The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 9, 1929, Page 1

< T——cT - “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXV., NO 5251. J UNEAU ALASKA SATURDAY« NOVEMBI:R 9 I 929 MEMBER OF ASES()CIAT LD PRESS HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS DRASTIC SENTENCE IMPOSED UPON LOIS PANTAGES SENTENCED TO SAN QUENTIN THREE BILLION BUDGET SOUGHT FOR YEAR 19 Administration Will Submit ! Budget to Congress in December WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 The first Budget the Hoo Administration will call for will be for $3,830,000,000 to cover the Government expen-| ditures for 1931. This Bud get will be submitted to gress next month. President Hoover said the ~J than for the fiscal year of! 1930 for which $3,941,000,- 000 has been appropriated. Neither figure included the appropriations for the Farm| Beard which this year was $150,000,000. Next year’s ap- propriation has not been esti- 4 ..: yet. —————— BRIDE SLAIN BY ROBBER-IN LOS ANGELES Identification Causes Sud- den Murder—Husband Relates Incident LOS ANGELES, Cal, Mrs. Lucille Bolton, aged 20 years, bride of a few weeks, was shot to death as she sat in her new auto- Nov, 9—! Wrcsident Is Attending Grid Game Today WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.— President Hoover will today enjoy his first football game since he took office. He will attend the Navy-Georgetown game in Annapolis. Although a football fan, the President has had no opportunity to see a game until today. He will sit on the Navy side. c0ceccessssse THREE BANKERS 'HAVE ACQUIRED Airships Wl Be Operated Between California and Honolulu NEW YORK, wuyv. 9.—Announce=- ment that three of the most prominent financial houses of New York had bought a 75 per cent in- terest.i¥he proposed dirigible line between the Pacific. Coast icholulu, has been made by Paul W. Litchfield, President of the Goodyear Zeppelin Company. The National City Bank, Leh- ‘man B:ot.her. and Grayson M. P. A&rg each has bought a one« leh.,.n. i the line, LitcH= field announcer, with the Goodygar Zeppelin Company retaining the re- ‘maining 25 per cent of the stock. The enterprise recently was in- |corporated in California as the Pa- cific Zeppelin Transport Company, Ltd. Although actual operation cannot be begun until 1932. By that time the company expects |to have the first of two 800-foot dirigibles completed and a working agreement effected with American air, rail and steamship services and vtransponafion companies in the Hawaiian Islands. The American terminal for I the " DIRIGIBLE LINE * total was $111,000,000 less‘ and | mobile with her husband, John Bol- |line will be situated in Southern ton, aged 26, who is also believed to | California, probably at San Diego have been' fatally wounded by two or Los Angeles, where a hangar will robbers in a brutal attack last night which followed the apparent recog- | nition of one of the men by Mrs. Bolton as they jumped into an au- tomobile after taking $38 from the couple. Bolton, who was found by hunt- ers, gasped out before he lost con- sciousness that his wife shouted as the men walked away: “I know your name, Woods.” Without a word, the husband re- lated, ¢he man turned, stared at his wife, then fired a bullet which pierced her head. i Coast Guard Man May Be on Graf :On Polar Flight . WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.— o Lieutenant Commander E. H. e Smith, of the Coast Guard, e may be a passenger on the e Graf Zeppelin when the o great airship cruises next e spring over the northern Pol- e ar sections. . Smith is an authority on e icebergs and was recently ap- e proached on the subject. He e took it up with Coast Guard e Headquarters and was asked e to make a formal report on e the proposed exploration trip. . LJ seces000ccoveoe {be built. A mooring mast will be erected at Honolulu and another probnbly at Guam, the second chief- |1y for emergency purposcs. Service on the line will be started as soon as the first dirigible is completed. The ship will cost $4,- 000,000 to byild and will be capable of traveling at a cruising speed of 65 knots with power from any four of its eight motors. Sailings on the 2,400-mile voyage will take place each week from ‘both terminals and the crossing will be completed, it is estimated, in ‘from one and a half to two days, as against four and a half now required by the fastest ocean liners. The round trip will be completed in a week. ROBERTSON BUYS HIGH POWERED AUTOMOBILE R. E. Robertson, local attorney, purchased a new 8-cylinder Auburn '120-Sednn through the Alaska Per- | sonal Service Agents, and it arrived !in Juneau a few days ago. The |car is equipped with a 125 h.p. en- gine, a one shot lubricating system, heaters in both the front and back compartments, a pilot spot light, ‘vem eaves, wire wheels, and a slanting windshield that does away \with reflections from other cars jor strong lights. £t is a maroon .color and has tan upholstery. RITIC OF COLLEGE EDUCATION IS DONOR OF TWENTY THOUSAND JR—— EW YORK, Nov. 9—Floyd L. lisle, investntent banker, who re- ntly was quoted as having said t a college education unfits for a business career, today was Lawrence University, y York. h a letter to Owen D. p and of the University's of Trustees, Mr. Carlisle ex-|ever, can be overcome, but is no where he will enter the Jones Sani- | ned his “igus viewg" aled as the donor of $20,000 to| Canton, ! ’ganmmon at the bottom, as he the first discoverers of the min- ‘Young, | must, is under a severe handicap to eral wealth in the Taku district, of the General Electric |the boy who has started four years “T most heartily recommend a col- lege education as a foundation for any intended profession or career, and only wish every boy and girl in Ithe land could enjoy it,” he said. “A boy, however, leaving college at 22 and entering a business or- light one,” | entered the Cutten automobile. They former home in the southeast sec- ordered the women to remain quiet, tion. : I Ileft Juneau on the Admiral Rogers ahead of him. This handicap, how- | NEW ANGLEIN PREPAREDNESS JENSEN URGED T0 MAKE RACE FOR DELEGATE Nome Leader_May Cast Hat | Into Republican Politics Says Nome Wire Ohio Wom;Claims Her Brother Responsible for 1916 Murdcr Plot BELLAIRE, Ohm Nov. 9.—A statement by Mrs. George Monroe, resident of the mining section near here, claiming her dead brother was That another hat may be tossed into the Republican political ring before long was indicated in an As- sociated Press dispatch received to- day by The Empire under a Nome responsible for the 1916 Prepared- date line. This said that Thomas ness Day bombing in San Francisco, D. Jensen, widely known Nome citi- instead of Tom Mooncy, has been zen and at present Clerk of the given the authorities. Federal district court there, was Mrs. Monroe said Lewis Smith, being urged by his friends to enter her brother, in a deathbed state- the race for Republican nomination ment in Cleveland seven years ago, for Delegate. 1 “confessed” Mr. Jensen has been active in case of explosives which took the ublican politics for several years. lives of 10 men marching in the |He was twice a member of the parade. Alaska Legislature from the Second Mrs. Monroe said her brother Division. In 1925 he was a mem- planted the explosives on promise of ber of the lower House and served being “well paid” He received with distingtion. He was sent to nothing, however. Mrs. Monroe the Senate in 1927, serving only one did not press her brother for fur- session, resigning to accept his pres- ther details, not wishing to become ent position. involved in the case. Mr. Jensen also was a member Smith’s widow is reported to be! of the Alaska Game Commission, still living in Cleveland. resigning from that body to enter g the Senate. He is favorably known ' throughout the Territory. NAVY PAYR“LL So far, the Nome telegram said, he has not signified whether or not he will make the race. Two candidates already have de-l- clared their intention of seeking the Republican nomination for the | delégateship, Attorney Greseral Johi |- Rustgard and Judge’ James Wick- | ersham. Both are making prelim-' inary plans for a campaign which; ginitty B e from Absconding Officer Directs! . Search at His Former Home in Washington BOLD ROBBERY | ‘ome i Mehinson | WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—A tiny uN GOLD ansT tin box buried in a chicken yard veldcd $47,000 to Navy Department Wives Of Multimillionalres searchers, who revealed that this Lose Jewels and Mon- much of the $54600, Lieutenant |Charles Musil is charged with hav- !ing stolen recently as Navy Paymas- Iter at Charleston, 8. C,, has been |unearthed in the exact spot to which he led them. ! After the Naval autfiorities had ey in Chicago CHICAGO, IlL, Nov. 9.—Mrs. Ar-/ thur W. Cutten and Mrs. Alfred T.} Martin, wives of multimillionaire sought the absconder in far corners, stock and grain oper'ntors were rob- he voluntarily surrendered aboard bed of money and jewels last night the U. 8. S. Seattle at New York. in a bold Gold Coast hold-up, the He turned over $1,500 to Captain police were told. IC. T. Owens and insisted he had Mrs. Cutten lost a “very valu- spent the balance of the stolen able” necklace of matched pearls, payroll. the worth of which was not given,| Officers checked his movemvnti and money. since the disappearance September | Mrs. Martin lost a necklace of un- 28. He acknowledged visits tu: reported value, and money. Washington, Chicago, Detroit and| ‘The robbery was evidently plotted Canada. Conscience-strucken, he ! and executed by five bandits, as- finally told investigators he would sisted by a young blonde woman. !'show them where he had buried After leaving a theatre they had the money if they returned him attended, another car drew along- here. side about a block from their desti-| Only his aged parents and coun- nation and forced them into the sel were permitted to see him. High curb. {Navy officials met him at the Un-| The chauffeur was ordered from ion Station and under cover of the women’s car and two robbers darkness the group drove to Musil's and| While the prisoner watched calm- | ly, investigators wielded picks and Ishovels until a metallic click was heard. “There it is,” said Musil, and the |cache was revealed. took the jewels and money, escaped. ———————— Five Are Killed when ‘ Explosion of Gas Blow: Musil was placed under close Out Walls of Building guard at the navy yard and pre- parations for a Court-martial trial ELYRIA, Ohio, Nov. 9.—Five men .. ynder way. were killed and four men and three S — women were probably fatally in- jured in a gis explosion which ripped off the walls of the Txmcs Spring Company building. A flaming column of gas spurted | more than 100 feet into the air and the wall of the plant crumpled like | paper. The explosion started when a workman entered a gas-filled room in the building and struck a match to light a cigarette. H The detonation was heard for| several miles and rocked buildings within a mile radius. W, i £ J 3 1 | | All surrounding structures were | ) splintered by flying bricks and um-1 i e VY ) | AFTER TODAY THERE KELLY GOES SOUTH | ARE ONLY James (Baseball) Kelly, one of : i 37 MORE SHOPPING DAYS | and is enroute to Portland, Ore, 1 R s o e DAY BOMBING he planted the suit-, ,}roufie to a Silesian prison charged CWEN YARB ‘with murder, “himueil ke center of ' 5 s a situation matching more interest | /than any his pen has ever produced.’ | Fritz Kaehler, soldier of the “Black structions have been issued to all | Postmasters to keep their jFormcr Alaskan {Involved in | Imogene Smith, local stenographer, said fopen during the coming winter for el 1w 10 his native country. “Cigarette Hciress” Loses Fortune in Stock Market Slump s V YORXK, Nov. 9.—Her $900 000 inheritance wiped out in the stock market crash, Margaret Shotwell, concert pianist, hopes to earn $50,000 by her profession in order to pay -wiat she owes her broker. Mi: Shotwell, aged 22 y is known as the “Cig- arette Heiress” after she ré- ALEX. PANTAGES GIVEN TERM OF Sentence Is Passed This Forenoon by Superior (ONE T0 50 YEARS PR()BA TION F OR TEN YEARS AND JUDGMENT MANSLAUGHTER CASE LLOS ANGELES, Cal., ‘\ov. 9.—I‘robdlmn for 10 years, |accompanied by a judgment to pay $78,500 damages, was imposed ¢n Mrs. Leis Pantages, society matron, and wife lof Alexander DPantages, millionaire theatrical magnate, | yesterday zfternocn the culmination of her recent man- slaughter ccnviction for the death of Joe Rokomoto, Japan- \(\e gardener, following an automohlle collision last June. BOTH IN TROUBLE ! Mrs. Pantages was brought |into the court room in a iwheel chair and attended by Judge Fricke . o . 3 ° ° . . . . . ° ceived the $1,000,000 estate of John Neal, District Manager of the R. J. Reynelds Tobac- co Company. ‘I was just one of those suckers, My broker carried me as long ‘as he could. I be- gan to hope T'd pull through I was wiped out in the last big slump.” ¥ . . ° . . . ° - . L] . ® . ° . o . . ° . . . . G0ee0ee 0000 e .- — SECRET MURDER, MYSTERY CRIME German Dramatist Under Arrest for Crime Com- mitted 8 Years Ago BERLIN, Nov. 9.—Peter Lempel, German dramatist, Martin is en- The police are holding him, be- lieving they have solved the eight year old mystery of the death of Army,” a Nationalist organization, who disappeared mysteriously while stationed in Silesia. Lempel’s arrest is said to be due to information of a fellow member of the organization, named Muller, who said he and-Lempel were mem- bers of a party designated to exe- cule a man in accordance with a sentence of the secret court, illegal- ly self-impowered to put to death “traitors” within the organization.! It is represented by the Police| that suspicion was said to have been aroused by the dramatist’s realistic deseription in a play in which p ceedings of secret death tribunals were un:olded MAIL EARLY, | SLOGAN NOW WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Post- master General Walter F. Brown said today that between 65000 and 70,000 additional clerks, carriers and laborers would be needed to 1929 Christmas mail, as well as 3,000 temporary railway mail clerks. Already the Post Office Depart-! ment has perfected plans for com- plete cooperation with Santa Claus, St. Nicholas, or what have you, for the 1929 season. At the same time the Postmaster General said that all carrier deliv- eries and window services in all post offices would be suspended Christmas day so the 300,000 regular !employes of the department could | enjoy Christmas with their families. Postmasters have been instructed to deliver all Christmas matter by| Christmas Eve, As part of the Post Offiec De-| partment’s plan to handle the Yule-) tide mail as swiftly as possible, in main |and classified stations open late each night for 10 or 15 days ])ruul« § ing December 25. Breach of Promise AMARILLO, Texas, Nov. 9—The | $50,000 breach of promise suit Miss { The ibrought against Habib Kahn, jto be a member of the Amhdn‘nll sorts of athletic sports. rm’!’ll Family, was dismissed yester- |be used as a gymnasium and for in- A recent trial resulted in a | door sports, day. deadlocked jury. Kahn is sald to have amassed a |fortune as a silk importer in Alas-lthl\ vear, 80 players, was drawn'li.. John Dilworth approached a | temporary truce. ,kl during the gold rush and later from 21 states. He |the school, suppli>d only two mem- bers, | as a hot tamale vendor here. | APPLICATION FOR PROBATION DENIED Defense Att_(;r;cv’s Motion for New Trial De- nied by Judge LOS ANGELES, Cal,, Nov. 9.—Alexander Pantages was ‘this forenoon sentenced to CHARGED WITH jone to 50 years by Judge Fricke, fan Quentin for a term of following conviction on October 27 of an assault upon Eunice Pringle. The Court denied motions for a new trial, arrest of judgment and also for probation. Defense attorneys made oral notice of appeal. BIDS FOR LIFE; BRIBE OFFERED Request on y Sherilf by, Fleagle Puts Robber, | Slayer, in Tighter Jail LAMAR, Colo, Nov. 9.—Ralph Fleagle, last of three admitted bank | robbers and slayers to be sentenced to death by juries here, attempted, to buy his way out of jail when he saw the shadow of the noose, it was learned here. Fleagle, with Howard L. Royston | and George J. Abshier, confessed the hold-up of the First National Pank here, May, 1928, and subse- quent slayings of four men. One other member of the gang, Ake Fleagle, brother of Ralph, still is at large. Fleagle, feeling his end approach- | ing, accosted Guy Firebaugh, under- sheriff, offering him a handsome rd if the officer would turn y momentarily and leave the! open for a dash for freedom by Fleagle. The officer ordered Flea- gle put in closer confinement. Fleagle has been spirited out of the jail here by officers, who took him to Golden, Colo,, a small town 15 miles west of Denver. He was guarded closely and shackled. JOHN DUNN GOES TO TORONTO NEWSPAPER John Dunn, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dunn of this city, has accept- ed a position with the Mail and Express, daily newspaper of Toron- to, Canada, it was made known here today. |new position for several weeks. Dunn is a graduate of the Ju- neau High School and of the School of Journalism of the Uni- versity of Washington. He got his early newspaper experience on Empire and the Anchorage After completing his jour- studies he was connected Times nalistic 'with the Associated Press in Seat- tle, later went to the Seattle Times land then to Vancouver as Real Es- tate editor and later assistant to the financial editor of the Sun \He left there to accept the Toron- to pmlnon B ANCHORAGE FAIR BUILDING TO BE USED FOR SPORTS The Anchorage Athletic Club will keep the Fair Building at that place It will including basketball. e Notre Dame's football squad of Indiana, seat of refused | permission to file application i ‘two nurses. ) Mrs. Pantages broke into tears as Superior Judge Car- {los S. Hardy read the ruling 1which released her from a possible one to ten years in |San Quentin Prison. A mo- | ment later when she signed |a certified check for judg- }ment awarded the destitute Isurvivors of her victim, the pen fell from her hand, clat- tering to the floor. Five floors above Judge Hardy's court room in a county jail cell, sat | Mrs. Pantages’ wealthy husband, Alexander Pantages, awaiting sen- \tence for assault on Eunice Prin- gle, 17-year-old coed dancer. | Mrs. Pantages was ordered to sur- render her automobile driver's li- cense; forbidden the privilege of driving her expensive car for 10 years and forbidden to drink intoxi- cating liquor during the same per- iod. | probation orders will result in | convicted woman, being Q‘dfiM j | serva ey judgment into payment of $35,000 to the estate of the dead Japanese, 1$15,000 to his widow and an 1 (amount to the oldest son and ibalamce to two minor children. Mrs. ! Pantages was convicted on Eepteq. ber 26. e | | | | FUNERAL OF GUS 4 LENAEUS, SUNDAY ! Funeral services for Gus Lenaeus, \ ‘who died Wednesday of heart fail- Mrs. Pantages miust also obey all laws and violation of any of the mansiaughter term. The court's order divided the He has been in his| The above plctures are of Alex- ure, will be hold tomorrow after- ander Pantages, theatrical mag- Noon at 2 o'clock in the chapel of nate, and his wife, Mrs. Lois Pan- th® Juneau-Young Mortuary, the tages. Sentence wds pa d yes,- Rev. Harry R. Allen, officiating. In- |terday upon Mrs. Pantages iol- terment will be in Evergreen Ceme- lowing recent conviction on a tery. manslaughter charge. Sentence | Mr. Lenaeus was born in Sweden was sed today upon Pnlxtuzes.165 years ago, and has resided in |convicted of a statutory charge Juneau for the past five years. He preferred by Eunice Pringle, l7-Ywas one of the operators in the lyear-old dancer. Salmon Creek power plant of the B 2 Alaska Gold Mining Company. A A. Lenaeus. who lives in \cug Harbor Wash,, is the only } ‘ known survivor. COMING NORTH 5 | R. D. Peterman, local contractor, |is constructing a marquee which, SEATTLE, Nov. 9.—With 76 pas-|When completed, will cover the side- sengers aboard, the steamer Yukon |Walk in front of the Olympic Pool sailed at 9 o'clock tiis morning for|Hall on South Front Street. The Alaska port marquee will be 30 feet long and 6 Passengers booked for Juneau are: |feet wide. John H. Newman, H. E. Smith, Miss b NEW MARQUEE - I. Heath, Roy Rutherford, Mrs. J./ g g g o 0 0 0 0 00000 Mrs. M. Hegstad, Mrs, H.' Mabry Mrs. H. B. Crewson, Mrs. X FFLAWS! C. Adams, Mrs. H. Yeager, Mrs. THESE Bopm e Schomble, Cal Kinsey and one DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. stectngs, 9.—Harry Passno, 49 years S e old, Superintendent of the New Step Taken in State Bureau of Investiga- tion, who last February made Foshay Recelvershlp e the charge that liquor was the cause of Des Moines’ NEW YOI{K. Nov. 9 cderal e crimes, was arrested on a Judge William Bondy has appoin! e charge of having driven an Joseph Chapman and the Irvin automobile while intoxicated. Tru Company in equity for th Passno in a statement last W. B. Foshay C ny, of Minne February, said: “Des Moines apolis The court’s order called e fingerprint records are drip- for a $10,000 joint bond. The pre-|® ping with gin." cedings here were brought to safe- uu‘nd assets in this district. ee 00000 STAGE FISTIC BATTLE IN SUBW AY TUNNEL UNDER N. Y. SKYSCRAPERS NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 9.—A de- |them, who later said he was John tective and a suspected pickpockm Curry, suddenly arose and pushed dodged death from undt-n,rmml |the detective from the platform. As trains and third rails last night i Jhe fell, Dillworth grabbed Curry's a desperate fistic battle on the|leg and the two started a rough tracks in the dimly lighted tunncl|and tumble fight on the tracks. under New York skyscrapers where; Curry, who was the heavier man, subway trains roar past every Icwi rapidly got the better of Dilworth. minutes Subway employees came to the ald Searching for pickpockets, Detec- (0f the two and they- declared & bench in the Wall Street station, |2PProached and then went by, they occupied by two men, ~ One of | 5“‘"’“ fighting again. Ww‘uhmm” 0900000000000 ensnoe When a train } 4 A 33