The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 12, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5588. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1930. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PR ESS PRICE TEN CEN KETCHIKAN BOOTLEGGER KILLS INFORMER AND HIMSELF §8,000,000 | DEFALCATION 1S CONFESSED Bank Official Calls Himself “Dirty Crook”—Is Taken to Jail VICTIMS NUMBER TWENTY THOUSAND| Speculations Most Amaz- ing and Elaborate At- tempted in Years HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Dec. 12— Branding himself as a “dirty crook,” Gilbert Bessemyer, aged 45 years, Secretary, Treasurer and Manager of the Guaranty Building and Loan Association of Los An- geles, civic and social leader, con- fessed to dafalcations that may to- tal $8,000,000. Besides the Guaranty Building and Loan Association, the North American Bond and Mortgage Guaranty Companies are also af- fected. The financier said that at least 20,000 depositors are victims in the building loan defalcations which have extended over a num- ber of years. The bank which is located in Hollywood, failed to open last Monday. The institu- tion is alied with the State Build- ing Loan Company. Commissioner Charles Whitmore said the most amazing and elab- orate speculations of their kind ever attempted in California in years have been revealed. Bessemyer's confession came after the directors met to ascertain the reasons for the failure of the bank. Mrs. Bessemyer collapsed after hearing her husband had been taken to jail. The police refused to let him see his mother, 80 years old, fear- ing she would not stand the shock. NOEL WEIN IS FLYING NORTH Bound from. Minnesota to Nome to Spend Christ- mas Holidays PRINCE GEORGE, B. C,, Dec. 12, «~~Noel Wein, enroute from Minne- sota to Nome, Alaska, where he “will pass the Christmas holidays with his wife and family, arrived Bere today. His son left Seattle last Wednesday on a.steamer and will join Wein gt Fairbanks. From there they will fly together to Nome. Novel Plane Designed For South America Hop CHATIION, France, Dec. 12.— Several novel features in design are incorporated in the plane built here for Lieut. Commander Joseph Le Brix's contemplated flight from France to South America. The machine is a low winged moenoplane of wood and three-ply construction, fitted with one of the now famous 650-hp. Hispano- Suiza water cooled enginer. ° The plane’s lines are exception- ally fine and clean with both wing and tail surfaces having a very wide span in proportion to their depth from front to back. The wing is a single unit, built around a single spar instead of the | King Carol Shows ‘ His Royal Hand | | Keeping Fit SANTA CLAUS PUTS HIS BIFTS IN STORES HERE Merchants becorate Busi- | | ness Places and AllHave | | Wonderful Stocks Santa Claus has been here. With so many chimneys to go down, so“ | many stockings to fiil throughout | the wide, wice world, he had to| | start- early on his Christmas pil- }grimage this year. Naturally hls‘ | first stops have been near the be- | | ginning of his journey, close to his | | home. When his sled and eight| | reindeer halted at Juneau he put | off a generous share of his Yule- | tide load. 8o merchants of this city are dis- playing an abundant assortment of seasonal goods. Windows of many shops and stores are aglitter with | evergreen trees, their tinselled branches illumined with multi-col-| & | ored lights. Interior decorations im- | A red-headed woman, Mme, Lu. Part the cheerful spirit of the holi- escu, is again causing trouble, It day time. as been reported that the Titian- | Gifts in Endless Quantity SRR, ot M b B rights to the throne, has been in. | QUaNtity, ‘suitable for every pur- stalled as chatelaine of his palace | Pose for men, women and chil- at Bucharest, to the horror of his dren. Articles both useful and at- subjects and the humiliation of the | tractive, for any age or sex; pres-| royal family lents that will be appreciated by | Hnss REVEAL = the adult person; varied and sun-| idry things to delight the most exacting of young men; conceits FUUR MURDERS MARTIAL LAw { that will thrill the tender feminine heart, and toys so numerous, both; Is DEGLARED instructive and entertaining, but | | o g withal amusing, aisntlo nimke ml!tlfi Mysterious Disappearance i R il ol M of Family Is Practic- Troops Patrol Streets of| oy. | 5 ally Solved | Canton — Reds Re- Food commodities never were soi ported Advancing Associated Press Photo Estrillita Franco, comely senorita st Havana, Cuba, is giving fencing a trial as a developer of added grace. tempting. In great amounts z\nd; numberless kinds they appeal to every ‘twstearith oppebite. | Dec. 12.—Recovery of four bodies, Pre-War Prices | three from a grave under the floor Prices are within the reach of of a barn on a farm, led the county all. Pre-war levels have been reach-! authorities to say they are close ed by luxuries and necessities. In-!to the solutions of the mysterious deed, in some instances, money|disapearance of a family of six i et _{will go further this year than it last February. "HSA]?:.‘CK\;; (;l;:‘aaelé);credlzhei\:a;s did 20 years ago. | The arrest of Charles Bannon on ‘lhe result of Red disorders in the| Now is the time to buy. Stocks charges of embezzlement led to the} are complete; assuring wide choice; |recovery of the bodies of A. E. Northern part of Kwangtung Pro- i ¢ € |'vince as a precaution against| goods are fresh, not soiled by fre-|Haven, his son Daniel, aged 19, possible violence. {quent handling, and proprietors and | Leland 17, and a 16-month-old ! infant. Troops patrolled the street as| clerks are gracious and eager o well as the restaurants and the-|to dccommodate, rather than worn, The victims had apparently been | atres. f as they may be later by belated, Peaten to death. e | Today is the third anniversary|petulant customers, to formal po-| Bannon sald they were killed by of the Communist uprising here in!liteness and routine service. | Mrs. Haven. which thousands were slain in| The Yuletide season, approach-| The Whérclabguts ‘of ;‘he ‘famfly | street fighting and a large portion|ing so came up yesterday at a hearing on; fast upon the Christian | of the city was burned. The Reds|world, will be merrier and hflPpler‘Ch“ges that Bannon had sold four ‘were finally defeated. hogs from the farm. if folks will just do their Christ-| Jegraph lines north are down| " g | Bannon said the family had gone | Telegrap! mas shopping early, There nreE ol tan Oregor naced by Reds and little i ot deves R 10, g diees: Bannon, however, uncovered the| i nown of developments. it i ¥ Iodies after the hearing. He said| A dispatch from Hankow sald! ] Government troops had halted the| Mrs. Haven, while demented, killed 7 |her baby and husband and swore; ———.——— { d y GAI.I.OPS AWAY N L I him to secrecy. Then she killed | Dispatches from Hoikow-Hainan | | v Ithe remainder of the family and d said wild disorders were oc- | i | [ forced Banonn to aid her bury the i and three nboats with! Saeins o | bodies. i been sent there. | s s | i . . | Mrs ‘Haven then fled and Ban- Tom Mix Leayes Wife injnon said she is stil missing. ! 'ENTERTAINS FOR {. Wild West Fashion— £ JUNEAU VISITOR| She Seeks Divorce |Bridge Less, Read | Mrs. Alma Hendrickson enter-, LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 12.——"‘"""‘” Archbishop {Advises Women WATFORD CITY, North Dakota, \ tained yesterday in honor of Mrs.:Tom Mix has galloped away from C. R. Wildes, of Seattle, who ‘S‘hls home and is not coming back visiting her son and daughter, Mr.!again said Mrs. Victoria Mix in and Mrs. Keith Wildes. Four,filing a divorce suit. She said Tom tables of bridge were played. MIS.| emphasized the statement he would . J. Torvinen won first prize, MIS.|not be back by twirling a loaded ' H. Sperling second and consolation ' reyolyer with his finger on the went to Mrs. G. Grigg. A BUest|irigger in true wild west fashion. prize was presented to the honor| Tne couple married in 1918, one lady. A ‘delicious luncheon WaS vear after Tom’s first wife di- served by the hostess. { vorced ‘him on a charge of deser- i tion. LONDON, Dec. 12—The arch- bishop of ,Canterbury finds small { sympathy for women who spend | their afternoons playing oridge. He {urges them to do more reading in- | stead. Referring to the hold which the habit of bridge playing has gained on women, the archbishop, speaking at Cheltenham Ladles’ College, sald: “I put it to yoh, whether forj your leisure you want to spend your time in dreary desultory efforts to get over the blank hours or whether you will cultivate the hab- | Governor Parks in Doctors May Seattle, Bound SO“lh.Go On a Strike ! SEATTLE, Dec. 12—Gov. George' In Havana usual two. The pilot's cockpit, al- A. Parks, of Alaska, arrived here| though roomy and entirely shut in, today aboard the Alameda enroute| hardly projects above the top line to Denver, Colorado, to visit with| HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 12— Citizens went about their busi- of the fuselage. his parents over the holidays. ness today as usual with no VICE SQUAD CHARGED WITH FRAMING GIRLS, NEW YORK, Dee. 12.—Following one of the most amazing stories of vicious corruption ever heard in 2 New York court, the lid blew off the police department. While the echoes of chargss against a score of detectives and patrolmen of the vice squad were reverberating around city hall Mayor Walker declared, vehement- ly: “There is no man in the police department big enough to get away with this, if these chl.rga,,m true.” outward indication the Con- stitution has been suspended throughout the Island. The police remained in charge and no troops have been called. Street gatherings are for- bidden. As serious as the political situation is, the country is anxi- ous to return to peace in view of the winter tourist sehson which business men fear will be a failure. Doctors will go on a strike if the Government enforces ar- rest of Professors of colleges ! When he said that Commissioner | Edward P. Mulrooney was standing, beside him, apparently aghast at; the sworn testimony of a stool pig-| eon that he had assisted at the framing of at least 150 cases of | girls as prostitutes without a scrap of legal evidence against them. In many of these cases the witness, “Chile” Napacho Acuno, sald more | and universities who backed than one woman was involved. | the student demonstrations. Many Were Innocent | Hundreds of doctors said they Many of them were innocent, he ~ Will make no calls and will - write no prescriptions if arrests of college officials are made. (Continued on Page Beven) i it of reading good literature and seek company with the immortals.” | |Europe Making Wide Use Of Radio to Stop Crooks i Charlieflli’a SENATEBOOSTS RELIEF MONIES TO5118,000,000 l |Increases House Bill by $8.- | 000,000 and Ties Hands of Presndent Hoover WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 12— | The Senate late yesterday, after a | hectic session, passed the House ;bl“ for relief of unemployment. Be | fore it enacted the measure, how- cver, it added $8,000,000, making the total $118,000,000 and struck from the bill, the provision which | was designed to give President Hoo- ver a free hand in expending the funds. For some time there was a doubt as to whether the Senate had boosted the $110,000,000 House ap-| propriation to $115,000,000 or SHH.-‘ 000,000. | an item for $5,000,000 for con- | | structing roads on the public do-‘WAs main and Indian reservations had | TRY Tu FI Nn Total Was In Doubt It was known by everyone that been added. The issue was cleared | by Senator Carl Hayden, Democrat, of Arizona, who said the Senate bill also carried an amendment pro- posed by himself, adding another| $3,000,000 for constructing Forest| Highways. The House bill has al-| | ready provided $3,000,000 for the construction of secondary Forest| roads and trails. [ Alaska Items The three Alaska items mcludcd‘ by the House—Ketchikan Creek, | $272,000; Port Alexander, $17,000, | | If Successt-\X}ill Take it to- Whitehorse for Inquest WHITEHORSE, Y. T, Dec. 12, and Refuge Harbor at Seward,|Pilot Everett L. Wasson left for $45000—were left intact by the|Mayo yesterday to report to his Benate. employers, the Y ukon-Treadwall The Senate amendments make it | Exploration Company. He expected necessary to send the measure back | to return here sometime today and to the House for re-consideration.|begin preparations for a return I it does not accept the Senateflight to the Liard River Region in amendments, the bill will have to an effort to locate Pilot E. J. A g0 to a conference committee. (Paddy) Burke's body. If he is Final approval, it is expected,|successful in locating the body, will be had early next week. Spon-| Wasson will bring it here where a sors of the Legislation assert it will formal inquest will be held give employment to hundreds of| i thousands of workmen throughout | the country. ¥ 22-YEAR-OLD House In Debate | While the Senate was emasculat- | ing the House unemployment relief | GIRL cHAHGED bill, the House was engaged in a| bitter debate over the Senate’s wITH MURDER $60,000,000 drought relief measure Spokesmen for the Administration | assailed it vigorously as they striv- ed to reduce the sum granted by' the Senate to thé amount recom- mended by the President, $25,000,-| 000, and to eliminate provisions for | food purchases which were written in by the Senate over strenuous objections from Secretary Arthur| SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec M. Hyde, of the Department of 12—A first degree murder charge Agriculture, who was regarded as has been filed against Jean Dayle, speaking for the President. ‘ngcd 22 years, charged with the Pipeline Into Treasury slaying of Sam Frank, Memphis, Representative John Q. Tilson, Tenn., auctioneer Connecticut, Republican floor ]ead-‘, The ,charge of being an accesso’ er in the House, characterized the in connection with the slaying, h: bill as a pipeline into the United been filed against Phil Guinin, who States Treasury, as he held aloft has been identified as the man who the spectre of “unemployment took the girl to the home of a doles” before the House. i friend after the killing. “The high-principaled and in-| Miss Dayle signed a confession dustrious will insist that it is a she killed Frank unassisted and loan and-attempt to repay it. The robbed him of a diamond ring, stick idle and shiftless will accept it as' pin and a sum of money in his ho- a gift and live off the Federal|te] room. She admitted a man government as long as the oppor-|planned the robbery but she re- tunity exists,” he asserted. | tused to give his name. He appealed to the House far] The girl steadfastly maintained ed Aged Auctioneer in Salt Lake City to the drought stricken farmers to|year-old auctioneer when she purchase seed and fertilizer, and struck him over the head with a to eliminate the provisions permit- | liquor bottle after attempts to drug ting making of loans to farmers to him had failed. purchase food for their own per-| Guinin refused sonal use, which was inserted in'robbery. the Senate over executive protest. | Miss Dayle’s aged mother lives in “The Senate's measure will drill' geattle. a pipeline into the natlon’s treas-: ury to establish the dole system In e the United States” he asserted. || R Il ddock and e Bride Honeymooning ', to discuss the PRERGANINY TODAY’S STOCK . | QUOTATIONS [ . NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. Dec —Closing quotation of Alaska | LONDON, Dec. 12—Radio i8] {rapidly on the way to becoming the | world's policeman - judging by re-' ports from Europe, where many, short-wave stations are being erect- ed to assist the police tracking criminals, | { In England particularly radio 151 being called upon exclusively n:u-' criminal detection work. France ul also contemplating the use of the famous Eiffel Tower simrr~wnve! station to act as the center for am| extensive radio service. ——ee The college of agriculture at the University of Kentucky tested 22% ‘herds of 4,017 gows in dairy herd improvement in September 3 | | Juneau mine stock today is PASADENA, Cal, Dec. 12— pmerican Can 111, Anaconda - | ; Cop- Charlie Paddock, the world's fast-|or 314, Bethlehem Steel 54%, Fox est human, is today honeymooning mi .. 271, @ener: My &, al Motors 34, with his bride, the former MIS.'Granpy Gonsolidated 15, Interna- Neva P. Malaby, childhood play-|¢iona1 Harvester 53, Kennecott Cop- mate. | per 24%, Montgomery Ward 18%, % | National Acme 7, Packard Motors OQ»\OVP/NG Qavp f Brands 16%, Stan#lard Oil of Cali- | fornia 44%, Standard Oil of New | Jersey 50, United Aircraft 25% ‘|U. 8. Steel 139%, Curtiss-Wright | 2%, Pacific Gas and Electric 45%, Westinghouse Electric and Mechan- {ical 94. l e ! Propristary medicines made in |the United 'States last year were x lvalued at’ $313,764,874. 187, Simmons Beds 15%, Standard 10 CHR\CTMAP Lae) JERSEY GOVERNOR BURKE'S BODY Signs Colllssion She Kill-| S| his life. support for $30,000,000 to be lent|she did not intend to kill the 65-| ' | clary. AND BRIDE Assoctated Press ot Gov. Morgan F. Larson and his bridg, the former Ada Schmidt, who for two years has been sacretary to married at the governor's home in Perth Amboy, N. J,, and departed Immediately for Florida on a wedding is aged mother. They were SONWILL 'SEN. OVERMAN 18 STRIGKEN, PASSES AWAY Dies Following Brief Illness —Blood Tranfus- ion Fails ASSOCIATED PRESS (VNDlRwood; LEE S. OVERMAN WASHINGTCN, D. C., Dec. United States Senator Overman, Democrat of North Caro- lina, died shortly after midnight following a brief illness which cli- maxed late yesterday afternoon as a result of a stomach hemorrhage. Blood transfusion failed to save 10 - Lee Slater Senator Overman is survived by | kis widow and three daughters. He was elected to the Senate in 1903 and has served continuously since. | He was 76 years old | Counselled With Wilson When Woodrow Wilson was bur- dened with some of the greatest problems ever to confront a Presi- |dent of the United States, one of |men he called into his counciis was Lee Slater Overman, veteran Sena- | tor from North Carolina. Senator Overman was chairman of the Senate Committee to inves- tigate German propaganda. He was in the fight to put the war meas- ures of President Wilson into law. He fought for and helped obtain the passage of the Esplonage Act, ithe Overman bill giving the presi-| dent extraordinary powers for the prosecution of the World War, Thc‘ Clayton Bill, and many others. 1 Senator Overman served on 16 major committees, and was rank-! ing member for many years of the| commitiees on appropriations, judi- | rules and military affairs.| When the question of preparedness became an issue his long experience | on the Senate military affairs com- | mittee made him a valued advisor. He was appointed chaitman of the sub-c mittee judiciary committee whose investigation was | i to have routed lobbyis: Washington Born in Salisbury, N. C., January 3, 1854, Mr. Overman was gradu- ated from Trinity College, North Car in 1874, taught school for s and then became private to Gove Z. B. Vance. i ned with Governor Vance's Thomas Jarv for one | | the of the | the in Ty |in Seattle, and “BLACK MATT" SENDS 3 SHOTS INTO PHIL DOHM Assassin Warns Bystanders Away and Puts Bullet In His Own Brain SLAYER LEAVES WORD FOR PUBLIC AND SON Vengeance Is Motive, Mur- derer Being Convicted on Victim’s Evidence KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Dee. 12.—Having vowed in a let- ter that he left on the count- er of the Mint “that this fel- low I am taking with me, framed me,” and that he {would be the last man the victim would frame, “Black Matt” Berkovich fired three shots into Phil Dohm and then after warning bystand- ers to keep clear, fired a shot | through his own brain. | Both died instantly. | The shooting took place shortly before 7 o'clock last night and came as a climax to the sensational booze trial in which “Black Matt” | was convicted by a jury last Sat- urday, after 25 hours' deliberation, ‘or conspiracy to violate the Pro- hibition laws. Dohm Chief Witness Dohm was one of the chief wit= nesses for the Goverament in i prosecuting the case. Dohm was accused in the same indictment with Berkovich but turned State’s {evidence and was not prosecuted. Feeling was running so high among suspected bootleggers last night ‘and fears were entertained ;that they might take sides, the | authorities locked up principal wit- nesses against Berkovich to avoid possible further shootings. Berkovich had not been | tenced. sen= Berkevich Sought Dohm ! Berkovich had armed himself with |two revolvers. He sought Dohm, found him in the Mint, and shot him. Just before he shot himself, Berkovich drew letters from his pocket, addressed to his son Nick, laid them on the counter. 'He then sent a bullet into his own brain Letters to Son In his letters to his son, Berko- vich asked that provision be made for his aged father in Dalmatia, Austria, and that “$100 be sent hith every three months as long as he lives.” In another letter “the last I will write to you,” Berkovich told something about his property, now in his son's name, and left here, Shooting Premeditated The carrying of two guns indi- cated that evidently Berkovich had planned his action since his con- viction The Mint, where the shooting took place, is a soft drink parlor and pool room. Dohm was about 24 years of age, He was married and his wife is visiting in Snohomish County, Washington. Dohm formerly re- sided in Seattle. Owned Fishing Boats Berkovich is survived by his son, married in Seattle, and two sisters living in Tacoma, Wash. Berko- vich owned several fishing boats which were operated with crews on shares. The day Berkovich was arrested, following his indictment, he receiv= (Continued on Paze Six) Hold-up Man Is Not Joker; One Man Dead RUSSELL, Kentucky, Dec. 12. —One man is dead, another is believed dying and a third is nursing bullet wounds because they did not believe a hold-up man was not a practical joker. An armed man entered a res- taurant. He told Amos Johnson, 45, and Thurman Blake, 25, to click 'em up. Johnson and Blake laughed and wrestled with the man. The intruder shot his way out, killing Johnson and se- ricusly wounding Blake and Geerge Meadows, another cus- (Continued on Page Twa) tomer in the restaurant. Blake will probably die.