The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 14, 1937, Page 3

. of the ORIENT SUBTLE.. SINISTER.. POWERFUL.. ' [ES But powerless to im- pose two young people madly in love! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14 |Murder in New York One Beekman Pace Murderer Is Caught by a SHOW PLACE OF AR':ISS AGAlN carprend | CRAFTY RAJAH, Starting Tonight § - CAPITOL FILM Plotting Potentate Menaces BREFE el Dream of Young George the first God Thea Arliss dons a turban for time since e Green and comes to the Cauitol tonight as a Sultan in 1t Mects West” a story of ro- man_ > and political intrigue. The tropic country of Rungay is the glamorous and colorbul back- ground for this story of the strug- his will on SNARED BY A STRING This 13-inch plece of string found beneath the ravished body of | Authoress Nancy Titterton (right) in the bathtub of her New York | gle between England and an East-] o0 gment literally tied John Fiorenza, young upholsterer's at- erm power to obtain treaty rights . gant, to the electric chair. in the harbor of Rungay. 1l | This port is ruled by a craft A Bl i e | and s Bajah whe sess & way to| | . BY CHARLES NOHMAN sell to the forefront,” Kear says.| 2 o e e ‘eature Servi Vri He w tr to divert suspicion! il e hie| AP Teature Service Wr ‘ make both countries pay for his from’ himself, He discovered the (Second in a Series) | NEW YORK, April 14.—The mur-{ der that looked like a suicide and, the suicide that looked like a mur- der are two cases Edward Mullins signature on the dotted line, and in such a way that they will have no alternative except to keep the peace. bcdy and notified the police. questioned him and let him oned him some more. “After 18 hours of questioning, we| g0,/ 1937 Piece of String it's a suicide case, and this time we got a surprise. “We learned that the girl had He is also engaged in a plot to keep his son, the handsome Prince Ne-| zim, from eloping with the un- bhappy wife of an English customs would rather talk about tha nthe Titterton slaying which his men helped to solve. he cracked. There are types that {have the abiiity to resist pressure }ot this sort That’s where | longer — or forever.| circumstantial evi- . MANNHEIM ? S A Gaumont British Picture &_— ALSO Daily Alaska Calling All Tars—Rhymitics Empire News FIRST CONCERT, SCHOOL SERIES, THURSDAY P. M. Musical Organizations to Appear in High Class Program Here The initial concert of Juneau’s Music Festival, arranged by the music department of the city pub- lic schools, will begin promptly at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the high school auditorium. KINY to Broadcast Auditions for the radio broad- casting of the matinee concert, which will be heard from 2 until 3:30 o'ciock, were made last Sat- urday. During the course of the con- cert Miss Ruth Coffin, glee club director, and Byron L. Miller, in- strumental music leader, will be interviewed regarding all phases of the Music Festival being held here and the one scheduled for Ketchi- kan next week. Participants Announced Participating in tomorrow after- noon’s performance will be the or- chestra, the band, the boys' glee club, the girls’ glee club, and the a cappella cheir. Boys’ Glee Club The boys’ glee club will sing four songs: “Bendemeer’s Stream” and “Noah,” both arranged by Ward; “The Drum,” Gibson; “Sleepest Thou Still,” Hodger. Girls' Glee Club Four selections to be offered by the girls group are MacRae's “Clouds Filled with Light,” Berwald's “Stars with Little Golden Sandals,) Rei- chardt’s “When the Roses Bloom Again,” and “O, That We Two Were Maying.” A Cappella Choir “Ezekiel Saw de Wheel,” a spiri- tual, is one of the numbers to be presented by the a cappella choir. Other songs to be included are “The Glory of God” by Beethoven, “God Is a Spirit” by Mendelssohn, “Sing We and Chant It” by Morley, “Nel- lie Was a Lady” by Foster, “Stars of the Summer Night” by Woodbury, and “Glory” by Cadman. A sousaphone solo by Jack Glasse |is one of the highlights of the con- cert. He will play Al Hayes' “Solo Pomposo.” The band will play * anish Soldiery,” J. Minstrel Man,” a march by bott; “Scarlet Mask Overtur J. S. Kamecnik; “Prelude” from “L- ’Arlesienne Suite,” G. Bizet; “Sem- per Fidelis,” a march by Sousa. | Orchestrations to be played are | Rubinstein’s “Kemmenoi - Ostrow,” }G, Rossini’s “William Tell Over- ture,” “Nobody Knows de Trouble |I've Seen” (negro slave song), and parts cne and five of the kowsky Suite"—“March of Tin Sol- diers” and “Russian Dance.” Tomorrow’s concert may be heard at fifty cents per adult, fifteen cents for each high school student, and ten cents for each grade pupil. The orchestra will not broadcast tonight over KINY, as erroneously announced, but a record of the over- ture “William Tell” will be played The overture is on€ of the big num- bers of the concert. | schai- . AT THE HOTELS | Or the Veronica Gedeon case with| | its odd similarities. Mullins is captain oi ihe Man-| hattan homicide squad. He was sit-| ting in the office of Deputy Chief| official. It is not in his plans for his country that its future ruler should take a European wife. | “East Meets West” is an original story by Edwin Greenwood, written especially to display the lovable lnspectur Francis J. Kear, his su- Arliss personality. It was directed!perior, waiting with good-natured| by Herbert Mason and Maude|impatience for his turn to talk.| Howell acted as Associate Director.| After all, he had been called in by She also held her usual role of per- Kear for that very purpose. sonal advisor to the star. Featureed! “I'm not much of a talker,” said| with Arliss are Lucie Mannheim,|Kear, “and I don't know what there . famous German actress, Godfrey is to write about in what I do. But{ Tearle and Romney Bremt. It's|if you want to hear things, there’s i | Mullins, a GB picture. LLPL -oo | String Brings Conviction | Mullins fiddled with his fingers land then reached into his pocket. He extracted an envelope in which there was an exact duplicate of the 3 | %ebherdt | ] MITCH As MAYUR FgR lslran(l of rope found under the| |body of Nancy Titterton in her| swanky Beckman Place apartment.) nuURDER NEIGHBORHOOD The strand, only 13 inches long,§ Map shows proximity of three shocking sex murders in the Beekman Place section of New ‘York. On November 12, 1935, Dr. Fritz Gebhardt was sk On April 10, 1936 (Good Friday —Mrs. Nancy Titterton was at- | DOUBLAS CITY 5% “I was there when it was found, _— he said. “Swander (Detective Board! George swander of Mullins' squady was helping to lift the body out off the bathtub when he saw the string. Report of Election Accepted — Sticker Candidate Wins 1. ABi5k, 1“1‘ 'm_fd. ‘we're going to cked and strangled. On F | Merfe ]/]smfl ulwl nj.xip\ Lx.lm;)x .\nn’h ;h»l\‘llu]) ter Sunday, 1537, Veronica Ged- | Laying aside any question that 29 ALEREG O, B0 WHS. RHA con was found strangled to may have existed as to the results| Ke€ar: “A fealure of that c death, | of the recent city election, particu-|Was there was so little to work on larly for the mayorship, the Doug- —4t the start.’ | dence’ comes in—Ilike ballistics and Mullins: “There was too much fingerprints. Such things prove las City Council last night accepted | the report of the Election Board,; which named L. W. Kilburn as the befcre we got through,” i |bgyond doubt that the suspect was Upholsterer Confesses | the criminal.” successful candidate for mayor with w:";fl:‘l’:t" xfifiirkfiflffc'fliiy :l:wr:c-:z L'll]ujlins fidgeted. His face scemed | a majority of nine votes over Mar- |, U Bl T T lll,g 100 SAVILE, AN WNe i e cus Jensen, nearest competitor, who ! P S e 0} he police to|of rehashing that stuff. But you work on, as Kear said, but in the take the murder that looked like a polled 71 votes, and Carl Carlson,| z & i .l % Fob a4 X BAeand Tobeit lmm‘i.s of ace mn.n.'hunnrs»Luuk(d suicide and the suicide that looked machine for crime like a murder | by gigantic Bonner, Jr., as Councilmen. Arne | . i : ion that little se . o T ek i Shudshift was declared elected S . sgnt him to the Lvt; him tell you about them.| sueceed himself as a member e ‘went around when the body ed,” he begins matte :::ees;:::: Board for a term One of the strands was of-factly. “It looked like ’ okl A Italian hemp. The importer was cide alright. It was a young wo-| Thet decision l"‘ ”;e cso“"‘ce‘iu"" found; his customers were checked. man. She was hanging there, and| BC;‘*P the OFL‘: on oht ‘eue i % One of them was an upholsterer; there was a chair on the floor| Judges came last night following a|yoking for him was John Floren- looking like it had been kicked over.| chair. It was a piece of string with five was discover: O strands. | just how the four dollars were fold- £ reading of the compiled election Gastineau |laws of the Territory, which they| C. R. Griffin; K. B. Edwards, city; had bearing on the situation in Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Crewson. iDouglas by Attorney Henry Roden Alaskan |A controversy had arisen over the| Harry Ireland, Howard Ellrworth, fact that in canvassing the votes Seattle; Ted Strand, Edo Vertal, M. at a recent meeting it was found | Karl, city! |that on more than twenty of the| NS s e B s ballots counted for Mr. Kilburn,| za. | “Now there’s always a routine| “Fiorenza was always putting him- investigation, even when we're surm‘ given her mother a five dollar bill that morning and that she had re- ceived four dollars in change which were folded all together and put in her bag. This was strange, be- cause we found no money in the girl's purse. “Then, when questioning her boy friend, we went through his pock- ets. In his wallet was some mon- ey, and as we examined it, the mother exclaimed: ‘Why, that's ed by me this morning.” We count- ed the bills, and there were four “That changed the layout for us, and we went to work on the boy friend. Finally he confessed.” It Might Have Been Murder . . . And the suicide that looked like a murder? “Well, this fellow was found ly-| ing on a Bowery barroom floor with a big stab wound. He was| still alive, We rounded up every-| body who had been there and ques- ticned them, but got nowhere ‘We took the fellow to a hos-| pital and when he regained con- | sciousness he told what had hap-| pened. He had been drinking a lot and staggered over to the lunch counter. At the bar was a bunch of tough guys, and he began to call them names. All of a sudden they started for him—at least, he thought | |they did. “He was so scared, he said, he| |Just felt he'd rather Kkill himself |than leave the job to them, so he |grabbed a knife from the counter and stabbed himself. If he hadn't been able to tell us this, we would still be workwing on the ease.” Mullins gets around a good deal, but finds time to take in a movie now and then. But it’s nix, kid,” on detective rilms. What did he and Inspector Kear think of movie detectives, anyway? “Well,” said Kear, cryptically, “I wouldin’t say we have that particu- | “In the first place, added Mul- lins, “we don’t have men with mus- taches.” Tomorrow—A Bit of Skin Solves a Murder tion for the fine support of his|it would be back on its feet. Guy! Council during his term of office. Smith extended his best wishes for “It takes a big mamnr to live in a the success of the new Mayor and small town,” he quoted, stating he Council. Mr. Gallwas reminesced a had found that many vicissitudes |little about the building of the old | assail the man in public office here, school house 33 years ago, which | voters had failed to put the cross"'hm‘ test his metal. | he had much to do with, without an James Lay was admitted to st. | before the name as directed. The| Mr. Kilburn gave a short mlklflrchiwct.find spoke hopefully of | Ann's Hospital for medical care ves. | judges of election held that the in- | Which he stated he regretted the |the new ity building program about | terday afternoon. Itent of these voters was made plain |condition of the contest which had |!0 get underway. Mr. Mohler, who Admitted during the night, E. R.|When they merely wrote in his|arisen. He thanked the people for IS the originator of the Douglas] Griffin who registered yesterday at /Dame. Mr. Roden held that the |their votes and said he, hoped rnr;h‘“ trail, Mrs. Felix Gray and Mrs.| the Gastineau Hotel, s confined to Scope of authority with the Coun- @ harmonious Council. The town is |Robert Bonner all made a few per- St. Ann's Hospital for medical at-|cil in the matter was confined to Bot in the best shape, but he hoped tinent remarks, tention. | canvassing the results as announced | conditions would improve greatly, Final Business Transacted Alice Matz underwent a major bY the judges. That no inspection dUrlng the ensuing year. In the| The sum of $53035 was ordered operation teday at St. Ann’s Hos- Of ballots by the Council was per-|Matter of committees and other ap- | aiq in current bills presented and pital. missable and the ballot box could |Pointments, while he did hot favor|iye payment of $3260.00 irom the only be re-opened following a pro- |changes generally, they would be|rerritorial appropriation was au- FLY TO DAWSON with BARR, |test being made as to the results an- | taken up at a later meeting o be|(porizeq for the street grader. Dock- plane leaving tomorrow. Low round nounced and then the matter would‘h(‘Xd at the call of the Chair. jage on the grader was reported trip rates. See L. F. Barr or Louis have to be referred to the Federal | Visitors Present {waived. The finance committee of Delebecque at the Gastineau Hotel. Judge. Mr. Roden cited a case at| Several visitors, about thirty of e Council was ordered to audit adv. Nome which was in point. {whom were present, were called on | ihe city books. U Y | Are Sworn In |to address the meeting. Mr. Roden | myq lot transactions were applied According to U. S. Bureau of Air| The newly-elect were escorted to made a few entertaining remarks(or Jjake Manning asking for one Commerce records, production of their chairs by A. E. Goetz, l’e“!'-‘a"d N. L. Troast, architect on the |, ‘hujlq on and Walter Anderson aircraft increased 78 per cent injing mayor, and they were duly | school and new city hall building, | 4eking deed to the lot he has built 1936 in this country. sworn in by the City Clerk, and |eXpressed his keen interest in the |;; rTne latter deed was ordered e then seated following adjournment, |affairs of Douglas, saying that he! rawn up and placed in escrow for Ostrich eggs hatch in about 43 sine die, by the old Council. felt sure there was a good future|pim until his house is completed days. i Mr. Goetz expressed his appre-)for the town and that in two years ,nq the Manning proposition was HOSPITAL NOTES |whose name was written in, the - e, 1 the ' and new confid dent’s nr'l Who sdmits A CANDID TALK: dj_n ‘ “because you have ?::ommur_hotittokeep\;g “‘; mfielt. the si- House as chief executive he has political laid on the table for the present. JIMMY ROOSEVELT Likes | | L Politics But As For Presidency. .. HONOR FOR BREEZE | The’ certificate of honor due the | Gastineau Breeze, Douglas school | paper, for winning first place in | high school journalistic quarters, for | schools of this size, was received yesterday from the Columbia Press Association. Work on the senior edition the paper, which will this year take the place of the Taku is going |ahead as fast as possible, as the issue is scheduled to come off the press April 28, Officers in charge of the publi- cation are Ruth Langseth, editor; Helen Edwards, assistant editor; ,[Jmny Johnson, business manager; ‘;Jackle Sey, assistant manager. ! A | OLD LAND MARKS GO The beautiful Balm of Gillead | trees bordering the old Lutheran Church on the southeast side were “But politics—there is a great 3 “Right now I can't say and promising field for the To th however, who pre- hat, Pirt whether I'll ever run for pub- of l were planted about thirty years ago and their beauly will be missed. e e SOCIAL EVENTS TO . BE HELD SOON BY A L. A, JUNIORS Plans for a Mothers’ Day tea in May will be outlined at the meet- ing of the junior group of the American Legion Auxiliary, next Saturday afternoon, when mem- bers assemble at the Dugout at 1:30 o'clock, under the leadership of the junior chairman, Miss Betty Nord- ling. With Mrs. Oscar Olson and Mrs. Harry Stonehouse assisting in di- rection of the meeting, the group will hold a regular business session. On the American Legion Auxil- jary program for the coming month two events are scheduled. Next| Tuesday evening, the Auxiliary will meets for a social gathering at the Dugout when informal business dis- cussion will also be held. The other event is the May Day dance, scheduled for May 1 in Elks Hall, with Clarence Rands’ orchestra providing music for the oceasion, Mrs. Edith Kyler, chair- man of the dance, will be assisted in arranging for the affair by Mrs. John Newman and Mrs. George Gullufsen. MARTHA SOCIETY TO MEET FRIDAY With Mrs. N. Lester Troast IMr.s M. S. Whittier as hostesses, tmembers of the Martha Society will |meet for dessert luncheon in the parlors of the Northern Light Pres- byterian Church, Priday afternoon. ‘The affair is to begin at 1:30 o’'clock. Mrs. Ray Peterman, President, will _preslde at the business meeting |which will be marked by discussion of the annual church dinner to be 'held on Wednesday evening, April 28. and | 2 dict that he may be the third Roosevelt to sit in the White |todaly chopped down to make room \for the mew city hall and fire hall [to be built there and which will youth who enters it chiefly for the of serving the pub- lic. 5‘.‘, ould not be dependent, lic office. I am kept too to give it much thought.” What a ready reply: “President? 1 sort of boss is the President? can't say that I would like the :uo,:l‘ever, upon its monetary re- “Swellt But he works YOU |cover the full lot. The trees which % e mighty hard. leafed s0 abundantly each year, For Your RADIO Troubles 122 Second St.—Next door to THEATRE Sound Pictures of “WILD LIFE” Owned by THE ALASKA “Nice Boy Th By ROBBIN COONS ladies always win by a leg if nothing else. The average film cnorine often has a scrapbook that bulges with newspaper and magazine clippings. The average young leading man can {be a very fine actor and yet ge only a minor niche in the Hollywood goldfish bowl. Every studio has boys like this: nice guys, excellent or fair-to- middling acters who never swam the Hellespont, set a new style, or got engaged to an actress in short, just nice guys. A lot of them, like Gordon Oliver and Dick Purcell, can trace tnmr\ ancestry ’'way back. Oliver's ante. cedents include Charles II, and Pur- cell's the Irish barons of Lough- moe. (So what?) Both play leads,{ are pretty good acters, athletic, have nice personalities, and good toothpaste smiles. But what's a mas- culine smile compared to a femin-| ine leg as an eye-snatcher? | Legs Bring Fan Mail But the gals! A pretty girl like a melody to the cameras, and a pretty leg — on star or chorine or beginner is twice as tuneful. Toby Wing got fan mail, on bath-| ing beauty stills, long before she| made a movie. Rochelle Hudson,| |decked out for a swim, long has been good for space. The Brewster! twins, who a stock chorus girls, | are “naturals” — four legs instead {of two, and two pretty faces. If an actor makes a smash hit| in a big picture, then he doesn’t have to worry. Like Robert ’I‘nylurvi he'll find himself occupying an en-| tire floor of the goldfish house. But | if he just moseys along, from pie-' ture to picture, he isn't likely to| need a new serapbook immediately. Wayne Morris escaped from the “nice guy” rut because his unusual | grin was an “angle.” Also, he got choice parts. Michael Whalen had an unusual “struggle” story besides his looks and good parts. Franchot Tone, from the stage, was in the) spotlight virtually from the start.| Hollywood heard that the future! Mrs. Tone was interested in her new ! leading man, | ‘Angles’ Help | Character actors, strangely, don't| have to worry much about publicity. Fans remember them from picture to picture, or directors do. But the “nice guy” leading .man, without’ exceptional roles, is just another actor until he becomes a character San Prancisco hakery | | Juneau Radio Service | l An angle? Garbo's mystery, Hep- with an “angle.” H MOBSTERS. 'COULDN'T ‘SCARE 4 THIS"MIRTH MERCHANT! BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY Presented by SPORTSMEN'S ASSOCIATION News——— ';Glut Filmlandr Market — But, Oh, the Girls, y Win Fame by Just a Leg Why Rochelle Hudson Caught The Public's Eye LAST TIMES TONIGHT | burn-s eccentricities, Fred MacMur« HOLLYWOOD, April 14.—In the | Fa¥'s m*“l‘“‘“essv G“'{u“cw!?:::l publicity battle of the sexes the|Strons - silent - man stutt, |Flynn's adventurous spirit — all | those are “angles.” So is romance, which is one reason publicity agents jare so fond of seeing their lads es- | cort their lassies. | The gods smiled twice on Jean \Harlow. First they gave her curves, the usual headstart of her sex in the publicity battle. And then gave her a press agent who created a real “angle” when he dubbed her “plat- inum blonde.” — FLY TO DAWSON with BARR, plane leaving tomorrow. Low round tr Delebecque at the Gastineau Hotel ip rates. See L. F. Barr or Louis adv. 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