The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 13, 1937, Page 3

THEATRE! STARTING TONIGHT EXT RA'! A Positive Thrill for All Lovers of Wild Life SOUND PICTURES OF ‘‘WILD LIFE”’ Belonging to BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY Presented by the Ceourtesy ‘of The Alaska Sportsman's Association AND——— HE TAKES A MOB to the CLEANERS ....and cleans up the town..! IT°S T00 ROMANTIC AND FUNNY FOR NOISE . GlY KIBBEE WARREN HULL « DICK FORAN - ALMA LL0 YD « MARIE WILSOVNV : NEWS ALASKA LOADED T0 CAPACITY ON WAY WESTWARD Arrives Northbound Early This Morning—33 | Come Here | I After a speedy northbound run from Seattle, the steamer Alaska, Capt. C. C. Anderson, docked here | this morning at one o'clock, and| after five hours in port, sailed again | from the Alaska-Juneau mine dock | for the Westward. Two hundred and forty-seven passengers were aboard the steam- | er when she sailed into port here, 33 of them for Juneau and the other 214 booked through to other| Alaska ports. Of the three pas- sengers, 150 are down on Purser Dave Doran’s list for Seward, five, for Valdez, forty for Cordova, and 14 to transfer to the stcamer Cur- acao at Cordova. Coming to Juneau aboard the Al- aska from Seattle were: Mrs. R. Biggs, kia K. Brown, G. T. Faulk- ner, A. F. Ghiglione, Mr. and Mrs.| Luther C. Hess, Lance E. Hendrick- son, P. F. Hoffman, Bessie Kalley, Hans Looff, F. Lorz, W. H. Smith, Jr, R, Sommers, O. Snow, S. Wirt, E. Nowles, J. J. Coogan, L. Nielson, B. Baker, Joe Petrie, D.! Burk. To Juneau from other Southeast Alaska ports were: H. ¥. Carter, C. M. Nickerson, Miss Ruth A. Peck, Dagney Loseth, the Rev. O. Fosso, W. R. Wood, K. F. McLeod, C. G Burdick, Fred Welch, Miss Mary Joyce. - State Governments to Be Investigated for Relief Purposes WASHINGTON, April 13.—Sena- tor James F. Byrnes, of South Caro- lina, is surveying financial condi- tions of various state Governments with a view of states assuming a larger share of the relief burden. MONKEY INLOCAL POWELL PICTURE Director La Cava’s retentive mem- ory was responsible for one of the funniest sequences in Universal's “My Man Godfrey,” starring Wil- liam Powell and Carole Lombard, at the Capitol Theatre now. At a party some six years ago, La {Caya was astonished and convulsed {with laughter by the “monkey ishine,’ of Mischa Auer, generally lcast in heavydramatic rc La |Cava watched Auer imitate a champing chimpanzee or gallump- ng gorilla, swirging from rafter and chandelier, cavorting over chairs, tables and piano top, for lall the world like a hairy ape. The |director decided then he would use (that comedy hit in a picture some day. and Morrie Ryskind at the first ,“My Man Godfrey” story confer- .ence. Result: They wrote the side- splitting scene into the seript and Auer proved to be a riot before the camera. — e TOURISTTRAVEL ‘TOBREAK MARK, - SAYS MENZIE Predicts Big Year for Al- aska—North Becoming More Attractive (Seattle Daily Times) Tourist travel to Alaska through the Seattle gateway will break all records this year, according to K. D. McKenzie, assistant general pas- senger agent of the Alaska Steam- ship Company, who was in Seattle recently after a tour of the East 19d Widwest. Mr. McKenzie made a survey of prospective tourist travel to Alaska during the 1937 season and pre- dicts that all records will be broken. “I talked to our agents in two dozen cities and they all were opti- mistic on prospects for tourist trav- -1el to Alaska the coming spring and |summer,” said Mr. McKenzie. “My tour convinced me that prosperity has returned. More peo- ple are traveling and Alaska ap- {peals to them. It looks like the big- i‘gesh tourist year in the history of ithe Territory. There will be many special parties. “Some folks back east wanted to know when navigation to Alaska started, believing that all ports in |the North are ice-bound in winter, (but I found that more people are talking about Alaska than ever be- fore and the Territory is becoming |better known as a tourist attrac- tion.” Mr. McKenzie visited Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Washing- ton, Boston, Albany, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo, Portland, Me., Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, St Paul, Milwaukee, Duluth, St. Louis, Kansas City, Des Moines, Omaha, Denver and other cities. He left Seattle January 26. >~ LS l‘ STOCK QUOTATIONS Darrow Agai'n in Headlines Rising 4 NEW YORK, April 13. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 13%, American Can 106, American Light and Power 11%, Anaconda 58'%, Bethlehem Steel 92%, Calumet and Hecla 15%, Commonwealth and Southern 27%, General Motors 598%, International Harvester 107, Kennecott 59%, New York Central 48%, Southern Pacific 57%, United States Steel 113%, Un- ited Corpration 6, Cities Service 37%, Republic Steel 42%, Lima Locomo- tive 72%, Cerro de Pasco 74%, Am- erican Zinc, Lead and Silver 15%, Pure Oil 21%, Holly Sugar 34%, In- terlake Iron 23%, Pound $4.90%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 182.10, rails 60.20, utilities 31.41. H. S. ORCHESTRA IS TO BROADCAST SELECTION As a feature of the Music Fes- tival in Juneau, the high school or- chestra, directed by Byron L. Mil- ler, will play the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company program over KINY from 5:45 to 6 o'clock to- morrow. The orchestration to be featured is Rossini’s “William Tell Overture.” e STEVE SARAKOFF DIES The body of Steve Sarakoff who died last night at his home in the Mt. View Apartments on Willough- by Avenue, is at the C. W. Carter Mortuary. Mr. Sarakoff, a native of Kodiak, has lived in Juneau about fiftéen years. No arrangements have yet been made for the funeral. Mr. Sarakoff is a step-father of Mrs. Ed Ander- son, R from a sick bed to lead the fight against a bill proposing capital punishment in Michigan, Clarence Darrow, famous lawyer his 80th birthday. wrote a létter to Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan denouncing the legislation. . HENDRICKSON BACK Lance Hendrickson, Chief Clerk of the Alaska Game Commission, returned to Juneau on the steamer Alaska after being in Seattle for several weeks in connection with Commission fiscal business, He told his idea to Eric Hatch | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE. TU VAUER SHINES AS SLAIN MODEL AND DIAGRAM and figure photographed well, body ef her mother, Byrnes, a lodger. Manhattan’s best Sherlocks have been called out again on 2 murder mystery more baffling than fiction. How they have selved two others and the prob- lem they face now is explained in this AP Feature Service ar- ticle and two others to follow. By CHARLES NORMAN (AP Feature Service Writer) NEW YORK, April 13.—At three still were seen. | And at that hour a man walked along 50th Street, bent cn visiting the thin man’s es- tranged wife and another daugh- ter. A block from fashionable | Beekman Place they entered a walk- Jup apartment house. Perhaps, as they glanced toward the river they recalled the brutal murder nearby of young and beautiful Nancy Tit- terton a year before. The man was Joseph Gedeon, an upholsterer; the young woman with him was his married daughter. They jascended four flights, Miss Gedeon's apartment. | A Pekinese in the living room re- mained silent. 1 ' Find Three Slain | Going to the bedroom, they came |upon stark tragedy. On the bed, unclothed, lay Veronica Loveliest of models, the toast of ar- tists, she might almost have been posing noce more, had it not been for the disorder of the room and {the cruel marks left by a sadistic slayer. Under the bed, partly dis {robed, lay the body of Mrs. Gedeon, her mother. Father and daughter the worst, but they had not seen jall. In another |off the opposite end of the living room, lay the body of Frank Byrnes, a lodger. Gedeon summoned the police. As they arrived, uniformed and in plain clothes, the Pekinese roused {itself and barked shrilly. Third Time in a Year It was the third time in little more than a year that a fiendish killer had given New York's crack cops a baffling crimie—with mea- ger clues. Thrice a young and beautiful woman had been struck down—Nancy Titterton (a piece of string led her slayer to the chair); HOLDEN HOPS TO SITKA FOR FIRST TIME THIS YEAR With Hans Looft, Tom Dyer and Ray James as round flight passen- gers, and Ross A. Gridley, State PWA engineer-inspector, bound for Sitka, Pilot Alex Holden took off in the Marine Airways Bellanca sea- plane this afternon at 1:30 o'clock on a flight to Sitka. Holden with his three full route passengers and Lloyd Jarman, flight mechanic, was to return to Juneau this afternoon about 5 o'clock. REBEKAHS ARE TO ‘ MEET WEDNESDAY The Rebekah Lodge will tonight at 8 o'clock in the Odd Fellows’ Hall. The main business of the evening will be the election of a representative to the Rebekah Assembly which meets in Vancou- {ver in June. The definite date has not yet been set. The representa- tive must be a Past Noble Grand of ';he lodge. After the meeting will be drill practice and all members are urged to_be present. —— e Lode ana placer locaiion notices for sale at The Empire Office. meet Compounaed exactly as written by your her nude body on the bed (upper right in diagram below). o'clock on Easter afternoon in New York, a chill March wind blew. | On Fifth Avenue, a few \'fl]mnli strollers, garbed in holiday finery, wafer-thin | man with glasses and a young wo- and entered | Gedeon. | Mary,| | had seen; bedroom opening | "SDAY, APRIL 13 “Perfect Crime” No. 3 Tests Skiil 1937. of Manhattan’s Ace Manhunters JER SCE MURI Veronica Gedeon (above) was in demand by commercial photographers and artists because her face O clothed or unelothed. :VE RONICA DISROBED IN BATHROOM ENTRANCE| HALL Mary Case (a bit of skin under her }fingernails trapped her slayer); {and now Veronica Gedeon. A few strands of hair scraped from under {her nails were all police had to {go on. | But they observed the actions of { ANHATTAN SHERLICKS 3Ml}SiE EVENT GIVEN 2 NIGHTS THIS WEEK All Juneau r;a(:and walks will terminate at the high school gym- nasium next Friday and Saturday { evenings, when the combined mu- |sic departments will present two | concerts. The Southeast Music { ival is a member of the Music Educators | National Conference. Recently in Portland the Northw Division held a meeting which was attended by a delegation of outstanding mu- sical students from Ketchikan along with packed hundreds from schools of Idaho, Oregon, and Wash- ington. At the « - - Quick! use this specialized aid for nose and upper 0 it...where most f colds start. He:fs S, prevent many col Vicks VA-TRO-NOL high | 0000000 | MODEL AND |} HER MOTHER| USUALLY K= OCCUPIED 3 1! the Pekinese. Her father and sister found her slain on E€aster, Beneath the bed was the partly®disrobed On his bed in a room off th: other end of the living rcom was the body of Frank NUDE BODY OF VERONICA GEDEON [ cLoTHED | BoDy OF JEFREL Deputy Chief Inspector Francis J. Kear, scene, semblances to the arriving quickly on could not help noting re- the Titterton case which had given him and his men a pretty good workout. The two! Deputy Chief Inspector Francis J. Kear (left) and Captain Edward Mullins note striking resemblances between the Titterton murder (sclved) and the Gedeon triple slaying (unsolved). L otato Chips THEY'RE MADE IN JUNEAU SAVE 5 BAGS AND WIN ASK “O. K.”, HOW MAY I WIN $10? “o MRS. GLOVER EXTRA! MARCH OF TIME News IS NUTTY PPl BUT NICE! Allcz BRADY GAIL PATRIC SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU Last Times Tonight Universal Picture MIDNIGHT PREVIEW GEORGE ARLISS m “East Meets West” !murders took place only a block apart Working under Inspector Kear was Captain Edward Mullins of the |homicide squad, whose men “broke" | the Titterten slaying. | Big, Silent Man | | Kear is 6 feet 1; he has a metic- | ulous air. An observer cannot help | being impressed by him—his height, | his blue eyes, white hair and neat, | double-breasted suit — but he re- mains noncommittal even when he is talking, which is rare indeed.| He doesn't speak a sentence when | a word will suffice. When he is| not talking, he wears a pgker face.| Mullins, on the other hand, with his friendly blue eyes and curling hair that forms a lick like a mound above his forehead, doesn't mind talking all, providing the subject is no longer “evidence” or “hot.” His voice is low, but strangely in- tensie, especially when he talks |about queer angles, such as the {murder that looked like a suicide, lor the suicide that looked like a | murder | Once more they were confronted by a crime which made them two smooth-working cogs in a gigantic machine which New York throws linto gear when a sensational mur- lder startles Gotham’s Seven Mil- lion. Sleep? When the case is solved . . . | The task of finding the triple slayer or slayers of East 50th Street because for them the first order of business—for them and for Man- hattan’s other picked sleuths. The apartment with its grue- some exhibits was barred to the | curious. | | | | In Case of Confession | Experienced members of the |homicide squad, experts from the (technical research liboratory, sieved the contents of the five rooms, sprinkled power to bring out tell- tale fingerprints. | A representative of the District Attorney’s office arrived — in case Ithere was an arrest and a confes- |slon. | Routine questioning detained a score or more of the slain trio’s Ifriends and acquaintances. Dr. Thomas A. Gonzales, soft- spoken, nattily attired, came in his capacity of Acting Chief Medical Examiner, made a preliminary ex- dered them taken to the morgue for autopsies. Once more, as in the Titterton and Case murders, the police ma- chine whirred on. While one de- tective or two might take the spot- light, they had behind them or= ganization and teamwork. A picce of string > . — Tomorrew ' DOUGLAS | NEWS DOUGLAS STUDENT BODY IS GOIN TO COOPERATE, MUSICAL REPRESENTATION Jacques Sey, who was chosen to represent the, Douglas high school at the musical festival to be held in Ketchikan from April 19 to April 24, will be sent by donations from friends and Student Body funds due to lack of sufficient funds in the School Board Treasury, it was re- ported this morning. Miss Sey will sing at the Juneau Glee Club concert in Juneau Fri- day and Saturday nights. e VISITOR FROM WESTWARD Mrs. J. E. Johnson, formerly Miss Danny Meggit, arrived here on the Yukon from Copper Center to visit for a couple of weeks with Mrs. A. E. Goetz. TR S v ik STREET WORK GOES AHEAD NOW UNDER FULL STEAM ‘With about 30 men under him, L. W. Kilburn, foreman of the street repair crew, had several projects under way today. The crew was di- vided to work to the best advantage on several sections of street, and ex« cavations were also started for the new fire and city hall, also other work. el NOTICE Roy Thomas is no longer em- ployed by the Snow White Laundry. All accounts payable at Snow White Laundry Office. 4 (Bigned) amination of the bodies, then or- GLOVER’S OVENIZED $10-%° By suggesting a design for a label to be used on GOVER’'S POTATO CHIP BAGS. K.”” LUN OO OO RO adv. show White Laundry Co. T+ CH PHONE 324 [ ]