The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 25, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5238. FIVE BANKERS CHECK DEBACLE IN STOCK MARKET JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1929, FALL CONVIC FORMER SECY. INTERIOR DEPT. FOUND GUILTY Jury Decidfiall Accept- ed Bribe of $100,000 from Doheny RECOMMENDS THAT MERCY BE SHOWN First Criminal Action Won by Government in Ol &fldals WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, has been found guilty of accepting a $100,000 bribe from E. L. Doheny for lease of the Elk Hills, California, Naval Oil Re- serve. \ The jury recommended to the Court that the former Secretary of Interior be shown mercy. Eight men and four women com- posed the jury which convicted the 68-year-old man, now broken in health, of Mis guilt in this con- nection while serving as Secretary in Harding's Cabinet. The verdict was handed down nearly eight years after Fall re- ceived the money from Doheny, a friend of prospecting days when they were in the West when young. The case is the first criminal action won' by fthe Government in those growing out of the cele- brated Senate oil investigation. The Government recovered the leases but Fall was branded by the Supreme Court as a “faithless public servant.” Fall is the first person connected with leases to be convicted. As the verdict was rendered, Fall slumped back in his chair. Mrs, Fall and her daughter, Mrs. C. C. Chase, leaned forward in their seats and wept. The counsel for the defense serv- ed motion for a new trial. Pardoned for Crime He Had No Part In NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 25.— Robert L. Tipton, aged 63, is free after two years in prison, for a murder in which authorities be- lieve he had no part. With his wife Sarah, he was con- victed of slaying Lovella Wingle, aged 13 years. Later his wife was sent to the insane hospital. She told officers she killed the girl, acting under an irresistible ‘impulse. Tipton has been’ pardoned by Gov. Henry H. Horton. ALBERT Convicted on charge of accepting bribe. | | | B. FALL ! | Diteman’s Name Added to List, ‘Missing Fliers NEW YORK, Oct. 25—The name of Urban F. Diteman, jr., is generally believed add- ed to the roll of those who have tried to fly across the Atlantic and failed. All but the most hopeful are con- vinced his adventuresome project ended in a forced landing on the sea. He has not been scen since he start- ed his flight from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, last Tuesday. Ambassador Dawes Is Named on Arms Delegation WASHINGTOW, Oct. 25—Charle$ G. Dawes, Ambassador to England, has been named a member of the delegation to represent the United States at the coming London Arms Conference. FRENCH CASINOS SEEK NEW “COME-ONS” STAFF By J. P. HANSCOM (A. P. Correspondent) CANNES, France, Oct. 25.—Ca- sinos along the French Riviera have lost so many of their professional “come-ons” by death or matrimony within 12 months, that a general call for recruits has gone out. The job may be had by those who know cards, clothes and interna- tiopal society, who have a flair for publicity and-who can stay at the gaming tables: all night for week after week. It is no soft job. The good “come-on” player is judged by re- sults. He, or mostly always she, is forced to work hard. The main idea is to gamble with the casino’s money when, and with whom, the director decides. 'Winnings go back to the casino. Losses, but not too many of them, are paid by the casino. In return the player re- ceives a weekly salary, lives free at the best hotels, has a charge ac- count paid by the casino at the most important bars and restaur- ants, and often has a motor car placed at his disposal. The job has no working hours. A short while ago one of the most noted “come-ons” was aroused by a telephone call at two in the morning. |francs at the cashier’s desk and join the play at table No. 4. When she arrived she discovered that the table was occupied by a chemin- de-fer duel between two wealthy New Yorkers. Her job was to make the game lively and thus keep |the two players at the green table |off to the house at the interval |stated by the gambling law. At inine in the morning the two men took her to breakfast and told her {how sorry they were that she had |lost 15,000 francs. They never |knew that she received a bonus for |keeping them at the table. The best “come-on” players are ‘vno social pikers. Among them is {land’s noblest families, an interna- {tionally known dancer and a gen- tleman whose name is prominent in the New York social register. {Some of them take their work as }a Joke but the majority consider it 1a definite vocation. One of the most valuable is a since the war. money by bringing her dinner guests: to the casino. some of the wiser guests suspect that she gets a rakeoff somewhere within 30 minutes, collect 200,000 in polite society. / 'snd donating the five percent rake- | ia well-known woman tennis player, the younger son of one of Eng-lidge was also a frequent visitor enough arms and ammunition for MRS, COODHUE | PASSES AWAY IN' HOSPITAL |Mother of Mrs. Calvin Cool-! idge Died Last Night | in Northampton | | i 1 MRS. LEMIRA GOODHUE | NORTHAMPTON, Mass,, Oct. 25. |—Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, aged 78 years, mother of Mrs. Calvin Cool- idge, died at the Cooley-Dickinson ‘Hospical last night. I Mrs. Goodhue has been a pa- tient at the hospital since Decem- lber 11, 1927, when she suffered an |attack of influenza from which she later rallied. | Due to infirmities of old age, sev-| \eral sinking spells followed, two of {which brought Mrs. Coolidge here {from the White House when her| {husband was President. Since her retyrn to Northampton, I Mrs. Coolidge passed two hours |daily with her mother and was at the bedside at death. Mr. Cool-| |at the hospital, | I T Basiag o i OLOUGHLEN 1S ASSIGNED | TO JUNEAU CABLE OFFICE ! Part Oloughlen, radio operator az! Funter Bay during the summer sea- {son, has enlifted in the Signal Cable office, according to advices Harper. | |tages neared |{the guns would shoot. ADJOURNMENT 1S TAKEN IN PRINGLE CASE Illness of Juror Interrupts Pantages’s Trial in Los Angeles TESTIMONY IS ALL IN; ARGUMENTS BEGUN Judge E‘(pocts?jaSe Will Be Given to Jury Before This Evening LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 35—/ As the of Alexander Pan- the end, therc was an upset for the second time by the illness of Mrs. Lotta Steiner, juror, which forced an adjourn- ment yesterday until today. Testimony taking was completed during the forenoon session yes- trial jterday and Assistant Prosecuting| Attorney Robert Stewart plunged into the State's first closing argu- ment. He was followed by Jerry Geisler with the opening of the summation of the defense. Joseph Ford continued the defense argu- ment. 1 Fard’s plea far -acquittal ¥ of Pantages was interrupted by Mrs. Steiner’s request for a halt. She said she would be relieved by & night's rest. Judge Charles Fricke expects ar- guments to be. completed and the casg_sent to the jury beforg to- | nigee. Demands Prison Sentence Assistant Prosecutor Stewart de- manded a verdict carrying a State prison sentence. Under the law the jury is required to set a sen- tence in the verdiet and it may be one year in the County Jail or from one to 50 years in prison. Attorney Geisler | pounced onthe State’s testimony and attacked Miss Pringle’s testimony for “its all too apparent of inconsistencies. Where were her hands when she alleged she was fighting Pantages? The defendant is shown by evidence not to have suffered a single |scratch. What is the answer?” - e — RUSS FLIERS ARE GREETED IN' CHICAGD Formal Welcome at Lunch- eon Today—Fly to New York on Monday CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 25.—The So-| viet fliers arrived at the Curtis Airport at 3 o'clock yesterday after- noon after a nonstop flight from North Platte, Nebraska. The fliers were greeted by a crowd of 300 civic leaders, army men and aviation enthusiasts. The fliers were driven to Chi- cago from the airport and a for- mal greeting of the city was ex- tended today at a luncheon in| their honor. Commander Shestakov said he and his companions expect to take- off in the Land of Soviets on Mon- day for New York City. Alarmists in France Shudder at Gun Sale PARIS, Oct. 25.—Those who fear a communist revolution were shock- ed recently when the Ministry of! War threw on the open market an army corps. There were 36,000 rifles and car- bines, 18,000,000 cartridges, 50,000 bayonets and some odds and ends. Although the ministry considered the munitions too old for service, So it was provided, that unless broken up for woman who has not touched a card |Corps, United States Army, and the metal, the rifles must be ex- She earns her has been assigned to the Juneaulported. e touring birds. The city has been ) has gone behind the scenes for a | closeup, view of the Mooney-Bil- | lings drama. The government seeks to decide whether the principal actors were | the assassins they were portrayed, | or all these years have been mar- | tyrs to a grevious conspiracy. The California executive is the third governor to whom these men convicted of bombing that killed 10 persons and maimed 40, have ap- ipealed for a full pardon. A pq don would in effect carry exonera- tion and the ‘“vindication” for which a clamor, international in scope, has persisted for 13 years. Brushing aside the musty records | Governor Young is interviewing dozens of men who played parts in the prosecution or defense ,of the CHIDESTER WILL BE SENT TO KETCHIKAN T. L. Chidester, Federal Pro- hibition Agent with headquartc |in this city and formerly in ch |Of the Alaska unit, has been tr |ferred to Ketchikan, according to |an announcement made today. The change is effective November 15 ’and he and Mrs. Chidester |move to Ketchikan in the | future, Agent Fred Handy has beer tloned at Ketchikan for jyears. Last summer when A "istramr Roy Lyle was on an of- ficial visit here, he announced that Handy would be moved to Fair- banks. The transfer of Mr. Chid- ester to Ketchikan may be the first step in sending Mr. Handy to the Interior. This could not be ascertained today, however, as De- puty Administrator Gerald Church was oue of the city. — e e sta- eral FUNERAL OF CHARLES ANDERSON TOMORROW derson, who died Sunday after- noon at St. Ann's Hospital, will jo'clock at the C. W. Carter Mor- Oloughlen is well-known h(‘rP:presenwd four bird baths and tuary, the Rev. Harry R. Allen She was told to report but those things are nqt mentioned ' His mother is a local resident and | his wife is glso a Juneau nurse. | ! drinking’ fountains for the benefit principally ‘of migratory fowl. officiating. Interment will be made |in Evergreen Cemetery. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25.—With | the responsibility for one of the directness which has character- | most ized his regime, Gov. C. C. Young | coups in the history of America. |er, (ren K. Billings, youthful shoe clerk, | B. Former Fairbanks Flier Plans Flight from Berlin To New York Via Alaska « Funeral services for Charles An-| Probably 'received by Operator-in-Charge| Miami, Fla., likes tourists—ven be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 Act TED ON BRIBERY CHARGE Governor Goes Beneath Surface To Decide Faie Gov. C. C. Young of California (left, below) is seeking evidence that may free Tom Mooney (upper left, as he was in 1916; to the right of thaty a’ he uppears today). before Judge Franklin A. Griffin (right, above) by the jury shown at the bottom. two men on whom a jury fastened the shocking wholesale murder ‘This was the planting of suit- e of explosives at the corner of Stewart and ket streets, San Francisco, and setting it off as a Preparedness day parade was pass- ing July 22, 1916. Tom Mooney, a radical labor lead- drew a death sentence and War- was ordered to prison for life. Gov- ernor Stephens commuted Mooney's sentence to life The trial was vitriolic and spir- ited, with ramifications extending from Moscow to Washington. Eventually, against the charges that bolshevik influences supported the defendants in their alleged blow against “militarism in America,” was laid the formal report of John Densmore, director general of employment for the United States, to the secretary of labor, William FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 25.— Private telegrams received here an nounced that George King, former Fairbanks flier, now with the Junk- ers of Germany, is to attempt a flight from Berlin to New York, via s Siberia, Nome and Fairbanks. King is now in New York and sails this week for his intended hop from Berlin on November 20. The flight is sponsored by the Junkers Corporation. Distinguished Writer, Lawyer, Humanitarian, Dies in Massachusetts LINCO: Mass., Oct. 25.—Moor- Storey, distinguished writer, humanitarian and jinde- pendent leader in ciyie, state and national problems, died here today the age of 84 years. He was sident of the American Bar As- field lawyer, soclan in 1896. He was born in Roxbury, Mass., on March 19, 1845, and earned his A. B. degree at Harvard in 1866, A. M. degree in 1869. He practiced in life in Boston. e e — 1d Mrs. G. W. Peacock, of ;; Capt. and Mrs. Josep! m, of Wrangell, and Capt. and Mrs. E. K. Tobin, of Juneau, left here on the steamer Alameda for Petershurg where they will attend Salvation Army Convention, his early c w the MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS B. Wilson, that the cxplosion cases REASSURING STATEMENTS BRING HOPE Timely Action of Financial Men Save Panic on Stock Exchange o of Tom Mooney {MARKET SMASH SAID BE ONLY TECHNICAL Official Washington Watch- es Wall Street—Busi- i ness Is Sound BULLETIN—NEW YORK, Gel. 25.—~Powerful banking support succéeded in stabiliz- ing the stock market despite the huge backwash of selling from yesterday’s terrifiec crash. Closing quotations dis- closed fairly even distribution with moderate gains and loss- es on leading issues. NEW YORK, Oct. 25—Reassur- ring statements issued by five leading bankers of the country from the office of J. P. Morgan checked worst stock market debacle in ithe history of Wall Street. ‘While prices were floundering under the weight, millions of |shares were hurled into. the mael- jswdvan - selling: “yosterday. - e | The five bankers gathered in the * Morgan offices and after a brief conference, Thomas W. Lamont, partner in the Morgan firm, speak- % ing for the group, said the con- census was that the foundations of the market were sound. The market smash had been caused by a technical rather thon funda- consideration, and many stocks were selling too low. New York Exchange esti- that 13,000,000 shares were yesterday. The previous of turnover was 8,250,000 last March. Modae: »2s (yovieted of bormbing 4 |were “tainted with manufactured evidence.” Indictment of Frank C. Oxman,| | Durkee, Ore., cattleman and onel |of the state’s principal witnes |on a charge of attempted subor i }’(mn of perjury in[luc_nced Superior | o ia1 | Judge Franklin A. Griffin, who prc-' und | sided at the trial, to join the move-| o fmenl. to free the two prisomers. mated | Oxman was charged with having | {raded attempted to get a witness to m""‘rvcord | false testimony in the hopes of col-!ghares | lecting a $17,000 reward offered for | |the arrest and conviction of the | bombers. | Besides Judge Griffin those who | have swung toward the Mooney- Billings side are declared to in- |clude the foreman and nine out | of 10 of the surviving jurors; James Brennan, assistant district attor- | ney, and Captain Goff and Duncan | Matheson, high police officials who shared in the prosecution of the two men. OFFICIAL WASHINGTON WATCHES WALL STREET WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Offi- {cial Washington kept a watchful eye on Wall Street today and ex- pressed an optimistic if unofficial ‘opinion that the disastrous slump in security prices will have no |depressing” effect upon the general business structure of the nation. The view is advanced in many —=——-——~———————— |quarters that the stock market Fears Are Fel break yesterday is in no way a reflection of any faetor in the That Clemenceau |business . world as business is at iIs Seriously Il present on such a sound economic basis there should be no fear of a |general depression. . PARIS, Oct. 25.—Despite o 3 5 8 A e assurances of Georges Clem- Sc0tes AR R EN TN e enceau's apparent improve- . TODAY’S STOCK . e ment, the impression remain- QUOTATIONS ° ed in well informed circles COPNIO NS VNN N 00 that he is gradually growing weaker because of his in- ability to take solid food This, combined with his in- ability to assimilate medi- cines makes a new possibility NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—Alaska Ju- Ineau is quoted today at 6%, Alle- jghany Corporation 37, Bethlehem Steel 102%, Corn Products 115, Fox Films 807, International Harvester |® that any new attack might ‘104, National Acme 277%, Pan-Amer- |® end fatally. lican B 63%, Standard Oil of Cali- . {fornia 69, Standard Oil of New @00 00000000 e e e Jersey 72 Air Reduction 196%, | ————— American T & T 265, Electric Stor- | st age 92%, Missouri Pacific 87%. |Two Hundred Filipinos i AR P g Ireland and England | Driven from Exeter by | Have Lively Commerce Mob of W hite Laborers DUBLIN, Oct. 25. — The latest official figures show that the trade of the Free State is almost en- tirely with Great Britain. The director of statistics |that no livestock trade between . |any two countries in the world ap-. {proaches the dimensions of that be= tween the Free State and Great |Britain, including northern Ireland. Britain buys twice as much poul- try from the Free State as she does ,& from France and the nearest com- - ‘ EXETER, Cal, uect. 25—Peace returned to Exeter after the d\s-" persal of several mobs of white; |laborers who banded together dur—‘ |ing a race riot and drove about 200 | ,‘Fmpmn fruit workers from the | various camps near town. | The authorities said they expect- {ed no more trouble | The only serious injury reported was the stabbing of Adolph Borg- man, truck driver, although several :rlotf-rs are said to ha.w r.vc(:ived- petitor. Of all customers of Britain |cuts and bruises when stones, clubs |the pFree State ranks fifth ‘in the . - nd even pitchforks were brought) g world as a supplier of goods. tp a customer of Britain the Free | |State imports $175,680,000 worth | A negro farm hand, employed of produce and manufaciures. ' {by L. F. Byrne at Columbus, Miss,| The United States imports, at |ran a trfactor 32 hours with only|the present rate, approximately ia half-hour break. 1$233,120,000 yearly from Britain. nto play. -