The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 26, 1929, Page 1

R A e et S, Y s AR ATLY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL..XX JUNEAU, ALASKA, SAT Ui?‘DAY, OCTOBER 26, 1929. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT HOOVER SAYS AMERICAN BUSINESS STRONG, SOUND JURY IS STILL DEADLOCKED IN PANTAGES' CASE Jury Fails to Reach Verdict After Being Out Near- ly 24 Hours PANTAGES SPENT NIGHT AT HOME UNDER GUARD Case Given to Jury Yester- day Afternoon—Lock- ed Up for Night LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 26. — The jury in the Pan- tages case is still deadlocked almost 24 hours after the case was given to the jury. The sick woman juror, Mrs. Steiner, recovered. o >antages spent the night at his home under guard of Deputy Sheriffs. The case was given to the jury at 4:17 o’clock yester- day afternoon. The jurors were locked up for the night-at 9:35 o’clock. GETS $75,000 FOR PADDLING BY H. K. THAW Night Qlub_fl_ds—tess Award-! Damages—"‘Gross- | ly Excessive” NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—Miss Mar- cia Estadus; night club hostess, has been awarded $75,000 in a $100,000 suit against Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford White and former hus- band of Evelyn Nesbit, on charges he hit and paddled her with a hair brush at a New Year’s party in his apartment in 1927. Counsel immediately moved o/ have the verdict set aside as “gross- 1y excessive.” Justice Aaron Leavy reserved de- cision to permit the girl's attorney an opportunity to submit opposing | briefs. Justice Leavy asked Miss | Estadus what she would do with the money if she got it and the/ girl said: “I intend to look for a nice man and settle down. I want| | U. S. SENDS BANKERS TRAINED | pean IN LAW TO ASSIST WORLD BANK NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—American finance is sending two of its most vigorous personalities to help Euro- central banks decide how much power to give the world bank created by the Young plan. Jackson E. Reynolds, president of the First National Bank of New York, and Melvin A. Traylor, presi- dent of the First Naticnal Bank cf Chicago, will meet as members of an international commitiee of 14 in Erussels. The committee hopes o hold a session early this fall. The committee’s history making task will be to build a safe place at some point in the gigantic su- perstructure cf world finance where a bank for international settle- ments can function without politi- cal interference. Both American representatives arc bankers with a background of legal training. Mr. Reynolds was born at Woodstock, Ill, in 1873. When 23 years old he was gradu- ated from Leland Stanford, Jr. university and three years later took a degree in law at Columbia. He became an assistant law pro- fessor at Stanford, but in 1901 moved his headquarters back across the continent once more and estab- lished himself as a lawyer in New York. His connection with the interests of George F. Baker dates from 1906 when he became general attorney for the Central Railroad of New Jersey, Mr. Baker brought him to the First National bank in 1917 as a director, and from that time forward his influence in Wall Jackson E. Reynolds (left) and Melvin A. Taylor are the Amer- icans who will assist in working out the world bank under the Young plan. Street has grown by extraordinary leaps. | Mr. Traylor is five years younger | than his colleague. He was born?, in Kentucky and migrated to Texas when he was 20 years old. He | worked in a country store and studied law at night. In 1901 he was admitted to the bar and soon | afterward entered politics as city;' *lerk of Hillshoro. | After holding two of three other local political offices he became cashier of a little bank at Malone, | Tex. I He became an influential Texas banker in a region where cattle raising was the most important in- dustry. That led to his election as vice president of the Stock Yard National bank of East St. Louls and later, in 1914, as vice president of the Live Stock Exchange Na- tional bank of Chicago. Gradually his activities moved from live stock financing to the broader range of general banking. He has been president of the First National bank of Chicago since January 13, 1925. Hoover Issues Statement in Raosx):lt’s Honor o - WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.— e Lo m emorating Theodore voll @ methliey tomaor- row, President Hoover issued a statement today saying the anniversary “brings are- minder of his driving pow- er, stalwart and vigorous ideals.” ® 00 0 000000000 ———.———— ARE GUILTY To Teach Mexicans OF BRIBERY/ Two Los Angeles Police Lieutenants Are Con- victed by Jury First Sound Talkies, Heard And Seen on Train SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, e Oct. 26.—Two audiences of @ 54 persons each, saw and ' heard the first all-talkie mo- tion picture ever presented in a theatre car, attached to a deluxe passenger train, as the Los Angeles Limited, of the Union Pacific System pulled out of here. The screen is at one end of the car and the power for the sound film was obtained by storage batteries. Train noises were also overcome eecec000000 00 e RADIO SYSTEM OF ALASKA IS SEN. BINGHAM UNDER ATTACK BY LOBBY COM, Report Made to Senate Im-! plicates Connecticut Man and C. M. A. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26—A re- |port on relations of United States Scnat Hiram Bingham and the| | Connecticut Manufacturers Associa- | tion has been submitted to the Sen- | |ate by the Lobby Investigating| Committee. ’ The report contained one specific recommendation, that the Senate adopt a resolution calling on the/| Department of Commerce to submiit a list of “dollar-a-year” men on, its payroll, as the result of testi-, mony of Joseph E. Wuchet, of the! Connecticut Association” that he 1s/ |a “dollar-a-year” man for the | Department. The Committee also reported it “questions the propriety of utiliza- -tion of funds of a railroad com- ‘pany for payment of services of lobbyists in Washington. This ;declaration was made after the committee said it found the New York, New Haven, Hartford Rall- road contributed about $4,000 for! the Connecticut association. Relations between Senator Bing- Ehsm and the Association were con- demned before the Senate by Chair- man Caraway of the lobby com- i mittee. NEW DUTY I " NOW ASSIGNED T0 GOV, PARKS Order Is Signed F‘lacingf Him in Charge of ! Reindeer Industry | r | | 1 | i | | | | | | SEATTLE, Oct. 26—A depart- mental order signed by Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur, Department of 'the Interior, transfers the respon- [sibility of the welfare of Alaska |reindeer to Gov. George A. Parks |Commissioner of Education where | it was placed almost 40 years ago, | when the first reindeer were im-| ported from Siberia. The transfer was ordered by Sec- retary Wilbur upon the recom- | from the office of United States| MAY WED ITALIAN CROWN PRINCE Assoclated Press Photo A recent picture of Princess Marie Jose, daughter of the king and queen of Belgium, whose betrothal to Crown Prince Humbert of Maly, has been reported. . TRAIN WITH DEAD ENGINEER'S HAND ON THROTTLE JUMPS TRACK WITH 10 PULLMAN CARS; PASSENGERS SHAKEN 6.0.P, LEADERS ELKTON, Maryland, Oct. 26— Running with a dead engineer’s hand on the locomotiveshrettle, ten Pullman carg -of the Washington- | vania railroad, jumped the track| after it swiped and buckled a freight car on southbound track at FOR HOOVERITES press, carly last night. ISenate Coramittee May The engineer of the express,| Fl[!hl Hection ()f Scnalors |George Rollins, aged 40, was in-| | stantly killed when a piece of tim- \Vho Oppose Pl’esident |ber from the buckled car hit him | |over the heart, as his engine struck | i | |tle, left the tracks and dragged the it The locomotive, running free with | the dead man's mand on the throt- | Pullman cars after it. ~The im- mendation of Dr. John William Cooper, Federal Commissioner of Education. Gov. Parks is ex-of-| pact threw dozens of freight cais| from other tracks splintering three | to bits and scattering debris over NEW YORE. Oct. 28.—A fight by the Republicen Senatorial Cam- paign Committee against those Re- publican Senators who oppose President Hoover on the tariff question is forecast by New York newspapers. The forecast is pre |dicted on the selection of Otto H.| STOCK MARKET “RETURNS TODAY NORMAL TINES President’s Reassuring Statement on Business Given as Cause HOOVER GIVES HIS POSITIVE EVIDENCE 'Production, Distribution Upon Sound and Pros- perous Basis | | WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—In spite | of the week's ruinous decline in se- | curity prices, President Hoover is i convinced that the general condi- | tion of American business is strong and sound. The collapse of the stock market iled newspapermen to question the '. | Chief Executive for his opinion on | the situation. | The President replied with the ‘highly optimistic reassuring state- ;ment that production and distri- | bution of commodities, which he termed the fundamental business of the country, to be upon a “sound and prosperous basis.” As the best evidence of the truth of this assertion, the President pointed out that although produc- |tion and consumption are at high levels, the average prices of com- | modities have not increased nor |has there been any multiplication of stocks and manufactured goods. In jeddition, the President said the trend of wages is upward and the " ndividual output of workers in many industries is growing. | RETURNS TO NORMAL | NEW YORK, Oct. 28~The stock ,market returned to times today opening rather ¢ with most of the Price changes narrow. | Commission houses stated distress ‘or selling resulting from Thursday’s drastic crash has almost entirely been disposed of by President Hoo- ver’s reassuring statement as to the fundamental strength of business and this soothed the frated nerves of both investors and speculators. TODAY'S' QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—Alaska Ju- neau mine stock is quoted today at 7', Alleghany Corporation 36%, Bethlehem Steel 103%, Corn Pro- ducts 114%, Fox Films 81, General Motors 54%, International Har- vester 104%, National Acme 27%, Pan-American B 64%, Standard Oil of California 69%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 72%, Air Reduction LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 26.—| Police Lieutenants W. E. Evans and T0 BE GHANGED All traffic was vas |ficlo Commissioner for Alaska of |the right-of-way. ahn as Treasurer of the Repub-|1947, American T & T 266, Storage !lican Senatorial Campaign Com- | 92%, Missouri Pacific 86%. the Interior Department and is re- |delaved. until the wreckage children anhd everything. I really Miles H. Ledbetter, two of 13 of-/ | mittee. mean it.” NORTHWFSTERN 1S NORTHBOUND SEATTLE, Oct. 28. — Steamer Northwestern sailed at 9 o'clock | this morning for Alaska ports with 46 first class passengers and three steerage aboard. The following have booked pas- sage for Juneau: Fred A. Sorri, wife and child; H. C. Cantelow, Minnie Fields, Mrs. D. E. Dunbar, Frank Williams, Mrs. T. M. Frey, Hazel Johnson, J. Stale, H. Ahrenstad, and two steer- age. | ! ! i ficers indicted for alleged bribery by a grand jury, have been con- victed. The pair brought the total | 7 = of those tried on charges growing| : out of J. B, Westman's story of paying more than $35000 in five years for protection of his boot- legging business, to six. Thomas Washburn, patrolman, | was convicted while a jury which} trled Oscar Peterson, Leonard Sale and Harry Hill, disagreed. — CONVICTED OF MURDER ELIZABETH MORROW MEXICO CITY, Oct. 26.—Miss Elizabeth Morrow, daughter of Dwight W. Morrow, American Am- bassador, has applied for permis- sion from the Ministry of Education |garded here as natural that he be| cleared away. The Times said that the selection ! !designated to have charge of and | |assume responsibility for cultivat- | ing, breeding, shipping and mar- keting of deer, it was said. Only Public Utility Con- cerns Will Be Given Li- censes After Dec. 31 The above dispatch is the only WASHINGTON, Oct. 26—Ending information Gov. Parks had re- the present system of independent ceived as to the order being sign- and private radio communications |ed, he said today. He had been in- chains in Alaska, the Radio Com- formed that the transfer had been mission has ruled that after De- recommended by Dr. Cooper and cember 31, the only licenses it Will has made certain tentative plans grant for point and coastal services for taking over the work from the INDEPENDENCE T0 BE ASKED Philippine Legislature Ap- points Mission to Go of a banker of Kahn's standing for| Lieutenant Bowman | Treasurer is accepted as an indica- | Is Killed in Crash tion that Senator George H. Moses | jot New Hampshire, Chairman ofi the Republican Senatorial Cam- GRANTSVILLE, Maryland, Oct. paign Committee, intended to be| 26—Lieut. John Bowman, aged 26, prepared for a hard fight for the|United States Army Flier, was retention of Republican control of killed two miles of here when his the Senate on an organization Plane crashed and burned. The basis. 1In recent years the com-|body was found nearby in a patch mittee has had no treasurer. {of woods. He was tangled in the ! straps of an unopened parachute. PR . 3 Minnie Fields, who has been COLUMBUS, Kan., Oct. 26.—Mrs. Ethel Brotherton has been con- victed of second degree murder for | the slaying of Bonnie Davis, aged 17. The conviction carries a mini- mum sentence of 10 years in prison. The jury was out 17% hours. Sen-| tence will be pronounced on No- vember 4. FRENCH “HIR GET 50 CENTS A DAY PARIS, Oct. 26.—French women are aghast because they now have to pay $16 a month, with bed and board, to get a good general ser- vant who will do everything includ- ing the family wash and mending. A large part.of the blame for this ctate of affairs is laid on the indul- gent methods of wealthy foreign- ers resident of France. Housewives from across the Atlantic are ac- cused of over-paying servants, of coddling them, feeding them too well and lodging them too comfort- ably. Employment bureaus report that things have come to the pass where many French women will not en- gage servants formerly in the em- ploy of foreigners. . They consider them spoiled and lazy. On the other hand many servants stipulate that they will hire out. only to foreign families. They are! picking up a smattering of English ED GIRLS” or Spanish in their dealings with these people from the Americas, North and South. Quite a few of these new-type domestics have now learned to expect heate dbedrooms, electric lights and convenient kitch- ens. The standards of the old-style Prench maid of all work are not exaggerated. She is content if she has a good coal stove, cold run- ning water in the kitchen and plen- ty of space to hang her pots and pans. She will go to bed by lamp or candle light in an electrically light- ed house and will not object if her food is plainer and cheaper than that of the family. _ An afternoon off every other week is all she asks and if she breaks dishes she expects to pay for them out of her small savings. Such servants are becoming hard to find. to teach English free in two schools in Mexico City. Prof. Kiel, Director of the Pri- mary and Normal School depart- ments, has accepted the offer and Miss Morrow starts immediately teaching in the Alberto Corea and Lopez Cotilla schools. e PILOTS TEACH BOYS, 12, HOW TO GUIDE PLANES WACO, Tex., Oct. 26.—At an age when most youngsters envy fire- men and policemen, two 12-year-old Waco youths already have begun flying careers. Each has nearly an hour of flying time to his credit. U. G. Goodwin and Woodrow Ea- son, spend their spare time at Waco's airport. When visiting pilots alight, one of the boys frequently climbs in, “gives her the gun” and taxis the ship to a gas pump for service. Both boys have ridden planes since they were eight. Pilots say they will be ready for licenses long before reaching the required age of 17. " “I guess pilots dan't like answer- | ing 8o many questions, so they just started teaching us,” explains Ea- son, whose father is a pilot. ——————— FAIRBANKS PIONEER DIES Sandy McDonald, aged 70, pio- neer of Fairbanks died there re- cently as a result of a stroke of paralysis. in the territory and its waters will be given to public service com- munication companies. The Radio Commission has allot-*is received by him. ed three groups of communication channels for Alaskan use: 1—for point to point work; 2—for coastal communication with ocean-going vessels, and 3—for short range traf- fic with small boats. Radio telephony is provided for in the latter class and part of the who has been promoted to Gen-|the appointment of a committee to | land communication systems. 1t is understood by the Commis- sion that one public utility concern has been formed which has not yet offered to take over Alaska com- munication channels. Small craft channels were re- served for fishing fleets of canning companies which are understood to be planning to equip each boat with radio and telephone sets. Two Brothers Confess Robberies, Seven States' CHICAGO, Oct. 26.—Robberies in seven States have been con- fessed, the police said, by two brothers under arrest. Information has been furnished by the Indiana authorities that one of the men is wanted in connection with a $38,000 bank robbery in this city. Todd Salter, aged 23, and his brother Emory, aged 26, are said to have hold the police they robbed stores in Arkansas, Missouri, Ken- tucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Indiana and Michigan, {Bureau of Education. These, he| |said, would be made public as soon |as the official order of transfer | NEW MANAGER FOR i KENNECOTT MINE l Be Van Presley, formerly Super- intendent of the Latouche mine, jeral Manager of the Kennecott | Copper Corporation mines and mill | at Kennecott and Latouche, arrived recently at Cordova from the West- ward on the steamer Yukon and | left for Kennecott on the train Mrs. Presley and their child ac- companied Mr. Persley and will es- tablish their home in Kennecott. | The Latouche mine will be in charge | of B. G. Stoltman, who has been promoted from mine foreman to superintendent. Former General |Manager Crawford left recently for the States. H. C. CANTELOW IS COMING TO JUNEAU 4 H. C. Cantelow, newly appointed General Manager of the Alaska Steamship Company, leff Seattle this forenoon aboard the North- western for his first trip North since his assuming office. Mr Cantelow is a wellknown trans- peortation man of the Pacific Coast. _He will remain in Juneau, on busi- ’ ness, for several days. { ) to Washmgton south for several weeks, is home-| |bound to Juneau on the North- MANILA, Oct. 26.—The 'Philip- |Western. Nearly all the lithia ore mined jin this country comes from the Black Hills of South Dakota. pine Independence Commission composed of all members on the Insular Legislature has adopted two resolutions, one creating a mission of six lawmakers to go to the United States and ask the next ses- | sion of Congress for 1ndependencc.f The second resolution provided for | formulate a concrete program for independence, LB Tailless Planes Make Successful Flights in Germany NANTES, France, Oct. 26—One | of the strangest long distance crim- |inal processes in French history is | to begin here soon when Judge Le- | |t ysterious death at rench Guiana, of Jean member of the French | Chamber of Deputies, and a num- BERLIN, Oct. 26.—Pilots Espen- |ber of slayings that followed. It land and Groenhoff, yesterday flew | will be weeks and perhaps months a speed of 75 miles an hour over | before a finding is returned. 1e Tpelhofer Airfield in two tail- | Thirty-three persons, charged less 480-pound, two-seater planes. with murder and complicity, have It is believed wind resistance was | already been brought across the sreatly decreased by removal of | Atlantic for the preliminary “in- he tail and position of the wings |structions” which corresponds to which were joined to the body onfgr;\ml Jjury investigation in Ameri- \ 35 degree angle backward from |ca. By the irony of fate, many of he nose. Less horsepower is also |them, if econdemned, will return required. |over the same route to Devil's Is- Only 10 horsepower motors were land, the penal colony a few miles 1sed. The propellors are placed | from Cayenne. sehind the fuselage and the steer-| The aroused state of public opin- ing is done by means of small ver- |fon at Cayenne was given as a rea- icle and horizontal rudders. ison for the transfer of the proces: The planes are manufactured at|to France. The passing of M. Gal- the Espenlaid Airplanes Works, at |mot, who died of what has been Duesseldort. certified as poisoning was follow- marchand commences an investiga- | Lcient. 'POISON CASE SENT ACROSS ATLANTIC TO FRENCH COURT |ed by brawls that cost the lives lof Luc Jubel, member of the Cay- enne municipal council; Jean Cle- ment, school superintendent; M. Larose, a municipal employe; M. Thebis, a former councilman and M. de St. Ives, a land holder. Under French procedure, Judge Lemarchand will have a gigantic task ahead of him before he can turn over to the assizes court the evidence against the accused. He must personally examine and weigh the depositions of scores‘of wit- nesses and go over thoroughly the “dossier” weighing 265 pounds and which includes every shred of evi- dence in the case. In addition he must look over a large collection lof arms of all varieties, alleged to | have been used in the series of slay~ ings. | In addition to the 33 accused, | already in France, 14 others, involv= |ed in minor ways with the charges, = |are to be ‘sent here for trial if | Judge Lemarchand concludes that | the evidence against them is suffi- ML