The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 26, 1938, Page 3

THE DAILY Show Place ot HE Juneau ROBERT TAYLOR 1n Walt Disney’s Pluto s Quintuplets’ and with News of the Day | triumphant and with a new under On Torso Slayer’s Trail Two Yvur Detective ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, SEPT. 26, 1938. ) “THE PERFECT atle S;lrun 10_!0 Sci fl’"((’ SPEGIMEN" IS AT COLISEUM | Starred in Comedy- Drama Here Iluul.s Type of Degener A LESSONS ct Specimen,” a con tarring the im- mensely r Errol Flynn and the 1o less well-liked Joan Blon- dell, opened yesterday at the Coli- cum Theatre. This Warner Bros preduction has been rated by pre- view critics as among the very best laugh-and-thrill photoplays of the | An amusing idea actuates the | st of “The Perfect Specimen,” An _immensely wealthy grand- mother, with ideas of her own about eugenics and environment, thinks that Errol, her descendant, should be brought up all his life on her es- BUTCHER” CASTS AN UNCERTAIN SHADOW ,}; HERBEF VIVID STURY | standing of the sympathy and com- = i — | tate and trained to be what the title EVERETT & radship existing between the two il . i =% cite all the outstanding facts. He| Sept. 10. 1936—Torso of man in|Of the movie indicates. Dlion English speaking nations By LYNN HEINZERLING |said he has hardly, been home for |Kingsbury Run; head, arms miss-| Chance (and Miss BlondelD) get HEVER H Aside from presenting a story re-| CLEVELAND, Sept. 26.—A man dinner on time in two years and if | ing. | him off the estate and he has his M |plete with excitement, humor, unbelievable. abnormality, o de- he takes a vacation this year he| Feb. 23, 1937—Torso of young wo-|OWR Way to make in a world of thrills and romance, “A Yank at Ox- Senerate in a class by himself - will spend it working on the inves- |man on lakefront; arms, legs, head | Which he has been completely In- fora” offers the American filmgoer thav’s the sort of person Detective Hoatiorn 4 | nocent. He proves that his tutoring X an unusual insight into the tradi- Feter Merylo expects to l)""' IR Interested and suspicious per-| June 7, 1937— Young negress, | has not been in vain ‘!‘{“"l““‘;' it| | 1 1 v skill leads him to the sinister o, > o c or CUYE comes down to boxing. He has been | tior 1 colorful life of English ©F Skil sons, “and even drunks’ call him |quicklimed skeleton under Cuyaho- | undergraduate life. Such unfamiliar| WOrkshop of Cleveland’s “torso at Mome at night — sometimes as|ga River bridge. | taueht m.;t as well 4l<ltv\vfivllll?fl}No -HOST PAR‘H | episades are shown as the Oxford- | Killer” late at 4 am | " April 8 1938 Woman's leg in|e€lse, and he comes pretty close to Ro(l){g rl;_ Tayl(in, Mamecn‘m,,‘ go track meets and boat Merylo's only fob is to solve the | When anybody calls, T always | Cuvahoga: torso found Inter; arms, | fulflling his grandma’s hopes. HONORS 2 e ey § & 2 2 behe: 2 - | 5 @ 5o | There are two fights in the show, ullivan Co-star races, the May Week ceremonies, series of 12 beheadings all be- | call their bluff and go meet them,” | head missing g Lests Wwere present @€ Cartiol S lthe “bumping” races, the rite of lieved the work of the phantom Merylo says, “Some time I may get| Aug. 16, 1938—Bodies of middic-|both of which Errol wins; there is| nml; 1;‘“1 g,n;w 1venpSuturdly aptiol Show “Sconsin 4 various other in- slayer. In two years of tangled trails something.” aged man and woman on lakefront @ kidnaping scare; there's a. goofy| & no-host ¥RTS & GO ot i timate plimpses of Oxford life. he has met “people I never knew | dump; (lmd several months. | poet, played by Hugh Herbert; a|evening 4|n 0yt Mtssmmuuy The S ¥ § r believed existed whimsical secretary to the old lady, |Percy’s Cafe, hon oring he first story of English under-| The plot centers about the ro-|©F believed existec TORSO SLAYER'S KECORD Ty S | Merton Benediél graduste Hfe to be filmed in Eng-lmance between Taylor and Miss O'-| The man we want e aalls B SL/ s - RUSTGARD leTES {played by Edward Everett Horton u»\uw Kelsey and . ertol vut’ land with a cast of American stars| sullivan and the foud which Taylor|aUickly, “is stranger than any of CLEVELAND. sept. -“1 }1‘ e {a toush muge, played by Allen Jen-|whose merriage will be o ‘o L 5 2 | SUAIVRILLGRG stae TENE IRBEL SV L >3 : ime calendar of Cleveland’s Lo % o early, part of ni sent abroad to act in authentic 10-|has with Miss O'Sullivan’s brother them | t:;‘;o”kl:u:‘r“ 4TH BOOK IN FLORIDA Kins; an “‘"’f‘“f ‘5_"‘“:’“0‘:11’:)1‘:“? "‘::‘L‘ls the, Wy, F i" cales came to the screen of the Cap- al undergraduate Merylo and his partner, Martin | < a John Rustgard, former District Dick Foran, of western- 5 mor itol Theatre yesterday, with tt Cies e lewski, i i Sept. 23, 1935—Heads and bodies et and Territorial At-|an attractive young lass played by| A gift of glassware was presen atre yesterday 1 1e | popular E actress ewski, have followed tips and 2 P _ | Attorney here an ‘erri i@ showing of “A ¥ank <at Oxfords |ates e 1:4 b A RN A EeiaA 8 of Edward Andrassy, 28, and un fi:lf\:‘:‘”ap‘n:‘:dl e itton an.|Beverly Roberfs—and no end of {the honorees, and the evening Was with Robert Tayl 1 g tt i S s s o ; e sy 4 identified man in Kingsbury Run, 3 | other amusing characters. |spent in dancing, with Mrs. A M th Robert Taylor playing the |fers The picture is based on an ori- | the city, into sewers and grave- iy | other book which is being published ¥ 5 | Uggen furnishing the musie and efi- title role and with such American|uinal story by Leon Gordon, Sidney vards, dumps, downtown stores and DE TIVE MERYLO Jan. 26, 1936—Body of Mrs. Flor by Roger Babson for disiripution e | i TS 1.-};‘Lmunom g bt P ;<nd”[4.uuh~l\ film favorites as Lionel| illiat and Michael Hogan and on!even into the offices of professional Always Late for Dinner Shce [’nlxi]l\. 41, in vacant lot; head | industrialists, a cording to word re- TEACHERS w“‘L BE | 4 = Barrymore, Mu»urvwn O'sullivan, | an ide John Monk Saunders|workers. They have questioned, by | ___ < s "”jw”w ceived here from the Rustgards by F ROTARY SIS o4 Vivien Leigh, Edmund Gwenn and g was directed by Jack Conwa Merylo's stimate, more than 3.000| e homse. watoning em-| " une 5. 1036—Headless, tatooed | Lawrence Kerr. The former Alaska | GUESTS 0 Lary Club st tts weskly iunchedn Griffith Jones filling prominent | e person n ¢ htessnouse, Setahing emal R LS iy RUS official, who lives at Babson, Park, in Percy's Cafe, It supporting roles After two y work, Merylo|Ployees at their work. This .con-|RBOSY 0T 6. Severed head and | Fla, had written three books pre- | Teachers in “the Juneau High mmono»\ noon i Taylor as the American college| ATTENTION MASONS Yoo 4 vinced him the killer is not a butch-| July 22, 1936—Severed head & g St e hols o of the Ro- was announced today z onoludes tisy s MUAITYL L858 body of man in ravine near rail- | viously on business and economicjgcpgol will, be guests..o boy who wins a scholarship to O degenerate in a class never known | ©F- He does not belleve the man isb0CY L L SibTects i ford and becomes stroke of the Ox- | re will be tated Communi-|to sclence’—this “man” -who de-|® demented surgeon as some have|road. § = ford crew, is said to eclipse anythir of ML. Juneau Lodge Monday | posits dissected bodies in the Cuya. j Advanced. Merylo, in fact, disagree he has done before in the new rol ning at 7:30 o'clock. Work in the | hoga River, in Kingsbury Run, in |With the contention of Coroner S. of the Yank who has te face cus-|M. M. Degree. By order of the W. M. | dumps and in isolated distric R. Gerber that the dissections were toms and traditions he has nc J. W. LEIVERS | ¥ ates Butchers skilfully executed | 5 known at home and who emerg v Secretary The detective spent several week The detective said cuts on some of the bodies show the Killer some- £ times found difficulty in accom- BEEF'S DOWN—IN MIDGET COW HERD| i i Mo i marks indicate, he added, that a HALF-PINT BOSSY GIVES UP A PIN T—and then some—to Farmer Otto Gray who raises midget cows near Stillwater, Okla. The usual milk stool was too high, so Mr. Gray sits on a tile; even the pail seems a runt size. Gray says his cows, which run from 30 to 32 inches high, pro- duce five gallons of milk a day, testing high in butterfat. This bossy measures 33 inches. TO GET REAL LOW-DOW N on bossy, Mrs. Frances Gr: her father-in-law, Otto Gray, near Stillwater, with a yardstick. Gr:z 'I:lle:’e‘;;le:.t 2&:&?&."‘.‘3’3.’}! ine 400 pounds, and thchhmv!fllel'hflfnmh-ndyroduceluolummhwlk. | natural, skilful cut was not made. | Merylo has dipped into books on all sorts of mer \berration and | depravities. chiatrists and psy- chologists advise him. A physician in London sent a 13-page. letter After the last two bodies were found, he made a study of nec- rophilism (fondness for bodies.) | He saw a possibility the last two bodies may have been taken from aves and dissected before being placed on a city dump only a few blocks from the downtown district Seven men and five women arc listed by Coroner Gerber as vic- tims of the killer. The first two k decapitated, were found in ptember, 1935, near Kingsbury Run, a small stream which wan- ders through an industrial district. A Woman Was First body of Mrs. Florence Po- 42, once arrested in a vice raid, was found four months later. The torso had been cut into two pieces, the limbs were disarticu- lated. The head never was found. At intervals during the next two and a half years, the dissected bodies of four more women and five men were found—some near | Kingsbury Run, some in Cuyahoga | River, others in Lake Erie and, like the last two, in a city dump. | The torso of the last woman vic- | | tim had a quilt for its shroud. The quilt, Merylo said “is the best clue | | we've got.” It was traced to a rag | shop near the vacant lot where | Mrs. Polilla’s body was found—I but the trail vanished there detectives and six fire war- | | dens went through a four-square | mile area in that district looking| for the grisly workshop of the killer, but found nothing. Merylo advertised in 44 different languages asking redders to report The lilla, | . THATS the discovery of any large quantity f 8 §i.%1 Fo 22349 F % of blood. There were responses ¢ : AP ! | EMPIRE ADSHOPPINC! | Among the' strange characters o b | Merylo encountered was a man| to five dollars| who paid from three ‘ a some one else cut off head. He fainted, how- Who hasn't trudged - wearily in the ads ity carries; in ad- cver, whenever he aw a human d o 11 th f h being. in ' pain. - Another {nvestiza- home after a day spent shop- ition to a e news ot the world! tion turned up a man who visited pastures, cut small strips of beef from zing cattle and roasted | them over a fire in the ficld. Both | were eliminated as suspects ping from store to store and wished most fervently for a better way of shopping? Contrast ' finding 'the items you need simply by turning Hunts In The ‘Jungles’ I " PR 3 | The tive disguised himself | 1 bl the pages of The Empire with to visit the “jungles” of transients. | e answer I at wig S 3 : MRt ot b vicHme ot te o | ey e oy the; hit or miss method of \killer are believed to be travelers, | delivered to your doorstep shopping the stores! Let the | since only three have been identi- | ¥ : every day — The Daily -Em- ads be your guide to better The “jungle” hunt was fruit-| less. | s 2 | WL b | pire, full of news for shoppers and easier buying! Zalewski, has arrested “probably 300" persons along this unending search. They have taken 54 per- T P sons of questionable mental fitness | to probate court. | Now starting his third year on the case, Merylo says the killings! lare “the last thing I think about| |when I go to sleep and the first| | when I awake.” He can call off the| dates the various bodies were | found from memory and can re-