Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1932, Page 17

TR OF AMERCAS ADVSE JPANESE Act as Counselors of Tokio Board of Strategy in Geneva Controversy. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. By Cable to The Star. TOKIO, September 21 —Three Ameri- eans, all newspapgf trained, are to be | behind the scenes as advisers or coun- | selors of the Japanese Board of Strategy | when the battle over Japan's activities in Manchuria opens at the specid¥ as- of the League of Nations in | 1 here from he trio of pects to re- ceparture of hird member | ticn, whom he | Matsuoka | considers himself a one-man wrecking crew, destined at least to get Japan out | if not to disrupt the en- | THE EVENING STAR, FAMOUS KLONDIKE CHARACTER, “BLACKJACK” MACDONNELL, DIES| APPLICATION SCORED 'Known as Proprietor of Many Dance Halls and Largest Bar in World, but Wasted Several Fortunes. | By the Associated Press. VICTORIA, British Columbia, Sep- tember 21.—Sourdoughs and oldtimers of the Klondike gold rush and early construction days of British Columbia .| mourned today at the funeral of one of the Northwest's icturesque char- acters, Ronald J. “Blackjack” MacDon- nell. He died in Vancouver, aged 80. Born iy San Francisco, MacDonnell came heré when 5 years old. Growing up with Victoria, he opened the famous Savoy, best-known dance hall, bar and vaudeville house on the Pacific Coast, where the pioneers and political lights who brought British Columbia into the confederation mingled freely. When the Klondike gold strike brought the famous trail of '98, “Blackjack” moved North. Later he followed the sonstruction of the Grand Trunk Pacific, and at Port Essington, British Columbia, opened what was claimed to be the largest bar, not only in America, but in the world But though the rough-and-ready Elmhler made fortune after fortune in is dance halls and bars, he passed it out as rapidly to an army of broken- down old miners whom he kept for years at his own expense. When_the golden boom days sub- sided, “Blackjack” was left, like many |-another, on ‘the Leach, but his pic- | turesque and cnaritable deeds remained. COLLEGE SENIOR KILLED, GIRL COMPANION SHOT By the Associated Press. > AUSTIN, Tex., September 21.—Officers of Palacios, a graduate of the univer- sity, was wounded slightly by the same bullet that killed Arledge. She said the man appeared suddenly at the side of the car and flashed a light into Arledge’s | face. As Arledge raiced his hands to | shield his eyes the man shot him | New WASHINGTON, D. HOTEL RECEIVERSHIP $28,000,000 Waldorf-Astoria in Satisfactory Financial Con- dition, Says Management. By the Associated P NEW YORK, September 21.—The management of the New Waldorf-As- toria, huge $28,000,000 hotel, on Park Avenue, today described an application & $ *0 vo & j‘ ¢$ & Q \2 C., WEDNESDAY, for a receivership, filed yesterday, as unwarranted and without merit. ‘The petition was filed by Bernard Breslauer, who has two $1,000 bonds of the issue of first mortgage leaselold 7 per cent, on which he sald interest was due and unpaid September 1. He is acting in his own behalf and that of other bondholders who refused to agree to & plan of readjustment under which holders of the $11,000,000 lease- hold bonds woyld accept income bonds as substitutes and rentals would be re- mitted for two years. ‘The plaintiff said that the hotel had been in default of rent and that if the landlord should terminate the lease, bondholders would be deprived of their security. The landlord is the New York State Realty & Terminal Co., the real Cid SEPTEMBER 21, 1932. estate holding corporation of the New Railroad. York Central 5 Lucius Boomer, president of the hotel, sald 82 per cent of the holders of lease- hold bonds had indicated approval of the plan to readjust the rent require- ments and obligations to bondholders. He said the hotel’s financial condition 1s “highly satisfactory,” and that a rapid increase in income is expected when the | general economic situation improves. Woman Leaps 23,000 Feet. KIEL, Germany, September 21 (#).— Lola Schroeter today claimed the world's record for a woman’s parachute jump, reporting that she had dropped 7,300 meters (about 23,000 feet) in 28 minutes. 101 RANCH HOME LOST Capt. Miller and Wife Turned Down by $111,792 Judgment. NEWKIRK, Okla., September 21 1#). —Col. Zack T. Miller, master of the 101 Ranch and his former wife, Mrs. Mar- garet Blevins-Miller, lost yesterday their District Court fight to keep the home- stead of the former “inland empire.” Disallowing their homestead exemp- tion claim, Judge Claude Duval rendered | Jjudgment for $111,792 in favor of the John Hancock Life Insurance Co., cov- ering a mortgage on 2,119 acres. The “White House,” ranch headquar- ters, and Miller’s home is on the land involved in the foreclosure proceedings. Robot Phones Time. In Paris a talking clock is giving the correct time over the telephone. Every minute of the day is recorded on a film and when a subscriber dials the time number, the talking apparatus starts it- self, promptly voicing the hour and the minute. Satisfa: Fuarantee Get PILE-FOE for PILES, $1. at drussists LOWER PRICE Features of Fashion and Home Interest Here’s a Splendid Buy in Boys’ tion | today sought a hold-up mn who killed during the World War Was | gagar Collin Arledge, jr., senior at the soc Press o [ oo Astociated ot g Sorrespondent N | Giiversity of Texas,.ss he sat with s selor to the Tokio Foreien Office, and |girl in an autcmobile last night. There he accompanied the Japanese delega- | were few clugs. through the head. The killer than ran away without robbing the couple The youth was the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Arledge of Crockett and the nephew of Dr. Eugene Barker of the university history faculty. Miss Trull Thursday! Friday! tion to the Washington conference of nce then he was engaged | and magazine work until | e-employment by Japan. | Kinney. another of the American advis s already en route | to Geneva via Siberia. He was once | superintendent of schools in Honolulu, and has been a resident of Japan for many vears. He is now publicity man for the South Manchurian Railroad. | The start of his trip was enlivened when Chinese opposing Manchukuo overturned the train, leaving him stand- ing on the chilly right of way, garbed only in his diminitive moustache, tak- ing even his eyeglasses and gold-headed cane. | George Bronson Rea, third of the tri- | | umvirate, is editor of a magazine at Shanghai devoted to Japanese interests. | He is now in the United States, and, | according to cabled dispatches, he had an audience with President Hoover last | | week. Shanghai is said to be no longer | | tolerant of such journalistic opinions as he gives out. and he officially represents the Japanese Manchu-officered govern- ment of Manchukuo. (Copyright. MEXICANS TO GET BEER MATAMOROS. Mexico. 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