The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 31, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5243. JUNEAU ALASKA THURSDAY O( TOBER 31, 1929 PRICE TLN CENTS N. Y. STOCK EXCHANGE TO TAKE 2 DAY HOLIDAY PANTAGES IS SUED FOR BIG SUM, SLANDER Frederick ’F.—Wise, State Witness, Wants $250,000 for Alleged Damages LOS ANGELES, Cal, Frederick T. Wise, a state witness in the recent trial of Alexander Pantages on a statutory charge, has filed a suit for $250,000 against the wealthy showman on the grounds of slander. The suit accuses Pantages of twice asserting that Wise was a party to an alleged blackmail plot against him. The theatre had claimed repeatedly that his al- leged attack on Eunice Pringle, co- ed dancer, was a frame-up by the girl. HOOVER WANTS TARIFF BILL T0 BE PASSED Senator Watson Announces | Factions Should Get To- gether on Measure WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Sena- tor Watson announced in the Sen- | ate today that President Hoover wanted the tariff bill passed as soon as possible and urged all factions to | approach the subject in a concilia- tory manner to see it was done. Senator Watson told of a conf ence at the White House with the * President. Senator Oregon, also attended. The President is anxious, Sena- tor Watson said, that the tariff bill be passed as part of his special session program which calls for farm relief through the marketing |~ act. Senator Watson added that he had no idea what the President will do with the measure and had not asked him whether any conces- sions would be made to the Inde- pendent Democratic coalition. — e MEASLES CAN BE COMBATTED Prevention and Cure Is An- nounced from Med- ical School SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, Oct. 31.— Prevention and cure of measles is cxpected as the result of the dis- covery of a serum being studied at the Hooper Foundation laboratories of the University of California Med- ical School. Prof. Giuseppe Garonia was an- nounced yesterday as both discov- crer of the germ which is said to cause measles and also the serum for prevention and cure of the di- sease. Guinea pigs and mice have been innoculated with the germ and then treated with the serum. The re- sults are sald to have been satis- factory. The Silesian Aviation School at Brunau has constructed a two-pas- senger air glider. Oct. 31—/ man | Tonight is ithe night on which posedly. parties, etc. ‘MDD:\, Hall, The public event | be made. MADAME CURIE IS PRESENTED WITH$50,000 Is Gift of Amencan People for Gratitude for Her Services WASHINGTON, Oct. 3i—In the presence of a distinguished com- pany of American offici and scientists, Madame Curie was yes- terday presented with a bank draft for $50,000, by President Herbert Hoover, to carry on her researches in the Curie Polish Cancer Hos- pital Laboratory in Warsaw. President Heover said the gift| was an expression on the part of the American people for grati- tude for the “beneficient service Madame Curie has given all ma n- kind.” Accepting the dilver encased draff Madame Curie thanked the Presi- dent in a voice scarcely .mlhblr- and promised to carry it back “symbol of enduring friend binding your country to France and Poland.” e Montana university has adopted the system of naming a capt Just before each game for its feot- ball team. GOLD, ”AIR MINDED FINDS FLYING CHEAP LONDON, Oct. 31.—Gold is a good | bar gold is used, each bar weighing | day. but an even better travelerlabout 25 pounds and worth about | murder, arrested for extortion and sailor, in the air. For gold that flies| loses less interest than gold car- | ried slowly on a ship. All of which makes it certain, say bankers in this world banking cen- ter, that whoever first succeeds in | establishing regular airplane serv- ice across the Atlantic, will draw | a big revenue from international shipments of gold. The flight of gold from London to Paris in the past month or two, for instance, has been literal as well | as figurative. Practically all of the -bullion sent to France has gone by air. In cne weck more than 40 tons was carried across the channel by air- plane. Not all flying gold is in the form of bullion, of course, Some of it is in the form of coins. But usually $8,500. The bars are packed in little iron-bound chests, each hold- |ing four bars. tonight is hp spooks, goblins, etc [PRISON TERM OF EXPECTANT MOTHER IS SUSPENDED ;3 YEARS PROBATION GRANTED LOS ANGELES, Cai., Thelma Long, 22-year-old expectant mother, bee granted three years’ probation on a charge of pos- cessing a still. If shc makes ar- ngements with a probation office he can go home to her ther in Ardmore, Okiahoma. Three months ago she was sen- Lenncd to San Quentin prison but 1 sentence was set aside when it be- came known her child would be korn in prison. Then e identi- fied herself as Thelma Holland, (Wwife of Charles Holland, now serv- |ing prison sentence for operation |of the same still which the woman {was charged with poss | After sentence had been set aside she appeared in court and revealed she had never been married to Hol- |land but adopted his name when {she went into his home to carc for his children which ha now ‘Lum plo adoption .“THE SCOURGE” - SHOT, KILLED Oct. 31.— 13 g | | sk | As | aced in a Immu for !“King of 51c1l|an Extortion- ists,” “Gets What Is 1 Coming to Him” CHICAGO, IIl., Oct. 31 | 0, called “The Scour: today from bullei wounds, |the head and three in the bac |The Police said “he got what was ‘commg to him.” One of Maggio's sobriquets was K.nz of the Sicillian Exto: ists th came as a climax on the !observance of his thirty-third birth- He bad been convicted of blackmail and was one of the most feared men in “Little Sicily.” In another part of the city, Myle: ., hold sway, sup- It is generally celebrated by the youngsters in harmless sports, the masquerade given at Chief of Police Geoge Getchell issues a warning tg the |kid population that it is all right to have fun, but damaging of prop- | clit - |erty, imperilling of life or limb, will not be tolerated and arrests will | Special officers will be on duty tonight, the cnly night pranks McNary. of may be indulged in; Chief, Getchell said. ICE BOUND IN ARCTIC, PARTY TOBE RESCUED Ruman Irmlcake. with| Planes to Rescue Those Aboard Stavapol NOME, Alaska, ading Cdmpany | k, frozen i near North Cap fol- pack has becn received,as “Sovict | Dubletsky November ! agd along icebreaker Litke, Capt. leaving Vladivostok on 1, for rovidence Bay 1w Siberian Coast with |two airplanes They will transport '32 passengers from the Soviet steamer avopol, now icebound at North Cape. Sixteen passengers | are members of a scientific expedi- tion. They have spent the past: year in the Kloyma River district. “The icebreal Litke, on Augus st | 28, landed supp! for the Soviet| coleny of \V"'x”" 1 lsmn(‘ % i CANTELOW PAYS STANNARD HIGH THBUTE TODAY Sayq Predecessor ResponS' ‘ ble for Betterments in Steamer Facilities Joo X ovement of steamship fa- in the Alaskan trade dunm,: the past 15 years bas probably b Imore marked than most people rml- ize and has at least kept pace, ?’lth" gnmpru\rmonts I the various ebm= | munities, in the opinion of H. C[ | Cantelow, new genesral man. r ot! the Alaska Steamship Company. In a short talk to the Chamber today, | he gave concise examples of the| former and credited the bettcr-! ments to E. T. Stannard, his pre-| decessor in office. i He paid a warm tribute to Mr.| Stannard, declaring “he was one of Alaska's greatesi assets.” ‘ Fifteen years ago, he recalled, engers on steamers plying be-' 'n Seattle and Skagway had lit-' tle opportunity to bathe. The bath- | tub was likely to be used as a berth and the room apt to be filled with express or freight. Today it is dif- ferent. The Northwestern, oper- ating 15 years ago, has virtually! been rebuilt and now has 17 de luxe rooms and ample bathing fa ties. The new Aleutian when it com out next Spring, will have 56 de- luxe rooms. It will be 56 fect longer than the Yukon and carry more passengers than that ves- sel. Credits Mr. Stannard } Mr. Cantelow credited Mr. Stan- r with the upbuilding of the fleet of the Alaska Steamship Com- |pany to its present high standard. It was through him that money was put back into the old vessels, the betterments made, the Kennecott and Alaska built, the Yukon, old Aleutian and the Mexico, to be renamed Aleutian, were purchased, and five 5,000-ton freighters added to the fleet. i “I doubt if Alaskans fully realize the asset the Territory had in Mr. Stannard,” he added. “But I am s the time is coming when they 0| will appreciate him.” Mr. Cantelow told the Chamber the company desired to cooperate with the Territory and its people in developing the country. Plan Special Excursion Regarding an exeursion by the “|Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce here next summer, about which the Chamber was informed by Ernest Walker Sawyer, of the Interior De- |partment, Mr. Cantelow said the | |company is now endeavoring to {w ork out a schedule. It is pro- posed to send the Aleutian to Los| ‘A'u.des and pick up the excursion- ct. 31.—A spe-|' |tons,” Erncst Walker | ducts.” 0S ATLANTIC IN COCKPIT OPEN ACTION TAKEN g SRS S < o Ry A5 BY GOVERNORS, LATE MEETING \ ; Machinery Is Overloaded - | % y Three Days Record Business Done NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—The over- |load on the Wall Street machinery | became so great yesterday as a re- | sult of three of the largest sessions |on record that at an afternoon | meeting the governors of the New York Stock Exchange voted to sus- ]pcnd all operations on Friday and e Daring the elements in a tiny, low-wing plane, . Ditemex d many hours after his scheduled time o shown in the open cockpit of the machins in which he Swedish Count MONTANAN {Plans I'light, Via Aluska Arcund World STOCKHOLM, Oct. 31.— An airplane flight around the world from Sweden by way of Siberia, Kamchatka, Alaska and New York, is planned by a Swedish Count, Douglas Hamilton, head of a flying school at Ystad, in the southern province of Scanie. NEW COAL AGE IS’ PREDICTED IN NORTHLAND i Executive Assistant to Sec- retary of Interior Makes Statement AND SONS HE Lk | Saturday of this weeky and post- poned the opening of the exchange ¢ | today until the noon hour. ¥ ound"(ml for | In 1 hopped from New ported and missing.” ardous venture. ted Press Photo.) CARAWAY IS TALKING; ROBINSON'S VERSION WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Re- sponsibility for the stupendous drop in stock market prices is attribut- fed to President Hoover and other chieftians of the Republican Party byp.Senator Caraway, a Democratic floor leader. | “Secretary of Treasury Mellon and former President Coolidge are also !blamed for encouraging the recent speculative market with over con- fident statements and the present Administration for not taking steps to check recession when it came. Senator Robinson also took ex- ception to the statement of Jul- ius Klein that the condition of American business and industry is highly sound and asserted that it is common knowledge that per- sistent depression has gripped smaller business and industries and | | agriculture as well. SRR % ) FAIL TO ERTAIN WHY STEAMER WENT DOWN, L. MIC KENOSHA, Wis., Oct. 31.—A Fed- eral inquiry has failed to ascertain the reason why the freight and pas- senger steamer Wiscensin sank last Tuesday morning. The inquiry did fix definitely, at 16, the number of FT BEHIND Jrban F. Diteman, Tri ! flight to England, shown with his s ure State cattleman who took off on lonc} persons who died in the wreck. Be- jcause the Capiain and Chief of- ns, Jack, 7, (left) and Eddie, 4. flonr went downs with £he Do AR industrial companies arc contem- | WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—A new | (coal age, following tremendous | strides of science and utilization of mineral may sound the develop- ment of Alaska’s rich underground Two GUNVIGTS } fields of fossils, ferns and trees ! “In Alaska lies great proving| grounds. ~ Last year the territory’s STAGF RlflT IN mines produced more than 125000 Sawyer, Exec- ' utive Assistant to Secretary Wilbu of the Interior Department “yet geologists estimate resou exceed 150,000,000 ions. Several . re_contem- Beliaye Allempt Made to plating investigating possibilities 10 | apply in Alaska's virgin tields and, Cheat Gallows on Which | science’s most recent method of 3 | transforming coal into valuable pro- | They Hang n Janua\’y | FOLSOM PRISON, Cal., O Conviets Anthony Brown and Walter Burke attempted yesterday to escape from the prison gallows on which they have been sentenced to hang next January for pa pation in the 1927 Thanksgiving Day p n riot. " Burke suffered two fractured arms and Brown was severely lacer- ated on the scalp in a fierce fight thin the prison. The men used nd prison officers used| s, stools and cha \V.nJl-n Smith is convinced that LAWTON, Ok.a., Oct. 31.—Word Brown and Burke planned to mhrh was received here today of the Albert Stewart, one of the 1927‘ ,burning to death of a 23-ycar-old riote who turned state evidence, | 'mother and her 4-year-old son, in then to attempt to escape. | flames following an explosion in| The two convicts, with others,! their farm home east of Elgin, yes- were sentenced to hang for the {terday. The blast resulted from murder of George Baker, pris()nt pouring kerosene on embers in a trusty, during the riot in which | stove. Ira Dees dragged his wife Guard Fay Singleton and eleven and son from the flames but they convicts met deatn. had already received fatal burns - Dees was burned severcly and may die. Only one-fifth of Alaska has b surveyed geologically and the tol known coal fields include ove 000 miles. Of this area 1,200 miles are believed underlain by workable coal and little information is known about the remainder. .- Mother and Little Son Meet Death in Flames in Home American Actress Swings on English Dramatic Critic | Chief Asks |Cooperation- LONDON, Oct. 31—Lillian Fos- taken {Book “Alaska’” iIs Being Studied ( onnecticut School Inspectors sald they did not believe the cause for the disaster would be ascertained. It was learned from Purser Har- vey Lyon there were 75 persons aboard the Wisconsin, 19 injured and 40 hurt. . S eee e | Fred Kolster, foreman for Gard- ® [ner and Johnson, left Juneau on the ® | Admiral Evans and is bound for Se- e |allle . DRTRESIE A G . Mr. and Mrs. John T. Spickett, e |wno have been south for several o |weeks, are arriving home tonight ® |aboard the Princess Mary. - Emil Gasionguay, accompanied by his bride, will arrive from the south tonight aboard the Princess Mary. In a letter received by Mrs. George B. Rice from her sis- ter-in-law, Mrs, Selah Pal- mer, it v learned that L. D. Henderson's book *“Alas- ka,” is being studied and read in the school in Mans- field, Conn. Mrs. Rice sent the book to her sister-in-law for the pur- pose of givin as much information possible con- cerning Alas and also to help disparge the illw which most Easterners have, that Alaska is nothing more than a snow-covered waste interspersed with mountains of ice. - -, Rochester, Minn., health ceriter, has 41 factories. D it - Of $50,000,000 paid the State of Ilinois in inheritance taxes since the war, $40,000,000 hag come from Chicago. . . ©C000ed0000000 FARM BOARD FINDS STABILIZATION MOST TROUBLESOME TERM By FRANK 1. WELLER Farm Editor (Associated Press Feature ample. Should the time come when surplus production forced the do- mestic price to disastrous levels, “stabilization” would consist of the grain corporation taking ecertain quantities off the market and stor= it for future return. Whether the corporation would buy at the current market price or at the price it believed wheat to be worth never has been determined Serviee) WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—It has a special letter from Chal Legge of the farm bhoard Mc! chairman of the Agric ie Committee to ten out the term biliza~ man hator ate traigk tion days. | ¥ When. there is a $5000,000 ship- |Cannaven, known to the police as |ists, bringing them to Seattle to ment to be flown across the chan-|® Tacketeer, was shot to death iNfieave there for Alaska on June 7. |nel the actual weight which the Mront of his wife as they staried qpey will go to Seward and \p]aneg must carry is about eight ‘»’3 their automobile. taken into McKinley National Park. tons. Such a large shipment usu L Regular stops will be made along ally goes by special plane, but me1 MISS GRAVES GOES SOUTH |10 entire route, emaller consignments often go as| MisS Aleece Graves, who for the| rne party will be made up of rep- casually as ordinary merchandise, |PAst tWo weeks has been VISitig|iocentative business men of Los the boxes sometimes being stowed.Der Parents, Mr. and Mfs. H. S.angeles keen, wide-awake business under passengers’ seats. ;i;“"“]leét Jum:;:u Ug “'“’ steamer | men who will be on the lookout for miral Evans for Seattle v opportuniites = f nt or An important factor is the time'she will spend the winter months .tx&?et:xpansion.ol:e s:;f)stmt‘ |saved by air travel. Interest on|Miss Graves is a talented harpist| Have Other Guests Iseveral millions is nothing to sniff and appeared before Juneau aud | Other guests at today'’s meeting lat. . On a shipment of $10,000,000, =ences for the first time during the for instance, about $6.000 in mter-‘recent stage production of the est would be saved if the Atlantic| comedy “Cappy Ricks,” by the Al- passage could be shortened by four |ford John Bradford Post No. 4, of | _ lThc American Legion, ‘ | | e British Columbia Provintial Po- lice, who is going to Taku ror 30 be|® . included: Corporal Barber of the | ‘O/ Parents Because tonight is Hallow- parents are requested American actress, struck Hat- swaffer, dramatic critic of the Express, when they met cheon room of the Savoy Hotel, the Daily News says. Re- sentment at his criticisms of her lacting in the play “Conscience,” is given the cause. ‘The writer likened her voice to a ventrilo- t's doll. Two waiters escorted the actress to the door. e SUBMERGES 342 FEET de in the lu to see that their children are in their homes when curfew rings. Children found on the streets after curfew will be severely dealt with. The Chief asks the cooperation of the parents in this matter, also that parents watch their own property against pos- sible damage. Any act of vandalism will be prosecuted Chief Getchell said. | sPEzIA, Italy, Oct. 31.—The Ital- ubmarine Tito Speri today sub- d to a depth of 342 feet in and remained there 20 min- | ian merge seo0cecsesesecesoe o te ® 000000000000 i | to Behind the letter is the fact in >pt into various reports ation operations, in the nt a large surplus of any nmodity, would consist of the farm board itself buying and tak- ing off the market some consider- able tonnage so as to relieve the pressure. - operation commodity the board, that of properly belongs corporation and not to it was pointed ou point concerns what constitute emergency stabili- zation and the nature of the cor- poration’s action in the market. Wheat may be taken an ex- Another shall as and is expected to be one of the biggest questions in administration of the agricultural marketing act should such an operation be under- | taken, World conditions prebably would be the determining factor. By law the corporation must make rea- sonable provision against loss. I the price were 60 or 80 cents a bushel and the corporation believed wheat actually to be worth $1 or more, it would have to decide on whether to buy as low as possible or peg the market. Some hold that if it bought at - the higher price the market auto- matieally would rise to that figure,