The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 29, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5241. THE TIME” ]UNEAU ALASKA TUESDAY OCTOBER 29 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TLN CE:NTS STOCK MARKET HIT WITH ANOTHER TERRIFIC CRASH CAPTAIN GOES MARRIES HENRY MASON DAY TO DEATH AS | SHIP PLUNGES —_— | Others of Crew Are Re-| ported to Have Been | Lost in Ship Wreck COAST GUARD CREWS - MAKE MANY RESCUES Men Seen Clmgmg to Life' Rafts when Steamer Sinks Stern First KENOSHA, Wis, Oct. 29.—The veteran lake steamer Wisconsin sank off shore in a storm with her captain and three to six men of the crew are missing and are believed to have gone down with, the ship. | Three score of persons were tak- en off by life guards. Eight life rafts and one of six! { § | | | | { | life boats were still on board when |} the stern of the ship was seen to sink. Two of three passengers werc | saved and the others rescued werc‘ members of the crew. There were 15 feet of water in| the vessel when the last man was rescued before the fatal plunge. Others of the crew were clinging to life rafts and were later picked up by tugs. The Wisconsin is the only vessel| to ride out the gale of last week.| There were no women . aboard | the ship as the cabin maid mlssed\ the boat. | The Wisconsin was a hospltnl; ship during the war and was then | made into a combination passenger | and freight ecarrier operating be- tween Milwaukee. azad Chiczgo. 1 BODIES RECOVERED 4‘ KENOSHEA, Wis, Oct. 29.—Four bodies, including that of Captain/ Torrison, of the steamer Wiscon- | sin, which sank early this morn- ing, were found floating on Lake| Michigan late this afternoon by Coast Guardsmen 1 \ LABOR CONGRESS : WILL NOT MEET Pan - Amerlcan Federation| Congress Is Indefin- | itely Postponed | WASHINGTON, Oct. Executive Committee of the Pan- American Federation of Labor, headed by Willlam Green, Presi-| dent of the American Federation of | Labor, announces indefinite post-\‘ ponement of the Sixth Pan-Ameri- 29.—The| can Labor Congress on the grounds‘alm)' air corps as more annoying! that the “very existence of the or-| ganized labor movement in the| South, is threatened by conditions| in the southern states.” President Green’s statement said the “Pan-American Federation of | Labor finds itself confronted with' one of the most gigantic campaigns | ever launched by employers to pre-| vent organized labor from doing its| duty Bt The Gongress would have opened | in Havana on January 6. ‘ —————e \ BAVARIA ASKS FARM AID MUNICH, Oct. 29.—A request !or' Federal 2id to the extent of $5,-| 000,000 has been made by the Ba- varian Farm Board for recon-| struction in the 64 districts dam-l aged this summer by storms. The| total damage was estimated at $25,000,000. iLhE swindlers confessed they | reported Dorothy Marie Ridenour, member of Washington's was married to Henry Mason Day, former business | Harry F. Sinclair. Day recently fin sourt growing out of jury shadowin PANTAGES WILL FIGHT CASE T0 HIGHER COURT Tells Cellmra‘t—;sfl He Got a “Raw Deal”—Makes Further Charges LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 20.=~ The stoical way in which Alexan- der Pantages received the jury’s verdict convicting of a stawutory offense against inice Pringle, has passed and in its stead was a chal- lenge to fight. “A raw deal, that is what I got,” Pantages told cellmates through= out the first day in jail. “I am going to fight this thing to the P rlnclpals in Washmoinn s Stran«rm v Lase 'STUGKS mfl highest court of the land. I am sure the jurors did not know what they voted for. In addition T have evidence that one juror said he would vote to send me to prison even before he got on the jury.” | Mrs. Pantages is reported suffer- /ing from a shock following infor- ymation as to her husband’s fate. ¢ Pantages is confident of his suc- jcess in another court. QUALITY 0 1928 Associated Press Photo | ounger set, | sociate of ! ished a jail term for contempt of ! g during the Sinclair trial. SWINDLE [S REVEALED BY SHIP MUTINY Lives of Crew Are Saved— Fake Cargo Found— Arrests Are Made CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 29.—A mutiny which saved the lives of a crew and exposed a gang of Ar- menian and Turkish swindlers,| broke out on the Greek ship Al- b'mia The crew became furious n their wages were not paid. They seized the cargo, which was| being put. aboard and breaking ope: n| what they supposed to be bales of Oriental rugs and caviar, only paper and coal dust. Thanks to the mutiny, the Police | rounded up swindlers in Stamboul. in- tended to sink the Albania when she put out to the Sea of Marmora and claim $100000 in insurance from a Constantinople Company. | !Army to Study Causes Of Forced Landings' WRIGHT FIZLD, Ohio, Oct. 29. —Forced landings, regarded by the than serious, and heretofore not to headquarters unless serious damage or injury resulied, lare to receive close scrutiny with a view to their elimination. Orders have been issued to air corps aviators that all forced land- ings, due to any cause, must be re- ported to air corps headquarters in Washington, with an analysis of the cause. The reports will be as- sembled by the inspection division and studied in an effort to find a way to eliminate the causes. Air corps officials feel that there have been too many forced landings and that only a close study of the ;causes will bring about their elimi- nation. Shipment of blooded cattle from Canada to Australia has become an important export item. FARMERS TO SUPPORT COOPERA WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Con- vinced that its best work can be done only when American farmers become “cooperative conscious,” the federal farm board has initiated | steps to educate the nation to a def- inite national policy. Federal and state extension forces and land grant colleg¢ and univer- sities have been brought into the program. They will support the educational movement by training men in the colleges of agriculture in sound co- operative marketing leadership. Through the college extension army of county agents, the proper information can be carried to the farmers, to aid them in organizing new asscciations and in improving TIVE POLICY old ones so that their program of marketing will fit into the national commodity-selling plan. Experiment station experts will be used to make studies in market- ing just as has been done in im- proving production. Leaders believe that competing cooperatives should get together and eliminate the features thet keep colleges from actively support- ing them. They say the country needs a national agricultural pol- icy to guide colleges' in their ef- forts to aid farmers through co- operative marketing instruction. ‘When the colleges are united on a program of instruction in coop- erative marketing, there is little doubt that farmers will support it.! 4 found | " |the Neue Berlinger Zeitung from | ALASKA SALMON PACK IMPROVE Federal Inspectors Say Cr- rent Salmon Pack High- er Grade than Usual | The auality ofthe 1929 Meght salmon pack is better than usual, in the opinion of Inspectors A. W.| Hansen and H. C. Moore, of the Seattle office of the Food, Drug| and Insecticide Administration, says an official publication of the Unit- ed States Department of Agricul- ture. This was their verdict after tinspecting 77 canneries in the Ter- !ritory during the season recently (closing. | Two reasons are assigned by the \mspectoxs for the improvement | noted by them. “The present mod- {ern equipment for canning salmon | has so increased the speed and capacity of the canneries as to materialy reduce, the chances of .:}ze fish spoiling on the cannery loors while waiting to be packed, in Snow Storms Prevent Search ‘For Air Liner DENVER, Colo., Oct. 29.— Snow storms whieh swept into the Rocky Mountain re- gion on the heels of a gale, held stormbound the West- ern Air Express planes which were to have taken off in an alr seayCh for a miss- ing air transport plane be- lieved to have gone down in Western New Mexico or Eastern Arizona. |® . e 000epmseoc0e00e0o0 { e {THREE DEIN - PLANECRASH, THEN FLAMES Portland Aerial Party Is former years. Burned Beyond Recog- | “Changes in ownership of plants . . . lthst occurred last year have re- nition 1n Accndent |sulted in extending the control of {the industry of certain large con- EUGENE, Oregon, Oct. 29.—Lieut. ¢€rns which apparently realize the W. B. Clark, Capt. F. O. Mercer importance of putting out o quality and Edyth Rose, all members of Product,” “ was said. 'as was frequently the case on the field near Walker. The bodies were burned boyond " {importation of cattle infected or Miss Rose was a recent graduate H ease, I been from a flying school and was co- jexposed ifa eRE A 2 e iinaugurated campaigns against di- sease, Dr. A. J. Dickman, Director the Sheild-Clark Flying Service, recognition. Identification was made from papers on the bodi |laid down by the Department of pilot. Mercer was on the cameras. ’ 8 A farmer sald the engine quit, Agriculture. The quarantine was |of Animal Industry, said. Order Arrest of ’ “Bank disease,” which is com- Former Premier: \municable to humans, is the spe- Portland Aerial Mapping firm, were FOR IDAHO The plane was bound Ix'(.)m Por started again and then died. The S°u¢d to save 8t beoomy, |cial disease aimed at, said Dr. Dick- killed when the plane crashed into la tree while attempting a ]andin" 3 POISE, Idaho, Oct. 29.—A quar- L':]?Se;o Kg:i":v;m;i ?;:c‘i::n?:;':]"; l‘mune covering all of Idaho against by ing the “dumping ground” for cat- Eifi:: 5)1’;:]31;10:“1:;',0 a trec and then ;0" om other states which have Charges Are Made man. BERLIN, Oct. 29.—A dispatch ta New Device Measures iKovno, Lithuania, said an order to. Auto Rldmg Quality larrest Augustinas Waldemaras, for- |mer Premier of that country, has, jOowWA CITY, Oct 29.—Measuring been issued, listing attempts 10 ¢he riding qualities of automobiles ‘overthrow the government and for|with an instrument known as the ifmuds as the cause. The dispatch | | gyro-accelerator soon may become |says it is reported a deficit of practical, asserts Prof. Merritt L. about $200,000 was discovered after pox of the University of Towa. |he left his office. This amount i~‘ A standard test, consisting of believed to have been deposited in |dtiving a car over a bump at vari- a forefgn bank, probably in Lon-|ous speeds and plotting curves of don. the resulting angular acceleration quantities as shown by the gyro- accelerator, was devised. The re- |sults of the tests, Professor Fox |said, indicate the close relationship between the riding quality and the angular acceleration, or speed of ymotion around a point in the car. This relationship, he said, permits riding quality to be evaluated nu- | merically so that cars of different makes, tested at different times and localities, can be rated as to| riding quality without making a di-| rect comparison. —_————————— |Mistrial Results in Case Brought Against Former Governor Catts TAMPA, Florida, Oct. 29.—A mis- trial has been declared in tne case of former Governci Catts, of Flor- ida, charged with aiding and abet- ting counterfeiting. The jury re- |ported today to the Federal Court it had been unable to agree. ' Dexter Churchill Dayton (left), who has been held by the Washington police in connecetion with the death by ‘strangling of Marjorie O’Donnell, who was found dead in a prominent According to police Dayton society girl, Washington, D. C., hotel. PRAYED AT DEAD éfll&." confessed to killing the girl in a drunken frenzy and then when he realized the girl was dead kept vigil beside the body for a whole day. Chart shows the room where body was found after Dayton had called | police, Washington ISEN BURTON PASSES AWAY, CAPITAL GITY ‘Prominent Leader of Ohio Dies’ After Several Months Illness ASSe/ATED PRESS (EOMONSTON) THEODORE BURTDOA WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. States Senator Theodore E. Bur- ton, of Ohlo, died last night at 10| o'clock after an illness of several months, President Hoover visited Senator Burton several times dur- ing his illness. Senator Burton was ciected to the Senate last November, to suc- ceed Cyrus Locker, appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Frank B. Willis. His term would have expired in 1933. Gov. Myers J. Cooper, will name Burton’s successor. The decision of Theodore E. Bur- ton not to stand for re-election as a Senator from Ohio in 1914 served to bring into national prominence Warren G. Harding, who was select- | ed in his stead as the Republican Senatorial nominee, was elected and six years later was elevated fo the Presidency. Burton had served one term as|; for | rv- Senator, having been chosen that office, after distinguished ice in the House of Representat! by the Ohio legislature before the amendment providing for popular| election of Senators became effcc tive. He was one of the few men in American history to seek elec tion, as he did in later years, to the House after serving in Senate. It was in 1920 that Burton came out of political retirement to run again for Congress in one of the Cleveland districts. At the time Harding who had reluctantly agreed six years previous, to be a candi- date for the Senate, despite a de- termination to remain out of poli- tics after his defeat in 1910 as the Republican gubernatorial nominee, | was making his successful bid for the Presidency. As it turned out, Harding entered |the White House and Burton again became a member of the House where he had served eight terms (part of the time heing one of its |most powerful leaders as Lhan-nm:q X (Contlnued on Psge Eight) ~United | 5.1 The fliers will be presented, while | - lcultivat INVESTMENT TRU S ARE CUSHION By WILLIAM R. KUHNS Financial Editor Bank President’s (Associated Press Feature Service) NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—Investment Sentence Is in Wall Clsppo(l 1. i txusts are “strong hands,” )onrs Street’s colorful vernacular. ‘When stocks are in strong hands lt means that they are held by in- dividuals apd grou who have capital enough to live through a +sharp decline or serles of them without dumping their securities wildly on the market. { With investment trusts, each backed by millions in capital, con- ;ducung a bulk of the speculation, imarket authorities see less and less possibility \of the bottom dzopping out of the market.” { The birth of new trusts has be- jcome almost a daily event. The |movement is not confined to New |York. From the Pacific coast and .the middle west come frequent re- |ports of the organization of invest iment trusts, large, small and medi ium. They represent every variety jof financial activity from old fas {ioned holding companies to st Imarknr, peols. . | Their number in New York alone, Many Russians Are Ithis year has doubled and there are 3 now more than 400 actively engaged Sentenced to Death |in stock market operations. They |exercise a tremendous if not domi- nant influence on the market. The | point that interests professional |forecasters is that the bulk of listed securities rapidly passing under the suré control of “strong hands.” | The general public constitute the “weak hands.” Brokerage house | | accounts testify to the fact that| | the public conducts its speculative |cperations on dangerously thin mar-| ft gins. Consequently, with a large pro-, portion of stocks in the hands of {gmall traders, a moderate decline (might be enough to force wide-| |spread liquidation. This in turn de. [pxfl\sl\i prices and catches more nd more small margin traders as the decline gains momentum. B SOVIET FLIERS VISIT DETROIT| DETROIT, Mich.,, Oct. 29.—The |Soviet fliers arrived here yesterday from Chicago and were greeted by Henry Ford at Ford's Dearborn | Airport fter being feted by various Slav-' organizations, the fliers will to New York on Wednes- NEW YORK, Oct. 20— A Federal Judge has clipped five years off the 15 yeer sentence he imposed October 10 on Charles Waggoner, Telluride, Colorado, bank president, who defraunded half a dozen New.York banks e out of about a quarter of a million dollars intredit and then pleaded he* did it to clp, the folks home. xe"3’\1(]01’ The “iew "sintenes Waggoner becomes eligible for parole in three and one third years. Judge Frank Coleman said he would recommend that the parole be withheld un- til Waggoner had served years of his term. ee00co0e000000 e R MOSCOW, Oct Russians, seven of them govern- ment officials, have been sentenced 0 death at Astrkhan, in the Ral- government. ms. The caviar, b ¢ in the village of Anfalovo, near {Mozcow, for alleged complicity in collector. D |CHECK FOR FIFTY CENTS BRINGS POLCE IN PARIS 1n France, way the police are called. policy simply as “A. S.” because instead got a lesson in barber sh')p finance at fthe station house. The American explained checks were good at home, ish | continue | day. 'home and, anyway, l} | here, with 10 tractors which will be ‘ shipped to Russia to be used in! ing the sofl |- | oo MOST OF NATION'S CARS | OWNED IN SMALL CITIES ASHINGTON, Oct. 28—Fifty- five per cent of the automobiles in the United States are owned in towns of less than 10,000 popu- | lation, according to & survey made by the American Automobile As- sciation. cities of 500,000 and more have C t, one branch of Joseph 114 per cent of the cars, and 11.7 Smith’s original Mormon band. per cent are found in cities of from 100,000 to 500,000. Towns of ! The 1,000 and less, including rural lieved to have been placed on the | | w. INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Oct A religious temple, built by nd and guidance, “divine communities, have 28.1 per cent of assigned temple lot here by Joseph |ipen My, |Smith himself a century ago, has chureh’s 12 apostles, automobiles of the nation. smallest percentage, 6, is determined the temple’s site. in cities of from 50,000 to; Figures on population. members of the ‘church believe, Dot vl confirm their contention that the eville and Roy Neville, of temple has been located by divine are southbound on the Yu- inspiration. Leaders of the church say their the | The found 100,000 'om eward, DOWN FROM 10 - TOT0POINTS Dmasuous Decllne Takes Place Today in New York Markets TURNOVER TODAY IS PUT AT 16,000,000 | Twenty-five'Billion; Dollars, which wiped cut $: Securities Value, Known Wlped Out NEWY 0 RK, Oct. The worst flood of r.ellmg 5,000,000,- | 000 in quoted value of securi- ties last week and appeared [to have passed in the New | | | ~ York stock markets, when a brisk rally resulted, was fol- AGAINST VIOLENT STOCK REACTIONS lowed today by weolluE S ——— astrous decliné. The selling today |scores of issues do#n! from | 110 to 70 points a sllnre. It is estimated that t o turnover today was 16,00, o shares. TODAY'S QUOTATIONS NEW_YORK, Oct. 29, — e Juncan mine stock is qu o B 52, Standard Oil of Cal e |56, Standard Oifl e 587, Texas Corporation 50%, o Reduciion 110, American T and T o a1, o Pacifie 60. of New Jersey Air Electric Storage 63, Missouri ONE FAILURE On Fraud Charges 29—Fourteen, An American, d-‘srnbod by the 134 lost his way in' a fog. his ! but forced the police replied Paris wasn't his tons of the meat is rising | by divine messages. a shrine for the Church of |architects have been employed to discovery of two stones be-lP ASRESULTOF STOCK BREAK NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—The first casualty in the current break of the {mucks district, for defrauding the giock market is reported. The firm of John J. Bell and Company has Thirteen others of 129 defendants peen suspended because of failure |have been given sentences of 10 {5 meet its engagements. Bell, years imprisonment or lesser jail (head of the firm, was admitted to {the curb in 1921, The Bell firm chrage involved a large sum was not engaged in a general com- of money, chiefly threugh sale of igsion business although Bell was o floor trader and is reported to , e Russians, among them one haye handled accounts for several {Priest, have been sentenced to death o his friends. SRS A, the murder of a government grain A“' Mall P]lot Bl,lmed To Death, Plane Crash MOUNT VERNON, Ohio, Oct. 29, -E. M. Kane, pilot of the south- bound Cleveland-Louisville mail PARIS, Oct. 29. — Paying with plane of the Universal Line, was (check is always difficult enough purned to death when his plane but when one tries crashed in a grove of trees on a |to settle a small barber bill that farm near here. Farmers said Kane apparently The plane caught fire, Kane was burned he was not arrested, tried 0 DAy 15 geath and, most of the mail was a 50 cent charge with a check and destroyed. e - A prowing appetite for California rabbit to import 250 last year, al- there was plen- though 3000 tons were butchered of small change in circulation. within the Stnte TEMPLE TO BE BUILT BY “DIVINE COMMAND” 29.— | building’ plans will follow instruc- tions given them, from time to time, Therefore no | design a completed strueture. Visits of divine “messengers” be- gan almost two years ago to Otto etting of Port Huron, Mich., ae~ Since Fetting, one of the claims to have cording to church records. {received further instructions. the sacred markers, | The “temple lot” adjoins the block on which a $750,000 auditorium is being built by the Church of Jesus Chrust of Later y Saints, another division of 1 onglnu Mormon church,