The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 11, 1929, Page 1

VOL. XXXIIL, NO. 5020, DAILY ALASKA JUNEAU ALASKA MONDAY FEBRUARY |I “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” - 1929. “MPIRE MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS MOB STORMS CALIFORNIA JALL, DEMANDS NORTHCOTT SHIP DRI[F TING T@WARD AL g — NCE MORE IN || SERIOUS PLIGHT| Alloway Tow Abandoned by Would-Be Rescuer During High-Gale CRAFT IS HELPLESS OFF ALASKA COAST Drifting Toward Unalaska| | Island Rocks, Is Last Report Made Feb. 11. With SEATTLE, — their lives entrusted to the strength of the hull, which is destined to-be scrapped if it ever reaches Japan, 34 officers. anc men aboard the disabled freighter Al s wallowing through a| 90-mile an hour gale while the| wouid-he rescue craft looked on | helple The exact plight of the freight- | er is unknown here today as the radio has brought no word since late yesterday afternoon when the steamship Bronnoy gave up the attempt to tow the Alloway,! when the' helpless craft became unmanageable. Presumably the Bronnoy is standing by. The Montauk, another ship, d5 assumed o haye reached rescue the AHoway® whode SIEfals are s0° “ can hardly be Harbor. I imed that in the ah- .snce of mesages that there t:itle change in the condition uf the Alloway. Takes Craft in Tow Rarly yesteraas morniug, thel re of the Allo-| passed by but pul‘ % and took her in tow. After| »oring several hours against the tessing the master of the Bronnoy found the task impos- sible and offered to take the men off but Capt. Throckmorton re- fused to abandon the ship. Towards Rocks A m ge then said the Allo- y was in no immediate danger as being driven before a: owerful wind towards the rocks of Unalaska Island. 1 1t rescue ships are able to take| her in tow, they will probably attempt to take her into shelter in Unimak Pass where she can ride at anchor until the gale sub- sides, then be towed to Dutch Harbor for repairs. Her boilers are reported priming badly and the fuel pump has stopped entire- The boilers are filled with] water and the ship is nearly of fresh water. CUTTER GOES TO AID Last Saturday night, Associated Pr dispatches to The Empire sald the new Coast Guard cutter Chelan has left Seattle to aid the Alloway and she will attempt to tow her to Dutch Harbor. An- other dispatch said the Salvage King, which left Victoria Satur- day morning to aid the Alloway; and tgw her to Japan, had been ordered back after rounding Race! Rocks. She had made prepara-| tions for a long time at sea, hav-| ing fuel and.food aboard for a 40-day cruise. The dispatch stated it was understood the Salvage King had been ordered to return after advices from the Seattle office. weak heard at It is ass that they Dutch out \son saying John Brooks because he! DISABLED BflAT OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR UMDER F IRP Impeachment charges were drawn againct Gowermar Oklahoma following investigation by a house committee led by Jo- read, upper left. Tom Kight. lowe Foul- Horsghtn who -listigated forces won a victory whan James N @f the house. 18 HELD FOR SLAYING;SON TELLS STORY (Father Is Under Arrest for Murder of Veteran Attorney WALLA WALLA, Wash, Feb. 11.—Faced with the story of his that his father killed Attorney “broke up his home,” Robert Lee Wilkins remained noncommittal to- 16-year-old son, Alfred Wil- kins is held as an accessory. He confessed that he accompanied his father when the veteran attorney shot to death in his home on mber 9. Wilkins refused to deny or con- firm his son’s confession but said it was his desire “to bring out all the facts in this case and let the world know the torture I have gone through during the last six months.” Rumor had it Wilkins is consid- ering justifiable homicide. e ——— WILLIAMS AND PETERSON LEAVE SUNDAY FOR KAKE J. P. Williams, Land Examiner U. 8. Forest Service, and Capt. George Peterson left Sunday on the Ranger VII., for Kake. They will meet Ranger Archbald of the Petersburg district and ecruise three tracts of timber in the Kake area. These tracts been applied for Reynolds who desire to cnt the timber for local use. ALASKA FISHING BOAT CAPTAIN “STUNG” FOR $7,000; TELLS POLICE| ROCHESTER, Minn., Feb. 11.— A guileless automobile dealer and a trusting sea captain, who have Capt. Strand went to Ariz., where the money was to be given to him but the stranger been foolish to the extent of $10,-:failed to show up. 000, were penny wise today. They know now that “all that | glitter® is mot gold.” Capt. Edward Strand, owner of an Alaskan fishing schooner, mort- gaged his vessel, turning over $7,- 000 to a stranger whom he met last October and was assured his investment would net a return of $60,000, Strand waited until today reporting the swindle to Capt. before {the Police, who informed him the! John Juel, automobile dealer of! Farwell, Nebraska, lost $3,000 sim-| ilarly to the stramger who intro- duced himself to Juel and coaxed him for a part of $3,000 after hc won $5,000 for himself and Juel playing the stock-market. have | by Sawyer &| Phoenix, | r right, was ong of the legis! ight agairst ancs, tewer'l Co-Ed Routl Prowler. When Miss Marian Barry, San Francisco student at the Univer- sity of California in Berkeley, tered the library of her sorority ! house and encountered a burglar, she didn’t scream or faint but as- sailed him so vigorously that he fled. PINK SALMON IS BROADCAST FOR THURSDAY 11 I s ‘w'H rua ATTLE, hear about Feb, pink t almon I‘eb 14, when American | broadcasting system through hook- jup of 43 io stations will earry {the. first nation vide “air cam- paign” of a western industry. The radiocast will open a na- | tional advertising campaign of the | Associated Salmon Packers to pro- mote the saje and use of pink sal- mon. The program, to be broadcast between 7 and 8 p.m, Pacific Standard time, will feature the American Philharmoenic orchestra, directed by Francesco Longs. The stations of the ABC west- ern network will deliver this pro- {gram, originating in ‘Seattle stu- diog, to the associated stations of the Columbia broadcasting system !at Omaha, whence it will be broad- icast to listeners in all sections of the nation. e - E. M. Goddard, of the Game Commission, returned on’' the Ad- miral Rogers from a trip to other ‘towns in Southeast Alaska, M SNOWBLANKET, A land ALASKA FLIER ' BREAKS RECORD [Miss Marve—l_(-:rosson Be-flI lived to Have Reached Over 20,000 Feet LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 11. —Youthful members of the fair| sex who- sailed in Southern Cali-| fornia skies seeking new honors have probably broken one wem-! ,an‘s flight record while three} others fell before aircraft piloted | {by dainty hands { { Miss Marvel Crosson, aged 25( pilot of mail and supply planes! in Alagka, is believed to be the holder of a new women's altituds record. i I Yesterday 1 drove | her plane into the s beyond | 20,000 feet, the recording limit | lof her altimeter. Inspection of | her barometer expected 9 prove her belief she sed the present record \made by Mrs. Louis ‘ {0akland. ‘Fhe séAled inptrument, bas beok} {sent to Washington for official | | examination. | ! Endurance Flight Miss Bobby Trout, at |o'clock this morning, set a new | | world endurance flight record for {women of 14 hours, 16 minutes |and 45 seconds. A week ago Mis§ | Elincr Smith, of New York, seb {a new former record of 13:16: 484 Trout cxpn od to break h fown ‘mat Te “continued t ! fight mu.w She also broke the Inight flying record of eight hours| |tor women. She flew all night.| !She has also covered 1,000 miles 'exceeding the present mark cof | '923 miles. 15 Degrees Below Zero Once Miss Crosson’s motor fail- ed. The oil pressure dropped off | and she dove to the lower alti- tude. Twice she attempted to climb to an absolute ceiling. She said on coming down she believed her first climb was the highest. | The temperature at that altitude was 15 degrees below zero. Miss Crosson said: “I'll try |again if officials find that I have (failed.” S eee EUROPE UNDER Thaden, of | i BLEAK, WHITE Svalnl Towins Are Report- ed Snowed-in—One Town Buried 9 Days LONDON, Feb. 11. — Ice and snow stretched in a bleak white blanket across Europe today from Scandinavia to the Balkans. Some towns are frozen-in ai fraced a fuel and food shortage. Ice is piled high in the and in the Baltice 140 of various sizes are held ice. In Jugo - Slavia, the Moslem town of Gradsko dug cut of the snow after being buried nine days. Food and fuel are many of the 3,600 tants are delirious. Denmark has the condition since 1893. Alleged Attacker of Women Under Arrest Ga., ships in the inhab ( ] worst Al= has a8 Feb. 25 ATLANTA, 11 vin Merritt, aged years been identified by 14 women the man who terrorized and tacked them during the last weeks. Torn and muddy to Merritt's arrest. ownership but said was torn in an automo dent last Wednesday n same night five attacks on occurred. He denied mak attacks. few led tted thing accl= the ymen ng the clothir He his « ——————— AND THAT'S THAT SEQUIM, Wash., Feb. 11 {his estranged wife was packing her belongings to leave th me, Jefte Shephert shot and killed her lyesterday and then killed himself, As ' FOR ALTITUDE |State of Italy, placed their HAVILAH REACHES o @» LAUNCH SALT # Secretary of the Navy Wilbur attended ths la hing of the 10,000-ton cruiser Salt Lake City at Camden, N. J. The Salt Lake City, one of eight cruisers authorized by congress in 1924, ig the {Int of her class launched under Washington arms agrewu\t of 19. Below, left to right: Senator Smoot of Utah; Gailey Rich, maid of honor; Helen Eudge of Utah who christened the ship; Secre- tary Wilbur and Mayor J. F. Bowman of Salt Laks City. HOLY SEE AND ITALY REACH ANAGREEMENT Three Hlst.oucal Docu- "l ments Are Signed Today Between Church, State F. F. V.)s Marry Into Street Car at Seattle SEATTLE, | persons were riouslys wher Kkiddéd cn the treet car, The bus sw an aut Feb. 11. injured, four a motor ¥ pavement 11.—After more ntury of estrange ; formally heen es- | PO ; H ROME, Feb. than half a c ment, peace ha tablished .betwen the Holy and the TItalian Government, marking one of the most mome cus chapters in modern histery of |} Church and State. Representing the Ttalian Government Cardinal Clqpaln famou Secretary of State, and Mussolini, creator of the g 1 . rved to nobile k mobile Vatican rekpec and ity ferred ternal &8 nju Paine onditcn nge a f and 2d cuts, dislocated joints ARSI 31 1 Col. Li;di)ergh Now tures upon three historical d & ments today. One of the do(,umvn\ is treaty solving the “Roman, questicn isted since the loss power in 1870. The second was the concordat degigned to regulate relations of Church and State in I The third convention was settling of finaneial relation tweeén the Holy See and Italy. The contents of the docume were not made public but announced that a 10psi be given out tomorrow. —_——— Age tured eliminatin which € sengers of temporal fingers snffe; nd the | bt Vic A, in today. on the ragua, Feb. il Lindbergh is it is will the air for home. | fed hini i return iEarl Vemog Biddlj‘.ljn’ le, tand Miss Harriet Alexander, UNALASKA SUND&YC erton, 20, both belonging to ‘:lc?Virginia families and both in the cast of a Broadway mu- davisical show, who were married it nacks&age after a performance, muoul ewsTeskd ! Radio dispatches received by the loeal’ Customs authoritics t stated that the which a few day tress off the Aleu reached Unalas It was not state er reached po her own power," in by ome of standing by. enroute . from where she ' THAYER HERE AFTER VISITING DISTRICTS IN TONGASS FOREST 11.—Under Matsu TOKY ol sado 1are or rua | B | the sb The m will the abroad by blu: Tac as to - h After three-we betweén Ketehikan and Sitka Land Examifier Jack “orest Sefvice, arfived héro and will remain until the / sails south about next Sun He will return then to his headquarters at Ketchikan. He 1 Mr, Thayer was aceompanied on | r illness hig trip to . Sitka by Rangers e | Charles G. Burdick, of the Sitka district, and ‘Wi, H. Chippertield, of Cralg -distriet. They were occupied in gemeral district work: made a cruise of some timber at Tho tlow Sitka completing a in Thayer Congress Has Legislation Well in Hand WASHINGTON, Fel Members of confident they have islative program hand. Buongh pr been made on the tion measures to assure passage of before March 4 B peration lay meda Congre ne the well ; in made frequent as to his progress, remembered " that toward intervenes, King’s death, while it the such as and stream guage work at son, to make a visit of state STAGE CRASH Bus - Hits Auto, Caromed ~Bighteen i 1ed arom- passen- skuil Two other sireet car pas- peen sentenced 1 Flying Toward Home; He hopped F Loud conneétion ! of Kipg!| emperor ha solicitous inquiries'is as the father-in-law of Pringe if nothing un-throne. the [hito die without a son to it is planned for the (him, Ambassador Matsudaira wi as Bay, apd did some stream Duke of Gloucester, the king's third |become the father of an @ KARO ST 10,000 TON CRUISER WINSLUW HEAUS MOB, DEMANDIN. NORTHCOTT BOY Father of Two Victims of Slayer Heads 250 Arm- ed Men on Jail SHERIFF PREVENTS SHEDDING OF BLOOD (omlued M\.ldcrer Fran- tic in His Cell-—Screams for Protectlon RIV LRQADE. Cal.,, Feb. 11.— Gordon Stewart Northcott saw the shadow of the nltimate noose st on his cell walls Saturday ght when 280 armed men sur- rounded the JH{"whd M. H. Wins- wlo demanded to see the prison- e to “get the actual truth.” Winslow said he wanted learn where his two sons, Lewls and Nelson Winslow were buried after being slain by Northeott, and for which the latter was convieted. Sheriff Sweeters told the crowd (hal he and his deputies would protect Northeott with their lives }untl] the State tcok the kijler's life. The members of the mob con- |ferred and agreed with the Sher- 'iff there was no reed of spilling blood. | z\urthmu was awaktnad by Q {ce unuble To" auiet were the rest of the night and he was restless all uxy Sunday. Arrest Bandu Leader For Slaying Seattle i Officer Last Summer to | BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 11—James MecCourt, aged 22, alleged leader of a bandit gang that shot Pairol man ‘Sherard, of Seattle, last sum- is held here for the coast city. When arrested McCourt. gave the Johu\ R but later ad He said he oting anid He oth nam zan, mitted \ sh hazy tonr o fired the fa- TO GET M'COURT SEATTLE. Feb. 11— Offici h through the necessary ties to bring back Me™ youths have - life im fo mal to broken ment for the shooting of the Seat- tle policeman. Fingerprints he- I':J,\'ed MeCourt’s identity. * FAMILY OF MAIL C. YATES CENTER, Kas.— 11. n{ the Van Wyes, for they are a. infamily of rural mail carriers. J. his son, Frank, did it 25 vears, and now his grandsom, ! Earl, is doing'it. i JAP. ANESE ASSIGN OTED PERSONNEL TO BRITISH POST Am- peror Hirohito with the order of w )\u the Garter. Ambassador Matsudaira, until on last summer Japanese Ambassador be|to Washington, himself belongs to one of the moblest families in Ja- ipan. His father was the first | Viscount Matsudaira, daimyo, or it |feudal lord, of the Clan of Aizu, at the time of the abolition of the m\ on of ““l\f fendal system half a century ago. in the! The lords of htis elan were des- wed evidences | conded directly from the segend ose friendshi D between the ‘u( the Tokugawa Shoguns, the mil- hg, tami-| {itary chieftains who actually ruled .} <J.m.m from 1600 to 1868, Mr. Matsudai present chief «‘rlaim to high connection, however, is| Chichibu, heir presumptive to Should Emperor Hi to his 19-year-old daughter, Setsil Japan in the spring to invest Em-inow Princess Chichibu. 4 A 5 Van Wye carried the mail 1435 lIiA:llLi‘ years A second plane accompan-