The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 21, 1929, Page 1

ILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1929. VOL. XXXIV., NO, 5234, PANTAGES MAY TESTIFY IN OWN DEFENSE TODAY PRESIDENTIS |WATERW AY AT DEARBORN /" FOR JUBILEE Joins in Tribute to Edison on Golden Anniversary, Electric Light DETROIT, Mich,, Oct. 21.—Com- ing to join in the tribute to Thomas A. Edison on the golden anniversary of the invention of the incandescent light, President Hoov- er arrived at Dearborn at 9:28 o'clock this morning. A drizzle of rain began before daylight and continued at Dear- born. The Presidential party was trans- | ferred from the Capital Special to a train of the style of 1879, drawn by a wood burning loco- motive. | Aboard this train the President| was taken to the historical village where he was greeted at the quaint ! old station by Henry Ford, Edison | and their parties. ———— SECRET PAPER IS PRODUCED LOBBY PROBE Mem orandum Introduced| Bearing on Secrets of | . CINCINNATI, Oct. 21.—Tht - Senate Committee s pletion of an inland waterway sys- tem, a development to which he is heartily committed, calls President | Hoover to his first journey beyond the Atlantic seaboard since his in- auguration. WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—An of-| fice memorandum of the Connecti- cut Manufacturers Association showing information on the secret -tariff rate making in the sessfons?} INTEREST CALLS PRESIDENT WEST TOMORROW Above is shown a typical S b S E—— S e m———————— e President Hoover will dedicate a marker (lower right) at Cincinnati October 22 to commemorate{the top of the head. the completion of Ohio River canalization. a view of the Ohio the President will see while speaking at Cincinnati. Ohio dam, with locks. Below is THOUSANDS WELCOME LAND OF S ~ _ARRIYAL AT QAKLANK OVIETS ON «|to report. PG IDEAD BODY OF | COWEE RANCHER 1S DISCOVERED Tom McGann Found Dead at Jualin—Mine Watch- man and Boat Missing Tells of Night ‘With Tom MecGann, Cowee Creek homesteader reported dead near the Jualin mine and the mine watchman George Stevens: missing, | Deputy United States Marshal w.‘ E. Fecro left this morning for Jualin: to investigate the matter. It 'was not known whether death' was ' the result of natural rcauses or otherwise. ! Word of the matter was brought here Sunday by Doc’ Silvers, who with a man named Taylor i3 op- erating at Echo Cove on the south | side of Berners Bay. Silvers ac- companied Deputy Feero back to the scene today. He brought word here yesterday thut last Friday two Indians came | to his place at Echo Cove and said | they had found the watchman at [ Jualin dead. With them he cross- the bay to investigate.:@ He nd McGann, wham he knew, Ing dead on the trestle of a am that leads from the docks| the tunnel. He ‘did not ex-| amine the body thoroughly but did ! ' some. extent. The only mark! ‘could -find was & red spot on He covered the body with blankets, leaving | it where it was found, and came Eunice Pringle loo He looked for Stevens, the watch- | man, any trace of him. man’s quarters, however, he found a suitcase opened containing some | of - Stevens's clothing, and SochBETBUH AL OF ‘Ifood. McGinn's boat was also “Stevens was employed as watch- | In the watch- | often stayed out late at nizht to thing that might besmirch her ¢ missing. Life on Stand » MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS b4 |Plane Makes Hour (Flight with 169 Persons Aboard very demure in this picture as she testifies against Alexander Pantages in the scosational trial that is now in progress in but did not find him nor | Los Angeles, Attorney for Pantages forced her admission that she had tend parties but failed to prove any- acter. PRIC[{ TEN CENTS THEATRE MAN OWN WITNESS, PRINGLE CASE Indications Were that Mag- nate Would Go on Stand Today |HIS TESTIMONY IS AN IMPORTANT LINK |Case May-a:) to Jury I Thursday Night or Friday Morning LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 21— |That Alexander Pantages might Itake the witness stand late today |was indicated Ly the defense at- torneys following a conference this |forenoon in which it was decided |to shorten the case as much as possible. Severdl other defense witnesses remain to be heard but it is said their testimony will be brief. Pantages is expected to be the last witness for the defense after which the State will bring on the stand a number of rebuttal wit- nesses. It is expected that the case will reach the jury Thursday night or Friday. i Testimony of Pantages is said by his attorneys to be a most vital link in their claim of evidence in § | combatting the attack story of Eunice Pringle. Pantages is expected to contra- dict her testimony in every detail “|and build up & defense in connee- tion with a “frame-up” conspiracy. J | e J I R A ; | ofthe Senate Finance’ Committee,| Here, October 22, he will dedi-| — i e man for the mine recently, and| ~was produced at the Senate Lobby Investigation Committee hearing today. The memorandum was written by J. E. Wright, official of the Association to Charles Eyanson, Assistant to the Association’s Presi- dent who aided Senator Bingham, member of the Finance Commit- cate a marble shaft commemorat- ing the completion of the Ohio river canalization. The cdnal «system, nearly 1,000 miles long, extends from Pittsburgh to Cairo. Il It cost $115,000,000, and is in- tended to restore the river to its pioneer importance in transporta- tion. The United States army en- | gineering corps built 49 locks and dams in the river. The President will speak here from hallowed ground, tortured by the conquering feet of three na- tions. None but the Indians knew it before Sieur de La Salle discov- ered the Ohio in 1670 and claimed | the territory for Louis XIV of | France. Great Britain seized the territory | during the French and Indian wars | of 1755 to 1762. American coto-‘ tee during deliberations on the tariff measure. The paper was produced by Sen- ator Walsh as Eyanson was re- called by the committee. It re- lated to "opposition of Chairman Smoot and Senators Edge and' Reed, in secret sessions, to a 10 per' cent duty on rough bored shotgun | barrels. One Time “Sugar Com ! Baron” Is Assassinated CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 21—/ Frank Lonardo, one time “corn su- gar baron,” who got out of a ,nists pushing westward challenged‘ | the British, and the treaty of Paris | after the revolution gave the land {to the United States. | Mr. Hoover might recall that the ! “racket” when his brothers Joe and |first president, George Washington, | John were killed two years ago indescended the Ohio in 1770; that a gangland battle for supremacy, is dead, the victim of a fusillade of revolver shots which roared as he hunched over a card table in the back room of a down-town barber shop last night. He is understood to have aban- doned the game after his brothers, who were millionaires, were killed. The Police are working on ‘the theory that death is in reprisal for ‘in the fruitful days before the Civil | War the old river teemed with commerce; that the bugles of war /in ’61 marked it as the line be-} |tween north and south. The ca-| Inalization monument stands in| Eden park. { Originally the dedication cere- mony was planned for October 15| but the President requested the date be set at October 22 to permit him cause his stay had been scheduled. | From Cincinnati to Louisville, where he will speak, the President | will travel by steamer, the central | figure in a river pageant. From the Kentucky city he will return by | rail to Washington, but James W.| Good, secretary of war, Walter F.| Brown, postmaster general, and the i other officials will go with the flo- tilla to Cairo, arriving there Oc- | tober 25. The river pageant started from Pittsburgh on October 19. Before arriving here, Mr. Hoover will participate in the dedication of the Edison laboratory at the Ford Motor company in Detroit He went there direct from Washing- ton. During his trip down the river, President Hoover's boat, probably the government steamer Mississippi, will tie un over night along the In- diana shore. 1S KILLED IN BANDIT FIGHT Seattle Man Dies from! Wounds Received in Shooting Affray | OAKLAND, Cal, Oct. Russian plane Land of Soviets spir- aled down to a perfect landing at 3:10 o'clock last Saturday after- noon after the flight from Van- couver, Wash., 500 miles, cheers of thousands, hymns of a Russian choir and shouts in Rus+ sian, “Long Live the Soviet Fliers.” Crowds rushed the plane and at- tendants of the field said they have seen nothing like it since Col. Charles Lindbergh's first visit, fol- lowing his Paris flight. SEVEN FOUND DEAD; RESULT OF ACCIDENT Pan of Water Boils Over, Extinguishes Gas Jet, But Gas Flows on NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—A pan of water which boiled over and ex- tinguished a gas jet on a kitchen stove, caused the deaths of a father and six children, three daughters and three soms,’ as they slept in an apartment. Walter Cavanaugh, aged 42 years, 21.~The amid left here last Tuesday with Mc- Gann on the latter’s boat to begin work, according to H. L. Faulkner, agent for the mining company. They apparently arrived at Bern- ers Bay Wednesday as Indians in that locality told Silvers that they had helped the two men unload the boat Thursday. ROYAL COUPLE - SOON BE MADE Crown Prince Humbert ALTERHEIM, Switzerland, Oct. 21.—The huge 12-en- gined flying boat DOX has made an amazing flight of one hour with a human load of 169 persons. This is the first time in the history of aviation so START TODAY Up to Jury to Determine Whether $100,000 Asks for Princess Marie Mr. Faulkner said today it was| S v Jose in Marriage probable that McGann had died from natural causes and Stevens | had taken his boat to bring word here, and had been forced into Prince Humbert, of Italy, is expect- some cove for shelter. Late ves- ed in Brussels on Wednesday with terday he went to Eagle River 0 the object of obtaining consent of see if he had come there. Nothing King Albert and Queen Elizabeth to had been seen of him, however. |marry Princess Marle Jose. Tke Weathers, who has a place| o gunday, the Italian Ambassa- at Eagle River had started for gor in pehalf of the Prince, sent a Berners Bay Saturday and was forc- yoaytiful bouquet to Marie Jose, af ed to return on account of weather {1 game time announcing the conditions. He left again yester- PRUSSELS, Oct. 21.—Crown many persons have been car- ried into the air on any con- veyance. The giant Dornler plane flew over Lake Constance and landed the 51-ton load without a hitch. The flying boat carried 159 passengers and a crew of ten men. ©ee 0800000060030 0000e0 o Pilot Escapes with Was Loan or Not WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. — Final o |arguments in the bribery trial of e |Albert B. Fall, former Secretary e |of Interior, started when special e |Government Counsel Pomerene told e |the jury this forenoon they must o |determine whether the $100,000 ob- o |tained by Fall from Doheny was oeeeee o0 0 e o o oaloan or not Fall, who arrived a few minutes before the court opened, walked into the room and to his chair. the slaying of Tom Todaro, rival bootleg czar, who is credited with having plotted the death of the Lonardo brothers. to receive and entertain Ramsay | MacDonald, prime minister of Great Britain. Mr. MacDonald | also, was invited but' declined, be-| SEATTLE, Oct. 21, — Fata!ly‘pri\‘utc chauffeur, failed to report wounded in a revolver duel with | for work at a garage where his em- two armed bandits, August Ciro- ployer's car was kept. The em- lins died last night in the City ployer callegd at.the apartment Hospital, two hours after the shoot- house to see if Cavanaugh over- ing affray. slept. Neighbors investigated and day and it was expected he would return today with some additional information. McGann is an oldtimer of this district. He has been homestead- ing at Cowee Creek for ten or more years. For several years he has trolled during the summer months and spent considerable time in this city during the winter months. Stevens is also an oldtimer of the district who bears an excellent reputation and it is not believed he was connected in any way with McGann's death, it was said. Building Decline Lai | To Stock Market Sales NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—The au- tumn decline in home building is |ascribed by the Irving Trust com- | Prince's coming on a visit, An elaborate reception has been planned at the Royal Palace to celebrate the betrothal which prob- ably will be formally announced on Thursday. The Prince is 25 years of age and the Princess is 23 years of age. The two met first in Venice in 1917 and later the Prince visited the Royal Belgian family after which visits between the two royal families were frequent. DELEGATION TO “LONDONPARLEY Mail by Parachute When Motors Fail PITTSBURGH, Penn. Oct. 21.— For the last week he has been wheeled to his place in an in- valid's chair. He was supported this morning by attendants but ap- peared stronger than at the start of the trial. - eee - Tucking his mail bag under his arm, Harry Seevers, pilot on the Pittsburgh-Cleveland mail route leaped 1,000 feet to safety in a par- achute as his plane crashed in 2 field. The motors stopped. Seevers, | seizing the lone mail bag, leaped |in his parachute. The plane was { demolished. SHARK GETS RUDDER JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct. 21.— Eddie Squires of Jacksonville went sea fishing in an 18-foot launch. A shark charged the rudder and tore it from its socket. By WADE WERNER (Associated Press Feature Service SNOWDEN IS BRITAIN’S OWN “HELL-AND-MARIA” plomats &nd telling them with Dawes-like frankness that this NUMBERS THREE [ FARM LOAN TOTAL PAID OUT SO FAR NEARLY $700,000 By FRANK I WELLER Farm Editor (Associated JTess Feature Service) WASHING/[ON, Oct. 21.—Appli- cation for Joans from the federal farm hoard totaled approximately $70,000,000 /3eptember 30, Chairman Legge reveals in a statement to the Senate committee on agriculture. Of thgt amount, the chairman says, $57,000000 tentatively has been approved by the board. Only $686,000 actually has been called for. Interpreted according to the board’s policy of making loans, the amount “called for” represents the sum cooperatives have qualified o receive. The $57,000,000 is ap- proved, providing the cooperatives seeking to borrow it can satisfy the board’s demands in regard to or- ganization, previous acquisition of loans from the federal intermedi- ate banks, and security. ! “In by far the larger number of | cases,” Mr. Legge explains, “in- |stead of sending in a definite re- |quest or application for a loan, in- Gilbert Showalter, aged 38 years, ifound Cavanaugh and the children, bandit suspect, was critically wounded. | Before he died, Cirolins said two men held him up near a park- ed automobile. They told him to get into it. When he refused one of the bandits shot him. Carolins, grabbed the revolver and shot in return, | Showalter was found a block | and a half away from the scene. An element of mystery entered | the case when two revolvers were found at the place. The dead jdividuals or groups representing co- man’s daughter said her father operatives have appeared before us carried a pistol as a result of a to find out just how to go about it. “In some of these cases, such as| applications for loans on farm land, | iFour Men Killed death threat made by an enemy. we have advised the applicants that we did not feel they were within the scope of our activities and |have referred them to the federal|men were killd when a Great | paann 1okn hospd. {Northern freight train broke in “In many cases the discussions halves at the Eastern end of the developed the fact that the cooper- Cascade tunnel. The train buckled | In Train Accidentj SEATTLE, Wash,, Oct. 21.—Four of time, or in the case of plant fa- imen. It may be that more bodies lcmnu, that they had not been ap- will be found under the overturned praised in recent years,” H the oldest aged 17 years, all dead in the gas-filled apartment. The mother died seven years ago. The only surviving member of the fam- ily is a daughter named Mary, aged 20, who lived away from home. Poincare Undergoes Operation in Paris PARIS, Oct. 21.—Former Pre- mier Poincare underwent an opera- tion today for a pelvis disorder, the second he has had in recent months for the same trouble. He was re- moved during the .night from his {home to a private clinic for opera- (tion and this afternoon it was said his condition was satisfactory. Clemenceau Suffers From Attack of the Heart, Also Has Cold ative had not had an audit of its|together again after separating, PARIS, Oct. 21.—"Tiger” Clemen- o business for a considerable period crushing the men, who were worky ceau is suffering from a slight heart e attack. This is aggravated by a bad cold. His condition however, is not considered critical, pany to the public's preoccupation with the stock market. A bulletin issued by the company says that the average volume of new building contracts of all kinds {in 37 states shows a nine per cent drop during the first eight months compared with last year. Bullding of residences it is stat- ed, fell off more rapidly than other classes, an average of 27 per cent Inustrial construction increased 41 per cent in the same period. Man Falls to Death from 61 Story Building NEW YORK, Oct. ® The body of 2 man crashed ® lifeless to the pavement on i® Wall Street in front of a l® 6l-story bank building yes- terday afternoon. The build- ing is 725 feet high. Police believe the man fell from the top of the: building, and if true, it is the longest death fall recorded here. i ‘e i 21— eecccccccese 9900099999000 iScnalors Reed and Robin- son Will Act with Sec- retary Stimson WASHI? tary of Sta sTON, Oct. 21.—Secre- e Henry M. Stimson an- t President Hoover has named £ tors Reed, of Pennsyl- vania, and Robinson as members of |the American delegation to the i1 on Arms Parley and they have ‘,u,uva(l. The Secretary of State also said Senator Borah had been asked to serve but that he found it impossible to accepf. | Other members may be added to the delegation to the parley which |meets in London in January. - - Fails to Open Chute, Plunges to His Death BELLINGHAM, Wash., Oct. 21.— Mills was killed when he be- ne frightened as he started a |parachute jump from a plane and |failed to open !plunged to earth. the chute as he] Writer) ! LONDON, Oct. 21.—Britain was eager to see “Hell -and - Maria” Dawes when he came here as Am- bassador. And isen, wnen he arrived, Britain found “Hell-and-Maria” of Philip Snowden. Even on the day he United States Senate what he |thought of its rules, Charles G. Dawes did not startle the people of his country to the extent that Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the | Exchequer, electrified all Britain with his blunt and bitter language at The Hague. When Dawes came to London as Ambassador there were Americans here who said: “He’ll have to British are too quiet to put up Mell-and-Maria’ business, No sooner had they said it when what should conservative and quiet Britain do but cheer with a great unanimous shout of approval a British statesman who broke all British diplomatic precedent by 'spcuklmz out his mind among di- had hardly she had a her own— told the tone down. The conservative and with any of this ntry was fed up with sacrifice and tired of being the goat of the reparations experts. It would be difficult to exagger- ate the popularity of Snowden’s stand here in England. Leaders of all political parties unequivocally praised him; newspapers of all shades of political opinion backed him, and for days the popular topie of conversation on trams and buses and trains, in cafes and public houses on the street, was. “Good boy, Snowden. He told em.” Meanwhile the most inf feature of the whole situation, to - Americans who thought the Charles G. Dawes way of speaking would not “get by" among Englishmen, is the fact that while Snowden has’ = been out-Dawesing Dawes, Dawes himself has become less and less given to utterance. . Ve The British nwspapers still have something to report about him every day, but usually it reads like this: i, “Arriving here late tonight bassador Dawes informed press quirers he had no statement | make regarding his talk Frime Mipiaiy MacDoniald