The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 28, 1937, Page 6

OLLY AND HE 1937 lHl: DAlH \L/\SM lMPlRl: \J\IURDA\ Ab bbl 28, (COMIN DOL L.Y ) l bt it 34 PAS SENGERS ABOARD ALASKA FOR THIS PORT Steamer Movements NORTHBOUND wranof scheduled to tomorrow but no report 3 pm. today. e Alaska due Tuesday ® North Sea due Tuesday e SCHEDUL ILINGS ® Princess Cl scheduled to sail from Vancouver 9 p. m. tonight yn Berg scheduled to from Sea ust 30 Dorothy A scheduled to sail from Seattle August 31 at 9 am Princess Louise scheduled to from Vancouver August ® arrive at . . . I ° . ° esc0cecsscceee ° sail aboard I eau include ), Charle ham, Lt. Comdr and fn; E. Han- jam Gerring, C. H. Orm- wife, Erma Meier, Mt Meier, Mrs J. DeVane, M. Power wife, D. S. ter, T. W, Louise Mc- Aleta Bernice 1 Mis: | Rober Mehlme son, Will. Anita Ernic Pla cheduled to sail | from Seattle September 9 am. North from & A n to sail Sept. 3. scheduled ttle 10 a.m cheduled to sail from Seattle Sept. 3 at 9 p.m. SOUTHBOUND SAILINGS Prince Rug scheduled south- bound midnight tonight Mount McKinley scheduled southbound at 4::30 o'clock temorrow morning Yukon scheduled southbound next Monday. LOCAL SAJLINGS Estebeth leaves every Wednes- day night at 6 pm., for Sitka and wayports. Dart leaves every Wednesday at 7 am. for Petersburg, Pert Alexander, Kake and way- port. ® e c 000000 Hunte Brownlee Waugh, Margaret Calwell Russell, Mr anor Parmley tin Peder R. Jus thew Hoc Irene C tina Olson, Russell W Foust, M. P. Mort irson, C. W. Kast Mutilated Body Discovered, N. Y. 28 n, H ice n H | | Aug Stabbed ice pick, the body of a comely you! woman was foun day by a beach comber and wa identified as Mrs. Essie Gordon, wi- dow of one-eyed Maxie Gordon, torious narcotics peddler who wa an automobile accident in El Paso in July. Nine ice pick stabs were found on the woman’s body. A bullet had gone through the brain, and an ice pick was imbedded in the skull The body was found stuffed in 1 beside East River have found no motive for the killing and no clue to the slayer - | THREE HALIBUTERS UNLOAD AT SEATTLE Aug from th today Tordenskjold NEW YORK with an © 000000 006Cers000CE0003000C0e00G6O0CSE® % TIDES TOMORRCW 0:02 ¢ 6 12:04 6:19 Low High Low tide tide tide tide 1.1 feet , 123 feet 48 feet , 15, 0 feet | TIDE Low tide 1 High tide 7 Low 1:3 High tide T7: 5 \I()'*”)A\' 16 feet 119 feet | m,, . m, 12. p. m, - ALEUTIAN CARRIES FOURTEEN OUT FROM theee nali- HERE LAST EVENING| Western bank: - { Following an eight hour stay in| port here yesterday the Alaska Line arist steamer Aleutian sailed at!] o'clock last evening for Haines| igway, taking out with her ngers from Juneau, *aving here were: For Haines— 3. Oshund, George Benson, J. W.| Brown, A. Brown; for Skagw Kail Robinson, S. J. MLCDH{IX(‘k .. Emanel, Lottie McGaff, Mrs. R. P. ann, Marian Lineham, Mary| Sunderland; for Seattle—Billie Mec-| € \Cloudie, R naugh, F. C. Wolfe. 7:30 o'clock |} The & mer Aleutian does not| return to Juneau on her southhound voyage, going directly from Skag- way to Sitka, thence southward. e - 'SITKA VISITOR TO BE HONORED AT PARTY Miss Betty Lide 146 feet | 39,000 5,000, The 10 both Mad- ce 11 received 15 and per pound for her 9,000 pounds. - BROTHERS AWARD Mrs. J. D. Lane was T $20 first award by G ay 'n Takit Second award GEO. the W he wre presented Friday at PR and placer location no'ices at The Empir Lode for sale oo “Tomorrow's Styles Today” Aer | | Naming for her visitor, Baggen of Sitka, as honoree, Miss Beryl Marshall will entertain to- night at her home on the Basin| Road Games will be |evening, at the close of which al dainty refreshment plate will be| served to Sylvia Davis, Isabel Par-| Juneau’'s Own Store|, {|sors, Dorothy Fors, Betty Rice, | T rereemietesnees [ Jerdly - Winthers,” Herpige: 3 pil |Kathleen McAlister, Mildred Kend- | ler, the honoree, Betty Baggen and| the hostess, Beryl Mz .- The right order of qu\nl)mn‘ onnets has never been determined Chatham Straits Transpertation Co. “M.S.DART” Leaves Fe day at 7 ¢ Port A Freight k every Wednes- | sburg, Kake, 1y ports, rece ater than 4_ p.m. Tuesday, | P e |CHANNEL BUS LINE MAURICE C. REABER Phone 105 Juneau or 71 Douglas i | Leave Juneau: A.M.—7:15, 8:00,9:15, 110:15, 11:15; P.M.—12:15, 1: 5, 3:15, 14:15, 5:15, 6:15, 7:15, 8:15, 9:45, 11:15, 12:00 midnight. Leave Douglas A.M.—17:40, 8:40, 9:40, 10:40, 11:40; P.M.—12:40, 2:10, 3:40, 4:40, 5:40, 6:40, 7:40, 8:40, 11:40 Giacler Highway Leave Auk Bay: AM.—T7:00, 8:15; M.—12:30, 4:15. Saturday Special 6:45 p.m. |Leave Juneau: AM. — 7:30, 9:30; P.M.—2:30, 5:15. Saturday Special TION Phone 4622 | Guy Smith DRUGS PUROLA REMEDIES PRESCRIPTIONS CARE- FULLY COMPOUNDED Front Street Next Coliscum | proximately one million dollars | Canada, Mexico and Cub: ® lthat ° public {and convicted. |attention Harly in the city 'ly sixty million dol o/and the grave of Benjamin Frank- ‘!hl‘ |tion more aitractive to the intended {of valuable 5.5 feet [< |mineral lands throughout the state | thought fauthentic will to such valuable pro- | years after its date. The paper had played during the| 7 10:19, Bl SWNDLE STAMPED 0UT BY P. 0. DEPT. Victims Are Found in Every| State in Union—Con- | victions Secured D WASHINGTON, Aug Post- naster General J A. Farley an- nounces that, through the effort of the Post Office Department other gigantic swi carried through use of the United mails, which netted its o] an- | on| :;‘:m“’ ap- dle rators victims indi- of the Union,| has been mped out. It was also pointed out 24 members of various engaged in this fraud against ¥ been brought umbered among viduals in every s its tate the | ve | | ‘This windle to receive the| of postal inspectors in-| the promot:on of the mythi- “Baker” or “Becker” estates i the Statz of Pennsylvania, particu-| and county of Phil-| delphia. The promoters of this cket represented to their vietims that they had indisputable proof of the existence of these es included properties in the of Philadelphia, worth approximate- In addition Independence Hall, Franklin Square latest lin itself, as well as the Post Office and the United States Mint in Phil- delphia were included by these pro- mote! being “Baker” property d Street Station of the Penn- vania Railroad and the abut-| ments on the Philadely side of | Delaware River Bri were, likewise, given as part of the “Baker estate. Then, to make the proposi- added to the | ¢ cleven thousand acres | oal, lead and zinc lands | throughout the State of Pennsyl- vania there were That So-Called Will A so-called will, dated December 1839, and claimed to have been executed by one Jacob Baker, | {used by the promoters of this swin- | dle to obtain money from their vic- tims. The will purported to dispose| of the valuable property mentioned | in the City of Philadelphia and the to so-called heirs of Baker. The scheme of some of the groups carry- ing on the racket was to solicit| meney through the mails and other wise for the pretended purpose of ating the alleged will. If the n solicited was not a Baker or Becker descendant, then he was sold a share in the mythical estate.| Other groups solicited “enrollments” at ten or twenty dollars each, in ad- dition to “memberships” with monthly dues. Paper is Aged Inspectors gned to this work it very unusual that an perty should remain unprobated for almost one hundred years. Through court proceedings the alleged will was obtained. Inspectors caused the paper and the writing thereon to be analyzed by a chemical engineer and handwriting expert. It was discov- ered that the paper on which the will was written was not manufac- tured until about 1890, over Tifty [ been 'vania as i estate groups | ey to triallg | Membe artificially aged. of the witnesses forged, it w The information thus obtained the inspectors proved. beyond doubt that, the promoters were tempting to pass off a forged and purious instrument to the thou-|It sands of persons, who believed andja The higm-; to the wil 5 discovered by | te a|dt tures had b led to believe they were heirs| to a vast estate, As the will in question and repre- | entations of the promoters called|p: for property throughout Pennsyl-|M part of the alleged inh: it became necessary for ad out hi - e, va ectors to trace 1 the name of “Ba wnd various comy interested every in of Pennsylvania from 16 present time. Over were const\ rch discl ihe property cailed fc will was owned b; Jacob B v any other Baker at the time purported to have been execu S e certained tl 17 1 un-| er estatc State of Pennsyl-|! ins es in which tt pic seven counties, to the four hundred! i in this work that none in the alle the 2 f it {ir was B p u anywhere in the vania Arother Fake Claim Po claim of g vindle was that some other B: r had 2xeculed a 93-year lease to one Mar-| ¢ tin on property upon which! ” most of the buildings in Philadelphi now stand Another methed by which mone was obtained from victims of the windle was in the compilation and | m ale to them of so-called genealogi- charts. Needless to say, th traced the ancestors of the vi back to the Baker or Becker whom they were supposed to be an| heir. | Charges for these charts ranged | one to fifty dollars or whai- ver the traffic would bear. | Many of the swindlers organized nto “Associatic “Les ships were to victim very state of the Unic | from one to twenty dollars. This| rmount, however, was not the limit| of loss of any par r individual. | When the promoters found one will- ing, able and ready to pay. special | ttention was given him. Through | se and alluring promises he was| frequently enticed to part with his cash, The investigation revealed sev- eral rsons whose contributions | amounted to from one thousand to| |seven thousands dollars iece. Representatios The inspeciors found that the pro- moters had represented that various banks and trust companies in Phil-| adelphia were holding millions of dollars for “Baker heir: which sums were supposed to represent rentals and other collections result- ing from the alleged 99-year leases executed the Baker ance 5 years ago. It was discovered by inspectors that. not a single penny was held by any of the financial in-| false 5 of thi ker the pro- Ja-| € Yal A al | | | l¢ by " THE VOGUE Correctly Styled Clothes For Women 101 SEWARD ST. Holimann’s Pharmacy | 201 Seward St. Phone 45 | PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY , COMPOUNDED FROM .. FRESH DRUGS Audit—7fax and System Servlce JAMES C. COOPER, C. P. A 303-05 Goldstein 'Buflding Public Stenographer Notary Public al HOLLYWOOD .SHOE SHOP 174 Pronklin St. The Home of Modern: sloe Work HENRI MAKI, Proprietor Y WHITE SPOT | LIQUOR. STORE Phone 655 T FEMMER’S TRANSFER | PHONE 114 . Travel. on a “PRIN- CESS . Liner Junegu t6 Vancouver, Victoria or Seattle SOUTHBOUND SAILINGS Princess Charlette—Sent. 3 Princess Louise—Sept. 6 Princess Louise—Sept. 16 Connections at Vancouver with Canadian Pacific Services: Pranscontinental Trans-Atiantie Trans-Pacific Tickets, reservations and full particulars from V. W, MULVIHILL Agent, CP.R. | | Calt'us for all kinds of Trans- ferring, Rock and Gravel Haul- ing. We also sell Cement, Coal, 10:00 pm. First Bus Sundays and Holidays [ Leaves Juneau at 9:30 a.m. PIIONE 97—Free Delivery D e e e Kindling, Feed, Hay and Fresh Dressed Poultry. D. B, Femmer “—mmm—_ Juneau Alaska CANADIAN PACIFIC v [ ture of the promoters. at- |ing ses aluable ioned officer in the Army ne very for a would from great. their scheme brief period the pressure their victims became too Sonie of the members, however, would inspire the creation of new ganizations. They, in turn, would ppear after defrauding those it could entice into their | tutions mentioned in the litéra-|conducting During the trials of the promo- |fold when rs of this swindle, inspectors pro- 1ced “thousands of letters contain- false rep: iled by to their victims. j¢ was claimed that Jacob Baker was | dis colonel or captain in the Revolu-|v suary War and that in. return for(c s military seryice: land gran Inspectors,ued for 1y years. Finally, relief oduced proof from the War and!was requested from the Post Of lavy D nnlm(lnn that there r ment. It was then the ma Baker from Pen: served as a commi or Na z the Revolution. Furthermor were made by the |2 5 government: to any Colonel or other nia on account of vice. up a was gi nia who red evi- the conviction of swindlers who were | to trial. is no Baker never had been d possibly such. schemes, E ted as a rumor promoters represented that gantic fraud 5 Treasury Department was hold- |were deceived into contributi ; vast sums for istribution {time and money for Y g the supposed heirs. The in-/without any return or possibility proved that there were no | reward. ch furds in the Treasury. It 5 ) claimed by promote bulion o t ker as a re estate and| such an estate be (he subject Someth that w into a gi- people Treasury Involved Other di ectc of d whose hus- electrician at Chil-| cks, the Army Post on nal, is visiting in Juneau, civilian rted heir spurious practices contin-|} e French Spoliations in indemni- This was proven to be false in particular During the invest on,” inspec- | s unearihed evidence to show t o total of 44 different organi- tions. at one time or another en- sed in the.operation of this gi-| ntic swindle. Most of them after |boar n arrived on the ,\"\(lvxn‘ {from Haines. - FINGERS MAKING TOUR T man of , is ‘mak- tour on en Alaska 1 the Aleutian SEAPLANES FOR CHARTER 7-Place Lockheed Vega 6-Place Bellanca Skyrocket 4-Place Stinson “Patco” U. S. MAIL PHCONES, Juneau Hangar, 612; Night and Day Office, 587 SHELDON SIMMONS Chief Pilot RUSSELL CLITHERO, Agent L. F. BARR Pilot Due Juneau Northbound Aug. 23 Aug. 24 Aug. 28 Aug. 31 Sept. 3 Sept. Sept. 6 Sept. Sept. 6 Seattle Aug. .Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. MOUNT MCcKINLEY ¥URKON" ... BARANOF ALASKA DOROTHY ALFXANDER . NORTHWESTERN *ALEUTIAN “Southbound via Skagway and Sitka. THE ALASKA LINE M. J. WILCOX, Agent—Phone 2 Alaska Steams}up Co SERVICE-ON-ALL FILQ 1!‘!"'1‘&\7 &5 i [ Alaska Transportation c ' SCHEDULED SAILINGS Evelyn Berg from Seattle Evelyn Berg' from Seattle Sept. 10 A B D. B. FEMMER, Agent PHONE 114 . . Night Phone g12 MARINE AIRWAYS » 2-Way Radio Comimunication SCHEDULED PASSENGER AIRLINE SERVICE AUTHORIZED U. S. MAIL CARRIER *WEDNESDAY, A. M, — Juneau to Hawk Inlet, Tenakee, Todd, Sitka and return. *WEDNESDAY, P. M.— Juneau to runter Bay, Hoonah, Port Althorp, Kimshan Cove, Chichagof and ru.urn *Frequent Nonschedule Trips—109%o0ff' Round Trip. SEAPLANE CHARTER SERVICE—ANYPLACE IN ALASKA Telephone 622 ALEX HOLDEN Chief Pilot ol i AR GAST!NEAU HOTEL THE CIVIC CE\I[ ER OF JU‘\‘EAU [ Travel Information Headquarters Call the Gastineau Hotel for detailed information regarding all scheduled and charter plane trips; ARRIVAL and DEPARTURE times; schedules for all Southeast Alaska airplanes and Juneau-Fairbanks flights. Also STEAMSHIP SCHEDULES and TIMES. l_'hone l o For Information On All Plane Service and Steamship Movements "llIIIIlII|IIIIIHIIIIIHIIHHIIIIIIll!lflll|IIl||||IlIIIIIll|lll||||||Illlllllllllllflllllll" el bbb Juneau—ONLY 2 HOURS—Ketchikan ESTABLISHED Passenger and Air Express Schedules KEI'CHIKAN-—-WRANGELL— PETERSBURG—JUNEAU Monday—Thursday 9:00 AM. Lv. Ketchikan Ar. 6:45 P.M. 10 AM. Ar. Juneau ... Lv. 3:30 P.M. Plares in Continuous Two-Way Radio Communication with Ground Stations [ Intercoastal Airways, Inc. TRAFFIC REPRESENTATIVE Louis A. Delebecque, CGiastineau Hotel PHONES—106, Office; 4652, Residence Monday—Thursday NORTHIAND TRANSFORTATION CO The only Ine serving Alaska that maintzin a regular weekly service throughout the vear Arrive . Leave Leave Juneau Juneau Seattle No. Bound So. Boun¢ North Seas Northland . North Sea Northland . Aug. 31 Sept. T Sept. 14 Sept. 2 Sept. § Sept. 16 FRED ¢. CHARMAN, Agent .. J. B. BURFORD, Ticket Ageut. GUY SMITH, Douglas Agent.. lune: QNLY 5 HOURS Fairbanks Via Picturesque Whitehorse Route Modern twin motored airliners have been flying on regular schedules for over two years between Juneau- Whitehorse-Fairbanks-Flat-Nome. Planes in continu- ous two-way radio communication with eleven ground stations. Leave *Juneau... /Fairbanks Sunday .. *Fairbanks ... Wednesday ....Flat- Ruby—Nome and re- turn same day. *._All year round schedule. /—June 1 to September 1, 1937. Flying time between Juneau and Fairbanks is ap- proximately four hours. Passengers view scenic won- ders that would take weeks to see from the ground. All schedules subject to change without notice and slight changes to make best steamer connections. l'aqlic Alaska Airways, Inc. TRAFFIC REPRESENTATIVE Louis A. Delebecque—Gastineau Hotel Phone 106 Office—4652 Residence