, but probably none of There will be interest, too, in the!them dreamed of the tremendou Edison machine shops and Der-{scope which the Society 8 haps less serious but none the 1esS|veloped. Today the Woodmen of kegn interest in the small rallway fthe World is the strongest Frater- station where legend has it Edison na]l Organization in existence, re- once was thrown off a train nearicently heing declared 1046 per Port Huren by an irate conductor|ecent solvent, holding total e $90 - a fire to an empty baggage car in the course of some experiments with phosphorus. The visit to the Ford home, “Fair- lane,” will take President Hoover and Mr. Edison to another interest-} ing section of the vast Ford estate, 532,000.00. The Society, since i organization, has paid in de losses and disability benefits mor than $160,000,000.00, Two of the largest enterprise that “have placed the Woodmen of the World in the fore ranks of pro- gressive Fraternal Insurance way, and tall trees permit a VIeW|cieties, and made it nationally from the road of only the top Of | prominent are the War Memoria the motor magnate’s home. |Hospital at San Antonio, Texa o |and the Radio Station WOW ® 000000 00 00 8 % the natignal Headquarters Bulldin . TODAY’S STOCK ®in Omaha. . QUOTATIONS - San Antonlo Hospital ©e0 0000000060 0% 8 The nopital §5 a show place San Antonio, and represents an NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—Alaska Ju-|inyestment of more than a millio neau mine stock is quoted today|dollars. It consists of 210 acre h The invention will provide air-|at 6 4/5, Alleghany Corporation 41,iof land completely equipped bLos- been inve Corn Products 118%, Fox Films|pital, nurses’ home, supervisor 91%. General Motors 60%, Inter- bujlding, barns and outhouses. I national Harvester 105, National js a free sanatorium for tubercu- Acme 31, Standard Oil of Califor-ilar members of the Socitey and juniors were sent in for a vacant|ceiving stations in safe and con- nia 73, Standard Oil of New Jer- has 225 beds. {county court judgeship, venient places on the ground. | sey 77, Pan-American B 63%. ) Every cent of its operation and siness; . 1. — | | | | 1B | $2,500,000 Memor |at San Antonio, Texas ved treatment here. al e lm,..x.“:m:."v cost comes out of a |pecial hospital endowment, there- fore, without cost to membership. | In connection with the hospital a registered Jersey dairy for the |benefit of patie is maintained, | and poultry yard, vege- | and farm, gll for the patients. | adio Station WOW was | and officially inaugurated by Woodmen of the World lnl 1923 at an expense of nce then thousands have ed to make this enter- prise successful, The inauguration of the Wood- men of the World Life Insurance Association of tions in Alaska ve employment to many resi- | Alaskans. Several experi- | also a ho; table garc | | | the of $50,000. d | wW. A. ¥ | President of the Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Association Above Is shewn t is an interesting pleture of ‘Woodmen of World Life Insurance 1 Association to Enter Alaska for Juneau May Get Offic RASER . G { the Wood en of the enced employe to build the organization. Publicity For Alaska a will receive through the “Soverei large monthly maga: by the Woodmen of Through the develop: fraternal organiza Mexico that count fited to a great extent. out its history the c grown with the territor Throughout the great the Woodmen of t the the personality rity of Presid nent of Fra er. Mr (Continued on Page Twoy) the work of Mr. 8 15 or 20 feet distant. TORN BODY OF BEAR'S VICTIM BROUGHT HERE |Admiralty Island Brown - | Bear Kills Forestry Of- ficer on Timber Cruise 1 OF THEM ESCAPING rThayer Fails to Stop Bear’s | Charge—Time for Only | One Hurried Shot The Alaska brown bear added another victim to its list Wednes- day when Jack Thayer, Junior For- cster, United States Forest Serv- ice, died near Eliza Harbor, from wounds inflicted by an enormous bear. He was attacked about two jand onc-half miles from the beach at 2 pm., and dicd at 10 o'clock that evening. Thayer was ,accompanied by his istant Fred Herring. Only the former was armed. He had a 303 caliber rifle in his hand and /had time for but one shot, appar- jently wounding the animal. Her- | ring, unarmed, st in climb- ling a tree and esef i Is T Mauled | Thayer and were I piip timber. were - ling from a muskeg swamp as ‘tLhr,' approached a thicket at its ledge, a big dark brown bear crashed !through the brush not more than It was in a vicious mood and launched its at- ass Herring, in the rear, turned and fled for a tree, as he was i eny weapons of any kind A {an cxperienced woodsma i nond hunter, fired one time. Thu byl- WA sppuvently. toek effect: Lt (il {failed to stop the maddencd beipe 1t bawled loudly two or thres ifiés 'as it crashed into Thayer. 1| Herring, from his perch in the World Two thousand five hundrcd members have re- | of the company wi |come to Alaska in the near futurc business s been ben Through- nization has 5 it sel success of 1 World during | past fifteen years has radiated |® ability and integ-[® rved Fra- tree, could not see clearly Whut followed owing to the heavy brush that intervened. However, he o hear the sounds of the bear A ing and mauling and see the strug- * gle dimly. When the animsl ¢ Thayer, Herring hurried to i side. Retains Consclousness Thayer was still conscious when his companion reached him. He murmured: “Save yourself, Fred! and almost immediately lapsed into unconsciousness. He was terribly laccrated both from claws and n. The leit side of his head end neck werc fearfully torn. His stomach was torn open, the flesh on the back of his legs was stripped off, and his back, hands and arms |were pierced many times by the |bear’s teeth which apparently had both mauled and chewed his vic- tim. Herring made Thayer as com- fortable as possible. He then set |off for the Weepoose, the camp | tender In use. There he and Capt. |C.. C. Collen, third member of the cruising party. loaded themselves | with blankets, a lantern, flour to close the gaping wounds, and other first aid dressings and hurried back to the scene of the attack. | It was almost dark by the time they arrived and it was with some difficulty Thayer was located. He had regained consciousness and was able to talk a little. But he was very weak from loss of blood and |the beating he had received. A | ctretcher was made out of poles and | (Continued on Page Three) H e, - | {Hoover Opposes |Certain Inscription On American Gift | WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.— President Hoover is em- phatically opposed to plac- ing an inscription: “Destroy- ed by German Fury and Re- stored by American Gener- osity” upon the new library at the University of Lou- vain, in Belgium, built by American subscription ob- tained largely through ef- forts of the Chief Executive. Since Whitney Warren, architect of the building, proposed and insisted upon the inscription more than three years ago, it has been the center of a controversy. “I and those associated with me in the American gift of the library wish to disclaim any approval of action of Warren,” the P ident said. ° . . . - ° . 5 . . . . . ° .